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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 sponsorship process is designed to allow prospective developers to have packages reviewed and uploaded. Sponsorship provides a means of learning about Ubuntu development and lowers the entry barrier for contribution.
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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. 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.)
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 * Subscribe ubuntu-main-sponsors, ubuntu-universe-sponsors or ubuntu-security-sponsors as appropriate (details below)  * Subscribe ubuntu-sponsors or ubuntu-security-sponsors as appropriate (details below)
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Sponsorship is organized into three teams:
 * https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-main-sponsors
 * https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-universe-sponsors
Sponsorship is organized into two teams:
 * https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-sponsors
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 * https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.subscriber=ubuntu-main-sponsors
 * https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.subscriber=ubuntu-universe-sponsors
 * https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.subscriber=ubuntu-sponsors
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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; the `ubuntu-security-sponsors` team handles sponsorship of packages in the `security` pocket for all 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. The `ubuntu-sponsors` team handles general sponsorship of packages in Ubuntu; the `ubuntu-security-sponsors` team handles sponsorship of packages in the `security` pocket for all components.

Sponsorship

The sponsorship process is designed to allow prospective developers to have packages reviewed and uploaded. 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

Packages maintained on Launchpad Code Hosting

Special attention is required if packages are maintained on Launchpad's Code Hosting. You might run into a message like this, when getting the source package:

$ apt-get source ubuntu-artwork
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
NOTICE: 'ubuntu-artwork' packaging is maintained in the 'Bzr' version control system at:
https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-art-pkg/ubuntu-artwork/ubuntu
Please use:
bzr get https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-art-pkg/ubuntu-artwork/ubuntu
to retrieve the latest (possible unreleased) updates to the package.
[...]
$ 

In these cases please consider registering a Merge proposal. It will make the life of the maintainers a lot easier.

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 into two teams:

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:

Or combined at:

The ubuntu-sponsors team handles general sponsorship of packages in Ubuntu; the ubuntu-security-sponsors team handles sponsorship of packages in the security pocket for all components.

Workflow for Review and Sponsorship

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


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