On 06/11/06 11:31:21, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
Dear mentors.I am a whole newbie in the debian packaging. I've read the debian new maintainer guide and packed the my own OpenSource project renrot to it.The next step is a looking for sponsor to put pacakge into archive. The package and other stuff are placed at ftp://andriy.asplinux.com.ua/pub/people/andy/renrot/Debian/ If you need more information, please, don't hesitate to ask.
An RFS normally requires a basic set of information to attract the interest of potential sponsors.
http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html#sponsored_packages 1. Name of the package; 2. The licence the package is provided under; 3. Short and long descriptions of the package; and4. Where the package can be obtained from (either via FTP/HTTP or by e-mailing someone). If you have nowhere to host files yourself, you can make use of the mentors.debian.net service.
Your message to -mentors is like an ad for your package. It's likely to be the only thing that prospective sponsors will judge your package on. You can have all the extra URLs you like in there where sponsors can get more information, but unless your initial message piques their interest, they'll never look at them.
So, tell us what exactly your package does, and why it should be in Debian. If there is already a program that does a similar thing, say why your one is better. Put a little "hot spice" in there to hold people's interest. in other words, think like an advertising executive. Just remember to wash the slime off afterward.
You'll notice that one of the things to have is where the package can be downloaded from. That implies that you've packaged it already. Don't bother asking for a sponsor until you've got packages (more-or-less) ready to download.
Sponsoring a package takes a lot more than just downloading it from your website and uploading it to Debian. The prospective sponsor needs to check over the quality of the packaging and ensure that it meets Debian's quality standards before uploading it. For this reason, you need to provide all of the parts which would be needed for a full upload (.changes, .dsc, .orig.tar.gz, .diff.gz, and .deb(s)). Also, it may take a few days/weeks to get the whole package checked over, and the sponsor might want to talk to you a bit, just to find out what sort of a person you are.
Think of all this as a mini-NM check - which is, basically, what it is. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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