> > As long as my sponsors don't mind uploading the packages and I can use > > aloith to cooperate with others, I don't feel the need anymore to > > continue and try again for full DD; though I'm sure I would have > > contributed more (a number of packages never found a sponsor, so I > > dropped them). > > Sorry, but this doesn't sound very efficient to me. No, it is not :( The problem is that, next to the packaging effort, the learning curve, one moves on with your live and work. One example: At some point I needed a number of perl packages that did syntax highlighting and that were not available in Debian (yet). Since I don't want to install anything on my machine that is not packages, I packaged the Perl packages for Debian and used them. I asked several times (IIRC) for a sponsor (since my sponsor for other packages didn't have much Perl expertise); but since it was a developer package, I assume the interest was pretty low. When I got another assignment, I didn't need those packages anymore and combined with the little interest, I dropped them (the packages that did make it in Debian, I continue to maintain obviously). There are a number of other examples too. My experience is that, if your work is not intended for end-users, you'll have a hard job finding sponsors, and continuing the DD process. -- greetz, marc I feel like I had a spiritual enema. Jool - Losing Time scorpius.homelinux.org 2.6.16 #6 PREEMPT Sat Apr 1 21:22:39 CEST 2006 GNU/Linux
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