-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 06-01-2005 16:47, Jörg Jaspert wrote:
>>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. Feel free to sponsor Ian the "normal" way instead. I won't be in your way of doing so. I take on a responsibility and do it the way I feel confident and comfortable about it. > Sorry, just want to write my opinion here. Fair enough. Maybe the -project mailinglist was a better place for eventual further discussion, though. - 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 v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFB3XsKn7DbMsAkQLgRAuL1AKCoSx/s5N3wUeDfj7yPrBsqnzckvgCgiXkv sD9h8ZCToKBfBuyB5h30qz8= =ZEH4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
