Lorenzo De Liso <blackz...@gmail.com> writes: > Yes, what Sune said is right. But if it's supposed to be so then new > uploads will be processed slowly or never.
It may be worth noting here that the repository on mentors.d.o is not intended to serve as an upload queue that someone will process. Rather, it's intended to provide a place where people can put packages to make it easy for others to look at them, and which can help with performing some consistency checks and verifications. In other words, I wouldn't expect anyone to take action based on the presence of a package on mentors.d.o with no other communication. It's more like free hosting for a source package while you look for someone to sponsor it, which makes it easier for the sponsor to look at the package. A lot of Debian Developers (myself included) do essentially no upload sponsoring except as part of packaging teams. Of course if there's a specific package, unrelated to other work in Debian, that you're trying to get into the archive, that doesn't help, but if the goal is to show involvement in Debian and to help the distribution, I would recommend joining a packaging team over just packaging new software. I think there's general consensus that the largest quality issues in Debian are lack of attention and resources for maintaining the packages that we have now, not the difficulty in getting brand new packages included (although of course both are important in the long run). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/877hm7wx5o....@windlord.stanford.edu
