Re: Do we still value contributions?

2019-12-26 Thread Ryan Kavanagh
On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 04:54:19PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Quoting Mo Zhou (2019-12-26 16:31:34)
> > On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 02:59:25PM +0100, Bernd Zeimetz wrote:
> > > So in my opinion the option we should implement is a (mostly)
> > > automated license check.
>
> If you have any notes on that thought process - even vague scribblings
> - then I would appreciate them as inspiration on my work on
> licensecheck.

You might also be interested in checking out "Ninka, a license
identification tool for Source Code" by some software engineering
researchers at the University of Victoria and at Osaka University.

http://ninka.turingmachine.org/

I don't know how it compares to licensecheck.

Best,
Ryan

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Re: gravatar on bugs.debian.org - acceptable or not?

2013-03-15 Thread Ryan Kavanagh
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 07:38:23AM -0700, Holger Levsen wrote:
 That said, I do like the idea to display peoples pictures in the BTS,
 I just don't like that avatars are randomly made up when those pics
 don't exist

I don't know if anything apart from gmane still actively uses picons[0],
or if the limited colour palette is still sane in this day and age, but
the picon-{users,domains} packages were last updated last May. Using
that, you could either default to the domain logo/country flag like
gmane does when there's no associated user picon, or default to no
image, and display the user's picon when it exists. 

 I'd prefer if those pictures could _also_ be fetched from some
 debian.org/debian.net ressource, just like the hackergotchis on
 planet, maybe even just using those.

If you used picons, they'd be server from a local debian.org/debian.net
ressource. You would probably want to provide an better means of
updating the database than waiting for the package to be updated though.
Either sync from picons upstream[1] (users DB was last updated on the
the 12th, the domains DB on the 14th) and have people submit there, or
allow people to submit a picon to the local DB[2], and just source from
there.  (You could probably import planet hackergotchis into your
personal DB).

Best wishes,
Ryan

[0] http://www.cs.indiana.edu/picons/ftp/index.html
[1] ftp://ftp.cs.indiana.edu/pub/faces/picons/db/
[2] http://www.cs.indiana.edu/picons/ftp/faq.html#lookup

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Re: New Debian kilts

2012-09-30 Thread Ryan Kavanagh
On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 04:53:47PM +0100, Wolodja Wentland wrote:
 I went to their store and asked and they quoted additional costs of
 £700 for a *single* made-to-order kilt.

Ouch! From what I remember when I got my kilt, 700£ is really really
pricey. I know that North-America is probably on the wrong side of the
world for most of the people interested in ordering, but I recommend
Burnett  Struth's[0] as a kilt maker. They're located just north of
Toronto, Canada. They made my personal kilt (combination of machine and
hand sewing) out of a very uncommon tartan (I think it had to be custom
woven since nobody kept it in stock) for about 650–700 CAD (~410–440£),
tax included. The fabric was heavy weight (16oz I think) at that. On a
side note, they also made my band kilt, which is 25 years old and still
looks great apart from wear on the leather buckle straps (easily worn
10-15 times a year).

Best wishes,
Ryan

[0] http://www.burnetts-struth.com/


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