Re: Report from the debconf11 sponsoring/mentors BoF.

2011-09-13 Thread Janos Guljas
Hello, I would like to confirm that I am still interested in dedicating some of my time to write code for debexpo. Serafeim, thanks for CC-ing me. I am on debian-mentors list already. I will look at the code, and probably have some questions. Idea of developing metrics plugin for collecting

Re: Report from the debconf11 sponsoring/mentors BoF.

2011-09-12 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Serafeim, (keeping your CCs:) On 11.09.2011 23:56, Serafeim Zanikolas wrote: I understand that there's two sides in this effort: debexpo plugins that produce additional info about certain package features, and a repository of sponsors'

Report from the debconf11 sponsoring/mentors BoF.

2011-09-11 Thread David Bremner
This report started as a summary from the sponsorship BoF held during Debconf 11 in Banja Luka. The full video stream is available on [0]. These were the major points, as interpreted by Arno Töll and David Bremner. As it was being written up, a few relevant things happened with debexpo

Re: Report from the debconf11 sponsoring/mentors BoF.

2011-09-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 1:44 PM, David Bremner wrote: Also it was discussued how to avoid follow-up RFS mails for successive uploads to the debian-mentors mailing list. Those are typically a sign of a non-functional mentoring process, as it implies that either the maintainer did not know

Re: Report from the debconf11 sponsoring/mentors BoF.

2011-09-11 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
David, thanks for the report. Another issue that was mentioned during the QA is that debian-mentors is a misnomer and should ideally be called smth like debian-packaging. debian-mentors should become a discussion list for people that care about mentoring in Debian. Nitpicking aside, I care about