delays in newmaint process

[John Leuner <jewel@pixie.co.za>]

I can't believe the new maintainer process takes 6 months to a year. Can
someone confirm that this is really the case and comment on why it's
like this?

If it's normal practice to hand over a package to someone else who isn't
a DD by sponsoring their uploads, we can go ahead and it this way.

John Leuner

> > > Did you thought about adding me to the uploaders field already ?
> > > Or do you want to wait until I'm a full DD, which can still take
> > > a year or so.
> >
> > It doesn't feel right to have somebody uploading packages when they
> > are not a DD. Do you really think it will take a year? I can't
> > believe it will take that long. I can help you make it go faster.
> 
> I know some DDs where it took even longer then a year. Thats not the 
> normal case but happens pretty often as it seems. I think the normal 
> time is about half a year. I dont have an AM assigned yet and there 
> are some people in the list that will get an AM assigned before me.
> 
> I wonder why you dont feel right when somebody is a maintainer of a 
> package who is no DD. He cannot upload himself but other DDs can 
> sponsor him. Thats don't pretty often. Personally I have already 17 
> source packages in Debian unstable, most of them are in testing too. 
> One is even in current stable (woody). When there is an upload need I 
> contact my sponsor to upload it for me. There is no problem with 
> this. Arnaud Vandyk volunteered to sponsor my uploads for classpath.
> Others, including Jeff Bailey (glibc Maintainer) and Matthias Klose 
> (GCC Maintainer) would be willing too as both know my works.
> 
> 
> Michael
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John Leuner <jewel@pixie.co.za>