Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2025-01-08 Thread Salvo Tomaselli
> Well, "some places" includes basically all home users, at least in > Sweden where I live. This is not about ISPs blocking "some traffic", > they only block outgoing smtp traffic on default ports. The reasons are > obvious. > > That is, it's often a pain to set up outgoing SMTP. As a user you do

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-20 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Thu 12 Dec 2024 at 08:05pm -08, Don Armstrong wrote: > That said, the critique is received, and I've been very, very slowly > working on rewriting the entire system to address some of these issues. > [Being a parent has made my Debian time very precious, however, so > keeping things run

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-20 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Thu 12 Dec 2024 at 10:30pm +09, Charles Plessy wrote: > - at work, not using LLMs to write code is like refusing to wear shoes >at the Olympics because Greeks did not and saying that shoes pollute >and the run is no less fun when everybody agreed to be bare feet. >True, but

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-18 Thread Ananthu C V
On Wed, Dec 18, 2024 at 09:06:48PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > reportbug can send emails through sendmail (if you have that > configured), or it can be set up so it can bypass that entirely and send > email directly to an SMTP server. If you use something like thunderbird, you can always do so

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-18 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 05:50:55PM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote: > > > On 12/11/24 5:20 PM, Marc Haber wrote: > > On Wed, 11 Dec 2024 17:04:52 +0530, Pirate Praveen > > wrote: > > > I think a reportbug web based front end that authenticates with salsa > > > via oauth and sends emails without any

A better bts? - https://fabre.debian.net (was: Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers)

2024-12-15 Thread Richard Lewis
Tiago Bortoletto Vaz writes: > Btw, for triage I used to suggest https://fabre.debian.net to > newcomers. I had some hope that it could be a start for something > bigger, so I tried to have access to the code to improve a few things > but never had an answer from the maintainer :\ This looks lik

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-14 Thread Tiago Bortoletto Vaz
On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 06:05:51PM GMT, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > Hi, > > > > While I personally think e-mail-based workflows can be quite nice, the > > > BTS' asynchronous nature did cause me a lot of extra pointless work > > > when I was an outsider attempting to learn the ropes. Being not 100% >

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-12 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 10 Dec 2024, Gard Spreemann wrote: > Being not 100% confident with the system, > I way too often found myself waiting minutes – as much as 10 or 15 – for > replies to simple operations. The BTS processes messages every 3 minutes. There's nothing really stopping an inotify-based daemon alwa

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-12 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi On 11-12-2024 12:34, Pirate Praveen wrote: If reportbug can open your already configure email client (like thunderbird) that already helps a lot. I do that all the time: paul@toba ~ $ grep thunderbird ~/.reportbugrc mua thunderbird Paul OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-12 Thread Charles Plessy
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 09:29:08PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > Last time I had to write a removal request I asked ChatGPT and it worked > > well! Le Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 02:29:08PM +, Holger Levsen a écrit : > > is this debian-devel@ or -curiosa@? (&scnr) Hi Holger and everybody, it

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-11 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 11 Dec 2024 23:00:58 +, Richard Lewis wrote: >Gard Spreemann writes: >> While I personally think e-mail-based workflows can be quite nice, the >> BTS' asynchronous nature did cause me a lot of extra pointless work >> when I was an outsider attempting to learn the ropes. Being not 100%

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-11 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Wed 11 Dec 2024 at 11:00pm GMT, Richard Lewis wrote: > Gard Spreemann writes: > >> While I personally think e-mail-based workflows can be quite nice, the >> BTS' asynchronous nature did cause me a lot of extra pointless work >> when I was an outsider attempting to learn the ropes. Bein

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-11 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
Hi, > > While I personally think e-mail-based workflows can be quite nice, the > > BTS' asynchronous nature did cause me a lot of extra pointless work > > when I was an outsider attempting to learn the ropes. Being not 100% > > confident with the system, I way too often found myself waiting > > mi

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-11 Thread Richard Lewis
Gard Spreemann writes: > While I personally think e-mail-based workflows can be quite nice, the > BTS' asynchronous nature did cause me a lot of extra pointless work > when I was an outsider attempting to learn the ropes. Being not 100% > confident with the system, I way too often found myself wa

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-11 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 11 Dec 2024 15:00:45 +0100, Alec Leamas wrote: >> On 12/11/24 6:35 PM, sre4e...@free.fr wrote: >>> Le 2024-12-11 13:52, Pirate Praveen a écrit : > reportbug can talk SMTP directly, is that not enough for you? without configuring an smtp server? If I run reportbug and clicks

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-11 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 11 Dec 2024 17:50:55 +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote: >On 12/11/24 5:20 PM, Marc Haber wrote: >> On Wed, 11 Dec 2024 17:04:52 +0530, Pirate Praveen >> wrote: >>> I think a reportbug web based front end that authenticates with salsa >>> via oauth and sends emails without any email client needi

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-11 Thread Andrey Rakhmatullin
On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 09:27:11AM -0500, Boyuan Yang wrote: > I would like to add that while self-sustained SMTP facilities is useful, the > reportbug tool has a strong assumption: it assumes that the bug reporter > must be using Debian (or one of the Debian derivative, though we know it > won't w

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-11 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Holger Levsen (2024-12-11 15:29:08) > On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 09:29:08PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > Last time I had to write a removal request I asked ChatGPT and it worked > > well! > > is this debian-devel@ or -curiosa@? (&scnr) > > that said, I do realize that the verb "to google

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-11 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2024-12-11 15:27, Boyuan Yang wrote: I would like to add that while self-sustained SMTP facilities is useful, the reportbug tool has a strong assumption: it assumes that the bug reporter must be using Debian (or one of the Debian derivative, though we know it won't work well) when reporting

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-11 Thread sre4ever
Le 2024-12-11 15:04, Pirate Praveen a écrit : Many firewalls (for example in offices) also block almost every port other than 80 or 443. So it'd still be valuable to have a web based reportbug interface. Well, usually they just block everything including ports 80 and 443, often one has to u

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-11 Thread Holger Levsen
On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 09:29:08PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Last time I had to write a removal request I asked ChatGPT and it worked > well! is this debian-devel@ or -curiosa@? (&scnr) that said, I do realize that the verb "to google" slowly is becoming "to ask $chatgpt" or rather, that als

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-11 Thread Boyuan Yang
Hi, 在 12/11/2024 9:04 AM, Pirate Praveen 写道: On 12/11/24 7:30 PM, Alec Leamas wrote: On 12/11/24 6:35 PM, sre4e...@free.fr wrote: Le 2024-12-11 13:52, Pirate Praveen a écrit : reportbug can talk SMTP directly, is that not enough for you? without configuring an smtp server? If I run rep

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-11 Thread sre4ever
Le 2024-12-11 15:00, Alec Leamas a écrit : Well, "some places" includes basically all home users, at least in Sweden where I live. This is not about ISPs blocking "some traffic", they only block outgoing smtp traffic on default ports. The reasons are obvious. Did you try to connect using TC

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-11 Thread Pirate Praveen
On 12/11/24 7:30 PM, Alec Leamas wrote: On 12/11/24 6:35 PM, sre4e...@free.fr wrote: Le 2024-12-11 13:52, Pirate Praveen a écrit : reportbug can talk SMTP directly, is that not enough for you? without configuring an smtp server? If I run reportbug and clicks submit, does it send mail w

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-11 Thread Alec Leamas
On 12/11/24 6:35 PM, sre4e...@free.fr wrote: Le 2024-12-11 13:52, Pirate Praveen a écrit : reportbug can talk SMTP directly, is that not enough for you? without configuring an smtp server? If I run reportbug and clicks submit, does it send mail without any extra configurations? It does,

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-11 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2024-12-11, Pirate Praveen wrote: > Thanks, in that case, it is my mistake. I was always thinking it needs > an mta configured, may be this was a recent addition. Not sure if it was > there from the beginning. It has been by default using the submission port for default for ages, though not

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-11 Thread Pirate Praveen
On 12/11/24 6:35 PM, sre4e...@free.fr wrote: Le 2024-12-11 13:52, Pirate Praveen a écrit : reportbug can talk SMTP directly, is that not enough for you? without configuring an smtp server? If I run reportbug and clicks submit, does it send mail without any extra configurations? It does,

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-11 Thread sre4ever
Le 2024-12-11 13:52, Pirate Praveen a écrit : reportbug can talk SMTP directly, is that not enough for you? without configuring an smtp server? If I run reportbug and clicks submit, does it send mail without any extra configurations? It does, and that works for me (though maybe not from some

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-11 Thread Pirate Praveen
On 12/11/24 6:10 PM, Andrey Rakhmatullin wrote: On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 05:50:55PM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote: I think a reportbug web based front end that authenticates with salsa via oauth and sends emails without any email client needing to be configured will already help. Is it not alr

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-11 Thread Andrey Rakhmatullin
On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 05:50:55PM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote: > > > I think a reportbug web based front end that authenticates with salsa > > > via oauth and sends emails without any email client needing to be > > > configured will already help. > > > > Is it not already the case that you can us

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-11 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 05:50:55PM +0530, Pirate Praveen a écrit : > > As I said, it is not impossible, but a painful process. I use reportbug only > when I have to generate a template for rm requests, otherwise I always write > an email. We should avoid asking new people to run through hoops when

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-11 Thread Pirate Praveen
On 12/11/24 5:20 PM, Marc Haber wrote: On Wed, 11 Dec 2024 17:04:52 +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote: I think a reportbug web based front end that authenticates with salsa via oauth and sends emails without any email client needing to be configured will already help. Is it not already the case

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-11 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 11 Dec 2024 17:04:52 +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote: >I think a reportbug web based front end that authenticates with salsa >via oauth and sends emails without any email client needing to be >configured will already help. Is it not already the case that you can use reportbug without e-mail

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-11 Thread Pirate Praveen
On 12/11/24 8:47 AM, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Tue, Dec 10, 2024 at 09:18:06AM +0100, Gard Spreemann a écrit : The BTS is core to Debian. It is e-mail based. While I personally think e-mail-based workflows can be quite nice, the BTS' asynchronous nature did cause me a lot of extra pointless w

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-10 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Dec 10, 2024 at 09:18:06AM +0100, Gard Spreemann a écrit : > > The BTS is core to Debian. It is e-mail based. While I personally think > e-mail-based workflows can be quite nice, the BTS' asynchronous nature > did cause me a lot of extra pointless work when I was an outsider > attempting t

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-10 Thread Andrey Rakhmatullin
On Tue, Dec 10, 2024 at 08:59:23AM -0500, Boyuan Yang wrote: > > Here's the default crontabs for debbugs. > > There do exists an handfull of other instances of debbugs, some might > > deviate from default settings. > > > > Greetings  > > > > /usr/lib/debbugs/processall >/dev/null > > 7,22,37,52

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-10 Thread Boyuan Yang
Hi, 在 2024-12-10二的 10:49 +0100,Alexandre Detiste写道: > Hi, > > Here's the default crontabs for debbugs. > There do exists an handfull of other instances of debbugs, some might deviate > from default settings. > > Greetings  > > /usr/lib/debbugs/processall >/dev/null > 7,22,37,52 * * * *  > > h

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-10 Thread Gard Spreemann
Marc Haber writes: > On Tue, 10 Dec 2024 09:18:06 +0100, Gard Spreemann > wrote: >>The BTS is core to Debian. > > And it is one of the best Bugtrackers I have ever encountered. I agree. > It could be faster, yes, but its features trump the waiting time by > far. Without knowing anything abou

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-10 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 10 Dec 2024 09:18:06 +0100, Gard Spreemann wrote: >The BTS is core to Debian. And it is one of the best Bugtrackers I have ever encountered. It could be faster, yes, but its features trump the waiting time by far. Greetings Marc -- ---

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-10 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Tue 10 Dec 2024 at 01:58pm +05, Andrey Rakhmatullin wrote: > On Tue, Dec 10, 2024 at 09:18:06AM +0100, Gard Spreemann wrote: >> Since several people seem to be sharing their experiences with >> (undesirable) challenges in becoming a DD, I thought I'd add a point >> that seemingly hasn't

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-10 Thread Alexandre Detiste
Hi, Here's the default crontabs for debbugs. There do exists an handfull of other instances of debbugs, some might deviate from default settings. Greetings /usr/lib/debbugs/processall >/dev/null 7,22,37,52 * * * * https://bugs.debian.org/debbugs-source/debian/debian/crontab Le mar. 10 déc. 202

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-10 Thread Gard Spreemann
Andrey Rakhmatullin writes: > On Tue, Dec 10, 2024 at 09:18:06AM +0100, Gard Spreemann wrote: >> Since several people seem to be sharing their experiences with >> (undesirable) challenges in becoming a DD, I thought I'd add a point >> that seemingly hasn't been covered yet: >> >> The BTS is cor

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-10 Thread Andrey Rakhmatullin
On Tue, Dec 10, 2024 at 09:18:06AM +0100, Gard Spreemann wrote: > Since several people seem to be sharing their experiences with > (undesirable) challenges in becoming a DD, I thought I'd add a point > that seemingly hasn't been covered yet: > > The BTS is core to Debian. It is e-mail based. While

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-10 Thread Gard Spreemann
Since several people seem to be sharing their experiences with (undesirable) challenges in becoming a DD, I thought I'd add a point that seemingly hasn't been covered yet: The BTS is core to Debian. It is e-mail based. While I personally think e-mail-based workflows can be quite nice, the BTS' asy

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-09 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, Am Wed, Dec 04, 2024 at 11:18:23AM -0700 schrieb Soren Stoutner: > Robert, Thanks a lot to Robert to ask here on the list and sorry for my delayed answer. I had to catch up with real life but since the question was originally to me in person I feel the need to finally get involved into the t

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-08 Thread Antonio Terceiro
On Fri, Dec 06, 2024 at 05:01:10PM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote: > 2024, ഡിസം 5 2:05:19 AM Lucas Kanashiro : > > https://debconf24.debconf.org/talks/74-attracting-and-retaining-new-contributors-insights-from-brazil/ > > > > There was some follow-up discussion in Hacker News after a LWN post about >

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-06 Thread Pirate Praveen
2024, ഡിസം 5 2:05:19 AM Lucas Kanashiro : > https://debconf24.debconf.org/talks/74-attracting-and-retaining-new-contributors-insights-from-brazil/ > > There was some follow-up discussion in Hacker News after a LWN post about > this talk was published: > > https://lwn.net/Articles/987548/ > https:/

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-05 Thread Soren Stoutner
On Thursday, December 5, 2024 1:30:15 AM MST Pirate Praveen wrote: > 2024, ഡിസം 4 9:33:25 PM Robert Chéramy : > > 2) What should I read first if I want to make a new package? > > I usually suggest a step by step guide to people who are new, in this I > suggest building existing packages from sourc

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-05 Thread Pirate Praveen
2024, ഡിസം 4 9:33:25 PM Robert Chéramy : > 2) What should I read first if I want to make a new package? > I usually suggest a step by step guide to people who are new, in this I suggest building existing packages from source and updating existing packages before creating a new package from scratc

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-04 Thread Lucas Kanashiro
Hi, On 04/12/2024 15:18, Soren Stoutner wrote: Robert, I appreciate your addition to the discussion. On Wednesday, December 4, 2024 8:53:07 AM MST Robert Chéramy wrote: 1) Documentation There was a lot of reading involved (no problem here - it is great to have a detailed documentation) but it

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-04 Thread Mechtilde Stehmann
Hello Soren, Am 04.12.24 um 19:18 schrieb Soren Stoutner: Robert, I appreciate your addition to the discussion. On Wednesday, December 4, 2024 8:53:07 AM MST Robert Chéramy wrote: 1) Documentation 2. A vast amount of the step-by-step documentation written for beginners regarding how to

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-04 Thread Soren Stoutner
Robert, I appreciate your addition to the discussion. On Wednesday, December 4, 2024 8:53:07 AM MST Robert Chéramy wrote: > 1) Documentation > There was a lot of reading involved (no problem here - it is great to > have a detailed documentation) but it was very confusing that there were > differe

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-04 Thread Andrey Rakhmatullin
On Wed, Dec 04, 2024 at 04:53:07PM +0100, Robert Chéramy wrote: > 1) Documentation > There was a lot of reading involved (no problem here - it is great to have a > detailed documentation) but it was very confusing that there were different > guides addressing the same things: > > Debian Developper

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-04 Thread Robert Chéramy
Note - This email was originally send directly to Andreas Tille, as my MUA ignored his "Mail-Followup-To: header". Andreas asked me to answer to debian-devel@lists.debian.org. Please note that I have not subscribed to debian-devel and do not plan to subscribe at the moment. If you want me to rea