-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 12:07:51 +0800 Paul Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> MJ Ray wrote: > > Jonas Smedegaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > [...] and found in one of the bugreports for the package > > > the comment "i'm searching for a sponsor for the new revision." > > > > Perhaps a sponsor who does not intend to sponsor the package > > any more should open a "RFS" bug in WNPP? No package should > > be introduced to the archive by a one-upload sponsor. > > I've seen discussions where people were opposed to using wnpp for RFS. > Anyway, there now exists a complement to mentors.debian.net at > sponsors.debian.net for people wanting to find a sponsor for their > packages. It is great that sponsors are most easily found. What I find bad is the need to _change_ sponsor, which I suspect happens alot more frequently than the switch of maintainer for DD-maintained packages. Packages with noone explicitly nursing them is a bad thing. that's why we have the routine of "oh - someone seems to be MIA - let's check what packages is hurt by this". This is not (easily) trackable with sponsored packages. So again: What is the responsibility of sponsoring, if not the full responsibility of "everything the non-DD did to make the software suitable for inclusion into Debian" (what I call "maintainance")? - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er nær: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDM+Xmn7DbMsAkQLgRAve4AJ0Z+JQO482WTtC4senG/nVL2Fm90ACfYfnb GopWItS0uwCXk1vWDyp/V2c= =IrLT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
