Re: brainstorming for UDS-N - Package Selection and Defaults

2010-10-29 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Oct 26, 2010, at 03:15 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: >The problem here is that our python handling has been entirely designed >around the idea that each python extension should be packaged as a single >python-foo binary package containing support for all supported python >versions. So "support" do

Re: brainstorming for UDS-N - Package Selection and Defaults

2010-10-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 04:09:10PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 03:15:48PM -0400, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:27:57AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > > "support" does not imply "include on the CD image". The point would be to > > > make sure that

Re: brainstorming for UDS-N - Package Selection and Defaults

2010-10-26 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 03:15:48PM -0400, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:27:57AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > "support" does not imply "include on the CD image". The point would be to > > make sure that it is available and usable by the people who rely on it. > > The probl

Re: brainstorming for UDS-N - Package Selection and Defaults

2010-10-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:27:57AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 03:10:20PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > > On 04.10.2010 02:30, Robert Collins wrote: > > > It would be really nice, as a 'runs unpackaged stuff on the distro' > > > use case, to support the highest python ve

Re: brainstorming for UDS-N - Package Selection and Defaults

2010-10-26 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 04:35:40PM -0500, C de-Avillez wrote: >> On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 21:47:04 +0200 >> Allison Randal wrote: >> >> > The Package Selection and Defaults track is about choosing the >> > best-of-breed packages (applications,

Re: brainstorming for UDS-N - Package Selection and Defaults

2010-10-26 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 03:10:20PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > On 04.10.2010 02:30, Robert Collins wrote: > > It would be really nice, as a 'runs unpackaged stuff on the distro' > > use case, to support the highest python version on one LTS as a > > non-default on the next LTS, consistently. >

Re: brainstorming for UDS-N - Package Selection and Defaults

2010-10-26 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 04:35:40PM -0500, C de-Avillez wrote: > On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 21:47:04 +0200 > Allison Randal wrote: > > > The Package Selection and Defaults track is about choosing the > > best-of-breed packages (applications, libraries, etc), a common task > > across all editions of Ubunt

Re: brainstorming for UDS-N - Package Selection and Defaults

2010-10-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 09:55:15PM -0400, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre wrote: > That said, that's one of the things I will be focusing on at UDS; > along with a blueprint I have yet to write regarding upgrades to the > networking stack in general. On that note, I'd like us to look at what we need to do

Re: brainstorming for UDS-N - Package Selection and Defaults

2010-10-14 Thread Marius Gedminas
On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 09:55:04AM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > On 07.10.2010 22:19, Barry Warsaw wrote: > > I think the reason to have overlap in Python versions between LTS releases > > is > > for the benefit of end users who have applications that are not in our > > archive. What I mean is t

Re: brainstorming for UDS-N - Package Selection and Defaults

2010-10-14 Thread Jan Claeys
Ahmed Kamal schreef op vr 01-10-2010 om 10:46 [+0200]: > What about having a desktop link that takes new users to > webchat.freenode.net #ubuntu for support, #ubuntu is English-only, so that would need some extra logic for other languages etc. -- Jan Claeys -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubu

Re: brainstorming for UDS-N - Package Selection and Defaults

2010-10-11 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Friday, October 08, 2010 11:28:53 pm Mackenzie Morgan wrote: >> On Friday, October 08, 2010 03:55:04 am Matthias Klose wrote: >> > On 07.10.2010 22:19, Barry Warsaw wrote: >> > > As a policy, I do think it makes sense for us to have one P