Re: Don`t upgrade pip

2023-10-18 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
reason to upload it to pypi or other platforms. Also the bug you've linked clearly states that Debian and other distributions can name their packages as they like to -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.

Re: Abusive language on Debian lists

2021-04-11 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
you might be able to join form whereever you are at that moment :) -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F

Re: Tone policing by a member of the community team [Was, Re: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board]

2021-04-11 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
u don't know (and actually I don't want to know) whats going on in the brain of some people. Debian is a large project that attracts people from all over the world, so there will be always people with opinions and backgrounds that we personally don't want to support. -- Bernd Zeimetz

Re: Tone policing by a member of the community team [Was, Re: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board]

2021-04-10 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
the best distribution instead. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F

Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian

2020-04-09 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
e a DD would be an extra bonus. Bernd -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F

Re: Do we still value contributions?

2019-12-26 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
like a very good idea to me, if it helps the ftp team to be faster. At the same time we'll get hints to license violations from our upstreams... -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Finge

Re: Some thoughts about Diversity and the CoC

2019-12-13 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ds, but it's not reasonable to hold them to superhuman standards. No, either we have a CoC or not. If it goes so much against your believes, humanity or whatever else, that you can't answer in a sane language, ask somebody else to answer in your name. Especially when you are in a team that wants to k

Re: Debian and Non-Free Services

2019-10-09 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
posed to do or not. Git is like your favorite car. You can buy one from VW with maybe-broken-software, it will serve you well until it dies. Or you can build your own "free" car, it will serve you well until it dies. Would you like it that various people tell you not to drive

Re: Debian and Non-Free Services

2019-10-09 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
o sane things. Brend -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F

Re: GR proposal: mandating VcsGit and VcsBrowser for all packages, using the "gbp patches unapplied" layout, and maybe also mandating hosted on Salsa

2019-09-24 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
nts > and similar stuff. As I see it, the next BSP will happen in a month in > Vaumarcus... and ack... There are way more important things to do than to discuss the place of git repositories. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de

Re: GR proposal: mandating VcsGit and VcsBrowser for all packages, using the "gbp patches unapplied" layout, and maybe also mandating hosted on Salsa

2019-09-24 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Bernd -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F

Re: GR proposal: mandating VcsGit and VcsBrowser for all packages, using the "gbp patches unapplied" layout, and maybe also mandating hosted on Salsa

2019-09-23 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
gt; (for example) to add some kind of CI/CD for all packages. > > Cheers, > > Thomas Goirand (zigo) > -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F

Re: Debian and Non-Free Services

2019-09-16 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
at? I think this entire thread is nothing more > than a stalking horse for Ian's crusade to get everyone to use dgit and we > should just move on. Absolutely. Nobody should be forced to use a tool - or not. Also if you want to send a pull request and don't want to use gi

Re: Proposal: mediators

2019-01-08 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
is not involved in Debian politics at all. A view that is not biased at all makes much more sense, especially when people in the project do not like the outcome... Thanks, Bernd -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp

Re: On having and using a Code of Conduct

2019-01-04 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ke a self-made police than a team that you trust to mediate an issue. In my opinion, all kinds of decisions should be done by a team that has the delegation to do them - DAM. Nobody else. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http:

Re: Censorship in Debian

2018-12-23 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
to do so. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F

Re: more official Debian cloud images (Re: Debian Project News - January 1, 2016)

2016-01-03 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
s, it should be possible to find a way. - -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Versi

Re: Announcing GNU ethical criteria for code repositories

2015-11-27 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
es not need to be, we should not force them. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F

Re: hosted project management tools

2015-10-21 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
r login/account requirements, though. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F

Re: hosted project management tools

2015-10-21 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
the things I actually want to create. no, sorry. but its rather easy to install. php and a database and you are done. authentication in integration into other tools is a different thing, though. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer ht

Re: [Proposal] GR: Selecting the default init system for Debian

2014-01-27 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, On 01/27/2014 08:39 PM, Guillem Jover wrote: This is the revised draft GR proposal (please see below); I'm looking for sponsors now. please stop wasting people's time and let the TC do their work instead. Thanks. - -- Bernd Zeimetz

Re: Google contacting (harassing?) new DDs

2014-01-17 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
your mind, and if you don't reply they obviously try to contact you again. That's also my experience. Works fine for me. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432

Re: DebConf travel sponsorship

2012-07-05 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
to attend without being sponsored are not able to come at all because they can't pay that sum in advance. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95

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

2012-06-25 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
distribute non-distributable stuff when people upload buggy packages. So there is no real way to run this as official Debian service imho. [...] -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG

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

2012-06-25 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 06/25/2012 05:39 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 05:01:11PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: mentors is a special case here as it might distribute non-distributable stuff when people upload buggy packages. So there is no real way to run this as official Debian service imho

Re: Debian page at Google+

2011-11-08 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
. Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprints: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Request: Hires version of debian-women logotype

2011-05-12 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
+download The first result points to a list of logos by MiriamRuiz, which includes the women logo, too. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprints: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A

Re: etherpad clone on debian.net

2010-10-10 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
remember right that was the reason why I did not install Etherpad here). -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: DebianGIS - Mapping of Debian on #Planet #Earth. #People, #Developers, #Computers, #News, #Events, etc. http://gis.debianart.org

2010-09-24 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
db.debian.org should not be published. Otherwise I really like the idea! Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F

Re: DebianGIS - Mapping of Debian on #Planet #Earth. #People, #Developers, #Computers, #News, #Events, etc. http://gis.debianart.org

2010-09-24 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
for a more complete profile. Good idea! Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: DEP-5: Ack section

2010-08-31 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
on this specification over the years. +The following alphabetical list is incomplete, +please suggest missing people: +Russ Allbery, +Ben Finney, +Sam Hocevar, +Steve Langasek, +Charles Plessy, +Noah Slater, + Larz Wirzenius Don't forgot yourself! :) -- Bernd Zeimetz

Re: DEP-5 meta: New co-driver; current issues

2010-08-13 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
, but with the following exceptions - and then add a field which takes a longish text with the exceptions. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93

Re: DEP-5 meta: New co-driver; current issues

2010-08-12 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
automatically, even if it means that we need to spend time to write tools to do so (yes, I know this is not an easy task). So my opinion in short words: DEP-5 is a nice idea, but too far away from reality. Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer

Re: DEP-5 meta: New co-driver; current issues

2010-08-12 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 08/12/2010 03:27 PM, Lars Wirzenius wrote: On to, 2010-08-12 at 14:59 +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: On 08/12/2010 02:45 PM, Lars Wirzenius wrote: It would be good to have DEP-5 done quite early in the squeeze+1 development cycle to give as much time as possible for adoption. A few

Re: buildd/porter/maintainer roles again

2010-07-12 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
care for the architechture they are buildd maintaining for should try hard handing over that responsibility to someone who does care for the arch. Or they should work closely with the porters to notify them about build logs which smell like issues porters should look into. -- Bernd Zeimetz

Re: Problems with NM Front Desk

2010-07-06 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
the situation *OR* to get the OK from the maintainer. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432

Re: On terminology

2010-07-05 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
. Also Debian Developers are able to upload stuff, therefore uploaders. No no, that just doesn't fit :) -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93

Re: On terminology

2010-07-05 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
of starting over and over again. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9

Re: Linux in Canada, might severely affect all free software projects

2010-07-03 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
people should not fight against such a stupid law. Instead they should spend their time to fight against DRM and any kind of lock which cripples today's medias. Kind regards, --Toni++ -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de

Re: On terminology

2010-07-02 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
enough) -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F

Re: debian-private declassification team (looking for one)

2010-07-01 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
any work on this, a (good) release is much more important than bringing the muddy fights of debian-private to the public. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD

Re: Support timeframe

2010-06-25 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
is a community effort mostly - you can get a release quicker or longer security support for a release, if you pay somebody to do so. There are several companies and consultants who employ/are Debian developers and would be willing to do such a job. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU

Re: Squeeze, firmware and installation

2010-05-14 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 05/12/2010 09:41 PM, Martin Schulze wrote: Bernd Zeimetz wrote: On 05/12/2010 04:27 PM, Martin Schulze wrote: I would like us to provide non-free firmware blobs that may be required during installation in tarballs that can be downloaded or - Downloading is exactly the problem. A lot

Re: Squeeze, firmware and installation

2010-05-14 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 05/13/2010 04:18 AM, Paul Wise wrote: On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 7:04 PM, Bernd Zeimetz be...@bzed.de wrote: Using only 'free' software might make them happier, but the first thing people look for is less pain in the ass while installing and maintaining a system. We are not in a perfect

Re: Squeeze, firmware and installation

2010-05-12 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
at the download statistics and see, if we want to continue that... +1 from me! -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79

Re: Squeeze, firmware and installation

2010-05-12 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
network hardware (like the Broadcom Netextreme) requires non-free firmware. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79

Re: Squeeze, firmware and installation

2010-05-09 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 05/06/2010 07:22 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 11:26:55PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: I can't see a reason why we should not be able to ship cd-images in non-free. What do you exactly mean by that? I can imagine at least two different interpretations of it: 1

Re: Squeeze, firmware and installation

2010-05-09 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
image. Right. It works, but it is an annoying extra step to do. And I had more than one customer asking me why Debian is forcing them to do such an extra step and why they should not just use Ubuntu. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de

Re: Squeeze, firmware and installation

2010-05-05 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
to ship cd-images in non-free. If debian does not do so officially, I might provide them somewhere. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04

Re: Debian money

2009-09-17 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
, you could add another one...I know). -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project

Re: Debian money

2009-09-16 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
is a completely different question. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ

Re: routing loop to kernel archives

2009-08-31 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
domain, you should contact the owner of the domain. If you have problems with an official Debian mirror or any other machine with a .debian.org address, please let us know. Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD

Re: Switching the default startup method

2009-08-27 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Russ Allbery wrote: Bernd Zeimetz be...@bzed.de writes: - it was never properly discussed and accepted before. If we switch to a dependency based boot system, why to this mess from SuSE called insserv? There was a *ton* of discussion of insserv across multiple mailing lists over a period

Re: Switching the default startup method

2009-08-27 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
anything missing in file-rc, it just works well. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Switching the default startup method

2009-08-24 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
is removed, and since it is now pseudo-essential that should never happen, IOW: IMO they are not grave (I do agree that they should be addressed, though). Wrong. People who want to switch away from sys-rc/insserv need to be able to remove it. It is grave. -- Bernd Zeimetz

Re: Switching the default startup method

2009-08-24 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
are the superior design here as they just work without any magic. One of the reasons I migrated away from SuSE long time ago was the mess called insserv... -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79

Re: Switching the default startup method

2009-08-24 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
confidence that they will be addressed. But I think insserv doesn't permit removal is the least important of these. Wrong. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 ECA1 E3F2

Re: Switching the default startup method

2009-08-24 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
, but | rather a very grave bug. Downgrades have never been officially supported, though. Isn't this approximately the same thing? We're not talking about a downgrade here, but about removing a package. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprints

Re: Switching the default startup method

2009-08-24 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
… Did anybody check if upstart and runit still work with insserv? -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Switching the default startup method

2009-08-24 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: No, decimal numbers are the superior design here as they just work without any magic. One of the reasons I migrated away from SuSE long time ago was the mess called insserv... There are reports of init script not working

Re: On cadence and collaboration

2009-08-08 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Michael Banck wrote: On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 10:55:36AM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 10:38:56 +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: How does Ubuntu want to do a proper (commercial) support for their packages if they don't even have the time/manpower to take care of their bugs

Re: On cadence and collaboration

2009-08-08 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
it would. That happens already. See the Python 2.6 migration for a lot of bad examples... -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9

Re: On cadence and collaboration

2009-08-08 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Luk Claes wrote: Bernd Zeimetz wrote: Sandro Tosi wrote: what can happen is that he prepare a rough solution, sent to debian in a sense hey, take it, I've done my work, it's an ugly hack but I have no time to prepare an elegant solution; Now I got to go, I have another 1000 things to do

The Python mess in Debian (was: Re: On cadence and collaboration)

2009-08-08 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: The Python mess in Debian

2009-08-08 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
point me to an example? The only problem I see is that it starts to become complicated as soon as you want to run a daemon, as the .pyc files are not compiled yet when the daemon is started. Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprints

Re: The Python mess in Debian

2009-08-08 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
if that will bring things forward. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ

Re: On cadence and collaboration

2009-08-07 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
the time/manpower to take care of their bugs? Taking care of bugs is something that should be done properly in every distribution. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 ECA1 E3F2

Re: On cadence and collaboration

2009-08-07 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
the freeze. There is nothing bad with a fixed freeze date. Just with the way it was planned for December. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36

Re: On syncing freeze dates with other distributions

2009-08-05 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
. Unfortunately various Ubuntu-related things had imho a pretty bad influence on Debian (I'm saving the time to repeat them here, there are enough mails from various people from the last days stating the problems), so it is not easy to convince me. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian

Re: Opera in your repos

2009-08-05 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
at their devices - by this case we still can't to be a real free Software. It would be *really* amazing if Opera would become free software. The browser is really awesome, but as it is not open-source software, I rarely use it. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-08-04 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Mark Brown wrote: On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 04:13:03PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: I rarely hear anything positive from Ubuntu, except that more and more people who are active in Ubuntu realized that it is much better to do things in Debian directly. IME the quality of interaction from

Re: On syncing freeze dates with other distributions

2009-08-04 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
to have a look what they're doing. At the end this will help Ubuntu, too - if they manage to change their freeze time to an appropriate date similar to the one of Debian. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-08-03 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
! :-) -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-08-03 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
in Ubuntu realized that it is much better to do things in Debian directly. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-08-03 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
: Aligning our releases with RHEL rather than with Ubuntu seems more worthwhile to me. They have similar stabilisation lengths as we did for previous releases and they're investing a lot of work into the kernel, from which we could profit immensely. Ack. Or at least Fedora. -- Bernd Zeimetz

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-08-03 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
things much much later than Ubuntu. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ

Re: Introducing http://news.debian.net

2009-08-03 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Ana Guerrero wrote: I have setup http://news.debian.net/ where I intend to publish and link [...] Hope you like it. The idea is really good in general, but I - and probably a lot of other developers - would have preferred if you'd be using ikiwiki and a public git on alioth. -- Bernd

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
bugs for free. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
then... or to start a GR. Not sure what is better for my nerves. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
an appropriate date. Of course its not easy to find a date which makes all teams completely happy, but the release team should try to do so at least. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Steve Langasek wrote: On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 01:36:16PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: count me in. me too. Obviously we need to force the release team to talk with the important teams in Debian. If i'd have to come up with a GR it would probably sound like While we appreciate the plan

Re: debian developers from *any* country ?

2009-07-28 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
at the embassies - I guess it would make sense to give them a chance to meet for keysigning, too. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A

Re: Re-thinking Debian membership - take #1: inactivity

2009-07-25 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
things. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Re-thinking Debian membership - take #1: inactivity

2009-07-25 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Cyril Brulebois wrote: Bernd Zeimetz be...@bzed.de (26/07/2009): See above. Also: There're a lot of teams where outsiders can help and earn trust without being able to break things. Do you mean people like Simon Paillard? With contributions in l10n, i18n, www, and mirror domains? Yes

Re: Re-thinking Debian membership - take #1: inactivity

2009-07-24 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Re-thinking Debian membership - take #1: inactivity

2009-07-24 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Steve Langasek wrote: On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 11:52:11PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: But I know that there are/will be DDs which do infrastructure stuff only, and rarely upload packages. Such DDs should never be regarded as MIA, of course. I am not convinced of this. Infrastructure

Re: Re-thinking Debian membership - take #1: inactivity

2009-07-23 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
probably. But voting is a good thing to look at, definitely. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Re-thinking Debian membership - take #1: inactivity

2009-07-23 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Lucas Nussbaum wrote: On 23/07/09 at 10:52 +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: * DDs which are not active for 2 years or more automatically loose vote and upload rights. * Activity is defined

Re: DAM and NEW queues processing

2009-07-21 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
(though that's more of a theoretical concern than a practical one). There are templates for doc writers, and it should not be too hard to work out something for translators. I can't see a problem here. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprints

Re: ia32-libs{-tools}, multiarch, squeeze

2009-07-05 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
apt completely while removing the ia32 packages is not nice. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

New Debian Developers

2009-06-30 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
to send them automatically soon. - -- Debian New Maintainer Frontdesk Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprint: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG

Re: DAM and NEW queues processing

2009-06-28 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Stephen Gran wrote: This one time, at band camp, Bernd Zeimetz said: Don Armstrong wrote: On Wed, 24 Jun 2009, Steve Langasek wrote: Ok - then I guess my problem is that the list of names included in these is so non-notable (and is empty most weeks anyway...) that it doesn't register at all

Re: DAM and NEW queues processing

2009-06-28 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
it failed again. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: DAM and NEW queues processing

2009-06-26 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
wrong there. Once I'm finished to clean up those candidates which are assigned to their AM since years and went away, I'll start to keep an eye on the length of the process. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93

Re: DAM and NEW queues processing

2009-06-26 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: Ahh... the old dear bureaucracy! It is not my task, so go away and never come back ;-) Is it so difficult that a cronjob will call two scripts and merge the results in a single mail? yes. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux

Re: DAM and NEW queues processing

2009-06-26 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
the things a DD needs to know is a slow but steady one. Your AM is happy with that, so I can't see a problem here. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485

Re: DAM and NEW queues processing

2009-06-25 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Mike Hommey wrote: On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 01:32:14AM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: Don Armstrong wrote: On Wed, 24 Jun 2009, Steve Langasek wrote: Ok - then I guess my problem is that the list of names included in these is so non-notable (and is empty most weeks anyway...) that it doesn't

Re: DAM and NEW queues processing

2009-06-24 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
if somebody with spare time could write a cronjob which compares the account names in the NM database with the output of getent and set the account created field I didn't find the time for it yet... Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG

Re: DAM queues processing

2009-06-24 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
... -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: DAM and NEW queues processing

2009-06-24 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
for that mail, after all, the AM should know the applicant enough to be able to write that up, right? No need for that. Read debian-newmaint for a summary if you're interested, that's why the AM report is posted there. Definitely I'm not going to ask our AMs to do such additional work. -- Bernd

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