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

2014-09-06 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 entirel

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 p

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 >> goo

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

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 y

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"): > 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 F

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 j

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

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 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 Marco d'Itri
On Aug 20, Ian Jackson 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 >--- >number of ACCEPT or REJECT

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]. > Ind

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 informa

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

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 dea

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 tha

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

Re: 2 months and no upload for pkg

2014-08-12 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

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. https://ftp-master.debian.o