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 on mentors.debian.net 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. :).
The packages should be lintian clean and tested in pbuilder or similar, to make sure the dependencies are correct and obvious @@ -32,10 +33,17 @@ 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. +
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. +