Re: Linux Forums

2006-01-25 Thread R Morris (sent by Nabble.com)
John Hasler wrote: >>> I couldn't find the source code to their server, either. >Another reason to avoid it. It's Java code running with Jetty and Apache as a front end cacing server on Debian. We're leaning toward making it open source once the base code stream is stable and we've implemented

Re: Linux Forums

2006-01-25 Thread Matthew Palmer
[uhm, dude, line length?] On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 06:04:25PM -0800, Will L (sent by Nabble.com) wrote: > My view is that commiters will favor mailing list because it requires > commitment, as Adners said, it has a sense of "seriousness". But, is it > reasonable to expect a general user to be commi

Re: Linux Forums

2006-01-25 Thread John Hasler
Lars Wirzenius writes: > As an aside, I think Debian shouldn't endorse Nabble.com in any way as > long as they have in their terms of use contract a clause that allows > them to change the contract at any time without notification. That doesn't mean much. You are only bound by the terms in effect

Re: Linux Forums

2006-01-25 Thread Will L (sent by Nabble.com)
John Hasler wrote: Will L writes: > For exmaple, suppose a user just wants to ask a question, is it > reasonable to require him to subscribe, receive unrelated emails, then > unsubscribe? Subscription is not required. ... Yes, you are right. I did not realize that almost all Debian lists are u

Re: Linux Forums

2006-01-25 Thread Lars Wirzenius
ke, 2006-01-25 kello 18:04 -0800, Will L (sent by Nabble.com) kirjoitti: > For exmaple, suppose a user just wants to ask a question, is it > reasonable to require him to subscribe, receive unrelated emails, then > unsubscribe? For what it's worth, it is not necessary to subscribe to a (Debian) lis

Re: Linux Forums

2006-01-25 Thread John Hasler
Will L writes: > For exmaple, suppose a user just wants to ask a question, is it > reasonable to require him to subscribe, receive unrelated emails, then > unsubscribe? Subscription is not required. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: Linux Forums

2006-01-25 Thread Will L (sent by Nabble.com)
I have been following this mailing list vs web forum thread and I hope my post is not too late. I like the post by Anders Breindahl so I quoted his entire message below. My view is that commiters will favor mailing list because it requires commitment, as Adners said, it has a sense of "seriousnes

Poll: how should Debian derivatives identify their packages?

2006-01-25 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
Continuing the experiment as outlined in [1] and [2], triggered by the discussion starting at [3], I hereby call for participation of Debian Developers in a poll, to attempt to gauge the opinion of "The average DD"[4] as good as it gets on the issue of what to do with the Maintainer field in packag

Re: For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu

2006-01-25 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Paul Johnson wrote: > > FWIW, what you say is false and *many* developers are interested in > > cooperation, not in war. > > > > And Ubuntu is doing far more for us than most other derivatives that we > > ever had. > > Provide evidence, please. Please don't reply to private e

Re: mailbox clogging, need daily "digests" of the list

2006-01-25 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-01-18 10:31:42, schrieb Pascal Hakim: > Heh. The 2005 list archives are 780 Mb (gziped) __( command 'ls -Al ~/public_html/lists.debian.org/debian-user/' ) / | insgesamt 43780 | -rw-rw-r--1 lists.de server2408540 25. Jul 2004 1999-04.tar.gz | -rw-rw-r--1 lists.de server

Re: [OT] Re: Deu no Jornal

2006-01-25 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-01-19 13:32:56, schrieb Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw): > Ok, it is a news (probably spam) about trucks that are > going to do an experimental test with Mc'Donalds vegetal oil > used to fry food, the "used oil" will serve as fuel. :-) Will this stop the US-Oil-War in Irak and the

Re: mailbox clogging, need daily "digests" of the list

2006-01-25 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-01-18 04:49:26, schrieb Madana Prathap: > As my "from:" indicates, Gmail doesn't exactly suffer from a lack of space > as such. What I did mean by clogging, is visual - a few hundred list mails > a day, are enough to make your inbox look messy. ??? - What about mailfiltering as the

Re: mailbox clogging, need daily "digests" of the list

2006-01-25 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-01-18 03:03:49, schrieb Madana Prathap: > Hi, > I've been subscribed to 12 debian mailing-lists. As you could imagine, my I am on 73 > mailbox is simply over-flowing now, with the number of mails & the Get between 1500 and 2700 messages per day. > frequency. To avoid the struggle, I

Re: Linux Forums

2006-01-25 Thread Anders Breindahl
On 2006-01-25 0151, Michael Banck wrote: > On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 08:02:19AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > I don't see how opening a web forum only the newbies are likely to use > > benefits the newbies or is fair to the experienced users who volunteer > > to help them. > > People learn quickly

Re: For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu

2006-01-25 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] >> And Ubuntu is doing far more for us than most other derivatives that we >> ever had. > Provide evidence, please. X.org, d-i, Gnome. [Still, communication of changes for smaller packages REALLY sucks] Marc -- Fachbegriffe der Informatik - Einfach

Re: Linux Forums

2006-01-25 Thread Sergey Spiridonov
Michael Banck wrote: > or IRC. That some of the sub-forums are bi-directionally gated to their > mailing lists does not help either, as the different style of writing > and quoting annoys the other side and at least at times during the past > forum posts were gated anonymously to the mailing list