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

2009-07-23 Thread Thomas Viehmann
difficulties and present a plan to fix them by sending a mail to the bug report. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Creating an operating system

2009-06-24 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 07:27:57PM +0200, Thomas Viehmann wrote: The problem with Debian's processes is not that they are too slow, but that they are full of people who only degrade Debian. I agree with the concern. But the reason is twofold. On one hand we might

Creating an operating system

2009-06-23 Thread Thomas Viehmann
the other, heavily stinking problems), but, really, how hard is it to close the orphaning bug when people become magically enchanted to fix eclipse?) -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: DAM and NEW queues processing

2009-06-23 Thread Thomas Viehmann
of the backlog. The main difference between Chris and Sandro and many of the less successful candidates is commitment and skill. I would not think that the above qualifies as Chris being exceptionally lucky with respect to how the process works out in each case. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann

Re: Debian Membership

2009-03-14 Thread Thomas Viehmann
is subject to expiration for inactive members. Kind regards T. 1. Mainly inspired by damog's most recent post. 2. This is, mind you, any one's ticket into the cabal: spend vast amounts of time trying to put out quality work. 3. http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2009/02/msg00083.html -- Thomas

Re: search.debian.org

2009-01-13 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Hi, Thomas Viehmann wrote: apologies for the cross-post, choose your favorite one of the two to reply. search.debian.org[1], a slightly patched xapian-omega instance, is looking for a kind DD (or a team?) to pick it up. Some more improvements to the language support would be desirable

search.debian.org

2009-01-04 Thread Thomas Viehmann
T. P.S.: Please CC me if you reply in order to take the job. 1. http://search.debian.org/ -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: search.debian.org

2008-11-16 Thread Thomas Viehmann
months ago I started search.debian.net to operate as the new Debian search. That had to move hosts lately, and search.debian.org already points to the new location but the service has not quite arrived yet. I apologize for the inconvenience. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http

Re: Re-thinking Debian membership

2008-10-28 Thread Thomas Viehmann
-ballpark of difficulty. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NEW queue

2008-10-23 Thread Thomas Viehmann
On 2008-10-23 12:11:32.00 Aurelien Jarno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The NEW queue hasn't been processed for two months if we except a few fast-tracked packages, and the number of packages it contains has increased a lot. Some rumors said it is due to the approaching release of Lenny, but on

Re: Debian 0.91 beta

2008-10-10 Thread Thomas Viehmann
. Thanks again. If anyone has archives to fill the gaps... Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian 0.91 beta

2008-10-06 Thread Thomas Viehmann
give that a second try to see if you can reread that off the CD before I try to massage them into the archive. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2008-07-20 Thread Thomas Viehmann
regards T. 1. last time at http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/03/msg00023.html 2. Seriously, what do you answer NMs asking why there are so many substandard copyright files in Debian when doing QA work? That it used to be more difficult a few years ago? -- Thomas Viehmann

Re: infrastructure team procedures (fifth edit)

2008-04-17 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Holger Levsen wrote: As I read it, the developers would - if this GR would be accepted as it is - acknowledge, that some people seem to think they act - within their Debian roles - outside Debians constitution. And since we acknowledge this from now on, this practice becomes fine and

Proposed removal of spam from the debian-project mailing list web archives

2007-11-27 Thread Thomas Viehmann
/ use http://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/%s for quick bookmarks -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: About spam in the list archive

2007-11-21 Thread Thomas Viehmann
/msg4.html -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: About spam in the list archive

2007-11-11 Thread Thomas Viehmann
3697 debian-user-portuguese 5343 debian-user-spanish 5481 debian-devel 7585 debian-user 92985 total (includes unlisted) -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Update on lists.debian.org

2007-11-10 Thread Thomas Viehmann
tt + br before. If you find what you believe are regressions that need fixing, please don't hesitate to file a bug against the listarchives pseudo-package. Kind regards Thomas 1. http://lists.debian.org/ -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

About spam in the list archive

2007-11-02 Thread Thomas Viehmann
team and Frans Pop. The bad ideas are my own, though. 1. http://master.debian.org/~tviehmann/debian-devel/2007/debian-devel-200701/ -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mailadresse

2007-07-25 Thread Thomas Viehmann
much with it. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Spam in mail archive

2007-07-25 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Thomas Viehmann wrote: If the one thing keeping us from deleting list spam (which I found out ...we don't... after reporting entire months of d-devel spam) is the indexing and thus linking, I'd happily try to come up with a patch that makes mhonarc deal with the gaps. The result of a quick

Re: Security categories according to Debian

2007-01-08 Thread Thomas Viehmann
itself and a lot of search engines to no avail. Try looking at the actual Debian Security Advisories and see if you can find a pattern. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Proposal: Handling of changelog bug closures in Debian derived distros

2006-11-14 Thread Thomas Viehmann
be deminished by dch et al. producing changelog entries suited for upload to Debian by default? If derivatives change this, their packages woudln't go into Debian anyways. Cheers T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

publically accesible NEW queue information

2006-10-28 Thread Thomas Viehmann
in as a user that is able to access katie.Katie's pkg.files... Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Position Statement to the Dunc-Tanc experiment

2006-10-27 Thread Thomas Viehmann
regards T. 1. I freely admit that I've not asked for it recently. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-07-30 Thread Thomas Viehmann
impression that the previous non-smooth python transitions were fare more successful and less stressful. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: package ownership in Debian

2006-07-29 Thread Thomas Viehmann
of package as title of the version strings (e.g. displayed in mozilla-based browsers when you hover over the version). Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: package ownership in Debian

2006-07-29 Thread Thomas Viehmann
parties). I think something like X-Vcs-Url would be cool. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-07-29 Thread Thomas Viehmann
much rather have someone wildly NMUing packages and not be able to do dist-upgrades without thinking for a month than having people like Joe W. give up. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-07-29 Thread Thomas Viehmann
ubuntu experience) which (types of) packages will be affected? I do have the impression that most maintainers will have no problem with people improving Debian. That said, it always helps to communicate as much and early as reasonably possible. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http

Re: Debian Server restored after Compromise

2006-07-14 Thread Thomas Viehmann
. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Poll: how should Debian derivatives identify their packages?

2006-01-26 Thread Thomas Viehmann
be strictly neccessary for informal polls... Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu

2006-01-17 Thread Thomas Viehmann
-- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu

2006-01-17 Thread Thomas Viehmann
packager branding the package much more than the Ubuntu changes in the vast majority of cases. But then my views are far too expensive to share with others. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Debian derivatives and the Maintainer: field (again)

2006-01-17 Thread Thomas Viehmann
of text. Yeah, and it seems unreasonable to suggest that anyone should be hindered to ship unmodified source packages as just that. In fact, Debian does try to ship unmodified upstream source tarballs, why shouldn't other people ship unmodified Debian source packages? Kind regards T. -- Thomas

Re: Debian Core Consortium

2005-07-25 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Stephen Frost wrote: * Thomas Viehmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Maybe it would be great to come up with something that can be used by everyone interested. I'm thinking along the lines granting a license to use Debian derived as part of the name for products / efforts to create products derived

Bug#316581: project: db.debian.org not accepting key in keyring

2005-07-02 Thread Thomas Viehmann
woody's 1.0) finds its way to installation. Until then, you'll also have trouble with the key selection for encryption of answers if you have (young) authentication keys on your ring. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED