Re: CD vendors to be reviewed

2006-06-03 Thread Jens Seidel
On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 08:05:24PM +1000, Craig Small wrote: On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 07:06:34PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: Tolimar informed me that several CD vendors that we list on http://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/ are not reachable by the links we provide. This happens from time to

Re: CD vendors to be reviewed

2006-06-02 Thread Craig Small
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 07:06:34PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: Tolimar informed me that several CD vendors that we list on http://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/ are not reachable by the links we provide. This happens from time to time, where is the link checker report? I haven't seen one of those

Re: CD vendors to be reviewed

2006-06-02 Thread Craig Small
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 08:09:39PM +0200, Alexander Schmehl wrote: Well, I think the other editing the file might haven't seen the statement in the header, like I did ;) It's fine for others to edit it. If no one else volunteers (or has a good idea on how to automate checking the contents for

Re: CD vendors to be reviewed

2006-06-02 Thread Richard Atterer
On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 08:05:24PM +1000, Craig Small wrote: Since webwml/english/CD/vendors/vendors.CD is maintained by Craig and not by the CVS repository, updates should probably be sent to Craig. It is, it used to be database driven (and may be one day in future) but now it is just a

Re: CD vendors to be reviewed

2006-06-01 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Richard Atterer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060601 00:28]: Currently we don't have all the data available for that; some vendors sell for example alpha and ia-64 on CD, but i386 only on DVD. And for some vendors Debian got to big: They sell parts of the officla disc sets. I think the

Re: CD vendors to be reviewed

2006-05-31 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Matt Kraai [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060531 06:32]: I don't think this is true anymore. Based on the CVS logs, it looks like a variety of people have been working on the list, so I think it should be safe for anyone to update it. Well, I think the other editing the file might haven't seen

Re: CD vendors to be reviewed

2006-05-31 Thread Richard Atterer
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 08:09:39PM +0200, Alexander Schmehl wrote: If no one else volunteers (or has a good idea on how to automate checking the contents for up-to-dateness), I'll try to do that as my time permits to keep that data in good shape. That would be very cool! We also need a more

Re: CD vendors to be reviewed

2006-05-31 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Richard Atterer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060531 22:17]: If no one else volunteers (or has a good idea on how to automate checking the contents for up-to-dateness), I'll try to do that as my time permits to keep that data in good shape. That would be very cool! Ugh, that's really a hard

Re: CD vendors to be reviewed

2006-05-31 Thread Richard Atterer
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 11:12:24PM +0200, Alexander Schmehl wrote: What would be even cooler: The user has a form, where he can specify wher the shipment goes to (you may add your sorting by locale idea here), and chooses which architecure and which kind of medium he would like to have (and

CD vendors to be reviewed

2006-05-30 Thread Martin Schulze
Hi, Tolimar informed me that several CD vendors that we list on http://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/ are not reachable by the links we provide. Somebody[tm] should check the links below that have caused a problem accessing. For some addresses it is clear that the site vanished or that the

Re: CD vendors to be reviewed

2006-05-30 Thread Matt Kraai
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 07:06:34PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: Tolimar informed me that several CD vendors that we list on http://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/ are not reachable by the links we provide. Somebody[tm] should check the links below that have caused a problem accessing. For some