Re: Re: New team member

[Caitlin Matos <caitlin.matos@zoho.com>]

>On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 09:57:01AM +0000, PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel wrote:
>>
>> > Also, curiosity: why does the DDPO page [1] list all packages in
>> > "science", not just those owned by
>> > debian-science-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org? Seems rather
>> > strange. Am I right that the top 3 tables (main, contrib, 
non-free) and
>> > last 2 (pending, backports) are the actual team-maintained 
packages, and
>> > the rest are coming in because they're affiliated with the blend 
or part
>> > of the "science" category?
>>
>> I do not know, Andreas ?
>
>Since it is possible to subscribe to DDTP I did so (via automatic
>script) with all packages (at the time of running the script last time)
>in Debian Science tasks.  I personally consider this quite convinient to
>QA watch also those packages that might be in need of team maintenance
>even if they are not yet.
>
>Kind regards
>
>Andreas.

Thanks for the answer!

That brings up another question, one that I've been wondering for a 
while but haven't yet found an answer for. How does one go about trying 
to recruit a package for team maintenance? Is there a policy/protocol to 
follow?