Re: An Analysis of the RFS Process
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Wookey wrote:
> I expect most other devs are in a similar boat.
Indeed, your experience sounds fairly typical.
> So, no real answers there, but I would appreciate some feedback on
> just how much responsibility sponsors are expected to take. I assume
> it's the same as a package you upload yourself in terms of
> quality/security-review, but hopefully you can pass all the actual
> prep/work onto the packager. Right?
In many situations the work is indeed done by the maintainer but there
are some folks don't do sponsoring but only co-maintenance. The person
doing the signing and uploading is obviously responsible for what gets
into the archive and what doesn't. Some say they should adopt/RM the
package when it gets orphaned. Some say pinging the maintainer is a
good idea if they have RC bugs or become inactive. Some say you should
develop relationships with your sponsees. Some say you should be a
teacher for your sponsees; tell them about the Debian SC, packaging,
the BTS, the release process etc. Some say you should not do one-shot
sponsoring. Some say you should aim to make them DDs/DMs ASAP so you
can stop sponsoring them and get them to sponsor more people.
Basically there are a lot of different ways to be a sponsor but I
guess the minimum is ensuring RC bugs and NEW rejections don't happen
if possible.
> If people have caving, terrain-modelling, mapping, GIS, CAD, embedded,
> build-system, or cross-build related stuff, then I am much more likely
> to get off my arse and sponsor. Should DD's hobbies/interests be such
> an important factor in what gets sponsored? If not what other metrics
> can we use?
It is perfectly acceptable to only sponsor what you are interested in.
Some years ago we did a bunch of brainstorming and came up with some
metrics people might like to use. The mentors site was going to
include some automated filtering, I'm not sure if that has been
implemented yet though.
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMentorsNet#Metrics
As Andreas has said, teams/blends are a great place to get involved
with sponsoring. The Debian GIS team has been understaffed, is merging
with the OSM team and has recently seen a few new folks become
interested so you may want to get involved in that as a sponsor:
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianGis
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bye,
pabs
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