Re: OSS Research Help Needed (enter Drawing for iPad for participating)

> This reward suggests a fundamental lack of understanding about the community you're researching. With a prize like that you are not going to get anything approaching an unbiased sample of the OSS community. Many here have philosophical objections to the iPad. Thanks, Scott Ritchie -

Re: Announcing the Next Ubuntu Hug Day! - April 02 2009

the statistics page to be updated to reflect individual users? Thanks, Scott Ritchie -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Bringing Wine into Main

Jim Lieb wrote: > On Tuesday 16 December 2008 14:28:21 Scott Ritchie wrote: >>> Not sure if this is relevant to wine going into main, but I have to >>> admit, I find it very frustrating in Intrepid that whenever i stick in a >>> cd with an autorun or windows executabl

Re: Bringing Wine into Main

Odysseus Flappington wrote: > 2008/12/15 Scott Ritchie mailto:sc...@open-vote.org>> > > (``-_-´´) -- BUGabundo wrote: > > Olá Scott e a todos. > > > > On Monday 15 December 2008 10:22:58 Scott Ritchie wrote: > >> Most of Wine's

Re: Bringing Wine into Main

(``-_-´´) -- BUGabundo wrote: > Olá Scott e a todos. > > On Monday 15 December 2008 10:22:58 Scott Ritchie wrote: >> Most of Wine's dependencies are already in main, but on amd64 Wine still >> requires >> ia32-libs for about 15 packages that don't have separ

Re: Did we really release 8.04?

r-customizations) is due to the very real danger of this breaking things. So, they wait until the actual release, when we say it's safer. It would be much nicer if it was really easy to copy your current machine into a VM. This isn't just for generating more QA though - having such a testbed

Re: Cannot boot alpha-1

gt; Similarly, Alpha 1 doesn't work for me in vmware. I get to gdm, but logging in results in a frozen brown screen in both i386 and amd64. Thanks, Scott Ritchie -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Reminders: 1. UI freeze == string freeze, notifications needed for translators. 2. please remember i18n.

re needed to be sent to > ubuntu-translators mailing list. Does string freeze include changes to package descriptions? Thanks, Scott Ritchie -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: How to include a part of Wine ... why include wine at all?

ine version shipped with Ubuntu to have no regressions relative to the previous Wine version shipped with Ubuntu. This is something I can't guarantee using the biweekly Wine releases, however people still want the latest Wine, so I make it available there. Thanks, Scott Ritchie -- Ubuntu-deve

How to include a part of Wine that can only be compiled on Windows (Gecko)

s the best way to do this? Put the file that Wine downloads anyway into a wine-gecko package, and put that on the local filesystem? What do we do about LGPL compliance and providing source code? I've opened a bug to track integration: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wine/+bug/1

Re: Changing dpkg-deb default compression from gzip to lzma for Hardy

hreshhold is met due to cost concerns. If we prevent them from reaching that threshold by lowering the bandwidth, we could reduce download time by even more than the filesize reduction. Thanks, Scott Ritchie -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Changing dpkg-deb default compression from gzip to lzma for Hardy

Krzysztof Lichota wrote: > Scott Ritchie napisał(a): >> I did some experimentation with my Wine package. Here's the filesize of >> the latest .deb passing different options to dpkg-deb: >> >> 11081456 default >> 10090930 bzip2 >> 7682608 lzma >>

Changing dpkg-deb default compression from gzip to lzma for Hardy

ip) seems to be the best place for this. Thoughts? Thanks, Scott Ritchie -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Request for review of my two specs

ubuntu.com/BetterIntegratedWineSpec Thanks, Scott Ritchie -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: What do I do with disturbing bug reports in Wine about system crashes?

Reinhard Tartler wrote: > Scott Ritchie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> These are clearly not Wine bugs, but it's unclear to me where I should >> refile them. Wine's exposing a bug somewhere else (probably the driver >> or X), but what should I do? >

What do I do with disturbing bug reports in Wine about system crashes?

uld refile them. Wine's exposing a bug somewhere else (probably the driver or X), but what should I do? Thanks, Scott Ritchie -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Windows Program Support

with creating an autorun prompt that allows the user to optionally run an application. That's all we need to do for Windows autorun anyway. Thanks, Scott Ritchie -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Windows Program Support

ot continue to run after logging out unless it was specifically designed to target Linux (say, by modifying bashrc.) Thanks, Scott Ritchie -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: automatic dpkg --configure -a

autoclean to free up disk space until you run dpkg --configure -a We may not want to wait for a reboot here. Just integrate it into the update manager if it detects dpkg --configure -a still needs to be run. Thanks, Scott Ritchie -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-dev

More libraries needed in ia32-libs for Wine

llows us to create a very specific package that only Wine needs. The downside is that we add yet another package, and it will get weirdly named if a non-Wine package begins to depend on it. However, we can keep ia32-libs-wine in universe. Thoughts? Thanks, Scott Ritchie -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: should people.ubuntu.com be people.canonical.com

Launchpad. > Agreed. It's pretty silly that we host REVU on a completely separate domain, for example. Thanks, Scott Ritchie -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: The latest amd64 nightly desktop ISO is 730 megs

Murat Gunes wrote: > Scott Ritchie wrote: >> In this case it didn't - I didn't even come across a warning. > > In http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/20070914/ I can clearly see that > there are two files that end with .OVERSIZED; I guess the capitalization > i

Re: The latest amd64 nightly desktop ISO is 730 megs

d be happy if someone could > confirm this). It's not realistic to expect all uploads to be concerted > to such an extent as to be able to meet a certain maximum size on a > daily basis. > > Scott Ritchie wrote: >> Perhaps the build script should throw up a warning somew

Re: The latest amd64 nightly desktop ISO is 730 megs

Murat Gunes wrote: > Scott Ritchie wrote: >> The latest nightly ISO for AMD64 is too large to burn - even with >> overburning enabled. The end result is that I can't test it. >> >> Is this a simple bug, or are nightly images allowed to get too large? >>

The latest amd64 nightly desktop ISO is 730 megs

hould be a priority, even on a day to day basis. Thanks, Scott Ritchie -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

A week of games: Chess is too hard and Gnometris is really bad

ever the situation with Gnometris is so bad I'm going to recommend we don't include it by default unless these issues get fixed. Thanks, Scott Ritchie -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.

Re: new packages freeze policy

On Sat, 2007-09-08 at 00:50 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Saturday 08 September 2007 00:40, Scott Ritchie wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 23:00 +0200, Michael Bienia wrote: > > > On 2007-08-31 00:12:41 -0700, Scott Ritchie wrote: > > > > On this note, I

Re: new packages freeze policy

On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 23:00 +0200, Michael Bienia wrote: > On 2007-08-31 00:12:41 -0700, Scott Ritchie wrote: > > On this note, I got completely confused by the deadline. I read that > > the upstream version freeze deadline was August 30th, so I planned to > > upload my

Re: new packages freeze policy

n my boss tells me "This needs to be done by Friday," I generally don't interpret that as "I need this on my desk before midnight on Thursday." In other words, my package (Wine) is a day late and I'd like it reviewed anyway. Although, Wine has gotten about 3 UVF excep

Re: Announcement: One Click Installer - What I need as a third party APT repository maintainer

Gutsy. Will One Click Installer also do this, perhaps embedding the internals of Third Party Apt on Ubuntu systems? Thanks, Scott Ritchie -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Getting good debugging stack traces from wine apport crash reports

On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 17:46 +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: > Hello fans of wine, > > I already sent this to Scott Ritchie a while ago, but didn't get a > reply, so let's try here. > > When we talked about improving apport to deliver better stack traces > to us in Sevi

Re: Announcing wineui

s, but for that, no one is using wine. You are using wine, because > your tax software is not running natively on linux...and most of the > time even with wine it's not running. Anyways a absolute useless > discussion. I don't buy it. eMule is a great example - there simply is no better ed2k client, since porting it without Wine turned out to be a lot more work than people expected - the lmule and amule projects have never achieved the features of eMule. It's also Windows only, and open source. Thanks, Scott Ritchie -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: I'd like to discuss how difficult it is to add a third party repository

e sources. Exactly, this would be ideal. As it stands the user has to do _more_ steps to use the GUI tools than simply cut and pasting the command lines. The requirement for a universe package is even more onerous. Thanks, Scott Ritchie -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-disc

Re: I'd like to discuss how difficult it is to add a third party repository

On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 14:41 -0400, Jean-François Gagnon Laporte wrote: > On 5/25/07, Scott Ritchie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > With the current cryptic instructions, though, even if we gave > > absolutely no information about what this process does we&

I'd like to discuss how difficult it is to add a third party repository

ith some sort of simple explanation and GUI prompt, things should work much more smoothly for everyone. Thoughts? Scott Ritchie -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Tablet PC and Summer of Code in Ubuntu

list a try - they might even help mentor you. Also, if your summer of code project seems to help multiple Google-sponsored projects (eg Ubuntu and Wine), it's more likely to be approved :) Thanks, Scott Ritchie >From the wine-devel mailing list: Re: SoC idea: Tablet PC support (was: press

Re: Ubuntu derivative package naming guidelines

that the user will eventually replace them (say, when a newer version of Ubuntu comes out), then the use of the ~ can avoid breakages. Thanks, Scott Ritchie On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 18:24 -0500, David Farning wrote: > One of the challenges of creating the Derivative Team [1] is managing > the chao

Re: Transition to Ubuntu specific Maintainer: fields

modifications, but the Maintainer address is not Ubuntuish. Does this mean I need an @ubuntu.com email address? I maintain a universe package (Wine). Thanks, Scott Ritchie -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Which third party repository do you use?

d.com/apt/ edgy main By the way, I've added an apt key for this now. It's here: http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/387EE263.gpg Thanks, Scott Ritchie -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubun

Re: Which third party repository do you use?

to keep current - a change would require the repository owner contacting the maintainer of the config and then having him update it and then having the user download the update. Thanks, Scott Ritchie -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify setting