On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 10:32:11PM +0200, Stephan Beyer wrote: > Hi, > > > I posted several messages to this list earlier this month about getting > > my package sponsored. Lots of people gave me great suggestions on how > > to improve the packing and other general ideas. However no one seemed > > interested in uploading the package. > > What you describe is the same impression I got here. > Perhaps the secret is to have the right connections or to make them, to > get in contact with the right DD or just to have convincing packages ;) Contacts make the world go round, in Debian sponsorship as in everything else. If you know a DD personally, they're a good place to start -- it's much harder to turn someone down in person than to hit 'D' on their mailing list post. Convincing packages are good, but it's hard to know what will push a potential sponsor's buttons -- and you want to package what's interesting for *you*, not for your sponsor. As for getting in contact with the "right" DD, you'll do that by finding the appropriate mailing list and going and asking there. d-devel is *never* the right place, but if there's a debian- ML for your package's speciality (d-perl, d-apache, d-python?) then asking there might get someone interested. There's also the possibility of having a vaguely interested DD in an upstream mailing list, so it might be worthwhile keeping an eye on the upstream MLs for your package for DD droppings. - Matt
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