Re: NM's to fix bugs? (Was: Asking for an advocate (gURLChecker))

2003-04-13 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sat, 12 Apr 2003, Jarno Elonen wrote: Since stable base packages (in addition to effective developmen tools!) are the most important factor in making a stable OS, it would be good to have more work concentrated on them. As Colin has already pointed out, bugs.qa.debian.org can give lists

Re: NM's to fix bugs? (Was: Asking for an advocate (gURLChecker))

2003-04-13 Thread Jarno Elonen
Sounds like something a prospective DD might like to have a go at. Especially someone who has plans to perhaps hack dpkg, apt, or something like that. Groping through the packages DB is the main part, counting outstanding bugs should be pretty simple. Anyone want to give it a whirl? I think

Re: Still no sponsor for PySol

2003-04-13 Thread Alexander Nofftz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Roger! Am Dienstag, 8. April 2003 00:46 schrieb Roger Ward: Please don't think I am suggesting your build process should involve three source tarballs (i'm not the expert in Debian Ways To Do Things), but take a look at Apache and how it is

Re: NM's to fix bugs? (Was: Asking for an advocate (gURLChecker))

2003-04-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 12:21:49PM +1000, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-04-13 02:25]: The fact that pkgreport.cgi doesn't display them is a bug in debbugs, not Well, then we can still blame you. :-P You'll note that bugreport.cgi has improved recently

Re: NM's to fix bugs? (Was: Asking for an advocate (gURLChecker))

2003-04-13 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Jarno Elonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030412 11:41]: + The bug tracking system is a less clear and more difficult to use than in many other open projects. I, for instance, find it a lot easier to work with KDE's or even OOo's bug trackers than Debian's. Being email based (an thus not

Re: NM's to fix bugs? (Was: Asking for an advocate (gURLChecker))

2003-04-13 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 02:25:43AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 01:02:05AM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 03:44:54PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: Have you tried http://bugs.qa.debian.org/? http://bugs.qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/standard.cgi says

RFS: playmidi

2003-04-13 Thread Darren Salt
I'm looking for a sponsor for playmidi. I've fixed some of the reported bugs and applied an extra patch or two of my own. The diff and dsc files aren't available for download but I'll send them to anybody who's interested in sponsorship. I've also considered splitting the package (ref. bug

Re: RFS: playmidi

2003-04-13 Thread Brian Nelson
Darren Salt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm looking for a sponsor for playmidi. I've fixed some of the reported bugs and applied an extra patch or two of my own. The diff and dsc files aren't available for download but I'll send them to anybody who's interested in sponsorship. Are you

Re: NM's to fix bugs?

2003-04-13 Thread Brian Nelson
Jarno Elonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: unless they can give some demonstration that they're into more than just making packages. Fixing bugs, for instance. This advice is quite usual on this list. I think there are a few reasons why it's not as common thing for non-DDs to do as it maybe

Re: RFS: playmidi

2003-04-13 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Brian Nelson may or may not have written... Darren Salt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm looking for a sponsor for playmidi. I've fixed some of the reported bugs and applied an extra patch or two of my own. The diff and dsc files aren't available for download but I'll send them

Initial Contact

2003-04-13 Thread Fielder George Dowding
To Whom it May Concern; Greetings. I am interested in becoming a member of the Debian Distribution by adopting the Defoma package as the maintainer. I have spent several days reading the documents on www.debian.org/devel/ as well as /join/ but it appears to me to be a Catch 22 condition.

Re: RFS: playmidi

2003-04-13 Thread nil
What the hell? It's taken this long to contact the actual maintainer of playmidi (me)? I have no interest in debian, but I am still actively developing playmidi. Perhaps people should consider actually MAILING THE MAINTAINER when they make patches so that I (or other maintainers of other

Re: RFS: playmidi

2003-04-13 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that nil may or may not have written... What the hell? It's taken this long to contact the actual maintainer of playmidi (me)? (Taken to private mail.) -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon

Re: RFS: playmidi

2003-04-13 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, 13 Apr 2003, nil wrote: From an outsider's point of view Debian looks like the most irresponsible distro with no contact whatsoever with original package authors. Ahem, please don't label the entire Debian project on the basis of the actions of one person who (AFAICT) isn't even a

Re: Initial Contact

2003-04-13 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, 13 Apr 2003, Fielder George Dowding wrote: Greetings. I am interested in becoming a member of the Debian Distribution by adopting the Defoma package as the maintainer. I have spent several days reading the documents on www.debian.org/devel/ as well as /join/ but it appears to me to