Re: How about an XB-Meta-Package: dummy package field?

2013-02-17 Thread Michael Bienia
On 2013-02-14 09:12:16 -0800, Scott Ritchie wrote: > On 2/13/13 10:43 PM, Martin Pitt wrote: > >Scott Ritchie [2013-02-13 22:35 -0800]: > >>We have (and will continue to have) many transitional dummy packages > >>with no content. I see two main advantages to flagging them: > >> > >>1) Lintian coul

Re: Syncing make-dfsg 2.82 from Debian experimental

2012-08-12 Thread Michael Bienia
On 2012-08-09 09:48:58 +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > Le 08/08/2012 22:41, Steve Langasek a écrit : > >I don't think this should be synced without doing a full test rebuild of the > >archive (main+universe) using the new version. > Who can do archive rebuilds on ppas (I guess there is an easy way

Minutes from the Developer Membership Board meeting, 2011-12-05

2011-12-10 Thread Michael Bienia
== Attendees == * Chair: Michael Bienia * Present: Benjamin Drung, Micah Gersten, Stefano Rivera, Stéphane Graber == Notes == * Action review * Iain Lane to document package set application process → done * Micah Gersten to ping all packageset teams to get a description we

Re: Reevaluating the "Ubuntu Contributing Developer" status

2011-10-06 Thread Michael Bienia
On 2011-10-06 12:04:11 -0400, Luke Faraone wrote: > On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 10:25, Stephen M. Webb wrote: > > > > Ubuntu Member: a recognized member of the Ubuntu community > > > > Ubuntu Developer: a Ubuntu Member who obtained their recognition through > > contributing software development (patche

Re: Oneiric / Sid diff pages in Launchpad

2011-08-16 Thread Michael Bienia
On 2011-08-16 21:40:04 +0300, Jani Monoses wrote: > On 08/16/2011 07:19 PM, Julian Edwards wrote: > >On Tuesday 16 August 2011 09:30:43 Jani Monoses wrote: > > https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/oneiric/+missingpackages > > >>pending approval? Do those not yet meet criteria for inclusion? > >> > >>For

Re: DMB: Proposal for a different review process

2011-08-04 Thread Michael Bienia
On 2011-08-04 15:42:38 -0400, Jonathan Carter wrote: > On 04/08/11 02:13 PM, Dustin Kirkland wrote: > > To (1), there's been discussion on the list about adjusting meeting > > times to improve quorum. That would be a huge win for everyone. > > Woohoo. \o/ > > Yep, timing seems to be an issue in

Re: DMB: Proposal for a different review process

2011-08-04 Thread Michael Bienia
On 2011-08-03 12:23:13 -0700, Chase Douglas wrote: > On 08/03/2011 12:14 PM, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > > The only time I've seen the application be done *completely* in email > > was when there was a 9-person-ish queue. > > Ok, that's evidence of what's been done in the past, but what is the > pol

Re: Understanding the definitions and expectations of our membership processes

2011-08-04 Thread Michael Bienia
On 2011-08-02 11:50:52 -0700, Chase Douglas wrote: > On 07/29/2011 11:24 AM, Jordon Bedwell wrote: > > Hola, > > > > On Fri, July 29, 2011 11:01 am, Michael Bienia wrote: > >> This leads to the next question: how much do you trust the person > >> writing

Re: Understanding the definitions and expectations of our membership processes

2011-07-29 Thread Michael Bienia
On 2011-07-27 12:55:08 -0700, Chase Douglas wrote: > Imo, What we should be looking for is two-fold: > > Packaging: > 1. Has the applicant properly worked on packages in the past? > 2. Is the applicant aware of the limits of their packaging competency? > 3. Does the applicant seek out guidance whe

Re: Understanding the definitions and expectations of our membership processes

2011-07-27 Thread Michael Bienia
On 2011-07-26 15:53:09 -0500, Dustin Kirkland wrote: > On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Iain Lane wrote: > > By the way, I am disturbed at the amount of implied criticism the DMB is > > receiving in the past couple of weeks. Is it a coincidence that it comes > > shortly after we defer some applica

Re: "What I like least in Ubuntu"

2011-07-26 Thread Michael Bienia
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 > > confuses applicants. It'd be good to change it something sensible. Even > > if we just change it in the documenta

Re: "What I like least in Ubuntu"

2011-07-26 Thread Michael Bienia
On 2011-07-25 22:58:10 -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > On 25 July 2011 07:45, Benjamin Drung wrote: > > I would recommend people to apply for 'Ubuntu Contributing Developer' > > before applying for MOTU or core-dev. > > I disagree with your recommendation. I recently got my Ubuntu > membership throu

Re: "What I like least in Ubuntu"

2011-07-26 Thread Michael Bienia
On 2011-07-25 07:51:17 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > I think it's a fair point that UCD is confusing. What it means is "Ubuntu > member that got their membership based on development contribution and not > some other kind". Do we really need a different name for this? It might be > more cle

Re: "What I like least in Ubuntu"

2011-07-26 Thread Michael Bienia
On 2011-07-25 14:48:38 -0500, Micah Gersten wrote: > On 07/25/2011 02:05 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > Package set members having exclusive lock on packages is something that has > > been discussed, but AIUI (except for packagesets corresponding to Main) > > there > > are no such restrictive pa

Minutes from the Developer Membership Board meeting 2011-02-28

2011-03-07 Thread Michael Bienia
Developer Membership Board meeting 2011-02-28 19:00 UTC === Chair: Michael Bienia Present: Benjamin Drung, Mackenzie Morgan, Stéphane Graber, Cody Somerville (only half of the meeting) Absent: Emmet Hikory, Iain Lane == Action review

Developer Membership Board vote results

2011-03-01 Thread Michael Bienia
of the vote is¹: Emmet Hikory (persia) Michael Bienia (geser) Stéphane Graber (stgraber) Iain Lane (Laney) Makenzie Morgan (maco) Cody Somerville (cody_somerville) The current Developer Membership Board members are²: Benjamin Drung (bdrung) Emmet Hikory (persia) Michael Bi

Minutes from the Developer Membership Board meeting 2011-01-03

2011-01-04 Thread Michael Bienia
Developer Membership Board meeting 2011-01-03 19:00 UTC === Chair: Cody Somerville Present: Benjamin Drung, Soren Hansen, Stéphane Graber, Michael Bienia Absent: Emmet Hikory, Colin Watson == Action review == * Colin Watson to find a

New MOTU: Angel Abad

2011-01-04 Thread Michael Bienia
Hello, Angel Abad's application for MOTU was approved during the DMB meeting on 2011-01-03 [1]. Please give him a sincere welcome. Michael 1: http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2011/01/03/%23ubuntu-meeting.html#t19:29 -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubs

FTBFS overview page lists now packagesets too

2010-11-17 Thread Michael Bienia
Hello, since a few days the FTBFS overview page at http://qa.ubuntuwire.com/ftbfs/ contains now information about packagesets too. The 'component' tables got an additional column ('Set?') which contains a checkmark if the package belongs to at least one packageset. A tooltip shows which package

Re: Proposal for a JavaLibraryFreeze

2010-11-03 Thread Michael Bienia
On 2010-10-28 16:47:37 -0400, Thierry Carrez wrote: [ JavaLibraryFreeze ] Is there a clear definition of which (source) packages fall below it that would make it easy to check if an exception is needed or not? (for those who aren't familiar with java). Something like all source packages producing

Re: Call for votes: Vacant Developer Membership Board seat

2010-10-20 Thread Michael Bienia
On 2010-10-20 10:29:16 +0200, Michael Bienia wrote: > The Developer Membership Board has started a vote to fill the vacant > position. I've contacted by several people about the fact that the ballot mails are a mix of German and English. I'm sorry about the inconvenience. I didn&#