Bug#622274: blends linked from the main debian page

2011-04-11 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
11:24:26AM -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > On Mon, 11 Apr 2011, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > I like a lot the idea of providing links to blends from the Debian > > homepage [1], thanks for proposing (and revamping) the idea! However, > > from the above paragraph I do no

blends linked from the main debian page

2011-04-11 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
a with the -www team and/or submitted a bug report against www.d.o about it? Cheers. [1] or at least to those we believe to be popular + an extra "more blends..." link -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.or

Re: Debian honoured with LNM award for Outstanding Contribution to Free Software

2011-03-07 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
why it is important for it to be based on Free Software principles only and to be independent from corporate interests. We have made several efforts recently to communicate why we think those features are fundamental for a healthy Free Software ecosystem. I'm glad you share those beliefs and

Re: Upcoming Cherokee webserver providing a webapp-market - Opinions please?

2011-03-01 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
eam of an agreement where the marketplace is in Debian and, at the same time, some specific version of cherokee gets tagged as long term support and is packaged in Debian stable release. I see advantages on both sides in such a (hypothetical) agreement. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Com

[DEP8] autopkgtest - automatic as-installed package testing

2011-02-27 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
package testing DEP: 8 State: DRAFT Date: 2011-02-25 Drivers: Ian Jackson , Iustin Pop , Stefano Zacchiroli URL: http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep8 License: Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, are permitted in any medium without royalty provide

Re: Debian WWW team IRC meeting, 15 February 21:30 UTC in #debian-www

2011-02-10 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
s PS I haven't added it myself to the agenda, please let me know if you want me to. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Quando anche i santi ti voltano le spalle, | .

Fwd: Present at LinuxTag 2011 in Berlin (May 11-14)

2011-02-01 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
event for Free Software and Open Source 11.-14. May 2011 at Berlin Fairgrounds http://www.linuxtag.org - End forwarded message ----- -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Qu

Results of the App Installer Meeting

2011-01-26 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
heureux ne sont pas pressés. ___ Distributions mailing list distributi...@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/distributions - End forwarded message - -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ.

Re: DEP5: ready for CANDIDATE?

2011-01-10 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ses/, which does seem to be the most natural place. After all, we include licenses in that dir as they are widespread licenses we don't want to duplicate in copyright files; that seems to be the very same rationale for assigning short names in DEP5. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in C

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

2011-01-07 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
re most likely referring to past versions of the spec, hence possibly in need of some revamping. Thanks again, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Quando anche i

[vu...@gnome.org: Cross-distro meeting about application installer]

2010-12-30 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
days, but I'll reply to questions when I come back, if you have any :-)) Cheers, Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. ___ Distributions mailing list distributi...@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/di

Re: DEP5: reasons for not pushing Bazaar changes to Subversion

2010-12-23 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
hat even that is settled, in the sense that we have agreed on the general principle of "readily available whiteboards". The history of DEP-5 has accounted for a slight deviation from that, but that's it. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ.

Re: DEP5: reasons for not pushing Bazaar changes to Subversion

2010-12-23 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
rvative" approach. In the meantime, what I've learned from DEP-5 history is how much motivated and communicative drivers count in pushing a standard forward, even in a delicate area as copyright information. Thanks! Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Pa

Re: cross-distro work on App Store/Software Center - looking for volunteers

2010-12-23 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
t the meeting. So, if you are interested, please contact me to volunteer. The sooner, the better. Cheers PS full quote below of the initial mail, to the benefit of -project readers On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 04:43:01PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Dear all, > Vicent Untz has co

Re: DEP5: License section

2010-12-16 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
want that clarified? Nice catch. Given that we are relaying on some sort of word tokenization for things like exceptions, I'd say that we certainly want to. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -&l

Re: DEP5: License section

2010-12-16 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
SPDX: Eiffel / EFL-2.0, >W3C-software / W3C and ZLIB / Zlib. Ditto, although I object the "-2.0" when it should really be "2". > - SPDX's MIT license is from: >http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html. I don't get this difference, can you

Re: DEP5: License section

2010-12-16 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
int in time the benefit of having the current draft widely available IMHO overtake the risks.) Thanks a lot for your amazing work on DEP-5, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- h

Re: Debian WWW Sprint, Dec 17th to 19th

2010-11-30 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ons [2] http://wiki.debian.org/Sprints -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Quando anche i santi ti voltano le spalle, | . |. I've fans everywhere ti resta Joh

Re: Report from Debian booth at SfN2010

2010-11-24 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
t;other donations to the Debian project" in the "Acknowledgements" section to http://www.debian.org/donations ? Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/

Re: Please draft a policy for planet.debian.org

2010-11-11 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
guidelines already; 2) highlight that current guidelines are not clear cut (and that is not necessarily bad IMHO), there are already behaviors which are considered OK-ish if applied sporadically and a bit less so if applied recurrently. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \

Re: Please draft a policy for planet.debian.org

2010-11-11 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
here aren't many chances of musing about the characteristics of a pure gift-economy, but when those chances come, let's appreciate the important *advantages* gift-economies have over other models. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z..

Re: commercial spam on planet

2010-11-10 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ule out the possibility that a blog author makes money from a specific blog post via its own blog, while having the same blog post syndicated on planet (but without ads). Unfortunately, I haven't found a decent wording to capture that yet ... Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Compu

Re: commercial spam on planet

2010-11-10 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
nity based on judges and issues brought before them. My next question for you (assuming you accept that a discussion on this list is enough to decide on this matter---I personally do) is whether you find that my summary of this thread, given in my former post, is fair or not. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacch

Re: commercial spam on planet

2010-11-10 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ending other things to flattr seems way less problematic (maybe a bit ironically). Moving forward from my personal view and trying to summarize this thread, I'd say that most of the participants are OK with sporadic usage of this kind of "spam", but that it is not quite welcome that

Re: d-d-a (and/or d-announce) on planet.debian.org

2010-11-06 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
was meant to start the technical discussion on the matter since a while, but I eventually got to do it only after this n-th ping. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Quand

Re: d-d-a (and/or d-announce) on planet.debian.org

2010-11-06 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
h an email to d-d-a, you are welcome to submit > it to Debian News :) [2] Hint hint, let's flood Ana with news :) Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Quando anch

Re: FOSSASIA: MiniDebConf Vietnam

2010-10-16 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
uld but it will be well worth coming if you > have the opportunity. Let me take this chance to reiterate publicly a comment I've already made in private (replying to an inquiry about conference sponsoring), unfortunately without any effect: On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 11:02:19 +0200, Stefano Za

Debian presence at UDS - feedback sought

2010-10-13 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
or distribution which is interested in collaborating with us. Another example of it is Debian participation at next OpenSUSE conference (thanks to Rhonda) and I'll surely welcome other similar examples in the future (hint hint!). Cheers. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2010

Re: etherpad clone on debian.net

2010-10-13 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
itionally, I've nothing against a login protected private area, but at the moment I've no idea of who is the admin of it, meaning that ATM it's *very* private :-) Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.or

Re: etherpad clone on debian.net

2010-10-13 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
login (this, I guess, is > > because debian.titanpad.com is not configured yet). If you could do the > > needed tuning yourself, wearing your DD hat, that would be awesome. > > Otherwise we can just ask for volunteers as admins. This still stands: accessing notepad.debian.n

Re: etherpad clone on debian.net

2010-10-11 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
our DD hat, that would be awesome. Otherwise we can just ask for volunteers as admins. Thanks a lot for your support! Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Quando anche i s

Re: etherpad clone on debian.net

2010-10-10 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
.net as an alias for the service then? It will give it a more Debian-ish entry point. I could set up the DNS entry if you want, but I've never setup titanpad myself, so I don't know whether it will possibly need some vhost tweaking server side or not ... Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -

Re: Debian meetup at FSCONs 5-7 November 2010

2010-10-10 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ity of sponsoring to get there, I also suggest you mention it in the announce and/or get in touch with someone to blog about that via planet.d.o. All the best for Debian presence at FSCONS! Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.juss

Re: QTS ( was Re: user support - Shapado instance for Debian)

2010-10-08 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
lt while you try, is that the "thing" they are doing stays there. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Quando anche i santi ti voltano le spalle, |

Re: QTS ( was Re: user support - Shapado instance for Debian)

2010-10-08 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
* choice to do that. I'm sure many others are not interested into it and that's fair enough. They can simply ignore that ask.d.n exists in the first place as, say, I've ignored that forums.d.n has existed thus far. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ Post

ask.debian.net [Was: user support]

2010-10-06 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 10:03:01AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > So, ask.d.n seems to be a fairly uncontroversial choice, according to > this thread. Therefore I've registered ask.d.n and prepared a > redirection from shapado.d.n to ask.d.n on a server of mine. In a few > d

Re: Call for Votes - GR: Debian project members

2010-10-05 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ne gymnastic—in my followup at [2]. Cheers. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2010/09/msg00093.html [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-vbefore, ote/2010/09/msg00052.html -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian

Re: shapado.debian.net now available [Was: user support]

2010-10-04 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, Oct 03, 2010 at 06:12:13PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Changing is easy: it just requires changing the instance configuration > (Fernando and/or Luis can do that) and then set up a redirect from > shapado.d.n to the new name. Feel free to find a consensual name and >

Re: shapado.debian.net now available [Was: user support]

2010-10-03 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
27;t forget that!) -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Quando anche i santi ti voltano le spalle, | . |. I've fans everywhere ti resta John Fante -- V. Caposella ...|

Re: shapado.debian.net now available [Was: user support]

2010-10-03 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ebian.net, but it was proposed after the setup have been done already. Changing is easy: it just requires changing the instance configuration (Fernando and/or Luis can do that) and then set up a redirect from shapado.d.n to the new name. Feel free to find a consensual name and ping me (as the d.n re

shapado.debian.net now available [Was: user support]

2010-10-02 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 01:59:18PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Comments? Volunteers? Thanks to Shapado developers (and in particular Patrick Aljord) and to Fernando C. Estrada and Luis Uribe (current admins), we now have: http://shapado.debian.net Shapado is an interesting tool, wh

Re: user support - Shapado instance for Debian

2010-10-01 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
hapado.com". Fernando and Brian, AFAICT you're not DDs so you can't setup "shapado.debian.net". I can do that for you, please get in touch with the Shapado people about where we need to point shapado.d.n to. Please reply to me in private (M-F-T set accordingly) and I'll set u

Re: user support - Shapado instance for Debian

2010-09-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
be no synergy to be exploited at all. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Quando anche i santi ti voltano le spalle, | . |. I've fans everywhere ti resta John F

Re: Debian training and code review

2010-09-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Debian-based distros to explain how to collaborate with and give back to Debian. We've done so in the past already with Ubuntu (IIRC Rhonda has held a session about that during one of the latest "developer week") and I hope it'll continue in the future. Cheers. -- Stefano Z

user support - Shapado instance for Debian

2010-09-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
o.com, but having our own instance would arguably be better. No matter which instance we decide to use, the bits of communication to give it a try will be needed anyhow. Comments? Volunteers? Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.

GR: welcome non-packaging contributors as Debian project members

2010-09-14 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ent form. I've also shared the text with the secretary. While formal ruling can be done only on an actual ballot, he doesn't consider the above text to be in need of 3:1 majority. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc

Re: Claiming DEP-7 for Java web application packaging

2010-08-25 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
oes that. Anyhow, I've just added DEP7 to the index and I confirm that the layout you used seems OK. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Quando anche i santi ti vo

Re: Upstream guide and front desk

2010-08-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
o send out a Debian News item / press release about that. It is our best chance to increase awareness of the initiative within upstreams. Cheers. [1] http://wiki.debian.org/DerivativesFrontDesk -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.juss

Re: Debian Facilitators

2010-08-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
e can discuss if any further blessing is needed (I personally think it won't be, but I'm available to be convinced otherwise). I wish you good luck for this initiative. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,de

Re: On terminology

2010-07-05 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ally the NM committee (hey, but they both need renaming too!), would be more appropriate venues where this should be discussed. I'm confident they would call for help when/if needed. Full ACK on Christoph's comment: better to do the renaming once. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD

Re: On terminology

2010-07-05 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
e the terminology more uniform. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Dietro un grande uomo c'è ..| . |. Et ne m'en veux pas si je te tutoie sempre uno zaino ..

Re: Conflicts between Developers: Let others mediate

2010-07-02 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ah sure. We have such good examples of successful mediations within > the project in the past. It is not a valid reason not to attempt that. Maybe we are all trying to improve the system, learning from past mistakes ... Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ U

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

2010-06-25 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
slippery rope: it is us who voted, not someone external to the project; arguing now that that someone should pay, if she really cares about obtaining the result, sounds very weird. But OK, that was just to heat the discussion (do we really need that?), so I probably shouldn't have bitten

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

2010-06-25 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
think twice at the possibility of keeping up with what the vote entails. .oO( "vote is cheap, show me the volunteers" ?) Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Di

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

2010-06-25 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 05:06:12PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > I've been reminded [1] that we're still pending implementation of the > General Resolution entitled "Declassification of debian-private list > archives" [2]. > If you are interested pleas

derivatives front desk ready to start

2010-06-21 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 05:33:39PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Derivatives > === > > - I've attended the last UDS (Ubuntu Developer Summit) to discuss the > relationship between Debian and Ubuntu; to that end I've launched a > poll [4] to gather d

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

2010-06-15 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
[1] *forge plugin, mainly because I've never even looked at *forge code. I re-throw the idea in the bucket here, as someone interested in more liberal commit access rights might want to pursue that too. Cheers. [1] http://upsilon.cc/~zack/blog/posts/2007/08/DD_wide_commit_on_alioth/ -- Stefano

Re: The role of debian-private

2010-06-10 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
umption that even if you write something in a bad/emotional way, it will be taken in a good way; "be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others" applies pretty well to mails and can prevent tons of flames, on -private as anywhere else. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchir

debian-private declassification team (looking for one)

2010-05-22 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
cide upon the technical details of the actual publishing. Cheers. PS No, I don't think this is particularly urgent, but I consider important to show that we are able to stand behind the outcomes of our democratic decision processes. [1] by Kurt Roeckx, thanks! [2] http://www.debian.org/vot

Re: Squeeze, firmware and installation

2010-05-18 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
crack; please Steve or other debian-cd people correct me if I'm utterly wrong! [3] http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2010/05/msg00081.html -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilo

Debian-Ubuntu relationship: bits from UDS

2010-05-16 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 12:45:54PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > So, I'm now back and with some feedback to share. I'll first post (in > this mail) a summary of the replies I got to this "poll" and later on a > more general summary of what I did at UDS. Here we

Debian-Ubuntu relationship: poll summary

2010-05-16 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 10:32:09AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > I've been invited to give a talk at the forthcoming Ubuntu Developer > Summit, on May 13th in Brussels. I've accepted, since I'd like to take > the chance of the talk to present to the Ubuntu (and Ca

Re: Debian-Ubuntu relationship: poll / feedback sought

2010-05-07 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 10:32:09AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > I'm looking forward for your precious feedback! So, thanks to everybody who have replied already, providing a lot of useful information. I've got about 30 mails ATM, which interestingly converge on several episodes

Re: Squeeze, firmware and installation

2010-05-06 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
y the options, so that we can have a more fruitful flame fest on them later on :) Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Dietro un grande uomo c'è ..| . |. Et ne m

Re: Proposed changes to the Debian Machine Usage Policy (DMUP)

2010-05-03 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
capability (and not necessarily the only one) associated to that status. DSA rules over the technical capabilities while DAM over the status. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon

Re: Proposed changes to the Debian Machine Usage Policy (DMUP)

2010-05-03 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
7;m happy to clarify any additional doubt that people might have. Cheers. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2010/04/msg00016.html -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Di

Re: Estadistical proyect.

2010-05-02 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
to come up with a precise proposal yourself and some willingness to dig into our data which, by the way, are publicly available and generally quite accessible (e.g. in UDD: http://udd.debian.org). Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,p

Re: Proposed changes to the Debian Machine Usage Policy (DMUP)

2010-05-02 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ed to DAM is expulsion, not account locking/termination (which is usual sysadm business and I don't see why DSA should not have that power). In case you like this change, please find attached a patch against the current v1.1.2 branch. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Scien

Re: Estadistical proyect.

2010-05-02 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
are interested in having some pointers to potentially related bibliography, feel free to contact me off-list -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Dietro un grande uo

Debian-Ubuntu relationship: poll / feedback sought

2010-04-30 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
re what we got. If we behave, we can then even have a tiny teeny, but hopefully useful, flame as in the good old days :-) I'm looking forward for your precious feedback! Many thanks in advance, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.

Re: Let's resurrect Debian Weekly News (act the second)

2010-04-02 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
7;ll favor having a single contact point. YMMV. Cheers (and thanks). -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Dietro un grande uomo c'è ..| . |. Et ne m'en veux pas si je te tu

Re: Let's resurrect Debian Weekly News (act the second)

2010-04-01 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
have both I don't see a problem. But please don't make me, as a news submitter, choose among the two :-) Thank you all news.d.n and DWN! Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- h

Re: Invite to join the Release Team

2010-03-15 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
question.) Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Dietro un grande uomo c'è ..| . |. Et ne m'en veux pas si je te tutoie sempre uno zaino ...| ..: |...

PTS subscription exposure - looking for a fix

2010-03-02 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
erface would then need some form of authentication, but that's a different problem, let's go step-by-step, shall we? -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Dietr

Re: Google AdSense for Debian

2010-02-04 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
http://www.debian.org/intro/help - http://www.debian.org/devel/join/ However, I happen to remember that there was a similar page on the wiki, a bit more "up to date", but I can't find one, is my memory b0rken? > * Keywords when the ad should show. "debian" "linux&qu

Re: Debian Website.

2010-01-14 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
let _them_ point volunteers to the most appropriate development direction of the website. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Dietro un grande uomo c'è ..| . |. E

Re: Closed lists as maintainers

2009-12-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
similarly (i.e. RC buggy) packages whose maintainer address can't be mailed due to mailing list post restrictions. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Dietro un gra

Re: DEP-5: prior art for license short names

2009-12-23 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
hers do for those cases. From the page you mention it is not clear to me how do they express multiple licenses ... Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Dietro un grande

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

2009-12-10 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 06:03:41PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > This proposal received a lot of interest back then, but in the end > went nowhere. I think we should resurrect it and put into use at > least some of its parts. In particular, the part about "expiration > of DD

let's add news.debian.net to planet.d.o (!?)

2009-12-07 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ople. ] Cheers. [1] http://news.debian.net/ [2] http://upsilon.cc/~zack/blog/posts/2009/12/RC_bugs_of_the_week_-_week_13/ [3] http://wiki.debian.org/PlanetDebian -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http

Re: squeeze release cycle?

2009-11-10 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
fter DC9 for not having stated explicitly the word "proposal", so they might have been tempted to write "proposal" now to avoid flaming ... We're all humans.) Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.ju

Re: Distributing software written by hostile upstream developers

2009-09-18 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
st remember, the next time that such a problem arises, to call for a vote to make crystal clear that the project does not want to deal with someone, for specific reasons. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<

Re: DEP-5: query about possible inheritence of License:

2009-09-14 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
an attempt of that, attempt that can surely be improved :-) The diff is against current svn HEAD of dep5.mdwn. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Dietro un grande uomo

Re: Sourceless but useless: how about ignoring some irrelevant files instead of repackaging?

2009-09-13 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ain at least one affected branches and replace them with new versions (via stable uploads or the heck) with history rewritten. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Dietro

Re: Sourceless but useless: how about ignoring some irrelevant files instead of repackaging?

2009-09-13 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
document in README.source. Cheers -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Dietro un grande uomo c'è ..| . |. Et ne m'en veux pas si je te tutoie sempre uno zaino ...

Re: Distributing software written by hostile upstream developers

2009-09-11 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ic upstream---in the distro or not? Do we really need something more than that? Yet another procedure? Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Dietro un grande uomo c'

Re: Referring to product's web site in description?

2009-08-25 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Debian to end up plastered with ads, on the > other hand, the tool is not useful without a token, so pointing people > to where they can get one sounds reasonable. > > Ideas, suggestions, thoughts? Sounds like the perfect job for README.Debian to me. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- Ph

Re: On cadence and collaboration

2009-08-06 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 03:18:08PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > During the talk/discussion at DebConf, IIRC Luk stated that > incremental freezes had a negative effect because for many developers > it was not clear what/when was going to be frozen. The logical > consequence

Re: On cadence and collaboration

2009-08-06 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
t; you freeze. > (Putting -release in Cc to catch their attention.) Keeping that to ensure I'm not on crack with my memories :-) Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack

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

2009-08-04 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ping the infrastructure only of this > "hard"/rare/less-important (for the project) cases seems overkill to > me. See above: I don't think it is in any way less important and is likely to become more and more important in the future. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Co

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

2009-08-04 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
> > contacted me on IRC. At the end of that > Yes, I contacted you, and I was quite surprised by this sudden > proposal. Probably I should have made clear at that time that a > contact would have been welcome. My bad then, I could have understood that too. Sorry for the misundersta

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

2009-08-03 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
only active MIA team member AFAIK, contacted me on IRC. At the end of that brief chat, my understanding was that we agreed upon seeing how the proposal was going to be received on -project. I still do not see which "problem" this proposal causes to MIA and MIA team. Cheers. -- Stefano Z

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

2009-08-02 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 06:03:41PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > This proposal received a lot of interest back then, but in the end > went nowhere. I think we should resurrect it and put into use at > least some of its parts. In particular, the part about "expiration > of DD

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-30 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
> release manager. Applause. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Dietro un grande uomo c'è ..| . |. Et ne m'en veux pas si je te tutoie sempre uno zaino ...

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-30 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
;philosophy"). FWIW, that page has been added, rather quickly, after a precise requests of ours, the history is available at http://upsilon.cc/~zack/blog/posts/2007/10/debian_on_ubuntu_com_just_a_bug/ Bottom line: I have no particular problem with Ubuntu bashing, but please get the facts right. Chee

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-30 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
summer. And hey, we have also ongoing very big changes in all OCaml packages (basically we have completely changed the dependency scheme and switched to automatic dependency computation). Still, my current attitude is « hey, let's try if we can do that, if we can it will be really cool ». Cheers

Re: Debian redesign

2009-07-30 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
f our logos that look good when printed?". Cheers. [1] actually, we have some smaller and simpler version of our logo around, but AFAIK we have never make official any of them -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,deb

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
states that the merits of the issues have nothing to do with DebConf9. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Dietro un grande uomo c'è ..| . |. Et ne m'en veux

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
t;time-based freeze" has been announced/proposed during a talk at DebConf; it was fresh news for the attendees as it was fresh news for everybody else receiving it via -announce a few hours later. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{ups

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ckly, but I would love having someone to test it with me. Once it is ready, I guess it can be announced here (and on -vote). Let me know if you, or anybody else, like the idea. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian

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