Re: ITPers should have Sponsors
On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 12:10:34PM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote:
> I don't understand that at all. For me the main point of an ITP
> announcement is to prevent duplication of effort. If someone is
> working on the packaging of a piece of software, perhaps mainly to
> make it play nicely on her machines, it would be dumb to let another
> one do this again without even having the chance to review the
> first person's work.
>
> Why is it important whether any of the involved people is actually a
> developer, or has a sponsor?
IMHO, an ITP is also a promise to upload the package to the official
Debian archive within a reasonable period. Can a non-maintainer
make that promise?
Hamish
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