Re: 2 months and no upload for pkg

2014-09-06 Thread Daniel Pocock
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 05/09/14 20:46, Matthias Urlichs wrote: Hi, Daniel Pocock: c) offer a paid review service. FTP masters and assistants can sell their time through an auction process. [...] I hope this is a joke. Not entirely I was not suggesting

Re: 2 months and no upload for pkg

2014-09-06 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 01:09:09PM -0400, Scott Kitterman a écrit : grep -ir copyright * Do that over your source and then compare what you have in debian/copyright. You might be surprised how often that turns up missing stuff. Check your own packages at least as carefully as you

Re: 2 months and no upload for pkg

2014-09-05 Thread Ian Jackson
Daniel Pocock writes (Re: 2 months and no upload for pkg): There is one package I recently uploaded where I meant to use a repackaged tarball to get rid of an embedded binary toolchain JAR. This is a more nasty mistake of course but thanks to the diligence of the FTP masters it was spotted

Re: 2 months and no upload for pkg

2014-09-05 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 05/09/14 17:48, Ian Jackson wrote: It is true that long NEW processing queues is a big problem. But it appears that a substantial amount of core team effort is being used to deal with poor submissions. If we can fix that, we can fix the long queue. This is really the root of the

Re: 2 months and no upload for pkg

2014-09-05 Thread Ian Jackson
Daniel Pocock writes (Re: 2 months and no upload for pkg): This is really the root of the problem and I agree that it would be nice to find ways to help them. A solution is good for the FTP masters and good for the project. I agree. Another way to look at your proposal may be to compare

Re: 2 months and no upload for pkg

2014-09-05 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Friday, September 05, 2014 18:21:28 Daniel Pocock wrote: On 05/09/14 17:48, Ian Jackson wrote: It is true that long NEW processing queues is a big problem. But it appears that a substantial amount of core team effort is being used to deal with poor submissions. If we can fix that, we

Re: 2 months and no upload for pkg

2014-09-05 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 05/09/14 18:45, Ian Jackson wrote: Daniel Pocock writes (Re: 2 months and no upload for pkg): This is really the root of the problem and I agree that it would be nice to find ways to help them. A solution is good for the FTP masters and good for the project. I agree. Another way

Re: 2 months and no upload for pkg

2014-09-05 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Daniel Pocock: c) offer a paid review service. FTP masters and assistants can sell their time through an auction process. [...] I hope this is a joke. Not entirely I was not suggesting people would pay to have their packages approved. Only that there would be payment for

Re: 2 months and no upload for pkg

2014-09-04 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 03/09/14 17:47, Ian Jackson wrote: Daniel Pocock writes (Re: 2 months and no upload for pkg): It may not simply be the person Somebody uploading packages where they are also the upstream may know the copyright situation inside out and just cut and paste debian/copyright from one package

Re: 2 months and no upload for pkg

2014-09-03 Thread Ian Jackson
Daniel Pocock writes (Re: 2 months and no upload for pkg): It may not simply be the person Somebody uploading packages where they are also the upstream may know the copyright situation inside out and just cut and paste debian/copyright from one package to the next and it is always correct

Re: 2 months and no upload for pkg

2014-08-20 Thread Ian Jackson
Charles Plessy writes (Re: 2 months and no upload for pkg): there is one thing that we can do: increase the quality of the packages that we submit to the NEW queue. Acording to one member of the FTP Master team, up to 80 % of the packages have a problem [0]. Indeed, when I and others have

Re: 2 months and no upload for pkg

2014-08-20 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 20, Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk wrote: I think we need a reputation system here. Eg, you could sort the NEW queue by something like number of REJECTs of uploader's packages in last 12 months ---

Re: 2 months and no upload for pkg

2014-08-20 Thread Daniel Pocock
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 20/08/14 16:39, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Aug 20, Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk wrote: I think we need a reputation system here. Eg, you could sort the NEW queue by something like number of REJECTs of uploader's packages in

Re: 2 months and no upload for pkg

2014-08-13 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Amir Taaki (gen...@riseup.net): However, I think maybe this might have slipped through the cracks and has been missed. Any information would be much appreciated. The responsible team (Debian Bitcoin Team) seems to be dead judging from their mailing list. Hello, That seems to be

Re: 2 months and no upload for pkg

2014-08-13 Thread Charles Plessy
Quoting Amir Taaki (gen...@riseup.net): However, I think maybe this might have slipped through the cracks and has been missed. Any information would be much appreciated. The responsible team (Debian Bitcoin Team) seems to be dead judging from their mailing list. Le Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at

Re: 2 months and no upload for pkg

2014-08-13 Thread Amir Taaki
Hi! Thanks for the response. I've had review on my license by the SFLC and the FSF. See their responses here: https://wiki.unsystem.net/en/index.php/Libbitcoin/License Also I have emails from the Debian mailing list on this issue which I can contribute. Is there anything I need to do to pass

Re: 2 months and no upload for pkg

2014-08-13 Thread Amir Taaki
Thank you. On 13/08/14 09:20, Charles Plessy wrote: Quoting Amir Taaki (gen...@riseup.net): However, I think maybe this might have slipped through the cracks and has been missed. Any information would be much appreciated. The responsible team (Debian Bitcoin Team) seems to be dead judging

RE:2 months and no upload for pkg

2014-08-13 Thread PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel
Hello Charles Peer review can help, by making sure that the final controllers (the FTP Master team) do not waste their time reporting defects that others could have found. You can find a process for peer review at the URL below. https://wiki.debian.org/CopyrightReview I like a lot the

Re: 2 months and no upload for pkg

2014-08-13 Thread Amir Taaki
It has now appeared in the repos! Thanks everyone. https://packages.qa.debian.org/libb/libbitcoin.html On 13/08/14 09:20, Charles Plessy wrote: Quoting Amir Taaki (gen...@riseup.net): However, I think maybe this might have slipped through the cracks and has been missed. Any information

2 months and no upload for pkg

2014-08-12 Thread Amir Taaki
Hi! A Debian developer Jonas Smedegard has worked with me to package my software since I first opened an ITP in April 2012. Finally we finish to resolve all the outstanding issues after some months, and I was very happy to see it pushed ready to be uploaded on 17 June.