On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 22:39:53 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 01/15/2011 03:54 AM, gregor herrmann wrote: > > I don't agree here; I've seen and been involved in quite a few > > maintainer handovers that worked perfectly without involving the BTS. > > > > Of course if the new maintainer needs a sponsor, the sponsor will > > want to see some proof of the old maintainer's admission. > Which is what I am asking here!!! Jonathan talked about a private email. > I wont > sponsor an upload that would take-over the package just based on that. Ok, I agree in this case; until now I got the impression that you were talking about handing over maintainership in general. Maybe our confusion comes from the fact that Jonathan seems to ask about a _review_ (and not an upload) and you were already thinking about potential spnsorship in the future? > > I'm rather unfamiliar with git but sometimes I stumble over packages > > maintained in git anway; and I haven't seen upstream-sid and > > debian-sid branches yet. Who/where (team, tool, ...) is this schema > > used? > I first tried to do my packaging trying to integrate with the work of the > pkg-php team. I maintain lots of php-* (PEAR packages), and that is what > Raphael Geissert and others advised me to do. I see, thanks! Cheers, gregor -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.at/ -- GPG key IDs: 0x8649AA06, 0x00F3CFE4 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, & developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: Queen: Let Me Entertain You
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