Hi Paul, thanks for your great analysis. I might like to stress explicitly one item (even if I totally agree with all others in general)
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 01:37:10PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > Specialization: > > Debian contributors generally work on stuff they use or are otherwise > are interested in. This can limit the scope of software that gets > sponsored. With well-functioning teams, it can also mean that software > for a specific area is well covered with sponsorship, debian-med is a > good example. Unfortunately can mean [Your paragraph is ending a bit unexpected - perhaps you forget to type something] As one of the active sponsors in Debian Med I would really like to stress this. I'm also trying to hint people about other teams they could possibly approach because I have the feeling that the sponsorship in *any* *working* team works quite good. There are teams formed around technical issues like languages (pkg-perl, python modules etc.) and there are teams targeting at end users that try to create an outright system for a specific target user group. The technical term in Debian is "Debian Pure Blends" in short "Blends". You can find a list of those Blends here: http://blends.alioth.debian.org/ Please note that not all Blends work equally well and some of these are dead / dying - but perhaps you might dive into this field and help vitalising this team. In any case if you have a package that to some extend fits into the scope of the Blends teams (or the technical teams I mentioned above) you should definitely contact their mailing list in addition to Debian mentors. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- 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/20130228085523.gb9...@an3as.eu
