Re: Planned changes to Debian Maintainer uploads
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Just to put some hard numbers against this to illustrate the scope of the
sponsoring operation through the debian-mentors mailing list, various team
mailing lists and also between individuals, some data from UDD on the
current packages in sid:
Total source packages: 18790
Sponsored source packages including NMUs: 3141
Sponsored source packages excluding NMUs: 3036
So that's 16% of the source packages in the archive where the person who is
signing off the changelog is not uploading their work but asking someone
else to do it.
Looking at the people rather than the packages:
Total active DDs: 946
Total DMs in keyring: 178
Total sponsored people: 906
That is almost half the people who maintain packages in the archive do not
have the ability to upload those packages themselves. As Arno pointed out,
people being listed in Maintainer/Uploaders and not actually being able to
upload their work directly to the archive is not unusual at all.
Those for whom the entire package sponsorship/mentoring etc is a complete
mystery might like to:
See devref §7.5
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/beyond-
pkging.html#newmaint
See the list of packages looking for sponsors:
http://mentors.debian.net/
http://bugs.debian.org/sponsorship-requests
http://mentors.pault.ag/
Interact with some new maintainers and help them improve their packages
and even help out by uploading things for them:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/
#debian-mentors on irc.debian.org / irc.oftc.net
cheers
Stuart
Notes:
1. Sponsoring stats use the SQL from http://udd.debian.org/sponsorstats.cgi
which includes a few "team uploads" in this because the "changed-by" address
is not in the carnivore table (about 40 packages). Similarly some teams will
be in the "sponsored people" list (about 3).
2. "DMs" and "sponsored people" are not disjoint sets as DMUA is per-
package.
- --
Stuart Prescott www.nanoNANOnano.net
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