Bug#160529: ASK is RFPed

[Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es>]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 08:07:51PM -0400, Marco Paganini wrote:
> 
> It could be. The subject was probably something like:
> 
> Please Confirm (#12345678901234567890123456789012)
> 
> Some people argue it looks a lot like spam. In any case, the email remained
> queued and I was able to "fish" it out of the queue.

It does indeed sound a lot like spam; I wouldn't be surprised if I just
deleted it without even reading the body.

Maybe you could make it contain the original Subject? A standard response
prefix such as "Re: $subject" would be nice.

> That would be interesting. My idea is to remodel the Makefile to generate the
> package correctly, minimizing friction.

That's good, although not strictly necessary.

> What else is expected of my if I'm
> a Debian maintainer? Sorry for my ignorance, I'm a happy Debian user, but I
> don't have a clue of what being a Debian mainteiner means.

I suggest you read the New Maintainers' Guide:

  http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/

For an _exhaustive_ reference there's the Developers' Reference manual:

  http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/

And finaly, there's the debian-mentors mailing list if you need help learning
maintainership issues.

> I'll do as soon as I know that I can provide good service to the community. I
> do intend to be the maintainer, but I need to know if my (at the moment)
> rather busy schedule won't damage my image as a maintainer (I think not,
> but...).

This is something you need to decide yourself, I'm afraid. You can always
try and if you don't like it leave the task for someone else.

-- 
Robert Millan

"[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the
thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he
gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work."

 -- J.R.R.T, Ainulindale (Silmarillion)