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

[Michael Banck]

On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 11:41:58PM +0100, Frederic Lehobey wrote:
> > 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.

Which seems less polished as REVU and is the new kid on the block,
AFAIK. REVU is around longer, I believe, but I have not looked at both
too closely to be able to really judge.


Michael

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