[Soc-coordination] upstream involvement

2013-04-10 Thread Daniel Pocock
Hi, I just want to get some feedback on the extent that we can involve upstreams, either formally (as named mentor) or informally (e.g. collaborating through upstream mailing list, contributing to upstream source tree). I've proposed three project areas and I've already had enquiries from some

Re: [Soc-coordination] [GSoC] Using a messaging system to interface the different parts of Debian infrastructure

2013-04-10 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 10:47:40PM +0200, Nicolas Dandrimont wrote: I'm a prospective GSoC student as well as a Debian user and contributor, and was looking for project ideas to submit for this year's GSoC when Nicolas Dandrimont (olasd) mentionned to me fedmsg[1] and the current state of

Re: [Soc-coordination] upstream involvement

2013-04-10 Thread Nicolas Dandrimont
Hi! * Daniel Pocock dan...@pocock.com.au [2013-04-10 08:56:04 +0200]: Hi, I just want to get some feedback on the extent that we can involve upstreams, either formally (as named mentor) or informally (e.g. collaborating through upstream mailing list, contributing to upstream source tree).

Re: [Soc-coordination] [GSoC] Using a messaging system to interface the different parts of Debian infrastructure

2013-04-10 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Ioan Eugen Stan I'm Ioan-Eugen. Sorry to barge in out of the blue. I'm a Debian user and contributor (l10n Romanian, inactive lately) and an Apache committer (James). The idea sounds great an I would love to see it happening. From what I guess by looking at the requirements you need some

Re: [Soc-coordination] upstream involvement

2013-04-10 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 10/04/13 09:41, Nicolas Dandrimont wrote: Hi! * Daniel Pocock dan...@pocock.com.au [2013-04-10 08:56:04 +0200]: Hi, I just want to get some feedback on the extent that we can involve upstreams, either formally (as named mentor) or informally (e.g. collaborating through upstream mailing

Re: [Soc-coordination] [GSoC] Using a messaging system to interface the different parts of Debian infrastructure

2013-04-10 Thread Ioan Eugen Stan
Hello Tollef, Yes, I am a bit familiar with Debian policy to re-use as much of the ecosystem. I would like to see more Apache Software in Debian and a stronger collaboration between the two communities. My packaging skills are very low but I'm willing to put some effort into maintaining some

Re: [Soc-coordination] [GSoC] Using a messaging system to interface the different parts of Debian infrastructure

2013-04-10 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Ioan Eugen Stan Maybe we can discuss about this during DebConf, I'll be more available then. Are you/anyone interested? It looks like I won't be making it to Debconf this year, I'm afraid. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are

[Soc-coordination] Supporting semantic formats for meta-data would be interesting - Was: Re: [GSoC] Using a messaging system to interface the different parts of Debian infrastructure

2013-04-10 Thread Olivier Berger
Hi. (As I'm not following discussion outside of debian-qa, CC-ing all parties... sorry for duplicates) Nicolas Dandrimont nicolas.dandrim...@crans.org writes: One of the key outcomes of getting such a system in place, is that everyone, everywhere, can start listening to the messages and

[Soc-coordination] GSOC project proposals

2013-04-10 Thread Wookey
I have been meaning to do this for a while but finally got round to it today as a couple of students prodded me asking if there were going to be cross/bootstrapping projects this year. So. I have added the following to the wiki: