Hi >I will not sponsor you in the typical way, where you are tagged as the >maintainer of the package (I believe that praxis to be broken: you do >not have access to all developer tools, and our structures do not >support getting hold of you in case of problems). Instead, I will adopt >the package and work with you on the packaging, and when you are a >developer and I (most probably) still feel confident that you are >capable of maintaining it properly, I will hand the maintainership over >to you. >Does that sound fair to you?
To me that does sound like a real broken sponsoring and like a ego-trip (package-count). Sorry, but there is not much Ian needs for his package maintainership that he cant access right now. I cant think of anything he would need. A proper sponsoring isnt visible anywhere in the package, except maybe a "Thanks to my sponsor" entry in changelog AND the signature of the .dsc/.changes file. One can also list the sponsor as an Uploader, but thats one step more and up to the sponsor. Sorry, just want to write my opinion here. Bye, Joerg
