On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 06:59:39PM +0200, Christoph Haas wrote: >Dear package maintainers... > >a sponsor of Debian packages today sent an email to the mentors.debian.net >support email address and I would like to forward the suggestion here. >Please tell us if you found a sponsor. I often found myself downloading >and testing packages from mentors.debian.net and found out too late that >someone else already sponsored the upload.
This is what I do before a package review: . pick a RFS message from the mailing list . read the ITP/ITA . search messages with the package name as a keyword in my mail archive . check what's the last version of the package in the debian archive . check what's is in NEW . if nobody intends to sponsor the package, I reply to the RFS >In my observation there are now many more sponsors than there were two >years ago. See http://merkel.debian.org/~myon/sponsorstats/ >So it is more likely that a package gets looked at by multiple >sponsors. And all but one may be disappointed. So if you asked here on the >mailing list please send a followup if a sponsor uploaded your package. >Same for other channels where you asked for sponsorship (IRC, >sponsors.debian.net, ...). Maybe you could setup something similar to the yelow comments at: http://bts.turmzimmer.net/details.php Or we could use something like "claim an ITP/ITA bug using usertags", see: http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2005/09/msg00138.html >If your package was uploaded to mentors.debian.net please remove the >package immediately after you have successfully been sponsored. We already >plan to detect uploads automatically and tag a package "sponsored". But >that's not yet done. So please keep your requests up to date. Thanks. >Cheers > Christoph > >P.S.: I will try to change the subject of RFS here to "[uploaded]" if I > sponsor an upload. So others can see a package has been dealt with. > Perhaps others can do that, too, so we can see which packages still > need sponsorship at a glance. >-- >~ >~ >".signature" [Modified] 1 line --100%-- 1,48 All Best Regards, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar -- http://v7w.com/anibal
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