Re: RFS: pgfouine (updated package)

2010-10-03 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Oct 03, 2010 at 10:59:51PM -0500, Luis Uribe wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.2-2 > of my package "pgfouine". Are you looking for a single sponsorship, or an on-going sponsoring relationship? Are you currently, or are you planning on becoming, a DM or DD? - Matt

RFS: pgfouine (updated package)

2010-10-03 Thread Luis Uribe
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.2-2 of my package "pgfouine". It builds these binary packages: pgfouine - PostgreSQL log analyzer The package appears to be lintian clean. The upload would fix these bugs: 580880 The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: -

Re: Four days

2010-10-03 Thread Ben Finney
Michael Gilbert writes: > As someone who has attempted to go through the mentoring process, I > agree very much that it is rather depressing. How much of that is actually a problem, though? How much is an integral part of gaining humility as to the state of the packaging work, and the pain of le

Re: RFS: nesc

2010-10-03 Thread Razvan Musaloiu-E.
On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Luca Bruno wrote: > Razvan Musaloiu-E. scrisse: > >> It builds these binary packages: >> nesc       - programming language for deeply networked systems > > Thanks for working on this. > I'll take care of it, a complete review will follow in a bunch of days. > >> Th

Re: Four days

2010-10-03 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Fri, 1 Oct 2010 19:00:36 -0400 (EDT) Asheesh Laroia wrote: > Hey everyone, > > Niels Thykier and I were talking on #debian-mentors. I was saying that I > find the debian-mentors list kind of lonely and impersonal -- it's mostly > RFSs, and so many emails don't even get an answer. > > How de

Re: Four days

2010-10-03 Thread Michael Tautschnig
[...] > > > > - Briefly looking at http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2010/09/ > > it seems that the number of emails not being responded to by anyone is not > > that high. Furthermore it seems there's a lot more to this list than just > > RFS. > > And I found only a single non-RFS ema

Re: RFS: dbmail (updated package)

2010-10-03 Thread Michael Tautschnig
Hi Paul, > Just a brief reminder that I havent heard back from anyone. > You might have noticed the thread started by Asheesh (with [1] being my reply). Your RFS email is prime example of those messages usually failing to pass my "filter". So what's wrong this RFS email: - The package name "dbm

Re: RFS: fritzing

2010-10-03 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
You should avoid getting it into the Ubuntu repositories directly -- there is a sync every cycle, if it's uploaded to Debian, it will be in Ubuntu in time for the next release, try focusing on getting this RFS through the Debian system -- no need to use REVU for this. 2010/10/3 Enrique Hernández B

RFS: roxterm (updated package)

2010-10-03 Thread Tony Houghton
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.18.5-3 of my package "roxterm". It builds these binary packages: roxterm- Multi-tabbed GTK/VTE terminal emulator The package appears to be lintian clean. The upload would fix these bugs: 598971 I think the bug is potentially se

Re: RFS: nesc

2010-10-03 Thread Luca Bruno
Razvan Musaloiu-E. scrisse: > It builds these binary packages: > nesc - programming language for deeply networked systems Thanks for working on this. I'll take care of it, a complete review will follow in a bunch of days. > The compiler has been stable for many years and a deb package was

Re: Four days

2010-10-03 Thread Raymond Wan
Hi Paul, Thank you for answering my queries so quickly; obviously, I didn't know many of the things you listed. On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 01:20, Paul Wise wrote: > On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 12:07 AM, Raymond Wan wrote: >> following the checklist, then maybe consider a temporary "black >> list"...i.e

RFS: fritzing

2010-10-03 Thread Enrique Hernández Bello
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "fritzing". * Package name: fritzing Version : 0.4.3b-1 Upstream Author : Fritzing Developers * URL : http://fritzing.org * License : GPLv3 & CC:BY-SA Section : electronics It builds these bina

Re: Four days

2010-10-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 12:07 AM, Raymond Wan wrote: > But about Paul's message, one thing that would be nice to have is a > checklist or a "decision tree" for people to submit proposed packages. >  I did look through the documentation on how to create a package and > it is complete...but as with

RFS: nesc

2010-10-03 Thread Razvan Musaloiu-E.
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "nesc". * Package name: nesc Version : 1.3.2-1 Upstream Author : David Gay * URL : http://nescc.sourceforge.net * License : GPL Section : devel It builds these binary packages: nesc - pro

Re: Four days

2010-10-03 Thread Raymond Wan
Hi all, I'm not involved in either mentoring nor creating...just lurking on the mailing list. :-) On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 00:21, Paul Wise wrote: > An expansion... > > I used to do regular reviews of every unanswered recent RFS. Mostly I > stopped doing those due to lack of time. After a while

Re: Four days

2010-10-03 Thread Paul Wise
An expansion... I used to do regular reviews of every unanswered recent RFS. Mostly I stopped doing those due to lack of time. After a while doing them got demotivating due to the amount of problems with most packages and the lack of response to issues, or if there was a response there were a few

Re: Four days

2010-10-03 Thread Paul Wise
It probably would help most if more DDs had time for and interest in sponsoring and mentoring new people. Maybe you and others could blog about your rewarding experiences in helping folks out on -mentors in order to encourage other DDs to help out. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Re: RFS: xburst-tools

2010-10-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Xiangfu Liu wrote: > I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Looks like Li uploaded it without replying to the list. The uploaded one has a different version number to the RFS, I hope it was better than the package I saw, which was not ready for

Re: Four days

2010-10-03 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2010-10-03 13:16, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > Hi all, > >> Hey everyone, >> >> Niels Thykier and I were talking on #debian-mentors. I was saying >> that I find the debian-mentors list kind of lonely and impersonal -- >> it's mostly RFSs, and so m

Re: RFS: gdisk (updated package)

2010-10-03 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, Guillaume Delacour writes: > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.6.11-1 of my package > "gdisk". The version in actual frozen testing is quite old (0.5.1), > and it would be great if the last version 0.6.11 could be available in > Squeeze. The release team no longer accepts new

Re: Four days

2010-10-03 Thread Michael Tautschnig
Hi all, > Hey everyone, > > Niels Thykier and I were talking on #debian-mentors. I was saying > that I find the debian-mentors list kind of lonely and impersonal -- > it's mostly RFSs, and so many emails don't even get an answer. > > How depressing! > While I can understand your feelings, I st

Re: RFS: dbmail (updated package)

2010-10-03 Thread Paul J Stevens
Hi all, Just a brief reminder that I havent heard back from anyone. This package has received sponsorship from various people in the past, who have indicated lack of interest in continued sponsorship, or have stopped replying to requests. Some of this may be because of the long intervals between

RFS: gdisk (updated package)

2010-10-03 Thread Guillaume Delacour
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.6.11-1 of my package "gdisk". The version in actual frozen testing is quite old (0.5.1), and it would be great if the last version 0.6.11 could be available in Squeeze. It builds these binary packages: gdisk - GPT fdisk text-mo