On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:24:50 -0400 (EDT) Asheesh Laroia wrote: > On Wed, 14 Jul 2010, Michael Gilbert wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I have the following packages currently prepared and am waiting for > > review by interested sponsors. Some of these have been pending since > > December 2009). > > > > xpdf (http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/x/xpdf): > > - I adopted this package a few months ago since it needed a > > security-minded maintainer, and I have made extensive changes with > > respect to forward security supportability (including making use of > > poppler) and some useful minor changes as well. See: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2010/06/msg00030.html > > Wooooooooooooow xpdf using poppler? It's like we're here in the future. > Amazing! > > Basically, why don't you have DMUA status yet? (-:
Because I don't have Debian Maintainer status yet? But to get that I need to solve the problem of not having my key signed by a Debian Developer; which I'll hopefully resolve by attending debconf. In the meantime, debian-mentors is the right way to get my work reviewed and uploaded, isn't it? > The rest I don't know as much about. > > In general, I personally think the following workflow makes a lot of > sense: > > For a new package, a potential mentee emails this list asking for a > sponsor. > > 1. Request For Sponsor email > 2. Discussion about the packaging These two steps seem to be happening just fine. > 3. Eventually, hopefully, someone sponsors it Seems this is the achilles heel of the mentoring process: not many people are interested in sponsoring new stuff (probably because they'll get stuck with it if the mentee looses interest). I personally don't see myself loosing interest, and I try not to be a burden, so I don't really see my stuff being much work for potential sponsors. Thanks, Mike -- 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/20100715195840.8dec3fae.michael.s.gilb...@gmail.com
