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 l...@liw.fi 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

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

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 talk

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

Re: Debian Facilitators

2010-08-20 Thread Russ Allbery
John Goerzen jgoer...@complete.org 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

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: [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 l...@liw.fi 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

Re: DEP-5: general file syntax

2010-08-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Lars Wirzenius l...@liw.fi 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

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 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 we would

Re: DEP-5: general file syntax

2010-08-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org 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