Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > | If you intend to package software, do you have a Debian package you have > > | adopted or created ready to show your AM? [...] You may want to get > ^^^ > > | sponsorship to achieve this goal. > > Note the underlined "may"
Yes, I did note the "may" but was a bit lazy to look around in the docs where else I had found something suggesting that you need a sponsor before registering at nm.debian.org. Here is one snippet from the developers reference that suggests such a thing, IMHO: <http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/developers-reference/ch-new-maintainer.en.html#s-registering>: ,---- | When you have found an advocate, have your GPG key signed and have | already contributed to Debian for a while, you're ready to apply. You | can simply register on our application page. `---- (where application page is a link to http://nm.debian.org/newnm.php) So, one mandatory prerequesite to fill in the NM form is to have an advocate. And how does one find an advocate? <http://nm.debian.org/newnm.php>: ,---- | Advocate: | An existing Debian developer who recommends an Applicant. An Applicant | can only go through the NM process after an Advocate has verified his | application. The Sponsor of an Applicant often acts as his Advocate once | he is satisfied with the Applicant's skills. `---- Ah, "often". Same as the "may" we already talked about. At least, this suggests that one "often" finds a sponsor before an advocate (since the sponsor acts as the advocate), so one "often" has a sponsor before entering the NM queue (since having an advocate is a prerequesite to entering it, as shown above). So, Oohara Yuuma's policy not to "sponsor anyone who is not in the NM queue or who doesn't have a GPG key signed by a Debian developer" is not what is to be called usual developer practice, IMHO. > and you don't have to have the package in the Debian archive in order > to show it to your AM. Of course. I expect every prospective developer to know about /etc/apt/sources.list... > > I'd normally expect people to be looking for sponsorship at around the > same time as they're entering the NM queue. I think the docs are at least unclear on the fact that you might want to apply to nm.d.o in order to find a sponsor, given some of the developers' criteria to sponsor someone. -- Florent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
