Re: Steps to become MOTU

2009-10-29 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello Matthias, Am Mittwoch, den 28.10.2009, 14:14 +0100 schrieb Matthias Klumpp: How is the plan to make the sponsoring-process more transparent going on? I sent my application nearly half a year ago and I know that there are several other people who want to become MOTU (and have the

Looking for a mentor

2009-10-29 Thread David Farning
Hello mentors, I am looking for a mentor to help me get started packaging the Sugar Learning Platform[1] for Ubuntu. About a year ago I started by forming the ubuntu-sugarteam[2]. Due to the lead packager getting a new job and conflicts with upstream, the team petered out. I am taking another

Re: LuaRocks package out of date

2009-10-29 Thread Morten Kjeldgaard
On 26/10/2009, at 23.49, Linus Sjögren wrote: I would just like to notify you, as maintainers of the package 'luarocks' on the Ubuntu universe repo, that the version 2.0 is the latest one available. Please push that version to the repos. The luarocks source package is sync'ed unchanged

Why are some OSS packages listed as non-free?

2009-10-29 Thread Bart Genuit
When I lookup Xara Extreme using dpkg-query, it is listed under non-free/graphics, while their website states it is OSS? Regards, Bart -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list Ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu

Re: Why are some OSS packages listed as non-free?

2009-10-29 Thread Reinhard Tartler
Bart Genuit bartgen...@gmail.com writes: When I lookup Xara Extreme using dpkg-query, it is listed under non-free/graphics, while their website states it is OSS? you can read the copyright statement of the package here:

New MOTU: Jonathan Carter

2009-10-29 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, we're very pleased to announce that Jonathan highvoltage Carter just joined the MOTU team. His great work on Edubuntu and particularly LTSP Cluster was much appreciated. Please give South-African MOTU #2 Jonathan Carter a warm welcome to the team! Have a great day, Daniel --

software ugrade versions

2009-10-29 Thread Mike Luntz
I am a relatively inexperienced user of Ubuntu and have noticed that even though new versions of applications are available from developers as source code, the package versions seem to lag significantly. Do application packages remain at the version that existed when the specific version of Ubuntu

Re: software ugrade versions

2009-10-29 Thread Justin Dugger
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 9:00 PM, Mike Luntz lap...@mltserv.com wrote: I am a relatively inexperienced user of Ubuntu and have noticed that even though new versions of applications are available from developers as source code, the package versions seem to lag significantly. Do application

Re: software ugrade versions

2009-10-29 Thread Caroline Ford
You probably want to think about why you need the slightly newer version. All new versions will have new bugs. The highest number isn't necessarily the best. Caroline Sent from a mobile device. On 30 Oct 2009, at 02:39, Mike Luntz lap...@mltserv.com wrote: Thanks for the reply Justin.

Re: software ugrade versions

2009-10-29 Thread Caroline Ford
Please make sure you've filed the bug on launchpad. Thanks! Sent from a mobile device. On 30 Oct 2009, at 02:52, Mike Luntz lap...@mltserv.com wrote: The available version has a bug, at least on my machine, in that attempting to export a png file of a graphic does not re-draw the screen