Re: Claiming the "debian" account on GitHub ? [and 1 more messages]

2012-06-15 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
we should have it, since I think it's pointless, but I can't say it bothers me particularly much in one direction or the other.) -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.or

Re: Planned changes to Debian Maintainer uploads

2012-06-11 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
approved yearly or every other year would be that onerous. (It's also the direction we're moving in for shell accounts on d.o as you know; people who don't use them will have to go through changes@db to reactivate their shell access.) -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it'

Re: Planned changes to Debian Maintainer uploads

2012-06-11 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
I might grant somebody rights to a package, but want it to expire within $period (or at least be subject to more aggressive QA/MIA checks than a normal DD), since I'll be tied to them in a way. Cheers, -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its f

Re: General Resolution: Diversity statement results

2012-06-08 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Kurt Roeckx > It's about to move to a new host, and I'm not sure if DSA is still > going to give everybody access to that host. I imagine that depends on what the secretary asks us to, with us having a slight-to-medium preference for making it restricted. -- Tollef Fog H

Re: Long-term hardware replacement planning (Re: (deferred) bits from the DPL: March 2012)

2012-04-18 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Tollef Fog Heen > ]] Filipus Klutiero > > > Great. Is this plan written? If so, it would be a good idea to make it > > available. > > I'll see what we can get done. There's a bit of cleanup to be done, > since we don't want to publish all the

Re: Long-term hardware replacement planning (Re: (deferred) bits from the DPL: March 2012)

2012-04-17 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
otes and numbers from vendors which they've asked not to be made public. Ditto, I don't think there's much point in publishing the serial numbers of our various servers. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To

Re: Report from DSA Team Sprint in Oslo

2012-04-04 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Filipus Klutiero Hi, > Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > ]] Filipus Klutiero > > > > > It is concerning that we no longer receive enough hardware donations > > > to meet our needs. I can only encourage these improvements to > > > donations pages. Specifi

Re: Report from DSA Team Sprint in Oslo

2012-04-02 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
ven how much money and > time DSA spends on each architecture. We so far only have numbers for our services, where the cost of an extra architecture is fairly small. As for time spent, we don't track that at all. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who

Re: revenue sharing agreement with DuckDuckGo

2012-03-29 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
am relationships, that set will shrink to > nothing, too bad. The agreement will simply allow the set to exist, it > will not magically fill it with browsers that implement t=something. Based on this, I don't see any downsides for us in accepting such an agreement, only possible upsides, so

Re: Report from DSA Team Sprint in Oslo

2012-03-27 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
27;d like to keep and send it back, gpg-signed, or similar, so I don't really think we'll bother with differentiating between dangerous and innocent groups. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-pr

Re: Report from DSA Team Sprint in Oslo

2012-03-27 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
quest yet, but the wish is certainly there. I thought Roland fixed that recently? If not, can you please try again and see if it works now? Thanks, -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@

Re: Report from DSA Team Sprint in Oslo

2012-03-20 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
oups. I'm still a member of webwml even though I don't think I've committed anything there since 2007 or so. I'm also apparently a qa member, though I can't even remember asking to be put in the group. :-) (Not picking on those two groups specifically, I'm just using

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Your biggest achievement during past DebConfs (aka new DebConf promoting campaign)

2012-02-17 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
d-i a few months before DC3, iirc. I'm currently unable to find the IRC log where I told you about it, though. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Security guidelines for Debian people

2011-11-06 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
atters. Source packages are signed with the developer's key. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listma

Alioth Sprint 2011

2011-03-28 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
ot to Collabora for sponsoring office space and snacks for the sprint and to Debian for sponsoring travel. Regards, -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &q

Re: What is annoying in the flattr buttons?

2010-11-12 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Michael Gilbert Hi, | On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 17:27:08 +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | | > You don't think so. I do. One of the reasons is it puts a, IMO too | > low value on other, similar work, so by taking petty donations for | > small pieces of work, you are lowering the va

Re: What is annoying in the flattr buttons?

2010-11-12 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
onsidering the taboo surrounding | money. OTOH, a beggar doesn't provide any service at all. My definition of people begging for money include charities asking for money on the street. Those charities usually provide useful services. I guess that wasn't entirely clear from my email. --

Re: What is annoying in the flattr buttons?

2010-11-12 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
ple will end up associating Debian (and therefore Debian Developers) with begging, and I'd rather not be associated with such activities. I know many people don't consider asking for donations begging, but I do. Regards, -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky abo

Re: DSA meeting (Munich 3/9/10)

2010-09-12 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
rse thinking of having alerts sent to the local admin rather than DSA. Regards, -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: handling of guest accounts on debian.org machines

2010-09-12 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
or me. :-) -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.d

Re: Debian FTPMaster Meeting, September

2010-08-29 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
ollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/874oed5nym@qurzaw.linpro.no

Re: [RFC] Questions for Git User's Survey 2010

2010-08-18 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
even if MUCs aren't very much used (yet), I don't know if you care about this. Thanks for doing this survey, I've found reading the results interesting in the past and hope to do so this time around as well. Regards, -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky

Re: VCS issues ( Re: [DEP-5] [patch] Renaming the Format-Specification field to ‘Format’. )

2010-08-14 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
everyone can view | it without having to check out via bzr. It does, look at http://bzr.debian.org/loggerhead/dep/dep5/trunk/files (Thanks to Steve for pointing out that loggerhead on Alioth had some problems so they could be resolved.) -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just pi

Re: Squeeze, firmware and installation

2010-05-12 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
er use the mini.iso or PXE boot rather than using full ISOs. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists

Re: Squeeze, firmware and installation

2010-05-12 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Martin Schulze | I'm sure these modern systems do have USB connectors. It's quite inconvenient to plug USB sticks into machines which are on the other side of the Atlantic ocean. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNS

Re: Squeeze, firmware and installation

2010-05-06 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
a usb sticks, floppies, etc. It's not uncommon to install machines you are not physically close to and where plugging in hardware is therefore hard, so having it on the install media already is quite useful. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends

Re: What to do about negligent maintainers?

2010-01-08 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
I think this is a systemic problem where we are bad at discovering when maintainers don't really maintain their packages that well any longer, be it because they have lost interest, are overworked or something else. What can we do to prevent this and when it happens, fix it? -- Tollef Fog

What to do about negligent maintainers?

2010-01-07 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
e? The TC can already rule over maintainership so perhaps that is enough and we don't need any more procedures or rules to handle those cases? -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lis

Re: Debian money

2009-09-17 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
tes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/ Maybe we should ask them to either sponsor one and one as a backup, sell us one or similar? We'd not want to run their storage thing, which is proprietary, but just having that much storage should be plenty for quite a while, I'd think.

Re: Switching the default startup method

2009-08-27 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Andreas Barth | * Tollef Fog Heen (tfh...@err.no) [090826 16:12]: | > ]] Andreas Barth | | > | Our release policy tells in | > | http://release.debian.org/squeeze/rc_policy.txt (please note the | > | difference between conffiles and configuration files) | > | > I don

Re: Switching the default startup method

2009-08-26 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Andreas Barth | * Tollef Fog Heen (tfh...@err.no) [090826 08:59]: | > ]] Alexander Wirt | > | > | Luk Claes schrieb am Monday, den 24. August 2009: | > | | > | *snip* | > | > Why would file-rc not work properly with dependency based booting? | > | | > | you know

Re: Switching the default startup method

2009-08-25 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
keep any changes the admin has made. I don't see why this would be particularly hard, if insserv has a way to override particular bits? -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.

Re: Switching the default startup method

2009-08-24 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
grave bug. Downgrades have never been officially supported, though. Isn't this approximately the same thing? -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &q

Re: Summary of the debian-devel BoF at Debconf9

2009-08-19 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] MJ Ray | Tollef Fog Heen | > you seem to think that moving wnpp traffic off -devel would be useful to | > make -devel more attractive? Why do you think so? | > | > I think moving the traffic off would just mean fewer people would care | > to review the wnpp mails and we

Re: Summary of the debian-devel BoF at Debconf9

2009-08-18 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
review the wnpp mails and we'd be worse off overall. I don't have any numbers to back up that claim though, it's just a gut feeling. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debia

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

2009-08-08 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
hich I guess could/should have a link to the yubikey page. (It doesn't today.) -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Referring to product's web site in description?

2009-08-07 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
pointing people to where they can get one sounds reasonable. Ideas, suggestions, thoughts? -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Opera in your repos

2009-08-07 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
al is fine in non-free, or at least was, last time I checked. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: DAM and NEW queues processing

2009-07-12 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
nt to change that, we should also change who are the ones legally responsible for the archive. -- Tollef Fog Heen (not an ftpmaster) UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &q

Re: Debconf Group Photos needed

2009-01-19 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Martin Zobel-Helas | * Debconf 3 liw took this picture, iirc, so I assume he has the JPEG or RAW lying around. | They should have reasonable size for printing on large-size posters. | | Hints and links welcome, as well as eMailed once. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's

Re: transfering files between *.debian.org hosts

2008-09-01 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
NFS over OpenVPN between all debian hosts and a directory which is mode 1777 ? Sendfile over OpenVPN would also work and be less insecure (though still no auth). Passphraseless keys limited to sftp would also be an option, but on a per-user basis. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly,

Re: Misc development news (#8)

2008-06-10 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
ost you _might_ have copied | it to, to the effort of sending a single mail and knowing you're done. That's one way to look at it. For some of us, it means debian SSH keys have to be handled specifically and not through $RCS update through cron so it comes out as more, not less, work. --

Re: DEP1: Clarifying policies and workflows for Non Maintainer Uploads (NMUs)

2008-06-01 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
t's useful. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DEP1: Clarifying policies and workflows for Non Maintainer Uploads (NMUs)

2008-05-25 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
e a script that understands dcut commands and only acts if it's signed by the owner of the package (maintainer or uploader). -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-25 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
s on them could work, though. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2006-12-03 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Guillem Jover | On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 12:32:18 -0800, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | > They are just strings. But, as I wrote, they are just one example; we | > would probably want to associate uploads and bzr branches as well. The | > LP syntax could be LP: #123 for closing bugs,

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

2006-11-17 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
Guillem Jover skrev: For "specs" I would add a new syntax, which could be used by everyone equally, even Debian could start using it if desired. Do launchpad specs have a numeric value or are just strings? They are just strings. But, as I wrote, they are just one example; we would probably w

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

2006-11-16 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
Guillem Jover skrev: [...] which are wrong, ugly or may need a central registration place to avoid collisions either in the mnemonic or the "alternative" closure syntax. Probably the cleanest one is the "Closes Ubuntu:" approach. (With my Ubuntu, not my Debian hat on) While closing bugs will

Re: wrong meaning of "GNU/Linux" on Debian Project mainpage

2005-01-05 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Johannes Rohr | Linus says: Linux is an OS, using the GNU tools and being packaged by | distributors. nah, he doesn't. He says that Linux is a kernel and useless without any programs to use. It's also fairly boring to most people. -- Tolle

Re: Usage of Debian Structure Documentation, Social Contract etc

2004-02-29 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
is with their social contract, http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/contract.xml . I think doing things the way they have done it is perfectly acceptable, and if I'd understood you correctly, you want to do something similar. So: go ahead. -- Tollef Fog Heen

Re: Debian Conference 3

2003-01-17 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
July 10th and 11th, same location as Debconf. NUUG is also the organization behind COFSINO. Please see http://www.nuug.no/cofsino/ for more information about COFSINO. -- Tollef Fog Heen,''`. UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are : :' : `. `' `-

Bug#158533: project: qmail is installed on murphy

2002-08-28 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
.com, so I think it should be able to scale. (No, I am not saying: switch! switch!. Those which runs lists.d.o have my greatest thanks for providing such a good service, though it would be nicer if it ran on DFSG software, I am not going to tell them how to do th

Re: woody base install packages

2002-08-07 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
You will need to change the woody script in debootstrap. -- Tollef Fog Heen,''`. UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are : :' : `. `' `-

Re: Negative statement of intent

2002-05-27 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Michael Holzt | I think people up in the "higher ranks" of debian like Joey really | should refrain from such phrases as 'strongly discourage' or at | least make clear that they are only pointing out their opinions. Debian does not have ranks.

Re: RFC: Changing the NM system

2000-12-19 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
yself. If I failed miserabely I'd either not apply or read more before retaking the test and applying. -- Tollef Fog Heen Unix _IS_ user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are.

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