New hardware support: calling for testing. Please review and translate

2011-09-17 Thread David Prévot
Hi, A call for testing the upcoming new Squeeze kernel should be issued Monday, reviews and translations are welcome. The news is available on the publicity Subversion repository, even via HTTP (please prefer the on line version version over the attached file that may soon be outdated): http://an

Re: new hardware support: calling for testing

2011-09-17 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2011-09-17 at 22:12 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sb, 17 sep 11, 17:01:15, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Sat, 2011-09-17 at 15:00 +0200, Francesca Ciceri wrote: > > [...] > > > The Debian project invites interested users to pre-release test these > > > packages, especially on systems that

Re: new hardware support: calling for testing

2011-09-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sb, 17 sep 11, 17:01:15, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sat, 2011-09-17 at 15:00 +0200, Francesca Ciceri wrote: > [...] > > The Debian project invites interested users to pre-release test these > > packages, especially on systems that use the updated drivers, possibly > > within September 24th: so th

Re: new hardware support: calling for testing

2011-09-17 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2011-09-17 at 15:00 +0200, Francesca Ciceri wrote: [...] > The Debian project invites interested users to pre-release test these > packages, especially on systems that use the updated drivers, possibly > within September 24th: so that if there will not be regressions, the new > drivers will

Re: new hardware support: calling for testing

2011-09-17 Thread Francesca Ciceri
Hi all, On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 01:16:50AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: [...] Ben, thank you for the draft! Below my proposal (only few lines integrating Ben's draft): [@publicity team: I've added it also to svn repo, feel free to improve it!] == Upcoming point releases and call for tests ==

Re: new hardware support: calling for testing

2011-09-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2011-09-14 at 16:57 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 03:22:35PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > There is a new package with the driver updates available in > > stable-proposed-updates (version 2.6.32-36). The point release is now > > scheduled for 8th October and

Re: new hardware support: calling for testing

2011-09-14 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 03:22:35PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > There is a new package with the driver updates available in > stable-proposed-updates (version 2.6.32-36). The point release is now > scheduled for 8th October and the kernel source package must be > finalised about 2 weeks before th

Re: new hardware support: calling for testing

2011-09-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 11:24 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 10:52:32AM +0200, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: > > Hmmm... We already had that in the last issue of the DPN: > > http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2011/09/#hwsupport and I think we > > also dented about it.

Re: new hardware support: calling for testing

2011-06-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 10:52:32AM +0200, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: > Hi! > > Am 16.06.2011 08:49, schrieb Stefano Zacchiroli: > > > If someone could draft a -news text out of [1], the -publicity team > > could then push it forward. For -publicity, that announcement could also > > be an oc

Re: new hardware support: calling for testing

2011-06-16 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Hi! Am 16.06.2011 08:49, schrieb Stefano Zacchiroli: > If someone could draft a -news text out of [1], the -publicity team > could then push it forward. For -publicity, that announcement could also > be an occasion to let our users know the way new hw is supported in > Debian, for those who have

new hardware support: calling for testing

2011-06-15 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
In http://raphaelhertzog.com/2011/06/10/people-behind-debian-philipp-kern/, Philipp wrote: > This kind of flag point release is thankfully no longer needed because > our marvellous kernel team now backports certain hardware drivers to > the kernel version in stable. They have some trouble solicit