On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 11:20:21AM +0100, Thomas -Balu- Walter wrote: > On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 10:57:01AM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > Quick hand check. Of all people willing to sponsor others, who actually > > checks that page regularly to find people to sponsor? > > In addition there is the forum at mentors.debian.net. Which is not > checked by possible sponsors I guess.
Another place I don't check. Am I the only one? > > Wasn't there previous discussion on using the BTS for tracking sponsorship > > requests and such? Perhaps we should give that a crack - virtual package, > > say "sponsor" or "wnpp-sponsor" (don't want to put these onto wnpp itself, > > since it's got enough crap already), wishlist bugs for new applications, and > > higher severity bugs for NMU and bugfix sponsorship requests (perhaps equal > > to the severity of the highest bug fixed <g>). The bug gets closed in the > > changelog (Sponsored by <foo>. Closes: #nnnnn.) If you need a new sponsor, > > you file another bug. Rolling uploads with your existing sponsor would be > > handled privately. > > Why not wnpp and a new Subject-Tag "RFS"? RFP and ITP are there anyway? We could, but "(don't want to put these onto wnpp itself, since it's got enough crap already)". I'm looking for a way to easily see all of the sponsorship requests in a way that tracks their status better than the rather bodgy script at internatif.org. I guess if it were possible to filter bug reports on regexps in title (is there?) that would be a possible solution, and we can keep it in wnpp. - Matt
