Re: Insanely frustrating finding older distributions

2023-01-11 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, 11 Jan 2023 03:45:42 -0600, Daemon Bernstein wrote: > I had to keep searching on a search engine to find the archive. Debian's > website search could not find it. I was curious and tried … If I go to https://www.debian.org/ and type "archive" in the search box at the top right, the first

Re: archive

2023-01-04 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, 04 Jan 2023 16:24:56 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Wed, Jan 04, 2023 at 02:45:51PM +0200, to...@ukr.net wrote: > > Hi! I'm interested in a question about the archive/old versions. The site > > https://www.debian.org/distrib/archive.en.html states that over time you > > stop keepin

Re: Tone policing by a member of the community team [Was, Re: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board]

2021-04-10 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, 11 Apr 2021 01:28:45 +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > On Wed, 2021-04-07 at 21:38 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > > I wonder, though -- do we have a Nazi anywhere in the project? Could you > > point to one? > Although I really prefer not to have them in the project, its is not the > Debian pro

Re: Ynt: Raspberry Pi - Default Language

2020-09-15 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 15 Sep 2020 15:20:52 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > The screenshots of the YouTube video showing the setup of the Raspberry > Pi don't look like the normal Debian installer. Also the phrases that > appear in the screenshots don't seem to appear in any Debian package: > > https://codesearch.deb

Re: Announcing miniDebConf Montreal 2020 -- August 6th to August 9th 2020

2020-02-19 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, 19 Feb 2020 09:51:13 +0100, Ulrike Uhlig wrote: > Is the decision making process clearly documented somewhere? I don't think so … > Is the decision making body documented somewhere, i.e. ewhere can I find > out who is part of the committee? And how can people join this body? The DebConf

Re: Announcing miniDebConf Montreal 2020 -- August 6th to August 9th 2020

2020-02-18 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 18 Feb 2020 21:44:09 +0200, Jonathan Carter wrote: > On 2020/02/18 21:15, Daniel Lange wrote: > >> […] I think the current DebConf committee > >> should strongly consider […] > >> keep the bid decision public as it was in prior DebConfs. > > We held public review meetings for the DC21 bids

Re: Using Debian funds to support a gcc development task

2019-09-29 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, 29 Sep 2019 12:22:21 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 9/29/19 12:13 PM, Hector Oron wrote: > >> Not sure what the problem with LTS is. I thought companies pay for the > >> extra effort. I think it's a perfectly fine business model. > > As a very simple summary, companies pay an

Re: GR proposal: mandating VcsGit and VcsBrowser for all packages, using the "gbp patches unapplied" layout, and maybe also mandating hosted on Salsa

2019-07-25 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, 24 Jul 2019 12:23:42 +, Scott Kitterman wrote: > We are > perfectly capable of phasing out obsolete workflows without a > hammer like a GR (remember dpatch). Unrelated to the general topic but since you mention it: Yes I remember dpatch -- it's not phased out, I just encountered it a

Re: Conflict escalation and discipline

2018-04-18 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, 18 Apr 2018 17:55:03 +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > On Wed, 2018-04-18 at 15:51 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Lars Wirzenius writes ("Re: Conflict escalation and discipline"): > > > This implies to me that, at the least, "anti-harassment" is the wrong > > > name for a team that deals with

Re: Automatic downloading of non-free software by stuff in main

2017-12-07 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 07 Dec 2017 08:16:47 -0500, Paul R. Tagliamonte wrote: > Restricting the execution of files one downloads or disabling macros on > word documents you download and open would be a huge security win. I'm skeptical, at least if this leads to more of the well-known-and-much-despised "Do you r

Re: Debian infrastructure in the EU / copyright challenges

2017-08-23 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, 23 Aug 2017 11:02:51 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > Not found nor apparently even linked anywhere on the EFF site, they seem to > refer to http://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/dae/document.cfm?doc_id=17200 Thanks for digging up this document. > # Article 13 > # > # Use of protected content by in

Report from the Debian Perl Group sprint at DebCamp 2016

2016-07-04 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 16 Jun 2016 23:48:20 +0200, gregor herrmann wrote: > > The Debian Perl Group is planning to hold a sprint at DebCamp in > > Cape Town. > The correct URL is of course > https://wiki.debian.org/Sprints/2016/DebianPerlDebCamp And here's a brief report from the sprint

Report from the Debian Perl Sprint at DebCamp15 (Heidelberg, August 2015)

2015-09-05 Thread gregor herrmann
Debian Perl Group Rolling Sprint at DebCamp 2015 Introduction The Debian Perl Group conducted a "Rolling Sprint" during DebCamp 2015 in Heidelberg from 2015-08-10 - 2015-08-14. The term "Rolling Sprint" describes an event that extende

Re: How to contribute paragraphs to release notes

2015-04-12 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, 12 Apr 2015 12:44:39 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > we are short before the release and I wonder how it would be possible to > contribute to the release notes. There's a pseudo-package in the BTS for collecting contributions: http://bugs.debian.org/release-notes As for formats and repos

Re: Debian calendar, events and more

2015-02-05 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 05 Feb 2015 20:55:17 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting Daniel Pocock (2015-02-05 20:06:22) > > I looked in a search engine for Debian calendar, events and other > > dates and couldn't really find anything that looked like a structured > > calendar. These two pages did come up tho

Re: Re: Systemd

2014-11-29 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, 30 Nov 2014 07:52:23 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > You constant rants are getting unbearable for me. Same here. My email killfile consists of 6 lines. 3 of them are Svante's email addresses. (Yes, "don't feed the troll" doesn't work. But still. *sigh*) Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Ho

Re: How to add avatar image to BTS?

2014-10-17 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 22:21:32 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > > We actually have a fully federated setup, so something as simple as what > > Sune did will work: > > http://pusling.com/blog/?p=274 > In other words: All those people with proper avatars in BTS have setup > some DNS record on one of the

Re: Code of Conduct: picking up

2013-11-26 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, 27 Nov 2013 06:52:10 +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: > You exchange one undefined term against another, but that doesn't > change the underlying problem, which is, *what* is socially > disruptive? [..] > The whole point is that all these pseudo definitions of normality > are just fake, fak

Re: Choqok 1.4 on Debian Wheezy repos?

2013-11-20 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 21 Nov 2013 07:43:32 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 5:13 AM, Eliseu Cendron Carvalho wrote: > > So, is there any chance to make Choqok 1.4 available on Debian > > Wheezy repos? > Please file a release-critical bug (severity serious) about this issue. I guess that's #712

Re: Surveying new package maintainers about their experience of contributing to Debian

2013-07-18 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 18 Jul 2013 09:29:11 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > I might be interesting to learn _how_ they started to contribute / > > got their first package uploaded. > Good idea. New version, also trying to provide more closed answers to ease the > analysis, and two questions about future plans

Re: Surveying new package maintainers about their experience of contributing to Debian

2013-07-17 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, 17 Jul 2013 17:08:55 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > I feel that, as long-time contributors, we often lack a good view of how > hard new people find it to get involved in Debian. In order to better > identify blockers or difficulties that prospective contributors face > when trying to contr

Re: OpenPGP keysigning: alternate encodings for fingerprint exchange

2013-06-28 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 28 Jun 2013 10:07:43 +, Tanguy Ortolo wrote: > Latin is a common root to many current languages, and which I think has > a completely deterministic pronunciation. Not really, there are variations both historically/geographically and nowadays. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_spel

Re: Planned changes to Debian Maintainer uploads

2012-06-11 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 18:29:46 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > > - It applies to all DMs listed as Maintainer/Uploaders. It is not > >possible to grant upload permission to only a specific DM. > Isn't that the point of listing a DM in the field? Why would you want to > list

Re: Planned changes to Debian Maintainer uploads

2012-06-11 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 19:52:30 +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > > The ftp team wants to change how allowing Debian Maintainers to upload > > packages works. The current approach with the DM-Upload-Allowed field > > has a few issues we would like to address: > Have any of these issues been a problem prac

Re: Diversity statement for the Debian Project

2012-04-09 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 09 Apr 2012 14:02:02 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > here is a wrap-up (of the wrap-up (of the...)) that Francesca has just > shared with me based on the last feedback on list. > > > The Debian Project welcomes

Re: Diversity statement for the Debian Project

2012-03-23 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:17:42 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > And I think we are also not open to people who don't share these > > values, e.g. people with a racist, sexist, ... behaviour. > While I certainly agree, I think it's best to leave the latter implicit in > the statement of what we *do* ac

Re: Diversity statement for the Debian Project

2012-03-23 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:25:41 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > >> And I think we are also not open to people who don't share these > >> values, e.g. people with a racist, sexist, ... behaviour. > > Why? > You can't have an open and welcoming environment if you're open to people > who work to make the e

Re: Diversity statement for the Debian Project

2012-03-23 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 20:38:39 +0100, Enrico Zini wrote: > I can think of another thing that we care about, which I don't see > mentioned here: "We expect people to be constructive members of the > community." Agreed. And I think we are also not open to people who don't share these values, e.g. pe

Re: DEP-5: Clarifying copyright/license requirements

2012-01-20 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:29:29 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > > I'd rather add a disclaimer/preface at the beginning that says in BIG > > FRIENDLY LETTERS that DEP5 is only about formatting and doesn't change > > any requirements (which are [or should be] spelt out in policy). > It turns out that ther

Re: DEP-5: Clarifying copyright/license requirements

2012-01-19 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:30:48 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Confusing or not, I think this really needs to be addressed. It's *the* > problem that people are running into in evaluating the format, and there > is a ton of negative discussion of DEP-5 out there based on the idea that > it's so much h

Re: Finishing DEP 5.

2011-11-11 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 10:33:21 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > the machine-readable format for Debian copyright files proposed in > DEP 5 has been stable for many monthes, is supported by multiple parsers and > Lintian, and is getting frequently used in new packages (at least from what I > see

Re: Ethnographic study on Debian. Thanks to the Debian Community

2011-05-11 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, 11 May 2011 20:23:36 +0200, Fernando González de Requena wrote: > So I would like to share it with the debian community. It is written in > Spanish, so I guess it will not be widely read. Anyway, I would be happy > with any comments, criticisms, suggestions, ... > You can download it from

Re: git-copyright-scan: find authors missing from DEP-5 debian/copyright

2011-04-06 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, 06 Apr 2011 19:51:25 +0300, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > Yaroslav Halchenko writes: > > That is true, but since it doesn't have to be mandatory to use > > git-copyright-scan, it could simply be a helper for some projects were > > authors do retain the copyright . > Exactly. git-copyright

Re: git-copyright-scan: find authors missing from DEP-5 debian/copyright

2011-04-06 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, 06 Apr 2011 12:21:49 +0300, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > Could we compare git log against debian/copyright? git-copyright-scan is > a proof-of-concept that tries to locate authors that are listed in git > log but are missing from DEP-5 debian/copyright. While I'm in favour of making mana

Re: Report from this years CeBIT

2011-03-08 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 08 Mar 2011 22:38:15 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > mendeley (some sort of citing > > application, if I remember correctly) > Sadly, Mendeley is not free: http://www.mendeley.com/terms/ (point 4). > To my knowledge, there is is no direct equivalent of Mendeley in Debian, > although for t

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

2011-01-13 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 01:41:47 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > >In practice, in my experience most packages have exactly the same > >URL (maybe with one path part more or less) in debian/control, > >debian/copyright and debian/watch. > In my experience it can be hard to actually find upstream sourc

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

2011-01-13 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 10:14:01 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > > (Of course, the Source field is also redundant for a great many > > packages where it would be the same URL that goes in debian/control's > > Homepage field. IIRC, the hope is that policy is eventually changed to > > not require the copyrig

Re: DEP5 CANDIDATE parser/editor/validator/migrator is released in libconfig-model-perl

2011-01-13 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 13:47:53 +0100, Dominique Dumont wrote: > The new version of libconfig-model-perl 1.229 is now available in Sid. This > new version provides a model of DEP-5 updated according to the CANDIDATE > version. (Among other features [1], like editor/validator for debian/control). >

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

2011-01-09 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, 09 Jan 2011 20:42:29 +0100, Dominique Dumont wrote: > As a bonus, Config::Model will be able to migrate copyright files from older > specification to the new spec. Very cool! I'm looking forward to using it. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.at/ -- GPG key IDs: 0x864

Re: dep5, whats the status?

2010-12-23 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 11:51:59 +, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > Those who > already use some revision, such as pkg-perl, should stick to what they > are using now. Agreed, and the fact that r135 in svn hasn't changed for some time (and the development happened somewhere else) was actually helpful for

Re: DEP5: License section

2010-12-20 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 21:38:47 +, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > On to, 2010-12-16 at 14:08 +0100, gregor herrmann wrote: > > * The link in "For versions, consult the Perl Foundation" doesn't > > lead to the expected page. > Can you give a good link? For the Arti

Re: DEP5: License section

2010-12-16 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 21:36:21 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > For DEP5: > http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5 > - SPDX does not contain the CC0, Expat, nor Perl licenses. I thought the "Perl" license was removed already? TTBOMK there is no such thing as a "Perl license", the usual "under the same te

Re: DEP5: License section

2010-12-15 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 19:54:06 +, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > * Add a mention of and link to SPDX to the "License specifications" > chapter. > > ## SPDX > > [SPDX](http://spdx.org/) is an attempt to standardize a format > for communicating the components, licenses a

Re: DEP5: copyright statement form, etc

2010-11-13 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 20:12:15 +, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > * Should we suggest people keep the upstream copyright statements > verbatim, including the word "Copyright" or c-in-a-circle or whatever? > Or should we suggest that they can also shorten them to, say, "2010, J. > Random Hacker"? I'm fin

Re: commercial spam on planet

2010-11-10 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 01:23:51 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > I disagree that this thread is flattr-specific. /me too. > It clearly is the most cited example, most likely because is what we all > have in mind and because Flattr is quite popular these days. Still, I > don't think anybody is tr

Re: DEP5: Making "Files: *" non-optional

2010-09-13 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 14:53:47 +0100, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > * **`Files`** >* Required for all but the first paragraph. > If omitted from the first paragraph, > this is equivalent to a value of '*'. > > Does anyone oppose if I remove the "If omitted..." sentence? I see no > reason t

Re: DEP5: X-Autobuild

2010-09-13 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 23:19:48 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > X-Autobuild was a poor choice. My current opinion is that, unless there > is an interest to parse a specific field, it it better to use existing > ones, in that case Comment or Disclaimer. Agreed, Disclaimer should fit the purpose of exp

Re: DEP-5: Files field and filename patterns

2010-08-26 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:19:21 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > >I've fact I've written shell-style patterns free-handedly so far and > >hoped that they would also be valid for `find' :) > Did you actually test your expressions with "find -path"? No, that's what I meant with "hoped" :) > I discov

Re: DEP-5: Files field and filename patterns

2010-08-26 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 08:39:54 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > * Are find -name/-path globs a better idea than .gitignore? > > * Are shell-style globs the right idea? Should we use Perl regular > > expressions on the entire pathname instead? > I think that we can, and should, keep the rest of the

Re: DEP-5: Comment field

2010-08-26 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:18:17 +1200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > Does anyone want hash comments to be allowed in debian/copyright? Are > they useful? I don't think I've ever used (or wanted to use) them. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.at/ -- GPG key IDs: 0x8649AA06, 0x00F3CFE4

Re: DEP-5: general file syntax

2010-08-20 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:05:23 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > That also lets the rule with License be consistent with the rule for other > fields, by requiring two leading spaces for any literal text. It also > means that we would be using essentially the same formatting conventions > as Description

Re: [DEP5] [patch] Renaming the ‘Maintainer’ field ‘Contact’

2010-08-18 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:24:07 +1200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > I don't think they're required by Policy or the ftpmasters. At least the > pkg-perl team is using Maintainer/Upstream-Contact. I don't think they > use Name/Upstream-Name. Just as a data point: We are using both (Upstream-)Maintainer an

Re: [DEP5] [patch] Renaming the ‘Maintainer’ field ‘Contact’

2010-08-14 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 10:09:16 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > gregor herrmann writes: > > I remember CPAN maintainers (sic!) being interested in the status of > > their modules in Debian. Without a Maintainer (or whatever) field in > > d/copyright (or somewhere else but I don&

Re: [DEP5] [patch] Renaming the ‘Maintainer’ field ‘Contact’

2010-08-14 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 16:25:39 +1200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > On pe, 2010-08-13 at 20:43 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Am I missing some other Debian document somewhere that says we should be > > providing upstream contact information in debian/copyright? > There's also the Homapage: field in the p

Re: DEP-5 meta: New co-driver; current issues

2010-08-13 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:08:07 +1000, Craig Small wrote: > > You're not required to use it. If you want to improve the format, please > > make concrete proposals, or at least explain why it is complicated and > I actually second Bernd's comments. It seems uneccessarily complex and > so very much ha

Re: On terminology

2010-07-05 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 19:32:33 +0200, Christoph Berg wrote: > Re: Steve Langasek 2010-07-05 <20100705164805.ga26...@dario.dodds.net> > > I haven't seen anyone propose a good name that it can be changed *to*. > > Shouldn't that be the first step? > It would probably be "New Developer". But before ev

Re: On terminology

2010-07-02 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 03 Jul 2010 00:14:03 +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote: > Nowadays, we're asking people to become Maintainers so that they can > become Debian Maintainers and *then* apply to the New Maintainer's > process so that they can become Debian Developers. And when their DD account is created they ge

Re: squeeze release cycle?

2009-11-10 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:11:08 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:35:45AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2009/10/msg2.html > > But indeed it's only a proposal at this point. The release team needs > > to set a date in st

Re: DAM and NEW queues processing

2009-06-30 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:17:15 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 10:47:16PM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: [reviews of debian/copyright] > > You know, there is one set of packages that *usually* passes NEW > > pretty fast? Thats because they do something similar to that. They

Re: Twittering on planet.d.o?

2009-04-08 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, 08 Apr 2009 09:56:49 +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > >> Luk: what do you think yourself? > > I think having a very limited amount of tweets from people that do not > > write long blog posts is ok, though if it's not appreciated I'll remove > > my feed. > Short blog posts are ok, but one-sent

Re: How to be authorized distributor

2009-03-13 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 21:06:11 -0300, Vonlist wrote: > I written to them so that I want to know that I need to be an authorized > distributor of Debian. Please take a look at http://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/info (english) or http://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/info.es.html (español). Saludos, gr

Re: Discussion: Possible GR: Enhance requirements for General Resolutions

2008-12-29 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:54:41 +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > I have felt for some time that the low requirement for seconds on General > Resolutions is something that should be fixed. We are over 1000 > Developers, if you can't find more than 5 people supporting your idea, > its most probably not wo

Re: Voting on messages: a way to resolve the mailing list problems

2008-12-22 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 23:47:41 -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > So, are there going to be guide;lines for this voting on emails? > On /., when one moderates, there are clear labels: troll, off-topic, > flamebait, etc. I think labels or tags would indeed be useful to have a structured way

Re: Developer Status

2008-10-25 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 00:24:06 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > [ Still, I found quite telling that I can't remember your acronyms > without looking again at your mail, while I still remember the > names proposed in Joerg's mail. For me it's exactly the other way round, but I guess referring

Re: Developer Status

2008-10-23 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:16:01 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > > Debian Contributor > > > -- > > > Debian Maintainer > > > - > > > Debian Member > > > - > > > Debian Developer > > > > > Now, regarding your proposal itself, I agree wit

Re: Developer Status

2008-10-23 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:14:59 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:33:28PM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > Developer Status > > > Hi all, thanks for this proposal. I'd also like to thank Ganneff (and whoever contributed to the concept) for their effort, an

Re: Developer Status

2008-10-23 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:12:01 -0200, Martín Ferrari wrote: > > I have a problem with non-technical persons voting on technical > > issues, or issues having technical implications for the developer > > body. I have even more of a problem with non-technical persons leading > > a technical project. [.

Re: Question to donation from OnlineStore to Debian/SPI

2008-09-20 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:45:36 +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > I am ongoing to start a new OnlineStore selling Debian DVDs and CDs > beside other things. Sinde I want to donate a part of the sales price > to the Debian Project I am running into some troubles. > I need and organisation where

Re: Planets for debian users and debian administrators.

2007-10-06 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 06 Oct 2007 18:45:12 +0200, Shams Fantar wrote: > - I don't understand why it doesn't exist a official planet for debian > users and a official planet for debian administrators. Do you have > responses ? Take a look at http://wiki.debian-community.org/planets/ Cheers, gregor -- .''`

Re: Deficiencies in Debian

2007-07-13 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 18 May 2007 22:09:56 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: [training the "next generation"] > > I'm not following the Linux community closely; do you think there are > > points Debian could adopt or learn from? I try to summarize (hopefully correctly) your points: > With Linux, I think it helps a

Re: Deficiencies in Debian

2007-05-11 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 11 May 2007 08:33:01 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > > I've documented the Alioth team and I'll probably continue doing something > > > similar for some other teams that I know quite well. > > I hope you do that for the Debian Perl Group so that I don't have to > > learn the wiki stuff

Re: Deficiencies in Debian

2007-05-10 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 10 May 2007 23:14:32 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > Debian doesn't have that luxury, and I don't know > > what, if anything, we can effectively do at a project organization level > > to accomplish a similar goal. > What about doing something like that ? > http://wiki.debian.org/Teams L

Re: Deficiencies in Debian

2007-05-10 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 10 May 2007 13:42:37 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > >> There are other things > >> that *are* signs of fundamental deficiencies in the project, > > Would you mind to elaborate on this point, I'm really interested in > > your opinion. > The biggest problem with most open source / free softwar

Deficiencies in Debian (was: A question to the Debian community ...)

2007-05-10 Thread gregor herrmann
[cc and reply-to/m-f-t [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 10 May 2007 12:32:26 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > There are other things > that *are* signs of fundamental deficiencies in the project, Would you mind to elaborate on this point, I'm really interested in your opinion. Cheers, gregor -- .''`.

Re: Developers vs Uploaders

2007-03-16 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 16:47:24 -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > I don't have numbers to prove anything here, but I'm sure any pkg-perl > [1] member will join me recommending Niko Tyni [2]. As a (non-DD) member of the Debian Perl Group I whole-heartedly second this proposal; Niko is doing a great job in

Re: Social Committee proposal text (diff)

2007-02-18 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:52:12 +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > > > (Just a note - my S2 boundary isn't really arbitrary, it's basically a > > > function of the quorum.) > > (Point taken but it's still a deliberate decision to say > > count($members_of_soc_ctte)=round(Q).) > (I was just correcting the ad

Re: Social Committee proposal text (diff)

2007-02-13 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 23:46:10 +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > > > Do you think it's likely for it to go on for more than one repetition? > > I've no real idea but it might lead to a dead end. And having > > infinite nominations/elections because there are e.g. "only" 10 and > > not 16 persons seems to

Re: Social Committee proposal text (diff)

2007-02-13 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 11:42:50 +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > > > + If there are fewer than S2 candidates > > > + at the end of the nomination period, then the nomination period is > > > + extended for two further weeks, repeatedly if necessary. > > > + If "None Of The Above" wins the election, or i

Re: Social Committee proposal text (diff)

2007-02-12 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 03:32:52 +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > + If there are fewer than S2 candidates > + at the end of the nomination period, then the nomination period is > + extended for two further weeks, repeatedly if necessary. [..] > + If "None Of The Above" wins the election, or if fewer tha

Re: Debian Etch Stable.

2006-12-24 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, 24 Dec 2006 11:29:21 +0200, Kalle Kivimaa wrote: > > Why? Because not only my personal experience in NPOs but also the > > scientific literature on this subject show that a mix of paid staff > > and volunteers in an organization/project leads to > > disagreement/conflicts; > This is not a

Re: Debian Etch Stable.

2006-12-23 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 02:10:32 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: Thanks for presenting your thoughts. I'm going to make a few remarks on a meta level: > - Debian shouldn't do funding of Debian work for various reasons, > that add up to it not having the support of the developer body [..] >

Re: How could we give away Debian CDs/DVDs for free?

2006-10-16 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 11:11:49 +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Steve McIntyre ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061016 11:09]: > > If people have to pay something for them (even > > something really cheap), then they're more likely to take an interest. > Depending on the event, we ask for money (unless someone i

Re: uol.com.br and petsupermarket

2006-03-15 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 03:33:28PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > > Out of curiosity, how did the probe emails some time ago manage to > > *not* locate the subscriber address that generates the bounces? None > > of them bounced? > Looks like the CR system is quite selective in whom it bothers. I am a