Re: Alioth: the future of mailing lists

2017-09-18 Thread Holger Levsen
On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 09:53:43PM +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote: > > I have managed mailman installations for some time so I'm fairly familiar > > with how it works, and have some time from November onwards to work on > > this which I hope would be enough time to develop and implement a migration >

Re: Alioth: the future of mailing lists

2017-09-18 Thread Alexander Wirt
On Mon, 18 Sep 2017, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 09:22:34AM +, Holger Levsen wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 01:57:31AM +0100, peter green wrote: > > > Just because a team isn't big or established doesn't mean they don't need > > > a place to discuss issues relating

Re: How to start a new packaging team now?

2017-09-18 Thread Alexander Wirt
On Mon, 18 Sep 2017, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 18.09.2017 um 18:00 schrieb Jonathan Carter (highvoltage): > > > Well, it's not official yet of course but salsa.debian.org is running > > GitLab and it seems like the likely Alioth replacement. > Do I need to create a new user account for salsa.deb

Re: How to start a new packaging team now?

2017-09-18 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 18.09.2017 um 18:00 schrieb Jonathan Carter (highvoltage): > Well, it's not official yet of course but salsa.debian.org is running > GitLab and it seems like the likely Alioth replacement. Do I need to create a new user account for salsa.debian.org or can I use my existing Debian account? s

Re: Alioth: the future of mailing lists

2017-09-18 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 18 septembre 2017 14:55 +0200, Raphael Hertzog  : > Hum, that documentation is a bit outdated. What you have to use is > actually dispatch+@tracker.debian.org. But I would not want > people to use this email address in Maintainer fields. > > Instead we should use @packages.debian.org. But for t

Re: Summary of the 2038 BoF at DC17

2017-09-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 05:46:34PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: >Steve McIntyre writes ("Re: Summary of the 2038 BoF at DC17"): >> It depends on how/where/why you're embedding 64-bit time, >> basically. If you're embedding a time_t (or a struct including a >> time_t) in your ABI and want to keep to so

Re: How to start a new packaging team now?

2017-09-18 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 12:00 PM, Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) wrote: > Great! I've also thinking about started a team for all the gnome-shell > extensions we have in Debian. The Debian Qt/KDE team has a complementary > Debian KDE Extras team (see https://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/ for more > inf

Re: Summary of the 2038 BoF at DC17

2017-09-18 Thread Ian Jackson
Steve McIntyre writes ("Re: Summary of the 2038 BoF at DC17"): > It depends on how/where/why you're embedding 64-bit time, > basically. If you're embedding a time_t (or a struct including a > time_t) in your ABI and want to keep to something similar, it's worth > waiting to see what's going to be s

Re: How to start a new packaging team now?

2017-09-18 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hey Jeremy On 15/09/2017 18:39, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > I have been thinking for a while of starting a new packaging team for > desktop themes (especially GTK+ and GNOME themes since so many > desktops can use them). Great! I've also thinking about started a team for all the gnome-shell extensions

Re: pasting license text into debian/copyright

2017-09-18 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Saturday, 16 September 2017 23:13:04 CEST Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > Changing a long free-form text file into a deb822 multiline block, when > you want to use the "machine-readable" format. You can do this with cme. Either launch cme GUI with 'cme edit dpkg-copyright'. You can paste the lice

Re: Alioth: the future of mailing lists

2017-09-18 Thread Alex Muntada
Dominic Hargreaves: > I am willing to step up to help keep lists.alioth.debian.org running > as a standalone service using mailman. It seems like it is yet to be > resolved whether this is a long-term strategic option, but this > thread demonstrates the many practical reason that we should aim to

Re: Summary of the 2038 BoF at DC17

2017-09-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
In article <10e4fa4a-433c-a43b-1136-984293497...@p10link.net> you write: >> Firstly: developers trying to be *too* clever are likely to only make >> things worse - don't do it! Whatever you do in your code, don't bodge >> around the 32-bit time_t problem. *Don't* store time values in weird >> forma

Re: Is bash-completion orphaned?

2017-09-18 Thread David Paleino
Hello, Il 18 Set 2017 13:24, "Axel Beckert" ha scritto: Since you granted the MIA team to orphan your packages as necessary, and since you seem to be the only bash-completion team member, I plan to declare bash-completion as orphaned officially after this mail. I hope you're still fine with that

Re: Alioth: the future of mailing lists

2017-09-18 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Mon, 18 Sep 2017, Paul Wise wrote: > If the Maintainer field is going to be completely deterministic based > on the package name, we should probably just change dak/BTS/etc to > mail those addresses instead of making dak put those addresses in > Maintainer fields in Sources/Packages or upda

Re: Alioth: the future of mailing lists

2017-09-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 8:55 PM, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Instead we should use @packages.debian.org. If the Maintainer field is going to be completely deterministic based on the package name, we should probably just change dak/BTS/etc to mail those addresses instead of making dak put those addre

Re: Alioth: the future of mailing lists

2017-09-18 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hello Axel, On Mon, 18 Sep 2017, Axel Beckert wrote: > Alexander Wirt wrote: > > - Distribution lists for use in the Maintainer: field. We suggest > > that, with maybe some extra code, this use-case could be well served > > by the tracker.debian.org service for almost all purposes. > >

Bug#876095: O: bash-completion -- programmable completion for the bash shell

2017-09-18 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: wnpp The current maintainer of bash-completion, David Paleino (Cc'ed), currently lacks time to work on this package and granted the MIA team to orphan his packages as necessary. Maintaining a package requires time and skills. Please only adopt this package if you will have enough time a

Re: Alioth: the future of mailing lists

2017-09-18 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 09:22:34AM +, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 01:57:31AM +0100, peter green wrote: > > Just because a team isn't big or established doesn't mean they don't need a > > place to discuss issues relating to their activities, some of which do not > > relate t

Bug#876091: ITP: node-module-deps -- walk the dependency graph to generate json output that can be fed into browser-pack

2017-09-18 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: ro...@debian.org X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: node-module-deps Version : 4.1.1 Upstream Author : James Halliday (http://substack.net) * URL : https://github.com/substack/module-deps * License

Re: Is bash-completion orphaned?

2017-09-18 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi Hakan, Hakan Peker wrote: > Subject: Is bash-completion orphaned? > > Last non-NMU upload happened 3 years ago and version in sid is 2.1. > > Development seems to be moved over to Github > (https://github.com/scop/bash-completion/). Latest release there is > 2.7 from last July. Thanks for the

Re: Alioth: the future of mailing lists

2017-09-18 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi, Alexander Wirt wrote: > - Distribution lists for use in the Maintainer: field. We suggest > that, with maybe some extra code, this use-case could be well served > by the tracker.debian.org service for almost all purposes. Reading https://tracker.debian.org/docs/about.html#email-int

Bug#876083: ITP: zsh-theme-powerlevel9k -- theme for zsh which uses powerline fonts

2017-09-18 Thread Jonathan Carter
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonathan Carter * Package name: zsh-theme-powerlevel9k Version : 0.6.4-1 Upstream Author : Ben Hilburn * URL : https://github.com/bhilburn/powerlevel9k * License : expat Programming Lang: zsh Description : theme

Re: Alioth: the future of mailing lists

2017-09-18 Thread Holger Levsen
On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 01:57:31AM +0100, peter green wrote: > Just because a team isn't big or established doesn't mean they don't need a > place to discuss issues relating to their activities, some of which do not > relate to any one particular package. Contributers should be able to > self-or

Re: Summary of the Arm ports BoF at DC17

2017-09-18 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2017-09-17 at 12:59 -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2017-09-15, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Thu, 2017-09-14 at 03:40 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > [...] > >> There is optional kernel support to trap the exceptions here > >> and emulate the instructions, but it's really not recommend