Re: New release of ifupdown planned
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 14:14:13 +1000, Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au wrote: On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 09:36:31PM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: Since the maintainer of ifupdown doesn't answer repeated attempts to contact him by e-mail, I suppose it is appropriate to report here that there is a group of people working on a new ifupdown release. The term is an ifupdown NMU. Of course. This NMU is prepared by the people who participated in the last four NMUs of ifupdown, and they do not intend to break procedure this time. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber |Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG Rightful Heir | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: New release of ifupdown planned
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 09:36:31PM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: Since the maintainer of ifupdown doesn't answer repeated attempts to contact him by e-mail, I suppose it is appropriate to report here that there is a group of people working on a new ifupdown release. The term is an ifupdown NMU. You certainly should not be considering hijacking it. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``Is this some kind of psych test? Am I getting paid for this?'' pgpNDf9DgRIvM.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: New release of ifupdown planned
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 02:14:13PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: The term is an ifupdown NMU. For crying out loud, it's been NMUed four times in a row already.. You certainly should not be considering hijacking it. Why not? Do you have a new maintainer release which acknowledges NMUs, incorporates some fixes you have accumulated for the vast number of bugs that this package has? Is this a call for comaintenance (which I would definitely recommend for a package of this importance?) If not, maybe you should pass it on. -- Joshua Kwan pgpdSNhdBBwGY.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: New release of ifupdown planned
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 09:50:12PM -0700, Joshua Kwan wrote: On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 02:14:13PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: The term is an ifupdown NMU. For crying out loud, it's been NMUed four times in a row already.. Yes, all of which were checked over by me first, and done with approval. You certainly should not be considering hijacking it. Why not? Because it's not remotely necessary or appropriate. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``Is this some kind of psych test? Am I getting paid for this?'' pgp2QxOQaffBO.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: New release of ifupdown planned
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 02:14:13PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 09:36:31PM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: Since the maintainer of ifupdown doesn't answer repeated attempts to contact him by e-mail, I suppose it is appropriate to report here that there is a group of people working on a new ifupdown release. The term is an ifupdown NMU. You certainly should not be considering hijacking it. Why not? *If* you're acting just like a vanished maintainer with respect to that package, but are prominently visible elsewhere in the Project, what does that tell us about your relative level of commitment to ifupdown? Is that level of commitment to the package measurably higher or lower than that of a person who is not active in the project at all? If higher, how do we objectively measure that? Guy Maor said he didn't need people taking over his packages either, and then promptly went back to completel ignoring them and being utterly inactive in the Project. They've since been hijacked, and are maintained by people who appear to actually give a damn. Whether a package has been orphaned is not something that can be determined simply from examining its Maintainer: field. -- G. Branden Robinson|Computer security is like an onion: Debian GNU/Linux |the more you dig in, the more you [EMAIL PROTECTED] |want to cry. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |-- Cory Altheide pgpN6HhVGgerG.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: New release of ifupdown planned
Quoting Thomas Hood ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): The ifupdown package hasn't been touched by its maintainer for over two years and it is about time some of its problems were addressed. Since the maintainer of ifupdown doesn't answer repeated attempts to contact him by e-mail, I suppose it is appropriate to report here that there is a group of people working on a new ifupdown release. Please contact me if you are interested or would like to help. We would like to have a release ready well before the As bug reporter and translator, I'm interested in getting 200786 fixed. It is very easy to do so, as the patch is there. Maybe have a look to see whether other translations for debconf templates are already sitting in the BTS. If so, they probably need some work as they are against old-style debconf templates. I'd be glad to help incorporating those. This is the only field I can really help. (CC to list)
New release of ifupdown planned
The ifupdown package hasn't been touched by its maintainer for over two years and it is about time some of its problems were addressed. Since the maintainer of ifupdown doesn't answer repeated attempts to contact him by e-mail, I suppose it is appropriate to report here that there is a group of people working on a new ifupdown release. Please contact me if you are interested or would like to help. We would like to have a release ready well before the deadline for sarge. This message should also be considered to be a query as to the whereabouts of the missing maintainer for the purposes of section 7.4 of the developer's reference Dealing with inactive and/or unreachable maintainers. -- Thomas Hood
Re: New release of ifupdown planned
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 09:36:31PM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: The ifupdown package hasn't been touched by its maintainer for over two years and it is about time some of its problems were addressed. Thanks for taking the initiative on this. I'd noticed it's neglect a while back but didn't have time to do anything about it. Since the maintainer of ifupdown doesn't answer repeated attempts to contact him by e-mail, I suppose it is appropriate to report here that there is a group of people working on a new ifupdown release. Please contact me if you are interested or would like to help. We would like to have a release ready well before the deadline for sarge. I'd especially like to see bug 168776 closed. There's even a patch attached to it. This message should also be considered to be a query as to the whereabouts of the missing maintainer for the purposes of section 7.4 of the developer's reference Dealing with inactive and/or unreachable maintainers. AJ is definitely around... In fact it's been less than 24 hours since he's posted to this list... AJ? noah pgpfF7LWCRUjo.pgp Description: PGP signature
