Bug#862947: ITP: vasptools -- python module and tools for postprocessing VASP quantum computations

2017-05-19 Thread Drew Parsons
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Drew Parsons * Package name: vasptools Version : 20142003 Upstream Author : Germain Vallverdu * URL : http://gvallver.perso.univ-pau.fr/vasptools/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: Python Description : python mod

Bug#862954: ITP: mvdsv -- a modern QuakeWorld server

2017-05-19 Thread Lee Garrett
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Lee Garrett * Package name: mvdsv Version : 0.31 Upstream Author : Alexandre Nizoux * URL : https://github.com/deurk/mvdsv * License : GPLv2 Programming Lang: C Description : a modern QuakeWorld server mvdsv (Mu

Re: Bug#862954: ITP: mvdsv -- a modern QuakeWorld server

2017-05-19 Thread Simon McVittie
On Fri, 19 May 2017 at 11:50:51 +0200, Lee Garrett wrote: > I will be maintaining it alone. [...] > I'm open to co-maintaining this package if any individual or team is > interested. > I will need a sponsor for this package. Please consider joining the Games Team. We have Quake enthusiasts who ca

Re: Moving away from (unsupportable) FusionForge on Alioth?

2017-05-19 Thread Guido Günther
On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 10:19:24PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 02:43:56PM +0200, Johannes Schauer wrote: > > > > The top 10 teams with packages in SVN are: > > > > 347 Debian Med Packaging Team > > > > This number contains possibly 150 packages that *coul

Re: Moving away from (unsupportable) FusionForge on Alioth?

2017-05-19 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Guido, On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 01:35:58PM +0200, Guido Günther wrote: > > Keeping only debian/ in git is supported by gbp as well (see > --git-overlay). Thanks for the hint - I've seen this and I'm aware of it. > AFAIK It's not that commonly used so there might be bugs > lurking and features

Re: When do we update the homepage to a modern design? (was Re: Moving away from (unsupportable) FusionForge on Alioth)

2017-05-19 Thread Zlatan Todoric
On 05/18/2017 12:32 PM, Sean Whitton wrote: > Hello Zlatan, > [...] > > The community consensus seems to be that we want to promote ourselves, > but we care more about providing quality information than do the people > who designed sites like lxde.org (sorry to keep using that example). > This co

LXDE web page bashing thread Re: When do we update the homepage to a modern design? (was Re: Moving away from (unsupportable) FusionForge on Alioth)

2017-05-19 Thread Martin Bagge / brother
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2017-05-19 15:00, Zlatan Todoric wrote: > Well Debian on its page doesn't mention it is Linux based > or has Linux kernel or at all word Linux. We have Linux, HURD and the FreeBSD kernel, though. I suspect the thought was Debian

Re: Moving away from (unsupportable) FusionForge on Alioth?

2017-05-19 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 01:40:03PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > In last GSoC the student was not comfortable with SVN. I have converted > lots of packages at request of the student. So I'm perfectly following > your reasoning if (and only if) there are potential packaging > contributors at horiz

Re: When do we update the homepage to a modern design? (was Re: Moving away from (unsupportable) FusionForge on Alioth)

2017-05-19 Thread Hans
Hi there, please remember: it is not the design, that makes a website interesting, but the content! So maybe we should first discuss, and maybe confirm, what might people interest on the debian site. I suggest just to collect ideas, and make a ranking (i.e. freedom was named 1563 times, low

Re: Packaging of libraries with unstable ABI (D, Rust, Go, ...)

2017-05-19 Thread Matthias Klumpp
2017-05-18 19:52 GMT+02:00 Sean Whitton : > Hello Matthias, > > On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 04:37:58PM +0200, Matthias Klumpp wrote: >> Looking at what other languages with the same problem have done, there >> are basically two ways to deal with the issue: >> >> 1) Rebuild every reverse-dependency of

Re: Packaging of libraries with unstable ABI (D, Rust, Go, ...)

2017-05-19 Thread Matthias Klumpp
2017-05-19 2:35 GMT+02:00 Paul Wise : > On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 10:37 PM, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > >> Unfortunately though, the D language ABI isn't stable, so any future >> compiler update might break the software in weird ways unless all D >> software is recompiled when a new compiler is released

Re: When do we update the homepage to a modern design? (was Re: Moving away from (unsupportable) FusionForge on Alioth)

2017-05-19 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
[loads of bikeshedding and grandstanding] So this thread is a shitshow. Has anyone thought about taking the website (or really, anything we put out), going and talking with **our users** and see what they have to say? What they think of the site? Record them finding and creating an install medi

Re: LXDE web page bashing thread Re: When do we update the homepage to a modern design? (was Re: Moving away from (unsupportable) FusionForge on Alioth)

2017-05-19 Thread Medical Wei
The website is on GitHub so anyone can suggest things by throwing me issues or PRs at https://github.com/lxde/lxde.org The hamburger menu requiring JavaScript is something that I don't have good alternative with right now. Also, welcome back, Martin :) Yao Wei On Fri, 19 May 2017 at 21:18 Martin