dgit-sponsorship(7)

[Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>]

Hello mentors,

I guess that a lot of people on this list aren't subscribed to
debian-devel-announce, so I'd like to encourage active sponsors and
sponsees to check out dgit-sponsorship(7).[1]

Some reasons to try out this new workflow:

* It allows us to do everything in git, while still ensuring (as use of
  mentors.debian.net does) that the exact source package the sponsee
  intended gets uploaded.

* For new packages which will receive a lot of revisions before they are
  ready, working in git means that the sponsor/reviewer can simply use
  `git diff` to review subsequent changes.

  This avoids regressions, and means you don't have to check that the
  git repository and mentors.d.n are in sync, et cetera.

* For packages already in the archive, sponsors can use `dgit fetch`
  follows by `git diff` to check the proposed upload against the version
  currently in the archive.  Much easier than debdiff.

Thanks!

I'm sure that the workflow in dgit-sponsorship(7) can be improved, so
I'm looking forward to seeing some patches against it from the mentors
community.

[1] Install dgit from sid, or here:
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git-manpage/dgit.git/dgit-sponsorship.7

-- 
Sean Whitton