Re: proposal do disallow syncs of library packages from experimental without approval

2011-10-06 Thread Iain Lane
Hello, On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 05:21:05PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 04:17:43PM +0100, Iain Lane wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 03:55:54PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > > […] > > > > All three cases have in common that th

Re: proposal do disallow syncs of library packages from experimental without approval

2011-10-05 Thread Iain Lane
be run through them first, in a similar-but-not-as-complicated role to that played by the Debian release team. As we rely quite heavily on Debian for QA anyway, we can probably only care for those transitions happening in Ubuntu first (as you said). Cheers, -- Iain Lane

Re: Reevaluating the "Ubuntu Contributing Developer" status

2011-10-05 Thread Iain Lane
Hey, On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 12:57:36PM +0200, Daniel Holbach wrote: > Hello, > > Am 05.10.2011 12:40, schrieb Iain Lane: > > Please visit the page > > > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopers#Ubuntu_Contributing_Developers > > > > to see our cur

Reevaluating the "Ubuntu Contributing Developer" status

2011-10-05 Thread Iain Lane
requirement to go through any other. Remember, the page linked above is on a wiki so please be bold and make improvememnts when you can see opportunity to do so. Concrete suggestions for improvements are preferred. :-) Regards, -- Iain Lane [ i...@orangesquash.org.uk

Re: Patch Pilot: Aug 8, 2011

2011-08-09 Thread Iain Lane
urce builds the > new libgwibber2 binary. As far as I'm aware libgwibber1 has a single > rdepend: the obsolete indicator-me. This looks like a candidate for > removal rather than sync? Yeah, that's right. See #811185. Closing the other one now, thanks! Cheers, -- Iain L

Re: DMB: Proposal for a different review process

2011-08-03 Thread Iain Lane
mean to badger with > >>> questions on the list, it's only because I can't find any information > >>> on how else to interact with the board. > >>> > >>> Thanks! > >>> > >>> -- Chase > >> > >> Hi, &g

Re: DMB: Proposal for a different review process

2011-08-03 Thread Iain Lane
eved and should only be something the DMB can choose to fallback > to on a case by case basis and not offered as a general way of applying. +1. I'm sorry everyone finds it so terrible currently. Regards, -- Iain Lane [ i...@oranges

Re: lintian build failure

2011-08-03 Thread Iain Lane
umask, I suggest > running the tests with an "umask 022" statement. I believe this is fixed by http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=lintian/lintian.git;a=commit;h=f5b9b28a55b6a786fd6192b9fde06bef19206e30 but I haven't tested it. If someone has time, they could

Re: Understanding the definitions and expectations of our membership processes

2011-07-27 Thread Iain Lane
uidelines, at least as much as can be written down https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DeveloperMembershipBoard/ApplicationProcess Please help to improve. Cheers, -- Iain Lane [ i...@orangesquash.org.uk ] Debian Developer [ la...@d

Re: "What I like least in Ubuntu"

2011-07-27 Thread Iain Lane
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 08:54:00PM +0200, Michael Bienia wrote: > On 2011-07-25 16:11:43 +0100, Iain Lane wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 05:01:35PM +0200, Daniel Holbach wrote: > > > I agree that the name is misleading and it's unfortunate that it > > > conf

Re: "What I like least in Ubuntu"

2011-07-26 Thread Iain Lane
recognition of past good work. If people don't think membership is a thing worth getting then that is another issue. Cheers, -- Iain Lane [ i...@orangesquash.org.uk ] Debian Developer [ la...@debian.org ] Ubuntu Developer

Re: "What I like least in Ubuntu"

2011-07-25 Thread Iain Lane
part of) and I think > that's correct. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DeveloperMembershipBoard does not > discuss how the DMB is formed (perhaps it should). I share your interpretation too. Backed up by this page https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommunityCouncil/Restaffing Cheers, -- Iain L

Re: "What I like least in Ubuntu"

2011-07-25 Thread Iain Lane
omething sensible. Even > if we just change it in the documentation. I just added a discussion item to the next DMB agenda to rename the team to Ubuntu Development Members. This is in line with the other delegated (non RMB) membership names, and I think is much less confusing. Cheers, -- Iain La

Re: "What I like least in Ubuntu"

2011-07-25 Thread Iain Lane
got it. > Just to understand that what I really needed was 'Per Package Uploader' > level. So it edited my wiki page and applied again. Today I would > totally skip first phase as from my perspective it was useless waste of > time. That is unfortunate. Could you help to

Re: "What I like least in Ubuntu"

2011-07-25 Thread Iain Lane
ev): Per-package uploaders [...] are implicitly considered Ubuntu Members from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopers#PerPackage I just updated that page a bit. It's probably not clear enough that UCD is 'just' Ubuntu Membership granted by the DMB. Please help me out by fin

Re: Understanding the definitions and expectations of our membership processes

2011-07-21 Thread Iain Lane
for, it is rare for applications to be accepted from people contributing for less than 6 months. The DMB also applies these tests when granting membership. Please be mindful of these when you (even implicitly and without naming specific occasions, which invariably is what happens) criticise our a

Re: Understanding the definitions and expectations of our membership processes

2011-07-21 Thread Iain Lane
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 03:32:39PM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Thursday, July 21, 2011 03:05:04 PM Iain Lane wrote: > > Hello, > > > > On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 11:40:44AM -0700, Chase Douglas wrote: > > > On 07/21/2011 11:17 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > &g

Re: Understanding the definitions and expectations of our membership processes

2011-07-21 Thread Iain Lane
Hello, On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 11:40:44AM -0700, Chase Douglas wrote: > On 07/21/2011 11:17 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > On Thursday, July 21, 2011 01:09:46 PM Chase Douglas wrote: > >> On 07/20/2011 04:02 PM, Iain Lane wrote: > >>> On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 06:

Re: Understanding the definitions and expectations of our membership processes

2011-07-20 Thread Iain Lane
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 06:16:45PM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Wednesday, July 20, 2011 05:43:23 PM Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > > [...] And then I guess you could add "should > > Canonical-sponsored upstream projects be treated differently than > > other upstream projects for purposes of Ubunt

Re: Dropping tomboy from the CD at least for part of the oneiric cycle

2011-07-06 Thread Iain Lane
Hello there, On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 09:00:31PM +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > Hi, > > During the desktop team meeting today we discussed deprecated libs and > CD space, tomboy is keeping libgnome, libgnomeui, libbonobo, > libbonoboui, libgnomecanvas on the CD in oneiric and will until upstream

Re: Uploading to multiple distros

2011-06-02 Thread Iain Lane
On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 01:54:37PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: [...] Hrm. So syncpackage generates a .changes for uploading to ubuntu from the .dsc (which presumably came out of the Debian build). That does mean though that the Ubuntu target suite is not visible in the changelog of the ultimate U

Re: Uploading to multiple distros

2011-06-02 Thread Iain Lane
On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 01:20:08PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: Didier Raboud writes ("Re: Color Management in Debian"): Given that Debian is currently not frozen (and that the Oneiric release will very probably happen before Wheezy's), I really think that not uploading those packages to Debian fir

Re: Suggestion for patch pilot reports

2011-05-05 Thread Iain Lane
Hi there, On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 09:08:49AM -0400, Etienne Goyer wrote: Hi guys, Even though I am not involved in the SRU process, I systematically skim the patch pilot report in case an upcoming SRU would be of interest to me. The important bit for me is to know which package is about to get

Developer Membership Board meeting, 2011-04-25

2011-04-28 Thread Iain Lane
=== Developer Membership Board meeting, 2011-04-25 === Chair: Iain Lane Present: Cody Somerville, Benjamin Drung, Mackenzie Morgan, Stéphane Graber, Michael Bienia Review of previous action items * Laney to update delegated teams to allow members to renew their memberships

Re: Minutes from the Developer Membership Board meeting 2011-03-28

2011-04-04 Thread Iain Lane
Hi all, On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 10:20:01AM +0100, Iain Lane wrote: Developer Membership Board meeting 2011-03-28 19:00 UTC [...] * New meeting time (IainLane) Following discussion on the DMB list about problems achieving quorum, it was agreed to move our 1900UTC meeting to 2000UTC so

Minutes from the Developer Membership Board meeting 2011-03-28

2011-04-03 Thread Iain Lane
Developer Membership Board meeting 2011-03-28 19:00 UTC Chair: Cody Somerville Present: Michael Bienia, Benjamin Drung, Iain Lane, Mackenzie Morgan == Review of previous action items == * Emmet Hikory to organise the selection process for DMB renewal Done == Administrative matters

Re: build-from-branch into the primary archive

2011-02-22 Thread Iain Lane
Hello, On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 11:01:10AM -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote: On Feb 21, 2011, at 11:14 AM, Steve Langasek wrote: For that matter, if DEBCHANGE_RELEASE_HEURISTIC=changelog were the default, there would be an explicit "mark this ready for upload" step that typically consists of 'dch -r &

Kicking off the ubuntu-packaging-guide project

2011-02-02 Thread Iain Lane
Hello everybody, We are ready to start the new Ubuntu Packaging Guide project. After long discussions we finally figured out a workflow for how we'll run the project. * The code lives in lp:ubuntu-packaging-guide. * Bugs (problems, typos, requests for new guides, etc.) can be filed at htt

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