RFC: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/Merging (Was: Re: WANTED: Merging Recipe!)

2007-11-21 Thread Daniel Holbach
On Mi, 2007-11-21 at 12:00 +0100, Daniel Holbach wrote: I'm working on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/Merging and would love to link to a Merging Recipe on http://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/Recipes After a short discussion with Emmet, we agreed that every merge is quite

New: emelfm2 0.3.5-0ubuntu3 (source)

2007-11-20 Thread Daniel Holbach
NEW: emelfm2_0.3.5.orig.tar.gz NEW: emelfm2_0.3.5-0ubuntu3.diff.gz NEW: emelfm2_0.3.5-0ubuntu3.dsc -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 10:22:32 +0100 Source: emelfm2 Binary: emelfm2 Architecture: source Version: 0.3.5-0ubuntu3 Distribution: hardy

New: btpd 0.13-0ubuntu1 (source)

2007-11-20 Thread Daniel Holbach
NEW: btpd_0.13.orig.tar.gz NEW: btpd_0.13-0ubuntu1.diff.gz NEW: btpd_0.13-0ubuntu1.dsc -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:43:48 +0100 Source: btpd Binary: btpd Architecture: source Version: 0.13-0ubuntu1 Distribution: hardy Urgency: low

Universe Rebuilds and Universe Upgrade Tests

2007-11-13 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, in one of the last MOTU meetings, I agreed to get information on the current state of Universe Rebuilds and Universe Upgrade Tests. I talked with James about Universe Rebuilds; he let me know that they're not going to happen for Hardy due to necessary changes in the Soyuz

Luca Falavigna is a MOTU

2007-11-11 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, having contributed myriads of fixes and updates through the MOTU team, Luca Falavigna (dktrkranz) became MOTU himself. Congratulations! Everybody please welcome Luca to the team! Have a nice day, Daniel signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter

MOTU Council changes

2007-10-28 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, I'm very pleased to announce that Søren Hansen and Michael Bienia were confirmed in their new posts as MC members by the Ubuntu Developers. They both bring in a wealth of Ubuntu development experience and will from now on take on another role to help to keep the MOTU team in

Loïc Minier is a MOTU

2007-10-24 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, after lots of contributions and fantastic work on the Ubuntu Desktop Team, Loïc joined the MOTU team today! Please give him a warm welcome! Have a nice day, Daniel signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list

Re: Atmosphere in the MOTU team (Was: Re: StableReleaseUpdates: gnumed-client (0.2.6.3-1ubuntu0.1) available for testing)

2007-10-23 Thread Daniel Holbach
Am Dienstag, den 23.10.2007, 07:16 -0400 schrieb Scott Kitterman: While in general I might agree with you, while the language may be a bit strong, it's a perfectly reasonable question from a member of the community to a candidate for MOTU Council and should be answered. This is not about

Re: Atmosphere in the MOTU team (Was: Re: StableReleaseUpdates: gnumed-client (0.2.6.3-1ubuntu0.1) available for testing)

2007-10-23 Thread Daniel Holbach
Am Dienstag, den 23.10.2007, 08:42 -0400 schrieb Scott Kitterman: What do you suggest? Once someone is a MOTU (or elected to MOTU Council) there isn't AFAIK any process to deal with removal. Removal? I stand firmly behind Michael. He's been doing awesome work and I'm glad he accepted being in

Re: Atmosphere in the MOTU team (Was: Re: StableReleaseUpdates: gnumed-client (0.2.6.3-1ubuntu0.1) available for testing)

2007-10-23 Thread Daniel Holbach
Am Dienstag, den 23.10.2007, 15:01 +0200 schrieb Gauvain Pocentek: If it's really something that MOTUs feel, it's right the time to discuss it in a meeting or in an other ML thread to maybe set up new policies. I don't think that the MC has ever rejected discussion of new proposals from the

Steve Langasek is a MOTU

2007-10-22 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, I'm pleased to let you know that Steve Langasek (slangasek, https://launchpad.net/~vorlon) became a MOTU today. Some of you may have talked to him already in his role as Ubuntu Release Manager. Please welcome him all to the team! Have a nice day, Daniel signature.asc

Re: non-MOTU Hopeful contributions (was:: GetDeb Project (Why I participate))

2007-10-18 Thread Daniel Holbach
Am Mittwoch, den 17.10.2007, 13:06 -0400 schrieb Scott Kitterman: I think the most important thing is that the person be trusted not to upload broken stuff very often and to fix it when they do. I wouldn't mind having MOTUs with only casual interest as long as when they did upload something

Re: MOTU QA session

2007-10-18 Thread Daniel Holbach
Am Mittwoch, den 17.10.2007, 18:55 +0200 schrieb Daniel Holbach: I'd like to do another QA session on Friday, 19th Oct on 12:00 UTC in #ubuntu-classroom Sorry, of course I meant 14:00 UTC - to not overlap with the MOTU meeting. Thanks Emmet for prodding me about it. Have a nice day, Daniel

Re: non-MOTU Hopeful contributions

2007-10-18 Thread Daniel Holbach
Am Donnerstag, den 18.10.2007, 11:20 +0100 schrieb Neil Wilson: Having gone through the Gutsy development process I feel that package submission is difficult if you are not one of the inner circle or are wanting to join it. And from the other side of the fence there are too many packages and

Re: packaging-guide - PackagingGuide

2007-10-17 Thread Daniel Holbach
Am Mittwoch, den 10.10.2007, 13:32 +0200 schrieb Daniel Holbach: I'd like to have your opinion on all the pages in question. Please follow up on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Spec/PackagingGuideMerge and leave your @SIG@ if you have better ideas for any of those items. Thanks for the good feedback

MOTU/FAQ

2007-10-15 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, I just looked at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/FAQ and it's looking quite good, still I wondered if we couldn't make more of a habit using it and asking new contributors adding more information to it. Especially with the updated docs, it will be great to just link to a wiki page

Ubuntu Open Week

2007-10-11 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, Jono announced it earlier: we'll have another Ubuntu Open Week (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpenWeek). We'll have a couple of packaging- and MOTU-related sessions, so it'd be nice if some of you could be there. The amount of questions is just insane to handle on your own. :-)

packaging-guide - PackagingGuide

2007-10-10 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, with the help of Matthew East and Jordan Mantha, I managed to transform the DocBook packaging-guide to the wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DanielHolbach/PackagingGuide - the scripts did great work, so only a few items had to be corrected by hand. This is of course only a temporary

Re: packaging-guide - PackagingGuide

2007-10-10 Thread Daniel Holbach
Am Mittwoch, den 10.10.2007, 15:05 +0100 schrieb Matt Zimmerman: I think it does make sense to merge the content into existing documents in many cases, as specified in your proposal. Actually it's the other way around. The plan is to merge existing documentation into

Re: MOTU Wiki - Kicking Off Phase 1

2007-10-09 Thread Daniel Holbach
Am Freitag, den 28.09.2007, 10:36 +0200 schrieb Daniel Holbach: I'd like to leave time until the end of the next week for people to prevent the fate of the pages listed above. In case you have different ideas for those pages, please add your comment on those pages *directly below the [[Include

MOTU QA session on Friday, 12th Oct

2007-10-09 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, we're keeping the MOTU QA sessions rolling. The next one will be on Friday, October 12th, at 14:30 UTC in #ubuntu-classroom on irc.freenode.net If you always wanted to get involved, here's the best way to prepare: * check out http://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU and

Re: [ubuntu-motu] I want to join to the development team

2007-10-08 Thread Daniel Holbach
Am Sonntag, den 07.10.2007, 21:00 +0200 schrieb Jonathan Patrick Davies: * https://wiki.kubuntu.org/MOTU/Hopeful/Recruitment , * https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UbuntuDevelopment and: * https://wiki.kubuntu.org/MOTU To get a feeling for the tools we work with every day, you might want to check out

Jonathan Patrick Davies (jpatrick) is back again

2007-10-08 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, I'm please to let you know that, Jonathan Patrick Davies finally has time for doing work in the MOTU team again, so his MOTU membership was re-activated. Everybody please give him a warm welcome-back! Have a nice day, Daniel signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital

Laurent Bigonville

2007-10-08 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, The Telepathy team has brought us a new MOTU team member: Laurent Bigonville who has done kick-ass work already, and will (among other things) make Telepathy rock even harder in the Hardy cycle. Please give him a warm welcome! Have a nice day, Daniel signature.asc

MOTU QA session

2007-10-02 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, after the success of our last session we should have another session on Friday, maybe 8:00 UTC this time, so we get a different group of people than last time. Where: #ubuntu-classroom on irc.freenode.net When: Fri, Oct 5th, 08:00 UTC What to bring: Questions How to prepare? If

Re: MOTU Wiki - Kicking Off Phase 1

2007-10-01 Thread Daniel Holbach
Am Montag, den 01.10.2007, 11:14 +0100 schrieb Matt Zimmerman: I think MOTU/SRU should be merged into StableReleaseUpdates, or otherwise kept separate from UbuntuDevelopment, as it is a policy document in its own right. StableReleaseUpdates should already be linked from UbuntuDevelopment.

Philipp Kern is a MOTU

2007-10-01 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, I'm pleased to let you know that Philipp Kern [1] is a MOTU. After bringing us Gobby goodness and other fixes for a couple of releases already, he joined the team today. Please give him a warm welcome. [1] https://launchpad.net/~pkern If you want to join the forces too,

Re: Need help?

2007-09-28 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hey Álvaro, Am Freitag, den 28.09.2007, 10:06 +0200 schrieb Álvaro Reig: Therefore, I would like to know how can I start to help. thanks for offering your help. We're nearing the release of Gutsy Gibbon, but there's still a bunch of things you could help us out with. I blogged about things you

MOTU Wiki - Kicking Off Phase 1

2007-09-28 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, as discussed in other threads already, my proposal for * the pages on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CategoryMOTUUbuntuDevMerge is to merge them into the UbuntuDevelopment namespace, * the pages on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CategoryMOTURemove is to remove

Re: Tor Packages

2007-09-27 Thread Daniel Holbach
Am Donnerstag, den 27.09.2007, 11:18 -0400 schrieb Benj. Mako Hill: I've been asked by Tor developers if it would be possible to remove the tor package (which is in universe) from future Ubuntu releases. The software can (and should?) stay in the repository and in development versions but

Søren Hansen is Ubuntu Core Developer

2007-09-26 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, after working on Ubuntu, especially Ubuntu's Server Land, for quite a long time, Søren Hansen (http://launchpad.net/~shawarma) joined the ranks of Ubuntu Core Developers. Please join me in welcoming him. Have a nice day, Daniel signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein

Re: MOTU Council election process

2007-09-24 Thread Daniel Holbach
Am Montag, den 24.09.2007, 19:48 +0200 schrieb Stefan Potyra: The process which TechBoard and CommunityCouncil agreed on is the following: I documented the process over here: http://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/Council (Processes section). Have a nice day, Daniel signature.asc Description: Dies ist

Re: [Fwd: sqlite-ruby_2.2.3-0ubuntu1_source.changes is NEW]

2007-09-17 Thread Daniel Holbach
Am Mittwoch, den 05.09.2007, 09:51 +0200 schrieb Daniel Holbach: Sorry, the package will have to go through https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FreezeExceptionProcess#head-c9d177822a71b90ec5fb703ed0d0f30eeb8fc1db first. I asked the archive admins to reject it. Re-Uploaded. Have a nice day, Daniel

MOTU Wiki Cleanup!

2007-09-14 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, some of you might have read it at http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/?p=52 already, I'm currently working on fixing the MOTU wiki. The big plan is outlined over here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/WikiCleanUp and I basically envision us using three wiki namespace in the near future:

Re: future of the Ubuntu Packaging Guide

2007-09-14 Thread Daniel Holbach
Am Donnerstag, den 13.09.2007, 09:38 +0200 schrieb Reinhard Tartler: 1. move the packaging guide to a bzr branch hosted in launchpad in the ubuntu-dev team. I have mixed feelings about this. I think having it in bzr on LP would be much better than in the ubuntu-docs SVN, as it's more

Re: future of the Ubuntu Packaging Guide

2007-09-13 Thread Daniel Holbach
Am Mittwoch, den 12.09.2007, 11:10 -0700 schrieb Jordan Mantha: After some discussion with Daniel Holbach and Matthew East I would like to propose that the Ubuntu Packaging Guide be moved from the Doc Team repo/website to the wiki. I appreciate that initiative. Reviewing the MOTU wiki pages I

Re: python-libgmail for Feisty

2007-09-13 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello Russel, Am Montag, den 03.09.2007, 15:12 +0100 schrieb Russ Craig: Just a short note to say that the version of libgmail (0.1.5.1-1) in Universe no longer works and should be replaced with 0.1.6.1 from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=113492 which fixes the

Re: hyperref package requires pzdr font

2007-09-13 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello Victor, Am Montag, den 03.09.2007, 05:04 +0200 schrieb Victor Stinner: I would like to report a bug on texlive-latex-base package, but Launchpad doesn't allow it. So I try to report the bug on Debian, but the bug looks to be specific to Ubuntu! Get more details here:

Re: Firehol package

2007-09-13 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello Rodrigo, Am Donnerstag, den 30.08.2007, 19:13 -0400 schrieb Rodrigo Belem: I made some changes to the firehol package and upgraded it to the lastest upstream release(this fixes bugs with both feisty and gutsy), but I'm inside a works firewall so I cannot upload it to REVU. I would be

Re: FTBFS packages because of libxext-dev

2007-09-13 Thread Daniel Holbach
Am Mittwoch, den 29.08.2007, 14:45 +0200 schrieb Stephan Hermann: I just started to file bug reports and debdiffs for packages which are FTBFSing because of missing libxext-dev build-dep. You can find all those bugs when you search for the tag: missing-libxext-dev or using this URL:

Re: KDE'n'Live on Ubuntu 7.10

2007-09-13 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello Marcelo (hope I got that right), Am Sonntag, den 26.08.2007, 20:59 -0300 schrieb m: For me, the Kdenive is the best video editor, on Ubuntu 7.04 I installed it well from deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/3v1deb feisty 3v1n0, but it don't work in Gusty ! if possible, please, add

Re: lyx, can you upgrade it please?

2007-09-13 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello Bradley, Am Samstag, den 25.08.2007, 19:12 -0700 schrieb Bradley Coleman: thanks! I just added this to MOTU/FAQ: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/FAQ#head-7ac272a4ddf0392e82c1668d0d1a0d45a345fba4 Hope that helps. Have a nice day, Daniel signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital

Re: RFC: revuput of ubuntu-dev-tools package

2007-09-13 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, Am Freitag, den 07.09.2007, 17:23 +0200 schrieb Daniel Holbach: revuput is designed to be a tool to upload packages to PPA, file sponsoring bugs (if told to) and follow up on bugs in (LP: #...) headers else. It will also set the right status of the bug and subscribe the right

Re: PPA and packaging 101

2007-09-11 Thread Daniel Holbach
Am Montag, den 10.09.2007, 13:12 -0700 schrieb Jordan Mantha: How about 15:00-16:00 UTC on Thursday? What topics are do people seem to be having problems with? What topics should be covered? Where do we meet? Can we let fridge-devel know? Have a nice day, Daniel signature.asc Description:

[Fwd: sqlite-ruby_2.2.3-0ubuntu1_source.changes is NEW]

2007-09-05 Thread Daniel Holbach
---BeginMessage--- NEW: sqlite-ruby_2.2.3.orig.tar.gz NEW: sqlite-ruby_2.2.3-0ubuntu1.diff.gz NEW: sqlite-ruby_2.2.3-0ubuntu1.dsc -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 19:12:53 +0100 Source: sqlite-ruby Binary: libsqlite-ruby libsqlite-ruby1.8

Re: [Fwd: sqlite-ruby_2.2.3-0ubuntu1_source.changes is NEW]

2007-09-05 Thread Daniel Holbach
Am Mittwoch, den 05.09.2007, 09:22 +0200 schrieb Daniel Holbach: E-Mail-Nachricht-Anlage, Weitergeleitete Nachricht - sqlite-ruby_2.2.3-0ubuntu1_source.changes is NEW NEW: sqlite-ruby_2.2.3.orig.tar.gz NEW: sqlite-ruby_2.2.3-0ubuntu1.diff.gz NEW: sqlite-ruby_2.2.3-0ubuntu1.dsc Sorry

Resurrecting MOTU Reports

2007-09-04 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, I'd like to invite you all to make as much use of https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/ReportingPage as possible. The information collected on it will be aggregated along with the reports other teams and publicised on web pages, the Fridge and other places. It's hugely important we do

Welcome Mathias Gug!

2007-09-03 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, Mathias just joined the MOTU team! He's been doing great work on the ServerTeam and apparmor, so we're quite pleased to have him! Please join me in welcoming him! ROCK ON, Mathias! Have a nice day, Daniel signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter

Re: usbmgr

2007-08-24 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello Jonathan, Am Donnerstag, den 23.08.2007, 16:37 -0500 schrieb Jonathan Hutchins: There seems to be an urgent problem with the currently released usbmgr package. Attempting to install it un-installs an alarming list of software. Could someone check this and see if it's correct? this

Re: retiring from MOTU Council

2007-08-24 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello Stefan, as I said in a private mail already, I'm sorry to hear that, but respect your decision and appreciate your honesty and determination to not let the MC down. Am Dienstag, den 21.08.2007, 22:47 +0200 schrieb Stefan Potyra: During the recent months, I've sadly not found really much

Re: Refining MOTU Mentoring

2007-08-24 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello Scott, you raise some important points in this mail. Am Dienstag, den 21.08.2007, 10:07 -0400 schrieb Scott Kitterman: I thought this is what #ubuntu-motu was for? While I agree that we should try to keep everybody together in one place, I think that it's good that we have efforts in

Re: gaphor segmentation fault

2007-08-24 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello Jakob, Am Freitag, den 24.08.2007, 15:16 +0200 schrieb Jakob Breivik Grimstveit: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gaphor ** (gaphor:9840): WARNING **: couldn't make the type `CanvasGroup' ready TypeError: Cannot create a consistent method resolution order (MRO) for bases GObject,

Using Tags in Debian Bugs

2007-08-23 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, Lucas Nussbaum explains in https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Debian/Usertagging how to make use of Debian User Tags. It will make it easier to track the origin of bugs and patches. Thanks for that Lucas. So if your work-flow comprises of forwarding patches to Debian using Debian bug

Re: Temporary REVU package storage

2007-08-22 Thread Daniel Holbach
Thanks Neil, Am Freitag, den 17.08.2007, 13:31 +0100 schrieb Neil Wilson: I'm sure the limits and space are very welcome. Bear in mind that Launchpad has Private Package Archives as of next Wednesday. Check out https://help.launchpad.net/PPAQuickStart for more info. Have a nice day, Daniel

Re: Refining MOTU Mentoring

2007-08-22 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello Morten, thanks for your response, Am Dienstag, den 21.08.2007, 23:02 +0200 schrieb Kjeldgaard Morten: As a new contributor, let me add a few comments, then. As it has been pointed out by others, the reviewing process can be quite frustrating. It is not the meticulous requirements to

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

2007-08-22 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello Morten, Am Dienstag, den 21.08.2007, 20:23 +0200 schrieb 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,

Re: svk admin: buggy option handling?

2007-08-22 Thread Daniel Holbach
Am Donnerstag, den 16.08.2007, 13:23 +0200 schrieb Paolo Giarrusso: To Chia-liang Kao: is this fixed in later releases? To Debian and Ubuntu maintainers: could the fix be backported? If there's a fix available, the easiest thing would be to file a bug at

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: 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

[Fwd: vim-rails_0.2_source.changes is NEW]

2007-07-24 Thread Daniel Holbach
---BeginMessage--- NEW: vim-rails_0.2.tar.gz NEW: vim-rails_0.2.dsc -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 09:46:51 +0100 Source: vim-rails Binary: vim-rails Architecture: source Version: 0.2 Distribution: gutsy Urgency: low Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU

Sponsoring Process

2007-07-20 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, I'm happy to say that the recent changes in the sponsorship process are working out really really well. I just wrote http://daniel.holba.ch/sponsoring/ which is updated every half an hour, which I hope will help with finding out who is handling which bug. Thanks everybody who's

Re: motu-UVF team (was: motu-sru team)

2007-07-16 Thread Daniel Holbach
Am Freitag, den 06.07.2007, 16:24 +0200 schrieb Daniel Holbach: If you want to work in the team, please nominate yourself in the during the next week and we'll set up a Launchpad poll the week after that. up until now Chuck Short, Søren Hansen and Steve Kowalik nominated themselves

Re: Experiences with the new MOTU Mentoring process

2007-07-11 Thread Daniel Holbach
Heya, Am Dienstag, den 10.07.2007, 22:39 +0900 schrieb Emmet Hikory: * contributors looking to individuals rather than teams for assistance Precisely. While it's good to have good personal relationships and good to have the feeling that you're getting on well with some members of the

New Package Requirements

2007-07-10 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, I'd like to draw your attention to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NewPackageRequirements There was a quick session with the archive admins today and everybody said that they were quite pleased with the quality of packages that enter Source NEW nowadays. There are a few things though

Experiences with the new MOTU Mentoring process

2007-07-10 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, I'd like to stir up some discussion regarding the new MOTU Mentoring process. It's in place now for 6 weeks and I made some observations which I'd like to share: Good: * better informed contributors * better collaboration across new contributors * awareness

motu-sru team

2007-07-06 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, with Upstream Version Freeze approaching at August 16th [1], it might be best to elect a new motu-sru team [2]. If you want to work in the team, please nominate yourself in the during the next week and we'll set up a Launchpad poll the week after that. Team membership will be

Re: Gutsy Gibbon: New version of libSDL-gfx packages.

2007-07-05 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello Osmo, Am Dienstag, den 03.07.2007, 21:49 +0200 schrieb Osmo Maatta: 1) I just want to inform you that Gutsy should update its version of LibSDL_gfx (SDL's 2D graphics library). See: http://www.ferzkopp.net/joomla/content/view/19/14/ Gutsy's version is based on LibSDL_Gfx 2.0.13-3

Re: SRU

2007-06-29 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello, Am Donnerstag, den 28.06.2007, 18:46 +0200 schrieb Marek Slama: Tom Marble wrote: The reason an SRU may still make sense here is that currently the version in feisty (0.59):

Re: SRU

2007-06-29 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello Marek, Am Freitag, den 29.06.2007, 10:49 +0200 schrieb Marek Slama: Ok. I started backporting. I subscribed to https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-backporters and waiting for approval. It is not clear to me if I need to get approval before I file issue to

Upcoming MOTU events!

2007-06-29 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, the MOTU team just decided on a bunch of activities for the next weeks. If you always wanted to get involved, this is a perfect time to get started! First up we'll have REVU Day on July 2nd. This is a day, where developers will take their time to review packages and patches on

Re: Links in MOTU/TODO

2007-06-25 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello Luca, Am Montag, den 25.06.2007, 00:38 +0200 schrieb Luca Falavigna: I just updated links in https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/TODO page to be compatible with new Malone bug status update. you rock! Thanks a lot! Have a nice day, Daniel signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital

Wanted: New Receptionist

2007-06-22 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, Jonathan Carter and I are looking for a new receptionist in the MOTU Mentoring Reception (https://launchpad.net/~motu-mentoring-reception). Our team * takes on requests from new contributors who want to be mentored, * tracks the progress of new contributors and

[Fwd: python-coverage_2.6-0ubuntu1_source.changes is NEW]

2007-06-15 Thread Daniel Holbach
---BeginMessage--- NEW: python-coverage_2.6-0ubuntu1.dsc OK: python-coverage_2.6.orig.tar.gz OK: python-coverage_2.6-0ubuntu1.diff.gz -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:42:55 -0400 Source: python-coverage Binary: python-coverage Architecture:

debian/watch, uupdate Recipe

2007-06-14 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, the Mentoring program is working nicely - we have good people with interesting questions on ubuntu-motu-mentors and I'd personally like to see more recipes on http://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/Recipes as I got very good feedback on the idea. Would somebody volunteer to write a quick

MOTU QA session reminder

2007-06-14 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hey there, I'd like to remind everybody of the MOTU QA session we're about to have at 12:00 UTC in #ubuntu-classroom. It's important that we keep these sessions going as we have many contributors interested in helping out. Therefore I'd like to ask as many MOTUs as possible to join the channel

Re: debian/watch, uupdate Recipe

2007-06-14 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello Arthur, Am Donnerstag, den 14.06.2007, 17:15 +0200 schrieb Arthur Loiret: I'll try to start it very soon. you rock! I'm sure you'll get a bunch of reviewers for it. Have a nice day, Daniel signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil -- Ubuntu-motu

Meeting reminder

2007-06-14 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, the next MOTU meeting is going to be at Friday, June 15th, 13:00 UTC. Add your agenda item at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/Meetings and join #ubuntu-motu. The more the merrier. Have a nice day, Daniel signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter

Re: Meeting reminder

2007-06-14 Thread Daniel Holbach
Am Donnerstag, den 14.06.2007, 18:59 +0200 schrieb Daniel Holbach: #ubuntu-motu. The more the merrier. Of course I meant #ubuntu-meeting - thanks Emilio for pointing out! Have a nice day, Daniel signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil -- Ubuntu-motu

ubuntu-dev-tools

2007-06-01 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, it's good to see ubuntu-dev-tools shaping up slowly. Why not get them into the distro so everybody can easily benefit from them? I added some initial packaging to it and added a GPL license. If you contributed code to it until now: please add yourself to AUTHORS and to

REVU: mnemosyne_0.9.8.1-0ubuntu1_source.changes is NEW

2007-06-01 Thread Daniel Holbach
---BeginMessage--- NEW: mnemosyne_0.9.8.1-0ubuntu1.dsc OK: mnemosyne_0.9.8.1.orig.tar.gz OK: mnemosyne_0.9.8.1-0ubuntu1.diff.gz -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 22:24:24 +0300 Source: mnemosyne Binary: mnemosyne Architecture: source Version:

MOTU Mentors list!

2007-05-30 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, I'd like to announce a new list that was just created: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu-mentors This list is intended to * help with problems of new contributors to their path to becoming an ubuntu-dev member and * organise and improve

MOTU QA sessions

2007-05-29 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, are you * interested in becoming a MOTU and have some questions about the process or how to get started? * having questions about packaging and how development in Ubuntu? * looking for somebody who can help you with getting involved as a MOTU?

Universe HUG Day

2007-05-29 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, we're having a Universe HUG Day again! How it's different from a normal HUG Day? * Together we will look at Universe and Multiverse bugs * We will work on bugs linked from http://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/Bugs * We will try to identify bugs that are suited

New MOTU Mentoring proposal

2007-05-16 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, at UDS we had an interesting and fruitful session about MOTU Mentoring. Please take a look at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/NewMentoring where you find a write up of what we agreed on. Leave comments on the wiki page and please also leave a note if you're interested in mentoring.

Next MOTU meeting

2007-05-08 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, After UDS is over, we should have our next MOTU meeting and discuss our plans for Gutsy and how to get everybody on the same track. Please suggest a date and time for the meeting. Have a nice day, Daniel signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter

Re: Announcing DaD

2007-05-03 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello Albin, On Di, 2007-05-01 at 23:07 +0200, Albin Tonnerre wrote: Actually, the comments code is only ~5 lines php, with comments stored in a file. I'm not quite sure the MoM developers need us to do this ;). IMHO, it's more a matter of them wanting to do it or not. Thanks for

Re: Announcing DaD

2007-05-01 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello Albin, On Di, 2007-05-01 at 03:25 +0200, Albin Tonnerre wrote: After 3 days coding, here it is: DaD[1], written by Adri2000 and me, is a free Merge-o-Matic[2] for universe and multiverse with features such as comment ability on the web page and automatic maintainer field update

Re: UbuntuOpenWeek/Prep

2007-04-24 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, Am Montag, den 23.04.2007, 11:53 -0400 schrieb Steven Harms: Hopefully someone more qualified will step up to the plate, but if not I am available during that time. I just sent Steven my notes. Thanks a lot for stepping up and doing it. If there's anybody else who'd help

Re: Packages updates on REVU

2007-04-23 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello Lucas, Am Montag, den 23.04.2007, 08:41 +0200 schrieb Lucas Nussbaum: During all my attempts at getting involved in reviewing, I came to the conclusion that most packages on REVU don't desserve to be in universe. There are trivial scripts, poor-quality software, software that has better

UbuntuOpenWeek/Prep

2007-04-17 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, most of you will remember our last Open Week and the success it had. After that we had a couple of new MOTU hopefuls and I'm sure we can do better this time, especially given that it's early in the release cycle. If you look at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpenWeek/Prep you

motu-sru follow up

2007-04-02 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, are there any motu-sru bugs open that need a follow up about the new process? The new process was announced on March 7th [1]. https://launchpad.net/~motu-sru/+subscribedbugs suggest that there are still some SRUs in the loop. [1]

MOTU Mentoring

2007-04-02 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, I thought a bit about Mentoring in MOTU land. What do you think about having a separate MOTU Mentoring list? I personally don't think that our mailing list has too high a volume, but I think that more people would be willing to ask for mentoring or their packaging related

Universe HUG DAY!

2007-03-27 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, this friday March, 30th, we're going to have another Universe HUG DAY in #ubuntu-motu on irc.freenode.net https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/TODO is packed with tasks and you'll surely find something to help out with. If you always wanted to contribute, this is the right time. We'll

Universe HUG DAY

2007-03-21 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, Friday the 23rd of March will be a Universe Hug Day again! You're all invited to help to fix bugs in Universe and Multiverse. We put quite some work into tagging bugs as * 'bitesize', if they're suited for newcomers, * 'packaging', if the bug is packaging related.

http://wiki.ubuntu.com/UniverseCandidates replacement

2007-03-21 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, in the last MOTU meeting we decided to replace the growing and growing UniverseCandidates page. The process is fairly simple: * If you want an app packaged, please file a bug, * add [need-packaging] to the title * link to the upstream source * mention why

Re: Improving the MOTU Community

2007-03-15 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello Jordan, Am Mittwoch, den 14.03.2007, 20:11 -0700 schrieb Jordan Mantha: The URL is https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/Sandbox/MOTU good work on that. I think we should switch to that page ASAP and then move on and drop pages that don't make no sense anymore, etc. What do you all think about

Re: call for votes: KDE4 uploads to universe

2007-03-14 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello Jordan, Am Dienstag, den 13.03.2007, 21:09 -0700 schrieb Jordan Mantha: That said, I don't particularly see this as something the MOTU Council should be deciding either. I have to say I'm a little disturbed that the MC has been making decisions that I really feel MOTU should be making

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