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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 on <a href="http://mentors.debian.net/">mentors.debian.net</a> to
  21 pass to dget.  This is a low-overhead solution to me, and I do not
  22 accumulate a large backlog of request for sponsoring (as would happen
  23 if I tried to gather sponsor request using email. :).
  24
  25 <p>The packages should be lintian clean and tested in pbuilder or
  26 similar, to make sure the dependencies are correct and obvious
  27 problems are found.  I primarily sponsor packages going into
  28 debian/main, so if the package isn't acceptable for main, there is
  29 normally no need to approach me.
  30
  31 <p>I find it best to hear directly from the person planning on
  32 maintaining the package, to be able to ask how much time the
  33 prospective maintainer plan to spend on the package, as well as work
  34 out issues with the package directly.
  35
  36 <p>When I sponsor packages, I add a line 'Upload sponsored by Petter
  37 Reinholdtsen' to the debian changelog to document the fact to the next
  38 sponsor of the package.
  39
  40 <h2>Related documents</h2>
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  42 <ul>
  43
  44 <li><a href="http://wiki.debian.org/SponsorChecklist">Debian sponsor
  45   check list</a></li>
  46
  47 <li><a href="http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/">Debian Policy</a></li>
  48
  49 <li><a href="http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/">The Developers'
  50   Reference</a></li>
  51
  52 <li><a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/Packages/REVU">REVU - Ubuntu
  53   package review framework</a></li>
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