Re: A lot of pending packages

[Raymond Wan <r.wan@aist.go.jp>]

Hi all,

2010/6/11 Tanguy Ortolo <tanguy+debian@ortolo.eu>:
> Le jeudi 10 juin 2010, Mohammad Ebrahim Mohammadi Panah a écrit :
> Failing to get sponsorship is very frustrating, because you make some
> work you find useful, and, because nobody validates it, it remains
> useless. I is even more frustrating when it consists in an update rather
> than a new package, and this update fixes bugs that do affect real
> users. Such a frustration make easy to find problems in the Debian
> management, so this point of view is not a neutral one. :-)


Quite honestly, I'm new here and joined this list because after many
years of using Debian, I'm wondering if I can help out.

Anyway, about the above point, hopefully I am not wrong by saying
this, but if nobody validates it, I don't think it means it is
useless.  It can still be a Debian package (or be source that has to
be compiled) ... just not an official one.  Perhaps it can be on a
homepage or something (with a good description that will help search
engines find it) and after it gets noticed and used, then finding a
sponsor might be easier?

I'm just saying that sometimes things happen the other way around...

Ray