Re: About strange ftbfs of python-coverage on the buildds

2010-10-20 Thread James Westby
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 11:16:29 +0530, Bhavani Shankar R bh...@ubuntu.com wrote: Hello list! As the subject says I tried to sync python-coverage in natty to keep the package in sync from debian when I tested out the package on my updated pbuilder it built fine [relevant part of the log

Re: About strange ftbfs of python-coverage on the buildds

2010-10-20 Thread James Westby
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 11:16:29 +0530, Bhavani Shankar R bh...@ubuntu.com wrote: Hello list! As the subject says I tried to sync python-coverage in natty to keep the package in sync from debian when I tested out the package on my updated pbuilder it built fine [relevant part of the log

[REVU] xwax 0.5-0ubuntu1 (New)

2009-08-15 Thread James Westby
Subject: [ubuntu/karmic] xwax 0.5-0ubuntu1 (New) Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:35:08 - From: Ubuntu Installer arch...@ubuntu.com Reply-To: Ubuntu Installer arch...@ubuntu.com To: James Westby jw+deb...@jameswestby.net NEW: xwax_0.5.orig.tar.gz NEW: xwax_0.5-0ubuntu1.diff.gz NEW: xwax_0.5-0ubuntu1

[REVU] python-configglue 0.2dev-0ubuntu1 (New)

2009-06-16 Thread James Westby
Description: python-configglue - Glues together optparse.OptionParser and ConfigParser.ConfigParse NEW: python-configglue_0.2dev.orig.tar.gz NEW: python-configglue_0.2dev-0ubuntu1.diff.gz NEW: python-configglue_0.2dev-0ubuntu1.dsc python-configglue (0.2dev-0ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low *

Re: Maintainer/XSBC-Original-Maintainer in Ubuntu packages

2009-06-14 Thread James Westby
On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 23:29 +0200, Luca Falavigna wrote: * when processing NEW packages (excluding the ones from Debian, just consider our local Ubuntu packages), matched LP ID becomes bug contact immediately (there's no need for the package to leave NEW to become a bug contact).

Re: Maintainer/XSBC-Original-Maintainer in Ubuntu packages

2009-06-14 Thread James Westby
On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 00:02 +0200, Siegfried-Angel wrote: 2009/6/14 James Westby jw+deb...@jameswestby.net: When you upload a new package you can ask the person you uploaded it for to subscribe to the bug mail then and there. If they don't do even this simple thing then will force

Re: Maintainer/XSBC-Original-Maintainer in Ubuntu packages

2009-06-14 Thread James Westby
On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 00:27 +0200, Siegfried-Angel wrote: 2009/6/15 James Westby jw+deb...@jameswestby.net: That's not true. The record is created the moment that the package hits the queue. Oh well, it's been some time since I last checked :). Sorry for the confusion then. No problem

REVU: [ubuntu/karmic] lazr.uri 1.0-0ubuntu1 (New)

2009-06-10 Thread James Westby
: karmic Urgency: low Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu.com Changed-By: James Westby james.wes...@ubuntu.com Description: python-lazr-uri - library for parsing, manipulating, and generating URIs Changes: lazr.uri (1.0-0ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low . * Initial release

Minutes of the MOTU meeting Tue 5 May

2009-05-13 Thread James Westby
Hi all, These are the (belated) minutes of the MOTU meeting last week. == Present == * Andrew Mitchell * Nathan Handler * Scott Kitterman * Emilio Pozuelo Monfort * Siegfried Gevatter * James Westby == Notification System == The first topic suggested was the notification system

Make ~ubuntu-dev a member of ubuntu-universe-sponsors?

2009-05-13 Thread James Westby
Hi, After seeing several people asking to join the sponsors team in the last few days, presumably purely so that they can un-subscribe the team from bugs, I wanted to suggest removing the need to do that. My proposal is simply to make ~ubuntu-dev (or should it be ~motu and ~ubuntu-core-dev

Re: Proposed MOTU meeting: Jaunty retrospective

2009-04-29 Thread James Westby
On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 00:56 +0100, James Westby wrote: Hi all, Thanks to everyone that helped get Jaunty in to such good shape. Thanks in particular to motu-release. I propose that we have a MOTU meeting next week to look back at Jaunty and discuss what worked well, and what could

Re: Proposed MOTU meeting: Jaunty retrospective

2009-04-29 Thread James Westby
On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 09:38 -0700, Brian Murray wrote: On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 01:36:51PM +0100, James Westby wrote: I'll propose one week later, Tuesday 5th April at 2200 UTC http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=5month=5year=2009hour=22min=0sec=0p1=0 I'll add

Re: Advice on Packaging

2009-04-26 Thread James Westby
On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 14:45 +0100, Matthew Daubney wrote: Hi all, I'm starting to look into some packaging to help out a bit, and have found my first target to get involved. I want to package libk8055 (http://libk8055.sourceforge.net/) and the gui for the k8055 board

Proposed MOTU meeting: Jaunty retrospective

2009-04-20 Thread James Westby
Hi all, Thanks to everyone that helped get Jaunty in to such good shape. Thanks in particular to motu-release. I propose that we have a MOTU meeting next week to look back at Jaunty and discuss what worked well, and what could be improved. As always we have a difficulty with choosing a time.

Re: mc patch system

2009-04-13 Thread James Westby
On Mon, 2009-04-13 at 13:16 -0700, Brian Murray wrote: Maybe I should have elaborated a bit more. While it uses quilt executing 'quilt push -a' fails with the message 'No patches in series'. Additionally, the structure of the debian/patches directory seemed a bit odd to me: all.series

Re: MOTU Release Charter

2009-03-25 Thread James Westby
On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 10:11 +0100, Luca Falavigna wrote: Also, Universe and Multiverse aren't sections, they are components. dak call them sections, does Ubuntu archive use a different naming? Sections are x11, python, etc.

[REVU] freemix 0.2-0ubuntu1 (New)

2009-02-18 Thread James Westby
NEW: freemix_0.2.orig.tar.gz NEW: freemix_0.2-0ubuntu1.diff.gz NEW: freemix_0.2-0ubuntu1.dsc freemix (0.2-0ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low * Initial Release. (LP: #330696) Description: live video performance tool. freemix is a live video performance software, intended for and. made by freedom

Re: Help and sponsor request for package in sponsor queue

2009-01-27 Thread James Westby
On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 11:59 +0100, Cesare Falco wrote: Hi all, I apologize, I've messed up status/assignment etc. on my update request for sdlmame in the sponsor queue. :( Could you please confirm bug report settings are right now? https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/318304 That looks fine

Re: Getting started wiki page (was: Hello there)

2009-01-23 Thread James Westby
On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 23:00 +0100, Kjeldgaard Morten wrote: I have now produced a draft page at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GettingStartedDraft , incorporating all ideas contributed to me (the number is zero ;-)). Hi Morten, Thanks for working on this, I think the page is great. I'm not sure

Re: REVU: Automated Package Checks

2009-01-22 Thread James Westby
On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 18:44 -0600, Nathan Handler wrote: On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 6:31 PM, Loïc Martin loic.mart...@gmail.com wrote: What happens when lintian (or another automated check) throws an error, but that error is not justified? I've seen the case for all cdemu related packages (for

Re: libc-client2007 transition

2009-01-17 Thread James Westby
On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 16:40 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 10:02:27AM +0100, Luca Falavigna wrote: James Westby ha scritto: At the end of last year there was a small transition done to move from libc-client2007b

libc-client2007 transition

2009-01-16 Thread James Westby
Hi all, I'd like confirmation that my plan for this situation makes sense. At the end of last year there was a small transition done to move from libc-client2007b to libc-client2007d. However, Debian then reverted this change (with an epoch), as they didn't want the SONAME bump in lenny. That

Re: Launchpadlib support in Ubuntu Developer Tools

2009-01-14 Thread James Westby
On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 14:39 +0100, Jonathan Davies wrote: Hey folks, thekorn and I have been working on getting python-launchpadlib support to the Ubuntu Developer Tools package. Thanks for working on this. So far, we've added support for the bug reporting; for example, sync requests with

Re: Launchpadlib support in Ubuntu Developer Tools

2009-01-14 Thread James Westby
On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 14:54 +, Jonathan Davies wrote: So far the tool looks for: 1) See if a $LPCREDENTIALS variable has been set and use that file, 2) If there is a lp_credentials.txt file in the current directory, 3) A default path (in this case ~/.cache/lp_credentials.txt).

Re: New Application processes

2009-01-08 Thread James Westby
On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 18:14 +0100, Daniel Holbach wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello everybody, some of you will have noticed that the application processes of the MOTU Council have been taking several weeks, even months in extreme cases and we have been very

[REVU] [Fwd: [ubuntu/jaunty] bot-sentry 1.3.0-0ubuntu1 (New)]

2008-11-15 Thread James Westby
NEW: bot-sentry_1.3.0.orig.tar.gz NEW: bot-sentry_1.3.0-0ubuntu1.diff.gz NEW: bot-sentry_1.3.0-0ubuntu1.dsc bot-sentry (1.3.0-0ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low * Initial release (LP: #273201) Your package contains new components which requires manual editing of the override file. It is ok

Re: Debian RC bug day on Sunday

2008-11-09 Thread James Westby
On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 18:43 +, Iain Lane wrote: 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 have been closed. Yeah, it's not great. Choosing probably

Re: Debian RC bug day on Sunday

2008-11-09 Thread James Westby
On Sun, 2008-11-09 at 10:00 -0500, James Westby wrote: On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 18:43 +, Iain Lane wrote: 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

Re: Debian RC bug day on Sunday

2008-11-09 Thread James Westby
On Sun, 2008-11-09 at 10:05 -0500, James Westby wrote: I don't know of a way to exclude them. I just went over the list, and I picked out a few bugs where there is no proposed fix, and no-one appears to be actively working on the bug. I think these would be good targets for those that want

Debian RC bug day on Sunday

2008-11-05 Thread James Westby
then get in touch with one of us and you can join us (and perhaps suggest somewhere good to go). Most of you won't be in the Boston area, but if you are local to any other Debian or Ubuntu developers then you may like to meet up to join in, it can be a fun time. James Westby and Nikolas Valcarcel

Re: REVU - Cleanup of the Needs Review section

2008-11-02 Thread James Westby
On Sun, 2008-11-02 at 08:43 +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote: James Westby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you are concerned about a large number of items in the list then we should consider expiration, but I don't think this is the right way to do it. [...] It does give a bad impression

Re: REVU - Cleanup of the Needs Review section

2008-11-02 Thread James Westby
On Sun, 2008-11-02 at 09:56 -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote: On Sun, 2 Nov 2008 09:42:46 + Kasper Peeters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm pondering on running a script to move all those which don't have jaunty in debian/copyright to the Needs work section, leaving a comment asking to change

Re: REVU - Cleanup of the Needs Review section

2008-11-02 Thread James Westby
On Sun, 2008-11-02 at 14:54 +0100, Siegfried-Angel wrote: 2008/11/2 Siegfried-Angel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/11/2 James Westby [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Instead of distracting them with a small change to the changelog, why not explain the situation more clearly and accurately? For all packages

Re: REVU - Cleanup of the Needs Review section

2008-11-02 Thread James Westby
On Sun, 2008-11-02 at 18:49 +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote: I think this proposal is even more agressive and unfriendly to newcomers than Siegfried's original one. I translate it as: We're sorry but we do not care about your package this time. Please try again next time, we'll see if we care

Re: REVU - Cleanup of the Needs Review section

2008-11-01 Thread James Westby
On Sun, 2008-11-02 at 00:57 +0100, Siegfried Gevatter (RainCT) wrote: Hey, There's currently a quite big list of packages in the Needs review section of REVU, many of which date back from several months ago. I'm pondering on running a script to move all those which don't have jaunty in

Re: Standing freeze exception for packagekit

2008-10-14 Thread James Westby
On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 08:13 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:55:30 +0100 James Westby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, After requesting a couple of freeze exceptions for packagekit it was suggested that we apply for a standing freeze exception. Thanks to the release team

Standing freeze exception for packagekit

2008-10-14 Thread James Westby
Hi, After requesting a couple of freeze exceptions for packagekit it was suggested that we apply for a standing freeze exception. Thanks to the release team for dealing with the requests, and apologies for not doing this sooner. The justification would be that packagekit is a young and fast

PackagesToPort

2008-09-29 Thread James Westby
Hi all, After filing a request to remove apt-listbugs, and sponsoring a request to remove netselect, I decided to start a wiki page to track the packages that need porting from Debian. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/PackagesToPort Please add any other packages that you find that need some

Re: Remove apt-listbugs?

2008-09-16 Thread James Westby
On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 13:51 +0100, James Westby wrote: Hi, I just saw bug 268966 get reported. Apparently having apt-listbugs confuses people. We could make it display Ubuntu bugs instead, but we don't have the versioning information that it relies on. Perhaps it would work ok, but it's

Remove apt-listbugs?

2008-09-11 Thread James Westby
Hi, I just saw bug 268966 get reported. Apparently having apt-listbugs confuses people. We could make it display Ubuntu bugs instead, but we don't have the versioning information that it relies on. Perhaps it would work ok, but it's work to find out. Also, installing it leads to bug 62720, which

Request for guidance from motu-release

2008-08-28 Thread James Westby
Hi motu-release, First of all, thanks for the difficult job that you are about to undertake. I would appreciate a statement from the team about the freeze now that it is in effect. We have general freeze exception guidelines https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FreezeExceptionProcess but I would be

MOTU School sessions for Developer week wanted

2008-08-13 Thread James Westby
Hi all, Next month we have another Ubuntu Developer Week. It's still in the planning stage, and there will be a proper announcement later, so if you are interested in attending wait for that. This post is for those who are in a position to give sessions. I want to get several MOTU School

Re: Non-English characters in debian/control

2008-08-06 Thread James Westby
On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 23:14 +0900, Emmet Hikory wrote: Note that if you do use non-ASCII in debian/control, it is vastly preferable to use UTF8, and in fact it is just about to become Debian policy to do so. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=143941 Thanks, James --

MOTU School session on merging best practices on August 14

2008-08-01 Thread James Westby
Hi all, Nathan Handler has offered to run our next school session. He's going to talk about how to do a really good merge from Debian. While the peak merging time for Intrepid has passed, Debian has now frozen, so merging from Debian will be a really good way to get bug fixes as we improve

Logs of today's MOTU School session on Maintainer scripts

2008-07-28 Thread James Westby
Hi all, Thanks to Cesare for an excellent session today. I have put the log of the session up at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/School/MaintainerScripts so if you missed the session, or you would just like to go over it again you can. If anyone is willing to help create good maintainer

MOTU School Session: Maintainer scripts

2008-07-23 Thread James Westby
Hi all, For the MOTU School session this month Cesare Tirabassi will be presenting a beginners session on maintainer scripts. This will be a great session for anyone starting out with packaging, or anyone looking for a refresher on this topic. Maintainer scripts are important parts of a package,

Re: New model for the mentoring program

2008-07-23 Thread James Westby
On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 20:43 +0200, Hanno Stock wrote: I noticed that the MOTU school sessions often are during work hours (of course, since developers are scattered across all timezones). How are you about to address this problem? As you note the sessions will always be during someone's work

MOTU School session logs from today available

2008-06-26 Thread James Westby
Hi all, Thanks to Emmet for running the session, it was very informative. Logs are now available for those who were not able to make the session at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/School/IntrepretingApportRetraces I was unable to find any wiki documentation about using Apport in triaging and

Reminder: MOTU School session tomorrow at 10:00 UTC

2008-06-25 Thread James Westby
Hello again, Tomorrow (26th June) there is going to be a MOTU School session, presented by Emmet Hikory, on Effectively using and interpreting apport retraces. The session will be at 10:00 UTC in #ubuntu-classroom on irc.freenode.net. Thanks, James -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list

MOTU School Session - Apport retraces on 26 June

2008-06-16 Thread James Westby
Hi all, After a bit of a break for Open Week and UDS MOTU School is back. This months session is going to be presented by Emmet Hikory. It is entitled Effectively using and interpreting apport retraces. The session will be at 10:00 UTC on Thu 26th June. Also, hello to the bugsquad, I copied

Re: please update this package

2008-06-11 Thread James Westby
On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 19:43 +0200, Czescik wrote: please update package mail-notifocation and allow it to work with ssl wich is currently disabled while compiling package Hi, You can read about this issue at https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mail-notification/+bug/44335

MOTU School presenter wanted

2008-06-02 Thread James Westby
Hi all, MOTU School has been on a bit of a break due to Open Week and UDS happening in the last couple of months. I'd like to get a session organised for June. I'm looking for volunteers to present a session. There are a couple of requested sessions that have received a couple of votes, which

Minutes from the MOTU meeting of Friday 25th April 2008

2008-04-28 Thread James Westby
Hi all, Sorry for the delay in sending the minutes. I forgot when I volunteered to write them that I would be away for the weekend. Naming of the Universe Hackers team - The first item on the agenda was the naming of the new team for use by the MOTU Council

Re: Coin3d libraries update...

2008-04-18 Thread James Westby
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 20:46 +0200, Bruno Jobard wrote: Dear Coin3d packages maintainers, Could you please update these packages to their last versions. The source code can be found here: ftp://ftp.coin3d.org/pub/coin/src/ Hi, As the release is in less than a week it's a little too late to

Re: NEW Packages process

2008-04-17 Thread James Westby
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 23:14 +1000, Sarah Hobbs wrote: Scott Kitterman wrote: If we go down this road, I'd suggest accepting only binary uploads. That'd make sure the package at least builds before MOTUs waste time reviewing it. Can you imagine just how many checkinstall-built packages we'd

Re: NEW Packages process

2008-04-16 Thread James Westby
On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 11:38 +0200, Stefan Potyra wrote: One argument against it raised in the past is, that this might lead to fewer people reviewing a package (or giving an ACK for a package), as they might be unsure about it. Actually, I believe that reviewing a package is actually a more

Re: Ubuntu bug repport for DTC implication in development of our package in Ubuntu

2008-03-17 Thread James Westby
On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 22:12 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm the upstream main developer of this web hosting control panel. We work mainly under Debian Etch, and I have managed to have our package uploaded into Debian SID. I believe it

Suggestions for the next MOTU School session needed

2008-02-29 Thread James Westby
Hi everyone, According to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/School/Requests there isn't much choice for the next (March's) MOTU School session. It is only my name that is in the presenter's column. I don't mind presenting, but I don't know very much, so it limits the choice of sessions. As we are

Re: python-webpy package

2008-02-25 Thread James Westby
On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 13:09 +0100, Bartosz SKOWRON wrote: Hi, are you going to upgrade this deb package for the newest version? Hi, hardy is now in feature freeze for the release. The latest python-webpy is available to sync from Debian, however if you wish for that to happen you must request

Log of the MOTU School library packaging session available

2008-01-24 Thread James Westby
Hi all, The logs of the MOTU School library packaging session is now available at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/School/LibraryPackaging Grab it while it's hot, there's loads of great information in there about the theory and practice of packaging shared libraries. Huge thanks to Stefan and

Re: Back to school [Second session available]

2008-01-16 Thread James Westby
On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 18:59 +, James Westby wrote: The new term of MOTU school kicks off on Thursday 17th January, with the first session being given by Stefan Potyra and Steve Langasek on the topic of library packaging. I'm please to announce that Stefan has volunteered to run

Back to school

2008-01-09 Thread James Westby
with a solution here as well. Remember that you can also influence what the next session will be by going to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/School/Requests and suggesting sessions, volunteering to present one, or voting for the ones that you would like to see. Thanks, James -- James Westby --GPG

MOTU school - we need your help and ideas

2007-12-01 Thread James Westby
Hi all, I want to get the MOTU school[0] up and running again. I have spoken briefly with Daniel, and there is a place for it to complement the packaging 101 sessions and the Q+A sessions. This means we need ideas for sessions that are not basic packaging, and are too complex for a quick answer