Re: OT: Re: Sponsor's responsibilities

2000-09-19 Thread Steve Bowman
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 09:39:40PM -0700, Seth Cohn wrote: > Steve Bowman trying to find a good word to compliment debian-mentors: > > > Taking these items together, how about making up a really new word that > > is really Debianspeak? You could have debee and deber :-) OTOH, the > > best _word_

Re: OT: Re: Sponsor's responsibilities

2000-09-18 Thread Seth Cohn
Steve Bowman trying to find a good word to compliment debian-mentors: > Taking these items together, how about making up a really new word that > is really Debianspeak? You could have debee and deber :-) OTOH, the > best _word_ I've seen so far (that is, one that can be found in an > (English) d

Re: OT: Re: Sponsor's responsibilities

2000-09-18 Thread Steve Bowman
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 09:39:40PM -0700, Seth Cohn wrote: > Steve Bowman trying to find a good word to compliment debian-mentors: > > > Taking these items together, how about making up a really new word that > > is really Debianspeak? You could have debee and deber :-) OTOH, the > > best _word

Re: OT: Re: Sponsor's responsibilities

2000-09-18 Thread Seth Cohn
Steve Bowman trying to find a good word to compliment debian-mentors: > Taking these items together, how about making up a really new word that > is really Debianspeak? You could have debee and deber :-) OTOH, the > best _word_ I've seen so far (that is, one that can be found in an > (English)

Re: OT: Re: Sponsor's responsibilities

2000-09-18 Thread Steve Bowman
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 11:04:52PM -0700, Steve Bowman wrote: > > Taking these items together, how about making up a really ew word that is ^-- new yeeesh... -- Steve Bowman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (preferred) Buckeye, AZ <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: OT: Re: Sponsor's responsibilities

2000-09-18 Thread Steve Bowman
On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 08:22:17AM -0700, tony mancill wrote: > On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > > > On 2915T060004-0700, Rick Younie wrote: > > > Sponsee? Tony made that one up didn't he? I can see the > > > confusion in a couple years when the number of Debian maintaine

Re: OT: Re: Sponsor's responsibilities

2000-09-17 Thread Steve Bowman
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 11:04:52PM -0700, Steve Bowman wrote: > > Taking these items together, how about making up a really ew word that is ^-- new yeeesh... -- Steve Bowman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (preferred) Buckeye, AZ <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: OT: Re: Sponsor's responsibilities

2000-09-17 Thread Steve Bowman
On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 08:22:17AM -0700, tony mancill wrote: > On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > > > On 2915T060004-0700, Rick Younie wrote: > > > Sponsee? Tony made that one up didn't he? I can see the > > > confusion in a couple years when the number of Debian maintain

Re: OT: Re: Sponsor's responsibilities

2000-09-17 Thread Martin WHEELER
On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, tony mancill wrote: > (On the other hand, maybe we really *need* > a new word for "the person whom a sponsor sponsors" developee ? :') -- Martin Wheeler -StarTEXT - Glastonbury - BA6 9PH - England [1] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.startext

Re: OT: Re: Sponsor's responsibilities

2000-09-17 Thread Martin WHEELER
On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, tony mancill wrote: > (On the other hand, maybe we really *need* > a new word for "the person whom a sponsor sponsors" developee ? :') -- Martin Wheeler -StarTEXT - Glastonbury - BA6 9PH - England [1] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.startex

OT: Re: Sponsor's responsibilities

2000-09-16 Thread tony mancill
On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > On 2915T060004-0700, Rick Younie wrote: > > Sponsee? Tony made that one up didn't he? I can see the > > confusion in a couple years when the number of Debian maintainers > > hits a few million. "What's that language you're speaking? > > D

OT: Re: Sponsor's responsibilities

2000-09-16 Thread tony mancill
On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > On 2915T060004-0700, Rick Younie wrote: > > Sponsee? Tony made that one up didn't he? I can see the > > confusion in a couple years when the number of Debian maintainers > > hits a few million. "What's that language you're speaking? > >

Re: Sponsor's responsibilities

2000-09-16 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 2915T060004-0700, Rick Younie wrote: > Sponsee? Tony made that one up didn't he? I can see the > confusion in a couple years when the number of Debian maintainers > hits a few million. "What's that language you're speaking? > Debian you say?" :-) Tony who? You ever heard of deriving wor

Re: Sponsor's responsibilities

2000-09-16 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 2915T060004-0700, Rick Younie wrote: > Sponsee? Tony made that one up didn't he? I can see the > confusion in a couple years when the number of Debian maintainers > hits a few million. "What's that language you're speaking? > Debian you say?" :-) Tony who? You ever heard of deriving wo

Re: Sponsor's responsibilities

2000-09-15 Thread Rick Younie
Peter Palfrader wrote: > >> I think a point could be made for including a bogus bug in a >> guy's first package so he can learn the changelog procedure for >> closing it while he's still in close contact with his sponsor. > > Since ITPs are now reported as bugs against wnpp you have your > traini

Re: Sponsor's responsibilities

2000-09-15 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Rick! On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Rick Younie wrote: > I think a point could be made for including a bogus bug in a > guy's first package so he can learn the changelog procedure for > closing it while he's still in close contact with his sponsor. Since ITPs are now reported as bugs against wnpp you

Re: Sponsor's responsibilities

2000-09-15 Thread Rick Younie
Peter Palfrader wrote: > >> I think a point could be made for including a bogus bug in a >> guy's first package so he can learn the changelog procedure for >> closing it while he's still in close contact with his sponsor. > > Since ITPs are now reported as bugs against wnpp you have your > train

Re: Sponsor's responsibilities

2000-09-15 Thread Rick Younie
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > On 2914T102042-0700, Rick Younie wrote: >> Anyhow, ignore this specific example. I just mean in the general >> case. Get it close or flog the package until it squeaks? > > Well, in the final analysis, it's the sponsor's neck on the line if > something bad happ

Re: Sponsor's responsibilities

2000-09-15 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Rick! On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Rick Younie wrote: > I think a point could be made for including a bogus bug in a > guy's first package so he can learn the changelog procedure for > closing it while he's still in close contact with his sponsor. Since ITPs are now reported as bugs against wnpp you

Re: Sponsor's responsibilities

2000-09-15 Thread Rick Younie
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > On 2914T102042-0700, Rick Younie wrote: >> Anyhow, ignore this specific example. I just mean in the general >> case. Get it close or flog the package until it squeaks? > > Well, in the final analysis, it's the sponsor's neck on the line if > something bad hap

Re: Sponsor's responsibilities

2000-09-14 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 2914T102042-0700, Rick Younie wrote: > Anyhow, ignore this specific example. I just mean in the general > case. Get it close or flog the package until it squeaks? Well, in the final analysis, it's the sponsor's neck on the line if something bad happens. It's a matter of how much he trust

Sponsor's responsibilities

2000-09-14 Thread Rick Younie
How exacting should a sponsor be? A sponsor was reamed on a list a while back because he duploaded a package with a fairly minor error. He'd identified the problem and told the packager to fix it in the next version and said that this was his impression of what a sponsor should do. That is, get

Re: Sponsor's responsibilities

2000-09-14 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 2914T102042-0700, Rick Younie wrote: > Anyhow, ignore this specific example. I just mean in the general > case. Get it close or flog the package until it squeaks? Well, in the final analysis, it's the sponsor's neck on the line if something bad happens. It's a matter of how much he trus

Sponsor's responsibilities

2000-09-14 Thread Rick Younie
How exacting should a sponsor be? A sponsor was reamed on a list a while back because he duploaded a package with a fairly minor error. He'd identified the problem and told the packager to fix it in the next version and said that this was his impression of what a sponsor should do. That is, get