On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 05:02:21AM +0800, Brian Almeida wrote: > On Tue, Dec 28, 1999 at 09:36:44AM +0100, Stefan Hornburg wrote: > > That is understandable, but how one becomes Debian maintainer from > > scratch ? This is the cause why Dennis and I need a sponsor. > > We developing this software and Dennis will maintain the Debian > > packages. > When I joined Debian about a year and a half ago, you didn't need > to be sponsored. The only reason sponsors are so popular right > now is because since new-maintainer is closed, it is the only > way for you to get your package into debian. Once it reopens, > there shouldn't be any issues.
Presumably, when it reopens, there will still be sponsors, but it will be more official, and a direct part of the process. Atleast this is what I gathered from Wichert's proposed new-maintainer process. -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
