Re: cross-distro work on App Store/Software Center - looking for volunteers

2010-12-23 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
[ M-F-T to lea...@d.o for volunteering ] I've received more details about this. There are now on board people from Fedora, openSUSE, Ubuntu, Mageia. The plan is to have a 2-3 days face to face meeting in Nürnberg (Germany) during the 3rd week of January 2011. Later on discussions will be moved to

Re: DEP5: reasons for not pushing Bazaar changes to Subversion

2010-12-23 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 06:23:10PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: In my opinion, DEP5 is a work in progress, and as such discouraged for general consumption. This is indicated my its status as DRAFT. I concur. If only for this specific process then I agree it is of little value. What

Re: DEP5: reasons for not pushing Bazaar changes to Subversion

2010-12-23 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 09:55:59AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit : Half-baked versions of the format, not really controlled by anyone, have been floating around for a long while. Dear Stefano and everybody, In a first development phase, the wiki was used, the contents were

dep5, whats the status? Re: DEP5: reasons for not pushing Bazaar changes to Subversion

2010-12-23 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, for those who are just marking mails in this thread as read... ;-) On Donnerstag, 23. Dezember 2010, Charles Plessy wrote: Using revision 135 of the DEP from svn.debian.org is a waste of time, for the people who would like to write a copyright file, or for the peopole who would like to

Re: DEP5: reasons for not pushing Bazaar changes to Subversion

2010-12-23 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On to, 2010-12-23 at 09:55 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: So, let's get back to the basic principles at stake. The point hardly is Bzr vs SVN; rather it seems to be whether the working draft of a DEP should be constantly updated and trivially accessible, for instance on the web at the

Re: dep5, whats the status? Re: DEP5: reasons for not pushing Bazaar changes to Subversion

2010-12-23 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On to, 2010-12-23 at 12:34 +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi, for those who are just marking mails in this thread as read... ;-) On Donnerstag, 23. Dezember 2010, Charles Plessy wrote: Using revision 135 of the DEP from svn.debian.org is a waste of time, for the people who would like to

Re: dep5, whats the status? Re: DEP5: reasons for not pushing Bazaar changes to Subversion

2010-12-23 Thread Holger Levsen
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Re: dep5, whats the status?

2010-12-23 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 11:51:59 +, Lars Wirzenius wrote: Those who already use some revision, such as pkg-perl, should stick to what they are using now. Agreed, and the fact that r135 in svn hasn't changed for some time (and the development happened somewhere else) was actually helpful for

Re: dep5, whats the status? Re: DEP5: reasons for not pushing Bazaar changes to Subversion

2010-12-23 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Thursday 23 December 2010 12:51:59 Lars Wirzenius wrote: I, personally, think it would be better to wait for the first version of DEP5 that is marked CANDIDATE, which I intend to announce on debian-devel-announce. Hopefully that will happen quite soon. Those who already use some revision,

Re: DEP5: reasons for not pushing Bazaar changes to Subversion

2010-12-23 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 08:20:26PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 09:55:59AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit : Half-baked versions of the format, not really controlled by anyone, have been floating around for a long while. Dear Stefano and everybody, In a first

Re: DEP5: reasons for not pushing Bazaar changes to Subversion

2010-12-23 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 03:36:11PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: I honestly have had a hard time following the discussion here on the mailinglist due to not easily being able to see our whiteboard of the progressing draft. If everyone else involved (in _developing_ the DEP - use of it is not