+<p>I find it best to hear directly from the person planning on
+maintaining the package, to be able to ask how much time the
+prospective maintainer plan to spend on the package, as well as work
+out issues with the package directly.
+
+<p>When I sponsor packages, I add a line 'Upload sponsored by Petter
+Reinholdtsen' to the debian changelog to document the fact to the next
+sponsor of the package.
+
+<h2>Related documents</h2>
+
+<ul>
+
+<li><a href="http://wiki.debian.org/SponsorChecklist">Debian sponsor
+ check list</a><li>
+
+<li><a href="http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/sponsorship.html">Matthew
+ Palmer's guidelines for sponsoring people</a></li>
+
+<li><a href="http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/">Debian Policy</a></li>
+
+<li><a href="http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/">The Developers'
+ Reference</a></li>
+
+<li><a href="http://revu.tauware.de/">REVU - Ubuntu package review
+framework</a></li>
+
+</ul>
+