An expansion... I used to do regular reviews of every unanswered recent RFS. Mostly I stopped doing those due to lack of time. After a while doing them got demotivating due to the amount of problems with most packages and the lack of response to issues, or if there was a response there were a few things fixed but everything else ignored. During this my policy was to not sponsor any packages, just to improve their quality.
If mentors.d.n were to gain the quality metrics stuff planned for debexpo, perhaps the average quality of RFS entries would go up and reviewing and uploading packages would be enjoyable again. If that were to happen I would definitely set the metrics I would like to see in my profile and look at packages that met those criteria. Another demotivator is people who treat the archive as a dumping ground for their pet package; do a one-shot upload to get it in and essentially leave it orphaned after that. I tried to avoid that by having a policy of not sponsoring anything, but I still have a few such packages on my DDPO page. I'm not sure how to avoid that but actually upload stuff regularly. -- 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/aanlktikorr7vzccig4wqmopqzvayoezpnbjr4tgyq...@mail.gmail.com
