Herbert Elwood Gilliland III <[email protected]> writes: > Finally, I just wanted to say
Herbert, email correspondence is an important part of being a Debian package maintainer. Please take the time to compose messages with consideration to the recipients. In particular: * Post your replies interleaved, not top-posted. See the article <URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style>. * Remove material not relevant to your response; don't preserve the entirety of past messages in every subsequent message. * On the other hand, keep (or re-insert) contextual information that will help a reader understand your reply. Summarise, if it's long. * While composing a message, consider whether a few more minutes will allow you to gather extra information useful to your message. If so, gather that information and post one message rather than six in a row. * Consider who needs to receive the message; remove people from the recipient fields if there's no reason to send it to them. * Consider whether the discussion topic has shifted; if so, modify the “Subject” field to be a summary of the current topic of discussion. > it does seem to show that i don't need a sponsor, is that because > someone sponsored it or did I do something wrong? When you visit the package page for a package you submitted, it is you that gets to specify whether the package needs a sponsor. See the page (e.g. <URL:https://mentors.debian.net/package/FOOBAR> where “FOOBAR” is the package name) for the options you can change. -- \ “A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.” | `\ —Oscar Wilde, _The Portrait of Mr. W. H._, 1889-07 | _o__) | Ben Finney <[email protected]>
