Re: mentors.debian.net reloading

2007-10-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 04:45:03PM +0100, Ondrej Certik wrote: > BTW, I just found: > http://www.bononia.it/~zack/blog/posts/2007/07/python_debfile.html > There could be some interesting code to use. On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 08:33:00PM +0100, Christoph Haas wrote: > Cool, thanks for the link. It lo

Re: mentors.debian.net reloading

2007-10-29 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
> Do you know about Django? I heard good things about it. Your thoughts? I remember http://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2007/oct/26/security-fix/ ;) Otherwise I've heard only good things about it. -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSC

RFS: sysadmin-guide-es (3rd try)

2007-10-29 Thread Krzysztof Burghardt
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "sysadmin-guide-es". * Package name: sysadmin-guide-es Version : 0.8-1 Upstream Author : Rafael Ignacio Zurita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (translator) Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Joanna Oja <

RFS: nted (3rd try)

2007-10-29 Thread Gilles Filippini
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "nted". * Package name: nted Version : 0.8.1-1 Upstream Author : Jörg Anders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://vsr.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/staff/jan/nted/nted.xhtml * License : GPL Section :

Re: vanity packages (was: mentors.debian.net reloading)

2007-10-29 Thread Joey Hess
Neil Williams wrote: > > I would consider its popularity low (187 popcon installs with 46 > > votes). > > It's not that low. It looks like quite a few people find it useful, so > that's good. Using absolute popcon numbers as indications of a package's popularity isn't the best idea anyway, since

Re: vanity packages (was: mentors.debian.net reloading)

2007-10-29 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 07:44:28AM +, Neil Williams wrote: [...] > I think you have misinterpreted my position. Sponsoring is an > introduction to NM and whether or not the maintainer is looking to join > NM has no effect on the quality of packages at the start of sponsoring. [...] > The "probl

Re: mentors.debian.net reloading

2007-10-29 Thread Felipe Sateler
It might be interesting to have an additional "seeking comments" tag. Sometimes the package is not really ready for sponsorship, or the usual sponsor is too busy right now, and all I really care is for comments on the package rather than an actual upload. This is useful when working with a package

Re: mentors.debian.net reloading

2007-10-29 Thread Ondrej Certik
On 10/29/07, Felipe Sateler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It might be interesting to have an additional "seeking comments" tag. > Sometimes the package is not really ready for sponsorship, or the usual > sponsor is too busy right now, and all I really care is for comments on the > package rather tha

Re: vanity packages (was: mentors.debian.net reloading)

2007-10-29 Thread Jack T Mudge III
On Sunday 28 October 2007 07:10:57 pm Paul Wise wrote: > On 10/29/07, The Fungi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would consider its popularity low (187 popcon installs with 46 > > votes). > > I consider such fringe packages to be the main benefit of using > Debian. That is; it is the diversity (or

RFS: aoeui

2007-10-29 Thread Ryan Kavanagh
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "aoeui". * Package name: aoeui Version : 1.1.0-2 Upstream Author : Peter Klausler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://aoeui.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Section : editors It builds these bina