Reducing my involvement in Debian

2006-01-16 Thread Andrew Suffield
It's due to some recent and inconveniently timed personal events rather than *anything* within Debian, but I'm going to be reducing my involvement considerably. I'm sure people who have no insight into my life will claim otherwise; they're full of shit, if you care. If you don't already know my

Re: Reducing my involvement in Debian

2006-01-16 Thread David Pashley
On Jan 16, 2006 at 08:50, Andrew Suffield praised the llamas by saying: I'm ditching the packages I don't personally use. My handful of unfinished projects will probably remain that way. Most of the stuff I've been hosting in ~/public_html/ directories is gone, and the rest will probably go

Re: Emphasize teams, not packages

2006-01-16 Thread Peter Samuelson
(M-F-T set.) [Frans Jessop] When somebody wants to become a DD he is told ?Go find a package to maintain, one that you can be the maintainer for.? I see serious problems with this approach as Debian increases in DD's. I will how this is in a second. What I think should be emphasized is

Re: Reducing my involvement in Debian

2006-01-16 Thread Matthew Garrett
Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [0] Including assuming dictatorial power: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/12/the_security_th_1.html The definition of 'dictatorial' given here is worth noting, even if you don't read the rest of it. quis custodiet ipsos

Re: Reducing my involvement in Debian

2006-01-16 Thread Andreas Barth
* Matthew Garrett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060116 12:38]: Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [0] Including assuming dictatorial power: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/12/the_security_th_1.html The definition of 'dictatorial' given here is worth noting, even

Re: Emphasize teams, not packages

2006-01-16 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 04:55:57 -0600 Peter Samuelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Frans Jessop] When somebody wants to become a DD he is told ?Go find a package to maintain, one that you can be the maintainer for.? I see serious problems with this

Síntoma Comunicación

2006-01-16 Thread Oscar Aragones
Benvolguts senyors, Magradaria oferir-los els nostres serveis com a agència de comunicació: estratègies de marketing i publicitat (campanyes de mitjans, suports creatius, below the line), disseny gràfic (imatge corporativa, anuncis, catàlegs, folletons, flyers, pàgines web),

Re: Emphasize teams, not packages

2006-01-16 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Jonas Smedegaard] It is too hard to read the changelogs where it is (or at least should be) clearly documented who from a team did what parts of the packaging. I agree that it's too hard, but I don't agree with the rest of that. The debian changelog doesn't typically say much about who's

Re: Emphasize teams, not packages

2006-01-16 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 07:46:50 -0600 Peter Samuelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Jonas Smedegaard] It is too hard to read the changelogs where it is (or at least should be) clearly documented who from a team did what parts of the packaging. I

Re: Emphasize teams, not packages

2006-01-16 Thread Joey Hess
Peter Samuelson wrote: The point of maintaining a package is to prove that you *can* maintain a package. Being on a team proves nothing. Being on a team and doing most of the work proves something, if this can be measured, but that's difficult. As it happens, I'm on at least one team where