Re: shapado.debian.net now available [Was: user support]

2010-10-03 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi, On Sat, Oct 02, 2010 at 07:01:37PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 01:59:18PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: Comments? Volunteers? Thanks to Shapado developers (and in particular Patrick Aljord) and to Fernando C. Estrada and Luis Uribe (current admins), we

Re: Debian accepting Social Micropayment?

2010-08-18 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi Steffen, I assume nothing in your mail is adressing me privately so I'm quoting it in my reply to the mailing list. On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 06:18:39PM +0200, Steffen Möller wrote: On 08/17/2010 05:24 PM, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 05:02:43PM +0200, Steffen Möller

Re: Debian accepting Social Micropayment?

2010-08-18 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi Steffen, On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:10:57PM +0200, Steffen Möller wrote: Ehm, yeah, and my father is the emperor of china, then. As you know, in Debian we have to deal at least with: - uncorporative upstreams - dead upstreams - corporative upstreams which would then fall

Re: Debian accepting Social Micropayment?

2010-08-17 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi, On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 05:02:43PM +0200, Steffen Möller wrote: flattr or otherwise support that package. The amount collected should then go to upstream. Maybe we should not do this for all packages but only when upstream asks for it. I guess we as a project will already run into

Re: Problems with NM Front Desk

2010-07-06 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi, On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 03:13:34PM +0200, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: I, as an outsider, don't want to investigate and report on people, in general; I'm just concerned with packages being in a good shape (especially the ones that I know of, and if I can help in any way). well,

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-08-04 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi, On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 08:04:12AM +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: Yes, but OTOH we strongly support copyleft softwares versus the BSD- like softwares, because we expect to have back the works and because we expect to behave as a big community. I agree with you, it is not thiefs, but

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-08-04 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 11:17:01AM +0100, Steve Langasek wrote: On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 08:57:50AM +0200, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: Of course it would be nicer if patches were reported automatically to us. This is by no means a universally held view within Debian. The current approach

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: 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

2009-07-30 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi, On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 01:07:39PM +, Anthony Towns wrote: I'm not aware of any apples-to-apples comparisons of Debian's and Ubuntu's quality; but personally I haven't seen much evidence that Debian's is significantly superior (NB: I haven't used Ubuntu LTS personally, though). The

Re: Debian redesign

2009-07-29 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 04:51:22PM +0200, Ana Guerrero wrote: 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 Design. You can

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

2009-07-23 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi, On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:56:00PM +0200, Steve Langasek wrote: On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 10:52:20AM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: My opinion in two short comments: - reduce the time to 1 year This introduces the possibility that, even if the DD votes in every election and uploads

Re: Should this be sent to your bug center?

2009-02-23 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi, On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 11:11:39PM -0800, Evan Larson wrote: I am not using your OS but I am encountering a strange bug on my computer that says I am. When I try to navigate to en.wikipedia.org this page is shown when people install lighttpd and don't configure it. Its on the webserver you

Re: Re-thinking Debian membership

2008-10-24 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi, Lars Wirzenius wrote: * Membership is controlled via GnuPG keyrings, primarily maintained by the Debian Account Manager. The keyrings shall be maintained in a way that allows any member to change them, and that is fully transparent to the members in general, and that further makes

Re: Re-thinking Debian membership

2008-10-24 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi, On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 01:35:43PM +0200, cobaco wrote: AIUI he's just advocating having the equivalent of a (publicly scrutinized) NMU for the keyring, that is: - have trusted gatekeeper(s) who normally does all changes - have all changes be public (many eyes make all bugs shallow) -