Patch Pilot Report 2011-08-03

2011-08-03 Thread Micah Gersten
bug 819679 - Sync subtitleeditor (universe) 0.39.0 from debian experimental (main). Builds fine, ACKd bug 819774 - Please sync zsnes 1.510+bz2-1 (universe) from Debian unstable (main) FTBFS, assigned to reporter, unsubscribed sponsors gedit-plugin 3.1.2 merge approved, pushed, uploaded Bug #8

Re: SRUs for typo fixes in descriptions

2011-08-03 Thread Luke Faraone
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 17:46, Clint Byrum wrote: > I think peoples' time is better spent elsewhere.. but if somebody in > the community wants to spend time correcting the spelling mistakes, > our policy is not really clear as to whether or not this is ok. But beyond just spending their own time,

Re: DMB: Proposal for a different review process

2011-08-03 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Wednesday, August 03, 2011 05:29:07 PM Chase Douglas wrote: > On 08/03/2011 02:05 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > On Wednesday, August 03, 2011 04:06:26 PM Chase Douglas wrote: > >> On 08/03/2011 12:44 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > >>> On Wednesday, August 03, 2011 03:04:14 PM Chase Douglas wrote:

Re: SRUs for typo fixes in descriptions

2011-08-03 Thread Clint Byrum
Excerpts from Micah Gersten's message of Wed Aug 03 12:55:09 -0700 2011: > So, there are a couple merge proposals right now for control file > description typo fixes for natty: > https://code.launchpad.net/~bones/ubuntu/oneiric/gnomebaker/fix-for-818364/+merge/70234 > https://code.launchpad.net/~bo

Re: DMB: Proposal for a different review process

2011-08-03 Thread Iain Lane
On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 02:34:31PM -0700, Chase Douglas wrote: > On 08/03/2011 02:01 PM, Chase Douglas wrote: > > On 08/03/2011 01:45 PM, Stéphane Graber wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >> Hash: SHA512 > >> > >> On 08/03/2011 04:36 PM, Chase Douglas wrote: > >>> On 08/03/2011 12:50

Re: DMB: Proposal for a different review process

2011-08-03 Thread Chase Douglas
On 08/03/2011 02:01 PM, Chase Douglas wrote: > On 08/03/2011 01:45 PM, Stéphane Graber wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA512 >> >> On 08/03/2011 04:36 PM, Chase Douglas wrote: >>> On 08/03/2011 12:50 PM, Allison Randal wrote: On 08/03/2011 12:23 PM, Chase Douglas wrote:

Re: DMB: Proposal for a different review process

2011-08-03 Thread Chase Douglas
On 08/03/2011 02:05 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Wednesday, August 03, 2011 04:06:26 PM Chase Douglas wrote: >> On 08/03/2011 12:44 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: >>> On Wednesday, August 03, 2011 03:04:14 PM Chase Douglas wrote: On 08/02/2011 09:33 AM, Chase Douglas wrote: >>> I think it's rea

Re: DMB: Proposal for a different review process

2011-08-03 Thread Iain Lane
On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 04:45:09PM -0400, Stéphane Graber wrote: > [...] > Personally, as a member of the DMB, I definitely want to keep having > live meetings with the applicants. > > E-mail can be fine in very specific cases where live IRC meeting can't > be achieved and should only be something

Re: DMB: Proposal for a different review process

2011-08-03 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Wednesday, August 03, 2011 04:06:26 PM Chase Douglas wrote: > On 08/03/2011 12:44 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > On Wednesday, August 03, 2011 03:04:14 PM Chase Douglas wrote: > >> On 08/02/2011 09:33 AM, Chase Douglas wrote: > >>> My proposal would be to do away with formal meetings, at least f

Re: DMB: Proposal for a different review process

2011-08-03 Thread Chase Douglas
On 08/03/2011 01:45 PM, Stéphane Graber wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > On 08/03/2011 04:36 PM, Chase Douglas wrote: >> On 08/03/2011 12:50 PM, Allison Randal wrote: >>> On 08/03/2011 12:23 PM, Chase Douglas wrote: On 08/03/2011 12:14 PM, Mackenzie Morgan wrote:

Re: DMB: Proposal for a different review process

2011-08-03 Thread Stéphane Graber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 08/03/2011 04:36 PM, Chase Douglas wrote: > On 08/03/2011 12:50 PM, Allison Randal wrote: >> On 08/03/2011 12:23 PM, Chase Douglas wrote: >>> On 08/03/2011 12:14 PM, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Chase Douglas

Re: DMB: Proposal for a different review process

2011-08-03 Thread Chase Douglas
On 08/03/2011 12:50 PM, Allison Randal wrote: > On 08/03/2011 12:23 PM, Chase Douglas wrote: >> On 08/03/2011 12:14 PM, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: >>> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Chase Douglas >>> wrote: What is the policy for email applications? Can anyone apply this way, or is it only

Re: DMB: Proposal for a different review process

2011-08-03 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Chase Douglas > wrote: >> I don't think the DMB process is an important piece of community >> socialization at all. I doubt many people pay attention to it if they >> don't have a specific need to. There are

Re: DMB: Proposal for a different review process

2011-08-03 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Scott Moser wrote: >> 2011-06-20 [1] ended in a discussion about "Whats a Quorum" And if you read it, it's not "what's quorum?" We KNOW that. It's 4. The question was whether having majority-of-the-board-me

Re: DMB: Proposal for a different review process

2011-08-03 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Scott Moser wrote: >> 2011-06-20 [1] ended in a discussion about "Whats a Quorum" >> 2011-02-14 [2] was postponed, maybe that is what I had seen. I admit to >>   possibly getting lost trying to quickly scan

Re: DMB: Proposal for a different review process

2011-08-03 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Wednesday, August 03, 2011 03:46:55 PM Chase Douglas wrote: > On 08/03/2011 12:35 PM, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Scott Moser wrote: > >> At very least, this issue needs to be fixed. Meetings need to happen at > >> scheduled times, or be postponed/rescheduled at

Re: DMB: Proposal for a different review process

2011-08-03 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Scott Moser wrote: > 2011-06-20 [1] ended in a discussion about "Whats a Quorum" > 2011-02-14 [2] was postponed, maybe that is what I had seen. I admit to >   possibly getting lost trying to quickly scan the logs. #1 had quorum just dandy. The applicant didn't get

Re: DMB: Proposal for a different review process

2011-08-03 Thread Allison Randal
On 08/03/2011 12:23 PM, Chase Douglas wrote: > On 08/03/2011 12:14 PM, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Chase Douglas >> wrote: >>> What is the policy for email applications? Can anyone apply this way, or >>> is it only under specific circumstances? >> >> Split votes go t

Re: DMB: Proposal for a different review process

2011-08-03 Thread Chase Douglas
On 08/03/2011 12:44 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Wednesday, August 03, 2011 03:04:14 PM Chase Douglas wrote: >> On 08/02/2011 09:33 AM, Chase Douglas wrote: >>> My proposal would be to do away with formal meetings, at least for >>> evaluating typical applications, and move them to Launchpad. Cre

Re: DMB: Proposal for a different review process

2011-08-03 Thread Scott Moser
On Wed, 3 Aug 2011, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Scott Moser wrote: > > With no further digging, only looking at > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DeveloperMembershipBoard/Logs , 4 out of the last > > 11 meetings scheduled did not happen.  3 of those were due to lack of > >

SRUs for typo fixes in descriptions

2011-08-03 Thread Micah Gersten
So, there are a couple merge proposals right now for control file description typo fixes for natty: https://code.launchpad.net/~bones/ubuntu/oneiric/gnomebaker/fix-for-818364/+merge/70234 https://code.launchpad.net/~bones/ubuntu/natty/radiotray/fix-for-722886/+merge/70107 The package has either be

Re: DMB: Proposal for a different review process

2011-08-03 Thread Luke Faraone
On 08/03/2011 03:51 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: >> I think the message isn't that there aren't unforeseen circumstances. >> It's that they need to be handled in a better fashion. Custom courtesy >> (where I'm from at least :) says that meetings that are cancelled or >> postponed have advance notice

Re: DMB: Proposal for a different review process

2011-08-03 Thread Chase Douglas
On 08/03/2011 12:35 PM, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Scott Moser wrote: >> At very least, this issue needs to be fixed. Meetings need to happen at >> scheduled times, or be postponed/rescheduled at least 24 hours in advance. > > Believe I already said this, but... >

Re: DMB: Proposal for a different review process

2011-08-03 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Wednesday, August 03, 2011 03:04:14 PM Chase Douglas wrote: > On 08/02/2011 09:33 AM, Chase Douglas wrote: > > My proposal would be to do away with formal meetings, at least for > > evaluating typical applications, and move them to Launchpad. Create a > > project (maybe "ubuntu-developer-members

Re: DMB: Proposal for a different review process

2011-08-03 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 3:33 PM, Chase Douglas wrote: > On 08/03/2011 12:30 PM, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Chase Douglas >>> Ok, that's evidence of what's been done in the past, but what is the >>> policy? Can I do it myself? I'm asking because I seriously would rath

Re: DMB: Proposal for a different review process

2011-08-03 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Scott Moser wrote: > With no further digging, only looking at > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DeveloperMembershipBoard/Logs , 4 out of the last > 11 meetings scheduled did not happen.  3 of those were due to lack of > quorum.  At least one other meeting not explicitly lis

Re: DMB: Proposal for a different review process

2011-08-03 Thread Chase Douglas
On 08/03/2011 12:30 PM, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Chase Douglas > wrote: >> On 08/03/2011 12:14 PM, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: >>> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Chase Douglas >>> wrote: What is the policy for email applications? Can anyone apply this way, or >>

Re: DMB: Proposal for a different review process

2011-08-03 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Chase Douglas wrote: > On 08/03/2011 12:14 PM, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Chase Douglas >> wrote: >>> What is the policy for email applications? Can anyone apply this way, or >>> is it only under specific circumstances? >> >> Split v

Re: DMB: Proposal for a different review process

2011-08-03 Thread Scott Moser
On Tue, 2 Aug 2011, Nathan Handler wrote: > On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Chase Douglas > wrote: > > True, but progress sometimes means change. I think this system would > > work better, and if proven right it could be a model for other boards to > > adopt. If it's worse, then the DMB can easil

Re: DMB: Proposal for a different review process

2011-08-03 Thread Chase Douglas
On 08/03/2011 12:14 PM, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Chase Douglas > wrote: >> What is the policy for email applications? Can anyone apply this way, or >> is it only under specific circumstances? > > Split votes go to the mailing list to try to find enough +1s after a

Re: DMB: Proposal for a different review process

2011-08-03 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Chase Douglas wrote: > What is the policy for email applications? Can anyone apply this way, or > is it only under specific circumstances? Split votes go to the mailing list to try to find enough +1s after a meeting. Board members can email in advance a +1/-1 if th

Re: DMB: Proposal for a different review process

2011-08-03 Thread Chase Douglas
On 08/03/2011 11:43 AM, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Chase Douglas > wrote: >> I don't think the DMB process is an important piece of community >> socialization at all. I doubt many people pay attention to it if they >> don't have a specific need to. There are much bet

Re: DMB: Proposal for a different review process

2011-08-03 Thread Chase Douglas
On 08/02/2011 09:33 AM, Chase Douglas wrote: > My proposal would be to do away with formal meetings, at least for > evaluating typical applications, and move them to Launchpad. Create a > project (maybe "ubuntu-developer-membership") and then have people open > bugs when they have something to brin

Re: DMB: Proposal for a different review process

2011-08-03 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Chase Douglas wrote: > I don't think the DMB process is an important piece of community > socialization at all. I doubt many people pay attention to it if they > don't have a specific need to. There are much better and more important > social pieces of Ubuntu. I jus

Re: DMB: Proposal for a different review process

2011-08-03 Thread Chase Douglas
On 08/03/2011 09:18 AM, Oliver Grawert wrote: > hi, > Am Dienstag, den 02.08.2011, 09:33 -0700 schrieb Chase Douglas: >> Hi all, >> >> Yesterday I attempted to attend a DMB meeting, but unfortunately only >> two members showed so there wasn't a quorum. I think I've been to about >> an equal number

The next Kubuntu council Meeting to review bambee's membership application

2011-08-03 Thread Romain Perier
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Re: DMB: Proposal for a different review process

2011-08-03 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Chase Douglas wrote: > Yesterday I attempted to attend a DMB meeting, but unfortunately only > two members showed so there wasn't a quorum. I think I've been to about > an equal number of meetings where quorum has and has not been reached > :(. This led me to think

Re: DMB: Proposal for a different review process

2011-08-03 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Dienstag, den 02.08.2011, 09:33 -0700 schrieb Chase Douglas: > Hi all, > > Yesterday I attempted to attend a DMB meeting, but unfortunately only > two members showed so there wasn't a quorum. I think I've been to about > an equal number of meetings where quorum has and has not been reached

Re: DMB: Proposal for a different review process

2011-08-03 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Wednesday, August 03, 2011 11:37:54 AM Chase Douglas wrote: > On 08/02/2011 06:46 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > On Tuesday, August 02, 2011 04:04:31 PM Chase Douglas wrote: > >> On 08/02/2011 12:43 PM, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > >>> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Bryce Harrington > > > > wrot

Re: DMB: Proposal for a different review process

2011-08-03 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Chase Douglas wrote: > The issue with the email voting is two-fold: > > 1. It's not advertised anywhere. I didn't know it was possible until it > was mentioned yesterday. This is easy to fix. > 2. As mentioned yesterday, there's the possibility that applications >

Re: DMB: Proposal for a different review process

2011-08-03 Thread Chase Douglas
On 08/02/2011 06:46 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Tuesday, August 02, 2011 04:04:31 PM Chase Douglas wrote: >> On 08/02/2011 12:43 PM, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: >>> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Bryce Harrington > wrote: Sounds like a good idea to me. It makes it analogous to other proces

Re: lintian build failure

2011-08-03 Thread Benjamin Drung
Am Mittwoch, den 03.08.2011, 14:35 +0100 schrieb Iain Lane: > On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 03:25:34PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: > > Hello Benjamin, > > > > Benjamin Drung [2011-07-25 16:56 +0200]: > > > +E: control-files-weird-files: control-file-has-bad-permissions triggers > > > 0664 != 0644 > > >

Re: lintian build failure

2011-08-03 Thread Iain Lane
On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 03:25:34PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: > Hello Benjamin, > > Benjamin Drung [2011-07-25 16:56 +0200]: > > +E: control-files-weird-files: control-file-has-bad-permissions triggers > > 0664 != 0644 > > This is most likely because in oneiric the standard umask for > non-system

Re: lintian build failure

2011-08-03 Thread Martin Pitt
Hello Benjamin, Benjamin Drung [2011-07-25 16:56 +0200]: > +E: control-files-weird-files: control-file-has-bad-permissions triggers 0664 > != 0644 This is most likely because in oneiric the standard umask for non-system users is 002 now, for users which are in a private user group. I. e. new fil