On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 02:54:07PM -0300, Margarita Manterola wrote: > On 4/11/06, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <marc@marcbrockschmidt.de> wrote: > > > 2.1 Multiple advocates > > ---------------------- > > I agree with the rest of the suggestions, but I'm not sure that I > agree with this one... I can think of two cases where this could be > an unnecessary problem to someone who does actually contribute: > > 1) Someone who maintains a certain number of packages, but they are > all sponsored by the same person. This person might be doing a lot of > work, and be knowledgeable about Debian without interacting actively > with anyone else apart from his/her sponsor... > > 2) Someone who does not have a fixed sponsor, but sends mails to > -mentors asking for uploads whenever they need one. This person's > work won't be appreciated by all of his/her sponsors, because they'd > only see one of those packages, and not all the work done... (In this > case, it's even difficult to get an advocate at all) Hi Margarita, tracking contributions: when someone (like a non-debian package maintainer or a NM) asks for something to be sponsored, is there a mailing list or location (like on wiki.d.o/$NAME) that this is noted? Would such a location or mailing list be useful for AM or others to see what they did? Also if this was implemented would it be useful for non-debian package maintainers to have their work noted so that if they want to join the NM process in the future, they could then just point to the work they did for debian in one of these locations? As for translation/documentation contributions, is there a way to track non-debian, NM (or DD) translation/documentation work other than parsing changelogs? Sample entries: From: joe hacker <joe@hacker.org> To: debian-contribution-list Subject: Sponsored upload of <gimp> From: joe hacker <joe@hacker.org> To: debian-contribution-list Subject: Translation for <apt-howto-es> From: joe hacker <joe@hacker.org> To: debian-contribution-list Subject: Documentation written for <manpages-freebsd> From: joe hacker <joe@hacker.org> To: debian-contribution-list Subject: Bug report written for <#33455> From: joe hacker <joe@hacker.org> To: debian-contribution-list Subject: Bug report with patch written for <#33455> From: joe hacker <joe@hacker.org> To: debian-contribution-list Subject: Artwork for <falconseye> From: joe hacker <joe@hacker.org> To: debian-contribution-list Subject: Sound for <gaim> From: joe hacker <joe@hacker.org> To: debian-contribution-list Subject: website page for <www.debian.org> Cheers, Kev -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal | debian.home.pipeline.com | | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: pgp.mit.edu | my NPO: cfsg.org |
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