Dear mentors,
as my default sponsor recently has not found the time for sponsoring,
and as he agrees I should better search another sponsor - well, here I
am :-)
Currently I'm the maintainer of dblatex [1] and co-maintainer of
apt-show-versions [2]. Thus my involvement is limited, but I set a high
value on doing my job properly and long-ranging - thus I only take over
a package if I'm really and durable interested. a-s-v is sponsored by
the package owner (as a native package it's his "child"), thus
sponsoring is needed for dblatex. Current release awaiting upload is
0.2.8-3 on mentors.debian.net [3].
At the moment I have no plans to become a DD, being confident with my
current level of involvement. This might change sometime, but I won't
count on it. On the other hand, I'm definitely interested in becoming a
DM - it looks convenient for all parties and expresses trust in my
packaging. But that is second-rank, first priority is to get dblatex
releases published in a timely manner, which is my reponsibility to its
users.
To finalize my advertisement: the dblatex package is not very
complicated (architecture all), with a frequency of at most one release
per month. However, IMHO it's a useful and important package, being the
sole DocBook->PDF tool in Debian main. And although I'm making
packaging mistakes, usually I learn and avoid repeating them. My GPG
key is signed by one DD, thus I'm basically connected to the web of
trust.
I hope to have given a picture clear enough to base a sponsoring
decision upon. Thus, if someone is interested, I really would be glad.
[1] http://packages.debian.org/sid/dblatex
Produces DVI, PostScript, PDF documents from DocBook sources
[2] http://packages.debian.org/sid/apt-show-versions
lists available package versions with distribution
[3] - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/d/dblatex
- Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free
- dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/d/dblatex/dblatex_0.2.8-3.dsc
Regards, Andreas
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Andreas Hoenen <andreas.hoenen@arcor.de>
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