[Debian-med-packaging] Sponsoring many uploads

[Mattia Rizzolo]

On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 06:12:41PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > (I just need a better method to track sponsorship request done via plain
> > emails...)
> 
> As long as we did not had so many sponsors it worked like this.  Do you
> have a suggestion how to do better.  I personally consider the RFS
> mechanism via BTS a bit overkill

I don't know.  I'm a inbox-zero user and supporter, so I like to have my
inbox as short as possible.
I find the RFSes very efficient with this workflow (as I just archive
the mails for new RFS and when I'm in sponsoring moods I just haed over
bugs.d.o/sponsorship-requests), but it has the downside of using the BTS
which is really not the nicest thing to deal with, especially for quick
packages where
  *) it's OK if the sponsor does some edits on his own (most of the
     packages I deal with in RFS I review without doing anything on my
     own, I just report what I want to see changed)
  *) they are usually quite ready and don't need long work; sometimes
     ITPs or ITAs that come in the RFS queue needs months of iterations
     between the reviewer/sponsor and the sponsoree... this took 3 hours
     in total for 4 packages, with long pause in the middle)

Maybe it's just me and I need to work better on my mail workflow, keep
RFS (of all kinds, also coming from MLs like this) somewhere separate.
But a downside that won't go away of method is that it's racy, and it's
hard to track who is taking care of that given RFS.

> time consuming.

Time consuming are very much not.  Nowdays sometimes happen that a RFS
is already closed after not even 10 minutes.  Rare, but happens :)
Yet, it's an annoyance for the sponsoree, as they need to either upload
to mentors.d.n (=> up to 15 minutes of waiting for the package to be
accepted) and then they have the template (still a template to write),
or anyway, open a bug which is not really quick to do either.
Then, there are no rules there to use mentors.d.n or just git, and
sometimes people post both details, and everything get messy in my head :D

I'm quite new at the sponsoring world, I've been a DD for a little more
than 4 months, maybe I really just need to improve my own workflow.
Or maybe I'll develop something in the future to improve everybody's
workflow, we'll see ;)

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