Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 05:09:02PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 04:38:35PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > The inclusion of ia64 in the release count is a projection, based on > > > where I believe things are today.

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:39:24AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 08:45:09PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > To be eligible for inclusion in the archive at all, even in the > > (unstable-only) SCC archive, ftpmasters have specified the following > > architecture requirement

Re: Release sarge now, or discuss etch issues? (was: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-15 Thread Christian Perrier
> I do not understand why the Nybbles team mixed their good news about > sarge with their foreseeably controversial plans or proposal for etch. This may have been a strategical error, yes. For me, the Vancouver meeting goal was obviously the sarge release and IMHO, they achieved their goal very

Re: status of buildds?

2005-03-15 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi Ingo, On Tuesday, 15 Mar 2005, you wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:37:31PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > > > >The s390 porting team can perfectly well do what the hurd-i386 porting > > > >team does: build them themselves. I mean, umm, you don't have to be > > > >hooked into w-b to

Re: Vancouver meeting - clarifications

2005-03-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 08:58:44AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > Hello, world, > | - the release architecture must have N+1 buildds where N is the number > | required to keep up with the volume of uploaded packages > The reason for this proposal should be instantly clear to everyone who > ever su

Re: Debian makes titles

2005-03-15 Thread Christian Perrier
> Are you happy with that? People talking about Debian ? Sure. "Press" misunderstanding issues, no, but this is not the first time. Sure, we will have (we already have) a nice Internet rumour saying "Debian drops most architectures". But, well, we have rumours about nearly anything alors une de

Re: Another load of typos

2005-03-15 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Florian Zumbiehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi, > > now that the problems with my last bunch of bug reports on mostly "its" > vs. "it's" mistakes some months ago seem to be solved, I've found another > load of typos of the "a" vs. "an" flavor, about 110 in total. please please please...for an

Re: status of buildds?

2005-03-15 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 08:59:55AM +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > Hi Ingo, > > On Tuesday, 15 Mar 2005, you wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:37:31PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > > > > > >The s390 porting team can perfectly well do what the hurd-i386 porting > > > > >team does: b

Re: Release sarge now, or discuss etch issues?

2005-03-15 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 09:07:47 +0100, Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >My personal concern now is avoiding to "throw out the baby with the >bath's water" as we say in French. Dropping the majority of our archictecture is exactly throwing out the baby with the bath's water (we have the s

Re: Vancouver meeting - clarifications

2005-03-15 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 08:58:44AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > As Steve wrote > | The reality is that keeping eleven > | architectures in a releasable state has been a major source of work for > | the release team, the d-i team, and the kernel team over the past year; > | not to mention the time

Re: status of buildds?

2005-03-15 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 08:59:55 +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tuesday, 15 Mar 2005, you wrote: >> It's the job of w-b admins to add new buildds in a timely manner. If they >> don't do that, they simply fail (one significant part of) their job. >or they just have their reason

Discussion about tier-2 testing and how to achieve a release of tier-2 arches after all. (Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:23:48PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:32:57AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 12:23:12AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 11:21:29PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > > > Steve Langasek <[EMAI

Re: Do not make gratuitous source uploads just to provoke the buildds!

2005-03-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Goswin von Brederlow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050314 15:35]: >> Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > * Hamish Moffatt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050314 01:45]: >> >> On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 11:16:56PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: >> >> > Our goal is tha

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Aurélien, On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:56:51AM +0100, Aurélien Jarno wrote: > Steve Langasek a écrit : > >The much larger consequence of this meeting, however, has been the > >crafting of a prospective release plan for etch. The release team and > >the ftpmasters are mutually agreed that it is n

Re: Questions for the DPL candidates

2005-03-15 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 02:50, Anthony Towns wrote: > cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote: > >>That's why it's posted on the lists now -- it never too late to get > >>input into something in Debian; even after we've committed to > >> something, we can almost always change our minds. > > > > er, sayin

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Philip Charles
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 20:04, Sven Luther wrote: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 07:32:12AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > > On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 22:51:40 +0100, Sven Luther > > > > >> Do not expect mirror admins to run Debian, and to be willing to > > >> pull smart mirroring tricks. > > > > > >What do they use

debian/kernel security issues (Was: Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 04:51:55PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 01:14:30AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 06:10:30PM -0500, Andres Salomon wrote: > > > Yes, I would like to reiterate that coordination between Martin Pitt, the > > > Ubuntu kernel t

Requireing 98% built sources (was: Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-15 Thread David Schmitt
On Monday 14 March 2005 22:30, Bdale Garbee wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Schmitt) writes: > > On Monday 14 March 2005 11:10, Rene Engelhard wrote: > >> pcc is barely at 98%. I don't think that barrier should be that high. We > >> *should* at last release with the tree most important archs: i38

Re: Do not make gratuitous source uploads just to provoke the buildds!

2005-03-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Op ma, 14-03-2005 te 17:59 +0100, schreef Goswin von Brederlow: >> Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > Op vr, 11-03-2005 te 19:14 -0800, schreef Steve Langasek: >> >> The queue ordering is entirely automatic, and AIUI the queue(s) is (

Re: debian/kernel security issues (Was: Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-15 Thread Joey Hess
Sven Luther wrote: > There is this vendor-specific-security-announce-with-embargo thingy. > > The debian kernel team mostly handles the unstable and testing kernel, is not > in the loop for getting advance advice on those problems, so we cannot build > fixed versions until the vulnerability gets a

Dropping from mirror network vs dropping from tier-1 (was: Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-15 Thread David Schmitt
On Monday 14 March 2005 19:36, Sven Luther wrote: > Well, as long as the discussion is on dropping from the mirror network, > yes, you may be right, but the proposal is to drop from stable/testing > altogether, isn't it ? Quoting from the Nybbles proposal: "[...] the list of release candidate arc

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:00:12AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > There are a few problems with trying to run testing for architectures > > that aren't being kept in sync. First, if they're not being kept in > > sync, it increases the number of matching source packages that we need > > to keep aro

Security support on tier-2 (was: Re: COUNT(buildd) IN (2,3))

2005-03-15 Thread David Schmitt
On Monday 14 March 2005 20:07, Julien BLACHE wrote: > Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > Thus the problem is less in the development and more in the support > >> > of testing requirements (all arches in sync) and stable support > >> > (security response time). Therefore the N<=2 require

Re: Vancouver meeting - clarifications

2005-03-15 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Andreas! You wrote: > As Steve wrote > | The reality is that keeping eleven > | architectures in a releasable state has been a major source of work for > | the release team, the d-i team, and the kernel team over the past year; > | not to mention the time spent by the DSA/buildd admins and the

Re: Vision for the future (was: Re: COUNT(buildd) IN (2,3))

2005-03-15 Thread David Schmitt
On Monday 14 March 2005 19:38, Sven Luther wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 07:17:08PM +0100, David Schmitt wrote: > > Both are currently "happening." The current release and security teams > > say that they cannot support the tier-2 arches for etch. The porters jump > > up and prove them wrong by

Re: status of buildds?

2005-03-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ingo Juergensmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 08:43:40PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: >> >> > For s390 and sparc, it appears that only one machine is in place >> > building these archs. >> >> As Bastian Blank sai

Security support for tier-2 (was: Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-15 Thread David Schmitt
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 07:49, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Don't get me wrong, I'd love to have eternal security support for m68k > (or whatever compiles the kernel most slowly), but if I don't get that > choice, given "late" or "never" I'll happily take the former. Then read the Nybbles proposal a

Re: Vancouver meeting - clarifications

2005-03-15 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Andreas Barth | For example, the more architectures are included the longer the migration | testing script takes. We are already at the limit currently (and also | have out-of-memory issues from time to time). For example, currently we | restrict the number of some hints to only 5 per day to k

Re: debian/kernel security issues (Was: Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 04:21:21AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > > There is this vendor-specific-security-announce-with-embargo thingy. > > > > The debian kernel team mostly handles the unstable and testing kernel, is > > not > > in the loop for getting advance advice on those pr

m68k (was: Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-15 Thread David Schmitt
On Monday 14 March 2005 19:25, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > I think the only criteria m68k fails are the "2 buildds have to > suffice to keep up with etch" and the "10% download shares". The second criterion is only for the mirror network, not for tier-1. Please read the Nybbles proposal again:

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 01:21:59AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:00:12AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > There are a few problems with trying to run testing for architectures > > > that aren't being kept in sync. First, if they're not being kept in > > > sync, it inc

Requirement for "unmodified source" (was: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-15 Thread Frank Küster
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:39:24AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 08:45:09PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > >> > - binary packages must be built from the unmodified Debian source >> > (required, among other reasons, for license

[Proposal] Upgrade newraff hardware

2005-03-15 Thread Bill Allombert
Hello Debian developers, It had come several times that one major problem is the load of wanna-build connection on newraff, and the time and memory it take to run the testing scripts. Debian certainly has enough goodwill to get a donation of a couple of really fast box with lots of RAM, and has

Re: Call for help / release criteria

2005-03-15 Thread David Schmitt
On Monday 14 March 2005 22:58, Christian Kurz wrote: > On [14/03/05 19:05], David Schmitt wrote: > > They do so now. Are you (all) prepared to take up the call? > > Pardon, but where do you see any public e-Mail from any of the "the > people doing release, ftpmaster, etc." asking for help? I've yet

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Julien BLACHE
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andres Salomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I hereby ask the people involved in this proposal to step down >> immediately from their positions in the Project. You've violated a >> couple of rules already, and you've violated the spirit of this Projec

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Julien BLACHE
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> And keeping IA64 in the loop is just another joke from the release >> team. It'd be interesting to find out, but I bet more m68ks were sold >> than IA64 last year. > > Which of these two architectures are y

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Frank Küster
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:06:35AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > >> I also have no objection to releasing stable later on some archs, or not >> at all, of nobody from those archs works to do it. > >> I do object to preventing those archs from releasing st

Building tier-2 against testing (was: Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-15 Thread David Schmitt
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 10:41, Sven Luther wrote: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 01:21:59AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:00:12AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > There are a few problems with trying to run testing for architectures > > > > that aren't being kept in sync.

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Julien BLACHE
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> How could we know ? We know nothing about Ubuntu, nothing about >> Canonical, nothing about the goals, nothing about how everything was >> done to begin with, nothing about who works or doesn't work there.

Re: [Proposal] Upgrade newraff hardware

2005-03-15 Thread Aurélien Jarno
Bill Allombert a écrit : Hello Debian developers, It had come several times that one major problem is the load of wanna-build connection on newraff, and the time and memory it take to run the testing scripts. Debian certainly has enough goodwill to get a donation of a couple of really fast box wi

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Julien BLACHE
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I hereby ask the people involved in this proposal to step down >> immediately from their positions in the Project. You've violated a >> couple of rules already, and you've violated the spirit of this >> Pro

Re: Release sarge now, or discuss etch issues?

2005-03-15 Thread Frank Küster
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Frank Küster wrote: >> I do not understand why the Nybbles team mixed their good news about >> sarge with their foreseeably controversial plans or proposal for etch. >> I fear that we will have a huge, long flamewar. And many competent, >> active people wi

amd64/multiarch transition (was: Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-15 Thread David Schmitt
On Monday 14 March 2005 20:24, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > If it weren't for sarge blocking us we would have submitted multiarch > patches as early as one year ago. Should we start submitting / NMUing > them for _experimental_ now to get this change running and tested? Or > should we keep waiting

Re: Vancouver meeting - clarifications

2005-03-15 Thread Andreas Barth
* Tollef Fog Heen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050315 10:50]: > * Andreas Barth > | For example, the more architectures are included the longer the migration > | testing script takes. We are already at the limit currently (and also > | have out-of-memory issues from time to time). For example, currently

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Frank Küster
Anthony Towns schrieb: > Alastair McKinstry wrote: >> The question is: how do you release a SCC arch, if at all? > > AFAIK, the terminology is FCC/SCC for mirror split, and "release-arch" > and "non-release-arch" for which arches get released as stable. So the > question is "how do you release a

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Julien BLACHE
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | How could we know ? We know nothing about Ubuntu, nothing about > | Canonical, nothing about the goals, nothing about how everything was > | done to begin with, nothing about who works or doesn't work the

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Andreas Barth
* Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050315 00:00]: > Colin mentioned the possibility of adding an "Architecture:" field > instead. That seems better than an etch-ignore tag anyway, for what you > want to achieve here. Yes, that sounds well. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-bar

Re: Building tier-2 against testing (was: Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 11:18:54AM +0100, David Schmitt wrote: > On Tuesday 15 March 2005 10:41, Sven Luther wrote: > > Could you be more clear about this ? which issues are those ? > > Sven, Steve is referring to the first part of his mail, where he says that > building from testing will lose "

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread David Schmitt
On Monday 14 March 2005 17:02, Marc Haber wrote: > On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 10:21:39 -0500, Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > >So far as I can tell, the governing rule in Debian thus far has always > >been that the people doing the work get to make the decisions about > >their corner of the

Re: Vancouver meeting - clarifications

2005-03-15 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 08:58:44 +0100, Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello, world, Hello, Andi. Nice to hear from you. >Please allow me another remark: That meeting didn't finalize the release >goals for etch. We talked about some of course - like we do on IRC quite >often, but we didn'

Re: [Proposal] Upgrade newraff hardware

2005-03-15 Thread Brian Nelson
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 11:05:13AM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > Hello Debian developers, > > It had come several times that one major problem is the load of > wanna-build connection on newraff, and the time and memory it take > to run the testing scripts. > > Debian certainly has enough goodwi

Re: Dropping from mirror network vs dropping from tier-1

2005-03-15 Thread Frank Küster
David Schmitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Elsewhere I believe Steve mentioned, that earlier versions had tier-1 == > ftp.d.o, but that this was dropped Yes, although it requires thorough reading, this is what the Vancouver proposal seems to say. >(exactly because of arches like s390 who > sho

Re: Questions for the DPL candidates

2005-03-15 Thread Julien BLACHE
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wonder also, do we still not have some sun donated sparc box running part of > our infrastructure ? How will that stay if we drop sparc support ? According to db.d.o: - auric: RAID is dead (and auric is ba

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread David Schmitt
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 11:10, Julien BLACHE wrote: > Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > towards "making Debian", and the ftpmasters are doing a decent chop of > > things too. > > Sure, and I won't say the contrary. But having a great infrastructure > (which is the case) and great peopl

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Julien BLACHE wrote: For $DEITY's sake. Will you please understand that the Ubuntu folks totally failed to inform their fellows about what was going on ? And at the time, there was no Canonical website, no Ubuntu website. Only a handful of patches up on no-name-yet. I think we

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 02:59:29PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 05:59:21PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > Somewhere else in this vast thread, someone suggested that they be > > serious and etch-ignore instead. Or perhaps serious bugs that are only > > tagged with a SCC arch s

Re: Release sarge now, or discuss etch issues? (was: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-15 Thread Julien BLACHE
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, the architecture handling is controversial. Fine...this will > probably delay etch more than we would like. But could we please focus > on releasing sarge first? By focus, I also mean avoidn wasting >

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread David Schmitt
On Monday 14 March 2005 16:23, John Goerzen wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 12:47:58PM +0100, Julien BLACHE wrote: > > Basically, you're just leaving a number of Debian users out in the > > cold. Users who choose Debian because we were the only distribution > > out of there to provide serious supp

Security support for tier-2 (was: Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-15 Thread David Schmitt
On Monday 14 March 2005 17:18, Sven Luther wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:12:29AM -0500, David Nusinow wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 09:54:49AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > > > It is not unstable that I am (most) worried about. > > > > > > It is the lack of any possibility of a stable rel

Re: Vancouver meeting - clarifications

2005-03-15 Thread Frank Küster
Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 08:58:44 +0100, Andreas Barth > >>I was asked quite often via IRC what the reasonings for this kind of >>proposal were. I'll answer the reasons from the release point of view - but >>please remember that there are also ftp-masters/mirror

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 10:45:59AM +0100, Julien BLACHE wrote: > >> I hereby ask the people involved in this proposal to step down > >> immediately from their positions in the Project. You've violated a > >> couple of rules already, and you've violated the spirit of this Project. > > *blink*. Are

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread David Schmitt
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 03:09, Anthony Towns wrote: > Soon everyone loves you, and you get a huge userbase, and hit 10% of > i386+amd64 downloads or five times powerpc's current userbase or so, and > say "I wanna be on ftp.d.o!!" Then you get moved across over a month or > so, and become a "tier-1

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 10:51:24AM +0100, Julien BLACHE wrote: > > You do know that m68k is the only architecture still carrying around > > 2.*2* kernels in sarge? > Yes. But there are 2.4 kernels available too, don't forget to mention > that fact. No 2.6, though, but that's not a problem right no

Re: Vancouver meeting - clarifications

2005-03-15 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Andreas Barth | Well, that was one of the examples where we pay a price for more | architectures. Of course, the testing migration script is not all, and | this problem can be solved, but I think we should not forget that we pay | a price - even if at the end, we think the price is acceptable.

Re: Accepted vile 9.4-r1 (powerpc sparc i386 source all)

2005-03-15 Thread Thomas Dickey
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > Format: 1.7 > Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 00:28:38 +1100 > Source: vile > Binary: xvile vile-filters vile vile-common > Architecture: all i386 powerpc source sparc > Version: 9.4-r1 thanks. For 9.5, the s

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > In this instance, the current blocker is only an issue at all because > ftp-master is not scaling well to handle all of the wanna-build ssh > connections that are implied by the activation of another build queue... Is there an underlying reason why th

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Anthony Towns > Mark Brown wrote: >> Would it also be possible for porters to update the snapshots in some >> manner beyond having an apt source equivalent to the security archive >> added by d-i? > It'd be possible, certainly -- cf proposed-updates and stable. The proposal says that s

Re: ports.debian.org (Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 05:38:30PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 04:10:30PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > #include > > * Colin Watson [Mon, Mar 14 2005, 02:40:56PM]: > > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 03:31:30PM +0100, Christoph Berg wrote: > > > > I'd propose to use a less "disc

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, David Schmitt wrote: And if the security team is not able to support those arches as-is, someone will have to step up and do the work. Overly long delays for security updates also diminish the usefulness of $arch. I guess I missed the "Call for help on security issues on archit

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 08:58:46AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 08:45:09PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Therefore, we're planning on not releasing most of the minor architectures > > starting with etch. They will be released with sarge, with all that > > That doesn't.

Debian offering stunnel/OpenVPN capabilities? [Was: Re: Restrictive SMTP server]

2005-03-15 Thread Jesus Climent
> > > > I'm willing to provide an OpenVPN tunnel to an SMTP server for any DD who is > > unable to find alternate lodgings, and I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one. > > I can offer something as well - I would probably lean towards just > auth+ssl instead of over VPN, but it's up to you. I just

Re: [Proposal] Upgrade newraff hardware

2005-03-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 02:55 -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 11:05:13AM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > > Hello Debian developers, > > > > It had come several times that one major problem is the load of > > wanna-build connection on newraff, and the time and memory it take > >

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Michael Ablassmeier
On 2005-03-15, Julien BLACHE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> How could we know ? We know nothing about Ubuntu, nothing about >>> Canonical, nothing about the goals, nothing about how everything was >>> done to begin with, nothing about who works or doe

Re: Security support for tier-2 (was: Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 12:22:34PM +0100, David Schmitt wrote: > On Monday 14 March 2005 17:18, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:12:29AM -0500, David Nusinow wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 09:54:49AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > > > > It is not unstable that I am (most) worri

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 10:51:24AM +0100, Julien BLACHE wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> And keeping IA64 in the loop is just another joke from the release > >> team. It'd be interesting to find out, but I bet more m68ks

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> I would add as for the core set architecture: >> - there must be a developer-accessible debian.org machine for the >> architecture. > This gets a little tricky for non-RC architectures, because if it's not > already (or currently) a released archite

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > This really makes unstable snapshotting, or building stable once it's > released as Anthony has also suggested in this thread, look like much > better options than trying to build out of testing. Building stable once it is released does look indeed li

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 12:30:59PM +0100, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 10:51:24AM +0100, Julien BLACHE wrote: > > > > You do know that m68k is the only architecture still carrying around > > > 2.*2* kernels in sarge? > > Yes. But there are 2.4 kernels available too, don't for

Re: Debian offering stunnel/OpenVPN capabilities? [Was: Re: Restrictive SMTP server]

2005-03-15 Thread Jesus Climent
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 01:04:53PM +0100, Jesus Climent wrote: > > > > > > I'm willing to provide an OpenVPN tunnel to an SMTP server for any DD who > > > is > > > unable to find alternate lodgings, and I'm pretty sure I'm not the only > > > one. > > > > I can offer something as well - I would

Re: Another load of typos

2005-03-15 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Christian Perrier [Tue, 15 Mar 2005 09:24:57 +0100]: > Indeed, typo and spell corrections should not need translation updates > and affected translations can certainly be unfuzzied.WHEN ONE > KNOWS HOW TO DO THIS CLEANLY...:-) I've never had to to such thing, but I've wondered from time t

Re: Call for help / release criteria (was: Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-15 Thread Julien BLACHE
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Why they don't ask for help? >> > >> > They do so now. Are you (all) prepared to take up the call? >> >> Yes, we are. There are enough interested people here to replace the >> current people in charge.

Re: Vancouver meeting - clarifications

2005-03-15 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 11:38:51AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Tollef Fog Heen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050315 10:50]: > > Debian has a fairly big chunk of cash lying about. If we have > > problems doing testing migration because of not enough hardware, this > > is something I think we should spen

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Andreas Barth
* Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050315 12:55]: > I wonder if we could simply use the current support in britney for > declaring that an architecture isn't keeping up to date and that any > problems with it shouldn't block the rest of testing. In that case, it might be better in the long term t

Re: status of buildds?

2005-03-15 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 10:41:12AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > If the s390 team is unhappy with w-b, they can simply set up their own > > autobuilding and do it themselves; all the software is free software. [..] > We did that last year f

Re: ports.debian.org (Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 11:47:37AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 05:38:30PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > I have proposed tier-1 ports for the main arches, tier-2 ports for the other > > ready ports but dropped from official support, and tier-3 ports for > > in-development po

Re: Vancouver meeting - clarifications

2005-03-15 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Having said this, this all doesn't exclude the possibility for a > non-release arch to have some "testing" which can be (mostly) in sync with > the release architectures testing - just that if it breaks, the release > team is not forced anymore to hold

Re: Vancouver meeting - clarifications

2005-03-15 Thread Peter 'p2' De Schrijver
> | - the release architecture must have N+1 buildds where N is the number > | required to keep up with the volume of uploaded packages > The reason for this proposal should be instantly clear to everyone who > ever suffered from buildd backlogs. :) > > We want that all unstable packages are dir

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 12:59:43PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > With the new proposal of de facto dropping m68k support, I'm this -><- close > > to recommend to Roman, that he better should invest his time into other > > projects, because Debian wouldn't appreciate his work to bring up another >

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 11:54:24AM +, Henning Makholm wrote: > If you wanted to make the decision _with_ the input of developers, why > did all the powers that be vehemently deny that the number of > architectures was a problem for the release schedule, right until > everyone turned on a platt

Re: status of buildds?

2005-03-15 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 11:34:58PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 10:41:12AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > If the s390 team is unhappy with w-b, they can simply set up their own > > > autobuilding and do it thems

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 12:45:13PM +, Mark Brown wrote: > > If you wanted to make the decision _with_ the input of developers, why > > did all the powers that be vehemently deny that the number of > > architectures was a problem for the release schedule, right until > > everyone turned on a pl

Re: Vancouver meeting - clarifications

2005-03-15 Thread Andreas Barth
Hi, * Tollef Fog Heen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050315 12:40]: > * Andreas Barth > | (And, BTW, newraff is a quite mature box. Of course, there is always > | more and better hardware available, but newraff is already a very good > | machine. And, we want to give the testing migration script more tasks

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 11:11:11 +0100, Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >In the long run, it might be even possible to get along with the stable >sources alone, plus a second, tier-2-specific diff.gz - if I'm not >mistaken it is planned to enable dpkg to work with a more flexible >format for so

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 11:54:51 +0100, David Schmitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Monday 14 March 2005 17:02, Marc Haber wrote: >> The problem is that it is extremely hard to be allowed to do any work >> for Debian, and I think that should change. I know of two core teams >> in Debian which have mor

Re: Vancouver meeting - clarifications

2005-03-15 Thread Andreas Barth
* Peter 'p2' De Schrijver ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050315 13:45]: > > | - the release architecture must have successfully compiled 98% of the > > | archive's source (excluding architecture-specific packages) > > well, that's just an "the architecture is basically working", so that we > > don't get to

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 10:26:33AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > Mark Brown wrote: > >Would it also be possible for porters to update the snapshots in some > >manner beyond having an apt source equivalent to the security archive > >added by d-i? > It'd be possible, certainly -- cf proposed-update

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Andreas Barth
* Henning Makholm ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050315 12:45]: > Scripsit Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > In this instance, the current blocker is only an issue at all because > > ftp-master is not scaling well to handle all of the wanna-build ssh > > connections that are implied by the activation o

The 98% and N<=2 criteria (was: Vancouver meeting - clarifications)

2005-03-15 Thread Frank Küster
Peter 'p2' De Schrijver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: [quoting Andreas Barth] >> | - the release architecture must have successfully compiled 98% of the >> | archive's source (excluding architecture-specific packages) >> well, that's just an "the architecture is basically working", so that we >>

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Marc Haber
On 15 Mar 2005 12:01:40 GMT, Michael Ablassmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 2005-03-15, Julien BLACHE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> By destroying the Project ? Interesting approach. > >As this is just a _proposal_, you are free to suggest alternative >approaches on how to solve the Problems the

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 12:17:59 +0100, David Schmitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Monday 14 March 2005 16:23, John Goerzen wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 12:47:58PM +0100, Julien BLACHE wrote: >> > Basically, you're just leaving a number of Debian users out in the >> > cold. Users who choose Debi

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