Re: Four days

2010-10-08 Thread Rustom Mody
As a noob-wannabe mentee I see one issue which has not been mentioned: There's no list whose level is between this mentors list and the debian user lists eg http://forums.debian.net/viewforum.php?f=10 For example here are a couple of my last questions there: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.ph

Re: Trying to package Meganizer

2010-10-08 Thread Paul Gevers
[Not sure if you are on the list, CC'ing just in case you aren't.] On 10/08/10 19:40, Joachim Langenbach wrote: > We use Amazon API to get media information, therefore I compile my amazon > keys > into the binary. So to keep that working is the question, does debian > recompile the packages au

Re: Rescue Plan for apt-listbugs

2010-10-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 4:58 AM, Francesco Poli wrote: > However, I still need confirmation that the git work-flow I am planning > to follow won't mess everything up. > Could someone please review it (see )? A few minor issues, but it looks good. > $ git clone g

Re: Four days

2010-10-08 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 11:11:49AM -0400, Asheesh Laroia wrote: On Tue, 5 Oct 2010, Matthew Palmer wrote: To clarify: the intended point of this proposal is to solve the perceived problem that DDs don't sponsor packages because they're concerned that

Re: Four days

2010-10-08 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 06:41:18AM +1100, Matthew Palmer a écrit : On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 11:11:49AM -0400, Asheesh Laroia wrote: in the first place. Matthew -- sounds like you've identified a commonly-asked question that has an answer. Would you (o

Re: Trying to package Meganizer

2010-10-08 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Fri, 8 Oct 2010, Joachim Langenbach wrote: Good evening, I'm trying to package Meganizer (a software from us) for Debian. Since my goal is the upload into the debian archives, I want to produce a good package. But first, what is Meganizer: Meganizer is an application based on Qt to manag

Re: Rescue Plan for apt-listbugs

2010-10-08 Thread Francesco Poli
On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 23:29:28 +0200 Francesco Poli wrote: [...] > Now I am short of ideas on how to proceed: I would like to take over > the maintenance of apt-listbugs (possibly with help from someone else, > see below) and get direct push access to its public git repository on > alioth. > As I sai

Re: RFS: packagekit (ping2)

2010-10-08 Thread Julien Viard de Galbert
On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 08:09:23PM +0200, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "packagekit". > This package has been reviewed by Paul Wise and Asheesh Laroia already and > should be completely free of any policy violations or other problems > regardi

RFS: packagekit (ping2)

2010-10-08 Thread Matthias Klumpp
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "packagekit". This package has been reviewed by Paul Wise and Asheesh Laroia already and should be completely free of any policy violations or other problems regarding packaging. I work closely with upstream and hope to find someone intereste

RFS: nanoblogger-extra (updated package)

2010-10-08 Thread William Vera
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 3.4.2-2 of my package "nanoblogger-extra". It builds these binary packages: nanoblogger-extra - Nanoblogger plugins The package appears to be lintian clean. The upload would fix these bugs: 599292 The package can be found on mentors.

RFS: nanoblogger (updated package)

2010-10-08 Thread William Vera
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 3.4.2-3 of my package "nanoblogger". It builds these binary packages: nanoblogger - Small weblog engine for the command line The package appears to be lintian clean. The upload would fix these bugs: 599288 The package can be found on

Trying to package Meganizer

2010-10-08 Thread Joachim Langenbach
Good evening, I'm trying to package Meganizer (a software from us) for Debian. Since my goal is the upload into the debian archives, I want to produce a good package. But first, what is Meganizer: Meganizer is an application based on Qt to manage media collections (right now books and music).

"Debexpo" and how you can help

2010-10-08 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Hey all! In the next month, we're all going to get Debexpo running as an alternative to mentors.debian.net. I'm going to revive this project, and I need some help. (I'm cross-posting; I've set the Reply-To header so that replies go the debexpo devel list.) We're going to get it on the web, i

Re: Monitoring the "four days" promise

2010-10-08 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, Kartik Mistry wrote: On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Asheesh Laroia wrote: Niels wrote up a script that checks the debian-mentors archives for unanswered messages. I set up a nightly job that runs it on the October mailbox. Nice work - Asheesh and Niels! Can this be in