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  11 <h1>My debian sponsoring preferences</h1>
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  13 <p>I am willing to sponsor packages, but generally not willing to take
  14 over the maintenence.  I've got too many other things going on, so I
  15 would do a bad job if I tried to maintain more packages.
  16
  17 <p>When sponsoring, I prefer being approached by the package
  18 maintainer on IRC (pere on irc.debian.org and irc.oftc.net) with the
  19 URL to where the package can be downloaded.  I prefer an URL to a .dsc
  20 file to pass to dget.  This is a low-overhead solution to me, and I do
  21 not accumulate a large backlog of request for sponsoring (as would
  22 happen if I tried to gather sponsor request using email. :).
  23
  24 <p>The packages should be lintian clean and tested in pbuilder or
  25 similar, to make sure the dependencies are correct and obvious
  26 problems are found.  I primarily sponsor packages going into
  27 debian/main, so if the package isn't acceptable for main, there is
  28 normally no need to approach me.
  29
  30 <p>I find it best to hear directly from the person planning on
  31 maintaining the package, to be able to ask how much time the
  32 prospective maintainer plan to spend on the package, as well as work
  33 out issues with the package directly.
  34
  35 <p>When I sponsor packages, I add a line 'Upload sponsored by Petter
  36 Reinholdtsen' to the debian changelog to document the fact to the next
  37 sponsor of the package.
  38
  39 <h2>Related documents</h2>
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  42
  43 <li><a href="http://wiki.debian.org/SponsorChecklist">Debian sponsor
  44   check list</a><li>
  45
  46 <li><a href="http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/sponsorship.html">Matthew
  47   Palmer's guidelines for sponsoring people</a></li>
  48
  49 <li><a href="http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/">Debian Policy</a></li>
  50
  51 <li><a href="http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/">The Developers'
  52   Reference</a></li>
  53
  54 <li><a href="http://revu.tauware.de/">REVU - Ubuntu package review
  55 framework</a></li>
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