Re: Ideas about allowing Co-maintainer
"Jamin W. Collins" <jcollins@asgardsrealm.net> writes:
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 07:37:29PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 08:29:13AM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote:
> > >
> > > Tried it for mediamate (new name for the moviemate package) for
> > > precisely the reason of letting others contribute. However, since
> > > I'm still a NM and not a full DD my project application was denied.
> >
> > I would expect that it would be approved if you got a developer to
> > <ahem> "sponsor" the request for you.
>
> Really, where is that documented on Alioth? It's not. What is
> documented is:
>
> <quote>
> The purpose of Alioth, as stated on
> http://alioth.debian.org/tos/tos.php, is to provide facilities for
> specific kind of projects :
>
> * Free software or free documentation (as defined by the Debian Free
> Software Guidelines) authored by Debian developers, or free
> software/documentation where a Debian developer is part of the core
> team.
>
> * Free documentation concerning Debian or any of its derivatives.
>
> * Other projects (non-software, non-documentation) whose goal is to
> promote Debian.
>
> * Other projects (non-software, non-documentation) whose goal is to
> promote free software in general, if those initiatives are backed by
> Debian or by a group a Debian developers.
A sponsor would certainly count as "backed by a group a(?) Debian
developers", a very small group though. :)
Is that "a" your spelling or an error on the page? Alioth being down,
AGAIN, one can't check.
> * Any other project where you can convince the Alioth's administrators
> that it will help Debian achieve World Domination.
> </quote>
>
> Being the maintainer of the package in question and also now the main
> developer, I (erroneously) thought I would qualify under the first item.
> Also, based on the above a "sponsor" would not directly qualify for any
> of these.
>
> Would I mind having a sponsor in this situation, hell no. Is it obvious
> that having a sponsor would change the outcome of the decision, no. I
> have followed up on this and one of the Alioth admins indicated that
> NM's are in a "grey" area and that something might be able to be worked
> out via their AM. I supplied the requested information regarding my AM
> and have heard nothing further on the matter.
MfG
Goswin
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