Bug#243938: Existing packages
Hi everyone,
I am going over the 1.2.7-10 package and making a few changes here and
there, getting it ready to be uploaded into the archive... I've just got
some testing to do.
Regarding package maintainence -- it sounds like a few of you have expressed
desire to help and work together and get sponsorship for the package. I am
fine with sponsoring the package, if you are prepared to actually maintain
it....
Sponsorship for me means meeting a few criteria:
1. conversant in the relevant developer documentation, policy, Developer's
Reference and where to find things related to the package. Need to also be on
d-d-announce
2. Gotta be lintian, pbuilder and install clean.
3. The package needs to be maintained (bugs should be responded
to/fixed; new upstream versions packaged, etc.)
4. and (I'm not really strict on this), intending to join the debian project
at some point... I find sponsorship to be a burden on developers and if
people aren't ever going to become maintainers that might be a problem in
the long term
5. need to have a gpg key... preferably signed by someone in the web of
trust
If these requirements are too much, and make it not worth you having me
sponsor the package, I'd probably prefer to just be the maintainer myself,
but would be very happy to have your contributions/improvements and act as
co-maintainers!
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