Re: Report from DSA Team Sprint in Oslo

2012-03-31 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
I'm curious why ftp-master needs to be hosted in the US. (please CC me) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Report from DSA Team Sprint in Oslo

2012-03-31 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Thanks for the explanation; makes me curious how other distros/projects handle this? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Why so many install DVD's ?

2011-03-04 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 18:03, Gunnar Wolf gw...@gwolf.org wrote: packages. The size of an average desktop install is well below 5GB², including the whole desktop suite (with the most often used programs for a regular workstation). This can be misleading because install size is always larger

Re: What is annoying in the flattr buttons?

2010-11-13 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 09:28, Tollef Fog Heen tfh...@err.no wrote: ]] 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

Re: What is annoying in the flattr buttons?

2010-11-12 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:24, Tollef Fog Heen tfh...@err.no wrote: ]] Raphael Hertzog Hi, | Are those sentences correctly representing your concerns? Are there | other concerns to add? My concern is actually more that I don't like people begging, and the flattr buttons do look like

Re: What is annoying in the flattr buttons?

2010-11-12 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 17:56, Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org wrote: Hi, On Fri, 12 Nov 2010, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: It's not begging in a sense that someone IS doing some work. It's more like use this thing that I produced, and if you want, you can reward me with a few cents

Re: What is annoying in the flattr buttons?

2010-11-12 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 18:27, Tollef Fog Heen tfh...@err.no wrote: ]] Tshepang Lekhonkhobe | It's more like use this thing that I produced, and if you want, you | can reward me with a few cents. There simply is nothing distasteful | about that. You don't think so.  I do.  One

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

2010-11-11 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:56, Martin Zobel-Helas zo...@debian.org wrote: [ Please note that this is my very personal opinion and does not neccesarily need to cover the opinion of any of the teams I am in. ] Dear planet folks, I have been made aware that people use Debian resources for

Re: What is annoying in the flattr buttons?

2010-11-11 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 02:44, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: Michael Gilbert michael.s.gilb...@gmail.com writes: Raphael has every right to attempt to pursue his field of endeavor in any tolerant/respectful manner he chooses. ...using his own property.  But not using Debian project

Re: What is annoying in the flattr buttons?

2010-11-11 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 14:22, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud did...@raboud.com wrote: Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 02:44, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: Michael Gilbert michael.s.gilb...@gmail.com writes: Raphael has every right to attempt to pursue his field of endeavor

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

2010-11-11 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 14:11, Peter Palfrader wea...@debian.org wrote: On Thu, 11 Nov 2010, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: while on that topic, maybe each package on package.qa.d.o should have a flattr button ;-) And one for the packages.d.o guys.  And one for the QA guys.  And one for DSA

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

2010-11-11 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 14:27, Lars Wirzenius l...@liw.fi wrote: On to, 2010-11-11 at 14:01 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: -1 for flattr; it's a great way to contribute a few cents; and these people are great contributors to Debian anyways, so why don't they get rewarded? while

Re: What is annoying in the flattr buttons?

2010-11-11 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 19:24, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: Tshepang Lekhonkhobe tshep...@gmail.com writes: Didier 'OdyX' Raboud did...@raboud.com wrote: For a simple reason, the DMUP [0]; which every user of Debian resources must follow. It says (in its introduction, point 1

Re: What is annoying in the flattr buttons?

2010-11-10 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 23:22, Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) jonat...@ubuntu.com wrote: Hi Raphael On 10/11/2010 14:45, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Mon, 08 Nov 2010, Holger Levsen wrote: since a while, we see unsolicted commercial links and images on planet, mostly about flattr. So it's

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

2010-10-08 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
2010/10/8 Jesús M. Navarro jesus.nava...@undominio.net: Hi Tshepang: On Thursday 07 October 2010 19:02:39 Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 18:13, Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: [...] You ask a question, and someone answers. If you find the answer useful

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

2010-10-07 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 07:49, Ritesh Raj Sarraf r...@debian.org wrote: On Thursday 07 Oct 2010 01:12:37 Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Ultimately, all this information gets publically archived/mined and serves as useful information. == One solution: all package maintainers subscribe

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

2010-10-07 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 10:12, Fernando C. Estrada fcestr...@fcestrada.com wrote: Bad News: If the system keeps growing (as we hope) the current moderators are not enough. Good News: Maybe we'll find more volunteers to help us as moderators. Why let people elect to be moderators? Why not let

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

2010-10-07 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 18:13, Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Jo, 07 oct 10, 03:33:08, Fernando C. Estrada wrote: track experts by tag: shapado automatically detects people that are experts in some fields. That is to say, if you answer a question about “kde” or “ruby” and

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

2010-10-06 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 06:31, Ritesh Raj Sarraf r...@debian.org wrote: I think we need something where in we can inter-relate all communication. Something like Semantic Communication. I have written about this earlier but perhaps right now is the correct time and forum. Here's a use case

Re: On cadence and collaboration

2009-08-17 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
2009/8/16 Andre Felipe Machado andremach...@techforce.com.br: - Given that Debian Project has around 2000 commited devs and last I checked, that number was about 400 DD's who were actually active [0] ([Off Topic and not deserving answer as it is an unqualified suggestion]: Maybe, Canonical

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-30 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:37, Raphael Hertzoghert...@debian.org wrote: On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Marc Haber wrote: In fact, I would prefer if Ubuntu had to change _their_ scheduled to accomodate us, if they want to have the advantage of being in sync with us. It's _their_ advantage after all, not

Re: Debian redesign

2009-07-30 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 16:51, Ana Guerreroa...@debian.org wrote: Hi, Agnieszka Czajkowska has presented this morning at DebConf a very nice redesign proposal off the Debian logo and the Debian website. She has been working on this all the last year as part of her master thesis in Design.

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-30 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:11, Marc Habermh+debian-proj...@zugschlus.de wrote: On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:59:05AM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: so if they keep honouring publicly stating and recognizing Debian as their upstream, google, debian site:ubuntu.com delivers _one_ hit

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-30 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:17, Didier 'OdyX' Rabouddid...@raboud.com wrote: Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: There's some (many) of us who feel that the great Debian culture is irreplaceable, and therefore won't use Ubuntu as their primary OS. So why worry about losing relevance. Because if you

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-30 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:51, Raphael Hertzoghert...@debian.org wrote: On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Marc Haber wrote: That's what I doubt. Ubuntu LTS will be better than Debian stable in all aspects, why should anybody continue using Debian stable? Why are you using Debian and not Ubuntu? For me:

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-30 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 12:27, Julien BLACHEjbla...@debian.org wrote: Marc Haber mh+debian-proj...@zugschlus.de wrote: Hi, I don't think that we shouldn't time our releases according to what Mark Shuttleworth says. We are not Ubuntu's slave even if they try hard to make it look like that.

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:40, Luk Claesl...@debian.org wrote: Why doing a 12 months release to get into the new schedule instead of just adopting a 24 months schedule based on the lenny release? [1] The main reason is that the Release Team hopes to now have the momentum to make a time based

Re: notable Debian contributions in 2006

2007-03-27 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 3/24/07, Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 02:08:10PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Distors are often viewed as mere packagers, but they tend to drive upstream development in variety of ways. Here's just a few of Debian's contributions to the world of FLOSS

notable Debian contributions in 2006

2007-03-24 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Distors are often viewed as mere packagers, but they tend to drive upstream development in variety of ways. Here's just a few of Debian's contributions to the world of FLOSS during 2006: * creation of cdrkit, a fork of cdrtools, due to a change of licence which happened to be DFSG-incompatible *

Re: Position Statement to the Dunc-Tanc experiment

2006-10-26 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Thanks for the mail-in-depth On 10/26/06, Joerg Jaspert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ snip ] Joey Schulze: [5] Debian is a failure This is misrepresentation don't you think? Joey didn't say that Debian is a failure. That's just the title of the blog. [5]

Re: New Maintainers

2006-07-03 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 6/30/06, Mohammed Adnène Trojette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a summary of the AM reports for the first semester of 2006. 36 applicants became maintainers. [snip] It's truly astounding to have such great expertise in Debian. Congratulations to all and great thanks to the mighty Debian