Re: Looking for sponsors

[Panu Kalliokoski <atehwa@sange.fi>]

In a nutshell: I think that the New Maintainers' Corner should have
links to Debian Developer's reference, Section 2.2, and the
debian-mentors FAQ.

Panu

On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 09:39:09PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 03:12:53PM +0200, Panu Kalliokoski wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 01:41:42PM +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
> > > On a related note, at the location you specified I can only find binary
> > > packages (.deb). For successful sponsoring, you need to provide the full
> > > source packages (.dsc, .diff.gz, .orig.tar.gz). The .deb itself is not
> > On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 12:42:39PM +0000, Neil Williams wrote:
> > > Best to send in an RFS (request for sponsor) for each package in turn. Set out 
> > 
> > Thank you for these advice.  For documentation purposes, it could be
> > nice if the Debian Developer's Reference also mentioned this in section
> > 2.2, and if the Debian New Maintainer's Guide and/or Debian New
> > Maintainers' Corner had pointers to that section or something else that
> > mentions how one is supposed to find sponsors.
> 
> The New Maintainer's Guide doesn't deal with this, but points to the
> Developers' Reference.
> 
> > (I'm not sure whom to contact to update the new maintainers' corner
> > information; webmaster or debian-www, perhaps?)
> 
> Yes.
> 
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>      2. That which causes joy or happiness.

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