Bug#835658: RFS: backbone/1.3.3+ds-1

[Gianfranco Costamagna <locutusofborg@debian.org>]

(dropping the cc list from my next email, please follow #835658 if you care about the thread)


>Don't take for granted that what you find obvious is equally obvious to 
>others.  Especially when raised as an explicit question: Makes you seem 
>like taking me for a fool (which I am sure was not intended).


yes, you are right, I didn't mean to take you as a fool of course :)
(glad you didn't take seriously my bad communication)


In my opinion help in maintenance means
"hey maintainer/team, is it ok to add me as uploader"?

in this case I see more as a:
"hey maintainer/team, can I update it to the latest release because foo and bar"?

this seems intended as a one-shot upload (of course the goal release is Stretch
so we have to see it properly migrate to testing), to fix
the reverse-dependencies.

each case is different, pkg-javascript is a big team, and probably with not so good
defined rules
(specially because the packaging for most of the packages is so trivial)

>>> If the former, then you should coordinate your work with current 
>>> maintainers (fine that you seek help and guidance from others too, 
>>> but don't go ahead with only input from external parties).
>> 
>> this is something that a good sponsor has to check, and the reason for 
>> me putting *you* in cc :)
>
>Could you please elaborate on what you find an obvious role for a 
>"sponsor" here.  Assume I have never¹ hear that term before.
>
>
>¹ I have, but from the context here I suspect we mean different things 
>by that term.


(still not a native speaker, so apologizes in advance and again if I made
some communication mistakes)


"sponsor" is a word that I guess comes from the RFS term, in my opinion a sponsor
is a person that tries to facilitate the fix for a particular bug or package, and
eventually uploads the package.
In this case the correct word would have probably been "mentor", because
what I checked was to be sure the Team/Maintainer/Uploaders were agreeing
on the changes.

(BTW to be fair, I also cc'd the people who requested the new version, to give
publicly a thread to say their opinion)

so, even if I used the "sponsor" word, I don't intend of course to upload anything,
at least until somebody with an authoritative hat asks me to do it :)

>[remaining mail skipped for now, to keep a focus]


this is nice, thanks
(I hope my good faith is not in discussion here!)

G.