Re: new release process (package pool) being proposed

1999-11-01 Thread Fabien Ninoles
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 11:36:30AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 07:37:55AM -0700, Robert Jones wrote: Quoth Anthony Towns on 25 Oct, 1999: All this `I've got a proposal, let's vote on it' stuff isn't quite right. We didn't vote on debconf, we discussed it, then

Re: new release process (package pool) being proposed

1999-10-26 Thread Robert Jones
Quoth Anthony Towns on 26 Oct, 1999: Quoth Anthony Towns on 25 Oct, 1999: (Saith?) Hrm. Perhaps. Without a prototype, we shouldn't be voting. Throwing out ideas, is fine, we've alreay done a lot of that, even before Lalo said anything. Personally, I was finally getting around to trying

Re: new release process (package pool) being proposed

1999-10-25 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
[Lame cross post to -announce removed, gah] The ftpmasters do their work for the project. They exist on behalf of the project. The project does not exist as result of the ftpmasters, it's vice versa. However, the FTP masters are the resident experts in field of 'ftp archive mainti',

Re: new release process (package pool) being proposed

1999-10-25 Thread Lalo Martins
On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 12:29:23PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 07:34:26PM -0200, Lalo Martins wrote: I'm formally proposing the release process that we have been discussing for over a year, known as ``package pool'', for discussion and voting. The discussion will

Re: new release process (package pool) being proposed

1999-10-25 Thread Lalo Martins
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 08:32:07PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: That said, this proposal has no meaning without an actual implementation of 'Package Pools', and none exists yet. However I know of at least 2 efforts to make one, so maybe it should be shelved until one gets finished? [It is

Re: new release process (package pool) being proposed

1999-10-25 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 03:18:47AM -0200, Lalo Martins wrote: Also, could you people please stop for a moment and really evaluate the ammount of code needed? Get real: this is _trivial_. We'd need code to: * make life easy for the mirrors (either a working package pool, or

Re: new release process (package pool) being proposed

1999-10-25 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Martin Schulze wrote: Apparently I wasn't clear enough. I had already posted by then... The ftpmasters do their work for the project. They exist on behalf of the project. The project does not exist as result of the ftpmasters, it's vice versa. True. However that doesn't always

Re: new release process (package pool) being proposed

1999-10-25 Thread Martin Schulze
Wichert Akkerman wrote: The ftpmasters do their work for the project. They exist on behalf of the project. The project does not exist as result of the ftpmasters, it's vice versa. True. However that doesn't always seem to work that way. A good example is that we have a consensus to

Re: new release process (package pool) being proposed

1999-10-25 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Martin Schulze wrote: Then why? Does a proper bug report exist? Is it just slowly processing bug report? Or is it something else? There is indeed a bugreport, and it's old. Months at least. Last I heard the only reason was that it was a lot of work... Wichert. --

Re: new release process (package pool) being proposed

1999-10-25 Thread Lalo Martins
On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 01:30:44PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: Previously Martin Schulze wrote: Thus if the project (or the project leader) wants things to be done with the archive, the ftpmasters have to get it implemented (with or without help from others) or they will have to be

Re: new release process (package pool) being proposed

1999-10-25 Thread Lalo Martins
On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 04:06:27PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 03:18:47AM -0200, Lalo Martins wrote: Also, could you people please stop for a moment and really evaluate the ammount of code needed? Get real: this is _trivial_. We'd need code to: * make life