Re: Upstream guide and front desk

2010-08-21 Thread George Danchev
Lars Wirzenius writes: On pe, 2010-08-20 at 14:55 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: Now, I've no idea if the above would be appropriate for the upstream front desk or not. I leave it up to you to decide whether it's worth trying or not. I think a debian-upstre...@lists.debian.org mailing

Re: On terminology

2010-07-05 Thread George Danchev
Jan Dittberner writes: On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 02:57:12PM +0200, Ludovico Cavedon wrote: On 07/02/2010 11:14 PM, Faidon Liambotis wrote: Am I the only one who has trouble -and getting laughed at- whenever I try to explain these to potential contributors? Can we _at least_ rename the NM

Re: Debian money

2009-09-12 Thread George Danchev
Steve McIntyre lea...@debian.org writes: 4 Marketing stuff: a box(es) of equipment to take to stands at various shows and expos. Might be useful, but could be expensive. Where do we store it/them? Who organises shipping? I think this is something which we should pursue. I

Re: debian

2009-08-22 Thread George Danchev
Quoting Александр Боровский xrumyc...@mail.ru: здравствуйте вы не моглибы прислать мне список оранизаций которыерабоаютна linux debian translating from russian: Hello, could you please send me a list of organizations using Debian? the answer is: http://www.debian.org/users/ -- To

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-08-01 Thread George Danchev
On Wed, Jul 29 2009, Stephen Frost wrote: * Sune Vuorela (nos...@vuorela.dk) wrote: I'm hoping that we can convince the release team to change their mind. I doubt you can, and I hope you don't. It could have been announced better, but in general I think it's a good thing for Debian.

Re: Please look at mentors.debian.net

2009-08-01 Thread George Danchev
Hi, Every organisation can only survive (or grow) with a constant stream of fresh members. This is obviously true. So please dear Debian Developers: Go to http://mentors.debian.net! There are people willing to get involved in Debian. But some of them might be in danger to get frustrated

Re: DAM and NEW queues processing

2009-06-25 Thread George Danchev
On Tue Jun 23 11:30, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: - the NM process could be reduced to 5 to 10 questions choosen by the AM amongst the 50+ questions currently in the NM templates, to verify that the applicant has some knowledge about different aspects of Debian packaging. Then the AM would

Re: Voting on messages: a way to resolve the mailing list problems

2009-01-05 Thread George Danchev
On Monday 05 January 2009 12:17:42 MJ Ray wrote: --cut-- There are already crude mechanisms (reply privately, reply publicly, report abuse and so on) but they are social more than technical. Agruably, these mechanisms don't reveal the big picture to the society (i.e. what people think about

Re: Voting on messages: a way to resolve the mailing list problems

2008-12-22 Thread George Danchev
On Monday 22 December 2008 07:47:41 Manoj Srivastava wrote: Hi, Hi, So, are there going to be guide;lines for this voting on emails? I'm afraid that I'm not able answer such a question, but I can try to provide a contra-argument (just to prove it wrong or maybe right) -- if we follow

Re: i want to be a part of Debian community

2008-12-21 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 21 December 2008 20:28:18 Okan Demir wrote: Hello, I'm an engineering student from Turkey. I started to use Debian (Etch) nearly one year ago. I think this period is enough to be a fan of Debian. From now on i'm a Debian user. But being a user, does not satisfy my Debian based

Re: Voting on messages: a way to resolve the mailing list problems

2008-12-21 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 21 December 2008 23:12:08 Steve Langasek wrote: On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 10:35:14AM +, Jurij Smakov wrote: Now, I know that for a bunch of geeks like us it is very tempting to start discussing the technical details and how the scoring is going to be implemented, and how the

Re: Voting on messages: a way to resolve the mailing list problems

2008-12-20 Thread George Danchev
On Saturday 20 December 2008 21:33:27 MJ Ray wrote: Jurij Smakov ju...@wooyd.org wrote: [...] So, what can we do about? During a little brainstorming session on IRC last night a following idea has emerged: let's have a way to express our opinion about the mailing list posts. [...] So,

Re: Voting on messages: a way to resolve the mailing list problems

2008-12-20 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 21 December 2008 03:49:44 Anthony Towns wrote: On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 10:35:14AM +, Jurij Smakov wrote: * Vocal minority dominates silent majority by contributing a disproportionate amount of list traffic, [...] Note that voting can have a similar drawback -- in that if

Re: Linux System Engineer (100%) in Zurich

2008-12-06 Thread George Danchev
On Friday 05 December 2008 23:34:41 Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2008-12-06 01:58:59, schrieb Chris Bannister: Note: I employ only women (IT and Electronic) And so is that! Both illegal in New Zealand and hopefully, nearly(?) all other countries. Even if it is a project from the

Re: Linux System Engineer (100%) in Zurich

2008-12-01 Thread George Danchev
On Monday 01 December 2008 15:42:20 Charles Plessy wrote: Le Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 01:05:07PM +, Mark Brown a écrit : FWIW similar issues apply in most of Europe too. Thank you for the information. For Antartica, the situation of discrimination has rapidly and positively evolved and I am

Re: Updated Debian Maintainers Keyring

2007-11-25 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 25 November 2007, Joey Hess wrote: Steve McIntyre wrote: In this particular case, the problem is much worse than just a single bug in a package - it's a total failure in the sponsorship system. From what Ramakrishnan and other sponsors wrote on this thread, it sounds like

Re: notable Debian contributions in 2006

2007-03-25 Thread George Danchev
On Saturday 24 March 2007 19:53, Joerg Schilling wrote: Roberto C. Sánchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - the fact that other Debian maintainers does not try to find a workaround for the problems caused by some outcasts causes damage to the reputation of the Debian project. I guess

Re: Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-12 Thread George Danchev
On Wednesday 11 October 2006 13:18, Martin Schulze wrote: Jérôme Marant wrote: It's not Dunc Tank's fault if your jealous. Hmm, maybe it is because the developer is jealous on/of somebody being directly or indirectly paid by the project while they are not? My personal belief

Re: New website layout / design contest?

2006-09-05 Thread George Danchev
On Tuesday 05 September 2006 13:09, Christoph Haas wrote: On Tuesday 05 September 2006 04:16, Matej Cepl wrote: Paul Belanger wrote: After all, the point of any distribution is to sell it to a user. It is not. For example, Debian Developers usually don't care how many users is Debian

Re: Recompilation of ALL Debian packages ...

2006-09-02 Thread George Danchev
On Saturday 02 September 2006 02:41, Russ Allbery wrote: martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The reason I am pushing for this is because of two of my clients, who have been wanting to use Debian for three years now but consciously decided against it, because it is not guaranteed that

Re: package ownership in Debian

2006-07-31 Thread George Danchev
On Monday 31 July 2006 19:46, Gunnar Wolf wrote: Hubert Chan dijo [Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 12:30:06AM -0400]: I meant with group of maintainers, number of uploaders 1. Joerg Jaspert said that he wouldn't like to be forced to team maintenance and suggested 0day NMUs for = normal bugs with

Re: package ownership in Debian

2006-07-30 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 30 July 2006 13:24, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 07:57:32PM +0200, Julien Danjou wrote: On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 07:23:09PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: So, that's a clear example where the team maintenance can be as useless as letting only one people

Re: package ownership in Debian

2006-07-29 Thread George Danchev
On Saturday 29 July 2006 09:48, Martin Schulze wrote: Manoj Srivastava wrote: Co-maintainers are much closer to what is being done in a package than joe-random developer. Also, co-maintainership is far less prone to fire-and-forget uploads that hose things, and are nicer to people

Re: cool stuff at EDOS - collaboration ideas

2006-07-10 Thread George Danchev
On Saturday 08 July 2006 12:20, Andreas Barth wrote: Hi, Hello, Also, they had some engine for package comparison and search (where the weather was one of the side spin-offs from it). This could help us to ask more question about package aspects, and they are waiting for inputs from us to

Re: (Debian's Two Choices) The influx of women and the outflux of men. The end of debian as a distro and it's emergance as a women's rights pulpit.

2006-06-11 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 11 June 2006 21:50, Wouter Verhelst wrote: You are crazy, and should get yourself some professional psychiatric counceling. I fully agree that this creature [1] has some kind of mental problems, thus trying to keep any sort of normal conversaton with such sort of interlocutors is

Re: Debian women: please pass away

2006-06-10 Thread George Danchev
On Saturday 10 June 2006 19:01, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Matthew R. Dempsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.06.10.1748 +0200]: yahoo reported to have killed the account to me this morning. Funny, when I forwarded the email to abuse@ last night, they replied: Please know that

Re: Reforming the NM process

2006-04-25 Thread George Danchev
On Tuesday 25 April 2006 16:14, Thaddeus H. Black wrote: On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 02:29:56PM +0300, Panu Kalliokoski wrote: On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 10:15:20PM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: Besides, there is no value in a wide-open voting system. This is called an Internet poll and the

Re: Reforming the NM process

2006-04-15 Thread George Danchev
On Saturday 15 April 2006 17:48, Manoj Srivastava wrote: --cut-- We'll never tell that! We just tell we trust you to maintain x according to our standards but since you didn't went (yet) through full NM, we don't trust you on working on anything you'd want. Err, I am not sure we do