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Re: RFC: Sponsor request convention



On 24 Nov 2002, Rob Bradford wrote:

> I think it would be nice to achieve some kind of convention on the
> format of messages requesting sponsors for packages.

Not a bad idea, on the whole.  Feel like writing this up in a webpage
somewhere, sort of a "Requesting Sponsorship HOWTO".  That way, anyone who
does it any other way can be pointed in the right direction.

> And in the body several pseudo-headers, containing information such as a
> long description, the version, homepage and location of the source
> packages for your proposed version. Including NM status here (where
> applicable) would also be beneficial.

GPG key ID, too.  I'm leaning towards only accepting packages for
sponsorship which are properly signed.  Best to get them into the habit
early.  <g>

> I think it would also be relevent to forbid cross posting into
> debian-devel, specific lists such as debian-python, debian-gtk-gnome etc
> would work.

"Requests for sponsorship should be limited to debian-mentors and any
specific mailing lists which deal with the technology of the package. 
Cross-posting to debian-devel is explicitly forbidden."  I don't know if we
can actually say "forbidden" in something like this, but we need to make it
fairly strong that d-devel is not for sponsorship requests.

- Matt




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