Re: ask github to encourage signed git tags

2015-08-21 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 9:51 AM, Thomas Koch wrote: > > Does anybody have contact to github? > Yes, I do! I've pinged a friend at GitHub and CC:d the people who have participated in this thread so far. Let's see how that conversation goes. -- Asheesh.

Re: Requesting DDs who want to help greet new contributors

2013-07-31 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Wed, 31 Jul 2013, Nicolas Guilbert wrote: On Tuesday, July 30, 2013 12:00:18 PM Asheesh Laroia wrote: Hi all Debianites, I've been inspired by the "Developer Advisory Team" in another project [1], and so I want to create a similar team within Debian. In this email, first

Re: Requesting DDs who want to help greet new contributors

2013-07-31 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Wed, 31 Jul 2013, Paul Wise wrote: I already do similar stuff but without the benefit of the tool you are working on, just based on mailing list mails from folks asking how to get involved or what I remember of folks activities. I might be interested to get more involved here but that would

Re: Requesting DDs who want to help greet new contributors

2013-07-30 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Wed, 31 Jul 2013, Charles Plessy wrote: Hi Asheesh, When I saw a couple of emails about "Developer Advisory Team" on debian-mentors, I had a hard time figuring out what it was about, and since I had no extra time to find an answer, I concluded that Ubuntu do what it wants... The goals t

Requesting DDs who want to help greet new contributors

2013-07-30 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Hi all Debianites, I've been inspired by the "Developer Advisory Team" in another project [1], and so I want to create a similar team within Debian. In this email, first I'll summarize what the concept of Developer Advisory Team is, and second I'll request help. The stated goals are: * Reac

Re: Why are mailboxes in /var/mail owned by group mail?

2012-12-19 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Wed, 19 Dec 2012, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: The subject came up in the course of bug #693114 which in a nutshell is caused by dovecot by default copying the permissions of the users mailbox in /var/mail for indexes in the users home directory. Naturally, this fails when the user is not a membe

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems

2012-11-25 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sun, 25 Nov 2012, Thomas Goirand wrote: On 11/25/2012 02:19 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: I really wish people would stop having this debate. It is completely pointless for us to argue here over whether or not the fork will be successful. The outcome of that argument is completely irrelevant to

Re: mentors.debian.net runs the debexpo code now

2011-08-16 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Fri, 12 Aug 2011, Ian Jackson wrote: Asheesh Laroia writes ("mentors.debian.net runs the debexpo code now"): It's live: http://mentors.debian.net/ Thanks, this looks very cool. I have a question, from the point of view of a potential sponsor/mentor. How can I tell the &

Re: mentors.debian.net: login problems

2011-08-15 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Excerpts from Jonathan Wiltshire's message of Mon Aug 15 06:54:21 -0400 2011: > On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 01:49:04PM +0300, Andrew O. Shadoura wrote: > > Since mentors.d.n was upgraded, I can't log in. Even if I reset my > > password, I can't log in with a temporary one. > > > > Any ideas what can i

Re: mentors.debian.net runs the debexpo code now

2011-08-12 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Excerpts from Raphael Hertzog's message of Thu Aug 11 15:31:57 -0400 2011: > Hi Asheesh, > > thank you for your work on this new version! It's really a big step > forward. > > On Thu, 11 Aug 2011, Asheesh Laroia wrote: > > It's live: http://mentors.debian.n

mentors.debian.net runs the debexpo code now

2011-08-11 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Hello lovely debian-devel folks, Thanks to huge work by Johnny Lamb, Christoph Haas, Jan Dittberner, Kalle Söderman, Serafeim Zanikolas, David Paleino, and Paul Wise, we have had a alpha-level product called Debexpo that can replace mentors.debian.net as the place we do package review for new

Re: Bug#625865: ITP: ocportal -- ocPortal is a Content Management System for building and maintaining a dynamic website

2011-05-07 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Fri, 6 May 2011, Chris Warburton wrote: On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 11:29 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: On Friday, May 06, 2011 11:23:50 AM Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 09:11 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: On Friday, May 06, 2011 08:56:21 AM Chris Warburton wrote: Programm

Re: Create package for XUL-based app

2010-10-19 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Mon, 18 Oct 2010, David Rios wrote: On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 00:31 +0200, Benjamin Drung wrote: Am Montag, den 18.10.2010, 17:26 -0500 schrieb David Rios: Hi. I want to package a XUL-based application which isn't in Debian Repository yet. I've read many tutorials, including "Debian New Mainta

Re: Any information if Marcela Tiznado (m...@debian.org) still around? (package 'when')

2010-10-11 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Fri, 8 Oct 2010, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: Any Ideas how I can proceede? Hi Salvatore, That's a long diff! I'm swamped right now. I would suggest asking the debian-qa team, either by joining their email list and asking them there, or by joining the IRC channel. More at http://wiki.deb

"Debexpo" and how you can help

2010-10-08 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Hey all! In the next month, we're all going to get Debexpo running as an alternative to mentors.debian.net. I'm going to revive this project, and I need some help. (I'm cross-posting; I've set the Reply-To header so that replies go the debexpo devel list.) We're going to get it on the web, i

Re: Debian source code search engine

2010-10-01 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Thu, 30 Sep 2010, Peter De Wachter wrote: Op Thu, 30 Sep 2010 16:07:14 -0400 schreef Yaroslav Halchenko : Following Michael's inquiry I finally found this thread. Peter, are there any plans to make Debian's source code indexer alive again (and may be placed on somewhat permanent/reliable

Re: libexplain: need access to debian alpha machine

2010-08-17 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Tue, 17 Aug 2010, Paul Wise wrote: On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Peter Miller wrote: I'm trying to get my libexplain project [1] to build on Debian alpha. I don't actually have access to an alpha machine, so my feedback loop is via the Debian build farm [2]... one fix per release. This

Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling

2010-07-20 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Tue, 20 Jul 2010, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: Anyone got any idea how to can get more machines to report to popcon.debian.org? Or can there be some other problem causing the fall in the number of submissions? One thing Fedora does for their stats tools in the install is that if you say "N

Re: suggestion about debian devel extension

2010-07-06 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Wed, 7 Jul 2010, milkwa...@hotmail.com wrote: As a programmer under debian, I really appriciate the rich debian packages. However, it is not convenient to read and analysis source code, even with emacs and scsope. A litte progress has been acheived after fighting for years. You can test

Re: source.debian.net

2010-03-16 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010, Peter De Wachter wrote: Op Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:28:38 -0500 schreef Michael Gilbert : Does anyone know who maintains source.debian.net? It's a really great service, but its been down for about a month now. I would like to to make sure they're aware of the problem. Thanks

Re: Downgrading a package to get it into upcoming release

2010-02-16 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, Antonin Kral wrote: Hi all, I am looking for some advise / opinions. I am working with guys from MongoDB project to get stable package in Debian. We have currently version 1.3.1 in unstable, this is considered as development branch which is not very stable. Is there an

Re: need help of R language expert

2010-02-10 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: On 10 February 2010 at 22:26, Asheesh Laroia wrote: | yOn Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | | > Asheesh Laroia asheesh.org> writes: | >> On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: | >>> I, a maintainer of TeXmacs,

Re: need help of R language expert

2010-02-10 Thread Asheesh Laroia
yOn Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: Asheesh Laroia asheesh.org> writes: On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: I, a maintainer of TeXmacs, have got an FTBFS bug#551254 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=551254 I temporarily remove a problematic patch but clea

Re: Bug#569085: ITP: extundelete -- extundelete is a utility which recovers deleted files from ext3 and ext4 partitions.

2010-02-09 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, rich wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: rich * Package name: extundelete Version : 0.1.8 Upstream Author : Nic Case * URL : http://extundelete.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPLv2 Programming Lang: C++ Description : extund

Re: need help of R language expert

2010-02-08 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: Hi all, I, a maintainer of TeXmacs, have got an FTBFS bug#551254 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=551254 I temporarily remove a problematic patch but clearly it is not a real fix. A plugin of R seems not to work anymore. CC:ing Mako

Re: RFS: miredo

2010-02-01 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote: Hello, Asheesh Laroia wrote: On Wed, 27 Jan 2010, Remi Denis-Courmont wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: normal Hello, I request assistance with maintaining the miredo package. The last update has unfortunately introduced a severe

Re: Bug#567186: RFH: miredo -- Teredo IPv6 tunneling through NATs

2010-01-31 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010, Remi Denis-Courmont wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: normal Hello, I request assistance with maintaining the miredo package. The last update has unfortunately introduced a severe regression. That bug was upstream, but that's hardly an excuse since I am upstream too. In

Re: Bug#516659: ITP: w3bfukk0r -- scan webservers for hidden directories (forced browsing)

2009-02-22 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sun, 22 Feb 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/22/2009 04:39 PM, Maximilian Gaß wrote: Description : scan webservers for hidden directories (forced browsing) w3bfukk0r is a forced browsing tool, it basically scans webservers (HTTP/HTTPS) for a directory by using HTTP HEAD command and brut

Re: mass bug filing for undefined sn?printf use

2008-12-29 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Mon, 29 Dec 2008, Kees Cook wrote: Hi, On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 03:10:37PM +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote: How about either matching stuff against the build logs or recompiling I didn't have the resources to do this, but it's be great if someone could. I'll work on this now. -- Asheesh.

Bug#438166: ITP: libexempi2 -- A library to parse XMP metadata (Library)

2007-08-15 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Asheesh Laroia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libexempi2 Version : x.y.z Upstream Author : Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.example.org/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang: C Descrip

Re: List of (un)sponsored packages on Mentors (approximate)

2007-07-22 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sun, 22 Jul 2007, Ondrej Certik wrote: The actual discussion came up when we talked about whether the current GR on non-DDs with upload permissions is good or bad for Debian. And we agreed that Debian lacks a lot of packages just because the poor package maintainer (tm) didn't find a sponso

Bug#401001: ITP: alpine -- Friendly text-based email client, designed for novices but also with expert features

2006-11-29 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Asheesh Laroia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: alpine Version : 0.8 Upstream Author : Jeff Franklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.washington.edu/alpine/ * License : Apache License 2.0

Bug#377153: ITP: python-pysearch -- pYsearch is a wrapper for the Yahoo! search API

2006-07-06 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Asheesh Laroia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-pysearch Version : 2.0 Upstream Author : Leif Hedstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://pysearch.sourceforge.net/ * License : BSD Description

Bug#373150: ITP: ccd2iso -- Converter from CloneCD disc image format to standard ISO

2006-06-12 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Asheesh Laroia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: ccd2iso Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Danny Kurniawan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/ccd2iso/ * License : GPL

Bug#346528: ITP: gnome-clipboard-daemon -- keeps the content of your X clipboard in memory so the clipboard won't get lost even after you close the application you copied from

2006-01-08 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Asheesh Laroia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Debbugs-CC: Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; * Package name: gnome-clipboard-daemon Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Hongli Lai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http:/

Bug#346443: ITP: cue2toc -- converts CUE files to cdrdao's TOC format

2006-01-07 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Asheesh Laroia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: cue2toc Version : 0.4 Upstream Author : Matthias Czapla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://cue2toc.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Description :