Nice discussion at debconf

2009-07-26 Thread Tom Arnold
Hello list, I love the idea of more x-distro collab, but what I heard seems really complicated and daunting. Wouldn't it be easier to set up some independent (maybe with Debian money) rejected-patches.org with a gitorious install that maybe pulls all distro (or just rejected from upstream)

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 vcs-pkg-discuss

Re: Debconf

2009-04-14 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:26:31PM +0100, James Westby wrote: OK, it's a bit last minute, sorry, but here is a proposal that I will submit to debconf in 24 hours time, any feedback is welcome. Thanks! Event type: Workshop (or should it be BoF? There is no explanation) I think it should

Re: Debconf

2009-04-14 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
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: Workshop (or should it be BoF? There is no explanation) Abstract

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

2009-04-14 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach James Westby jw+deb...@jameswestby.net [2009.04.13.2326 +0200]: If any DebConf attendees have a radically different proposal then I suggest you go ahead and submit it, as the deadline is on the 15th of this month, and we can then decide which of the proposals to withdraw afterwards

Re: Debconf

2009-04-14 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 11:41:51AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: I always try to say modern VCS, instead of distributed. The problem with SVN and all the other centralised VCS is not that they are centralised, but that they basically don't know what merges are. They pretend to merge, and SVN

Re: Debconf

2009-04-14 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Jan Hauke Rahm i...@jhr-online.de [2009.04.14.1146 +0200]: Interesting point. Let's say we keep that field open until there is an idea of implementation that would actually work. We can drop support for VCSs and distros then if needed. ;-) Absolutely. I definitely did not mean to

Re: Debconf

2009-04-13 Thread James Westby
that I will submit to debconf in 24 hours time, any feedback is welcome. 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) Abstract: The vcs-pkg.org project aims

Re: Debconf

2009-03-31 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Jan Hauke Rahm i...@jhr-online.de [2009.03.30.1207 +0200]: Is this going to be decided before April, 15th? If I attend debconf I'd definitely need sponsoring and thus to register before April, 15th. This project would be an intersting point on my list of reasons to attend debconf

Re: Debconf

2009-03-30 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:18:30PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Stefano Zacchiroli z...@debian.org [2009.03.25.1625 +0100]: Martin, given that you are also among DebConf organizers, how about hosting *at* DebCamp a vcs-pkg meeting? We can announce it here and see whether other

Re: Debconf

2009-03-26 Thread Donnie Berkholz
opportunity to meet later in the year, or perhaps next DebConf, that should be possible for me. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgplXnpYnFbUw.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ vcs-pkg-discuss

Re: Debconf

2009-03-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Donnie Berkholz dberkh...@gentoo.org writes: For Gentoo, I am interested but this is an extraordinarily bad time for me. I expect to defend my Ph.D. thesis around this time. If there's some funded opportunity to meet later in the year, or perhaps next DebConf, that should be possible for me

Re: Debconf

2009-03-26 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Donnie Berkholz dberkh...@gentoo.org [2009.03.26.1232 +0100]: For Gentoo, I am interested but this is an extraordinarily bad time for me. I expect to defend my Ph.D. thesis around this time. If there's some funded opportunity to meet later in the year, or perhaps next DebConf

Re: Debconf

2009-03-25 Thread James Westby
, but we don't have any products, solutions, or even just specific problem vectors yet. We could define those, and invite non-Debconf-attendees to join us on IRC. I'd support any effort, though since I am also organiser for DebConf, I appreciate it greatly that James took the lead. We could

Re: Debconf

2009-03-25 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
, because this group is already strongly Debian/Ubuntu-centric [0], so we better be careful not to drive the others away. I agree. It seems to good an opportunity to pass up though. Agreed, and I'll be there too. Martin, given that you are also among DebConf organizers, how about hosting

Re: Debconf

2009-03-25 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Stefano Zacchiroli z...@debian.org [2009.03.25.1625 +0100]: Martin, given that you are also among DebConf organizers, how about hosting *at* DebCamp a vcs-pkg meeting? We can announce it here and see whether other people, not necessarily related to Debian, are willing to attend