Re: New-Maintainer

2000-01-03 Thread Daniel Burrows
I'm still hoping that new-maintainer will reopen after potato is released (I believe several people have said that's the plan) On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 12:55:07AM -0700, Nate Duehr was heard to say: > #5 and #6 Folks, if you're being sponsored, you really should get on this > webpage. Perhaps if

Re: New-Maintainer

2000-01-03 Thread Peter Makholm
Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > the control file is set up properly. The sponsored party is listed as > > the "Maintainer" for dpkg purposes; they just can't upload the package > > themselves. > > I didn't realize this. It's interesting that this is how it's being > handled. I haven

Re: Echelon

2000-01-03 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 01:44:35AM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > Some of you may recall I mentioned some time ago that I hoped to have a > means of finding developers that may have left us, and today I put it > online! The system is called Echelon (NSA calls theirs that, so can we!) Sounds nifty

Re: New-Maintainer

2000-01-03 Thread Nate Duehr
On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 02:30:09AM -0600, Chris Lawrence wrote: > I don't think the DPL himself chose to halt taking new maintainers. > My interpretation of what Joey and James have said is that they both > had concerns about NM that weren't being addressed, and they stopped > taking applications

Echelon

2000-01-03 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
Hi all, Some of you may recall I mentioned some time ago that I hoped to have a means of finding developers that may have left us, and today I put it online! The system is called Echelon (NSA calls theirs that, so can we!) and how it works is by passively monitoring all mailing list traffic and i

Re: New Architecture

2000-01-03 Thread Adam Di Carlo
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What process(es) must be followed to start a Debian dist for a new > architecture?? [...] > As I can't find any web documentation which describes the process I > thought i'd gather comments (flames or otherwise) from this group on any > issues etc which may arise from