Re: DD's, Debian Mentors needs you!

From	Soren Stoutner <soren@debian.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.devel
Subject	Re: DD's, Debian Mentors needs you!
Date	2024-07-07 08:20 +0200
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After reading a number of comments to the email below, I thought I would 
provide a bit of context for this email and Phil’s excellent work on Mentors.

Recently Phil has taken it upon himself to triage every package that requests 
sponsorship on mentors.debian.net.  Here is an example of the work he does:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2024/07/msg00032.html

When he feels a package is ready for sponsorship, he indicates that with an 
email to the list.

https://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2024/07/msg00024.html

In some cases, nobody picks these up.  The email below was sent to debian-
devel with a curated list of packages that Phil has already reviewed and feels 
are ready for a DD to sponsor.

At any point, anyone can look at all of the packages on Mentors requesting a 
sponsor.

https://mentors.debian.net/

But I have found Phil’s work to be very helpful, as I have limited time to 
handle sponsorships.  When I look at a package Phil has endorsed, I can be 
sure that the simple and obvious things have already been taken care of.

I would heartily hope that Phil continues to send periodic emails to debian-
devel with lists of packages that he considers ready, but that are languishing 
on the vine because nobody has noticed them.  I would also encourage anyone 
else to get involved in this process if they feel so inclined.  I think that 
one of the most important aspects of attracting people to Debian is to make it 
easy for someone who is not yet a DD or DM to submit packages and have them be 
reviewed promptly.  There is probably nothing as demotivating to a first-time 
contributor as putting a lot of effort into a package, having it be in good 
shape, and then never having it be sponsored simply because it didn’t get 
noticed.

Soren

P.S.  Based on Phil’s work on Mentors and my interactions with him, I have 
advocated for him to become a Debian Developer, uploading.  I think his 
contributions to Debian will be even more impactful when he can sponsor the 
packages he feels are ready.

https://nm.debian.org/process/1305/

On Saturday, July 6, 2024 6:45:33 AM MST Phil Wyett wrote:
> Hi all DD's
> 
> Debian Mentors[1] always struggles to find available Debian Developers for
> final reviewing and sponsoring of packages submitted too our part of the
> project.
> 
> We believe some packages are ready or very close to the quality for
> sponsorship and we would request any DD who has the time and is willing, to
> have a look at one or more of the packages below and possibly sponsor them
> into Debian.
> 
> Mentors page:
> https://mentors.debian.net/package/hexwalk/
> Request For Sponsorship (RFS):
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1065008
> 
> Mentors page:
> https://mentors.debian.net/package/uriparser/
> Request For Sponsorship (RFS):
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1074542
> 
> Mentors page:
> https://mentors.debian.net/package/mailgraph/
> Request For Sponsorship (RFS):
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1074552
> 
> Mentors page:
> https://mentors.debian.net/package/dmidecode/
> Request For Sponsorship (RFS):
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1074553
> 
> Mentor page:
> https://mentors.debian.net/package/selint/
> Request For Sponsorship (RFS):
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1074592
> 
> Your assistance will be extremely appreciated and if announcing a few at a
> time on the 'devel' list works, this could become a weekly thing.
> 
> [1] https://mentors.debian.net
> 
> Regards
> 
> Phil

-- 
Soren Stoutner
soren@debian.org

Thread

DD's, Debian Mentors needs you! Phil Wyett <philip.wyett@kathenas.org> - 2024-07-06 15:50 +0200
  Re: DD's, Debian Mentors needs you! Soren Stoutner <soren@debian.org> - 2024-07-06 19:00 +0200
  Re: DD's, Debian Mentors needs you! xiao sheng wen(肖盛文) <atzlinux@sina.com> - 2024-07-07 02:00 +0200
    Re: DD's, Debian Mentors needs you! Phil Wyett <philip.wyett@kathenas.org> - 2024-07-07 03:20 +0200
    Re: DD's, Debian Mentors needs you! Andrey Rakhmatullin <wrar@debian.org> - 2024-07-07 07:40 +0200
    Re: DD's, Debian Mentors needs you! Baptiste Beauplat <lyknode@debian.org> - 2024-07-08 21:40 +0200
      Re: DD's, Debian Mentors needs you! Phil Wyett <philip.wyett@kathenas.org> - 2024-07-09 07:40 +0200
  Re: DD's, Debian Mentors needs you! Otto Kekäläinen <otto@debian.org> - 2024-07-07 02:50 +0200
    Re: DD's, Debian Mentors needs you! Phil Wyett <philip.wyett@kathenas.org> - 2024-07-07 03:10 +0200
  Re: DD's, Debian Mentors needs you! Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> - 2024-07-07 08:00 +0200
    Re: DD's, Debian Mentors needs you! Andrey Rakhmatullin <wrar@debian.org> - 2024-07-07 08:30 +0200
      Re: DD's, Debian Mentors needs you! Phil Wyett <philip.wyett@kathenas.org> - 2024-07-07 09:20 +0200
    Re: DD's, Debian Mentors needs you! Nilesh Patra <nilesh@debian.org> - 2024-07-07 09:50 +0200
      Re: DD's, Debian Mentors needs you! weepingclown <weepingclown@disroot.org> - 2024-07-07 10:40 +0200
        Re: DD's, Debian Mentors needs you! Nilesh Patra <nilesh@debian.org> - 2024-07-07 13:00 +0200
  Re: DD's, Debian Mentors needs you! Soren Stoutner <soren@debian.org> - 2024-07-07 08:20 +0200
    Re: DD's, Debian Mentors needs you! Xiyue Deng <manphiz@gmail.com> - 2024-07-07 08:50 +0200
      Re: DD's, Debian Mentors needs you! Phil Wyett <philip.wyett@kathenas.org> - 2024-07-07 09:50 +0200
        Re: DD's, Debian Mentors needs you! Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> - 2024-07-07 23:00 +0200
          Re: DD's, Debian Mentors needs you! Phil Wyett <philip.wyett@kathenas.org> - 2024-07-07 23:20 +0200
    Re: DD's, Debian Mentors needs you! Phil Wyett <philip.wyett@kathenas.org> - 2024-07-07 09:50 +0200
    Re: DD's, Debian Mentors needs you! Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> - 2024-07-07 11:40 +0200
      Re: DD's, Debian Mentors needs you! Phil Wyett <philip.wyett@kathenas.org> - 2024-07-07 12:30 +0200
    Re: DD's, Debian Mentors needs you! Joerg Jaspert <joerg@debian.org> - 2024-07-07 13:30 +0200
      Re: DD's, Debian Mentors needs you! Phil Wyett <philip.wyett@kathenas.org> - 2024-07-09 11:50 +0200
        Re: DD's, Debian Mentors needs you! Pierre-Elliott Bécue <peb@debian.org> - 2024-07-09 14:30 +0200
          Re: DD's, Debian Mentors needs you! Phil Wyett <philip.wyett@kathenas.org> - 2024-07-09 14:50 +0200
  Re: DD's, Debian Mentors needs you! Jeremy Bícha <jeremy.bicha@canonical.com> - 2024-07-07 16:30 +0200
    Re: DD's, Debian Mentors needs you! Andrey Rakhmatullin <wrar@debian.org> - 2024-07-07 16:40 +0200
  Re: DD's, Debian Mentors needs you! Leandro Cunha <leandrocunha016@gmail.com> - 2024-07-07 23:10 +0200

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