debconf5 - videos of the talks and BOFs available

2005-07-17 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, the mighty video team, in boring alphabetical order (but you who where there know who they are), Andrew McMillan, Chris Halls, Erik Johansson, Henning Sprang, Herman Robak, Holger Levsen, Javier Candeira, John Lightsey, Kalle Boess, Martin Langhoff, Noel Koethe, Peter de Schrijver, Tore S

Re: Bug#321701: bug handling is a maintainers job

2005-08-08 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Monday 08 August 2005 03:58, Eric Dorland wrote: *** Please submit non packaging issue (e.g. feature requests) bugs to the Debian BTS and the upstream bugzilla (http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?product=Firefox) and put a reference to the bugzilla bug in the Debian

about communication Re: Delegation for trademark negotiatons with the DCCA

2005-08-30 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Wednesday 24 August 2005 12:54, Michael Meskes wrote: But the word core is not meant as in core of Debian but as in core of several distributions based on Debian. What I have learned more or less recently about communication, is, that it doesnt matter what you have said or ment. What

Re: Approaching VMware (and others) to get Debian listed as supported ?

2005-10-10 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Thursday 06 October 2005 21:42, Ben Pfaff wrote: These answers seem to assume that VMware would say that the unstable release is supported. Our stable releases, on the other hand, change very slowly. I could ask again, if anyone is interested, about support for stable releases of

please dont explain spam (Re: Reklama)

2006-02-01 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Tuesday 31 January 2006 21:26, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote: Simply ignore it. Seems like automatic proposition to exchange links, so it's spam. whatever... I just ignore mails in languages I dont understand (also because I know that if it's important, someone will translate / answer

Re: Update on compromise of gluck.debian.org, lock down of other debian.org machines

2006-07-13 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Thursday 13 July 2006 20:24, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: Hi James and all the others, thanks for your great work and taking care of all our debian.org machines. You do an excelent job. Full ack. Also I'm pretty much impressed about the timely and quite verbose information on -news and

getting ready for DebConf8

2006-09-21 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, (originally bcc:ed to debian-project@, but this caused the mail not to be delivered to -project, so I'm resending it now without bcc: Please reply to debconf-team@ only.) back in July (or June) we discussed to have a decision about where DebConf8 will be held around the end of this

fixed: Re: Please unblock aircrack-ng (1:0.6.2-6)

2007-01-04 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Thursday 04 January 2007 17:14, Adam Cécile (Le_Vert) wrote: Could you please unblock current aircrack-ng? in case someone else also wonders, Adam already noticed his mistake and resend those two mails to -release. regards, Holger pgpHtbjJJZ0Xs.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Why is there only self-nomination?

2007-03-02 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Friday 02 March 2007 02:51, MJ Ray wrote: Even so, I reckon at least three candidates campaigned early this year, If doing useful stuff (or reporting about it) is campaigning, I hope everybody campaings 365 days a year. regards, Holger pgp6173tJWiwT.pgp Description: PGP

on hats... Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-03-04 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, this is maybe a bit off-topic here, but as the notion of hats have become quite popular in Debian in the last two years or so, I want to comment on this. On Sunday 04 March 2007 19:57, Kalle Kivimaa wrote: My belief is that the DPL hat is something you can take off. Yes. But if the

so what can we do to voice our support? (Re: video codecs in HTML 5)

2007-03-24 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, added -project to to: as its more appropriate there :) On Friday 23 March 2007 18:26, Steve Greenland wrote: That's all true, but if the standard requires (or recommends) MPEG4 support, then that's what everyone will use, and we'll be screwed, again. If we (the Free Software community)

Re: Deficiencies in Debian

2007-05-11 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Friday 11 May 2007 08:46, Raphael Hertzog wrote: BTW, the list for Alioth administration is wrong in the website. Wichert Akkerman has left and we recruited Stephen Gran. fixed in CVS. regards, Holger pgpmg0xcK7P7D.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Public request that action be taken at whoever abused their technical power to remove me from the kernel team at alioth.

2007-05-29 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Tuesday 29 May 2007 22:05, Sven Luther wrote: Lively discussion is a sign of good health in any project; not always :-) friendly, Holger pgp96oKujJmCP.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: What do Open Source Projects need? - 2 Projects need

2007-06-04 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Monday 04 June 2007 12:21, Patrick Frank wrote: If Sven Luther was active within the Debian Project for 8 years and one conflict between him, Frans Pop and maybe 1 or 2 other people lead to drama If that only would be the case. Sven had serious problems with much more than three

DebConf7 Video Streaming Mirrors wanted

2007-06-06 Thread Holger Levsen
[This is a mail to multiple lists, please only reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED], thanks. (Headers should be set for it).] Dear Mirror-Admin, we are looking for servers around the world for the streaming video service of this years DebConf7 in Edinburgh, where we will (try to) provide live streaming of

Re: Social Contract ten years on July 5 -- celebration?

2007-06-27 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Tuesday 26 June 2007 22:54, Lars Wirzenius wrote: The Debian Social Contract 1.0 was ratified on July 5, 1997. That's ten years ago, about ten days from now. Anybody else interested in celebrating this a bit? What would be an appropriate way? I know it's a bit boring answer, but how

Re: Need of non-germany-tree in Debian?

2007-07-14 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Sunday 15 July 2007 01:36, Florian Weimer wrote: Huh? Distributing computer games without the necessary permission under applicable youth protection laws is already forbidden. [..] planetpenguin-racer is affected as well. It doesn't matter whether the game is violent or not. There's

Re: Need of non-germany-tree in Debian?

2007-07-15 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Sunday 15 July 2007 13:22, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: But neither of the games on the index (rott, doom, quake2) provide the game media, so I don't believe they're affected. If a game is not rated, it's assumed to be suited for over 18. (And yeah, that discriminates free software which

Re: CDD? (was Re: Bhutan releases Dzongkha Debian Linux)

2007-10-13 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Saturday 13 October 2007 09:26, Frans Pop wrote: AFAIK they aim to be a CDD, but currently they have a number of modified packages, [...] They also have some minor customizations of the installation system (mainly some defaults) and custom tasks for tasksel. I'd say they are a CDD.

Re: Planets for debian users and debian administrators.

2007-10-26 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Sunday 07 October 2007 16:39, Raphael Hertzog wrote: The planet mentioned above have been created partly as result of my blog post... so I'd suggest Shams to join that planet, contribute to it, make it known and maybe improve its visual appearance. :) I have no project to create

Re: Linux for a school

2007-11-08 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Thursday 08 November 2007 08:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are currenly upgrading our school PC's form Windows to Linux. Cool. Is it possible that someone can send us a copy of debian linux? You might also want to take a look at Debian Edu / Skolelinux, a Custom Debian

Re: cylug

2007-11-10 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Saturday 10 November 2007 07:54, Kevin Mark wrote: As for Debian having t-shirts, there are people who sell debian-themed shirts and there are places on the web that have various versions of Debian's logos to download and print on a t-shirt. Ask for help finding this. Debian

Re: Making Debian work: a question of trust indeed

2007-11-21 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Wednesday 21 November 2007 12:10, Martin Schulze wrote: Then the outcome should be reported. Not the beginning of a process. Sometimes it's very useful information too, to learn a process has been started. Or stalled. Or reached an important milestone. It's not always the result in

Re: [Fwd: Re: using debian project name to solicit donations]

2008-01-11 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Friday 11 January 2008 15:05, MJ Ray wrote: Thanks for the reply and I think it's fine to use the debian logo as long as it's clear who the site is (not debian!) To me, the domainname debian.as makes it sound like a Debian website. regards, Holger pgpSMREItKYMi.pgp

Re: [Fwd: Re: using debian project name to solicit donations]

2008-01-11 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Friday 11 January 2008 17:47, MJ Ray wrote: I didn't write anything about the domain name. If anyone wants, (get delegated? and) complain under http://nic.as/udrp.cfm but I don't see what good will come from prosecuting these debian supporters. I didn't write anything about

FOSDEM 2008 Debian dev room videos sneak preview

2008-02-29 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, for those of you who don't follow planet.debian.org this is a repost of http://layer-acht.org/blog/debian/#1-153 : Somehow the title of this blog post makes me think of a very long german word and doesn't sound really english to me. But I guess you either already noticed or don't care or

Re: Reg Blind

2008-03-30 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Suzy, On Saturday 29 March 2008 22:11, Suzy Hesketh wrote: So I have decided to have a go at learning Debian. Would you please tell me if there is a live version of the programme... There is Debian live, a project to build live CDs of Debian. http://live.debian.net has CD images for

Re: [ANN] Debian-Grandfathers project

2008-04-01 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Tuesday 01 April 2008 13:03, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: Please don't be offended! This is an April Fools message. :) Heh. I certainly hope the name is not the final one: it excludes grandmothers and it also excludes older people without kids. Debian senior might also cause women to

Re: infrastructure team procedures (fifth edit)

2008-04-16 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Monday 14 April 2008 21:11, Josip Rodin wrote: Proposed general resolution - Project infrastructure team procedures Debian developers acknowledge the following: [...] There has also been ambiguity on the constitutional position of infrastructure teams as such, particularly

Re: infrastructure team procedures (fifth edit)

2008-04-17 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Thursday 17 April 2008 13:11, Josip Rodin wrote: We acknowledge the previously existing ambiguity, and then continue on a fully constitutionally defined procedure to decide things that resolve any such ambiguity. What's your dilemma again? :) That it's not fully spelled out. I mean,

Re: DEP1: Clarifying policies and workflows for Non Maintainer Uploads

2008-04-25 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, thanks for starting an initiative to make NMs more useful and accepted! For now I just have two procedural remarks. On Thursday 24 April 2008 21:42, Bas Wijnen wrote: [0] http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep0/ [1] http://wiki.debian.org/NmuDep Why isnt the second URL

Re: Open Invention Network

2008-07-03 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Steve, thanks for bringing this up on -project. On Thursday 03 July 2008 00:59, Steve McIntyre wrote: I've been approached by the Open Invention Network[1]. They're asking if Debian would like to join as an organisation to protect our work and support open access to intellectual property.

Re: Open Invention Network

2008-07-03 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Thursday 03 July 2008 10:28, Ben Finney wrote: You just got through pointing out that Open Invention Network *is* Ketchum Inc. Is there some other organisation that you would suggest as being much more credible? Unfortunatly not. I was just pointed this (me first dismissing Open

Re: Open Invention Network

2008-07-03 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Thursday 03 July 2008 10:28, Ben Finney wrote: You just got through pointing out that Open Invention Network *is* Ketchum Inc. on a second thought, I basically only brought up, that the domain was registered by Ketchum Inc., which is a PR company. So one could maybe say they (OIN)

Re: Bug#437842: lists.debian.org: request creation of a debian-mediation mailing list

2008-09-02 Thread Holger Levsen
On Tuesday 02 September 2008 18:16, Holger Levsen wrote: If I don't let you scream and shout in my living room, thats not censorship s/living room/house, garage and garden/ even regards, Holger pgpYCW793UTJk.pgp Description: PGP signature

motivation (Re: It's all about trust)

2008-10-27 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Monday 27 October 2008 17:20, Raphael Hertzog wrote: If someone is only trustable to package perl modules, shouldn't he be a DM instead of a DD? We might want him to be able to package new perl modules on his own? Where do you draw the line? If you maintain 20 or 50 perl modules?

Re: motivation (Re: It's all about trust)

2008-10-28 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Tuesday 28 October 2008 00:32, Matthew Johnson wrote: Surely the multiple levels are the point she is making? Please watch the talk :) An (rather) easy level to achieve could be the debian.org email address that every associated project member gets quite easily. (And which is a

Re: Linux System Engineer (100%) in Zurich

2008-11-26 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Wednesday 26 November 2008 10:11, martin f krafft wrote: Putting a maximum age into a job description is standard practice because a company does not want to invest time and money into a new employee for various reasons, be they simple age and thus time left to work for the company,

Please show some respect while standing on the shoulders of giants

2008-12-21 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, (this is a copy of my blogpost.) I unsubscribed from -devel and -vote the other day, as the pain/gain ratio was just not worth it anymore (and -project is very much pending). Sadly, I still could not escape from what I wanted to escape from, as some people bring up those discussions and

Re: I give up (for the time being)

2009-01-19 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Dienstag, 13. Januar 2009, Russ Allbery wrote: Thank you. Sincerely. I think this will mean we can have a better conversation later and get at the heart of the problem and hopefully make a more lasting decision that we don't have to keep revisiting. Dropping something like this when

Bug#512717: cleanup

2009-01-23 Thread Holger Levsen
close 292481 reassign 512717 general thanks Hi, I'm closing 292481 as there is screenshots.debian.net (and debtags) and I'm reassigning 512717 to general, as this is where we keep meta bugs with effect several packages. regards, Holger signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

DV camera with line-in wanted for FOSDEM

2009-01-29 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, the debconf^wfosdem video team is looking for a DV cam with (audio) line-in, which we could use all day on saturday and sunday at FOSDEM. Please contact me ASAP if you can help :) Thanks, Holger signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

fosdem streams

2009-02-06 Thread Holger Levsen
a whole lot of fun! [1] http://www.fosdem.org/2009/schedule/devrooms/debian [2] http://lists.debconf.org/lurker/message/20090205.215105.65eb5f60.en.html [3] http://wiki.debian.org/FosdemVideo2009 -- Holger Levsen hol...@layer-acht.org Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:30:27 +0100 P.S.: I'd be interested

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Mittwoch, 29. Juli 2009, Frans Pop wrote: The Debian project has decided to adopt a new policy of time-based development freezes for future releases, on a two-year cycle. Disappointing to see such an announcement without any prior discussion on d-project, d-devel or d-vote. I was

Re: Debian redesign

2009-08-01 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Donnerstag, 30. Juli 2009, Frans Pop wrote: One that will make a statement that women in Debian should always wear deep cleavages, and men in Debian have sex with their laptops. Nice... IMHO you're seriously overreacting here. IMO you are. The posters as I see them do not make

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

2009-08-08 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Samstag, 8. August 2009, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: Does people think that would be too much? I'm divided on the issue -- on one hand, I don't want Debian to end up plastered with ads, on the other hand, the tool is not useful without a token, so pointing people to where they can get one

Re: Summary of the debian-devel BoF at Debconf9

2009-08-19 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Mittwoch, 19. August 2009, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: you seem to think that moving wnpp traffic off -devel would be useful to make -devel more attractive? Why do you think so? this question AFAIK still stands.. I think moving the traffic off would just mean fewer people would care to

devel+project (was Re: Summary of the debian-devel BoF at Debconf9

2009-08-19 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, when pressing send for my last mail I noticed this mail went to -project@ and not -devel@ and thought that this is to me one of the bigger problems with those two lists, that it's relativly hard to distinguish when to post to -project and when to -devel... Not sure how to address this,

Re: OT: why is this thread not on -devel?

2009-08-24 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Andreas, On Montag, 24. August 2009, Andreas Barth wrote: Because I don't see it mainly as a technical issue - but might be influenced a bit by it. As what kind of issue, if non-technical, do you see this? You described a technical change, some technical problems with that and you

Re: Switching the default startup method

2009-08-24 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Montag, 24. August 2009, Raphael Geissert wrote: The difference is that now many tests can be performed and the bugs fixed; If this is true, and I believe it is, I will buy you a $beer next time we meet - and remember :-) Thanks. convinced, Holger P.S.: always questioning:

Re: Switching the default startup method

2009-08-31 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Raphael, On Montag, 31. August 2009, Raphael Geissert wrote: Here's the first set of new checks: #544221 more will follow, and some others that can't be implemented in lintian are already being performed by some scripts written by Petter. nice! By the way, piuparts may help breaking some

Re: Debian News and new About Debian footer

2009-10-09 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Freitag, 9. Oktober 2009, Markus wrote: First let me say that I'm not a Debian Developer but a Debian user for about 10 years now. I love Debian both for his technical quality and for being one of the few (popular) distributions which shows recpect to the GNU project in his name and

Re: let's add news.debian.net to planet.d.o (!?)

2009-12-18 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Freitag, 18. Dezember 2009, Michael Banck wrote: Note that Ubuntu has a planet-like service called the Fridge which aggregates several non-personal blogs (AIUI), maybe Debian could do the same (under a different title), /me suggests milkyway.debian.org :-) and aggregate the

Re: Using project resources for blends and non-free

2010-01-11 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Marc, Andreas, Martin, On Montag, 11. Januar 2010, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: We would like to do move the wanna-build databases (and all logs for these builds) soon, so I would like to know if anyone is unhappy about it? I'd just like to say thank you very much for your work on this.

Re: Using project resources for blends and non-free

2010-01-11 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Jonas, On Montag, 11. Januar 2010, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Debian-edu (a.k.a. Skolelinux) is a Debian subproject _and_ an external project. Because of what? Because we release stuff not in the corresponding stable release? We dont have anything (anymore) not in unstable... A goal is to

Re: Andreas Barth: How to (not) protect privacy

2010-03-02 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, very brief, as I have no time. But as you told Rhonda that she was the first to object, while I already objected to you on IRC, I feel like I need to write this. On Dienstag, 2. März 2010, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: - data is exposed on the web at http://udd.debian.org/ When importing the

Re: I'm resigning as Release Manager

2010-03-15 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Luk, On Sonntag, 14. März 2010, Luk Claes wrote: It's time to stop thinking I would be able to keep working as Release Manager in this climate, I hereby resign as Release Manager. Thank you a lot for your awesome work as a release manager! I'm sad to see (you resign like) this and hope to

Re: Squeeze, firmware and installation

2010-05-10 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Freitag, 7. Mai 2010, Paul Wise wrote: What makes it problematic to modify the install media (initrd I guess) you downloaded and add the firmware? For quite some people it's very difficult (hi bro!), for some it's impossible (hi dad!) and for most of the rest it's a PITA (hi me!). And,

Re: On terminology

2010-07-03 Thread Holger Levsen
On Freitag, 2. Juli 2010, 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. Am I the only one who has trouble -and getting laughed

Re: On terminology

2010-07-05 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Montag, 5. Juli 2010, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: As they seem to be often used in a shortened version, is there any way, we can prevent Debian maintainers and Package maintainers both to be maintainers? rename Debian maintainers to Debian uploaders? cheers, Holger

Re: On terminology

2010-07-06 Thread Holger Levsen
On Dienstag, 6. Juli 2010, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: Also Debian Developers are able to upload stuff, therefore uploaders. No no, that just doesn't fit :) Obviously Debian Developers can do, what DMs can do. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: buildd/porter/maintainer roles again

2010-07-14 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Dienstag, 13. Juli 2010, Don Armstrong wrote: If porters would like psuedopackages for their architecture to track requests, that can be arranged. I'd say not only porters would benefit from such pseudopackages, but also maintainers, buildd admins and users. But if, there'd need to

Re: Debian Facilitators

2010-08-12 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Stephen, I like the idea and I think that having this role somewhat formalised will help achieving it goals. cheers, Holger signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Debian Facilitators

2010-08-19 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Dienstag, 17. August 2010, Stephen Frost wrote: Thanks! Do you have some specific thoughts on what you think it needs to be formalised..? eg, that the role debian faciliators is mentioned in developers reference (or in policy or the community guidelines [0] (which itself need

Re: Debian FTPMaster Meeting, September

2010-08-30 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Jörg, On Sonntag, 29. August 2010, Joerg Jaspert wrote: Agenda .. - dak policy That is, a command so $whoever_DD can do policy work on a suite, which is otherwise run by ftpmaster. Examples: backports.org, volatile, possibly p-u. The teams of that define which packages go

Re: d-d-a (and/or d-announce) on planet.debian.org

2010-11-06 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Samstag, 6. November 2010, Lars Wirzenius wrote: Does anyone else think splitting Planet Debian into a people who work on Debian feed and a bits from the project feed is a good idea? actually I'm with the people thinking having that combined on planet(s).debian.org would be good. _I_

commercial spam on planet

2010-11-08 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, since a while, we see unsolicted commercial links and images on planet, mostly about flattr. I think we as a project should not tolerate such, agree so, and provide simple filter mechanisms, so that people can continue to have these links in _their_ blog posts, while they are filtered out

Re: commercial spam on planet

2010-11-08 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Montag, 8. November 2010, Joerg Jaspert wrote: No. I would want it to be the same as with other languages - the feed owner is responsible to provide a feed that is clean of this. sounds like a good solution to me. I think it depends on the amount of it. A one time hey, i wrote this

dep5, whats the status? Re: DEP5: reasons for not pushing Bazaar changes to Subversion

2010-12-23 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, for those who are just marking mails in this thread as read... ;-) On Donnerstag, 23. Dezember 2010, Charles Plessy wrote: Using revision 135 of the DEP from svn.debian.org is a waste of time, for the people who would like to write a copyright file, or for the peopole who would like to

Re: dep5, whats the status? Re: DEP5: reasons for not pushing Bazaar changes to Subversion

2010-12-23 Thread Holger Levsen
thanks - looking forward to the announcement! signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Using corporate accounts when posting to Debian mailing lists

2011-05-15 Thread Holger Levsen
On Sonntag, 15. Mai 2011, Florian Weimer wrote: I was just curious about proper etiquette. I'm still a bit worried that corporatelessness is implicitly requested by the community. I dont think corporatelessness in email addresses is requested by anyone. cheers, Holger -- To

Report from the Debian Edu developer gathering in Hamburg

2011-06-14 Thread Holger Levsen
) plus enhancements to our netgroups plugin) - Holger Levsen host people at Attraktor hackerspace prepare sprint, maintain report and publish it organize RL status meetings at the meeting sponsor package uploads help people with packaging questions etc help gizmo with requirements

Re: Getting DebConf attendees reimbursed quickly for travel costs

2011-06-25 Thread Holger Levsen
On Samstag, 25. Juni 2011, Paul Wise wrote: Would it be possible to get and return the forms electronically again? Dealing with printers and scanners is a pain. ffis needs the paper version. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: Bug#607839: Question about GNOME Trademark and GNOME project packages in Debian

2011-07-17 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Steve, I just want to say thank you very much for your calm and sane words. Much appreciated + agreed. cheers, Holger, who first wanted to send a private mail and then decided against that -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Your biggest achievement during past DebConfs (aka new DebConf promoting campaign)

2012-02-13 Thread Holger Levsen
On Montag, 13. Februar 2012, Andreas Tille wrote: I can confirm that at DebConf03 in Oslo I have heard rumors about a company with no name intending to base a distribution with no name upon Debian. sure that wasn't DebConf4 which had a session with that very topic? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Finding sponsors for Debian

2012-03-13 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Montag, 12. März 2012, Arno Töll wrote: We sponsored both, Debian and DebConf in the past but my boss does not feel very comfortable to sponsor DebConfs because he's more interested to support actual Debian work as a distribution, as Debian is the system we rely upon for our business.

Re: Diversity statement for the Debian Project

2012-04-06 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Freitag, 6. April 2012, Raphael Hertzog wrote: I love how this is increasing in awesomeness as it is decreasing in size. Indeed. +1 Yes, it looks better with those small fixes. +1 Thank you Francesca! +1 cheers, h03ger ;) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Diversity statement for the Debian Project

2012-04-08 Thread Holger Levsen
On Samstag, 7. April 2012, Enrico Zini wrote: Moar nitpicking: s/define/perceive/g I perceive this as very useful nit-picking. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

email and content?!?

2012-05-12 Thread Holger Levsen
;-) -- 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/201205121910.58431.hol...@layer-acht.org

Report from our visit to Managua, Nicaragua

2012-05-12 Thread Holger Levsen
Buenas dias! The following is a summary of some of my experiences in Managua and tiny bits of Nicaragua late April / early May 2012. While I spent 14 days there in total (as private vacation), for the last three days I was joined by Gunnar Wolf (on DebConf12 funds), to make sure my impressions

Re: DebConf11 financial report

2012-06-10 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Richard, On Sonntag, 10. Juni 2012, Richard Darst wrote: I have just received the final DebConf11 transactions list, so now I can make a final report on its finances. DebConf11 Summary = I just want to shout a big thank you to you for doing this and thus for allowing us

Re: DebConf travel sponsorship (was: Re: [Debconf-team] Budget status - travel sponsorship)

2012-06-20 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Mittwoch, 20. Juni 2012, Richard Darst wrote: It is hard to improve things. The order we spend money is: venue rental, accom, food, a few other nice things, travel. If travel is prioritized low, and we always are short of money, travel will keep being last. Yup. And from a

Re: RFC - Changing current policy of debian.net entries

2012-06-22 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Martin, On Freitag, 22. Juni 2012, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: The current practice for debian.net entries is that they are directly entered in the debian.net zone as 3rd-level records. I am seeking comments on a proposal to alter this practice. I think your proposal is horrible for

Re: RFC - Changing current policy of debian.net entries

2012-06-25 Thread Holger Levsen
On Montag, 25. Juni 2012, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: mentors is a special case here as it might distribute non-distributable stuff when people upload buggy packages. So there is no real way to run this as official Debian service imho. as if we would never distribute non-distributable stuff via

Re: Hijacking packages for fun and profit

2012-07-02 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Montag, 2. Juli 2012, Gergely Nagy wrote: Will there be a video feed of this? I'd love to hear it at least (and perhaps participate via IRC or something, if someone's willing to proxy). everything scheduled (more than 24h in advance) during DebConf in the two main talkrooms shall be

Re: [Debconf-team] Budget status - travel sponsorship)

2012-07-05 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, as I've said several times already, the hardest part is finding people doing whatever the best procedure for this is. The problem with that is that DebConf is quite a lot of work for the team for 2-3 months before the conf, then the conference itself and then cleaning it all up, which

dc12 travel reimbusements done

2012-07-16 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, not only DebConf12 is (sadly) over now, but the marvelous Henning (lazyb0y), Gaudenz, Richard (Darst), Michael (SPI) Joey (FFIS) have dealt with all travel sponsorship requests allready, meaning that for all those who have been granted travel sponsorship all the paperwork has been done

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Anonymous donation to Debconf 13

2012-11-30 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Freitag, 30. November 2012, David Prévot wrote: I fail to understand, if you really “don't want to be spreading unverified rumours”, why are you posting this kind of questions to two other wider mailing lists? [...]

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Anonymous donation to Debconf 13

2012-12-02 Thread Holger Levsen
Philipp did this on debconf-t...@l.dc.o. They were not included in the budget the DPL was asked to approve. As said, dead horse. On Samstag, 1. Dezember 2012, Holger Levsen wrote: http://lists.debconf.org/lurker/message/20121102.150947.08f4206c.en.html it's a dead horse. old, long dead. can we

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Anonymous donation to Debconf 13

2012-12-04 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Montag, 3. Dezember 2012, Ian Jackson wrote: The anonymous donations we got offered were rejected (by us) Why do you use scare quotes ? for two reasons: a.) because they are not anonymous to me and b.) because I'm not as fluent in english writing as others. I'm sorry to keep making

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2012-12-04 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, I'm sick and saddened to read these mails and will not participate in any further of this. Also, I cannot stop thinking gigantic bikeshedding (mostly from people who never build one). And based on rumors of what the bikeshed is supposed to look, while not listening to the people who

Re: Position statements short of a GR - DPL statements

2012-12-28 Thread Holger Levsen
I disagree this is a good idea/road but I'm not motivated anymore to discuss this further. Anybody can say anything anyhow and so can the DPL. Extending this blankly and blindly is not wise, IMO. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Position statements short of a GR - DPL statements

2013-01-02 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, I regret sending this mail. I'm sorry, I was demotivated and annoyed and should have kept quiet. bye, Holger (and this had to do with DebConf, Ian.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Position statements short of a GR - DPL statements

2013-01-02 Thread Holger Levsen
On Mittwoch, 2. Januar 2013, Ian Jackson wrote: I didn't intend to suggest that a DPL position statement about Debconf would be helpful. I don't think the rest of the thread was about Debconf. Same here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

I wish you a wonderful 2013 DebConf13! (oh, and DebConf14 too)

2013-01-14 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, (this mail is not as short and clear as I would have liked. But then, I also wanted to send it a week earlier and so I rather send it now then never...) So anyway: even though it's already mid January, I'd like to wish you all a very happy 2013 and a wonderful DebConf13! I really hope we

Re: gravatar on bugs.debian.org - acceptable or not?

2013-03-15 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Don, On Freitag, 15. März 2013, Don Armstrong wrote: I don't have a problem using hackergotchis when those exist, it's just that writing code to use hackergotchis and keep them in sync with planet.d.o is far more complicated than the 10 line patch to use libravatar. understandable. The

Bug#703118: do not show randomly generated avatar icons if not avatar exists

2013-03-15 Thread Holger Levsen
package: debbugs x-debbugs-cc: debian-project@lists.debian.org Hi, On Freitag, 15. März 2013, Don Armstrong wrote: Finally, if someone wants an option to disable avatars in the bugreport view, I'd certainly add a patch which did that, or consider implementing it myself if an appropriate

Bug#703119: fetch avatar images from some debian.(org|net) ressource

2013-03-15 Thread Holger Levsen
package: debbugs x-debbugs-cc: debian-project@lists.debian.org severity: wishlist Hi, I actually like the the idea of having user pictures displayed in the BTS, but I dont want to use this libavatar thing, as it either means running moar software on my server or relying on some external entity

foopad2git (Re: [dpl-helpers] Future of DPL helpers / meeting on 2013-04-23

2013-04-23 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, this is mostly off-topic to the thread at hand but... On Dienstag, 23. April 2013, Nathan Handler wrote: I've updated the status of my action. I'll also sync the titanpad to the agenda in the git repository tomorrow before the meeting. ..is there some tool support for doing such things

Re: KickStarter for Debian packages - crowdfunding/donations for development

2013-06-15 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Samstag, 15. Juni 2013, Russ Allbery wrote: There were some past experiments with this in Debian, and they caused a lot of social controversy. One of the problems with paying for work in the Debian context is that we're a world-wide project that welcomes contributions from everyone

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