On Wed, 2025-06-04 at 18:33 +0100, Ahmad Khalifa wrote:
> On 04/06/2025 18:28, Andrey Rakhmatullin wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 04, 2025 at 06:13:57PM +0100, Ahmad Khalifa wrote:
> > > > And, when you "just" fix bugs, you don't have to the next frustrating 
> > > > threadmill that we offer: looking for a sponsor.
> > > 
> > > What does this line mean?
> > 
> > That getting a sponsor as a new contributor, especially for a new 
> > package, is frustrating and often very long.
> 
> I see. Thanks.
> But at least with that, I've seen Phil send out a summary email and try 
> to promote packages from mentors on debian-devel. Most get sponsored 
> even if the wait is looong.
> 
> 
> PS, mentors.d.n has a 20-week timeout and it removes the package (hint).
> (And I'll stop talking about timeouts now)
> 

Just to note the emails to the debian-devel mailing list are suspended. These
will resume when 13 is released. I chose not to throw emails at the devel list,
cause possible issue and make the release teams job harder than it need be.

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