Re: commercial spam on planet

2010-11-09 Thread Roland Mas
sing habits a feature that you use for professional purposes? If so, I'm inclined to disagree vehemently with it. If not, please correct my misapprehension. Roland. -- Roland Mas $ chown -R us:us your_base* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: A team to grant rights on collab-maint?

2010-06-15 Thread Roland Mas
missing is some UI to actually do that, and some stabilisation of the whole trunk so we can reach a releasable state and upgrade Alioth to it. Roland, with his FusionForge hat on. -- Roland Mas prw-r--r--1 root root0 Jan 1 1970 This-is-not-a-pipe| -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: A team to grant rights on collab-maint?

2010-06-15 Thread Roland Mas
n stuff on Alioth, which, along with the obvious security implications, is not going to alleviate the consequences of the "yeah sure, run whatever you like on Alioth" attitude and the associated load problem. Roland. -- Roland Mas ar c t e l l ièu ai ia mi. -- Si

Re: Debian 6.0

2010-06-07 Thread Roland Mas
help”) is at least as important to advertise. Roland. -- Roland Mas prw-r--r--1 root root0 Jan 1 1970 This-is-not-a-pipe| -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.de

Re: PTS subscription exposure

2010-03-02 Thread Roland Mas
ork ignoring their users' opinion on what their privacy is] Just because somebody else does it, doesn't make it okay. Roland. -- Roland Mas Using a big hammer without caution can cause big damage. -- PostgreSQL documentation, chapter 42 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-proj

Re: Criteria for a successful DPL board

2007-02-12 Thread Roland Mas
t any point in time, and the debates would stay on the board list (rather than drown -devel or -project or others). Just for that, I'm in favour of the idea. Roland, just kidding. Mostly. -- Roland Mas Sauvez un arbre, tuez un castor. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: Debian Etch Stable.

2006-12-13 Thread Roland Mas
ask, rather than reasons that relate to something else. Thanks. Roland. -- Roland Mas One... two... one, two, many, lots! -- Lias, in Soul music (Terry Pratchett) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Tattoos (was: debian logo on commercial of the big mobilephones shops network)

2006-12-01 Thread Roland Mas
does give you more of an old-timer aura. "This swirl? Yeah, I got it in the early days of Debian. I missed the chicken by a few months, though. Oh well, it probably doesn't mean a thing to you youngsters anyway." Roland. -- Roland Mas Bonjour, je suis un virus de signatur

Re: Please change the Maintainer: header when forking Debian

2006-11-03 Thread Roland Mas
s > Original-Maintainer: Roland Mas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ah, so it's in the .deb, okay. It's not in the .dsc, though. And I don't think Ubuntu users are expected to extract the control files from debs, or even to use aptitude and see package properties. All the support I&

Re: Please change the Maintainer: header when forking Debian

2006-11-03 Thread Roland Mas
don't think I have anything to grumble about if it's non-broken (as opposed to grumbling about people googling for my name and thinking what a lousy freelance I must be if "my" Ubuntu packages are buggy despite my having nothing to do with that). Roland. -- Roland Mas When

Re: Please change the Maintainer: header when forking Debian

2006-11-03 Thread Roland Mas
mention of "Debian-Maintainer" or "Original-Maintainer". Roland. -- Roland Mas Neko-no me-to, onna-gokoro-to, aki-no-sora. -- Proverbe japonais (« Souvent femme varie, bien fol est qui s'y fie. ») -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-11 Thread Roland Mas
e his work on d-i was (or wasn't) bad since it seems to focus mostly on an architecture I have no contact with, but apparently it's not going to end in Debian, or so he oh-so-repeatedly told us. Roland. -- Roland Mas LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rolandmas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-11 Thread Roland Mas
* Do I was my car (time) or hire someone to do it (money)? >> * Do I program my own OS (time) or hire someone to do it (money)? > * Do I work for Debian (time) or work for a client (money)? That final choice is between spending time and earning money. I don't see how it relates to the o

Re: How to best reach the users of a package?

2006-08-06 Thread Roland Mas
s have to download one (much bigger) file instead of lots of (smaller) files. I agree it's an added hit in bandwidth for mirrors, but I'm not sure it's big. It's probably on the order of magnitude of the Packages files (or their diffs) in size. And the same Pdiff trick co

Re: How to best reach the users of a package?

2006-08-05 Thread Roland Mas
l lot like simply aggregating and filtering a lot of tagged RSS feeds? It's very two-dot-zero-ish :-) Roland. -- Roland Mas Au royaume des aveugles, les borgnes sont mal vus. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: experimental Request Tracker site for Debian infrastrcture available

2004-04-07 Thread Roland Mas
updates on the "tickets". Of course, Alioth suffers from a Gödelian problem if it is to be used for tracking things to do on our infrastructure, since it belongs to it. In other words: if (when) Alioth's down or unreachable, you can't use it to track the ticket that says it&

Re: Sarge

2004-02-06 Thread Roland Mas
Al Metz, 2004-02-06 05:00:12 +0100 : > I was just curious when the 'stable' version of Debian will change > from 'Woody' to 'Sarge'? 1. When it's ready, 2. Sooner if you help, 3. We don't know yet. Pick three. -- Roland Mas Time passed, which, bas

Re: [cbeasley@noment.net: Debian Question Regarding Postgresql Replication]

2003-11-28 Thread Roland Mas
s probably 9 months off. I'll wait :-) Thanks for your work in the meantime, Roland. -- Roland Mas Certains disent que les vrais hommes ne font pas de backups. Mais ils disent aussi que même les vrais hommes pleurent parfois.

Re: Debian mailing lists, address munging, news gateway, and the list archives

2003-11-19 Thread Roland Mas
7;d hate that, but if we want to cater for users I suppose we could duplicate the debian-user-* lists on such a system. Roland. -- Roland Mas Qu'est-ce qui est jaune, qui pèse deux cents kilos et qui chante ? Un sumotori qui a bu trop de saké.

Re: How do I use dpkg without superuser privileges?

2003-11-17 Thread Roland Mas
ck complains about root > access just as --install does. BOO! > > I just want the thing unrolled, that's it. Use dpkg-deb then. Roland. -- Roland Mas Qu'est-ce qui est jaune, qui pèse deux cents kilos et qui chante ? Un canari. Belle bête, pas vrai ?

Re: Skolelinux and the "Debian Labs" idea

2003-09-16 Thread Roland Mas
the Debian in the name). Or, equally straight-from-my-imagination-without-checking-brain, " Swirl Factory" or something around these lines. Again, a footnote would be called for. Just suggestions for nitpickers, obviously. The basic idea appeals very much to me. Roland

Re: New Debian release date ?

2003-06-12 Thread Roland Mas
Anibal Ojeda (2003-06-12 12:54:36 +0200) : > When is the new version of debian going to be released ? Answer #1: When it's ready. Answer #2: Sooner if you help. Answer #3: We don't know yet. All three answers are correct, I believe. Roland. -- Roland Mas Sauvez une souris, mangez votre chat.

Re: LSB Compliance

2003-04-26 Thread Roland Mas
lots of money and administrative tasks. We, the Debian project, as a volunteer one, have not (yet?) gone for the certification process. But I'm sure we'd welcome any offer for help on that path. Roland. -- Roland Mas Seems to me, the only sensible thing is for people to know if they kill

Re: Timeline...

2003-04-24 Thread Roland Mas
Bob Hicks (2003-04-23 21:48:57 -0400) : > Is there a release timeline? Two of them, actually. "When it's ready", and "Sooner if you help". Roland, expressing his own views only. -- Roland Mas -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCS d- s-: a-- C++ ULU++ P+

Re: Best Packaging Practices - collecting ideas (and texts!)

2002-05-13 Thread Roland Mas
ber there was something I wasn't exactly proud of in there, but I might very well have fixed it afterwards. Should you choose to pick that example, be sure to tell me so I'll make extra sure the build process is as nice and clean as possible. Roland. -- Roland Mas A lesson for you all: