<p>When sponsoring, I prefer being approached by the package
maintainer on IRC (pere on irc.debian.org and irc.oftc.net) with the
-URL to where the package can be downloaded. This is a low-overhead
-solution to me, and I do not accumulate a large backlog of request for
-sponsoring (as would happen if I tried to gather sponsor request using
-email. :).
+URL to where the package can be downloaded. I prefer an URL to a .dsc
+file to pass to dget. This is a low-overhead solution to me, and I do
+not accumulate a large backlog of request for sponsoring (as would
+happen if I tried to gather sponsor request using email. :).
<p>The packages should be lintian clean and tested in pbuilder or
similar, to make sure the dependencies are correct and obvious
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/developers-reference/">The Developers'
Reference</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://revu.tauware.de/">REVU - Ubuntu package review
+framework</a></li>
+
</ul>
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