Re: Bug#590162: maint-guide SVN SGML updated, please check ...

[Serafeim Zanikolas <sez@debian.org>]

Hi again,

Here's another round of mostly wording improvements off the latest svn.

-S

Index: maint-guide.en.sgml
===================================================================
--- maint-guide.en.sgml	(revision 7457)
+++ maint-guide.en.sgml	(working copy)
@@ -406,9 +406,10 @@
   <url name="Debian QA Group" id="http://qa.debian.org/";>, you may
   be able to pick it up if it's still available (check the ownership status
   at <url name="Debian Bug report logs: Bugs in package wnpp in unstable" id="http://bugs.debian.org/wnpp";>).
-  There are also some packages which their maintainers are asking "Request for Adoption" (<strong>RFA</strong>).
+  You may also adopt a package for which the corresponding maintainer has filed
+  a "Request for Adoption" (<strong>RFA</strong>).
 
-  <p>You can find orphaned or RFA'ed packages at: 
+  <p>Several different views of orphaned or RFA'ed packages are available at at: 
   <list>
   <item><url name="Work-Needing and Prospective Packages" id="http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/";>
   <item><url name="Debian Packages that Need Lovin'" id="http://wnpp.debian.net/";>
@@ -416,15 +417,16 @@
   </list>
 
 <p>As a side note, it's important to point out that Debian already has
-   packages for most kinds of programs while available number and time 
-   of its developers to maintain them are fairly limited.
+   packages for most kinds of programs, and the number of packages already in
+   the Debian archive is much larger than that of contributors with upload
+   rights.
    Thus, contributions to packages already in the archive are far more
    appreciated (and more likely to receive sponsorship) by other developers
    <footnote>Having said that, there will of course always be new programs 
    that are worthwhile packaging.</footnote>. 
-   You can do that in various ways by the following.
+   You can do that in various ways.
    <list>
-   <item>taking over orphaned but yet actively used packages
+   <item>taking over orphaned, yet actively used, packages
    <item>joining <url name="packaging teams" id="http://wiki.debian.org/Teams";>
    <item>triaging bugs of very popular packages
    <item>preparing <url name="QA or NMU uploads" id="http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/pkgs.html#nmu-qa-upload";>