Re: Linux word processor

2001-03-12 Thread Martin Schulze
Kanwal K Arora wrote: Dear Sir/Madam, Could you pls advise me , from where to download the Abi word [word processor] for linux or some other word processor for linux. Simply type apt-get install abiword or check out http://packages.debian.org/abiword Regards,

Re: Open Source Hosting Solution

2001-03-06 Thread Martin Schulze
John Galt wrote: In order to help you, can you tell use how many machines these are at the moment and what kind of hardware they use. This is needed just to ensure that we won't boot a kernel that doesn't support a major piece of hardware. Is MIPS ready for prime time? AFAIK, the Cobalts

Re: Open Source Hosting Solution

2001-03-01 Thread Martin Schulze
Barry Beckman wrote: Thought you might like to know about us. Could you pass this on to the appropriate individual(s)? Thanks! We partner with RedHat. Since you haven't paid $1000 to send commercial advertisements to our list I guess that your interest in our group and product is reall and

Re: two questions for DPL nominees

2001-02-23 Thread Martin Schulze
Craig Sanders wrote: i have two questions for all of you: 1. what is your stance(*) on some of the recent controversial topics aka flame-wars within debian? - non-free archives? - sluggish new maintainer process? Add to it - Maintainers who are MIA -- If you come from outside

Dealing with maintainers who are MIA

2001-02-17 Thread Martin Michlmayr
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Re: I have a question

2001-02-08 Thread Martin Schulze
MacBane wrote: Are there any Debian ISO's for download. 2.1.2. CD Images The Debian project also provides readily mastered cd images for their stable distribution. They are bootable and optionally contain non-US stuff as well. Please find them on

Re: RFC: Changing the NM system

2000-12-17 Thread Martin Schulze
Colin Watson wrote: Perhaps we need a more organized system of sponsorship, so that people who are stuck waiting in the NM queue can do QA work with some degree of ease. At the moment it seems to be largely a matter of whether you're lucky enough to find somebody who'll quickly and

Re: RFC: Changing the NM system

2000-12-17 Thread Martin Schulze
Adrian Bunk wrote: My impression is that currently maintainers are accepted too early. For some AMs it's enough that they build one package (and thanks to debhelper it's relatively easy to build a package) and even if they make a buggy package this is sometimes enough to pass the Tasks Skills

Re: RFC: Changing the NM system

2000-12-17 Thread Martin Schulze
Christian Kurz wrote: Yes, and the main point of my proposal is: An applicant doesn't get his account before he had worked some months for Debian. This lets us judge on his whole work (e.g. his knowledge about packaging, how he handles bugs,...). I think we should define that he has to

Re: RFC: Changing the NM system

2000-12-17 Thread Martin Schulze
Marcus Brinkmann wrote: 1. Where does elmo live? [ ] a. Garbage can. [ ] b. openprojects.net. I'll add that one. Regards, Joey -- GNU does not eliminate all the world's problems, only some of them. -- The GNU Manifesto

Re: Debian joins Gnome Foundation Advisory Board

2000-11-23 Thread Martin Schulze
Colin Watson wrote: Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Debian project has been invited to join the Advisory Board of the recently created Gnome Foundation. The Advisory Board is a forum for organizations and companies that have an interest in Gnome to communicate with the Board

Re: Web site his future

2000-11-06 Thread Martin Michlmayr
is great help to us, along with helping in writing good documentation, or doing web maintenance, translation (i18n l10n), publicity, legal support... our quality assurance web page lists several possible ways to help. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Potato cd cover art ?

2000-08-23 Thread Martin Schulze
Philippe Troin wrote: Has anybody done some (reusable) potato cd cover art ? We've had some for the LinuxTag Potato CD. You should find some images in the archive: http://www.infodrom.ffis.de/Mail-Archive/debian-events-de/2000/ Regards, Joey -- The only stupid question is the

Re: Incoming

2000-04-03 Thread Martin Schulze
Jason Gunthorpe wrote: The files may be trojans, corrupt, partial, massively screwed, fail lintian, whatever. Massive, massive caution is advised! I thougth that we're in this business for several years now. Another time warp? Regards, Joey -- Experience is something you don't get

Re: Proposed change to Debian constitution

2000-01-04 Thread Martin Schulze
Joey Hess wrote: Bart Schuller wrote: There's only one person who knows for sure, who said that NM will reopen in january. Could you refresh my memory? Who siad that, when, and where? I said it, iirc. Regards, Joey -- There are lies, statistics and benchmarks.

Re: New Architecture

2000-01-02 Thread Martin Schulze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, To get to the point as quickly as possible What process(es) must be followed to start a Debian dist for a new architecture?? You'll need to be able to create native packages. This means that you'll need a kernel, a compiler (and tools), a glibc

Re: Proposed change to Debian constitution

1999-12-31 Thread Martin Schulze
Anand Kumria wrote: I didn't stage a walkout; I quit. I've had nothing to do with new-maintainer since then. I fail to see how that's improper behaviour which screwed Debian over. Really? So when I visited you and you saw you had about 500+ messages in your new-maintainer box; marked

Re: Proposed change to Debian constitution

1999-12-31 Thread Martin Schulze
Anand Kumria wrote: On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Martin Schulze wrote: Adam Di Carlo wrote: Goswin Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What are the reasons for ever not letting new maintainers in? There are none, I agree. I'm very disappointed that Wichert has failed

Re: Proposed change to Debian constitution

1999-12-30 Thread Martin Schulze
Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Wichert hasn't failed for that and this is not Wicherts fault. Don't make it one. Wichert, Dwarf and myself were discussing things recently. OK. Whose fault is it? What were the result of the discussions? A large

Re: Proposed change to Debian constitution

1999-11-02 Thread Martin Schulze
Julian Gilbey wrote: If you don't like the fact that the Delegates have chosen to close new-maintainer, and are too lazy to actually get off your arse to do the job yourself but not too lazy to make a fuss, then you can use [...] But the number of people who volunteered to join the NM

Re: Proposed change to Debian constitution

1999-11-01 Thread Martin Schulze
Anthony Towns wrote: This doesn't do anything to address the real issue (getting new-maintainers back on its feet), and only seems to give people something to point to when whining about how everyone else isn't doing everything for them. Agreed. Regards, Joey -- A mathematician is

Re: new release process (package pool) being proposed

1999-10-25 Thread Martin Schulze
Wichert Akkerman wrote: The ftpmasters do their work for the project. They exist on behalf of the project. The project does not exist as result of the ftpmasters, it's vice versa. True. However that doesn't always seem to work that way. A good example is that we have a consensus to

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