Re: Call for nominations: Developer Membership Board

2020-02-07 Thread Iain Lane
s an energised one then this wouldn't happen so much. Was that just me or do other DMBers feel the same? The procedural parts of this are within the power of the board to fix if it thinks that it is a problem: none of it is set in stone and you can devise new ways of working

Please handle 5 sponsor requests

2013-11-06 Thread Iain Lane
taking a look at a bug. Cheers, -- Iain Lane [ i...@orangesquash.org.uk ] Debian Developer [ la...@debian.org ] Ubuntu Developer [ la...@ubuntu.com ] signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: WARNING: Sponsoring Queue >= 100 items

2012-09-28 Thread Iain Lane
not)? There are quite a number of those in the queue. I suspect they distort the numbers somewhat. (Not wishing to rehash the debate on whether these things should be in the queue, just addressing the current situation) Cheers, -- Iain Lane [ i...@orangesquash.org.uk ]

Re: OUT-OF-DATE Packaging branch status.

2012-08-17 Thread Iain Lane
ve, but you'll find that the steps in the packaging guide on developer.ubuntu.com tend to be geared towards UDD and bzr. Come by #ubuntu-motu on freenode IRC if you have any questions and we'll help you out. Cheers, -- Iain Lane [ i...@

Unseeded universe needs *you*

2012-04-23 Thread Iain Lane
u.com/reports/sponsoring/ I'll try and make myself available for sponsorship and release questions in #ubuntu-motu over the course of today and tomorrow. I hope others will join me. YEAH. Cheers, -- Iain Lane [ i...@orangesquash.org.uk ] Debian

Re: Unseeded Universe Final Freeze

2011-10-11 Thread Iain Lane
15 413 different people uploaded packages to the archive (using Changed-By). The source package uploaded the most times was … drumroll … gnome-settings-daemon with 46 uploads! Followed closely by livecd-rootfs with 45. :-) Cheers, -- Iain Lane [ i...@orangesquas

Are you MOTUvated?

2011-05-15 Thread Iain Lane
(please excuse the markdown syntax and blog-like tone: I originally wrote this for planet but decided the mailing list would be a better place to discuss) I'm writing this on the flight back from UDS[^budapest]. Traditionally this week is when I contemplate my usefulness as a MOTU. We had a [cou

Updating the packaging guide landing page

2010-08-30 Thread Iain Lane
Hello MOTUs and others, I had an action from UDS-M to improve the packaging guide landing page. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide which is somewhat confusing at best. We decided to go for a “task driven” interface. I've whipped up a very quick first cut at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Pa

Re: Clojure maintainer

2010-08-12 Thread Iain Lane
Hiya! On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 11:59:11AM -0700, Leif Walsh wrote: The version of clojure in the repos is pretty out of date, and there is no clojure-contrib package. I'd like to offer to maintain it if there are no reasons for this other than the workload. Thanks for your offer — it is very mu

Re: Future of MOTU

2010-02-22 Thread Iain Lane
Hiya all, Thanks to Emmet for raising these important issues. On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 12:53:09PM +0900, Emmet Hikory wrote: Fellow MOTU, During the Jaunty UDS, discussions of Archive Reorganisation (0) indicated that MOTU would be no more, and all of us should have received a request for fe

Applications for new MOTUs

2010-02-03 Thread Iain Lane
Hi, I realise this is in flux currently, but I don't understand where we stand with regard to MOTU applications. To whom are prospective MOTUs supposed to apply? I see a process on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DeveloperMembershipBoard/ApplicationProcess which explicitly doesn't mention MOTU, a

Re: MOTU Release done for Karmic

2009-10-27 Thread Iain Lane
Hi there, On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 08:20:25AM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: The final deadline for motu-release approved uploads has passed. We had a good run of fixing the last few days. Thanks everyone for the work. In the event of any OMG, kittens! issues for Universe/Multiverse, please con

Re: New version of Gfax

2009-10-21 Thread Iain Lane
Hi there, On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 11:16:11AM -0700, George Farris wrote: Could who ever packages Gfax have a look at getting the new version packaged for Karmic. http://gfax.cowlug.org has 0.7.7 and it works well with Karmic and Jaunty. Thanks We get our gfax packages from Debian. After gfa

Re: Request new ubuntu universe sponsors admin.

2009-10-01 Thread Iain Lane
Hi, On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 09:44:33AM +1000, Luke Yelavich wrote: Hi all [...] So I think its time we add another admin from that general area to field requests for new team member additions when myself and Emmet are not around. If anybody is interested, please contact me, and I can set you u

Re: Eagerly awaiting REVU (and praying it gets done before Thursday)

2009-08-25 Thread Iain Lane
Hi, On 25 Aug 2009, at 20:21, Eric Hedekar wrote: Hello, I've had dismal luck requesting a revu on IRC, so I thought I'd ask on the mailing list. I'm looking to get http://revu.ubuntuwire.com/p/xjadeo into the repositories for Karmic's release. Current upload is Lintian free, copyright

Fw: [ubuntu/karmic] mago 0.1-0ubuntu1 (New)

2009-08-10 Thread Iain Lane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Begin forwarded message: Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:25:08 - From: Ubuntu Installer To: Iain Lane , MOTU Subject: [ubuntu/karmic] mago 0.1-0ubuntu1 (New) NEW: mago_0.1.orig.tar.gz NEW: mago_0.1-0ubuntu1.diff.gz NEW: mago_0.1-0ubuntu1.dsc

Re: Haskell packages need attention!

2009-06-23 Thread Iain Lane
Hi guys, On 23 Jun 2009, at 13:28, Luca Falavigna wrote: > Hi Morten, > > Morten Kjeldgaard ha scritto: >> A whole lot of Haskell packages FTBFS on all arches and really need >> attention [1]. >> >> If there are Haskell fans among the MOTU, this is your wakeup call! > > I managed haskell transiti

Re: Extending dh_bash-completion

2009-06-02 Thread Iain Lane
On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 22:56 +0200, Federico Hernandez wrote: > Hi! > > I was thinking of extending the functionality in dh_bash-completion. > > While packaging my first package ("task" on revu - still waiting for > some reviews - shameless plug) I discovered that dh_bash-completion > expects a fi

Re: Archive frozen for preparation of Ubuntu 9.04

2009-04-09 Thread Iain Lane
On 9 Apr 2009, at 08:39, Steve Langasek wrote: Uploads to universe should again follow the guidelines described here: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2008-April/025259.html Hi, Can motu-release clarify the processes in place for freeze exceptions that are in force now? I se

Transitioning miro (was: Re: Status of Python 2.6 transition)

2009-03-14 Thread Iain Lane
s: Set DEB_PYTHON_COMPILE_VERSION to 2.5; pyversion -vd was + forcing us to 2.6 as the new default. + + -- Iain Lane Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:36:58 + + miro (2.0.2-1) unstable; urgency=low * New upstream release. diff -u miro-2.0.2/debian/rules miro-2.0.2/debian/rules --- miro-2

Re: Early backports to reduce post-release fixes

2009-01-27 Thread Iain Lane
On 27 Jan 2009, at 12:28, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > - the backport teams tracks these bugs and approves backports if > "enough" positive feedback from users has been given in the LP bug I thought the intent wasn't to use this as staging for backports, but to allow users of stable releases to te

Re: update tex4ht. Use the debian pkg?

2009-01-23 Thread Iain Lane
Uwe Brauer wrote: > Hello > > May I ask you to upgrade tex4ht for Hardy? It contains various > improvements, such as > > - simple support of the impress format for presentation. > > - support of the covington style for producing linguistic interline >translations. > > - i

Re: Jaunty pre-freeze Freeze Exception Request: mrpt

2009-01-09 Thread Iain Lane
On 9 Jan 2009, at 09:56, Jose Luis Blanco wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Emilio & Stefan, thanks for the quick answers! > > Then, is there anything to do manually or will the import from > Debian be > done automatically? > > Regards, > Jose Luis Hi, You just need

Re: Debian RC bug day on Sunday

2008-11-09 Thread Iain Lane
James Westby wrote: > Hi all, > > The best resource for finding these bugs is > > http://bts.turmzimmer.net/ > Wow, this page is confusing. Is there a way to get a simple list of open bugs which don't have a patch yet? I've filtered the list as best I can and I still keep opening bugs which

Free your merges

2008-11-09 Thread Iain Lane
Hello all, Merge time is a time when new contributors can cut their teeth on Ubuntu development by working through a handy list of packages that need updating - MoM or DaD. As you all know, there is a vague policy that one should ping the previous uploader of a package before working on the merge

Re: Why does mercurial package on Ubuntu suggest python-mysqldb?

2008-08-05 Thread Iain Lane
Peter Arrenbrecht wrote: > Hello > > The package mercurial 1.0.1-2~hardy1 suggests python-mysqldb. I cannot > imagine why, and a quite poll on #mercurial turned up nothing. Any > pointers? I this plain wrong? > > Thanks, > -parren > Hi, From the changelog[0] (note that this package hasn't been

Re: merges free for all?

2008-06-18 Thread Iain Lane
Stefan Potyra wrote: > Hi folks, > > we're getting closer and closer to DebianImportFreeze, which is scheduled > next > week[1], and we still have a big number of oustanding merges. > > Hence I'd like to propose that everyone works towards getting merges done, > regardless who did the last mer