Re: Upstream guide and front desk

2010-09-01 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Aug 23, 2010, at 17:01, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: Hi! Am 15.08.2010 18:08, schrieb Lars Wirzenius: That sounds like a good idea. As long as I would not be alone, I would be willing to join such a list and answer questions from our upstreams. That's two of us. Anyone else

Re: Debian Project mourns the loss of Frans Pop

2010-09-01 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Hi! * Debian Project pr...@debian.org [100831 15:46]: The Debian Projecthttp://www.debian.org/ Debian Project mourns the loss of Frans Pop pr...@debian.org August 31st, 2010

Re: Upstream guide and front desk

2010-09-01 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mi, 01 sep 10, 11:41:34, Jeremiah Foster wrote: On Aug 23, 2010, at 17:01, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: Hi! Am 15.08.2010 18:08, schrieb Lars Wirzenius: That sounds like a good idea. As long as I would not be alone, I would be willing to join such a list and answer

Re: Debian FTPMaster Meeting, September

2010-09-01 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 03:57:00PM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: - dak policy That is, a command so $whoever_DD can do policy work on a suite, which is otherwise run by ftpmaster. Examples: backports.org, volatile, possibly p-u. The teams of that define which packages go in those

Improving coordination / support for upstreams

2010-09-01 Thread CJ Fearnley
It is very gratifying to me (an active DD from 1995-1998) to see that Debian is doing a much better job supporting its developers than in the past. I want to thank Margarita Manterola, Maximiliano Curia, Valessio Brito, and Raphael Geissert for their Debian Appreciation Day[0]. I want to thank

Re: Debian FTPMaster Meeting, September

2010-09-01 Thread Joerg Jaspert
- dak policy That is, a command so $whoever_DD can do policy work on a suite, which is otherwise run by ftpmaster. Examples: backports.org, volatile, possibly p-u. The teams of that define which packages go in those suites, while ftpmaster runs the suite (and has the usual

Re: Debian FTPMaster Meeting, September

2010-09-01 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 09:59:46PM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: - dak policy That is, a command so $whoever_DD can do policy work on a suite, which is otherwise run by ftpmaster. Examples: backports.org, volatile, possibly p-u. The teams of that define which packages go in

Re: Upstream guide and front desk

2010-09-01 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On ke, 2010-09-01 at 19:27 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: Unless you consider it's necessary to be a DD for this I could join as well. After all, I spend *a lot* of time reading Debian mailing lists and I have become familiar with a lot of processes. It's time I put this to some good use :-)