Re: Uninformative hyperlink in O: (package orphaning) bug reports

2019-07-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 11:24 PM Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > To be fair, doesn't the QA team (and random acts of kindness) often > keep these packages alive? There is no specific team maintaining orphaned packages, other than the set of Debian contributors who are motivated to do that. -- bye,

dev-ref: migration to Sphinx (was Re: Uninformative hyperlink in O: (package orphaning) bug reports)

2019-07-09 Thread Holger Levsen
On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 08:15:57AM +0200, Michael Kesper wrote: > > it to developers-reference. (FYI: I am trying to convert > > developers-reference to sphinx now and working on a branch. Any > > volunteer to help this is appreciated.) > Is that branch on salsa? yes, see "#931548 Migration to

Re: Uninformative hyperlink in O: (package orphaning) bug reports

2019-07-09 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
To everyone who is working on this problem, thank you :-) On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 10:38:14AM +0200, Michael Kesper wrote: > Hi again, > > On 09.07.19 09:17, Michael Kesper wrote: > > I think this is still starting a little bit negative, maybe like this? > > > > If nobody adopts this package it

Re: Uninformative hyperlink in O: (package orphaning) bug reports

2019-07-09 Thread Michael Kesper
Hi again, On 09.07.19 09:17, Michael Kesper wrote: > I think this is still starting a little bit negative, maybe like this? > > If nobody adopts this package it will vanish from Debian. > Do you care for this package being part of Debian? ^^^ Maybe change this

Re: Uninformative hyperlink in O: (package orphaning) bug reports

2019-07-09 Thread Michael Kesper
Hi all, On 07.07.19 14:47, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Sat, Jun 29, 2019 at 10:07:19AM +0200, Tobias Frost wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 03:38:48PM -0400, Boyuan Yang wrote:[snip] >> This text comes from a template we use in the MIA-Team. >> You can find it here: >>

Re: Uninformative hyperlink in O: (package orphaning) bug reports

2019-07-09 Thread Michael Kesper
Hi Osamu, hi all, On 29.06.19 03:05, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 10:37:58AM +0200, Michael Kesper wrote: >> Maintaining a package requires time and skills. >> Please have a look at https://mentors.debian.net/intro-maintainers >> for getting started. >> >> [and intro-maintainers

Re: Uninformative hyperlink in O: (package orphaning) bug reports

2019-07-07 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Jun 29, 2019 at 10:07:19AM +0200, Tobias Frost wrote: > On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 03:38:48PM -0400, Boyuan Yang wrote: > > Dear -devel list, > > > > (Please forward this email to proper mailing lists if there's other lists > > that > > this email would suit in better.) > > > > I noticed

Re: Uninformative hyperlink in O: (package orphaning) bug reports

2019-06-29 Thread Tobias Frost
On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 03:38:48PM -0400, Boyuan Yang wrote: > Dear -devel list, > > (Please forward this email to proper mailing lists if there's other lists that > this email would suit in better.) > > I noticed that for all bug reports that orphan a package in Debian, a semi- > standard

Re: Uninformative hyperlink in O: (package orphaning) bug reports

2019-06-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 10:37:58AM +0200, Michael Kesper wrote: > Hi Boyuan, > > On 27.06.19 21:38, Boyuan Yang wrote: > [I'm also not sure what's the best mailing list for discussing this, devel, > doc, mentors?] > > > I noticed that for all bug reports that orphan a package in Debian, a

Re: Uninformative hyperlink in O: (package orphaning) bug reports

2019-06-28 Thread Michael Kesper
Hi Boyuan, On 27.06.19 21:38, Boyuan Yang wrote: [I'm also not sure what's the best mailing list for discussing this, devel, doc, mentors?] > I noticed that for all bug reports that orphan a package in Debian, a semi- > standard paragraph of words will be provided like this: > > > >

Uninformative hyperlink in O: (package orphaning) bug reports

2019-06-27 Thread Boyuan Yang
Dear -devel list, (Please forward this email to proper mailing lists if there's other lists that this email would suit in better.) I noticed that for all bug reports that orphan a package in Debian, a semi- standard paragraph of words will be provided like this: ...Maintaining a