Re: fed (fedit) seeking a linux home
Herbert Elwood Gilliland III <herb.gilliland@gmail.com> writes:
> Finally, I just wanted to say
Herbert, email correspondence is an important part of being a Debian
package maintainer. Please take the time to compose messages with
consideration to the recipients. In particular:
* Post your replies interleaved, not top-posted. See the article
<URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style>.
* Remove material not relevant to your response; don't preserve the
entirety of past messages in every subsequent message.
* On the other hand, keep (or re-insert) contextual information that
will help a reader understand your reply. Summarise, if it's long.
* While composing a message, consider whether a few more minutes will
allow you to gather extra information useful to your message. If so,
gather that information and post one message rather than six in a row.
* Consider who needs to receive the message; remove people from the
recipient fields if there's no reason to send it to them.
* Consider whether the discussion topic has shifted; if so, modify the
“Subject” field to be a summary of the current topic of discussion.
> it does seem to show that i don't need a sponsor, is that because
> someone sponsored it or did I do something wrong?
When you visit the package page for a package you submitted, it is you
that gets to specify whether the package needs a sponsor. See the page
(e.g. <URL:https://mentors.debian.net/package/FOOBAR> where “FOOBAR” is
the package name) for the options you can change.
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Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au>
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