Re: NM process, AMs, advocates, mentors and applicants

2007-11-20 Thread Craig Small
ee with that sentiment. I have been an AM and still are a mentor, but never both at the same time. A mentor to me is more of a guide, the AM is more of a gatekeeper. - Craig -- Craig Small GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 http://www.enc.com.au/

Re: Debian Logo Use

2008-04-14 Thread Craig Small
negative press goes away. I would say using your own will mean not buying into a lot of headaches later on. Good luck on your project, anyone who can get more people using Free Software in general and Debian (derivative or not) is a good thing in my opinion. - Craig -

Re: $RANDOM_GMAIL_USER wants to chat

2008-04-24 Thread Craig Small
ds. Thanks anyway, I've got an inkling how hard that job is and we only notice when you haven't fixed it (yet). - Craig -- Craig Small GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 http://www.enc.com.au/ csmall at : enc.com.au http://www.debian

Re: debian/copyright for files not part of the binary packages?

2008-07-20 Thread Craig Small
ocumenting > the license of all the upstream files is the most time-consuming part > of *writing the copyright file*, without any statement of relation to > the whole effort of making the Debian package. I actually agree with Charles, it can be the most time consuming part of the whole

Re: packages

2009-01-14 Thread Craig Small
t easy photo sharing with Windows Live? Photos. > http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/photos.aspx -- Craig Small GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 http://www.enc.com.au/ csmall at : enc.com.au http://www.debian.org/ Debian GNU

Re: A Tattoo

2009-02-13 Thread Craig Small
oster emailled me I was surprised. Thanks for the links, I see what you mean. They both look good. - Craig (too old and too chicken for tattoos) -- Craig Small GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 http://www.enc.com.au/ csmall at : e

Re: Debian on E-Bay (way: selling distributions)

2009-07-26 Thread Craig Small
on 100s? 1000s? of ftp and webservers around the world, the answer was no. - Craig -- Craig Small GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 http://www.enc.com.au/ csmall at : enc.com.au http://www.debian.org/ Debian GNU/Linux, softwar

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

2010-07-01 Thread Craig Small
ld release Squeeze first before doing any work on > this, a (good) release is much more important than bringing the muddy fights > of I'm working on some of the infrastructure. It's not actually detracting from my Debian work. In fact even post-processing I imagine the emails won't

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

2010-08-12 Thread Craig Small
a little? Just because you can specify the license, year and authors to the n'th degree doesn't mean you should. - Craig -- Craig Small GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 http://www.enc.com.au/ csmall at : enc.com.au http://www.debia

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

2010-08-12 Thread Craig Small
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 12:09:44PM +1200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > On pe, 2010-08-13 at 09:08 +1000, Craig Small wrote: > That would indicate there is a bug in the DEP-5 spec. It is, in my very > non-humble opinion, not acceptable for DEP-5 to make it harder to > maintain debian/copyri

Re: DEP-5: clarify batching of copyrights, licenses in a single stanza

2010-08-14 Thread Craig Small
n had comments about the documents that start of with me initially thinking "what are they smoking" to "i see how they get that" to "it reads like that to me, Ill change it" after some time. If this does make it in, someone should write a file checking program to check

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

2010-08-14 Thread Craig Small
Jonas stated, you can do that with the "exceptions" bit. The DEP needs a little formatting to me because it's difficult to describe to you (or anyone else) which bit I'm talking about. - Craig -- Craig Small GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB

Re: DEP-5: clarify batching of copyrights, licenses in a single stanza

2010-08-14 Thread Craig Small
> be gathered together. For example, if file A has: I like the "collected" part and the example. If Russ' patch (or something close to it) was in DEP-5 then it is clear to me at least the intention of what you are trying to do here. - Craig -- Craig Small GnuPG:1C1B D89

Re: [DEP-5] [patch] License table: more links and licenses.

2010-08-14 Thread Craig Small
/ The only catch being the short names are in the URL from what I can see. - Craig -- Craig Small GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 http://www.enc.com.au/ csmall at : enc.com.au http://www.debian.org/ Debian GNU/Linux, software s

Re: DEP-5: clarify batching of copyrights, licenses in a single stanza

2010-08-14 Thread Craig Small
On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 06:00:12PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 05:45:12PM +1000, Craig Small wrote: > >If this does make it in, someone should write a file checking > >program to check the globbing. returns > > > > Except that DEP5 only c

Re: DEP-5: general file syntax

2010-08-17 Thread Craig Small
rsers. That way anything that is supplementary can go there. It probably needs to be documented that nothing that places extra restrictions or conditions can go there though. - Craig -- Craig Small GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 http://www.enc.com.au/

Re: DEP-5: clarify batching of copyrights, licenses in a single stanza

2010-10-28 Thread Craig Small
cting part I hope is cleared up. Do something like grep -i copyright `find . -name '*.[ch]'` over a non trivial project, especially one that has been around for years and you get all sorts of wonderful combinations. The globbing Charles suggested adds Angela to 2008 and John to 2009, maybe. I

Re: No general political content on Planet

2010-11-05 Thread Craig Small
planet. NO to toxic debates; anywhere. I can't even find what would of caused such a problem on planet now. - Craig -- Craig Small GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 http://www.enc.com.au/ csmall at : enc.com.au http://www.debian.org/

Re: commercial spam on planet

2010-11-08 Thread Craig Small
writing Free Software, I've not really asked for anything. I'm quite happy with that. It doesn't mean I think everyone MUST be the same, so a little solicitation is ok. - Craig -- Craig Small GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 http://www.enc.com.au/

Re: DEP5: Extra fields without ‘X-’ prefix?

2010-11-22 Thread Craig Small
.../page-for-proposed-new-DEP5-fields > No ``X-'' prefix is required or desired in new field names. I think it is a good idea to check. It will hopefully reduce the chances of having lots of fields that mean the same thing, but have different names. - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ

Re: DEP5: License section

2010-12-20 Thread Craig Small
to trawl debian-project email archives to work out why we have GFDL and SPDX has FDL (for example). A reference somewhere stating the differences would be enough, perhaps not in DEP5 itself, but somewhere, such as the wiki. - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZhttp://www.enc.com.au/ csmall a

Re: DEP5: CANDIDATE and ready for use in squeeze+1

2011-01-19 Thread Craig Small
7;s the right place to put it too. It's like the bug reports I get regarding dh-make which really need to sit in policy regarding package building. I'm happy with the optional one. It's best not to have things locked in that are not in policy. - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZhtt

Re: Using corporate accounts when posting to Debian mailing lists

2011-05-11 Thread Craig Small
ian related work. It's just a lot easier that way. I largely agree with what Russ said except in my case I do use my own domain because corporates get funny about email use. I've also had my own domain (and worked on Debian) far longer than I've stayed in one place. - Craig

Re: Logo rights

2011-06-27 Thread Craig Small
hat sounds like you could use the 'open use' logo for that. - Craig > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists

Re: Bug#633797: copyright-format: "with exception" underspecified

2011-11-16 Thread Craig Small
a consensus for this position? FWIW I think it's a sensible solution to it. The cases where there is more than one exception are probably quite rare and are effectively their own license in any case. - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ http://enc.com.au/ csmall at : enc.com.au Debia

Re: copyright-format: "with exception" underspecified

2011-11-25 Thread Craig Small
rt name. wrt the other email I saw after this one; it's not policy yet and wasn't in policy for precisely last-minute-tweaking sort of reasons. - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ http://enc.com.au/ csmall at : enc.com.au Debian GNU/Linux http://www.debian.org/ csm

Re: DEP-5: Clarifying copyright/license requirements

2012-01-22 Thread Craig Small
one had to look and examine old code, other bugs were found. Similiarly, becaue DEP-5 means re-looking at the copyright and license situation, it might fix those sorts of bugs. This is actually a good thing! - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ http://enc.com.au/ csmall at : enc.com.au De

Re: trademark licenses and DFSG: a summary

2012-02-19 Thread Craig Small
ly acceptable trade-off. I completely agree with you that there will be problems with this stance but Debian is more than a technical group cranking out .deb files. - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ http://enc.com.au/ csmall at : enc.com.au Debian GNU/Linux http://www.debian.org/

Re: trademark licenses and DFSG: a summary

2012-02-20 Thread Craig Small
to do everything that a DFSG license would permit 2) It doesn't We accept 1 and not 2. A Debian-specific trademark fits in #2 so we cannot accept it and either don't package it or rename it. - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ http://enc.com.au/ csmall at : enc.com

Re: trademark licenses and DFSG: a summary

2012-02-21 Thread Craig Small
t is removing the package for a trademark it is renaming, maybe. Sentences like that are exactly why our proposed trademark policy should be what it is. - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ http://enc.com.au/ csmall at : enc.com.au Debian GNU/Linux http://www.debian.org/ csmall at : debia

Re: trademark licenses and DFSG: a summary

2012-02-21 Thread Craig Small
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 03:09:56PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > Craig Small writes: > > Now, the only difference is the fix. For a license it is removing the > > package for a trademark it is renaming, maybe. Sentences like that are > > exactly why our proposed trademark pol

Re: Diversity statement for the Debian Project

2012-03-26 Thread Craig Small
package you need to be able to look after a package) so as long as it doesn't say something otherwise that's fine too. - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ http://enc.com.au/ csmall at : enc.com.au Debian GNU/Linux http://www.debian.org/ csmall at : debian.org GPG finge

Re: revenue sharing agreement with DuckDuckGo

2012-03-27 Thread Craig Small
appy with this setup. It would be good to have some answers joeyh brings up about notification. - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ http://enc.com.au/ csmall at : enc.com.au Debian GNU/Linux http://www.debian.org/ csmall at : debian.org GPG fingerprint: 5D2F B320 B825 D939 04D2

Re: illegal logo

2012-04-22 Thread Craig Small
and the little dots are also in different spots and its a bit thicker. Is that "the same enough" I have no idea. > To avoid further confusion, maybe it'd be a good idea to change our > logo to something less silly. Sounds like its the rise of Captain Blue-Eye again! - Crai

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

2012-06-24 Thread Craig Small
hat site to reduce the confusion The "thing" that is banned/defined must be objective and must be around what could damage Debian, not what some people think is a waste of time. love.d.n is a perfect example, I liked it as did others, some probably did not; but in any case I don't

Re: mjg59's blog on planet.d.o

2012-10-30 Thread Craig Small
other stuff Debian people blog about" I'd say sure why not. I've done that in the past. As a general comment, I'm happy with the general collection of entries on planet.d.o Sure there might be the occasional one i don't agree with but it is a seriously low level of entri

Re: Developers per country (2013)

2013-08-10 Thread Craig Small
. I wonder what causes this. Thanks, I found it interesting in any case. - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ http://enc.com.au/ csmall at : enc.com.au Debian GNU/Linux http://www.debian.org/ csmall at : debian.org GPG fingerprint: 5D2F B320 B825 D939 04D2 0519 3938 F96B DF

Re: Proposed MBF - mentions of the word "Ubuntu"

2013-11-10 Thread Craig Small
27;t get the problem. You can see the different responses to both shows that too. Sigh, maybe "Icentu" time :) - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ http://enc.com.au/ csmall at : enc.com.au Debian GNU/Linux http://www.debian.org/ csmall at : debian.org GPG fingerprint: 5D

Re: Possibly moving Debian services to a CDN

2014-01-30 Thread Craig Small
n.org/ gives a big scary certificate warning. Interesting way they've stapled all the names together on the certificate too. I didn't know you could do that, but, you might like to tell them to fix that certificate. - Craig -- Craig Small (@smallsees) http://enc.com.au/ csmall at

Re: debian as unix

2014-02-23 Thread Craig Small
there are other parts of the standard that are completely awesome; I just don't read those parts. - Craig -- Craig Small (@smallsees) http://enc.com.au/ csmall at : enc.com.au Debian GNU/Linux http://www.debian.org/ csmall at : debian.org GPG fingerprint:5D2F B3

Re: Linux Magazine award

2000-07-03 Thread Craig Small
on our website; if > someone wants to do that please email me and I'll forward the > icon. I look after the awards page, please forward the icon/words/urls information to me. Thanks, - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net

Re: Google summer of code

2005-06-01 Thread Craig Small
Hello, I'm willing to assist in helping with the mentoring or admin for this if Debian Developers are required. Who is going to lead this? - Craig Please CC me as im not on -project. -- Craig Small GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting

NM website changes

2000-09-14 Thread Craig Small
hange also updates the applicant's table so the manager change changes over as well. * Website checks for nukll/blank maintainer before trying to email * them. -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.eye-net.com.au/

Re: A problem with identification

2000-09-19 Thread Craig Small
ps? You can skip this step. You do not have to do them in order. However you cannot recommend an applicant until the ID, P&P and T&S stages have been passed. - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.eye-net.com.au/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIEEE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian developer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Where to send NM reports?

2000-09-19 Thread Craig Small
e. The actual report itself are the same. - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.eye-net.com.au/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIEEE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian developer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: AM Report on Chris Rutter

2000-09-19 Thread Craig Small
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 10:42:52PM +0900, Fumitoshi UKAI wrote: > Does anyone else see my pgp signature was bad? Couldn't resist. ME TOO!! Looks like you have a problem. - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http:/

Re: Translation skills

2000-09-19 Thread Craig Small
; so maybe checking the translation skills can wait till after they become > Debian maintainers? Yes, it is not neccessary for this, perhaps get them as maintainers then let the translation team sort them out. - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA

Re: Agreeing with philosophies/procedures

2000-09-19 Thread Craig Small
would you say and what license(s) may you suggest. } } No huge essays, 4 lines or so is fine. I just need to know you have some } idea about this. -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.eye-net.com.au/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIEEE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian developer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: How long to wait for applicant response?

2000-09-21 Thread Craig Small
;s not like there aren't others to process. > Another way to deal with this is to take on more applicants at one time, > so the waiting is less restricting. Which is why I can do 7, no sweat. I'll probably bounce 3 of them early next week. -- Craig Small VK2XLZ Gnu

Re: AM Report on Santiago Garcia Mantinan

2000-09-21 Thread Craig Small
On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 11:07:26PM -0500, Mike Mattice wrote: > Debian-private and forwarding: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is that a real email address? I.am impressed! - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.eye-net.com

Eliot Landrum on hold

2000-09-26 Thread Craig Small
Eliot has been put on hold due to not replying to emails. -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.eye-net.com.au/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIEEE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian developer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Angus Lees on hold

2000-09-26 Thread Craig Small
Angus does not reply to his emails, putting on hold. -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.eye-net.com.au/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIEEE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian developer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Web site his future

2000-11-08 Thread Craig Small
ave a small group that has a few test pages, perhaps a site re-org or suggestions for missing pages. Once it is generally agreed that yes this is what we want to do it gets implemented. This small group can then ponder the next stlyistic thing that needs looking at. I think the dual model would

Re: Debian Merchandise

2002-02-03 Thread Craig Small
e goes to Debian - Your online store allows people to "buy" Debian donations. Please let me know, using the same address you usd to send this first email, when you are selling Debian merchandise and wether you allow contributions or not. - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893

Re: Google ads on debian.org

2004-12-17 Thread Craig Small
problem at the least for our mirrors so my say is "no thanks Mr Google". I have my site hosted on my server at work so no problems for me, I might even get a cheque for 100 real dollars before easter. :) - Craig [1] http://small.dropbear.id.au/debian.html -- Craig Small GnuPG