On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 06:56:01PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > > Um, the only archs that don't meet the redundancy requirement today are
> > > i386
> > > and ia64.
> > http://release.debian.org/etch_arch_qualify.html says alpha, amd64, arm,
> > hppa, i386, ia64, and m68k don't meet it, fwiw.
On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 12:13:03PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On a personal note, in my experience the most effective way of working
> with James and Ryan is to trust that they generally know what they're
> doing and more or less leave them to get on with making things better on
> their own rath
Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I understand they cannot communicate about _everything_. But a
> downtime like that _is_ worth communicating. If they don't understand
You did notice that the DSA team is about to install a request tracker
for issues like you described? I would think
On 2007-02-23, Kalle Kivimaa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> I understand they cannot communicate about _everything_. But a
>> downtime like that _is_ worth communicating. If they don't understand
>
> You did notice that the DSA team is about to install
also sprach Kalle Kivimaa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.02.23.1054 +0100]:
> You did notice that the DSA team is about to install a request tracker
> for issues like you described? I would think that takes care of most
> of the current communication related issues.
Does it say anywhere that this will
On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 11:54:40AM +0200, Kalle Kivimaa wrote:
> Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I understand they cannot communicate about _everything_. But a
> > downtime like that _is_ worth communicating. If they don't understand
>
> You did notice that the DSA team is about
On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 11:54:40AM +0200, Kalle Kivimaa wrote:
> Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I understand they cannot communicate about _everything_. But a
> > downtime like that _is_ worth communicating. If they don't understand
>
> You did notice that the DSA team is about
On pe, 2007-02-23 at 11:41 +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> Our core teams not communicating is a social problem. RT is a
> technical solution. There are no technical solutions for social
> problems.
This meme is often repeated, but I don't think it is entirely true.
As an example, consider couples who
Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> incredibly open manner with a pretty impressive level of uptime. None
> of that means we can't or shouldn't be doing better, but I think it's
> worth recognising that when we say we're not doing a good enough job,
> *we* are still the ones setting and rai
Pierre Habouzit a écrit :
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 12:13:03PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
>> On a personal note, in my experience the most effective way of working
>> with James and Ryan is to trust that they generally know what they're
>> doing and more or less leave them to get on with making th
On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 11:41:06AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> Our core teams not communicating is a social problem. RT is a
> technical solution. There are no technical solutions for social
> problems.
That's not always true. Let's suppose (ad absurdum) that the questioned
teams have their own .tx
On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 10:44:55AM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> So sorry, but I don't buy a single word of your argumentation here.
It wasn't an argument; it was just a statement of things are, as I see
them. In so far as "how things are" isn't well communicated in those
areas, I don't see an
Hi!
* Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070223 11:50]:
> > There are no technical solutions for social problems.
>
> This meme is often repeated, but I don't think it is entirely true.
>
> As an example, consider couples who sleep in the same bed, under the
> same blanket. They often complain
On 2007-02-23, Alexander Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> the other party steals the blanket during the night and leaves the other
^
>> one shivering.
>
> I know we are on the way to an off topic thread, but I'm curious: Why
> is that a social problem?
because of the
Package: project
Severity: serious
The Debian project lacks an alpha developer-available machine for about
8 months. This makes some bugs impossible to fix.
The severity is set to serious because alpha is a release architecture
for Etch, but without a developer-available machine it is not sure it
On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 08:45:27PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 10:44:55AM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> > So sorry, but I don't buy a single word of your argumentation here.
>
> It wasn't an argument; it was just a statement of things are, as I see
> them. In so far as
Anthony Towns wrote:
>> We're far beyond trying to help them, at least for me, [...]
>
> Your opinions are only ever going to be considered in so far as you're
> willing to help make them a reality. If you're not willing to help,
> find something else to worry about.
So you think that from the
Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [...] They often complain about a social problem, namely that
> the other party steals the blanket during the night and leaves the other
> one shivering.
>
> The technical solution this social problem is to have two blankets.
That doesn't solve it: the o
On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 12:13:03PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> The primary reason why there's only one keyring-maint is the "binary
> blob" problem: [...]
> [...]
> This issue has been mentioned briefly in the past a few times, but to
> the best of my knowledge, no one's taken up the challenge so
On 2/23/07, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
also sprach Kalle Kivimaa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.02.23.1054 +0100]:
> You did notice that the DSA team is about to install a request tracker
> for issues like you described? I would think that takes care of most
> of the current communicat
On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 12:14:34PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> I personally do *not* think an RT would change anything. Still I don't
> see a valid reason for *not* trying.
One reason would be that we could do something more valuable with the
same effort. I see parallels with what Bruce Sch
On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 12:57:01PM +0100, Frank K?ster wrote:
> Anthony Towns wrote:
> >> We're far beyond trying to help them, at least for me, [...]
> > Your opinions are only ever going to be considered in so far as you're
> > willing to help make them a reality. If you're not willing to help
On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 10:06:47AM -0300, Gustavo Franco wrote:
> softwares) and anyone is free to open bugs with debsecan output and
> stuff like that. Don't tell me that "hey, what's the alpha machine
> status?" and keyring-maint requests will leak information.
Off the top of my head "Please se
Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 12:57:01PM +0100, Frank K?ster wrote:
>> Anthony Towns wrote:
>> >> We're far beyond trying to help them, at least for me, [...]
>> > Your opinions are only ever going to be considered in so far as you're
>> > willing to help make them a reality.
Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 12:57:01PM +0100, Frank K?ster wrote:
>> All we are
>> allowed to consider with respect to these teams is to help *them*, not
>> to achieve help?
>
> You can reasonably expect them to do what they've said they will, or
> what the role obviously entai
On 2/23/07, Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 10:06:47AM -0300, Gustavo Franco wrote:
> softwares) and anyone is free to open bugs with debsecan output and
> stuff like that. Don't tell me that "hey, what's the alpha machine
> status?" and keyring-maint requests will
also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.02.23.1101 +0100]:
> > You did notice that the DSA team is about to install a request
> > tracker for issues like you described? I would think that takes
> > care of most of the current communication related issues.
>
> Does it say anywhere tha
Thanks, Anthony, for the update. I have some small comments inline
below:
> As a consequence, if you have two people working on the keyring,
> and one hands the other a new version claiming that the only
> change is to include a new key for "foo", it's very hard for the
> other maintainer to verif
Anthony Towns wrote:
> If they don't do it, and it's important, someone else will. Cf the
> security team versus testing security support, backports or [...]
That's fine if "they" don't do it. I think the problem is when
they're doing it and make a mistake which they won't fix: how can
anyone el
On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 12:13:03PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
[...lots of interesting info snipped...]
>* Wanna-build access
> - Ryan Murray, Steve Langasek, James Troup, Anthony Towns, others
> - schedule give-backs, binNMUs, etc
> - listed as group "wb-$arch" o
Anthony Towns wrote:
> I've been delaying this mail for a while now
Is it purely coincidental that it was sent the same day as your
nomination for the DPL elections?
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I'm currently in discussion with a tartan designer to come up with a design
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The timing is going to be tight, in that we need to get the beginning
On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 08:05:33PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Anthony Towns wrote:
> > I've been delaying this mail for a while now
> Is it purely coincidental that it was sent the same day as your
> nomination for the DPL elections?
Not remotely; I was delaying the nomination until I'd fini
On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 03:54:54PM +, MJ Ray wrote:
> Anthony Towns wrote:
> > If they don't do it, and it's important, someone else will. Cf the
> > security team versus testing security support, backports or [...]
> That's fine if "they" don't do it. I think the problem is when
> they're do
Anthony Towns wrote:
> That's a technical issue, however -- one that seems like it should be
> emminently solvable. Ensuring that any such solution is written in a way
> that encourages auditability (of the code, of the input and of the output)
> is an important part though, and I don't know that a
On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 11:15:00PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Changed-By: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Comment: Removing an old email address.
I'm not sure that's plausible -- afaik the keyring gets synced to the
real keyservers for new signatures and uids, so removing addresses
doesn't work; th
Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 11:15:00PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> > Changed-By: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Comment: Removing an old email address.
>
> I'm not sure that's plausible -- afaik the keyring gets synced to the
> real keyservers for new signatures and uids, so re
On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 12:54:41AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> > That means you can't reorder changesets easily. I wonder if it'd be
> > better say "del uid [EMAIL PROTECTED]" and have the tool work out
> > which uid (if any) that is.
> I don't feel that reordering changesets is a good thing in gener
Anthony Towns wrote:
> I was more meaning it as an optimisation so you could ignore "key
> add 0x7172daed" if there was a "key delete 0x7172daed" changeset
> later. Likewise a "uid add" followed by a "uid del" or whatever.
Ah, sure, as an optimisation it could be useful. However, I think that
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