Re: Re-thinking Debian membership - take #1: inactivity - status update

2009-08-03 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 07:29:20AM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: some questions I still see without a clear answer: ACK on most answers from Luk, some more comments on some of them below. - what about non-DDs that are currently tracked in MIA database, along with DDs? Nothing changes

Re: Approaching non-integratable software, was: What to do with (packages like) Blender?

2009-08-03 Thread Paul Wise
I'm of the opinion that Debian should not support such packages with archive space, mirror space, bts, qa/etc. I suggest such packages belong in an 'unsupported' archive with all the other .dsc source packages out there that are not in Debian and not yet collected in one place:

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-08-03 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Teemu Likonen wrote: On 2009-07-30 13:12 (+0200), Sven Joachim wrote: On 2009-07-30 11:36 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Oh, and Debian got hundreds of active developers, and I doubt they'll be running to Shuttleworth anytime soon. Probably not, but the release synchronization with

Re: Approaching non-integratable software, was: What to do with (packages like) Blender?

2009-08-03 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Reinhard Tartler siret...@debian.org (03/08/2009): [ moving discussion to -project. Please follow up on -devel if you are contributing to the technical discussion and -project for the project wide parts ] [ replying to -project only, -devel readers will receive my status update[1]

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-08-03 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Steve Langasek wrote: There seems to be an assumption here that Ubuntu would benefit from bugfixes from Debian developers, but that the reverse would not be true. Is this what you believe? Does that mean you don't think Ubuntu developers contribute fixes back to Debian today? While never

Re: Re-thinking Debian membership - take #1: inactivity - status update

2009-08-03 Thread Sandro Tosi
Hi Stefano, On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 09:21, Stefano Zacchiroliz...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 07:29:20AM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: some questions I still see without a clear answer: ACK on most answers from Luk, some more comments on some of them below. - what about non-DDs

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-08-03 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 17:55, Anthony Townsa...@master.debian.org wrote: Given the freeze-timeline proposed it could/should be. Ubuntu has its DebianImportFreeze for karmic scheduled for June 25th; which should translate for an LTS import freeze on December 25th-ish, shortly after the Debian

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-08-03 Thread Philipp Kern
[ Please note that I'm taking all my hats off for this post, especially ] [ debian-release ones. ] On 2009-08-03, Sandro Tosi mo...@debian.org wrote: What I'm wondering is: why should *we* adapt to ubuntu? why was not ubuntu in the first place to

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-08-03 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
On 2009-07-30, Teemu Likonen tliko...@iki.fi wrote: On 2009-07-30 13:12 (+0200), Sven Joachim wrote: On 2009-07-30 11:36 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Oh, and Debian got hundreds of active developers, and I doubt they'll be running to Shuttleworth anytime soon. Probably not, but the

Re: Introducing http://news.debian.net

2009-08-03 Thread Joey Schulze
Ana Guerrero wrote: Hi, I have setup http://news.debian.net/ where I intend to publish and link information related to what is going on in the Debian project. If you want to submit news you think it is interesting for developers and users, you have several ways listed at:

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-08-03 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi, On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 06:40:06PM +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote: THEY STEAL our packages Uarg. That sentence let me discard everything sensible/intelligent you might have said in your mail. I often read sentences like that in the discussion. It makes me sick and wonder if I do invest my time in

Re: Introducing http://news.debian.net

2009-08-03 Thread Ana Guerrero
Hi, On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 07:53:05PM +0200, Joey Schulze wrote: Out of curiousity, why not feed times.debian.net with these articles? If you are asking why not to publish direclty in times.debian.net I have addressed it on my blog post. (Not easy way to contribute, mostly oriented to

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-08-03 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: On 2009-07-30, Teemu Likonen tliko...@iki.fi wrote: On 2009-07-30 13:12 (+0200), Sven Joachim wrote: On 2009-07-30 11:36 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Oh, and Debian got hundreds of active developers, and I doubt they'll be running to Shuttleworth anytime soon.

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-08-03 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Philipp Kern wrote: But of course it could be more. Especially contributions from Canonical employees doing stuff in main. (Some a tad neglecting their packages in Debian IMHO...) Ack ack ack. I even have the impression that the Canonical employees want to ensure that Debian gets important

Re: Introducing http://news.debian.net

2009-08-03 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Ana Guerrero wrote: I have setup http://news.debian.net/ where I intend to publish and link [...] Hope you like it. The idea is really good in general, but I - and probably a lot of other developers - would have preferred if you'd be using ikiwiki and a public git on alioth. -- Bernd

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-08-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, Aug 03 2009, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: Aligning our releases with RHEL rather than with Ubuntu seems more worthwhile to me. They have similar stabilisation lengths as we did for previous releases and they're investing a lot of work into the kernel, from which we could profit

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-08-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, Aug 03 2009, Philipp Kern wrote: [ Please note that I'm taking all my hats off for this post, especially ] [ debian-release ones. ] On 2009-08-03, Sandro Tosi mo...@debian.org wrote: What I'm wondering is: why should *we* adapt to

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-08-03 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Bernd Zeimetz be...@bzed.de (03/08/2009): Ack ack ack. I even have the impression that the Canonical employees want to ensure that Debian gets important things much much later than Ubuntu. Obviously false, see how (e)glibc maintainers are pushed by Ubuntu people to get the next release ready,

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-08-03 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 20:07, Patrick Schoenfeldschoenf...@debian.org wrote: Hi, On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 06:40:06PM +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote: THEY STEAL our packages Uarg. That sentence let me discard everything sensible/intelligent you might have said in your mail. I often read sentences

Re: Introducing http://news.debian.net

2009-08-03 Thread Ana Guerrero
[Let's continue discussion only in -publicity, future emails, please drop -project] On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 09:10:00PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: Ana Guerrero wrote: I have setup http://news.debian.net/ where I intend to publish and link [...] Hope you like it. The idea is really good

On syncing freeze dates with other distributions

2009-08-03 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, I have been thinking a bit about the proposed syncing of the freeze date with LTS recently. I do not think it is a bad thing in general, but I do think a freeze sync with a 10.04 LTS would be premature. The other concern I have is lengthening our release cycle to 2 years - I think this is

Re: Debian redesign

2009-08-03 Thread Harald Braumann
On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:51:22 +0200 Ana Guerrero a...@debian.org wrote: Hi, Agnieszka Czajkowska has presented this morning at DebConf a very nice redesign proposal off the Debian logo and the Debian website. She has been working on this all the last year as part of her master thesis in

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-08-03 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 09:34:39PM +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote: On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 06:40:06PM +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote: THEY STEAL our packages Uarg. That sentence let me discard everything sensible/intelligent you might have said in your mail. I often read sentences like that in the

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-08-03 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Patrick Schoenfeld schoenf...@debian.org (03/08/2009): That is simply not true. It might be that Ubuntu doesn't give back as much as Debian would like. Or “as they pretend to” [1]: | When a bug is reported in the Debian bug tracking system and then later | fixed in Ubuntu, the fixes are often

Re: Debian redesign

2009-08-03 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 10:38:42AM -0400, Matthias Julius wrote: Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl writes: certainly not because I dont like (semi)naked people or whatever - but because I dont like stereotypes, and especially not to represent an universal OS. I can agree to some point with

Re: Debian redesign

2009-08-03 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 10:28:33PM +0200, Harald Braumann wrote: I must say, I like the current swirl and I would miss it. But then I'm maybe just conservative. I never understood the sense of re-branding, re-naming, re-designing everything just for the sake of it. I don't know, while the