Wolfgang Lonien wrote: > I'm asked to do some backporting from time to time - would that count as: > > "we require that prospective developers have already contributed – in > the form of translations, documentation, sending patches or package > maintenance." (from the new maintainers' corner)?
No. Backporting is easy, and something completely diffrent than building a package from scratch and/or maintaining a package on your own. > And would I send these only to backports.org, or should I also try to > find some mentor/sponsor here? If you need a sponsor for backports.org, just write to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and give an URL where the backported package can be reviewed. I, at least, will look at it in a very timely fashion, for sure. -- Address: Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: http://people.panthera-systems.net/~daniel-baumann/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]