Re: We still need sponsors!

2002-01-11 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 04:34:56PM +0100, Tille, Andreas wrote: > > Sounds good. Maybe we should provide a description of this technique > > somewhere within webml or ddp. > > > > WWW/doc folks: any hint about sponsorship uploading practices? > At least an FAQ would be apropriate in my opinion. > A

Re: We still need sponsors!

2002-01-11 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: > Since the person who upload the package is not the maintainer, it is actually > a > non-maintainer upload, isn't it ? No, the maintainer of the package is the person who gets sponsored (he's the maintainer of this package although he isn't yet an

Re: We still need sponsors!

2002-01-11 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:18:05AM +0100, Tille, Andreas wrote: > On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > > So, dear co-developers, please join debian-mentors@lists.debian.org and > > respond to future maintainers, and sponsor those who are asking it. > > Also check out the sponsor page tha

Re: We still need sponsors!

2002-01-10 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 05:15:12PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG écrivait: > A brief question. QA often requires saying "you volunteered to take > over maintenance of foo, but nothing has happened in a while". A > frequent response is "I need a sponsor"; occasionally there's "I'm > having trouble g

Re: We still need sponsors!

2002-01-10 Thread Adrian Bunk
On 9 Jan 2002, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: >... > Is there an easy web page to point people at, where people could > request sponsorship and sponsors could advertise their availability? That's exactly what [1] is for (BTW: there's a link to this page from the Developers' Corner [2]). cu Adrian

Re: We still need sponsors!

2002-01-09 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
A brief question. QA often requires saying "you volunteered to take over maintenance of foo, but nothing has happened in a while". A frequent response is "I need a sponsor"; occasionally there's "I'm having trouble getting in touch with my sponsor". Is there an easy web page to point people at,

Re: We still need sponsors!

2002-01-09 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:18:05AM +0100, Tille, Andreas écrivait: > OK. If I understand this right that would mean that the control file > would state > > Maintainer: Future Maintainer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > and my own address will be in the changelog (like in an NMU). No, you don't need to

Re: We still need sponsors!

2002-01-09 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 13:00:28 +0100 (CET) Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The way I prefer is: > > The maintainer makes the package as if he was an official developer. > The sponsor rebuilds the package, checks it, and if it's OK he signs it > with his key (using "debsign -m") and uploads

Re: We still need sponsors!

2002-01-09 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > Sounds good. Maybe we should provide a description of this technique > somewhere within webml or ddp. > > WWW/doc folks: any hint about sponsorship uploading practices? At least an FAQ would be apropriate in my opinion. A better solution would be

Re: We still need sponsors!

2002-01-09 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 01:00:28PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Tille, Andreas wrote: > > >... > > OK. If I understand this right that would mean that the control file > > would state > > > > Maintainer: Future Maintainer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > no, the control field states:

Re: We still need sponsors!

2002-01-09 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Tille, Andreas wrote: >... > OK. If I understand this right that would mean that the control file > would state > > Maintainer: Future Maintainer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> no, the control field states: Maintainer: My Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Where "My Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"

Re: We still need sponsors!

2002-01-09 Thread Michael Bramer
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:18:05AM +0100, Tille, Andreas wrote: > OK. If I understand this right that would mean that the control file > would state > > Maintainer: Future Maintainer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > and my own address will be in the changelog (like in an NMU). Where > is the place to

Re: We still need sponsors!

2002-01-09 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > So, dear co-developers, please join debian-mentors@lists.debian.org and > respond to future maintainers, and sponsor those who are asking it. > Also check out the sponsor page that is listing about 30 future > maintainers who are looking for a sponsor :