Re: (seemingly) declinging bug report numbers

2012-10-21 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 11:25:47PM +, Felipe Sateler wrote: > Another way to look at it is the number of maintainers, as recorded in > the Packages and Sources files. I've done a bit of scripting and came > with these numbers: Did you look only at Maintainer, or also at Uploaders? In the for

Bug#691137: ITP: scalasca -- Scalable performance Analysis of Large-Scale parallel Applications

2012-10-21 Thread Sylvestre Ledru
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sylvestre Ledru * Package name: scalasca Version : 1.4.2 Upstream Author : Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH * URL : http://www.scalasca.org/ * License : BSD-3-clause Programming Lang: C, C++ Description : Scalable p

Re: Discarding uploaded binary packages

2012-10-21 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 10:20:39AM +0200, olivier sallou a écrit : > > But I really like the idea of sending a binary build that is dropped by the > build system. It would avoid sending "accidently" (or not) a package that > does not build at all and uses resources (servers, ...) effortless. Hi O

Re: (seemingly) declinging bug report numbers

2012-10-21 Thread Felipe Sateler
On Sat, 20 Oct 2012 19:18:07 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > As I agree with Christian that the most important factor is our ability > to attract contributors, I've tried to gather data about the number of > people that decide to join Debian per year. The easiest data to found > was those about

Re: (seemingly) declinging bug report numbers

2012-10-21 Thread Enrico Zini
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 10:33:36PM +0200, Didier Raboud wrote: > Isn't that what "LSB" is meant to provide? I guess it is, but as far as I understand, it kind of fails on the point "is actually widely adopted by the community". Unfortunately. > Besides that is suffers from another type of fragm

Bug#691129: ITP: openms -- package for LC/MS data management and analysis

2012-10-21 Thread Filippo Rusconi
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Filippo Rusconi * Package name: openms Version : 1.9.0 Upstream Author : Oliver Kohlbacher * URL : http://open-ms.sourceforge.net * License : (Artistic) Programming Lang: (C++) Description : software suite for L

Re: (seemingly) declinging bug report numbers

2012-10-21 Thread Didier Raboud
Le dimanche, 21 octobre 2012 19.33:28, Enrico Zini a écrit : > On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 01:26:56PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > generalisation of application stores. How can we attract the creative > > people who entered the field of software development and distribution on > > Android or iOS ?

Re: (seemingly) declinging bug report numbers

2012-10-21 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 07:33:28PM +0200, Enrico Zini wrote: > We won't attract the people you're looking at, until we can actually > come up with a standard, cross-distro toolchain that: > > - is actually useful to build games, UIs, whatever you want people to >build; > - provides an API[1]

Re: (seemingly) declinging bug report numbers

2012-10-21 Thread Enrico Zini
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 01:26:56PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > generalisation of application stores. How can we attract the creative people > who entered the field of software development and distribution on Android or > iOS ? > Worse, because of the fragmentation of the « Linux » landscape, i

Re: Discarding uploaded binary packages

2012-10-21 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Arno Töll debian.org> writes: > Pretending we had a working concept to throw away binaries and how to > deal with arch:all packages, why don't we introduce a control/changes > file flag similar in spirit to "XS-Autobuild: yes" instructing dak not > to throw away binaries upon explicit request - s

Re: (seemingly) declinging bug report numbers

2012-10-21 Thread Jean-Michel Vourgère
On Friday 19 October 2012 00:53:43 Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > Another reason could be, that people have problems with the BTS. > Don't get me wrong, I personally like it a lot... and I wouldn't want to > have e.g. launchpad (if at all,... I'm quite a bugzilla fan)... but > especially for end

Re: Discarding uploaded binary packages

2012-10-21 Thread Florian Weimer
* Joerg Jaspert: > The most important is being able to deal with arch all packages. And > worse - arch all packages able to build only on certain > architectures. Could we instruct the buildd for the upload architecture to build arch-all packages, and let the others operate as before? This shoul

Re: Discarding uploaded binary packages

2012-10-21 Thread Florian Weimer
* Steve Langasek: > I am aware that other such packages exist. I just don't think we should > support them if they can't be bootstrapped properly. Ocaml is in this category as well, and it addresses it by bootstrapping off an upstream-provided binary blob. I'm not sure if this is the right appr

Re: Discarding uploaded binary packages

2012-10-21 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 10:16:24AM +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > > There are two main arguments: "why should we upload binaries if they will > > be discarded anyway" and "if we allow source-only uploads people will > > upload packages that weren't tested to be buildable". > > Please don't repeat t

Re: Discarding uploaded binary packages

2012-10-21 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 06:29:50PM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > * Chow Loong Jin [121020 18:10]: > > The only argument I have seen for binary uploads is to ensure that DDs have > > built the package prior to uploading it. But as someone else pointed out > > earlier > > in the thread, we seem