On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > So, dear co-developers, please join debian-mentors@lists.debian.org and > respond to future maintainers, and sponsor those who are asking it. > Also check out the sponsor page that is listing about 30 future > maintainers who are looking for a sponsor : > http://www.internatif.org/bortzmeyer/debian/sponsor/ Thanks for your effort Raphael!
I'll take over sponsorship for the person who wants to take over the package mozilla-locale-de-at which was orphaned by myself and perhaps other packages. Currently I have the problem that I can't find a detailed description, how to sponsor. At first please try a search at the Debian Web pages "Sponsor" which is not very helpful :-( but it should if your intention to find more sponsors should be fitted. After some more sophistcated search I found: http://www.debian.org/devel/join/newmaint Sponsor: A sponsor is an existing Debian Developer (see Member) who acts as the mentor of an Applicant: he checks the package done by the applicant and helps him improving the packaging. When the sponsor is satisfied with the package, he uploads it on behalf of the applicant to the Debian archive. The package is called a sponsored package which means that the applicant is the official maintainer but that a member has uploaded it (since applicants are not allowed yet to upload packages themselves). You can find a sponsor by sending an email to <debian-mentors@lists.debian.org> describing your package and asking for a sponsor. OK. If I understand this right that would mean that the control file would state Maintainer: Future Maintainer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and my own address will be in the changelog (like in an NMU). Where is the place to make clear that: "The package is called a sponsored package ..." Are there any fields/conventions? Kind regards Andreas. PS: I wonder why your "Sponsorship of future Debian developers" - page is not in the debian.org domain!
