One example of how sponsoring packages work. Bhavani Shankar was studying in BMS college of engineering, Bangalore while I was working in Bangalore. We have many students contributing to upstream projects from that college. Madhusudan C.S, Santosh Vattam, Shantanu Jha to name a few. See http://www.fosscommunity.in/wiki/Bangalore/BMSCE to get an idea of how active we used be. We should see more COEP names in these projects :) Forwarded conversation Subject: RFS: mobile-broadband-provider-info (updated package) ------------------------ From: Bhavani Shankar R <bhavi@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: 2011/1/19 To: debian-mentors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 20110118-1 of my package "mobile-broadband-provider-info". It builds these binary packages: mobile-broadband-provider-info - database of mobile broadband service providers The package appears to be lintian clean. The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/m/mobile-broadband-provider-info - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/m/mobile-broadband-provider-info/mobile-broadband-provider-info_20110118-1.dsc I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Kind regards -- Bhavani Shankar Ubuntu Developer | www.ubuntu.com https://launchpad.net/~bhavi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-REQUEST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Archive: http://lists.debian.org/AANLkTin2BCF6sqp1_hTj7kf2vH79fC6Vn8qdLPbYgug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ---------- From: Paul Wise <pabs@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: 2011/1/19 To: debian-mentors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Uploaded. Please forward http://bugs.debian.org/608966 upstream and mark it as forwarded. Please also ask upstream to look at the 16 bugs and 5 patches in Ubuntu: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mobile-broadband-provider-info https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mobile-broadband-provider-info/+patches Bonus points if you send upstream patches for each of them. Please also audit the debtags for this package, most of them are incorrect: http://debtags.alioth.debian.org/edit.html?pkg=mobile-broadband-provider-info -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise Archive: http://lists.debian.org/AANLkTimmJ+2ZADVxdcCWEYyrOHcVd9pV7uYo=qC3EMFb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ---------- From: Bhavani Shankar R <bhavi@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: 2011/1/19 To: debian-mentors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Thanks! Sure I'll do that this evening when I return from work Yes I'm sending them upstream and closing LP bugs as they are fixed Sure! thanks again a lot for uploading Archive: http://lists.debian.org/AANLkTim5MARAYznNd6CGh5ZKPNuKiiFDwJK5jVLrrCNP@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില് You have to keep reminding your government that you don't get your rights from them; you give them permission to rule, only so long as they follow the rules: laws and constitution.
