Re: A lot of pending packages

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

[Lorenzo De Liso]
> I'm a simple debian contributor: I'm trying to get my work in debian
> through a sponsor [1] [2]. The problem is that I'm waiting for a sponsor
> since 7 days+ (and not only me, in mentors.debian.net there are 20+
> pending packages) [3].

My sponsoring preferences are available from
<URL: http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/debian-sponsoring.html >.  To
make sure I have direct contact with the prospective package
maintainer and avoid a backlog of packages I should have sponsored, I
want to be contacted on IRC about sponsoring.  So to me,
mentors.debian.net is a nice repository to find the source, and
uploading there is not the last step a future package maintainer need
to take to get her packages sponsored.

I want to avoid spending time reviewing a package where the
prospective package maintainer has gone missing, because I simply do
not have time to maintain more packages, and if I upload a package
where the maintainer is no longer available that would be the result.

I would love it if the package page on mentors.debian.net would
include the latest lintian status, a build log verifying that the
source is buildable with the current unstable and links to the project
home page, to save me more time and give it some added value to upload
there instead of putting the source package anywhere on the web.  It
would save me some time when I review a package for sponsoring. :)

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen