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The Fungi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 09:19:12PM +, Neil Williams wrote:
> [...]
> > What kind of popcon score? i.e. does anyone else think it is a useful
> > addition?
>
> I would consider its popularity low (187 popcon installs wit
On 10/29/07, Thomas Goirand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ondrej Certik wrote:
> >> Perhaps even for PPA-like services.
> >> I'm thinking a similar way (using a Python web framework - although a
> >> different one).
> >
> > Yeah, unforutunately there are several good python frameworks. But I
> > don
Ondrej Certik wrote:
>> Perhaps even for PPA-like services.
>> I'm thinking a similar way (using a Python web framework - although a
>> different one).
>
> Yeah, unforutunately there are several good python frameworks. But I
> don't mind any framework, as long as its going to work.
Do you know ab
On 10/29/07, The Fungi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I would consider its popularity low (187 popcon installs with 46
> votes).
I consider such fringe packages to be the main benefit of using
Debian. That is; it is the diversity (or universality) of Debian that
is attractive and useful.
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Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Is dtc considered an (almost) perfect (simple) package from your point
> of view?
No. It's far from perfect, and all but simple. And also, I consider it
VERY outdated in the archive, I wish my corrections were uploaded.
Anyway, why are you talking about it? It's completely
Hi
On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 00:56:50 -0400
"Carlos Alberto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "libpam-blue".
>
> * Package name: libpam-blue
> Version : 0.9.0-1
> Upstream Author : Carlos Alberto Silombria Ibarra
> * URL : http://pam.0x
> * Package name: ustr
> Version : 1.0.1-1
> Upstream Author : James Antill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> * URL : http://www.and.org/ustr/
> * License : LGPL, BSD, MIT
> Section : libs
>
> It builds these binary packages:
> libustr-1.0-1 - Micro string library:
On 10/26/07, Christoph Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We have been running mentors.debian.net for years already
Some thoughts:
Aside from the metrics idea I put on the wiki page, I think it is
fairly important to merge REVU, mentors.d.o and sponsors.d.o into one
site.
The metrics idea would
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 09:19:12PM +, Neil Williams wrote:
[...]
> What kind of popcon score? i.e. does anyone else think it is a useful
> addition?
I would consider its popularity low (187 popcon installs with 46
votes). Admittedly, Russ sponsored it because he said thought he was
likely to f
On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 05:19:38PM +0200, Christoph Haas wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 04:51:01PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> > On 26/10/07 at 16:06 +0200, Christoph Haas wrote:
(...)
> > What Ondrej proposes is to turn mentors into a package archive, where
> > packages would be built automat
On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:26:01 +
Jeremy Stanley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 06:04:36PM +, Neil Williams wrote:
> [...]
> > I certainly think that sponsoring is a step towards joining Debian.
> [...]
>
> Perhaps not entirely true
It is true for those maintainers tha
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 06:04:36PM +, Neil Williams wrote:
[...]
> I certainly think that sponsoring is a step towards joining Debian.
[...]
Perhaps not entirely true, though I will accept that I may not be a
typical non-DD maintainer. I have one (very simple) app sponsored
into main for which
Raphael,
thanks for your thoughts.
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 01:33:20PM -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote:
> In my very personal opinion I think m.d.n is fine as it is now.
It itches in my fingers to add a few fancy features. :) And I've seen
what Python web frameworks can do so I'd be willing to do m
Hi all,
In my very personal opinion I think m.d.n is fine as it is now.
About more (building, piuparts, linda/lintian on binaries, etc) QA checks:
I think the maintainer should make all of these checks before even
uploading the package to m.d.n
"but it is complicated to setup foo/bar/etc": if som
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 04:45:03PM +0100, Ondrej Certik wrote:
> BTW, I just found:
>
> http://www.bononia.it/~zack/blog/posts/2007/07/python_debfile.html
>
> There could be some interesting code to use.
Cool, thanks for the link. It looks very powerful and hardly documented.
I love text adventu
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On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:54:20 -0400
Jim Sansing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As a longtime software developer (but fairly recent Debian user), my
> experience that is when it works for me, that is just the first step on
> a long
> road. So I am sure that the job of mentors is much more complicated
>> times, but when I found some of the people here so nice and helpful, I
>> could learn so much. The learning curve is quite long, and I still have
>> so many things to learn.
>>
>> That vote system goes totally on the opposite direction, and
>> blacklisting or discouraging people that are trying
> > So at least I expect to come up with a Python module
> > that helps dealing with Debian source packages and repositories. I hoped
> > that python-apt would help but last time I looked it was only there to
> > deal with the APT cache. I spent a lot of time parsing control files
> > correctly and
> > > I'm scared by the thought that there will be a dozen PPAs that end-users
> > > will use to get their software from third-party sources. IMHO good
> > > packages should go officially into Debian. And bad packages should go to
> > > hell. Sponsorship might be a problem sometimes which may be so
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 11:19:14AM +0100, Ondrej Certik wrote:
> > times, but when I found some of the people here so nice and helpful, I
> > could learn so much. The learning curve is quite long, and I still have
> > so many things to learn.
> >
> > That vote system goes totally on the opposite di
Thomas Goirand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (28/10/2007):
> This list is GREAT because people are giving advice even for the most
> stupid questions. I think that everybody has the rights to learn, I
> really hate that kind of behaviour I could see with some on IRC putting
> disgrace on learners (maybe just
> times, but when I found some of the people here so nice and helpful, I
> could learn so much. The learning curve is quite long, and I still have
> so many things to learn.
>
> That vote system goes totally on the opposite direction, and
> blacklisting or discouraging people that are trying to lea
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