Hello,
in the sake of our group maintenance I want to inform you about a somewhat
unusual
post-inst message that I had added to the autodock package, toinform the users
that
upstream needs funding to maintain their software.
The respective preliminary code I have just checked in. Upstream had (
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 05:16:46PM +0200, Steffen Moeller wrote:
> in the sake of our group maintenance I want to inform you about a somewhat
> unusual
> post-inst message that I had added to the autodock package, toinform the
> users that
> upstream needs funding to maintain their software.
I h
Hello,
Stefano, I got the following comments to our post-install message for the
autodock package.
Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 05:16:46PM +0200, Steffen Moeller wrote:
>> in the sake of our group maintenance I want to inform you about a somewhat
>> unusual
>> post-inst messa
Hi!
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 05:16:46PM +0200, Steffen Moeller wrote:
>> in the sake of our group maintenance I want to inform you about a somewhat
>> unusual
>> post-inst message that I had added to the autodock package, toinform the
>> use
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 02:40:24PM -0300, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote:
> We could also use README.Debian (while in practice it won't reach
> every user of the package (because not everybody read this file), it's
> a file that all users are supposed to read).
Sure - how did it came that I forgot th
Le Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 07:30:57PM +0200, Steffen Moeller a écrit :
> Stefano, would you agree to that? We could also add a note to the startup of
> the
> application to show that text and optionally show this only upon the first
> invocation of
> autodock/autogrid.
Dear all,
I think that the
Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 02:40:24PM -0300, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote:
>> We could also use README.Debian (while in practice it won't reach
>> every user of the package (because not everybody read this file), it's
>> a file that all users are supposed to read).
>
> Sure - ho
Dear Charles,
thank your for your nice review of the current situation. I completely agree.
To my knowledge, no Linux distribution has yet addressed this issue at all.
I personally like the idea to use paypal for a transfer of funds, but even
more so for the non-anonymous registration of active u
Le Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 02:00:35PM +0200, Steffen Moeller a écrit :
>
> In principle, Debian-Med could have its own PayPal account to collect
> donations, but this would take much of the fun away, I think. Money should
> go to upstream directly and unconditionally.
Hi Steffen,
I think that there
(CCing -science because I think this applies to all fields of science
and should see wider discussion)
For -science, the issue is about user registration (usually before
download, or on program startup) which is an important tool for
scientific software authors to plead for further funding. It wa
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Michael Banck wrote:
> (CCing -science because I think this applies to all fields of science
> and should see wider discussion)
>
> For -science, the issue is about user registration (usually before
> download, or on program startup) which is an important tool for
>
Michael Banck wrote:
> (CCing -science because I think this applies to all fields of science
> and should see wider discussion)
>
> For -science, the issue is about user registration (usually before
> download, or on program startup) which is an important tool for
> scientific software authors to
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 03:12:00PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote:
> page/reminder/whatever was patched out by Debian) be changed to show a
> debconf note to users upon installation instead.
A debconf note might be a better alternative than the proposed
postinst output and I certainly thought also abo
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 05:31:08PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 03:12:00PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote:
> > My proposal would be to add an inofficial control file field like
> > XB-Registration: http://foo.org/register which could be exposed in the
> > task pages as a "Regis
[actually putting debian-blends list in CC and I would welcome to
move the discussion what to store in tasks files and where to
fetch data from to this list because it belongs there. I
have set Reply-To]
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 06:41:52PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 05
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