Re: Attracting new volunteers to Debian using stackoverflow.com

2009-12-22 Thread Tom Feiner
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 11:09 AM, George Danchev wrote: > There is no better ad than the Debian swirl itself. > > P.S. this discussion is probably best suited for -project. > Thanks for the response, you're right, I'll post this in -project, we can discuss it there. Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: Attracting new volunteers to Debian using stackoverflow.com

2009-12-22 Thread Tom Feiner
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Harry Rickards wrote: > 2009/12/20 Tom Feiner : >> Hi, >> >> stackoverflow.com, which is a website featuring questions and answers on >> a wide range of topics in computer programming, has just offered [1] >> free advertising fo

Attracting new volunteers to Debian using stackoverflow.com

2009-12-20 Thread Tom Feiner
developers, so asking for new volunteers in stackoverflow.com will raise awareness of debian needing new maintainers. What do you think? Should we offer a Debian related ad? Thanks, Tom Feiner [1] http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/12/free-vote-based-advertising-for-open-source-projects/ [2] http

Re: /var/www is depracated, which directory to use?

2009-11-04 Thread Tom Feiner
Hi, > On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Holger Levsen wrote: >> Hi Tom, >> >> On Montag, 2. November 2009, Tom Feiner wrote: >>> Is /var/cache really such a bad option? I mean, the entire web content >>> is re-generated from templates & graphs are re-g

Re: /var/www is depracated, which directory to use?

2009-11-02 Thread Tom Feiner
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote: > Tom Feiner writes: > >> Is /var/cache really such a bad option? I mean, the entire web content >> is re-generated from templates & graphs are re-generated from the rrd >> databases every 5 minutes. So ev

Re: /var/www is depracated, which directory to use?

2009-11-02 Thread Tom Feiner
rs might not know a good answer such a question and will probably just stick with the defaults, so suggesting /var/www/munin will just keep the current non FHS complaint status quo. Regards, Tom Feiner signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Packages that download/install unsecured files

2009-09-18 Thread Tom Feiner
Philipp Kern wrote: > On 2009-09-18, Tom Feiner wrote: >> Looks like this method works well for clamav-data and other similar packages >> which needs to update databases frequently on stable/oldstable. > > clamav-data is scheduled for deletion as soon as volatile moves

Re: Packages that download/install unsecured files

2009-09-18 Thread Tom Feiner
amav-data and other similar packages which needs to update databases frequently on stable/oldstable. Regards, Tom Feiner signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Packages that download/install unsecured files

2009-09-17 Thread Tom Feiner
especially if the user puts this script in cron under the root user. (There are probably many more ways to attack, but this is the most obvious way). I hope this clarifies why I think we should find a better solution to this issue. Regards, Tom Feiner signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature