[ilugd] Fwd: Fedora 9 Bug Day-v0.1 :: Monday, November 19, 2007

2007-11-16 Thread Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray
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Date: 17 Nov 2007 09:31
Subject: Fedora 9 Bug Day-v0.1 :: Monday, November 19, 2007
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Greetings,

This is an invitation to all community members to join us for our first
Bug Day of the Fedora 9 release cycle!  Fedora 8 is hardly a week old
and as is always the case--people around the world are reporting
problems they encounter to make Fedora better.  Help make Fedora 9 a
great release by joining us to review the outstanding bugs against Fedora.

We will meet on freenode in the #fedora-qa channel from 0:00 UTC to
23:59 UTC, on Monday, November 19, 2007.  Join as for as little or as
much as you can in your local timezone.  Lurkers are always welcome too.

What happens at a Bug Day you ask?  We review and triage as many open
bugs as we can by helping them along to their next state--ideally fixed
or closed :-)

You don't have to be a Fedora guru or hold a PhD in reading stack
traces--in most cases you do not even have to run a program or attempt
to reproduce the reported issue.  It is nice if you can, however often
the most value able service you can provide is your eyes--reading the
contents of a bug to see if enough information is present for the
package owner (developer) to take the next step.  Sometimes that means
requesting that the reporter attempt to reproduce the bug against the
latest version or provide more information.  By doing this you can help
package owners focus their time on the bugs that matter.

And if you are not sure what to do we can help you on IRC.

Some helpful links from the wiki for getting started are:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/TriagingGuidelines
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KernelBugTriage

This is the first time I've organized a bug day (proposed two days ago
at Wednesday's QA meeting) and I don't believe we have had one in a
while.  It is possible some of the wiki pages about triaging bugs need
updating or clarifying so if we use part of Monday to work on that it
will be time well spent as it better prepares us for future bug days.

And don't forget you don't have to wait for an official Bug Day to
triage bugs--they don't mind being triaged by anyone at any time :)

See you Monday,

John
aka poelcat

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[ilugd] Fwd: The KDE-SIG needs (your) help

2007-10-29 Thread Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray
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Subject: The KDE-SIG needs (your) help
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This is a request for participation:
The KDE-SIG [1] is atm lacking active contributors. And we really need some
help in doing our job to provide a good KDE version in Fedora - especially
with the upcoming KDE 4.0 and the inclusion in Fedora 9.

If you don't know how you could help us here is a list (which is also in the
wiki):

* Packagers: There are so many interesting packages that are not yet packaged
for Fedora. Package it to improve the user experience.

* Reviewers: Only a few persons are doing the kde-related reviews. Help us
reviewing so that more packages could be included.

* Testers: If you love KDE use the development version or the updates-testing
repository and report bugs, bugs, bugs, request enhancements or features. We
need your feedback to improve KDE.

* Bugs: Become a BugZapper and help us with kde-related bugs.

* Documentation writers: The documentation (esp. the DesktopUserGuide) is
GNOME-centered. Help us to provide an equivalent for KDE.

* Release Notes: The few people that are working on the new KDE-Spin are quite
busy with development issues. If you want to help us in writing the release
notes for the next version of Fedora we would give you all the info you need.

* Wiki: Maintain http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KDE and keep it updated with
end user information.

* Artists: To provide a matching theme for nodoka-metacity-theme and provide
an unified desktop experience.

But this is not a complete list. If you're interested in making KDE in Fedora
better, you're more than welcome.


The list of participants in the wiki is atm not a list of active contributors.
When setting up the wiki the only demand was an interest in KDE to be listed
on this page. This list would be changed in the future to be culled down to
the list of active (or reactivated) participants. This has become necessarely
because there are only (less or more) 3 active contributors atm (plus Than
Ngo). But the list indicates that there are enough people helping with KDE.


If you are interested in joining the KDE-SIG please add your name to this
list, answer to this mail, join us in #fedora-kde at freenode or attend the
weekly KDE-SIG-Meetings (every tuesday 17:00 UTC). I will also add a topic to
the agenda of the meeting next week to introduce new contributors. [2]
The attendance at the SIG-Meetings is of course not required. But this way we
would know of each other. And they are also the main place of discussing the
next steps in the development (besides fedora-devel-list).


If you have any further questions please answer to this mail or write me
directly. And be sure: If your are willing to help you're welcome (regardless
of your skills). :)

Sebastian


[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE
[2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE/Meetings/2007-11-06

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[ilugd] Announcing Opyum 0.0.3 for Fedora

2007-10-26 Thread Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray
I hereby announce the second stable release of Opyum, the Fedora
Offline Package Manager, version 0.0.3.

Opyum (pronounced 'opium') provides a set of tools to enable users,
who do not have a good network (eg., Internet) connection at their
ready disposal, to easily install new packages or update existing ones
through the conventional package management system available in
Fedora.

Tar ball: http://rishi.fedorapeople.org/opyum/opyum-0.0.3.tar.gz
MD5SUM: 693bc38845aaef5ecf599d7564483f09
SHA1SUM: c21186d6b1f31ff8e7a4b9b9fa57dba74f12adae

New features:
Installing or updating from Yum-Packs is easier now with the
introduction of system-install-yumpacks. Apart from that, there is a
new repository manager to let users to add, remove, edit, enable and
disable repositories.

Installation instructions:
# yum install opyum

Documentation page:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DebarshiRay/Opyum

Project page:
https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/opyum/

Bug reports:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/

Happy hacking,
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[ilugd] Call for Participation in Fedora Project Day at FOSS.in 2007

2007-09-12 Thread Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray
It gives me pleasure to say that the Fedora Project's application [1]
to host a Project Day at FOSS.in 2007 [2] has been accepted by the
organizers.

However we now have to carry the burden of ensuring that we produce
many Indian contributors to Fedora in particular and FOSS in general.
This means that our sessions have to be structured in such a way that
it is easy for people to get in at the ground floor and the take the
elevator up. Or in other words we should have enough low hanging
fruits to encourage newer contributors.

We are looking for capable community members who are willing to step
up and help us achieve our objective.

A possible agenda [3] and a probable list of workshops [4] is now
being chalked out.

If you desire to participate -- give talks or hold workshops --
irrespective of whether they are present in [3] [4] or not, we would
encourage you to let us know what you have in mind. We want the agenda
and workshops to reflect the preferences of the community.

Please remember that our focus is on encouraging new contributors from
India, and not on addressing the end-users. However that will not
prohibit foreign nationals from giving talks or holding workshops as
long they help us in bootstrapping members of the audience into
contributors.

So lets get the dice rolling...

Happy hacking,
Debarshi
(Fedora Project Day co-proposer)

[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FOSSin
[2] http://foss.in/2007
[3] 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FOSSin#head-60e6645a6a578d58f1e146a95147a061c4009859
[4] 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FOSSin#head-a7640f2cdbfe84e210e71e8166a0296f17d6b653
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Re: [ilugd] List etiquette

2007-08-27 Thread Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray
 Before you flame me, please read the sig.

 quoting previous emails in an otherwise top-posted email

 --
  Mahesh T. Pai  http://paivakil.blogspot.com/
 A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
 Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
 A: Top-posting.
 Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?

My goodness. You dare top post with such a signature, and yet ask
people to read it? Are you plain daft or just being funny?

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[ilugd] Announcing Opyum 0.0.2.

2007-08-19 Thread Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray
I hereby announce the first stable release of Opyum, the Fedora
Offline Package Manager, version 0.0.2.

Opyum (pronounced 'opium') provides a set of tools to enable users,
who do not have a good network (eg., Internet) connection at their
ready disposal, to easily install new packages or update existing ones
through the conventional package management system available in
Fedora.

If you are interested then you can read more about it at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SummerOfCode/2007/DebarshiRay

Tar ball: http://rishi.fedorapeople.org/opyum/opyum-0.0.2.tar.gz
MD5SUM: 299873e5d0b4d762a261edb6b9bc62e6
SHA1SUM: ac50ec4a048a4db55c4bbf2d4a2419ff492f70ad

Pre-requisites: pirut-1.3.11

Documentation page:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DebarshiRay/Opyum

Release notes are in NEWS in the release tarball.

Instructions on using Opyum are in the README in the release tarball.

Installation instructions:
1. $ tar -xzvf opyum-0.0.2.tar.gz
2. $ cd opyum-0.0.2
3. $ ./configure --prefix=/usr
   (Other prefixes are not expected to work. Please bear with it for
the moment.)
4. $ make
5. # make install

Execution instructions:
1. $ LANG=en_US.UTF-8 opyum
   (There is a bug involving Python and Pirut, which may cause the
program to crash on localized desktops. See
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=252136)

Bug-reports and comments are to be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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Re: [ilugd] Bug in RPM or ??

2007-07-31 Thread Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray
 I'm running Fedora 7 on AMD64 architecture CPU and installed a package
 freeciv via yum. freeciv requires libSDL_mixer-1.2.so.0()(64bit)
 which no package currently provides it on my system. So my question is,
 why 'rpm' installed a package without installing all its dependencies ?
 Or it is a bug in 'yum' ?

Which version of RPM and Yum are you using?

$ rpm -q yum
$ rpm -q rpm

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Re: [ilugd] Bug in RPM or ??

2007-07-31 Thread Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray
 Which version of RPM and Yum are you using?

 $ rpm -q yum

 yum-3.2.1-1.fc7

You should consider updating to yum-3.2.2-3. There were a lot of
bugfixes recently.

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[ilugd] Smolt

2007-07-18 Thread Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray
http://rahulsundaram.livejournal.com/11995.html

Smolt is the opt-in hardware profiler for Fedora and while the
initial focus was on Fedora, Smolt is derived from RHN client tools
and is based on HAL and has always been portable to other Linux
distributions and possibly other operating systems which HAL has been
ported to like FreeBSD or Solaris. The idea as Max Spevack has hinted
before is to have a neutral central website to gather metrics on Linux
usage. There are many other advantages. We could understand some
patterns and gain insight into how Linux systems are being used and
prioritize testing and focus development. We could talk to hardware
vendors and gain more support. A shared and coordinated effort between
Linux distributions and other operating systems would have enormous
benefits for both developers and end users.

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[ilugd] Offline Package Manager (RUM) version 0.0.1 released.

2007-07-14 Thread Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray
I hereby announce the release of the Fedora Offline Package Manager (RUM) 0.0.1.

This program is meant to enable users who do not have a viable network
connection to manage their packages, ie. install new ones and update
existing ones, through the standard package management framework used
in Fedora.

If you are interested then you can read more about it at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SummerOfCode/2007/DebarshiRay

This is a beta release and offers the following features:

1. Profile management:
a. Exporting the profile of the local system.
b. Importing the profile of another system.
c. Deleting existing profiles.

2. YumPack creation
- Although I have tested this to the best of my ability, I would
appreciate if you could try to create new YumPacks and verify whether
the dependencies are being correctly resolved.

To install package(s) from a YumPack, you would need to untar the
YumPack, which is essentially an uncompressed Tar archive, and use
'system-install-packages' to install the RPMs as you would normally
do.

Tar ball:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DebarshiRay/rum?action=AttachFiledo=gettarget=rum-0.0.1.tar.gz

Pre-requisites:
If you are using Pirut 1.3.9, then you would need to apply this patch
on /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pirut/__init__.py:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DebarshiRay/rum?action=AttachFiledo=gettarget=pirut-changes.diff

Installation instructions:
1. $ tar -xzvf rum-0.0.1.tar.gz
2. $ cd rum-0.0.1
3. $ ./configure --prefix=/usr
(Other prefixes are not expected to work. Please bear with it for
the moment.)
4. $ make
5. # make install

Execution instructions:
1. $ rum

Documentation page:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DebarshiRay/rum
This is lagging behind a bit, but will be eventually updated.

Bug-reports and comments are to be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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Re: [ilugd] Offline Package Manager (RUM) version 0.0.1 released.

2007-07-14 Thread Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray
 sound good. Just wondering if there is a specific yum version dependency
  here ? Essentially, how well will it work with yum-2.4.x ?

Most of the code is dependent  on the core Pirut modules. Apart from
the small patch that I had mentioned (committed in Pirut CVS), it
works fine with Pirut 1.3.7 and Pirut 1.3.8. One has to look into what
dependencies these versions of Pirut has on YUM.

 also, there already is a package for rum- and its already related to yum
 :/ what are you going to call the package name ?

Don't know. Suggestions are welcome. :-)

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[ilugd] Fwd: Please Read: Need help in replacing music in Fedora package

2007-07-09 Thread Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray
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From: Tom spot Callaway [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 10-Jul-2007 02:33
Subject: Please Read: Need help in replacing music in Fedora package
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]


Hello interweb. I need help. (This is going out to a few places, as to
hopefully have it picked up)

One of my Fedora packages (rocksndiamonds) has a slight problem. Turns
out that some of its audio files are straight copies of music which was
used without permission.

Full details are here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=245435

Rather than pull the game out of Fedora entirely, (it is pretty fun, and
the music is the only real blocker) I'd like to replace the music with
freely distributable music. So, this could be your big chance!

Are you a musician? Is someone you know a musician? Would you be willing
to give us some music under a Creative Commons license (Attribution or
Attribution-ShareAlike only)?

The music we need replacement for is:

Alchemy by Ian Boddy, from Drive (emailed Ian)
Czardasz by Robert Pieculewicz, from Czardasz (emailed Robert, now
known as Steve Allen)
The Chase by Propaganda, from A Secret Wish (could not find contact
info for Propaganda)
Twilight Painter by Tangerine Dream, from Heartbreakers (emailed
Eastgate Music  Media LTD, Management for Tangerine Dream)
21st Century Common Man by Tangerine Dream, from Tyger (emailed
Eastgate Music  Media LTD, Management for Tangerine Dream)
Voyager by The Alan Parsons Project, from Pyramid (emailed
[EMAIL PROTECTED])
Network 23 by Tangerine Dream, from Exit (emailed Eastgate Music 
Media LTD, Management for Tangerine Dream)

I've emailed the contact points for the artists (when I could find
them), but I do not expect that they will be willing to permit the sound
sample use.

We don't need whole songs, just short sound samples that will endlessly
loop while the game plays. The clips do not need to be long, the longest
one in the above list is 14 seconds. The format needed is .wav.

If you're willing to help, please email me ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
Without replacing this music, we'll have to remove this game from the
Fedora package collection.

Thanks in advance,

~spot


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Re: [ilugd] 5,000 ubuntu desktops at delhi university

2007-06-30 Thread Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray
  For your information, NIT Hamirpur's computer centre runs _only_ on
  Ubuntu 6.06. It is maintained by the local GLUG
  (http://glug-nith.org/).

 how many comps, here?

25 in the computer centre and 20 more in the laboratories. This
excludes all dual-boot setups.

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Re: [ilugd] 5,000 ubuntu desktops at delhi university

2007-06-29 Thread Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray
 [OT]
 Anyways, FYI, VJTI (http://vjti.ac.in/) in Mumbai does
 have its internet browsing centre dual booting with
 Ubuntu 7.04. (Centre for NRCFOSS-Mumbai node too) The
 server setup is in process to support Windows and
 *buntu client machines. :)
 [/OT]

For your information, NIT Hamirpur's computer centre runs _only_ on
Ubuntu 6.06. It is maintained by the local GLUG
(http://glug-nith.org/).

Not only that there are atleast half a dozen faculty members who use
GNU/Linux,. Among them 2 use it as the only OS on their home desktop
and laptops, and sometimes hang out on IRC (#glug-nith on Freenode)
too.

There is no NRC-FOSS or other external agency's involvement yet.

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Re: [ilugd] Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2007-03-04 Thread Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray
Gaurav Mishra wrote:

Greetings to all, We are hosting a Linux Installfest in our
 Bi-Yearly Technical fest Jagriti. In which we are going to install
 Ubuntu edgy along with multimedia Capabilities and some hand picked
 software(which can be done as the person requests) on the
 participant`s PC`s .

Good job. All the best. :-) You mentioned something about ILUG Delhi
membership forms. What are those?

 We have also planned to make it a central access point to access our
 famous and infamous internal ftp servers which would enabled users to
 get a huge pool of Entertainment resources.

On a curious note. What do these FTP servers serve?

G. Karunakar wrote:

 It might be good to consider altleast 2-3 distros in an install fest..
  say Fedora, Debian, Centos or anyother as per availability.
 [need to try different distributions...]
 multimedia capabilities seems to be the above ojbective. Ubuntu CDs
 maybe readily available.. FC6, Debian would need burning few DVDs..

As part of GLUG-NITH (http://glug-nith.org/) I would like to stick my
neck in and say that we have the multiple Fedora Core 6 repositories
mirrored on our campus LAN. They are globally available too, but we do
not want to publicise them as official mirrors due to bandwidth
constraints, though we may do so in the future. Any way you may find them
at:
http://fedora.glug-nith.org/
http://fedora.glug-nith.org/linux
Right now you will find Fedora Core (i386  x86_64), Fedora Updates (i386),
Fedora Extras (i386 to be finished soon) and ATRPMs Stable (i386). We may
get the x86_64 versions too if there is enough demand.

We are also in the process of mirroring the GNU FTP site (almost done)
and the main and universe sections of the Ubuntu Dapper repositories.
Fiesty packages will follow after this.

We would be happy to help you with CDs/DVDs of Fedora, Ubuntu, and the
repositories if you wish. However in that case it would be good if we can
discuss these things further either on our mailing list
(http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/glug-nith-discuss) or on IRC
(#glug-nith on irc.freenode.net). We are usually there whenever there is
no class, ie. after 17:30 hours.

Cheers,
Debarshi
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husbandry  n. frugality; thrift; agriculture

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Re: [ilugd] RMS' visit to NIT Hamirpur

2006-10-16 Thread Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray
 Dr. Richard Matthew Stallman (http://stallman.org/) will be giving a
 public lecture in National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur, Himachal
 Pradesh on the 25th of October, 2006.

 Good One!!

Thanks. Will you be attending?

Regards,
Debarshi
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India is not, as people keep calling it, an underdeveloped country,
but rather a developed nation in an advanced state of decay.
--Shashi Tharoor

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[ilugd] RMS' visit to NIT Hamirpur

2006-10-13 Thread Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray
Dr. Richard Matthew Stallman (http://stallman.org/) will be giving a
public lecture in National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur, Himachal
Pradesh on the 25th of October, 2006. The proposed topic for the talk
is Free Software, Free Society. This would take place immediately
after Dr. Stallman is done with his talk in the Air Jaldi Summit
(http://summit.airjaldi.com) in Dharamsala.

There is no entry fee for attending the lecture. Everyone is invited.
Anybody willing or able to make the trip are encouraged to drop in.

RSVP: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Cheers,
Debarshi

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