OT - Re: [Utnubu-discuss] porting pyalsaaudio from Utnubu

[Frederic Lehobey]

Hi,

On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 04:44:47PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:

> So far the high level talk, now a bit more concrete:
> 
> Currently, there is no useful and used place where sponsors and
> sponsorees can usefully encounter eachother. RFS's on mailinglists have
> a limited effect (espcially because updates are not very well possible),
> and in practice, I get the feeling that having a fixed sponsor and
> simply badgering for sponsors in IRC works much better.
> 
> The ideal system in my eyes must be very simple to use, provide a way
> for the prospective sponsoree to add his package(s), and the interface
> must list description, and might also in the future list
> lintian/linda/piuparts output, etc. Besides that, the most important
> thing would be a sort of status board regarding the checking status of
> the package, everybody must be able to comment on certain aspects of the
> package, possibly based on the sponsoring checklist by Matthew Palmer,
> so that everybody, DD or not, can contribute to checking the package,
> and a potential sponsor can based on that, quickly see whether a package
> will require a lot of mentoring, or not, and adjust his actions
> accordingly.  The ease of use of the interface is crucial, it should
> also definitely have a direct link to the source package in question.

There exists http://sponsors.debian.net/ which has some of these
features.

Best regards,
Frederic Lehobey
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