On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 1:18 AM, Thijs Kinkhorst <th...@debian.org> wrote: > On Wed, August 7, 2013 21:52, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: >> 22/37 were sponsored as part of a team >> 10/37 had a friend or colleague sponsor them >> 5/37 were sponsored as part of debian-mentors >> >> Other things mentioned (once): >> - sponsored by the previous maintainer when adopting a package >> - sponsored by an Ubuntu MOTU who is also a DD >> >> | It seems that your best luck, if your package does not fit in a team, >> | is to find someone close to you (friend/colleague) that will make the >> | upload... That's quite sad! > > I'm not following why these numbers would be "sad". People are apparently > finding collegues or friends to sponsor them, which seems great, not sad. > At work we sponsor non-DD's regularly and this is always a positive > experience.
On the other hand, people who do not already have existing relationships or contacts with DDs, and who want to get involved in Debian, may find it much harder to do so than someone who already knows a DD. Having a friend/colleague who is also a DD shouldn't be a prerequisite to contributing packages to Debian (and thankfully it isn't), yet there's no doubt that receiving personalized and prompt feedback from someone you already know puts you in a better position to actively contribute to Debian, compared to somebody with no existing contacts in the FOSS community who uploads a new package to mentors.d.n, files a RFS request, and then waits, only to see his/her package bitrot at mentors.d.n. > I think it's acutally encouraging to read that most people do not need > debian-mentors but found teams, friends or collegues to work with them. > Such longer-standing relations are, in my opinion, better than the one-off > sponsoring that happens on d-mentors. Aside from teams (some which are highly active, some which are not...), debian-mentors is the go-to place for new contributors without any existing contacts, and is also ideally the place for new and fruitful sponsor/sponsoree relationships to develop. Regards, Vincent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caczd_tcg7cn1ck+yuykbthfeltfxn5rcwnxhq+h16agldsv...@mail.gmail.com