Thanks for those who responded. I'm surprised (and delighted) how many people got back to me. I hope you will really help out. I tried to compile a listing of people of whom I think they are busy and need help. Only a small number of developers have asked me to be put on this list; the others are there because I feel they should be there... please read the Developer's Reference again before doing any work to make yourself familiar with NMU rules. In general, don't NMU immediately, but first send in patches. Anyone can do that, including people who are not Debian developers. Only if there's no reply or action within a reasonable period you can go ahead and do an NMU. For this, you need to be a DD or have a sponsor. Matthias Urlichs has agreed to sponsor some people, and I'm sure there are others who can do that. So, if you need a sponsor, please just send a message to debian-qa.
If you decide to look into a specific bug or package, please send a message to this list so others know that you're working on this. (If you're looking into a specific bug, you could additionally send a comment to the bug.) If you're very interested in a specific package and want to track it's progress for a long time, please get subscribed to its bugs through the PTS (see the Developer's Reference). If you have any questions, just send them to the list. Thanks for your interest in raisin the quality of Debian. Here are two people who have expressed that they are busy: Torsten Landschoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> fox, gimp-python, gmt, gmt-coast-low, gmt-doc, gmt-doc-pdf, gmt-doc-ps, gmt-examples, gmt-manpages, gmt-tutorial, gnofin, gs, gs-common, gsfonts, hpijs, libpcap, npadmin, swig, swig-doc, swig1.3, tcpdump, vis5d, gs-aladdin, gsfonts-other, mocka. [Not openldap2 which is co-maintained by others.] Torsten is studying for exams and need help with all his packages, especially with those which have RC bugs open and with gs (ghostscript). http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/[EMAIL PROTECTED] shows that gsfonts, swig, vis5d and tcpdump have RC bugs. While gs/gs-common don't have any RC bugs, these packages need some good care. Experience with debfoma is very useful. Send in patches and if you can prepare an upload, I'm sure Torsten will appreciate it and perhaps let you NMU. Simon Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> amap, libsocket++, pingus, python-imaging, python-imaging-doc-handbook, signing-party, uptimed Simon asked for help because of exams. None of his packages currently have RC bugs, but they could use some attention. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/[EMAIL PROTECTED] I haven't talked to the following people about this listing, but it's pretty clear they're busy and need some help: Paul Hedderly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> atmelwlandriver, drsync, gloo, gtk-menu, matchbox, mmenu, motion, xkbd, xstroke atmelwlandriver has grave bug (filed today), xstroke has serious bug with patch filed 128 days ago. Anthony Fok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Anthony is around (will respond to mail), but seems quite busy. 4 RC bugs: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Werner Heuser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Werner mentioned to me that he is moving. He has 2 RC bugs which have to be fixed. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/[EMAIL PROTECTED] David Caldwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dropped out of the NM queue. 203336 needs to be fixed (RC). Maintainer: needs to be set to QA. Stephen Zander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Quite a few RC bugs, obviously needs help. I wonder if tripwire should just be removed. The other should be fixed in any case. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Lot's of RC bugs; according to his postings to -devel, he has updated packages but has issues uploading. Someone could contact him and upload his updates. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Pawel Wiecek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Pawel is around and did an upload of vpopmail after some prodding, but I think he could use some help. Don't NMU (except for #172986), but send in patches through the BTS. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Stijn de Bekker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RC bug with patch, also new upstream available. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian Mays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Brian said he's busy, but he's around. Perhaps don't NMU, but reproduce his bugs and send in patches. Give special attention to pcmcia-cs. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]
