Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-14 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
On 2022/07/14 14:52, Steve McIntyre wrote: IMHO there are 2 points to an ITP: * to save effort in case two people might be working on the same package * to invite discussion on debian-devel / elsewhere If people post an ITP and upload iummediately, then I don't think that helps on

[Artwork] Survey for the default artwork for Bullseye (Debian 11)

2020-10-26 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hello Debianites o/ Freeze is coming, and it's that time of the development cycle to choose the desktop artwork to be used in the next Debian release. All the fine submissions can be perused at: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianDesktop/Artwork/Bullseye Thank you to everyone who have put work into

[Artwork] Survey for the default artwork for Bullseye (Debian 11)

2020-10-26 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hello Debianites o/ Freeze is coming, and it's that time of the development cycle to choose the desktop artwork to be used in the next Debian release. All the fine submissions can be perused at:

Re: Urging for solution to the slow NEW queue process

2018-04-11 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
he one ftp-master member made a comment about laughing off requests to join the ftp team. If they didn't want my help I'd rather get a "sorry, we don't think you're experienced enough yet" rather than just nothing. -Jonathan -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debi

Re: A few questions about building Debian-Based Distro

2018-02-19 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
On 20/02/2018 08:05, Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) wrote: > https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Guidelines may be of help, as would > the other pages on https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives PS: As Pabs pointed out to me on IRC, the debian-blends list might be more appropriate for blends

Re: A few questions about building Debian-Based Distro

2018-02-19 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
ki.debian.org/Derivatives Good luck! -Jonathan -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian Developer - https://wiki.debian.org/highvoltage ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋ https://debian.org | https://jonathancarter.org ⠈⠳⣄ Be Bold. Be brave. Debian has got your back.

Re: What can Debian do to provide complex applications to its users?

2018-02-16 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
e JavaScript community and their underdeveloped ideas of how software works, not with Debian. -Jonathan -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian Developer - https://wiki.debian.org/highvoltage ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋ https://debian.org | https://jonathancarter.org ⠈⠳⣄ Be Bold. Be brave. Debian has got your back.

Re: Accepted fonts-noto-color-emoji 0~20170913-2 (source) into unstable

2017-11-28 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
On 28/11/2017 18:31, Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) wrote: > Ooh, very nice, thanks! (sorry I wasn't paying attention and thought I was sending that to Jeremy directly) -Jonathan

Re: Accepted fonts-noto-color-emoji 0~20170913-2 (source) into unstable

2017-11-28 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Ooh, very nice, thanks! On 28/11/2017 02:33, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > Format: 1.8 > Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 18:57:13 -0500 > Source: fonts-noto-color-emoji > Binary: fonts-noto-color-emoji > Architecture: source > Version: 0~20170913-2 > Distribution: unstable > Urgency: medium > Maintainer: Debian

Re: How to start a new packaging team now?

2017-09-18 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hey Jeremy On 15/09/2017 18:39, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > I have been thinking for a while of starting a new packaging team for > desktop themes (especially GTK+ and GNOME themes since so many > desktops can use them). Great! I've also thinking about started a team for all the gnome-shell extensions

Re: Call for volunteers: FTP Team

2017-08-17 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
On 17/08/2017 20:11, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > it has been quite a while since the last call for volunteers, so here is > an update: Yeah, we still need people, and we want you. Well, that is, > if you are a Debian Developer, for this. If you are not and want to > help, read the last paragraph

Re: What's a safe way to have extensions in chromium in Debian?

2017-03-22 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hey Enrico On 22/03/2017 13:03, Enrico Zini wrote: > Now, suppose I need an extension, what is the proper way to have it in > Debian, so that it gets upgraded when needed? With that proper way, wh at > amount of phoning home is going to happen?

ITP: gnome-shell-extension-move-clock -- move clock extension for GNOME shell

2016-06-29 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonathan Carter * Package name: gnome-shell-extension-move-clock Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : 2011-2013 Ron Yorston 2016 Jonathan Carter * URL :

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-08 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
On 08/04/2014 20:35, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: Remember all the hype that arose when Beryl was announced, with per-window transparency settings, the rotating cube, wobbly windows, and all that. It was flashy, and I do think it made some heads turn to Linux, previously perceived as plainly fugly.

Re: Tired of my fellow SysV supporters

2014-02-11 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/02/2014 22:45, Dominik George wrote: I do not know how many of them are trolls, but the content I had to read on this mailing list in the last days is clearly intolerable. systemd, be it as one init system or as the only init system, will

Re: Bug#727708: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.

2014-02-10 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi John On 10/02/2014 20:41, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 02/10/2014 06:47 PM, Clint Byrum wrote: Neglecting reliability and maintainability for the sake of being able to choose such a core component is a bad idea. I do not think it's really feasible to maintain several init systems,

Re: Valve games for Debian Developers

2014-01-22 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
On 23/01/2014 05:03, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 01:00:10AM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 03:26:26AM +0330, ?? ?? wrote: Hey, this looks more like an anti-Valve trap for DDs aimed to slow down development of Debian as base of Steam

Re: Linux 3.2 in wheezy

2012-02-01 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Russell On 02/02/2012 03:21, Russell Coker wrote: However, a low profile container/virtualization solution is needed, and I know there is quite some demand for it: both some larger scale organisations and several smaller/non-profit organisations I am acquainted with use either OpenVZ or

Re: Launch of Debian 6.0

2010-11-21 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi On 10-11-21 07:52 AM, Martin Lisicki wrote: wann wird Squeeze stable werden? Wann kann man ungefähr damit rechnen? wenn es fertig ist. when is Squeeze going to be stable? When can I expect this? when it's ready. See also: http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ -Jonathan -- To

Re: Thank you, Debian project, for working to make a free software operating system (was: Is tabular data in binary format acceptable for Debian ?)

2010-01-21 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 1:11 AM, Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote: I've often expressly, and in public, thanked the specific people who put forth efforts to ensure free software in the Debian operating system. I encourage anyone else to do this too; it's a good way to increase the

Re: Copyright infringement on www.rossbea zley.co.uk — Overreacting?

2009-09-28 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Gunnar Wolf wrote: Now... I am surprised this is seen so harshly. This is not the first site I see that syndicates Planet Debian. What I can understand is There's a big difference between aggregating posts and claiming that their yours. The heading of the site says that the site is the blog,