Looking for Advocate/Sponsor

2002-01-09 Thread Pete Ryland
Hello all, I am looking for an Advocate/Sponsor. I have been developing free software for some time and wish to increase my user base (and developer base too!) by releasing debian packages for my work (it would also give me a warm and furry feeling to be assisting with Debian). I have been able

Looking for Advocate/Sponsor

2002-01-09 Thread Pete Ryland
Hello all, I am looking for an Advocate/Sponsor. I have been developing free software for some time and wish to increase my user base (and developer base too!) by releasing debian packages for my work (it would also give me a warm and furry feeling to be assisting with Debian). I have been

Need an advocate/sponsor

2001-07-30 Thread OHASHI Akira
Hi, I'm looking for an Advocate and a Sponsor for my Debian NM application. I debianized Elserv. Elserv is an HTTP server which runs on Emacs. This is distributed under the GPL. Official web site is follows: http://www.gohome.org/elserv/ My debian pacakges is follow: http://www.koka-in.org/~bg6

Need an advocate/sponsor

2001-07-30 Thread OHASHI Akira
Hi, I'm looking for an Advocate and a Sponsor for my Debian NM application. I debianized Elserv. Elserv is an HTTP server which runs on Emacs. This is distributed under the GPL. Official web site is follows: http://www.gohome.org/elserv/ My debian pacakges is follow: http://www.koka-in.org/~bg

Need an Advocate/Sponsor

2001-07-24 Thread Baruch Even
Hello, I'm looking for an Advocate and a Sponsor for my Debian NM application. My qualifications include being a programmer with hands in the LyX project (http://www.lyx.org/), being the developer of xmms-volnorm (http://volnorm.sourceforge.net/) this is packaged by Adrian Bunk. I've recently di

Need an Advocate/Sponsor

2001-07-24 Thread Baruch Even
Hello, I'm looking for an Advocate and a Sponsor for my Debian NM application. My qualifications include being a programmer with hands in the LyX project (http://www.lyx.org/), being the developer of xmms-volnorm (http://volnorm.sourceforge.net/) this is packaged by Adrian Bunk. I've recently d

Re: Need an advocate/sponsor

2001-07-02 Thread Jimmy Kaplowitz
> I have begun work on a new version of arla (orphaned by [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > but I'm not done yet. I have gotten it to build, but I need to figure out > how it should create an source package for building kernel modules. > > I haven't filled an ITP yet, because I want to g

Re: Need an advocate/sponsor

2001-07-02 Thread Jimmy Kaplowitz
> I have begun work on a new version of arla (orphaned by [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > but I'm not done yet. I have gotten it to build, but I need to figure out > how it should create an source package for building kernel modules. > > I haven't filled an ITP yet, because I

Need an advocate/sponsor

2001-07-01 Thread Mikael Andersson
source package for building kernel modules. I haven't filled an ITP yet, because I want to get an advocate/sponsor first, so I feel that I'm on the right track. CU Mikael Andersson [EMAIL PROTECTED] PS Sorry for my bad(?) english, it's not my primary language, and it's late in sweden :-) DS

Need an advocate/sponsor

2001-07-01 Thread Mikael Andersson
source package for building kernel modules. I haven't filled an ITP yet, because I want to get an advocate/sponsor first, so I feel that I'm on the right track. CU Mikael Andersson [EMAIL PROTECTED] PS Sorry for my bad(?) english, it's not my primary language, and it

Re: GPG Key Signing (Was: Advocate/Sponsor)

2001-07-01 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 07:07:17PM +0200, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: > > > > manoj came up with a pretty good protocol to sign a key. i have it ~ > > available in HTML at > > > > http://people.debian.org/~jaqque/keysign.html > > Nice to see you called it 'Manoj's Singing-Protocol' ;) cr

Re: GPG Key Signing (Was: Advocate/Sponsor)

2001-07-01 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 10:27:54AM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 12:13:37PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > > we should also require them to demonstrate a clear understanding of > > PKI as part of the NM process. > > manoj came up with a pretty good protocol to s

Re: GPG Key Signing (Was: Advocate/Sponsor)

2001-07-01 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 07:07:17PM +0200, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: > > > > manoj came up with a pretty good protocol to sign a key. i have it ~ > > available in HTML at > > > > http://people.debian.org/~jaqque/keysign.html > > Nice to see you called it 'Manoj's Singing-Protocol' ;) c

Re: GPG Key Signing (Was: Advocate/Sponsor)

2001-07-01 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 10:27:54AM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 12:13:37PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > > we should also require them to demonstrate a clear understanding of > > PKI as part of the NM process. > > manoj came up with a pretty good protocol to

Re: GPG Key Signing (Was: Advocate/Sponsor)

2001-06-30 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Samuel" == Samuel Tardieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Samuel> Well, then why not talk about "id signing" instead of "key Samuel> signing" which exists but designates a completely different Samuel> thing that also exists in GPG? Because these procedures have been known as key signin

Re: GPG Key Signing (Was: Advocate/Sponsor)

2001-06-30 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Samuel" == Samuel Tardieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Samuel> Well, then why not talk about "id signing" instead of "key Samuel> signing" which exists but designates a completely different Samuel> thing that also exists in GPG? Because these procedures have been known as key signi

Re: GPG Key Signing (Was: Advocate/Sponsor)

2001-06-29 Thread Samuel Tardieu
On 29/06, Manoj Srivastava wrote: | Actually, the real flaw seems to be that my email assumed that | the protocol was going to be used by people who had a modicum of | inductive reasoning. The outline mentions just one ID in the key | being verified and signed, and I assumed that anyone

Re: GPG Key Signing (Was: Advocate/Sponsor)

2001-06-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Samuel" == Samuel Tardieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Samuel> It has an enormous flaw: you do not sign a key, you sign an Samuel> id. That means that checking for one e-mail address for being Samuel> valid and signing all the ids is just bogus. You may use this Samuel> protocol, but you hav

Re: GPG Key Signing (Was: Advocate/Sponsor)

2001-06-29 Thread Samuel Tardieu
On 29/06, Manoj Srivastava wrote: | Actually, the real flaw seems to be that my email assumed that | the protocol was going to be used by people who had a modicum of | inductive reasoning. The outline mentions just one ID in the key | being verified and signed, and I assumed that anyone

Re: GPG Key Signing (Was: Advocate/Sponsor)

2001-06-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Samuel" == Samuel Tardieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Samuel> It has an enormous flaw: you do not sign a key, you sign an Samuel> id. That means that checking for one e-mail address for being Samuel> valid and signing all the ids is just bogus. You may use this Samuel> protocol, but you ha

Re: Advocate/Sponsor

2001-06-29 Thread Danie Roux
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 10:48:53AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > Danie, > > On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Danie Roux wrote: > > > I would love to have an advocate. Being in Pretoria, South Africa that's not > > going to be easy though. > > A developer does not have to be physically proximate to you to b

Re: Advocate/Sponsor

2001-06-29 Thread Danie Roux
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 10:48:53AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > Danie, > > On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Danie Roux wrote: > > > I would love to have an advocate. Being in Pretoria, South Africa that's not > > going to be easy though. > > A developer does not have to be physically proximate to you to

Re: Advocate/Sponsor

2001-06-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Samuel Tardieu wrote: > On 28/06, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > | * Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20010628 16:53]: > | > Does the GPG key need to be signed or does it just need to exist? I > | > had been under the impression that other forms of identification > | > were still p

Re: Advocate/Sponsor

2001-06-28 Thread Samuel Tardieu
On 28/06, Martin Michlmayr wrote: | * Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20010628 16:53]: | > Does the GPG key need to be signed or does it just need to exist? I | > had been under the impression that other forms of identification | > were still possible, though severely discouraged. | | Yeah, those

Re: GPG Key Signing (Was: Advocate/Sponsor)

2001-06-28 Thread Samuel Tardieu
On 28/06, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: | http://people.debian.org/~jaqque/keysign.html | | it does have some weaknesses, but it is a lot stronger than the ``oh, | i've met you, i have checked your ID, and off we go'' | | comments welcome. It has an enormous flaw: you do not sign a key, you sign

GPG Key Signing (Was: Advocate/Sponsor)

2001-06-28 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 12:13:37PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > > we should also require them to demonstrate a clear understanding of > PKI as part of the NM process. manoj came up with a pretty good protocol to sign a key. i have it available in HTML at http://people.debian.org/~jaqque/keysig

Re: Advocate/Sponsor

2001-06-28 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20010628 16:53]: > Does the GPG key need to be signed or does it just need to exist? I > had been under the impression that other forms of identification > were still possible, though severely discouraged. Yeah, those forms still exist. The web site even says

Re: Advocate/Sponsor

2001-06-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Duncan Findlay wrote: > I think that now an advocate is needed to simply say that they agree with > your application, and be a mentor of sorts. > After an advocate is found, an application manager is assigned. > I don't think that there is any requirement for an actual physi

Re: Advocate/Sponsor

2001-06-28 Thread Duncan Findlay
I think that now an advocate is needed to simply say that they agree with your application, and be a mentor of sorts. After an advocate is found, an application manager is assigned. I don't think that there is any requirement for an actual physical meeting. Photo ID appears to be acceptible. > >

Re: Advocate/Sponsor

2001-06-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Samuel Tardieu wrote: > On 28/06, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > | * Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20010628 16:53]: > | > Does the GPG key need to be signed or does it just need to exist? I > | > had been under the impression that other forms of identification > | > were still

Re: Advocate/Sponsor

2001-06-28 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 09:31:54AM -0500, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > You need a signed gpg key, but not an advocate when you apply -- the > message currently printed is not clear, though. I have fixed that > now. (It should have said that you needed a GPG signd key.) Does the GPG key need to be

Re: Advocate/Sponsor

2001-06-28 Thread Steve Langasek
Danie, On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Danie Roux wrote: > I would love to have an advocate. Being in Pretoria, South Africa that's not > going to be easy though. A developer does not have to be physically proximate to you to be your advocate; in fact, it doesn't have to be your advocate who signs your key

Re: Advocate/Sponsor

2001-06-28 Thread Samuel Tardieu
On 28/06, Martin Michlmayr wrote: | * Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20010628 16:53]: | > Does the GPG key need to be signed or does it just need to exist? I | > had been under the impression that other forms of identification | > were still possible, though severely discouraged. | | Yeah, thos

Re: GPG Key Signing (Was: Advocate/Sponsor)

2001-06-28 Thread Samuel Tardieu
On 28/06, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: | http://people.debian.org/~jaqque/keysign.html | | it does have some weaknesses, but it is a lot stronger than the ``oh, | i've met you, i have checked your ID, and off we go'' | | comments welcome. It has an enormous flaw: you do not sign a key, you sign

GPG Key Signing (Was: Advocate/Sponsor)

2001-06-28 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 12:13:37PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > > we should also require them to demonstrate a clear understanding of > PKI as part of the NM process. manoj came up with a pretty good protocol to sign a key. i have it available in HTML at http://people.debian.org/~jaqque/keysi

Re: Advocate/Sponsor

2001-06-28 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20010628 16:53]: > Does the GPG key need to be signed or does it just need to exist? I > had been under the impression that other forms of identification > were still possible, though severely discouraged. Yeah, those forms still exist. The web site even says

Re: Advocate/Sponsor

2001-06-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Duncan Findlay wrote: > I think that now an advocate is needed to simply say that they agree with > your application, and be a mentor of sorts. > After an advocate is found, an application manager is assigned. > I don't think that there is any requirement for an actual phys

Re: Advocate/Sponsor

2001-06-28 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Mikael Andersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010628 14:29]: > I have a question about that. I filled in the webform on > http://nm.debian.org/newnm.php last week, checked every botton except > the gpg key and if I have an advocate. > The webform warned about that I haven't got my key signed etc. > Shou

Re: Advocate/Sponsor

2001-06-28 Thread Duncan Findlay
I think that now an advocate is needed to simply say that they agree with your application, and be a mentor of sorts. After an advocate is found, an application manager is assigned. I don't think that there is any requirement for an actual physical meeting. Photo ID appears to be acceptible. >

Re: Advocate/Sponsor

2001-06-28 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 09:31:54AM -0500, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > You need a signed gpg key, but not an advocate when you apply -- the > message currently printed is not clear, though. I have fixed that > now. (It should have said that you needed a GPG signd key.) Does the GPG key need to be

Re: Advocate/Sponsor

2001-06-28 Thread Steve Langasek
Danie, On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Danie Roux wrote: > I would love to have an advocate. Being in Pretoria, South Africa that's not > going to be easy though. A developer does not have to be physically proximate to you to be your advocate; in fact, it doesn't have to be your advocate who signs your ke

Re: Advocate/Sponsor

2001-06-28 Thread Mikael Andersson
Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Do you mean an advocate? When you submit your appliance to join debian, > an advocate geographically near will contact you for meeting. You need to > meet him/her to prove your identity so debian allows you to join the > community. see http://nm.debian.o

Re: Re: Advocate/Sponsor

2001-06-28 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 13:53:55 +0200, Danie Roux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would love to have an advocate. Being in Pretoria, South Africa that's not > going to be easy though. > > For now I want a sponsor to get garchiver in to Debian. sorry i got confused... i'm currently appliing to becom

Re: Advocate/Sponsor

2001-06-28 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Mikael Andersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010628 14:29]: > I have a question about that. I filled in the webform on > http://nm.debian.org/newnm.php last week, checked every botton except > the gpg key and if I have an advocate. > The webform warned about that I haven't got my key signed etc. > Sho

Re: Advocate/Sponsor

2001-06-28 Thread Danie Roux
I would love to have an advocate. Being in Pretoria, South Africa that's not going to be easy though. For now I want a sponsor to get garchiver in to Debian. On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 01:38:36PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > Do you mean an advocate? When you submit your appliance to join debian,

Re: Advocate/Sponsor

2001-06-28 Thread Robert Millan
Do you mean an advocate? When you submit your appliance to join debian, an advocate geographically near will contact you for meeting. You need to meet him/her to prove your identity so debian allows you to join the community. see http://nm.debian.org/ for more info. -- Robert Millan

Re: Advocate/Sponsor

2001-06-28 Thread Mikael Andersson
Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Do you mean an advocate? When you submit your appliance to join debian, > an advocate geographically near will contact you for meeting. You need to > meet him/her to prove your identity so debian allows you to join the > community. see http://nm.debian.

Re: Re: Advocate/Sponsor

2001-06-28 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 13:53:55 +0200, Danie Roux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would love to have an advocate. Being in Pretoria, South Africa that's not > going to be easy though. > > For now I want a sponsor to get garchiver in to Debian. sorry i got confused... i'm currently appliing to beco

Re: Advocate/Sponsor

2001-06-28 Thread Danie Roux
I would love to have an advocate. Being in Pretoria, South Africa that's not going to be easy though. For now I want a sponsor to get garchiver in to Debian. On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 01:38:36PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > Do you mean an advocate? When you submit your appliance to join debian

Re: Advocate/Sponsor

2001-06-28 Thread Robert Millan
Do you mean an advocate? When you submit your appliance to join debian, an advocate geographically near will contact you for meeting. You need to meet him/her to prove your identity so debian allows you to join the community. see http://nm.debian.org/ for more info. -- Robert Millan

Advocate/Sponsor

2001-06-27 Thread Duncan Findlay
I was wondering if anyone would be willing to sponsor my application to be a new maintainer. Currently, I've packaged alienwave, a simple curses-based console game of the space invaders genre. I've also packaged the latest version of faqomatic, which was orphaned by Scott K. Ellis. Both alienwav

Advocate/Sponsor

2001-06-27 Thread Duncan Findlay
I was wondering if anyone would be willing to sponsor my application to be a new maintainer. Currently, I've packaged alienwave, a simple curses-based console game of the space invaders genre. I've also packaged the latest version of faqomatic, which was orphaned by Scott K. Ellis. Both alienwa

Looking for Advocate, Sponsor

2001-06-07 Thread Mabe, David, M \(Dave\)
Debian Mentors: I am looking for a sponsor/advocate for becoming a debian developer. I am packaging misterhouse, a home automation package written in perl. I have signed up at http://www.internatif.org/bortzmeyer/debian/sponsor/. The misterhouse debian package can be found at http://www.running

Looking for Advocate, Sponsor

2001-06-05 Thread Mabe, David, M (Dave)
Debian Mentors: I am looking for a sponsor/advocate for becoming a debian developer. I am packaging misterhouse, a home automation package written in perl. I have signed up at http://www.internatif.org/bortzmeyer/debian/sponsor/. The misterhouse debian package can be found at http://www.runnin