Hi Mike, On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 12:03:30PM -0500, Mike Schacht wrote: > I dug around a little in the Debian site, and in particular in the New > Maintainers' Corner, though I confess not exhaustively, to find out > where to direct packages or offers to help and it seemed to me that > in every case contributing required being an official debian developer, > and this in turn required, in part, just to start, a sponser that it > already a developer. > Is being a developer, in fact, required? I am perfectly willing to apply > and do the work as I already keep these particular packages up to date > for my own use, but I thought there might some easier short circuit > route such as forwarding packages to an existing developer who be the > official maintainer and who would forward packages to the archive with > his authority after reviewing them. If I must be a developer how do I > attract a sponser? I am the only one I know who uses linux, let alone > debian, and I am not in any user groups or online clubs or anything like > them. In short, I don't know any Debian Developers and certainly none > know me. Being a developer is not required; we have a sponsorship process whereby you can "forward packages to an existing developer" for uploading. However, in everything other than the upload itself, you are expected to act as the maintainer for this package, including handling of bug reports; and maintainers of sponsored packages are expected to apply for developership. To find a developer who would be willing to sponsor your packages, the best place to ask currently is debian-mentors@lists.debian.org. If there are RFP's in the wnpp list for some of the packages you wish to submit, you may wish to contact the bug submitter; if he/she is a Debian developer, that may make finding an upload sponsor easier. If you have questions about the process of becoming a developer, you should probably direct them to the NM committee at debian-newmaint@lists.debian.org. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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