Re: A lot of pending packages
Hello,
Il giorno mer, 09/06/2010 alle 17.26 -0700, Russ Allbery ha scritto:
> It may be worth noting here that the repository on mentors.d.o is not
> intended to serve as an upload queue that someone will process. Rather,
> it's intended to provide a place where people can put packages to make it
> easy for others to look at them, and which can help with performing some
> consistency checks and verifications.
>
> In other words, I wouldn't expect anyone to take action based on the
> presence of a package on mentors.d.o with no other communication. It's
> more like free hosting for a source package while you look for someone to
> sponsor it, which makes it easier for the sponsor to look at the package.
>
> A lot of Debian Developers (myself included) do essentially no upload
> sponsoring except as part of packaging teams. Of course if there's a
> specific package, unrelated to other work in Debian, that you're trying to
> get into the archive, that doesn't help, but if the goal is to show
> involvement in Debian and to help the distribution, I would recommend
> joining a packaging team over just packaging new software. I think
> there's general consensus that the largest quality issues in Debian are
> lack of attention and resources for maintaining the packages that we have
> now, not the difficulty in getting brand new packages included (although
> of course both are important in the long run).
OK, then I will adopt few packages which I'm interested and work on
them. I hope one day I can get my packages uploaded in debian as well.
Please, don't consider that as a flame, I wanted just to talk as CIVIL
persons. Also, I don't wanted to be aggressive or whatever.
Kind regards,
Lorenzo De Liso
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