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Re: "New maintainer" address dead? & misc. questions



John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> writes:

> Also while I've got your attention, I have another question.  In the policy 
> manual, it states to mail debian-devel before doing a package.  I did so 
> before doing those first packages listed, and I got some comments saying 
> "don't do this, it generates unnecessary traffic" and others saying "thanks 
> for letting us know what is being done" (paraphrased, of course).  So I don't 
> really know what is expected.

The rationale behind this is to avoid duplication of work, so keep
doing it.  Also consult Sven's prospective-packages.txt, which lists
packages being worked on and up for grabs.


Guy


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