Re: Why is it so hard to get sponsor (Part 2, was: RFS Jabberd2 / Jabber-muc)

2013-06-18 Thread W. van den Akker
> > Why is it so hard to get sponsor and why is there nobody who tries to > > support the jabber uploads ;) > Well, as I am in the same shoes, we can make a deal. We can try to > review each other's packages, trying to fix bugs and give > recommendations supporting each other. This way, we could

Re: Why is it so hard to get sponsor (Part 2, was: RFS Jabberd2 / Jabber-muc)

2013-06-18 Thread Miklos Quartus
Hi Willem On 18/06/13 07:56, W. van den Akker wrote: I find it very disappointing that for the second time I cannot manage to get some packages in. I read a lot mailings about the bad shape some packages are in. But if newcomers dont have a chance (well not everyone ;)) to adopt packages then th

Re: Why is it so hard to get sponsor (Part 2, was: RFS Jabberd2 / Jabber-muc)

2013-06-18 Thread Paul Wise
My guess is that the intersection between people who have upload access, experience, time, interest in running an XMPP server, aren't already running other XMPP server software and are reading this list is close to zero. Daniel Pocock has been blogging about XMPP, federated services and other rela

Why is it so hard to get sponsor (Part 2, was: RFS Jabberd2 / Jabber-muc)

2013-06-18 Thread W. van den Akker
Hi Members, Last February I mailed the list why some packages wont get a sponsor. I got a few reactions of sponsors who helped me to get the package into decent shape. But at the end no sponsor would have time or experience with the package to upload it. The jabber packages are obvious a strange t