Re: DEP-5: general file syntax

2010-08-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Charles Plessy writes: > I have another comment on details of the DEP's syntax, about the order > of paragraphs. Policy's §5.1 does not specify that the order or > paragraphs is important, while this is a crucial information in > DEP-5. If this is not an omission in §5.1, I recommend that this >

Re: DEP-5: general file syntax

2010-08-20 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 02:30:40AM +0200, gregor herrmann a écrit : > On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:05:23 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > > That also lets the rule with License be consistent with the rule for other > > fields, by requiring two leading spaces for any literal text. It also > > means that w

Re: DEP-5: general file syntax

2010-08-20 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:05:23 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > That also lets the rule with License be consistent with the rule for other > fields, by requiring two leading spaces for any literal text. It also > means that we would be using essentially the same formatting conventions > as Description

Re: DEP-5: general file syntax

2010-08-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Lars Wirzenius writes: > * We refer to Policy 5.1 by section number, section title, and URL. I > don't think the policy version is necessary: if they make incompatible > changes, then all Debian control files will potentially break, and DEP-5 > copyright files are no exception. Including the 5.1

Re: [DEP5] [patch] Renaming the ‘Maintainer’ field ‘Contact’

2010-08-20 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 10:26:20AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 6:23 AM, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > I therefore intend to keep the fields in the spec, unless there's a wave > > of opposition. I hope that this is acceptable. (The volume of DEP-5 > > discussion dropped to low en

Re: Upstream guide and front desk

2010-08-20 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On pe, 2010-08-20 at 14:55 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Now, I've no idea if the above would be appropriate for the upstream > front desk or not. I leave it up to you to decide whether it's worth > trying or not. I think a debian-upstre...@lists.debian.org mailing list, open to everyone and

Re: Debian Facilitators

2010-08-20 Thread Russ Allbery
John Goerzen writes: > On 08/16/2010 08:30 PM, Stephen Frost wrote: >> In particular, developing a code of conduct/community guideline that >> encourages use of a facilitator to resolve conflicts, with a goal to >> avoid needing to escalate to anything beyond that. One of the issues >> that came

Re: Debian Facilitators

2010-08-20 Thread John Goerzen
On 08/16/2010 08:30 PM, Stephen Frost wrote: In particular, developing a code of conduct/community guideline that encourages use of a facilitator to resolve conflicts, with a goal to avoid needing to escalate to anything beyond that. One of the issues that came up at DebConf, and is discussed in

Re: Upstream guide and front desk

2010-08-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 01:17:12PM +1200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > I gave a talk[0] at Debconf10 about my experiences switching from > being a Debian developer to being an upstream developer. > > As part of that talk I suggested two things: Thanks for reporting on -project about that very nice tal

Re: Debian Facilitators

2010-08-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 07:15:04PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > As discussed at DebConf, I'd like to renew the general idea of having > a group of individuals who are available to help groups in Debian (and > even outside, when they're communicating with Debian groups) > communicate more e

Re: [DEP5] [patch] Renaming the ‘Maintainer’ field ‘Contact’

2010-08-20 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 10:26:20AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 6:23 AM, Lars Wirzenius wrote: I therefore intend to keep the fields in the spec, unless there's a wave of opposition. I hope that this is acceptable. (The volume of DEP-5 discussion dropped to low enough that i