Dear mentors, as my default sponsor recently has not found the time for sponsoring, and as he agrees I should better search another sponsor - well, here I am :-)
Currently I'm the maintainer of dblatex [1] and co-maintainer of apt-show-versions [2]. Thus my involvement is limited, but I set a high value on doing my job properly and long-ranging - thus I only take over a package if I'm really and durable interested. a-s-v is sponsored by the package owner (as a native package it's his "child"), thus sponsoring is needed for dblatex. Current release awaiting upload is 0.2.8-3 on mentors.debian.net [3]. At the moment I have no plans to become a DD, being confident with my current level of involvement. This might change sometime, but I won't count on it. On the other hand, I'm definitely interested in becoming a DM - it looks convenient for all parties and expresses trust in my packaging. But that is second-rank, first priority is to get dblatex releases published in a timely manner, which is my reponsibility to its users. To finalize my advertisement: the dblatex package is not very complicated (architecture all), with a frequency of at most one release per month. However, IMHO it's a useful and important package, being the sole DocBook->PDF tool in Debian main. And although I'm making packaging mistakes, usually I learn and avoid repeating them. My GPG key is signed by one DD, thus I'm basically connected to the web of trust. I hope to have given a picture clear enough to base a sponsoring decision upon. Thus, if someone is interested, I really would be glad. [1] http://packages.debian.org/sid/dblatex Produces DVI, PostScript, PDF documents from DocBook sources [2] http://packages.debian.org/sid/apt-show-versions lists available package versions with distribution [3] - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/d/dblatex - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/d/dblatex/dblatex_0.2.8-3.dsc Regards, Andreas -- Andreas Hoenen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG: 1024D/B888D2CE A4A6 E8B5 593A E89B 496B 82F0 728D 8B7E B888 D2CE
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