Re: Fresh "academic paper" with "Debian affiliation"

2012-07-02 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
On Mon, 02 Jul 2012, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Note that recently the -www team has started uniforming things on that > front, at least for what concerns our web presence. Given that "Debian > GNU/Linux" is not necessarily correct anymore (we have several kernels…, > the choice, AFAIU, is to use

Re: Fresh "academic paper" with "Debian affiliation"

2012-07-02 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 09:22:36PM -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > The discussion on what Debian is (Debian Linux, Debian GNU/Linux, > Debian OS, etc) comes back from time to time, but imho it is > irrelevant here Note that recently the -www team has started uniforming things on that front, at

Re: Hijacking packages for fun and profit

2012-07-02 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 05:52:54PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Based on some of the *heated* discussions that have happened on the > lists recently, I've organised a DebConf BoF session so we can > (hopefully) have a productive session on the topic of package > maintenance and how to hand over /

Re: Fresh "academic paper" with "Debian affiliation"

2012-07-02 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
On Sat, 30 Jun 2012, Charles Plessy wrote: > > This might be the first academic paper where any DD had listed Debian > > project among affiliations. > Actually not :) > http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/11/S12/S5 > Community-driven computational biology with Debian Linux > >...< > 2 Debian L

Re: Hijacking packages for fun and profit

2012-07-02 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Montag, 2. Juli 2012, Gergely Nagy wrote: > Will there be a video feed of this? I'd love to hear it at least (and > perhaps participate via IRC or something, if someone's willing to > proxy). everything scheduled (more than 24h in advance) during DebConf in the two main talkrooms shall be

Re: Debian 7

2012-07-02 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 11:33:45AM -0600, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 11:19 PM, Nik K wrote: > > I'm fed up with Ubuntu and it can go and fuck itself. > > I think this way of thinking is not helpful to anyone, neither you, > me, Debian or Ubuntu. Ubuntu, like Debian or any other proj

Re: RFC - Changing current policy of debian.net entries

2012-07-02 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 10:25:54AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 06:18:15PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > I don't think that's the best way forward. > > > I see three common uses of the debian.net namespace: > > - As a testing playground for services which intend to ev

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf travel sponsorship (was: Re: Budget status - travel sponsorship)

2012-07-02 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 05:04:18PM -0400, Richard Darst wrote: > On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 05:45:53PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 03:35:20AM -0400, Richard Darst wrote: > > > [debconf-surplus] For readers of -project, here's what this means: > > > Sponsors slowly pledge

Re: Hijacking packages for fun and profit

2012-07-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 07:37:21PM +0200, Gergely Nagy wrote: >Steve McIntyre writes: > >> Hi folks, >> >> Based on some of the *heated* discussions that have happened on the >> lists recently, I've organised a DebConf BoF session so we can >> (hopefully) have a productive session on the topic of

Re: Hijacking packages for fun and profit

2012-07-02 Thread Gergely Nagy
Steve McIntyre writes: > Hi folks, > > Based on some of the *heated* discussions that have happened on the > lists recently, I've organised a DebConf BoF session so we can > (hopefully) have a productive session on the topic of package > maintenance and how to hand over / take over packages. > >

Re: Debian 7

2012-07-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 11:19 PM, Nik K wrote: > Debian 5 was awesome. It could be used out of the box. Debian 6 seems like > an alpha. You can't do anything out of the box. I couldn't even install > anything because there was no where obvious to do so, and I'm not going to > hunt around for someth

Bug#679956: please document the debian.net namespace and its entries

2012-07-02 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Package: www.debian.org Severity: wishlist [ full quote of the -project post at https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2012/06/msg00159.html for the bug report records ] On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 02:22:00AM +0100, Stuart Prescott wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > St

Hijacking packages for fun and profit

2012-07-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hi folks, Based on some of the *heated* discussions that have happened on the lists recently, I've organised a DebConf BoF session so we can (hopefully) have a productive session on the topic of package maintenance and how to hand over / take over packages. https://penta.debconf.org/penta/sched

Re: More feedback

2012-07-02 Thread MJ Ray
Nik K > Also, please make Debian 7 like Debian 5 in the way where there is a > network-manager applet. Well, there's at least two: network-manager and wicd. Documentation for those two is in the usual places (Help Viewer, man at the command line, and so on). Documentation for how to configure