On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 11:02:26AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > The suggestion I made is the following : let's co-maintain all those > packages on alioth (with Subversion) ! We'd give access to any outsider > who has a patch ready to be applied... all the packages could be built > automatically and sometimes the outsider could ask for a "sponsor > upload" to update it in the main archive.
I think you are mixing two things here that should not be mixed, sponsoring non-DDs and handling orphaned packages. Either a package has a maintainer (even it is not a DD) who takes the responsibility for keeping track of its bugs and updates or it has not. The idea of setting up a general sponsoring alioth project where some DDs try to sponsor people even for packages they don't care about (otherwise they would probably already sponsor the possible maintainer) is interesting and that could definetly work. On the other hand trying to coordinate the maintainance of orphaned packages more is certainly a good idea, too (even though I don't think there is a real need for this currently). But we should _not_ mix packages that have a maintainer and those that have not. Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
