Bug#461883: ITP: venus -- aggregate feed generator

2008-01-21 Thread Noah Slater
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Noah Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: venus Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Sam Ruby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.intertwingly.net/code/venus/ * License : PSF Programming Lang: Python

Re: Bug#461883: ITP: venus -- aggregate feed generator

2008-01-21 Thread Noah Slater
agree with your point and was intending to edit and expand the description for the actual package. Appologies if you feel I should have done this for the ITP. -- Noah Slater <http://bytesexual.org/> "Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to

Bug#461915: ITP: lockrun -- cron job overrun protection utility

2008-01-21 Thread Noah Slater
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Noah Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: lockrun Version : 20080121 Upstream Author : Stephen J. Friedl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.unixwiz.net/tools/lockrun.html * License : Public Domain

Bug#463806: ITP: pgtop -- display PostgreSQL performance information like top

2008-02-03 Thread Noah Slater
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Noah Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: pgtop Version : 0.04 Upstream Author : Jeremy D. Zawodny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~cosimo/pgtop-0.04/pgtop * License : GPL Programmin

Re: Bug#463806: ITP: pgtop -- display PostgreSQL performance information like top

2008-02-03 Thread Noah Slater
On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 04:52:03PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > I'd suggest to phrase this "PostgreSQL performance monitoring tool" or > any other way to avoid a verb sentence... Sure thing, sounds sensible. How about: PostgreSQL performance monitoring tool akin to

Bug#466368: ITP: cwm -- general-purpose data processor for the semantic web

2008-02-18 Thread Noah Slater
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Noah Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: cwm Version : 1.2.0a2 Upstream Author : Yosi Scharf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.w3.org/2000/10/swap/doc/cwm * License : W3C Programming

Bug#466728: ITP: python-trio -- RDF utilities

2008-02-20 Thread Noah Slater
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Noah Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-trio Version : 20080204 Upstream Author : Sean B. Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://inamidst.com/sw/trio/ * License : Eiffel Forum License 2

Re: Bug#466728: ITP: python-trio -- RDF utilities

2008-02-21 Thread Noah Slater
arser/serializer Only one of these packages is expanding the acronym RDF. I really don't see the use case here. -- Noah Slater <http://bytesexual.org/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#466728: ITP: python-trio -- RDF utilities

2008-02-21 Thread Noah Slater
am for suggestions for extended description. -- Noah Slater <http://bytesexual.org/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What about use xml for descriptions of packages?

2008-05-25 Thread Noah Slater
n't? * Do those benefits outweigh all the negative issues. * Could something more light weight be chosen instead? Best, -- Noah Slater - Bytesexual <http://bytesexual.org/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#495940: ITP: feedvalidator -- advanced feed validator

2008-08-21 Thread Noah Slater
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Noah Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: feedvalidator Version : 0 Upstream Author : Sam Ruby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://feedvalidator.org/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python

Packaging team best practice

2008-08-26 Thread Noah Slater
ng I could find to a set of packaging team guidelines is: http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Guidelines Nothing is mentioned in relation to this issue. Thoughts? Feedback? Am I missing some existing documentation? Many thanks, -- Noah Slater, http://bytesexual.org/nslater -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Packaging team best practice

2008-08-26 Thread Noah Slater
I was more hoping for feedback on the reasons for the subtly different ways of using the Maintainer/Uploaders fields within the context of a packaging team with a view to codifying some best practices. On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 03:40:53PM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote: > On Di, 26 Aug 2008, Noah S

Re: Packaging team best practice

2008-08-26 Thread Noah Slater
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 03:32:25PM +0100, Noah Slater wrote: > From some of the private conversations I have had I am aware that some people > do not feel it is appropriate to list a team's email address in the Uploaders > field under any circumstances and others probably feel the

Anyone looked at Chromium for Debian yet?

2008-09-03 Thread Noah Slater
was slow. >From what I gather, a GNU/Linux build might be possible, with a bit of >massaging here and there... though I obviously haven't done much research into this yet. I notice that as of yesterday evening, no one had filed an ITP. Best, -- Noah Slater, http://bytesexual.

Re: Anyone looked at Chromium for Debian yet?

2008-09-03 Thread Noah Slater
> little bit in the source of __tt_main_proc.c, which made a native call > to Windows' systray. Ah yes, I was sure I had seen something about it working... I concur that we have bigger things to be worrying about right now, was just interested in a quick canvas of opinions, thoughts

Re: Bug#502959: general: raff.debian.org uses non-free software

2008-10-22 Thread Noah Slater
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 07:23:35PM -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: > As a mere user I very glad that Debian stands where it does on the > spectrum of caring about users vs caring about freedom. It is one of > the major reasons I am a user of Debian. Seconded. -- Noah Slater, http://bytes

Re: screenshots.debian.net goes beta

2008-11-10 Thread Noah Slater
eenshot that is > larger than that. Why impose such a barrier to entry for contributers? I think resizing images is a fantastic thing to provide. I do think the page lengths, or result count per page, could be increased. -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: screenshots.debian.net goes beta

2008-11-11 Thread Noah Slater
. 110x80 would be a nice size for the thumbnails. -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: screenshots.debian.net goes beta

2008-11-11 Thread Noah Slater
nable. > > So it can be that your disagreement is not that relevant :) Not at all, I was assuming that no matter what size the uploaded image is, it would be scaled down to fit inside a bounding box and placed in the centre of a white canvas. So the question remains, how large to make th

Re: SmellyWerewolf.com perfume & make-up discount

2008-11-23 Thread Noah Slater
ising. Do you consider all perfume companies to be sexist? Even the perfume companies for women? Or is it the word "chick" that has upset people? If so, why? Is this any different from "dude"? Thanks, -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: SmellyWerewolf.com perfume & make-up discount

2008-11-23 Thread Noah Slater
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 10:35:10PM +0100, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > 2008/11/23 Noah Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 01:57:28PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >> Since when have sexist remarks come under being "humour"? If you > &g

Re: SmellyWerewolf.com perfume & make-up discount

2008-11-23 Thread Noah Slater
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 03:17:09PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > hen you are a retrograde, beetle browed moron. Ah, the discussion has descended into name calling! Superb! -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: SmellyWerewolf.com perfume & make-up discount

2008-11-24 Thread Noah Slater
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 09:01:32AM +0100, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: > * Noah Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-11-23 22:07]: > > Please quote from the original email explaining to me how it is sexist. > > Well, I found the parody very offensive to men, in general. Heh, heh.

Bug#507447: ITP: python-simplecouchdb -- simple library for working with Apache CouchDB

2008-12-01 Thread Noah Slater
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Noah Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-simplecouchdb Version : 0.9.1 Upstream Author : Benoit Chesneau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.example.org/ * License : Apache 2.0 Programming

Re: volunteers wanted for driving/finalizing a DEP on debian/copyright format

2008-12-03 Thread Noah Slater
its ratification. I am guessing some of the other main contributers would like to be involved too. To get this started we need a mailing list and a repository, then we can place a notice on the wiki directing people to the mailing list and make the wiki page immutable so that there is no confusion.

Re: volunteers wanted for driving/finalizing a DEP on debian/copyright format

2008-12-03 Thread Noah Slater
On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 01:05:56PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 11:49:25AM +0000, Noah Slater wrote: > > To get this started we need a mailing list and a repository, then we > > can place a notice on the wiki directing people to the mailing list > &

Re: volunteers wanted for driving/finalizing a DEP on debian/copyright format

2008-12-03 Thread Noah Slater
til the heat death of the Universe and in fact we have already witnessed the same things come up time and time again. Moving this to a more formal channel and spending a bit of time getting some consensus before wrapping it up is absolutely the right move. -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater

Re: volunteers wanted for driving/finalizing a DEP on debian/copyright format

2008-12-03 Thread Noah Slater
On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 01:50:22PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 12:26:03PM +0000, Noah Slater wrote: > > How should we go about collecting to the contributers? Should I post > > a note to the wiki (alerting the subscribers) about this, and if so, >

Re: volunteers wanted for driving/finalizing a DEP on debian/copyright format

2008-12-03 Thread Noah Slater
On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 10:52:39AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 11:49:25AM +0000, Noah Slater wrote: > > As one of the primary contributers to the copyright proposal I would > > obviously > > like to be involved in its ratification. I am guess

Re: volunteers wanted for driving/finalizing a DEP on debian/copyright format

2008-12-03 Thread Noah Slater
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 09:50:15AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Rendez-vous after Lenny release on -devel :) Heh heh. Sure thing, Charles. -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Re: problems with the concept of unstable -> testing

2008-12-15 Thread Noah Slater
ian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/07/msg7.html> that is > linked under the "Lenny frozen" title. Is there any need for such rude condescension? -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: problems with the concept of unstable -> testing

2008-12-16 Thread Noah Slater
The strength of a community rests in its ability to work together as a group. I wish we could all show a bit more respect for each other on the mailing lists. -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &

Re: problems with the concept of unstable -> testing

2008-12-16 Thread Noah Slater
er of. I am not going to comment on his behaviour, your comments may very well be justified. But I do think it would do the project some good if we all learnt to embrace each others commitment levels, attitudes and opinions -- without resorting to rudeness, unkindness, or personal attacks. -- Noah Sl

Re: problems with the concept of unstable -> testing

2008-12-16 Thread Noah Slater
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:17:13PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 09:27:55PM +0100, Bastian Venthur wrote: > > Actually, I don't know since I'm not long enough involved to know what > > happened "back then". > > It's called re

Re: problems with the concept of unstable -> testing

2008-12-16 Thread Noah Slater
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 09:57:15PM +, Neil Williams wrote: > On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:41:58 + > Noah Slater wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:17:13PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 09:27:55PM +0100, Bastian Venthur wrote: > > &g

Re: problems with the concept of unstable -> testing

2008-12-16 Thread Noah Slater
asive characters who contribute a lot of code, but who upset the community, waste time by drawing fire or starting flame wars, or scare away new contributers do not deserve to be excused for such behaviour. -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-re

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-18 Thread Noah Slater
ts people to continue to be shocked. You really have put words into his mouth, and I don't think that's right. Also a bit funny that you intend to solve "censorship" (not that I agree) with more censorship. -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater -- To UNSUBSC

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-19 Thread Noah Slater
language that doesn't properly provide for gender neutral constructions in the first place. -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: "Debian women may leave due to 'sexist' post"

2008-12-21 Thread Noah Slater
Troll. Troll. Troll. -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: "Debian women may leave due to 'sexist' post"

2008-12-21 Thread Noah Slater
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 05:59:30AM +, Sam Kuper wrote: > 2008/12/22 Noah Slater : > > Troll. Troll. Troll. > > I hope that's not referring to John's email. Are you kidding? On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 11:36:05PM -0500, John Wiggles wrote: > I am not a dev or wom

Re: "Debian women may leave due to 'sexist' post"

2008-12-28 Thread Noah Slater
re absurd as time has progressed. We're so far away from sensibly discussing DEBIAN here it's becoming unintentional self-parody. Please, can people just stop replying. -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: "Debian women may leave due to 'sexist' post"

2008-12-29 Thread Noah Slater
e, that would also suppress our > potential. Don't fool your self, this isn't knowledge. It's anecdotal superstition. -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: "Debian women may leave due to 'sexist' post"

2008-12-29 Thread Noah Slater
nfinitum. Wait, what? > It is well-pictured in the Babylon 5 series Tell me you didn't just cite a fictional universe... -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: percentage of popcon submitters

2009-01-15 Thread Noah Slater
a very wide range of people who contribute without looking carefully at it, you don't improve your knowledge of the situation by averaging. -- Richard P. Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater --

Modifying debian/changelog entries

2009-01-19 Thread Noah Slater
to occasionally modify old changelog entries for clarity and style, typos and such like, as long as you don't change the semantics? Thanks, -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "u

Re: Modifying debian/changelog entries

2009-01-19 Thread Noah Slater
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 01:06:53PM +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > On Mon, January 19, 2009 13:00, Noah Slater wrote: > > I have two separate, but related, questions not covered by policy: > > > > * If you are the only person mentioned in a changelog and you change your >

Re: Modifying debian/changelog entries

2009-01-19 Thread Noah Slater
gt; recorded at the time. That it changed later should not alter the > existing factual record on earlier entries. No? Well, I guess it depends what your personal æsthetic is. I like per-file consistency over (arguably unimportant) historical correctness. -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/n

Re: Modifying debian/changelog entries

2009-01-20 Thread Noah Slater
into play when I'm being creative. I consider development to be a creative activity. -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Test suites after build and Build-Depends.

2009-01-23 Thread Noah Slater
What about providing a test target in debian/rules and hooking into this automatically with pdebuild. You should be able to run tests from within the chroot without having to modify your debian/control file. -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel

Re: Test suites after build and Build-Depends.

2009-01-23 Thread Noah Slater
le. > > One of the interests of those test suits is to be executed automatically > by buildd (on arch that you cannot easily test). Aha, thanks for the clarification. -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org wit

Re: Misc developer news (#13)

2009-01-26 Thread Noah Slater
a bug. I'm surprised you sent that mail instead of filing a bug. In defence of the OP, it hardly looks like a Debian-fixable problem. -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#458095: ITP: phenny -- extensible IRC bot written in Python

2007-12-28 Thread Noah Slater
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Noah Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: phenny Version : 2007-12-20 Upstream Author : Sean B. Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://inamidst.com/phenny/ * License : TBD Programming

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

2009-02-22 Thread Noah Slater
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 05:18:39PM -0800, Asheesh Laroia wrote: > I think that the description explains that the purpose is to find hidden > directories on web servers, presumably either your own or other people's. Why would you need to find directories on your own server? -- Noah S

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

2009-02-23 Thread Noah Slater
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 01:06:38PM +0100, Bjørn Mork wrote: > Noah Slater writes: > > On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 05:18:39PM -0800, Asheesh Laroia wrote: > >> I think that the description explains that the purpose is to find hidden > >> directories on web servers, presumab

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

2009-02-24 Thread Noah Slater
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 09:17:35PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > > (As Noah Slater pointed out, it's hard to lose a directory on your > > own machine...) > > you can loose access to your machine... At which point you may as well call it someone else's mac

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-20 Thread Noah Slater
addition to > webkit is licensed under BSD or LGPL because upstream does enforce that > (except, obviously, embedded libraries, but we already have to check if > any is added to avoid duplication and build against the system one > whenever possible) You might not care, but the package user

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-20 Thread Noah Slater
u upload is DFSG free, which means checking every single file. As you have to do this anyway, it makes sense to record that information in debian/copyright. If you maintain a very large package, then you should *expect* this to take a long time. If that's too much effort for your, get

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-20 Thread Noah Slater
opyright statement is a form of attribution, and is good manners. I also see that the copyright file is primarily useful to end users who may want a convenient way of browsing the copyright and licence information. Best, -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-20 Thread Noah Slater
ease the ask. If we cannot do this simple thing, maybe we shouldn't be distributing software. -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-20 Thread Noah Slater
ackage is large, does not seem to fit well with this goal. Hence my suggestion that if a package you are maintaining seems like too much work, perhaps it would make sense to collaboratively maintain it. Best, -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-20 Thread Noah Slater
e files for copyright holders. You selectively chose one thing I had written, please don't do that. Best, -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-20 Thread Noah Slater
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 03:14:36PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le vendredi 20 mars 2009 à 14:02 +0000, Noah Slater a écrit : > > If we were suggesting some totally arbitrary and time consuming task, then I > > could understand your concerns. However, you should be checking each

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-20 Thread Noah Slater
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 03:35:22PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Noah Slater wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 02:41:31PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > > > > It behoves us as distributors to check, no matter how hard it is. > > > > > >

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-20 Thread Noah Slater
of policy that people don't wish to follow. All I am doing is suggesting that either we throw out this argument, or fix the policy. -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-20 Thread Noah Slater
oal was to draw the focus away from the copyright proposal, which is only codifying existing policy. Best, -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-20 Thread Noah Slater
is stopping you from using the existing format to say something along the lines of: Files: * Copyright: Copyright 2008, Damien Katz Copyright 2008, Jan Lehnardt Copyright 2008, Christopher Lenz Copyright 2008, Noah Slater License: Apache-2.0 On Debian systems the full text of the Ap

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-20 Thread Noah Slater
th your current work, there should be no reason why you can't express what you are already doing with the new copyright proposal. Best, -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&q

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-20 Thread Noah Slater
artened by what seemed to be a conflation of separate issues. I see the copyright proposal as a format, not policy, document. If people want to formalise the granularity of our copyright information, then so be it, but let's do that as a separate effort. Best, -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-20 Thread Noah Slater
because I had not checked. When I found this, I sent the issue upstream: http://tinyurl.com/ctargs And I was fortunate that they did a massive overhaul and a re-release. Best, -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-21 Thread Noah Slater
why not be explicit about what is required of a developer for this? Best, -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-21 Thread Noah Slater
andate a machine readable format, in a similar vein as debian/control, for whatever information you might have already been using. This has clear advantages for being able to post-process, check, search, and navigate copyright information using whatever tools the community decides would be profitabl

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-21 Thread Noah Slater
holder in > > debian/copyright, as seen in the source files and AUTHORS list or > > equivalent (if any). > > Why do you think this work is needed? You must have had some > rationale, since you made up this policy. Again, to document that they have, in fact, done w

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-21 Thread Noah Slater
erves as documentation that the package has been thoroughly checked for licensing issues. Because such a check must involve looking at the headers of each file, and any AUTHORS or similar file, there appears to be no reason why this should not be written down. It also provides a nice su

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-21 Thread Noah Slater
y for each package to be thoroughly checked for licensing issues. As this necessarily involves looking at each file, I don't see why it should be considered that much extra effort documenting the process. Ensuring DFSG compatibility is hardly administrative fluff. -- Noah Slater, http

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-21 Thread Noah Slater
nt. The legal details of copyright assignment are not important here. If the package lists the copyright as belonging to the FSF, then it belongs to the FSF. If it does not, then it does not. This is coming from a GNU maintainer who has been through the process. -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/ns

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-21 Thread Noah Slater
n't think that possible DFSG problems are RC bugs? :/ -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-21 Thread Noah Slater
#x27;t mean to be excessively blunt, but I'm afraid that this simply > isn't legally true. For our purposes it is more than sufficient. If a package lists a person as the copyright holder, we should accept it. -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-21 Thread Noah Slater
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 04:31:58AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le dimanche 22 mars 2009 à 02:58 +0000, Noah Slater a écrit : > > Again, while the documentation of individual licenses may not be policy, it > > is > > certainly policy for each package to be thoroughly

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-22 Thread Noah Slater
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 08:13:54PM +1300, Andrew McMillan wrote: > On Sun, 2009-03-22 at 03:34 +0000, Noah Slater wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 08:07:23PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > > NEW rejections are even stronger than an RC bug. Apart from questions of > >

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-22 Thread Noah Slater
cks in debian/copyright could (not would) go a long way towards preventing DFSG problems in future uploads. Preventative measures seem a lot better than reactionary ones in this regard. Best, -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-22 Thread Noah Slater
t your points, and I apologise for my sloppy wording. Firmly in my mind is the cost/benefit of this extra effort. If we succeed in integrating debian/copyright checks into lintian, or dpkg and it's front-ends, it seems reasonable to imagine that this effort would be a good trade-off. -- N

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-22 Thread Noah Slater
that it must be a requirement. There is no reason why you couldn't adopt this approach with the proposal. -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-22 Thread Noah Slater
ily copyright holders) in a machine readable format would allow lintian checks to be developed, and maybe even automatic license compatibility checks to be performed. -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subjec

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-22 Thread Noah Slater
ed sane by those maintainers who would most benefit > from tools to support updates of debian/copyright or abandon the entire > proposal as a good idea gone bad. > > Maybe someone else can look at it after Squeeze and raise version 2.0 > from the ashes. It seems we are in violent agreem

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-22 Thread Noah Slater
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 03:47:39PM +0100, Romain Beauxis wrote: > Le Sunday 22 March 2009 14:45:18 Noah Slater, vous avez écrit : > > > Could you provide a use case or two to help clarify things? The main > > > one I see is for an end user to look at a packages copyright file

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-22 Thread Noah Slater
tself, not a > solution. I hardly see that me making a typo constitutes a failure of the format. -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-22 Thread Noah Slater
could improve the quality/utility of Debian as a whole, right? -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-22 Thread Noah Slater
ou suggest. Only then would we put it forward for proper consideration. -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-22 Thread Noah Slater
t; just installing the NOTICE file is more obviously safe. CouchDB should be doing a 0.9 this week, so I'll take a look. Thanks. -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-22 Thread Noah Slater
about the additional work of noting each license down. * I have made it perfectly clear that noting copyright holders was not something I was talking about. Please do not mangle my position like this. -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-22 Thread Noah Slater
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 12:29:37PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Noah Slater writes: > > > Having said that, I am thinking that fully documenting the license of > > each file provides a handy way to ensure that developers are thoroughly > > checking the package for licensi

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-22 Thread Noah Slater
things in NEW review. And once this is complete, the proposed copyright format would sit on top of that nicely, assuming it is accepted by the community. I want to keep all policy decisions away from the format proposal. -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-22 Thread Noah Slater
there's any utility in duplicating the INN CONTRIBUTORS file in > debian/copyright. +1 -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-22 Thread Noah Slater
e file, without having to worry about inventing your own consistent formatting style. Maybe that's just my mild OCD speaking though. Heh. -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-22 Thread Noah Slater
by > many persons that don't want to spend an afternoon on this topic. Am I the cat's mother? I'm not sure which is more rude, replying to emails faster than other people or criticising someone's behaviour in a public forum. If you think I reply to emails too fast, please do so in

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-22 Thread Noah Slater
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 09:08:54PM +, Noah Slater wrote: > Am I the cat's mother? I'm not sure which is more rude, replying to emails > faster than other people or criticising someone's behaviour in a public forum. > If you think I reply to emails too fast, please

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-24 Thread Noah Slater
The format proposal follows debian/control, and is quite simple in structure. -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-24 Thread Noah Slater
starting DEP 5 to gather feedback. > Nice sound bite. But a spec or a standard's big value comes if > it is fixed to be widely accepted, even if it means that some parts of > the standard are "optional". I hope that you will contribute your opinion when DEP 5 ha

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-24 Thread Noah Slater
Whoever is drafting the draft ought to be paying attention to > the feedback being generated now, and create a better draft to start > with. Of course we are. :) -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

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