Hello, Il giorno mer, 09/06/2010 alle 17.26 -0700, Russ Allbery ha scritto: > 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).
OK, then I will adopt few packages which I'm interested and work on them. I hope one day I can get my packages uploaded in debian as well. Please, don't consider that as a flame, I wanted just to talk as CIVIL persons. Also, I don't wanted to be aggressive or whatever. Kind regards, Lorenzo De Liso -- 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/1276131726.21174.49.ca...@pc-lorenzo
