Sponsoring ompl

2025-04-13 Thread Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda
Dear science team and debian mentors, Please, some DD could push the ompl package? The ompl package is located here: https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/ompl The package is clean, with autopkgtest. It must go to experimental because there was a mistake in the package version ABI of the libra

Bug#1073456: Sponsoring colorize into Debian

2024-07-15 Thread David Kalnischkies
Am Mon, Jul 15, 2024 at 08:59:11PM GMT, schrieb Steven Schubiger: > Pierre Gruet wrote: > > Thanks for digging into this matter. Yes, keeping the flags is something I > > have already seen. If you don't want to fix it in your main software, it > > could be patched in Debian, I have already done th

Bug#1073456: Sponsoring colorize into Debian

2024-07-15 Thread Steven Schubiger
Pierre Gruet wrote: > Thanks for digging into this matter. Yes, keeping the flags is something I > have already seen. If you don't want to fix it in your main software, it > could be patched in Debian, I have already done this sort of things e.g. in > > https://sources.debian.org/src/atomes/1.1.1

Bug#1073456: Sponsoring colorize into Debian

2024-07-14 Thread Pierre Gruet
Hi Steven, Le 14/07/2024 à 16:51, Steven Schubiger a écrit : Pierre Gruet wrote: I am sponsoring right now your package colorize/0.66 into Debian, as you submitted it on mentors.debian.org last month. Thank you so much! :) You're welcome :) I will juste change the version numb

Bug#1073456: Sponsoring colorize into Debian

2024-07-14 Thread Steven Schubiger
Pierre Gruet wrote: > I am sponsoring right now your package colorize/0.66 into Debian, as you > submitted it on mentors.debian.org last month. Thank you so much! :) > I will juste change the version number in debian/watch : 3 to 4. Yeah, that makes sense. It makes less sense (to me)

Bug#1073456: Sponsoring colorize into Debian

2024-07-13 Thread Pierre Gruet
[Sending again so that it appears on the RFS bug page] Le 14/07/2024 à 08:06, Pierre Gruet a écrit : Hello Steven, I am sponsoring right now your package colorize/0.66 into Debian, as you submitted it on mentors.debian.org last month. I will juste change the version number in debian/watch

Re: Ready stage for DD review/sponsoring - Too many DDs may spoil the broth. :-)

2024-07-11 Thread Phil Wyett
On Fri, 2024-07-12 at 10:44 +0500, Andrey Rakhmatullin wrote: > On Fri, Jul 12, 2024 at 05:54:59AM +0100, Phil Wyett wrote: > > Morning all, > > > > As we embark on a new process where packages submitted to mentors are > > reviewed > > and brought to a "Ready" stage for then busy DDs who are grac

Re: Ready stage for DD review/sponsoring - Too many DDs may spoil the broth. :-)

2024-07-11 Thread Andrey Rakhmatullin
On Fri, Jul 12, 2024 at 05:54:59AM +0100, Phil Wyett wrote: > Morning all, > > As we embark on a new process where packages submitted to mentors are reviewed > and brought to a "Ready" stage for then busy DDs who are gracious enough to > give > their time to review and possibly sponsor into Debia

Ready stage for DD review/sponsoring - Too many DDs may spoil the broth. :-)

2024-07-11 Thread Phil Wyett
Morning all, As we embark on a new process where packages submitted to mentors are reviewed and brought to a "Ready" stage for then busy DDs who are gracious enough to give their time to review and possibly sponsor into Debian. We have a unique problem (one which is now a nice one to have to be ho

Sponsoring cutecom 0.51.0 package

2022-09-25 Thread Roman Khimov
Hello. I've prepared an update for the cutecom package (Qt-based serial terminal), please review/sponsor it. The package is available at https://roman.khimov.ru/temp/deb-cutecom/51-try-2/cutecom_0.51.0-1.dsc Changes since the last upload: * New upstream release (Closes: #911378, #1020432)

Re: Sponsoring cutecom 0.51.0 package

2019-03-05 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Tue, Mar 05, 2019 at 11:17:04PM +0300, Roman Khimov wrote: > I've prepared an update for the cutecom package (Qt-based serial terminal) > that I want to get to buster (as there are important bugs fixed there). Have you consulted the freeze policy and made sure this upload complies to it? -- W

Sponsoring cutecom 0.51.0 package

2019-03-05 Thread Roman Khimov
Hello. I've prepared an update for the cutecom package (Qt-based serial terminal) that I want to get to buster (as there are important bugs fixed there). But I didn't get any reply from my previous sponsor (Gianfranco Costamagna) so I'm trying to find someone to review/sponsor it. The package i

Bug#872676: Sponsoring nautilus-admin

2017-12-26 Thread Carlos Maddela
Control: retitle -1 RFS: nautilus-admin/1.1.2-1 [ITA] Sorry for the delay. I have made the changes that you have suggested. Here are the updated details. * Package name: nautilus-admin Version : 1.1.2-1 Upstream Author : Bruno Nova * URL : https://github.com/brun

Bug#867727: Request for sponsoring Parlatype -- audio player for transcription

2017-09-19 Thread Gabor Karsay
Juhani Numminen schrieb am 2017-09-15 um 15:24: debian/parlatype.manpages is only needed when upstream build system doesn't install the man pages, please remove it. done debian/watch can be updated to version 4 (changing the first line is enough). done Additionally removed build-dependency o

Bug#867727: Request for sponsoring Parlatype -- audio player for transcription

2017-09-15 Thread Juhani Numminen
Spotted two more items. debian/parlatype.manpages is only needed when upstream build system doesn't install the man pages, please remove it. debian/watch can be updated to version 4 (changing the first line is enough). With best regards, Juhani

Bug#867727: Request for sponsoring Parlatype -- audio player for transcription

2017-09-15 Thread Juhani Numminen
Gabor Karsay kirjoitti 14.09.2017 klo 20:37> Thank you Ross and Juhani! No problem! W: parlatype source: newer-standards-version 4.0.1 (current is 4.0.0) I guess no need to override this. Correct. I: parlatype source: testsuite-autopkgtest-missing There are no tests and it's only informationa

Bug#867727: Request for sponsoring Parlatype -- audio player for transcription

2017-09-14 Thread Gabor Karsay
Juhani Numminen schrieb am 2017-09-10 um 17:27: Ross Gammon kirjoitti 10.09.2017 klo 13:15: I would be happy to take a look at this. Unfortunately, I am quite busy at the moment so I can't promise much this week. I have cc'd you because you did not say whether you are subscribed to the Multimed

ssort valuable? ( was Re: request for sponsoring lina32)

2017-09-11 Thread Albert van der Horst
Paul Wise schreef op 2017-07-04 04:29: On Mon, 2017-07-03 at 17:48 +0200, Albert van der Horst wrote: To really help me you should have answered:   .deb files? the purpose of packaging is to build a dsc file. Thanks for the feedback. I had assumed the packaging guide referenced by that page w

Bug#867727: Request for sponsoring Parlatype -- audio player for transcription

2017-09-10 Thread Juhani Numminen
Hello, Gabor and Ross, Ross Gammon kirjoitti 10.09.2017 klo 13:15: I would be happy to take a look at this. Unfortunately, I am quite busy at the moment so I can't promise much this week. I have cc'd you because you did not say whether you are subscribed to the Multimedia list. I have also copi

Bug#867727: Request for sponsoring Parlatype -- audio player for transcription

2017-09-10 Thread Ross Gammon
Hi Gabor, On 08/24/2017 11:13 AM, Gabor Karsay wrote: > Dear Debian Multimedia Maintainers, > > I'm looking for a reviewer or sponsor of my package Parlatype which is > a minimal audio player that helps you to transcribe speeches, > interviews, lyrics etc. It's based on GStreamer and GTK+. > > It

Bug#857864: Sponsoring of libmseed

2017-08-20 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 04:20:02PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > I have sponsored libmseed to new since you requested it via SoB. There is no such package in NEW and in the archive. Anyway, should this ITP be closed or updated? -- WBR, wRAR signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#857864: Sponsoring of libmseed

2017-03-16 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Pierre, I have sponsored libmseed to new since you requested it via SoB. I have two remarks: 1. I've set Debian GIS team in CC since I think it might be sensible to add libmseed to the Debian GIS Blend task as well. 2. Your suggestion to add libmseed to the tasks is technically

Re: Forth compiler has been gitted, request for sponsoring lina32

2017-01-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, 2017-01-13 at 03:00 +0100, Albert van der Horst wrote: > [Sorry for the long quote] Sorry for the delay :) > The generic system for ciforth is now present in github. > https://github.com/albertvanderhorst/ciforth Great :) > This is a complete copy of the rcs/cvs system with all version

Re: Looking for sponsoring/menthoring : openmeca package [ITP: #850590]

2017-01-17 Thread Ghislain Vaillant
bugs.debian.org/sponsorship-requests > > from > > time to time and take care of pending request, whereas emails in a > > mailing list are much harder to keep track of. Also, please keep in mind that we are currently focusing on getting Stretch out in the next few months, so new pac

Re: Looking for sponsoring/menthoring : openmeca package [ITP: #850590]

2017-01-17 Thread dada
n't have any package already in the archive, so my personal policy (https://people.debian.org/~mattia/sponsoring.html) "forbids" me to sponsoring the package, but I trust there are several other developers willing to do so :) I just wanted to explain better the usual procedure ^^ I understand your position for sponsoring, no problem ! Best regards, Damien.

Re: Looking for sponsoring/menthoring : openmeca package [ITP: #850590]

2017-01-17 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
eral of us look at https://bugs.debian.org/sponsorship-requests from time to time and take care of pending request, whereas emails in a mailing list are much harder to keep track of. Now, you don't have any package already in the archive, so my personal policy (https://people.debian.org/~mattia/s

Looking for sponsoring/menthoring : openmeca package [ITP: #850590]

2017-01-17 Thread dada
Hello all, My name is Damien André, I am french and I am looking for menthoring/sponsoring for the openmeca software (see https://gitlab.com/damien.andre/openmeca). Openmeca is a graphical application for building multibody dynamics simulations. It may be usefull for learning and teaching

Forth compiler has been gitted, request for sponsoring lina32

2017-01-12 Thread Albert van der Horst
Paul Wise schreef op 2016-07-30 09:16: On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 8:57 PM, Albert van der Horst wrote: Do you really demand that a Debian package can generate windows executables, and booting floppies in double density? We already have tested and working GCC cross-compilers for Windows. https:/

Bug#845308: Sponsoring imagemagick/8:6.8.9.9-5+deb8u6

2016-11-25 Thread Luciano Bello
On Friday, 25 November 2016 17:42:13 EST Bastien Roucaries wrote: > Can i add a newer patch fixing the last cve ? Do you think you can upload it for tomorrow? Let me unroll everything on this end (I already asked for a DSA id, but I think I can put it back). Let me know if you can upload to ment

Bug#845308: Sponsoring imagemagick/8:6.8.9.9-5+deb8u6

2016-11-25 Thread Bastien Roucaries
Can i add a newer patch fixing the last cve ? Le 25 novembre 2016 17:30:54 GMT+01:00, Luciano Bello a écrit : >Hi, > I will sponsor imagemagick/8:6.8.9.9-5+deb8u6 and release the DSA. > >Thanks for you effort of keeping imagemagick secure! > >/luciano -- Envoyé de mon appareil Android avec K-

Bug#845308: Sponsoring imagemagick/8:6.8.9.9-5+deb8u6

2016-11-25 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
control: owner -1 luci...@debian.org > I will sponsor imagemagick/8:6.8.9.9-5+deb8u6 and release the DSA. thanks! G.

Bug#845308: Sponsoring imagemagick/8:6.8.9.9-5+deb8u6

2016-11-25 Thread Luciano Bello
Hi, I will sponsor imagemagick/8:6.8.9.9-5+deb8u6 and release the DSA. Thanks for you effort of keeping imagemagick secure! /luciano

Re: Preliminary questions for sponsoring a compiler

2016-07-30 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Paul Wise , 2016-07-30, 15:16: I myself use Alioth, Savannah, SourceForge, GitHub and LaunchPad for different projects. There are no hosting facilities that I personally like, mostly because they are all web services. There are many command-line tools that let you distance yourself from the

Re: Fwd: Re: Preliminary questions for sponsoring a compiler

2016-07-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 8:57 PM, Albert van der Horst wrote: > Do you really demand that a Debian package can generate windows > executables, and booting floppies in double density? We already have tested and working GCC cross-compilers for Windows. https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=mi

Re: Fwd: Re: Preliminary questions for sponsoring a compiler

2016-07-26 Thread Albert van der Horst
Paul Wise schreef op 2016-07-26 07:15: On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 3:01 AM, Albert van der Horst wrote: It has been published, the generic system is GPL as well. It is on the net since ages http://home.hccnet.nl/a.w.m.van.der.horst/ciforth-5.0.tar.gz and http://home.hccnet.nl/a.w.m.van.der.horst/ci

Re: Fwd: Re: Preliminary questions for sponsoring a compiler

2016-07-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 3:01 AM, Albert van der Horst wrote: > It has been published, the generic system is GPL as well. > It is on the net since ages > http://home.hccnet.nl/a.w.m.van.der.horst/ciforth-5.0.tar.gz and > http://home.hccnet.nl/a.w.m.van.der.horst/cifgen.html > > I doubt that any one

Re: Preliminary questions for sponsoring a compiler

2016-07-25 Thread Christian Seiler
On 07/25/2016 09:28 PM, Albert van der Horst wrote: > Christian Seiler schreef op 2016-07-25 18:14: >> I don't quite get what you mean, I never had any problem with >> that. > > {Probably going off topic here] > A pure assembler file means full control over section names, their > properties (in pa

Re: Preliminary questions for sponsoring a compiler

2016-07-25 Thread Albert van der Horst
Christian Seiler schreef op 2016-07-25 18:14: On 07/25/2016 02:51 PM, Albert van der Horst wrote: The problem is: ld is not stable w.r.t. linking pure assembler files. How so? $ cat write.s .text .global _start .type _start, @function _start: mov $1, %rax mov %rax,

Re: Fwd: Re: Preliminary questions for sponsoring a compiler

2016-07-25 Thread Albert van der Horst
Albert van der Horst schreef op 2016-07-25 18:00: Oorspronkelijke bericht Onderwerp: Re: Preliminary questions for sponsoring a compiler Datum: 2016-07-25 16:15 Afzender: Paul Wise Ontvanger: Albert van der Horst Not sure why you moved the discussion off-list, in Debian we

Re: Preliminary questions for sponsoring a compiler

2016-07-25 Thread Christian Seiler
On 07/25/2016 02:51 PM, Albert van der Horst wrote: > The problem is: ld is not stable w.r.t. linking pure assembler files. How so? $ cat write.s .text .global _start .type _start, @function _start: mov $1, %rax mov %rax, %rdi lea str, %rsi mov

Fwd: Re: Preliminary questions for sponsoring a compiler

2016-07-25 Thread Albert van der Horst
Oorspronkelijke bericht Onderwerp: Re: Preliminary questions for sponsoring a compiler Datum: 2016-07-25 16:15 Afzender: Paul Wise Ontvanger: Albert van der Horst Not sure why you moved the discussion off-list, in Debian we prefer to discuss things in public. Feel free to

Fwd: Re: Preliminary questions for sponsoring a compiler

2016-07-25 Thread Albert van der Horst
I didn't mean to put this off list, my bad. Oorspronkelijke bericht Onderwerp: Re: Preliminary questions for sponsoring a compiler Datum: 2016-07-25 15:58 Afzender: Albert van der Horst Ontvanger: Paul Wise Paul Wise schreef op 2016-07-25 15:12: On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at

Re: Preliminary questions for sponsoring a compiler

2016-07-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 8:51 PM, Albert van der Horst wrote: > Question 1: Am I obliged to supply a .s file and linking prescripts? You need to supply the upstream source code and build system. If those are the upstream source code and build system, then yes. > (Because fasm is not in main) fas

Preliminary questions for sponsoring a compiler

2016-07-25 Thread Albert van der Horst
Dear mentors, Since 2002 lina is a stable Forth compiler under x86 linux (And compatible compilers available for OSX, win32 ). From the beginning it has been fully documented using texinfo, plus a man-page, that documents the options and a judicious excerpt. lina page http://home.hccnet.nl/a

Bug#811393: Another try at flint-arb sponsoring

2016-04-18 Thread Julien Puydt
Hi, On 18/04/2016 11:48, Paul Wise wrote: On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 4:00 AM, Julien Puydt wrote: Uh... isn't that something more for upstream than for me? Again, that's for upstream. Yes, however it would be great if you could file bugs/patches and or work with upstream to include those tools

Bug#811393: Another try at flint-arb sponsoring

2016-04-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 4:00 AM, Julien Puydt wrote: > Uh... isn't that something more for upstream than for me? > Again, that's for upstream. Yes, however it would be great if you could file bugs/patches and or work with upstream to include those tools into their QA procedures. > See above : up

Bug#811393: Another try at flint-arb sponsoring

2016-04-17 Thread Julien Puydt
Hi, quite some time ago, Gianfranco wrote: > something needs changes: > > - std-version is now 3.9.7 Done. > - unsecure VCS fields Done. > - call ldconfig in rules? what? Uh... removed. > - changing names usually is just bad, people won't find the package, > and you will diverge from upst

Re: New release while waiting for sponsoring

2015-03-02 Thread Arturo Borrero Gonzalez
On 2 March 2015 at 19:31, Christoph Mathys wrote: > Hi folks, > > While waiting for my package mercurial-keyring to be sponsored, upstream has > released a new version of the software. So what do I do with the old > sponsorship request bug? (#779049) Can I just update it? Or close it? > I would s

New release while waiting for sponsoring

2015-03-02 Thread Christoph Mathys
Hi folks, While waiting for my package mercurial-keyring to be sponsored, upstream has released a new version of the software. So what do I do with the old sponsorship request bug? (#779049) Can I just update it? Or close it? Thanks! Christoph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ

Bug#721011: zbackup 1.2-1 sponsoring

2013-08-27 Thread Ho Wan Chan
Hello Laszlo, I'm uploading a fixed version of this into Debian mentors. Regards, Howard Chan (smartboyhw) 2013/8/28 László Böszörményi (GCS) : > Hi Ho Wan, > > Wanted to package zbackup myself. Thus I'm open to sponsor this > package for you. Basically it looks fine. However when I tried to >

Bug#721011: zbackup 1.2-1 sponsoring

2013-08-27 Thread GCS
Hi Ho Wan, Wanted to package zbackup myself. Thus I'm open to sponsor this package for you. Basically it looks fine. However when I tried to build it: -- cut -- -- Found PROTOBUF: /usr/lib/libprotobuf.so CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:27 (MESSAGE): Could not find protobuf compiler. Make sure pr

Bug#696600: Sponsoring sun - schedule tasks at sunrise/set

2012-12-25 Thread Steffen Vogel
Am Dienstag, den 25.12.2012, 11:35 -0500 schrieb Paul Tagliamonte: > Or, see if you can barter with the FTP folks to keep `sun' Jup, I agree. I think, we should just try to get 'sun' into the archives. It's still worth the try, than continue discussing... ;-) If the name gets rejected, we could e

Bug#696600: Sponsoring sun - schedule tasks at sunrise/set

2012-12-25 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Paul, you may also sponsor the package if you want to. I am still busy with kismet :). Cheers, Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `-GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006

Bug#696600: Sponsoring sun - schedule tasks at sunrise/set

2012-12-25 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 05:27:28PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote: > On Tue, 25 Dec 2012 16:02:58 +0100, Steffen Vogel wrote: > > > Here are my proposals: > > > > sun - fits calculations related to the planet sun > > > > suncal - seems only to be correct for time/date related calculus. > > Determi

Bug#696600: Sponsoring sun - schedule tasks at sunrise/set

2012-12-25 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 25 Dec 2012 16:02:58 +0100, Steffen Vogel wrote: > Here are my proposals: > > sun - fits calculations related to the planet sun > > suncal - seems only to be correct for time/date related calculus. > Determination of the sun position in coordinates is not covered. Depends on if you expa

Re: Bug#696600: Sponsoring sun - schedule tasks at sunrise/set

2012-12-25 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 04:02:58PM +0100, Steffen Vogel wrote: > As I'm not willing to change the packagename, once its in the archive, I > think it's important the choose a suitable name which also covers these > new features. > > Here are my proposals: > > sun - fits calculations related to the

Bug#696600: Sponsoring sun - schedule tasks at sunrise/set

2012-12-25 Thread Steffen Vogel
Hi Paul's :-) Im very glad you want to sponsor my package! Some more thoughts about an appropriate packagename: I'm currently not clear about the future development of the sun tool. There are several features which might extend the tool in future releases: - add muslimic prayer times: http://www.

My sponsoring guidelines

2012-10-25 Thread Michael Gilbert
Just to let everyone know, I am making myself available to sponsor uploads that fix RC bugs. Those uploads may be either NMUs or maintainer uploads, just make sure to mark your sponsorship-request with RC and I (and others) will notice it. Best wishes, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-m

Re: ITP-loook: Looking for Sponsoring

2012-09-22 Thread Mechtilde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, Am 22.09.2012 15:42, schrieb Bart Martens: > Hello Mechtilde, > > On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 01:53:58PM +0200, Mechtilde wrote: >> I want to put the programm 'Loook' into the package repository I >> already read the New-Maintainer-Guide and did t

Re: ITP-loook: Looking for Sponsoring

2012-09-22 Thread Bart Martens
Hello Mechtilde, On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 01:53:58PM +0200, Mechtilde wrote: > I want to put the programm 'Loook' into the package repository > I already read the New-Maintainer-Guide and did the first steps to > package it. > Can someone help me to bring it into the repo? I suggest to upload the

ITP-loook: Looking for Sponsoring

2012-09-22 Thread Mechtilde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I want to put the programm 'Loook' into the package repository This a a smart python programm which you can use to search textstrings in ODF files esp. created with OpenOffice.org, LibreOffice and ApacheOpenOffice. I already read the New-Main

Re: My package sponsoring guidelines

2012-06-26 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Andreas Rütten wrote: > > Hi Mike, > > do you still have some time available for reviewing NMUs? > > If so I would like to point you attention to this one: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=676927 Hi, The bugs solved in your version are not relea

Re: My package sponsoring guidelines

2012-06-26 Thread Andreas Rütten
Hi Mike, do you still have some time available for reviewing NMUs? If so I would like to point you attention to this one: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=676927 Looking forward to some feedback, cheers, Andreas Am Wed, 25 Apr 2012 00:11:31 -0400 schrieb Michael Gilbert :

Bug#669016: Two astronomy-related RFSes up for sponsoring (since 2 months)

2012-06-25 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Hi, I have sent these two RFS a little bit more than two months ago. I have put a lot of effort into them (for instance I've worked with upstream to fix bugs in yp-svipc and port it to Python 3) and I'd be sorry if they missed Wheezy for lack of a sponsor. yp-svipc: System V InterProcess Communic

Processed: Re: Bug#670334: Sponsoring of notion, a first look

2012-06-24 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > tag 670334 + pending Bug #670334 [sponsorship-requests] RFS: notion/3+2012042300-1 [ITP] -- Notion tiling tabbed window manager Added tag(s) pending. > tag 647048 + pending Bug #647048 [wnpp] ITP: notion -- Tiling, tabbed window manager for the X

Bug#670334: Sponsoring of notion, a first look

2012-06-24 Thread Axel Beckert
tag 670334 + pending tag 647048 + pending kthxbye Hi Philipp and Arnout, Philipp Hartwig wrote: > > I know debian/copyright is already quite lengthy, but basically > > everything in the source package should also be mentioned in the > > debian/copyright package as it's at least redistributed via

Bug#670334: Sponsoring of notion, a first look

2012-06-11 Thread Philipp Hartwig
Hi Axel, > As I discussed quite some stuff about the sponsoring of notion with > Arnout on IRC, here's a list of what I consider as still open (with > regards to the package on http://mentors.debian.net/package/notion > from 2012-05-27 11:34Z): > > It looks mostly

Bug#670334: Sponsoring of notion, a first look

2012-06-05 Thread Axel Beckert
log, thanks. Good. > > [hardening flags] > > We have enabled hardening flags through a Debian patch to the build system. A > few Lintian warnings remain, but according to a discussion in > #debian-mentors, > these are false positives. Yeah, that's fine, too. As I discussed

Bug#670334: Sponsoring of notion, a first look

2012-06-04 Thread Philipp Hartwig
Hi Axel, thank you very much for your comments. > a few observations (without having gone too deep yet, so I might have overseen > some reasoning): > > notion_3+2012042300.orig.tar.gz from your package and > notion-3-2012042300-src.tar.gz from SF seem to differ: > > 0ffd57a75f2c1a75ce551b3baef1

Bug#670334: Sponsoring of notion, a first look

2012-05-16 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi Arnout, a few observations (without having gone too deep yet, so I might have overseen some reasoning): notion_3+2012042300.orig.tar.gz from your package and notion-3-2012042300-src.tar.gz from SF seem to differ: 0ffd57a75f2c1a75ce551b3baef1fee0 notion_3+2012042300.orig.tar.gz 96d004374e92e3

My package sponsoring guidelines

2012-04-24 Thread Michael Gilbert
Hi, I'm going to be making some of my time available to review packages. So, I'm primarily interested in looking at work that fixes release-critical bugs, security issues, and just regular bugs as well (i.e. non-maintainer uploads, NMUs). So, if you're the bug fixing type, this is for you. I am

Processed: still waiting for sponsoring

2012-04-12 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > package src:tcng Limiting to bugs with field 'package' containing at least one of 'src:tcng' Limit currently set to 'package':'src:tcng' > block 666336 by 667092 Bug #666336 [src:tcng] tcng: FTBFS: ! LaTeX Error: File `url.sty' not found. 666336

Re: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests

2012-01-24 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 24 Jan 2012, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: > [Octavio Alvarez, 2012-01-24] > > Just a note, though: the non-automatic subscription behavior of the > > BTS could confuse new potential package maintainers, as they might > > not subscribe to the corresponding bug (this has happened to me). > > Is it

Re: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests

2012-01-24 Thread Piotr Ożarowski
[Octavio Alvarez, 2012-01-24] > Just a note, though: the non-automatic subscription behavior of the > BTS could confuse new potential package maintainers, as they might > not subscribe to the corresponding bug (this has happened to me). Is it a bad idea to modify BTS or reportbug to automatically

Re: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests

2012-01-24 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
[ please Cc:-me on replies if you want to get my attention, I'm not subscribed to -mentors ] On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:26:49 +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > Second concern i have here is that (AFAIK) everyone can upload > everything to mentors.debian.net. Which would mean we then would/could > d

Re: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests

2012-01-23 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:59:14 -0800, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: We propose to use the BTS to handle sponsoring requests. Both sponsorees and sponsors should already be familiar with its usage and we hope it will improve the sponsoring process for both sides. It will also make it easier to analyse

mentors.debian.org as the pseudopackage (Re: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests)

2012-01-23 Thread Don Armstrong
ect to change). A workflow for handling sponsoring > requests is proposed below. It is based on an earlier discussion on the > debian-mentors list[1]. > > The workflow will also be made available on [2]. > > [1] > <http://lists.debian.org/s2svcsm447s@bistromathics.math

Re: Making mentors.debian.net a .org (was: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests)

2012-01-21 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 12:47:59PM +0100, Arno Töll wrote: > DSA is the team which makes a DNS CNAME record, or provides a hosting > facility. In my interpretation they are not making facts by that. Making > mentors.debian.net a .org makes the project official part of Debian, > just like any other

Re: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests

2012-01-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Michael van der Kolff writes: > But in setting it up in the US, don't you only have to care about US > law? I think that because Debian itself has a legal presence (in the sense of having a bank account and therefore assets that can be confiscated in judgement) in Europe as well as the US (and i

Re: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests

2012-01-20 Thread Michael van der Kolff
But in setting it up in the US, don't you only have to care about US law? Cheers, Michael On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 9:06 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: > Michael van der Kolff writes: > >> IANAL, etc., but how about getting some legal advice on this?  It seems >> to me it wouldn't be nearly as cut and

Re: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests

2012-01-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Michael van der Kolff writes: > IANAL, etc., but how about getting some legal advice on this? It seems > to me it wouldn't be nearly as cut and dried as all that; have you > examined whether or not such a scheme could be set up in such a way that > makes it a DMCA safe harbour? DMCA safe harbor

Re: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests

2012-01-20 Thread Michael van der Kolff
IANAL, etc., but how about getting some legal advice on this? It seems to me it wouldn't be nearly as cut and dried as all that; have you examined whether or not such a scheme could be set up in such a way that makes it a DMCA safe harbour? Cheers, Michael On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 7:47 AM, Russ

Re: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests

2012-01-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Michael Gilbert writes: > On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: >> For the main archive, the NEW check I think is best thought of as a >> spot check to ensure maintainers are doing their jobs.  The real >> responsibility of not uploading non-redistributable material lies with >> th

Re: Making mentors.debian.net a .org (was: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests)

2012-01-20 Thread Justin B Rye
Jan Hauke Rahm wrote: > On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 01:07:02AM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: >> Like I've said before, this is not about eliminating ambiguity. Every >> single word in every single language is ambiguous. It's simply >> unavoidable. It's about choosing the word with the right context

Re: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests

2012-01-20 Thread Helmut Grohne
; name is still subject to change). A workflow for handling sponsoring > requests is proposed below. It is based on an earlier discussion on the > debian-mentors list[1]. I would like to add that FreeBSD is successfully employing a very similar mechanism. Everyone can send patches to the po

Re: Making mentors.debian.net a .org (was: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests)

2012-01-19 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
I'm putting the l10n-english team in BCC as they *might* want to help us out here but I don't really want to start cross-posting. You'll figure out which list to proceed on, right? On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 01:07:02AM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: > On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 6:47 AM, Arno Töll wrote:

Re: Making mentors.debian.net a .org (was: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests)

2012-01-19 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 6:47 AM, Arno Töll wrote: > DSA is the team which makes a DNS CNAME record, or provides a hosting > facility. In my interpretation they are not making facts by that. Making > mentors.debian.net a .org makes the project official part of Debian, > just like any other core team

Re: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests

2012-01-19 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > Jakub Wilk writes: >> * Gergely Nagy , 2012-01-19, 17:24: > >>> I might be mistaken, but the amount of NEW > >> Why only NEW? Checking only NEW packages doesn't buy us more than, say, >> checking only package with with have "r" in their name.

Re: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests

2012-01-19 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Hi, > > I'm generally not a big fan to overuse the BTS for stuff it wasn't > really designed for. This tends to result in complex processes that are > difficult to follow for newcomers. That statement actually describes the Debian project as

Re: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests

2012-01-19 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Lucas Nussbaum , 2012-01-19, 19:27: I'm generally not a big fan to overuse the BTS for stuff it wasn't really designed for. This tends to result in complex processes that are difficult to follow for newcomers. For example, the wnpp bugs are often misformed, or people don't follow the right pr

Re: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests

2012-01-19 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, I'm generally not a big fan to overuse the BTS for stuff it wasn't really designed for. This tends to result in complex processes that are difficult to follow for newcomers. For example, the wnpp bugs are often misformed, or people don't follow the right process. > * Integration into UDD bug

Re: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests

2012-01-19 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 10:07:01AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Jakub Wilk writes: > > * Gergely Nagy , 2012-01-19, 17:24: > > >> I might be mistaken, but the amount of NEW > > > Why only NEW? Checking only NEW packages doesn't buy us more than, say, > > checking only package with with have "r"

Re: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests

2012-01-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Jakub Wilk writes: > * Gergely Nagy , 2012-01-19, 17:24: >> I might be mistaken, but the amount of NEW > Why only NEW? Checking only NEW packages doesn't buy us more than, say, > checking only package with with have "r" in their name. > I know, this is what ftp-folks do. I call this securi^Wdis

Re: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests

2012-01-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Arno Töll writes: > On 19.01.2012 15:30, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: >> As said, I don't think there's a problem distribute .dsc and >> diff.gz/debian.tar.gz files. (which still allows a limited review.) > Discussing the idea, I pointed out, you can still hide non-distributable > files in

Re: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests

2012-01-19 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Gergely Nagy , 2012-01-19, 17:24: I might be mistaken, but the amount of NEW Why only NEW? Checking only NEW packages doesn't buy us more than, say, checking only package with with have "r" in their name. I know, this is what ftp-folks do. I call this securi^Wdistributability theater. s

Re: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests

2012-01-19 Thread Gergely Nagy
Alexander Reichle-Schmehl writes: > Am 19.01.2012 12:26, schrieb Arno Töll: >> On 19.01.2012 05:32, Michael Gilbert wrote: Second concern i have here is that (AFAIK) everyone can upload everything to mentors.debian.net. Which would mean we then would/could distribute non-distribite

Re: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests

2012-01-19 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello again, for the record, as we talked in IRC: On 19.01.2012 15:30, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: > Well, don't take it wrong: Mentors is a very usefull service, it was a > just an idea which might allow you to become mentors.debian.org. I di

Re: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests

2012-01-19 Thread Muammar El Khatib
; name is still subject to change). A workflow for handling sponsoring > requests is proposed below. It is based on an earlier discussion on the > debian-mentors list[1]. > This is a really smart, simple and good idea to use the BTS. I sometimes just keep the RFS packages which get no r

Re: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests

2012-01-19 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
source packages to > non-developers a lot, and even developers can be scared off by that > requirement. > > A substantial problem in our whole approach is to attract Debian > Developers to sponsoring again. If we're complicating access to > packages, that's sort of

Re: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests

2012-01-19 Thread Arno Töll
cates handling with source packages to non-developers a lot, and even developers can be scared off by that requirement. A substantial problem in our whole approach is to attract Debian Developers to sponsoring again. If we're complicating access to packages, that's sort of counterproducti

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