RFC: endorse debian-mentors as entrance to our infrastructure projects

2019-06-09 Thread Jonas Meurer
Hi, During MiniDebConf in Hamburg, I had an interesting conversation about the question of how we can attract more people to contribute to Debian infrastructure projects. There seems to be some consensus that such infrastructure projects are the ones in Debian that most badly need more contributor

Re: RFC: endorse debian-mentors as entrance to our infrastructure projects

2019-06-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Jun 9, 2019 at 6:55 PM Jonas Meurer wrote: > My hope is that having debian-mentors as an endorsed entry point for > diving into Debian infrastructure would lower the entry barrier > significantly for new contributors who'd like to dive into our > infrastructure software projects. > > What

Re: RFC: endorse debian-mentors as entrance to our infrastructure projects

2019-06-09 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Jun 09, 2019 at 12:55:14PM +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote: > Hi, Hi Jonas, >... > So here's the idea we came up with: We could explicitely broaden the > scope of debian-mentors to include any questions regarding Debian > infrastructure software. > That basicly would mean to explicitely mention

Re: RFC: endorse debian-mentors as entrance to our infrastructure projects

2019-06-09 Thread Geert Stappers
On Sun, Jun 09, 2019 at 02:44:40PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sun, Jun 09, 2019 at 12:55:14PM +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote: > > Hi, > > Hi Jonas, Hello both mailinglists, > >... > > So here's the idea we came up with: We could explicitely broaden the > > scope of debian-mentors to include any

Re: RFC: endorse debian-mentors as entrance to our infrastructure projects

2019-06-09 Thread Philip Hands
Adrian Bunk writes: > On Sun, Jun 09, 2019 at 12:55:14PM +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote: >> Hi, > > Hi Jonas, > >>... >> So here's the idea we came up with: We could explicitely broaden the >> scope of debian-mentors to include any questions regarding Debian >> infrastructure software. >> That basicly

Re: RFC: endorse debian-mentors as entrance to our infrastructure projects

2019-06-09 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Jun 09, 2019 at 02:56:53PM +0200, Philip Hands wrote: > Adrian Bunk writes: > > On Sun, Jun 09, 2019 at 12:55:14PM +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote: >... > >> [1] Let me give two examples for such "infrastructure projects": > >> */ Many in Debian agree that Debbugs could need some love, but s

Re: RFC: endorse debian-mentors as entrance to our infrastructure projects

2019-06-09 Thread Philip Hands
Adrian Bunk writes: > On Sun, Jun 09, 2019 at 02:56:53PM +0200, Philip Hands wrote: >> Adrian Bunk writes: >> > On Sun, Jun 09, 2019 at 12:55:14PM +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote: >>... >> >> [1] Let me give two examples for such "infrastructure projects": >> >> */ Many in Debian agree that Debbug

Bug#930274: RFS: junitparser/1.3.2-1 [ITP]

2019-06-09 Thread Bastian Germann
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "junitparser". * Package name: junitparser Version : 1.3.2-1 Upstream Author : Joel Wang * URL : https://github.com/gastlygem/junitparser * License :

Re: RFC: endorse debian-mentors as entrance to our infrastructure projects

2019-06-09 Thread Sam Hartman
Paul, it's really cool to see that you are open to this. I wonder whether it might be a good idea to write down which infrastructure services people in the mentors community are most able to help with. I don't want to discourage people from for example asking dak questions, but it might be valuab

Re: RFC: endorse debian-mentors as entrance to our infrastructure projects

2019-06-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 6:17 AM Sam Hartman wrote: > I wonder whether it might be a good idea to write down which > infrastructure services people in the mentors community are most able to > help with. I don't want to discourage people from for example asking > dak questions, but it might be valu

rdesktop v1.8.6 - with security fixes but doesn't connect to xrdp

2019-06-09 Thread Andrew Worsley
Hi Laszlo, can you suggest how I might proceed to debug this issue(s) with the latest rdesktop code. I am happy to spend some time to debug things but I don't have the time needed to understand the protocol and trace down the problem with out help. Should I just raise a debian bug and use the old