Sponsorship

The sponsorship process is designed to allow prospective developers to have packages reviewed and uploaded. The review and uploading is performed by a Ubuntu Developer (MOTU) or Ubuntu Core Developer (core-dev). Sponsorship provides a means of learning about Ubuntu development and lowers the entry barrier for contribution.

The process outlined here is aimed at dealing with incremental changes to existing packages within Ubuntu. For mentoring on the creation of entirely new packages, please see the MOTU/Packages/REVU process.

Requesting Sponsorship

• File an Ubuntu bug in Launchpad or follow up on an existing one and

• attach your work

  • in the case of a patch (using the same upstream version), attach your suggested patch (Howto Debdiff)

  • if the package uses a patch system, then make sure to follow the patch tagging guidelines

  • review our general patch guidelines that give tips how to get the patch included upstream as well.

  • in the case of a upstream version update (Howto Package Update) attach the .diff.gz file (and link to the new upstream source if necessary)

• subscribe ubuntu-main-sponsors or ubuntu-universe-sponsors as appropriate (details below) and request sponsorship

New Packages

The process for getting NEW packages (packages which are not in Ubuntu at all yet) reviewed is explained at UbuntuDevelopment/NewPackages.

Sponsoring

Sponsorship is organized by two teams:

• https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-main-sponsors

• https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-universe-sponsors

Do not assign a bug to anyone if it needs sponsorship.

Any Ubuntu developer who is interested in acting as a sponsor is welcome to apply for membership in the appropriate team.

You can see the currently pending requests at:

• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.subscriber=ubuntu-main-sponsors

• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.subscriber=ubuntu-universe-sponsors

Or combined at:

• http://people.ubuntu.com/~dholbach/sponsoring/

The ubuntu-main-sponsors team handles sponsorship of packages in the main and restricted components; the ubuntu-universe-sponsors team handles sponsorship of packages in the universe and multiverse components. To find out which component a source package is in, visit https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/SOURCE-PACKAGE-NAME and look at the row for the appropriate release in the "Published versions and upstream associations" table. The component name is in the third column.

Workflow for Review and Sponsorship

If you are processing the universe sponsorship queue, please review the UbuntuDevelopment/CodeReviews or MOTU Sponsorship Procedure Documentation.

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