Hello mentors, I guess that a lot of people on this list aren't subscribed to debian-devel-announce, so I'd like to encourage active sponsors and sponsees to check out dgit-sponsorship(7).[1]
Some reasons to try out this new workflow: * It allows us to do everything in git, while still ensuring (as use of mentors.debian.net does) that the exact source package the sponsee intended gets uploaded. * For new packages which will receive a lot of revisions before they are ready, working in git means that the sponsor/reviewer can simply use `git diff` to review subsequent changes. This avoids regressions, and means you don't have to check that the git repository and mentors.d.n are in sync, et cetera. * For packages already in the archive, sponsors can use `dgit fetch` follows by `git diff` to check the proposed upload against the version currently in the archive. Much easier than debdiff. Thanks! I'm sure that the workflow in dgit-sponsorship(7) can be improved, so I'm looking forward to seeing some patches against it from the mentors community. [1] Install dgit from sid, or here: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git-manpage/dgit.git/dgit-sponsorship.7 -- Sean Whitton
