On 05-Jun-2000 Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote: > I sent my application to new-maintainer last week, and now i have > a few questions. How long should i expect to wait to hear from > them? Will i be assigned a mentor or do i need to find one > myself? >
New maintainer just opened and we have quite a queue formed. May be a little while. You must get your own sponsor, one is not assigned. A sponsor is NOT needed, only recommended. > > Should the packages be in optional or extra? I think i read this > somewhere, but i can't find any reference to it now. > in potato there are several docs related to packaging. One is called packaging-manual. All of them are in section 'doc'.

