Re: Asking for DMUA: Yes while seeking first sponsor
[Mathieu Malaterre, 2010-06-15]
> Thankfully I was under the debian-med umbrella, otherwise I would
> have gone mad, if every time I would have had to search for a DD.
well, it is hard indeed (if you want a new DD for every upload).
Hint: try to ask previous sponsor first!
> I completely understand when a package is being *first* uploaded the
> need for a DD to review it. What I do not understand is that I should
> go with this exact same process (which can takes a couple of days),
> where the only differences appears in debian/control file just to
> tweak some version number. I even had a case where two different DD
> did the upload, I *really* think this would save brain cycle if we had
> a lighter process.
most of my sponsorees needed more than 10 uploads (and each upload: one
or more RFS replies asking to fix bugs, including fixing the ones fixed
after one of previous reply) before I was happy with the package quality
and uploaded without a single reply to RFS mail, so I'm strongly against
setting the DMUA flag soon (and setting it by someone who is not DD is
simply not acceptable).
My point is: instead of setting DMUA flag, read documentation and try to
make the package as good as you can *before* requesting an upload (it
happened to me more than once that I stopped checking a package after
realizing that mentoree didn't even read New Maintainers' Guide)
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