1. Common questions
1.1. Who are you? What are your tasks?
See http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia. If it doesn't answer your questions, please help us to improve that page
2. Getting new software in Debian
2.1. I have packaged new software. Can you upload it for me?
In general, we of course care for new multimedia packages. However we cannot sponsor packages on a regular basis. Please see DebianMentorsNet for a service aiming at this.
2.2. Ok, but not all team members of pkg-multimedia seem to be DDs. You still sponsor them, no?
Yes, we do. Please keep in mind that signing and uploading is the least work that needs to be done for sponsoring. It causes much more work to actually review, improve and fix packages. That's why we maintain our packages in git. See also PackagingWithGit and ../DevelopPackaging.
2.3. Fair enough. I have my package in git. Can you now sponsor it?
First get the package in a good state, and get a team member to review it. Only then, integrate your work in our team repository, so that later on, any team member can look at, improve and fix it if necessary. See ../DevelopPackaging for a more detailed procedure.
The rationale is that we need someone in the team as contact person in case some action is needed for the package.
2.4. Nobody in your team seems interested!
Well, either your package does not really fit the team member's interest, or (more likely) we are overworked and don't find time to integrate your package. Please consider joining the team.
2.5. There is 'Debian Multimedia Maintainers' and 'debian-multimedia.org'. So what's the difference?
'Debian Multimedia Maintainers' is the team behind the packaging of multimedia related packages distributed with Debian. In other words, 'Debian Multimedia Maintainers' is us.
'debian-multimedia.org' is a site that offers a repository of multimedia packages as well. That site is maintained by an entirely different team.
A key difference between the two teams is that we strive to maintain packages that are considered DFSG free or get them to a state where they become DFSG free. With debian-multimedia.org, there is no such effort so often packages that exist in debian-multimedia.org are licensed under various terms that limit their use.