Re: Developers vs Uploaders

2007-03-18 Thread Erinn Clark
* Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au [2007:03:15 04:22 +1000]: If people don't do a good job as a maintainer they should have their priveleges removed fairly promptly; and if a developers recommends people to be listed as maintainers who turn out to be a problem, or if a developer just

Re: Testing kernel version

2007-03-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 10:21:10PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: Not sure if this helps, but there are 2.6.20 debian kernels available at : snapshots: deb http://kernel-archive.buildserver.net/debian-kernel {sid,trunk} main Specifically, trunk - the 2.6.20 versions aren't there under sid.

Re: Developers vs Uploaders

2007-03-18 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
On Sunday 18 March 2007, Erinn Clark wrote: - Stratification As a subset of the power structure thing, one of the other issues I foresee is a some developers are more equal than others thing happening. I'm having a hard time thinking of how to explain this, because it's a bit

Re: Developers vs Uploaders

2007-03-18 Thread Erinn Clark
* Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007:03:18 12:36 +0100]: On Sun, 18 Mar 2007, Erinn Clark wrote: - It's not obvious what problems it's meant to be solving Is it meant to be a stepping stone for NM? Prevent sponsor(ee) burnout and boredom? Is it meant to replace NM eventually?

Re: Developers vs Uploaders

2007-03-18 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Sun, 18 Mar 2007, Erinn Clark wrote: The problem is to allow more small-scale contributors. We have volunteers who would like to maintain only few specific packages and who don't want to go the burden to go through NM to be able to do that job. The skills required to maintain one

Looking for SoC mentor for apt-checkpoint project

2007-03-18 Thread Alexey Mikhailov
Hello! There's apt-checkpoint project listed at Debian Wiki: http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2007/AptCheckpoint But there's no mentor listed as well. I'm interested in this project and i wrote draft version of my application. Maybe someone can be mentor for this project and discuss this

Soc 2007: Debian CD Tester

2007-03-18 Thread Richard Hirner
Hi, I am interested in taking part of the Google Summer of Code 2007 and would like to have some more information about what would be to do for the Debian CD Tester. Can you give me some more details about this? I thought it could be made as a console app in PERL with several functions that do

Re: Soc 2007: Debian CD Tester

2007-03-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 05:29:39PM +0100, Richard Hirner wrote: Hi, Hi Richard, I am interested in taking part of the Google Summer of Code 2007 and would like to have some more information about what would be to do for the Debian CD Tester. Can you give me some more details about this? There's

Re: Testing kernel version

2007-03-18 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 10:22:59PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Note that the nvidia drivers don't seem to compile with = 2.6.19, due to linux/config.h being renamed to linux/autoconf.h (I think). The direct usage of linux/config.h is discuraged since .12 or so. Bastian -- Insufficient facts

Re: Developers vs Uploaders

2007-03-18 Thread Joey Hess
Erinn Clark wrote: - Stratification As a subset of the power structure thing, one of the other issues I foresee is a some developers are more equal than others thing happening. I'm having a hard time thinking of how to explain this, because it's a bit télétubby, as Joss would say,

Re: Soc 2007: Debian CD Tester

2007-03-18 Thread Richard Hirner
Hello, On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 17:12:51 + Steve McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there anything in particular you're looking for more info about? Although the Wiki page gives a clear overview, I think we would need a more exact specification of what the program has to do. But I think these

Re: Soc 2007: Debian CD Tester

2007-03-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 09:56:53PM +0100, Richard Hirner wrote: Hello, On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 17:12:51 + Steve McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there anything in particular you're looking for more info about? Although the Wiki page gives a clear overview, I think we would need a more