Hello Christoph, The New services work perfectly, thanks for your and Matthijs, excellent works! Best Regards, Francesco On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 10:13 +0200, Christoph Haas wrote: > 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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