Hello, Muammar... On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 12:38:43PM -0400, Muammar Wadih El Khatib Rodriguez wrote: > My name is Muammar El Khatib, I'm a chemistry student and I'm doing my > thesis on nonlinear optic (quantum chemistry). > > There is a package called slatec and is up for adoption. I'm > interested to maintain this package. I talked with the developer who > was maintaining slatec, and he told me that I had to find a sponsor. That's right. There is nothing wrong with maintaining a package without being a 'Debian developer'. You just need a "sponsor" who is a developer who uploads the package on your behalf. Depending on the reliability of the sponsor this might be easy. Finding a Debian developer who is personally interested in the package might help. > I'm reading all the documentation of debian, and one step is write to > debian-mentors. I would suggest you first follow the procedure described in http://www.de.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ (search the page for 'ITA') to show everybody you are now working on the package. Find the pseudo bug report dealing with the request for adoption at http://bugs.debian.org/263050 As soon as you have a working package online (perhaps with the current bugs already fixed) you should post a RFS (request for sponsorship) here telling everybody where your package can be found. If you don't have any space on the web you can as well use mentors.debian.net. Developers will then hopefully contact you to check the package and arrange the upload. Good luck and thanks for your contribution. Kindly Christoph -- ~ ~ ".signature" [Modified] 1 line --100%-- 1,48 All
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