Re: Ideas about a GR to fix the DAM

2007-11-22 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 12:55:10AM -0200, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel wrote: Considering that this is probably a language misunderstanding from a non-native speaker (myself), when you say there weren't any candidates for additional DAMs that means (from what you heard, of course): Well,

Re: Ideas about a GR to fix the DAM

2007-11-22 Thread Andreas Tille
2007/11/20, Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED]: No, I _am_ really happy that you can't write something in PL/I and force me to use it. Trust me on this. Well, I trust you on this. ;-) (BTW, PL/I is not bad - it was my first programming language and had some nice features.) What is wrong is the

Re: Ideas about a GR to fix the DAM

2007-11-22 Thread Andreas Tille
2007/11/21, Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Your message has inspired me. I'm sending this email to let you know that, since I see an open bug on the fortunes-de package, it's my conclusion that you need more help maintaining it, so Adam Conrad and I are working on an updated version that

Re: Ideas about a GR to fix the DAM

2007-11-22 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 11:34:38AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: We might be able to form a group and create a tool with such properties, but it will take time. It takes longer if people sit around complaining about how it's someone else's responsibility to take the initiative. It isn't as

Re: Ideas about a GR to fix the DAM

2007-11-22 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 22 Nov 2007, Anthony Towns wrote: RT lets other people track requests of DSA and keyring-maint; currently, aiui [1], Raphael ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and Matt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) are in that category at least for DSA. Only for DSA. AFAIK, James is the only one having access to the keyring -

Misleading statement in debian-faq s1.5, was: Ideas about a GR to fix the DAM

2007-11-22 Thread MJ Ray
Package: doc-debian Severity: wishlist Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] But if you want a favour from someone -- like access to some restricted service -- you're much more likely to get it if either (a) that someone wants to do you the favour already; or (b) you approach it as Hi,

Re: Misleading statement in debian-faq s1.5, was: Ideas about a GR to fix the DAM

2007-11-22 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 02:26:41PM +, MJ Ray wrote: Package: doc-debian Severity: wishlist Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] But if you want a favour from someone -- like access to some restricted service -- you're much more likely to get it if either (a) that someone wants to

Re: Misleading statement in debian-faq s1.5, was: Ideas about a GR to fix the DAM

2007-11-22 Thread MJ Ray
Steve McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 02:26:41PM +, MJ Ray wrote: q class=rambleThis is something where the project isn't managing expectations very well. [...] You seem to be trying a land-grab on the word cooperatively. I don't mean to. I merely suggest that