Re: Debconf

2009-07-21 Thread James Westby
martin f krafft wrote: also sprach James Westby jw+deb...@jameswestby.net [2009.04.13.2326 +0200]: Event Title: vcs-pkg.org workgroup Subtitle: Drafting a roadmap for vcs-pkg.org Track: DebConf Event type: Workshop (or should it be BoF? There is no explanation) This just happened on IRC

DebConf workshop accepted

2009-07-01 Thread James Westby
Hi all, The workshop at DebConf that I proposed has been accepted: https://penta.debconf.org/dc9_schedule/events/425.en.html I look forward to seeing some of you there. Thanks, James ___ vcs-pkg-discuss mailing list

Re: Dealing with autotools

2009-05-10 Thread James Westby
On Sun, 2009-05-10 at 09:05 +0200, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Manoj Srivastava sriva...@acm.org [2009.05.10.0030 +0200]: If I may sum it up in my own words and mix it with my own opinion, then distributions like Debian aren't really necessarily the target audience of the

Re: Debconf

2009-04-14 Thread James Westby
On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 10:31 +0200, Jan Hauke Rahm wrote: Hi James, just a small issue: On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:26:31PM +0100, James Westby wrote: Event Title: vcs-pkg.org workgroup Subtitle: Drafting a roadmap for vcs-pkg.org Track: DebConf Event type

Re: Debconf

2009-04-13 Thread James Westby
On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 14:00 +, James Westby wrote: So, a first proposal to get us going: a half-day BoF on vcs-pkg, attempting first to define the problems the project should solve, and then sketching out a roadmap to tackle them. OK, it's a bit last minute, sorry, but here is a proposal

Re: Introducing myself

2009-03-26 Thread James Westby
On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 18:40 +0100, martin f krafft wrote: Maybe the best way forward would be to abstract across SVN/Git/Bzr/Hg for the simple operations needed for package maintenance, and then to implement a tool like svn-bp for Debian, except that it uses the abstraction layer and can thus

Re: Debconf

2009-03-25 Thread James Westby
On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 18:41 +0100, martin f krafft wrote: I will probably be there and I am definitely interested in doing something vcs-pkg. I am a little weary though about doing something in a Debian/Ubuntu-only context, because this group is already strongly Debian/Ubuntu-centric [0], so

Re: bzr and Ubuntu: what it means for vcs-pkg (was: Re: Bazaar branches for all Ubuntu source packages available)

2008-12-01 Thread James Westby
On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 09:15 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: I meant to ask whether you plan to look at bzr access logs and compare them with HTTP access logs to source packages from the archive. The goal of that would be to evaluate how many users shift to bzr for retrieving Ubuntu source

bzr and Ubuntu: what it means for vcs-pkg (was: Re: Bazaar branches for all Ubuntu source packages available)

2008-11-28 Thread James Westby
On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 09:28 +, James Westby wrote: Hi, If you go visit http://package-import.ubuntu.com/ you will find bzr branches available for (almost) all Ubuntu source packages. These branches are a new service available to all Ubuntu developers. Hi, Paul suggested that I

Bazaar branches for all Ubuntu source packages available

2008-11-27 Thread James Westby
Hi, If you go visit http://package-import.ubuntu.com/ you will find bzr branches available for (almost) all Ubuntu source packages. These branches are a new service available to all Ubuntu developers. These Bazaar branches are available for anyone to use in any way that is useful to them. I