Debian Accessibility Blends code moved to Salsa

2018-02-21 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, just to let you know I have moved the Blends code to create Debian Accessibility tasks pages[1] from SVN to Salsa[2]. I've also added Samuel Thibault as member of the Blends team so he has immediate commit permissions. Anybody else please register on alioth and ask for team membership. Kind

Potentially broken repositories on Salsa

2018-03-13 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I'm in the process of porting the Blends metadata gatherer to Salsa. When doing so, I've found two suspicious repositories in Debian Accessibility scope: a11y-team/dotify-api does not seem to have dir debian a11y-team/odt2braille does not seem to have dir debian I just wanted to make you awa

Re: Potentially broken repositories on Salsa

2018-03-13 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Paul, On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 01:16:24PM +0100, Paul Gevers wrote: > On 13-03-18 12:25, Andreas Tille wrote: > > I'm in the process of porting the Blends metadata gatherer to Salsa. > > When doing so, I've found two suspicious repositories in Debian > > Accessibi

Some repositories of Salsa do not permit public access

2019-03-07 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I'm doing some data mining on Blends repositories on Salsa. I noticed that the following projects do not enable public access: dotify-api odt2braille yasr Please go to Settings -> General -> Permissions press Expand and set "Project visibility" to "Public" if this was not don

Re: Some repositories of Salsa do not permit public access

2019-03-07 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Samuel, thanks for the super fast response. On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 06:26:28PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Andreas Tille, le jeu. 07 mars 2019 18:21:12 +0100, a ecrit: > > I'm doing some data mining on Blends repositories on Salsa. I noticed > > that the following pr

Re: Some repositories of Salsa do not permit public access

2019-03-07 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Samuel, On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 06:57:46PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > > H, may be my conclusion was simply wrong. What does not work is > > rather: > > > > $ LC_ALL=C gbp clone salsa:a11y-team/yasr > > gbp:info: Cloning from 'salsa:a11y-team/yasr' > > gbp:error: Git command fail

Reorganisation of www.debian.org: Please provide information about your Blend

2019-07-21 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Blends developers today I sat together with some people who intend to update Debian web pages. On one hand they care about design they also care about content and structure of content. The structure should be unified and the content should be updated by not only provide up to date information

Re: Reorganisation of www.debian.org: Please provide information about your Blend

2019-07-22 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Samuel, On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 11:24:12AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > confirming that this Blend is active and wants to be represented > > on the official Debian Web site. > > Debian Accessibility is not really a "blend", in that it should actually > be included in all Linux distros :)

Should accessibility Blend kept on Debian web pages

2023-09-16 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, at DebConf we discussed the Blends page on our web site[1]. It mentions Debian Accessibility as upcoming Blend. While I notice you are regularly your tasks files in Git these packages were never released. I think you mentioned before that this is not really the plan but you like the web inte

Re: Help needed: People willing to help co-maintain debian accessibility packages

2005-07-25 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I can not help out personally but I have learned to know Jan Buchal at LSM (2000, 2001 and 2004) and perhaps he or some people he knows are willing to help in this common effort. I would love to see Debian as the system of choice for disabled people. It is just because they could do themsel

Yet another list statistics for debian-accessibility

2009-01-17 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, as you can read in my lightning talk at DebConf http://people.debian.org/~tille/talks/200808_lightning/ I did some investigation on who is frequently posting on our mailing lists. I now created graphs until end of last year and write a short summary for those lists I regard worth a comme

Re: Installing accessibility packages by default?

2009-03-05 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Samuel Thibault wrote: It has been suggested a few times (471410, 511329, 516723) to add an "accessibility" item to tasksel, which would e.g. install gnome-accessibility. The task would be automatically selected when accessibility features was used during d-i itself. I won

Re: Installing accessibility packages by default?

2009-03-06 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Samuel Thibault wrote: $ apt-cache search accessibility which is quite weak. Tags FTW. Look for Accessibility tags and you'll find a lot of packages. Sure. But do all our package handling tool support DebTags? Are our users aware of DebTags. (Well I admit they migh

Re: Installing accessibility packages by default?

2009-03-07 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, 7 Mar 2009, Samuel Thibault wrote: I'll send you a patch to expand it to a somewhat bigger list. Great. It is applied and shows up at the tasks pages now. I'm sthibaul-guest on alioth. You are now able to commit the changes yourself. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-ti

Re: #518880 ITP: dots -- braille translation user interface

2009-03-09 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 9 Mar 2009, Samuel Thibault wrote: * Package name: dots Version : 0.0.20090222 Upstream Author : Eitan Isaacson * URL : https://github.com/eeejay/dots/tree * License : GPLv3 Description : braille translation user interface Dots is a user interface

Re: Ironic: Blends page for accessibility is not fully accessible

2009-07-21 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 03:43:07PM +0200, Mario Lang wrote: > I just noticed that this page > http://blends.debian.net/accessibility/ > is not fully accessible since the bar chart that is supposed to show > mailing list activity is a graphical object only. I fully agree here and I just had some in

Metapackages for accessibility

2010-07-20 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, at LSM in Bordeaux I talked with Samuel about metapackages as they are builded in the Blends framework for Debian Accessibility (see my talk at LSM [0]). He also told me that Mario is fine with this idea (Mario it's a shame that we did not talked to each other - I was once passing you when y

Re: Metapackages for accessibility

2010-07-20 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 09:29:34PM +0200, Mario Lang wrote: > The webpages are a nice thing to have, I agree. :-) > Regarding metapackages I see some useful categories > like "braille-transcription", "development-tools", "ocr", and maybe > "X11". > > The rest, I am actually not so sure about:

Re: Metapackages for accessibility

2010-07-22 Thread Andreas Tille
[CC to debian-blends because of some general ideas] On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 09:46:29PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Mario Lang, le Tue 20 Jul 2010 21:29:34 +0200, a écrit : > > * "console-screen-reader" has several solutions which > >the user is not likely to use at once. More likely is t

Re: Metapackages for accessibility

2010-07-22 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 10:44:52AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > The problem with accessibility is that you can not make such decision. > > It's an area where you can not define a default value, as the possible > combinations of disabilities are numerous, and thus the combination of > tools to b

Re: Metapackages for accessibility

2010-07-22 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 07:01:07PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Above Samuel says that in a *lot* of cases multiple screen readers do > not make sense. But does not go as far as claiming that in *all* cases > is that true. > > I therefore do not like conflicts here. > > Perhaps a mechanism

Re: Metapackages for accessibility

2010-07-26 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 03:55:14PM +0200, Mario Lang wrote: > * The "apps" tasks is very ambigious and overlaps with packages tags: >... I tried to follow the categorisation in the Wiki (website??). Just dropped the task which seems to be in fact useless featuring only one package. >It fee

A DPN entry concerns you (Was: DDs, please feel free to commit to the DPN directly)

2010-08-06 Thread Andreas Tille
HI, for those who missed the announcement of Tolimar on debian-project and did not checked out SVN I would like to inform you that I added three paragraphs: Debian Accessibility is using Blends web sentinel Debian GIS project will release Blends metapackages in Squeeze DebiChem project wi

Moving information from tasks files into Vcs

2012-06-07 Thread Andreas Tille
[For the not so scientific Blends teams: the intend to work on scientific publication data has lead to other improvements also for your maintenence of tasks files ... even if I'm afraid that some teams do not really maintain their tasks files and possibly do not even know that these exist.] Hi

Re: r3688 - /projects/accessibility/trunk/debian-accessibility/tasks/documents

2013-01-04 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 09:45:12AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Andreas Tille, le Fri 04 Jan 2013 09:20:19 +0100, a écrit : > > On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 11:29:47PM -, sthiba...@users.alioth.debian.org > > wrote: > > > URL: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/blends/

Re: r3688 - /projects/accessibility/trunk/debian-accessibility/tasks/documents

2013-01-04 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Samuel, On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 11:18:39AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Andreas Tille, le Fri 04 Jan 2013 10:56:49 +0100, a écrit : > > So my question is: Is there any accessibility related Vcs where the > > team might maintain its packages and if not why not? > > Jus

Re: r3688 - /projects/accessibility/trunk/debian-accessibility/tasks/documents

2013-01-04 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Samuel, On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 11:22:50AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Andreas Tille, le Fri 04 Jan 2013 10:56:49 +0100, a écrit : > > If Debian Accessibility might maintain its packages in SVN or Git we > > could parse this and get all needed information like [...] WNPP

Please be verbose whether you would like to get your Blend promoted by tasksel

2014-08-26 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, yesterday I joined the videostream of the installer BoF at DebConf[1]. I also became a bit involved via IRC. Joey Hess raised the question about the criteria to add a Blend or not. I answered "all in the list of the bug report #758116" which IMHO fits the criterion of "actively maintained an

Re: Bug#835533: dasher: Please package Dasher 5.0 beta

2016-10-07 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi all, no idea why this thread is on private and publicly in BTS. If you drop private please CC me. On Wed, Oct 05, 2016 at 06:53:29PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Maybe we should > put in the ftp-master process that an RM request for any kind of > accessibility-related package shouldn't be

Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer

2025-01-05 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Holger, Am Sun, Jan 05, 2025 at 07:45:45PM +0100 schrieb Holger Wansing: > We now reached the point, where all this can be seen/tested in the wild aka > via daily built images. > Please note, that the last relevant change did not reach testing yet, so you > will have to install sid from a trix