"Ilya M. Slepnev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Hi! > I'd like to become a DD... Can anybody sponsor me?
You might be mixing things up, or just words. To become a DD, you need an *advocate*. To maintain packages in Debian as a non-DD, you need a sponsor - and most people are sponsored maintainers for a while before applying to become a DD (and often one of their sponsors is their advocate, then). > So, here is a small, > but very usefull package. You see, it is very useful for > russian-speaking people to read documentation in there native language. > If there is emacs-manual-ja, then why can't it be emacs-manual-ru? Great! I won't sponsor it, because I couldn't even read it - maybe the debian-l10n-russian mailing list is a good place to find a sponsor. > It was marked as bug #188311 in wnpp. It can be downloaded at: > > http://kastalia.cs.msu.su/debian/emacs-manual-ru_20.7-1_i386.deb You have to provide the orig.tar.gz, diff.gz and dsc files, in order to allow possible sponsors to review the package. > Upstream source is available at: > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnu-doc-ru/ > > The package is, surely, distributed under GPL, more information about > this wonderfull package is available at: This is very interesting from a legal point of view. The english Emacs manual is under GFDL which is non-free, at least in its current version. Do you, or does anybody know how the FSF came to allow the translation to be licensed under GPL? There's no information on that in the tarball. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer
