Firstly, 7 days is a very short period of time to be waiting for sponsorship, some have been waiting since 2006.
About your two packages: autotrash: sounds like the functionality should be part of GNOME/KDE, please talk to upstream about moving it there. ardentryst: seems like a good fit for the Debian games team: http://wiki.debian.org/Games/Team We would definitely welcome new people, especially if they want to work on other games than their own. Please note the games team is having slight sponsorship issues too. On to your mail.... The fact is that there just aren't enough people who have time and are interested in sponsoring. Reviewing packages takes up a lot of time to do properly, especially for new packages. It has been this way for as long as I can remember. To fix this situation, we need: More interest from DDs in sponsoring packages both within and outside their areas of interest. More motivation from DDs to spend more of their time on Debian and less on other things like work, personal life, etc. More interest from maintainers in putting effort into their packages. More interest from maintainers in keeping the packages on mentors.d.n up to date and automatic removal of mentors.d.n packages that haven't been updated in more than X months. More automated QA stuff for mentors.d.n and more visibility for that info so maintainers actually notice issues. Ways for maintainers to give answers to common sponsor questions along with their upload so that the overhead for sponsors is reduced. Some of the above is part of the proposed design for debexpo, which really needs folks to step up and work on it (hint hint). Other parts can be helped by sending DDs to DebConf, I've found that a big motivator. On a regular basis I look back through the -mentors archives for RFS threads with no replies and do a review of a few that look interesting. Most of the packages I look at during those reviews are definitely not of sufficient quality to make me comfortable uploading them. Many contain non-free stuff, lack source, FTBFS etc etc blah. After I review them, often there are no replies, followups or updates to the package at all. People posting RFS mails don't seem to put in the effort to make good packages, which reduces my motivation to deal with -mentors. And if I actually do an upload, then usually the maintainer looses interest in Debian or in the package and it sits there on my QA page gathering bugs and reducing my motivation. Sometimes the package is beyond my skill level (such as Java or complicated maintainer scripts) or written in languages I strongly dislike (PHP), which means I review part of the package and will not sponsor it. Personally I won't be actually sponsoring packages on a regular basis until debexpo is in better shape and gets deployed. The exceptions are the occasional QA upload, RC bug fix, team upload or (much less likely) when I'm actually impressed with the quality of the initial RFS of a package. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- 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/aanlktikpoi1g9eqjvzbc-5xfruruu2dsopzfl97da...@mail.gmail.com
