(dropping the cc list from my next email, please follow #835658 if you care about the thread)
>Don't take for granted that what you find obvious is equally obvious to >others. Especially when raised as an explicit question: Makes you seem >like taking me for a fool (which I am sure was not intended). yes, you are right, I didn't mean to take you as a fool of course :) (glad you didn't take seriously my bad communication) In my opinion help in maintenance means "hey maintainer/team, is it ok to add me as uploader"? in this case I see more as a: "hey maintainer/team, can I update it to the latest release because foo and bar"? this seems intended as a one-shot upload (of course the goal release is Stretch so we have to see it properly migrate to testing), to fix the reverse-dependencies. each case is different, pkg-javascript is a big team, and probably with not so good defined rules (specially because the packaging for most of the packages is so trivial) >>> If the former, then you should coordinate your work with current >>> maintainers (fine that you seek help and guidance from others too, >>> but don't go ahead with only input from external parties). >> >> this is something that a good sponsor has to check, and the reason for >> me putting *you* in cc :) > >Could you please elaborate on what you find an obvious role for a >"sponsor" here. Assume I have never¹ hear that term before. > > >¹ I have, but from the context here I suspect we mean different things >by that term. (still not a native speaker, so apologizes in advance and again if I made some communication mistakes) "sponsor" is a word that I guess comes from the RFS term, in my opinion a sponsor is a person that tries to facilitate the fix for a particular bug or package, and eventually uploads the package. In this case the correct word would have probably been "mentor", because what I checked was to be sure the Team/Maintainer/Uploaders were agreeing on the changes. (BTW to be fair, I also cc'd the people who requested the new version, to give publicly a thread to say their opinion) so, even if I used the "sponsor" word, I don't intend of course to upload anything, at least until somebody with an authoritative hat asks me to do it :) >[remaining mail skipped for now, to keep a focus] this is nice, thanks (I hope my good faith is not in discussion here!) G.
