On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 03:58:47PM -0700, Vincent W. Chen wrote: > On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 10:44 PM, Bart Martens <ba...@debian.org> wrote: > > I'm intentionally answering to debian-mentors instead of debian-devel. > > > > On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 10:27:22PM -0700, Vincent W. Chen wrote: > >> seeing as how the last NMU was on 2012 May 5 and the last > >> update by maintainer Manoj was on 2010 Jun 8. As indicated in the bug > >> report, the current version in Debian is outdated and no longer > >> maintained by upstream. I have contacted Manoj and his reply was > >> included in the bug report, but no update has been received from him > >> since, which was over a month ago. > >> > >> I am willing to co-maintain the package with Manoj, or even maintain > >> it by myself if he's no longer interested in dealing with it. But > >> since there has been no reply > > > > Manoj Srivastava wrote on the bug report "I would love to have a > > co-maintainer. > > I would even give up maintainership, if you prefer that.". > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=15;bug=684395 > > > I understand the two options he presented. I merely expected some sort > of reply from him to my two messages since. I'll try to contact him > privately again.
I have now read those two messages. You can start without commit access. You can find a sponsor here. No need to repeat your wish to (co-)maintain the package, as Manoj already offered you two options about that. As far as I can see your additional questions are all answered already. > > >> from him I now turn to the list: any > >> suggestion on what I should do now, or what I should have done? > > > > You can choose between the two options Manoj Srivastava gave you. Your > > package > > at mentors has "needs sponsor = no", so you could switch that to "yes" if > > you > > are looking for a sponsor. > > > I understand that I would need a sponsor for my package. Yes. > The reason > why I did not mark it as needing sponsor was because I'm not adopting > nor am I filing ITP --- the package already belongs to a maintainer. One of the two options Manoj gave you, is that you would take over maintainership of the package, and then you could file an ITA. > Perhaps I'm misunderstanding the process and I should just go on and > look for a mentor? Feel free to go ahead and look for a mentor/sponsor. Regards, Bart Martens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121005044537.gb14...@master.debian.org