Re: Postinsts barfing when mysqld not running

2007-08-21 Thread Dennis Kaarsemaker
On ma, 2007-08-20 at 12:48 -0400, Barry deFreese wrote: I suppose another option would be to prompt the user for 1. Connect to remote db 2. Use local db 3. Leave unconfigured but that just means more prompting that we don't like, no? Isn't dbconfig-common meant to handle this? -- Dennis K.

Refining MOTU Mentoring

2007-08-21 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, I thought some more about the topic after various discussions with people. In my opinion mentoring as in one-on-one time is a highly valuable effort. When trying to define the purpose and role of mentors we should try to make sure that these highly valuable efforts are not in

Re: new Transmission release

2007-08-21 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello Georges, Am Freitag, den 10.08.2007, 05:08 +0200 schrieb Georges Discry: The latest version of Transmission (a lightweight BitTorrent client) has just been released a few days ago and I would really like to see this one included Gutsy. please file a bug report at

Re: New wxPython Release

2007-08-21 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello Robin, Am Donnerstag, den 09.08.2007, 08:50 -0700 schrieb Robin Dunn: I just wanted to let you guys know about the new wxPython/wxWidgets release, version 2.8.4.2, in hopes that it will be able to be included with Gutsy. I spent a lot of time updating the debian/rules and other

Re: QA Sessions

2007-08-21 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello Andy, thanks for bringing this up. Am Mittwoch, den 25.07.2007, 16:47 +0100 schrieb Andy Price: I thought I'd bring some attention to it because the next ones are very soon and I think the previous ones drifted past silently. Perhaps some announcement/advertising/blogging is in order if

Re: Refining MOTU Mentoring

2007-08-21 Thread Emmet Hikory
On 8/21/07, Daniel Holbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought some more about the topic after various discussions with people. ... Some things we would generally like to see happening: * Contributors should use the 'official sponsoring process' as soon as possible. Should

Re: QA Sessions

2007-08-21 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Tuesday 21 August 2007 05:21, Daniel Holbach wrote: Hello Andy, thanks for bringing this up. Am Mittwoch, den 25.07.2007, 16:47 +0100 schrieb Andy Price: I thought I'd bring some attention to it because the next ones are very soon and I think the previous ones drifted past silently.

Re: QA Sessions

2007-08-21 Thread Daniel Holbach
Am Dienstag, den 21.08.2007, 09:01 -0400 schrieb Scott Kitterman: I thought we cancelled these due to lack of participation at one of the recent MOTU meetings. Do I remember right? I'm happy to run the one on Friday 12:00 UTC. Have a nice day, Daniel signature.asc Description: Dies ist

Re: Refining MOTU Mentoring

2007-08-21 Thread Scott Kitterman
Nicolas Robin wrote: Maybe this Idea should be applied for an official classroom channel, specially designed for new contributors to be helped by MOTUs ? It is the best way to progress, to be in touch with many MOTUs and to be free to ask all the questions you want. I thought this is

Re: Refining MOTU Mentoring

2007-08-21 Thread Cesare Tirabassi
On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 10:07 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: I thought this is what #ubuntu-motu was for? I thought for a long time if it was correct to publish the following snippet. I believe however that it is important to share with you some considerations I received from a disappointed

Files added to a package? Patches or files in debian/?

2007-08-21 Thread Morten Kjeldgaard
Is there a consensus on what to do when you are adding files to a package? I am thinking for example on a situation where I am authoring a complete autotools system to a software package, and upstream is, say, dead or unresponsive ;-) Of course, I can add these as patches against /dev/null,

Re: Files added to a package? Patches or files in debian/?

2007-08-21 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Tuesday 21 August 2007 14:23, Morten Kjeldgaard wrote: Is there a consensus on what to do when you are adding files to a package? I am thinking for example on a situation where I am authoring a complete autotools system to a software package, and upstream is, say, dead or unresponsive ;-)

retiring from MOTU Council

2007-08-21 Thread Stefan Potyra
Hi folks, (CC-ing technical-board and community-council, as I'm not sure which board will need to take the next steps here) It has been both a great pleasure and honour to be a member of MOTU Council. However, as I've started working this year, I'm sad that I don't have the time for this

Re: Refining MOTU Mentoring

2007-08-21 Thread Kjeldgaard Morten
We have a lot of contributors in this list, and I think it is the right time for them to speak up and share their thoughts. We need you guys, and we need to know if what we do is valid or not. PLEASE ADD YOUR VOICE! As a new contributor, let me add a few comments, then. As it has been