Re: Interesting learnings about Guix contributor dynamics that apply to Debian?

2025-05-23 Thread Mario Limonciello
On 5/23/25 11:59, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Fri, May 23, 2025 at 10:00:22AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Fri, May 23, 2025 at 10:59:47AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: On Fri, 23 May 2025 08:57:36 +0100, "Jonathan Dowland" wrote: On Thu May 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM BST, Ahmad Khalifa wrote:

Re: Inquiry About Contributing a COM Mouse Driver to the Community

2025-05-23 Thread Andrey Rakhmatullin
On Fri, May 23, 2025 at 09:57:05PM +0400, Alex Sklemin wrote: Several years ago, I encountered an issue with the lack of drivers for a COM mouse. While this may not be a common problem today, it was a critical need in my case. Additionally, during my time as a system administrator in Russian hosp

Re: Inquiry About Contributing a COM Mouse Driver to the Community

2025-05-23 Thread Ahmad Khalifa
Hi Alex, On 23/05/2025 18:57, Alex Sklemin wrote: Dear Colleagues, Several years ago, I encountered an issue with the lack of drivers for a COM mouse. While this may not be a common problem today, it was a critical need in my case. Additionally, during my time as a system administrator in Ru

Re: Inquiry About Contributing a COM Mouse Driver to the Community

2025-05-23 Thread Soren Stoutner
Alex, On Friday, May 23, 2025 10:57:05 AM Mountain Standard Time Alex Sklemin wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > > Several years ago, I encountered an issue with the lack of drivers for a > COM mouse. While this may not be a common problem today, it was a critical > need in my case. Additionally, during

Inquiry About Contributing a COM Mouse Driver to the Community

2025-05-23 Thread Alex Sklemin
Dear Colleagues, Several years ago, I encountered an issue with the lack of drivers for a COM mouse. While this may not be a common problem today, it was a critical need in my case. Additionally, during my time as a system administrator in Russian hospitals, I worked with limited IT infrastructure

Bug#1106373: ITP: rehex -- Reverse Engineers' Hex Editor

2025-05-23 Thread Ahmad Khalifa
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ahmad Khalifa X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: rehex Version : 0.62.1 (will package git HEAD) Upstream Contact: https://github.com/solemnwarning/rehex * URL : https://rehex.solemnwarning.net/ * License

Re: Interesting learnings about Guix contributor dynamics that apply to Debian?

2025-05-23 Thread Matthias Geiger
Hi, Hi! I came across this post https://issues.guix.gnu.org/76503 in Guix where they discuss how to improve the contributor experience, and in particular what technical changes they are doing. Guix is interesting as they use a clone of Debbugs as their bug tracker at https://debbugs.gnu.org/cg

Re: Interesting learnings about Guix contributor dynamics that apply to Debian?

2025-05-23 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, May 23, 2025 at 10:00:22AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Fri, May 23, 2025 at 10:59:47AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > > On Fri, 23 May 2025 08:57:36 +0100, "Jonathan Dowland" > > wrote: > > >On Thu May 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM BST, Ahmad Khalifa wrote: > > >> It's alive, not sure if spons

Re: Interesting learnings about Guix contributor dynamics that apply to Debian?

2025-05-23 Thread Alexandru Mihail
> Because it's closed-source, non-free, commercial software. We should > eat our own dogfood here and not go for a > free-as-in-beer-but-just-for-us offer. I 100% agree with Marc here about dog fooding. I've used Jira at my day job and some workflows in Jira seem weirdly baroque and complicated

Re: Interesting learnings about Guix contributor dynamics that apply to Debian?

2025-05-23 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Fri, May 23, 2025 at 03:58:34PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, May 23, 2025 at 10:00:22AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > But it could be an option. If Atlassian offered the Debian project free > > (gratis) use of their platform (especially if they handle the > > administration), why

Re: Interesting learnings about Guix contributor dynamics that apply to Debian?

2025-05-23 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 23 May 2025 10:00:22 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: >On Fri, May 23, 2025 at 10:59:47AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >> On Fri, 23 May 2025 08:57:36 +0100, "Jonathan Dowland" >> wrote: >> >Red Hat have transitioned almost entirely to JIRA. >> >> Thankfully that's not an option for us (not

Re: Interesting learnings about Guix contributor dynamics that apply to Debian?

2025-05-23 Thread The Wanderer
On 2025-05-23 at 10:00, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Fri, May 23, 2025 at 10:59:47AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > >> On Fri, 23 May 2025 08:57:36 +0100, "Jonathan Dowland" >> >> wrote: >>> Red Hat have transitioned almost entirely to JIRA. >> >> Thankfully that's not an option for us (not dfs

Re: Interesting learnings about Guix contributor dynamics that apply to Debian?

2025-05-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, May 23, 2025 at 10:00:22AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: But it could be an option. If Atlassian offered the Debian project free (gratis) use of their platform (especially if they handle the administration), why wouldn't we accept? Have you had to use Jira? My last job switched to i

Re: Interesting learnings about Guix contributor dynamics that apply to Debian?

2025-05-23 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Fri, May 23, 2025 at 10:59:47AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Fri, 23 May 2025 08:57:36 +0100, "Jonathan Dowland" > wrote: > >On Thu May 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM BST, Ahmad Khalifa wrote: > >> It's alive, not sure if sponsored by Red Hat/Mozilla, but both use it > >> (and Kernel, KDE, the list goes

Re: Exploring forgejo as alternative to salsa ? (Was Re: Private code: to forge, or not to forge?)

2025-05-23 Thread Gioele Barabucci
On 22/05/25 18:10, Matthias Geiger wrote: On Thu, 22 May 2025 17:41, Joerg Jaspert wrote: On 17602 March 1977, Matthias Geiger wrote: While it is not that mature yet and some features are still being worked on, I think it already suitable to host small, non-key packages. I would like a swit

Re: Interesting learnings about Guix contributor dynamics that apply to Debian?

2025-05-23 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri May 23, 2025 at 9:59 AM BST, Marc Haber wrote: Thankfully that's not an option for us (not dfsg free). Oh yes I don't suggest JIRA for us at all. But I think BZ is a poor choice too. -- Please do not CC me for listmail. 👱🏻 Jonathan Dowland ✎j...@debian.org 🔗 https:

Re: Interesting learnings about Guix contributor dynamics that apply to Debian?

2025-05-23 Thread Ahmad Khalifa
On 23/05/2025 08:57, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Thu May 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM BST, Ahmad Khalifa wrote: It's alive, not sure if sponsored by Red Hat/Mozilla, but both use it (and Kernel, KDE, the list goes on). Red Hat have transitioned almost entirely to JIRA. (Source: I work for Red Hat) Bug

Re: Interesting learnings about Guix contributor dynamics that apply to Debian?

2025-05-23 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 23 May 2025 08:57:36 +0100, "Jonathan Dowland" wrote: >On Thu May 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM BST, Ahmad Khalifa wrote: >> It's alive, not sure if sponsored by Red Hat/Mozilla, but both use it >> (and Kernel, KDE, the list goes on). > >Red Hat have transitioned almost entirely to JIRA. Thankfull

Re: Interesting learnings about Guix contributor dynamics that apply to Debian?

2025-05-23 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu May 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM BST, Ahmad Khalifa wrote: It's alive, not sure if sponsored by Red Hat/Mozilla, but both use it (and Kernel, KDE, the list goes on). Red Hat have transitioned almost entirely to JIRA. (Source: I work for Red Hat) -- Please do not CC me for listmail. 👱🏻 Jona