<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
<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>