-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 14:43:53 +0100 MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > So again: What is the responsibility of sponsoring, if not the full > > responsibility of "everything the non-DD did to make the software > > suitable for inclusion into Debian" (what I call "maintainance")? > > Sponsors are responsible for the uploaded material and should > act as a sort of mini-ftpmaster/qa/mia/bugs-help routine. My > NMs get pinged occasionally if they go too quiet. It is not the > same as me maintaining, but I'd consider it if a NM did go MIA, > because I mostly sponsor stuff I use or am interested in. I act as mini-ftpmaster/qa/mia/bugs-help for all of my own packages, and I call that work "maintaining" the packages. I can have upstream do all of the hard work for me, or I can have someone else outside of Debian do it, but in the end I am responsible for "maintaining" whatever I let into Debian. I don't want to convince you that you are wrong, but also I have a feeling that you cannot convince me that I am wrong. Let's just leave it at that, unless you have additional arguments. > Sponsored packages should be unmaintained less often than DD > ones, because there should be someone who's already read and > understood the packaging and might take over, isn't there? Sounds like you are describing the good cases with caring sponsors. I suspect lazy sponsors exist, but have no proof. Lack of proof - lack of visibility in the way sponsoring is treated in real life - is part of my point in this thread, but not all. What worries me more is the lack of responsibility behind such behavior. But as I have no proof we can just end the discussion here and you can sleep well at night deciding that I am simply hunting a ghost. :-I Friendly, - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er nær: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDNBB4n7DbMsAkQLgRAqqsAJ4nPkc9XOZljt9Scm52xlScUh3m2gCfQjvs zwQGSTCU8FtCHEWGHSBU96U= =PZuN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----