Good morning, we - the mentors.debian.net team - have been running the mentors service for 3 years now. During that period ~500 package maintainers have uploaded many revisions of ~1200 different packages. Still the service was not very user-friendly and we could have done better to help maintainers find sponsors for their packages. Last year we decided that mentors.debian.net needs a going-over so we threw it all away and developed a completely new site (in Python). We hope you like it (better). These are some of the features we now offer: o signing up for an account is now an automatic process o uploading is done through FTP thus eliminating problems that maintainers had with SSH public keys (although we already received an email from a maintainer who's ISP does not allow FTP) o maintainers can remove their packages again if they found a sponsor o get a suggestion for an RFS (request-for-sponsorship) posting to this mailing list o uploaded packages will be checked throroughly giving maintainers suggestions on how to improve the package o maintainers can tag their packages as "I'm seeking a sponsor" so that potential sponsors can see whether the maintainer already has a sponsor or is looking for one o better internet connection to the server meaning faster downloads for sponsors o an uploaded package is generally online within a few seconds o a more user-friendly web interface Since switching to the new site means changing DNS entries the server may temporarily be unavailable. There are also rumors that our support@mentors.debian.net address is not working. We blame that on DNS, too. Please let us know if you have questions or suggestions. And don't kill us if not everything is working smoothly yet. Regards The mentors.debian.net team
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