Packages "confirmed" and ready for DD review/possible upload - Debian Mentors - 2024-11-04

2024-11-03 Thread Phil Wyett
Dear all DDs, Below is a package list of the currently "confirmed", as being in good order packages that are awaiting a DD review and possible upload to Debian. If DDs could spare the time to pick up a package or two and finish off the package mentor process it would be greatly appreciated. Outst

Re: Packages "confirmed" and ready for DD review/possible upload - Debian Mentors - 2024-09-29

2024-09-29 Thread Phil Wyett
On Sun, 2024-09-29 at 22:27 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Sep 29, Phil Wyett wrote: > > > Below is the link to the page of currently "confirmed" as being in good > > order > I suggest that you also add the list to these emails. > > > Hi all DDs, It has been suggested that I need to supply

Packages "confirmed" and ready for DD review/possible upload - Debian Mentors - 2024-09-29

2024-09-29 Thread Phil Wyett
Dear all DDs, Below is the link to the page of currently "confirmed" as being in good order packages that are awaiting a DD review and possible upload to Debian. If DDs could spare the time to pick up a package or two and finish off the package mentor process it would be greatly appreciated. http

Debian Mentors - Confirmed package of the day - graphite-carbon - Needs love

2024-09-02 Thread Phil Wyett
Hi Debian Developers, Our package marked as "confirmed" that has languished on mentors for quite some time is our package of the day. Please could a DD with a little free time, graciously give it your time and show this package some love? Package: graphite-carbon Links... * Mentors - https://m

Packages "confirmed" and ready for DD review/possible upload - Debian Mentors - 2024-08-27

2024-08-27 Thread Phil Wyett
Dear all DDs, Below is the link to the page of currently "confirmed" being in good order packages that are awaiting a DD review and possible upload. If DDs could spare the time to pick up a package or two and finish off the package mentor process it would be greatly appreciated. https://bugs.debi

Re: Debian mentors - Package: ipp-crypto Version: 2021.10.0-1 - Review

2024-07-16 Thread Phil Wyett
Colin, Many thanks for the prompt updating of the package. I have added an updated review on the packages mentor page[1]. [1] https://mentors.debian.net/package/ipp-crypto/ Regards Phil -- "I play the game for the game’s own sake" Arthur Conan Doyle - The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington P

Re: Debian mentors - Package: ipp-crypto Version: 2021.10.0-1 - Review

2024-07-15 Thread Colin King (gmail)
tance. It is offered to help submitters of packages to Debian mentors improve their packages prior to possible sponsorship into Debian. There is no obligation on behalf of the submitter to make any alterations based upon information provided in the review. Review... 1. Build: Good 2. Lintian: Issu

Debian mentors - Packages looking for DD review and sponsorship - 2024 - 07 - 13

2024-07-13 Thread Phil Wyett
Evening all Debian Developers, Below is a curated list of packages in Debian Mentors[1] that are felt to be ready for review and possible sponsorship into Debian. rumur - https://mentors.debian.net/package/rumur/ RFS: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1071427 c-evo-dh - https

Re: Debian mentors - Package: ipp-crypto Version: 2021.10.0-1 - Review

2024-07-09 Thread Phil Wyett
Colin, Preamble... Thanks for taking time to create this package and your contribution to Debian. The below review is for assistance. It is offered to help submitters of packages to Debian mentors improve their packages prior to possible sponsorship into Debian. There is no obligation on behalf

Re: Debian mentors - Package: ipp-crypto Version: 2021.10.0-1 - Review

2024-07-09 Thread Colin King (gmail)
Wyett wrote: Hi Colin, Preamble... Thanks for taking time to create this package and your contribution to Debian. The below review is for assistance. It is offered to help submitters of packages to Debian mentors improve their packages prior to possible sponsorship into Debian. There is no

Re: Debian mentors - Package: ipp-crypto Version: 2021.10.0-1 - Review

2024-06-28 Thread Phil Wyett
On Fri, 2024-06-28 at 14:42 -0700, Soren Stoutner wrote: > For clarity purposes, Debian uses the name Expat for what most people call > the MIT license. > > "There are many versions of the MIT license. Please use Expat instead, when > it matches.” > > https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manual

Re: Debian mentors - Package: ipp-crypto Version: 2021.10.0-1 - Review

2024-06-28 Thread Soren Stoutner
For clarity purposes, Debian uses the name Expat for what most people call the MIT license. "There are many versions of the MIT license[1]. Please use Expat instead, when it matches.” https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/[2] https://www.debian.org/legal/licenses/mi

Re: Debian mentors - Package: gnustep-gui Version: 0.31.1-4

2024-06-28 Thread Soren Stoutner
On Friday, June 28, 2024 11:26:16 AM MST Yavor Doganov wrote: > Phil Wyett wrote: > > To eliminate the following lintian warning. > > > > I debian-watch-uses-insecure-uri > > This is not a warning but a lintian I: tag; I don't give a flying > flute about that. The reason why you want to use HTT

Re: Debian mentors - Package: gnustep-gui Version: 0.31.1-4

2024-06-28 Thread Yavor Doganov
Phil Wyett wrote: > To eliminate the following lintian warning. > > I debian-watch-uses-insecure-uri This is not a warning but a lintian I: tag; I don't give a flying flute about that. > Maybe you could use the URL below. > > https://ftp.gnustep.org/pub/gnustep/core/ Thanks; I can consider th

Debian mentors - Package: gnustep-gui Version: 0.31.1-4

2024-06-28 Thread Phil Wyett
Hi Yavor, To eliminate the following lintian warning. I debian-watch-uses-insecure-uri ftp://ftp.gnustep.org/pub/gnustep/core/ [debian/watch:4] Maybe you could use the URL below. https://ftp.gnustep.org/pub/gnustep/core/ Regards Phil -- Internet Relay Chat (IRC): kathenas Website: h

Re: Debian mentors - Package: fibocom-pc-services Version: 1.0.10-1 - Review

2024-06-28 Thread Phil Wyett
On Fri, 2024-06-28 at 12:25 +0100, Phil Wyett wrote: > Hi Kai-Chuan, > > Preamble... > > Thanks for taking time to create this package and your contribution to Debian. > > The below review is for assistance. It is offered to help submitters of > packages to Debian mentor

Debian mentors - Package: fibocom-pc-services Version: 1.0.10-1 - Review

2024-06-28 Thread Phil Wyett
Hi Kai-Chuan, Preamble... Thanks for taking time to create this package and your contribution to Debian. The below review is for assistance. It is offered to help submitters of packages to Debian mentors improve their packages prior to possible sponsorship into Debian. There is no obligation on

Debian mentors - Package: ipp-crypto Version: 2021.10.0-1 - Review

2024-06-28 Thread Phil Wyett
Hi Colin, Preamble... Thanks for taking time to create this package and your contribution to Debian. The below review is for assistance. It is offered to help submitters of packages to Debian mentors improve their packages prior to possible sponsorship into Debian. There is no obligation on

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2021-03-10 Thread neo
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Re: Howto re-upload to debian-mentors

2021-02-07 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Sun, Feb 07, 2021 at 11:53:16PM +0100, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > just told me that all the packages were already there. It concluded > "Nothing to upload". It just checks the presence of an .upload file. You can remove it or pass -f. -- WBR, wRAR signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Howto re-upload to debian-mentors

2021-02-07 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Tong Sun schrieb am 7. February 2021: > IIRC, you can upload with the same version # over and over to > debian-mentors, without bumping version #. > > The overwriting is done automatically. > Thanks. Next time I will do without temporary removal. I just discovered the -f optio

Re: Howto re-upload to debian-mentors

2021-02-07 Thread Tong Sun
IIRC, you can upload with the same version # over and over to debian-mentors, without bumping version #. The overwriting is done automatically.

Howto re-upload to debian-mentors

2021-02-07 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Hi Debian-Mentors, I am in the process of adopting the package geda-gaf. This is my first experience as a maintainer so I might be a little stubborn. After the first successful upload as "geda-gaf-1.10.2-1" some minor issues surfaced. When I tried to use dupload to upload the changes t

Re: RFC: endorse debian-mentors as entrance to our infrastructure projects

2019-07-08 Thread Jonas Meurer
Hey again, Jonas Meurer: >>> So here's the idea we came up with: We could explicitely broaden the >>> scope of debian-mentors to include any questions regarding Debian >>> infrastructure software. >>> That basicly would mean to explicitely mention "

Re: RFC: endorse debian-mentors as entrance to our infrastructure projects

2019-07-08 Thread Jonas Meurer
Hello, Jonas Meurer: > Jonas Meurer: >> So here's the idea we came up with: We could explicitely broaden the >> scope of debian-mentors to include any questions regarding Debian >> infrastructure software. >> That basicly would mean to explicitely mention "que

Bug#931634: lists.debian.org: Update description for debian-mentors@lists.d.o

2019-07-08 Thread Jonas Meurer
Package: lists.debian.org Severity: normal Hello, as discussed on debian-project and debian-mentors [1], the scope of debian-mentors@lists.d.o was broadened to explicitely include questions regarding Debian infrastructure projects. The DebianMentorsFaq already has been updated accordingly [2, 3

Re: RFC: endorse debian-mentors as entrance to our infrastructure projects

2019-06-10 Thread Jonas Meurer
Hi again, Jonas Meurer: > So here's the idea we came up with: We could explicitely broaden the > scope of debian-mentors to include any questions regarding Debian > infrastructure software. > That basicly would mean to explicitely mention "questions on > infrastruc-t

Re: RFC: endorse debian-mentors as entrance to our infrastructure projects

2019-06-10 Thread Chris Lamb
Adrian Bunk wrote: > […] I'm not sure whether this particular sub-thread is salvagable but I thought I might briefly share the below in order that it might prevent parallel cases elsewhere. There exists a particular argument style where one participant in the discussion asks a collection of esse

Re: RFC: endorse debian-mentors as entrance to our infrastructure projects

2019-06-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 6:17 AM Sam Hartman wrote: > I wonder whether it might be a good idea to write down which > infrastructure services people in the mentors community are most able to > help with. I don't want to discourage people from for example asking > dak questions, but it might be valu

Re: RFC: endorse debian-mentors as entrance to our infrastructure projects

2019-06-09 Thread Sam Hartman
Paul, it's really cool to see that you are open to this. I wonder whether it might be a good idea to write down which infrastructure services people in the mentors community are most able to help with. I don't want to discourage people from for example asking dak questions, but it might be valuab

Re: RFC: endorse debian-mentors as entrance to our infrastructure projects

2019-06-09 Thread Philip Hands
": >> >> */ Many in Debian agree that Debbugs could need some love, but still >> >> it's developed and maintained largely by one brave soul. >> >>... >> > >> > What will happen if a newbie starts asking questions about debbugs

Re: RFC: endorse debian-mentors as entrance to our infrastructure projects

2019-06-09 Thread Adrian Bunk
e that Debbugs could need some love, but still > >> it's developed and maintained largely by one brave soul. > >>... > > > > What will happen if a newbie starts asking questions about debbugs on > > debian-mentors? > > > > Will the questions

Re: RFC: endorse debian-mentors as entrance to our infrastructure projects

2019-06-09 Thread Philip Hands
Adrian Bunk writes: > On Sun, Jun 09, 2019 at 12:55:14PM +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote: >> Hi, > > Hi Jonas, > >>... >> So here's the idea we came up with: We could explicitely broaden the >> scope of debian-mentors to include any questions regarding D

Re: RFC: endorse debian-mentors as entrance to our infrastructure projects

2019-06-09 Thread Geert Stappers
On Sun, Jun 09, 2019 at 02:44:40PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sun, Jun 09, 2019 at 12:55:14PM +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote: > > Hi, > > Hi Jonas, Hello both mailinglists, > >... > > So here's the idea we came up with: We could explicitely broaden the > &

Re: RFC: endorse debian-mentors as entrance to our infrastructure projects

2019-06-09 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Jun 09, 2019 at 12:55:14PM +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote: > Hi, Hi Jonas, >... > So here's the idea we came up with: We could explicitely broaden the > scope of debian-mentors to include any questions regarding Debian > infrastructure software. > That basicly wo

Re: RFC: endorse debian-mentors as entrance to our infrastructure projects

2019-06-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Jun 9, 2019 at 6:55 PM Jonas Meurer wrote: > My hope is that having debian-mentors as an endorsed entry point for > diving into Debian infrastructure would lower the entry barrier > significantly for new contributors who'd like to dive into our > infrastructure software p

RFC: endorse debian-mentors as entrance to our infrastructure projects

2019-06-09 Thread Jonas Meurer
contributors when it comes to packaging questions: the debian-mentors channels (IRC channel and mailinglist) both stand out with a nice and welcoming atmosphere that actively encourages new contributors to ask their questions. So here's the idea we came up with: We could explicitely broaden the sco

Re: Debian Mentors wiki and Debian Mentors Faq wiki

2018-12-14 Thread Tong Sun
On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 7:05 AM ant wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 07:06:29AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > ... > > The D-M-Faq doesn't mention any other available sponsors but does > > contain tips on finding sponsors. > > > > Another page that could be mentioned is the Mentoring one, which > > co

Re: Debian Mentors wiki and Debian Mentors Faq wiki

2018-12-14 Thread ant
On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 07:06:29AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: ... > The D-M-Faq doesn't mention any other available sponsors but does > contain tips on finding sponsors. > > Another page that could be mentioned is the Mentoring one, which > contains info about one-on-one mentoring programs. > > htt

Re: Debian Mentors wiki and Debian Mentors Faq wiki

2018-12-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 9:39 PM ant wrote: > perhaps a reasonable compromise is to adjust > the page to remark that not all mentors are on > that list and include a pointer to the D-M-Faq > wiki page? that would have saved me having to > search for it. The D-M-Faq doesn't mention any other ava

Re: Debian Mentors wiki and Debian Mentors Faq wiki

2018-12-13 Thread ant
en a proper way forwards to more information. your suggestion would help give a better impression and reflect more what i see of participation on debian-mentors, yet in the end why have a separate thing to maintain if resources are scarce to begin with? perhaps a reasonable compromise is to ad

Re: Debian Mentors wiki and Debian Mentors Faq wiki

2018-12-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 1:35 AM ant wrote: > i think it makes sense for the first to either be > removed or to have it point to the second. The two pages serve different purposes so redirecting from Mentors to DebianMentorsFaq doesn't seem correct. Probably the Mentors page simply needs some me

Debian Mentors wiki and Debian Mentors Faq wiki

2018-12-12 Thread ant
hello, while trying to figure my way towards starting to work through various issues i found: https://wiki.debian.org/Mentors which largely looks abandoned. vs. https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMentorsFaq which looks actively maintained... i think it makes sense for the first to eit

ANN: debian-mentors BoF session at DebConf: 2013-08-16 at 15:30 local time (13:30 UTC)

2013-08-14 Thread Nicolas Dandrimont
Hi everyone, Just a short announcement that anyone interested in reflecting or improving Debian's mentoring processes are invited to the BoF session that has just been scheduled on Friday 2013-08-16, at 15:30 local time in BoF room 1. (That's 13:30 UTC)[0]. [0] http://penta.debconf.org/dc13_sched

Re: ITP requests to debian-devel vs debian-mentors?

2013-04-03 Thread Paul Wise
rg/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAKTje6ERWgmt-5U33zC4Qi1j=yrnpn9nhycydj5olxffjyn...@mail.gmail.com

Re: ITP requests to debian-devel vs debian-mentors?

2013-04-03 Thread Marwan Tanager
e non-control messages are forwarded to > the debian-mentors list. > > http://wiki.debian.org/Mentors/BTS > > When you have decided that you want to add a specific piece of > software to Debian, check the archive and existing ITPs. Unless there > is one already, file an ITP be

Re: ITP requests to debian-devel vs debian-mentors?

2013-04-03 Thread Paul Wise
requests (subject-tagged as ITA/ITP/RC/etc) go to sponsorship-requests. Bugs filed there go to package-sponsorship-reque...@lists.debian.org. Via some other mechanism (the PTS I think) the non-control messages are forwarded to the debian-mentors list. http://wiki.debian.org/Mentors/BTS When you have

Re: ITP to debian-devel vs. debian-mentors?

2013-04-03 Thread Marwan Tanager
Tanager > >> wrote: > >> > Hi all. > >> > > >> > I'm a recent subscriber to the Debian mentors and developers lists, and I > >> > notice that some ITP requests are sent to debian-devel against wnpp and > >> > others > >> &g

Re: ITP to debian-devel vs. debian-mentors?

2013-04-03 Thread Vincent Cheng
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 8:48 PM, Marwan Tanager wrote: > On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 08:38:56PM -0700, Vincent Cheng wrote: >> Hi Marwan, >> >> On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 7:54 PM, Marwan Tanager wrote: >> > Hi all. >> > >> > I'm a recent subscri

Re: ITP to debian-devel vs. debian-mentors?

2013-04-03 Thread Marwan Tanager
On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 08:38:56PM -0700, Vincent Cheng wrote: > Hi Marwan, > > On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 7:54 PM, Marwan Tanager wrote: > > Hi all. > > > > I'm a recent subscriber to the Debian mentors and developers lists, and I > > notice that some ITP req

ITP requests to debian-devel vs debian-mentors?

2013-04-03 Thread Marwan Tanager
Hi all. I'm a recent subscriber to the Debian mentors and developers lists, and I notice that some ITP requests are sent to debian-devel against wnpp and others to debian-mentors against sponsorship-requests. Could someone please clarify under what conditions should ITP requests be sen

Re: sponsorship-requests mails should not go to debian-mentors

2012-03-06 Thread Ben Finney
“The cost of education is trivial compared to the cost of | `\ ignorance.” —Thomas Jefferson | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: sponsorship-requests mails should not go to debian-mentors

2012-03-06 Thread Don Armstrong
il than apathy. http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120307015031.gy3...@rzlab.ucr.edu

Re: sponsorship-requests mails should not go to debian-mentors

2012-03-06 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
We already tried to discuss the issue in Bug#658498: "sponsorship-requests and debian-mentors mailing list" but I have a feeling our argument hasn't been heard. Regards, Dmitry. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "u

Re: sponsorship-requests mails should not go to debian-mentors

2012-03-06 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
gher then !(spam-mail) / mail. In the end, this needs to go to the listmasters and get a change on the BTS side as well. Perhaps we should start that flame war again. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe&quo

Re: sponsorship-requests mails should not go to debian-mentors

2012-03-06 Thread Gergely Nagy
ey care. > > How about you? I'd go with option two (but 1 is also acceptable), but the noise ration on -mentors is getting in the way indeed. -- |8] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

sponsorship-requests mails should not go to debian-mentors

2012-03-06 Thread Samuel Bronson
It's getting to the point where I think it would be best if we do one of two things: 1. Split out sponsorship-requests bug mail to a new mailing list. 2. Stop sending it anywhere, and let people subscribe through the PTS if they care. How about you? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Re: Bug#658498: sponsorship-requests and debian-mentors mailing list

2012-02-07 Thread Alexander Wirt
ilter > or clearly explain why not > so everybody would understand and agree. IMHO don and I did. Alex -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120208070545.gh24...@smithers.snow-crash.org

Re: sponsorship-requests and debian-mentors mailing list

2012-02-07 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
-subscribe instead and therefore provide certain freedom of choice. (I'm not talking regarding the best way to inform subscribers regarding the change) So please let's filter or clearly explain why not so everybody would understand and agree. Regards, Dmitry. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: sponsorship-requests and debian-mentors mailing list

2012-02-07 Thread Boris Pek
>>  I.e. 13% of messages are useless for most subscribers. Is it good >>  reason to filter these messages? > > Try your luck: #658498 I haven't seen it. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: sponsorship-requests and debian-mentors mailing list

2012-02-07 Thread Arno Töll
ND PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f3175a5.3070...@toell.net

sponsorship-requests and debian-mentors mailing list

2012-02-07 Thread Boris Pek
Hi everyone, Continuing the theme of excessive noise in the mailing list, we can look at simple statistics for the first 7 days of this month: $ curl -q http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2012/02/maillist.html 2> /dev/null | \ grep '' | wc -l 191 $ curl http://lists.debi

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

2012-01-24 Thread Don Armstrong
ultimedia/Ploy.MPG http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120124182941.gi21...@rzlab.ucr.edu

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

2012-01-24 Thread Piotr Ożarowski
matically subscribe submitter in this case? -- Piotr Ożarowski Debian GNU/Linux Developer www.ozarowski.pl www.griffith.cc www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: 1D2F A898 58DA AF62 1786 2DF7 AEF6 F1A2 A745 7645 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-men

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

2012-01-24 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
. Let me know, Cheers. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/06/msg0.html [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2012/01/msg00508.html -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o . Maître de conférences .. http://upsilon.cc/zack ..

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

2012-01-23 Thread Octavio Alvarez
me). This should be noted in the documentation. In other issue tracking systems, the requester is automatically notified of any response or follow-up in the reported case. Best regards. -- Octavio. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

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

2012-01-23 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 17 Jan 2012, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > SUMMARY > === > > We plan to ask for the creation of a new pseudo-package > debian-mentors or mentors.debian.org [3] (contact: > debian-mentors@lists.debian.org) in Debian's bug tracking system (the > name is still subj

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
the US (and in other countries as well), things that are officially blessed by the project have to care about multiple jurisdictions. In general, you can be sued in either the location where you're doing whatever it is that you're doing or in your home location. If debian-mentors is run

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

2012-01-20 Thread Michael van der Kolff
getting lucky > (likewise, nothing happens).  That's why people tend towards being > conservative and doing exactly the same thing as was done somewhere else, > since there *is* safety in numbers in legal precedent and even accepted > best practice, and you have a better chance of be

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

2012-01-20 Thread Russ Allbery
rbour? DMCA safe harbor is a property of a US law and does nothing to prevent lawsuits in Europe. That's part of the complexity. I didn't say that debian-mentors would pose legal problems necessarily, only that it's not equivalent to NEW. I know that the way Debian handles NEW is fairly

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

2012-01-20 Thread Michael van der Kolff
to Debian project members.  If they're > available to the general public, it's something else. > > -- > Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org > wit

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

2012-01-20 Thread Russ Allbery
sued, etc. So, it would work to think of mentors as a NEW queue provided that things uploaded to it are only available to Debian project members. If they're available to the general public, it's something else. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.o

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
maintainer debacle). > My point being, we should look for a perfectly describing term, and then > make sure it's not used already in a different (or worse: a similar) > context. I can see the appeal of sorting out the confusion, but whatever the new .debian.org subdomain and BTS pseudo-p

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

2012-01-20 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:59:14PM +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > SUMMARY > === > > We plan to ask for the creation of a new pseudo-package > debian-mentors or mentors.debian.org [3] (contact: > debian-mentors@lists.debian.org) in Debian's bug tracking system (the >

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
ervice. This should be a place for contributors to come together to collaborate and make their work better before pestering a DD about it; with minimal experienced intervention (mentoring). This is to attempt to help solve the problem that practically no DDs want to be burdened with mentoring. L

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

2012-01-19 Thread Michael Gilbert
it's not (binary packages are not served, and files hosted are not widely distributed since most users wouldn't know what to do with a source package even if they got one). Best wishes, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "un

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

2012-01-19 Thread Michael Gilbert
trated the fact that they can educate themselves. If that means answering similar questions somewhat regularly, so be it. A simple link to the developers reference often suffices. That's not so hard. Best wishes, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org

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

2012-01-19 Thread Jakub Wilk
ollow the right process. The big difference is that nobody reads the wnpp bug traffic. But debian-mentors (or whatever the pseudo-package will be eventually called) bug traffic will land on this mailing list. Malformed bug titles will be promptly corrected, people don't following the proce

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

2012-01-19 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
S that should be closed) - RFS that couldn't be parsed Note that UDD bugs data is only refreshed every ~6 hours (but this might change soon as DSA is looking into replacing the machine with a newer one). Lucas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with

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
. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87r4yvefcq@windlord.stanford.edu

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

2012-01-19 Thread Russ Allbery
e unified diff of a patch is going to be a derivative work in most cases and also won't be redistributable. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subje

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

2012-01-19 Thread Jakub Wilk
bility theater. stuff isn't all that huge, and this review would concentrate on distributability alone, so would be fairly fast in most cases. Might be fast, but it's also boooring. -- Jakub Wilk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

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

2012-01-19 Thread Gergely Nagy
to be done once the package enters NEW gets reduced, the package would be available to DDs before the license check, to everyone else too afterwards - pretty much everyone wins! -- |8] [*]: Search this email's headers for an answer to a question that's bound to be asked. -- To UNSUBS

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

2012-01-19 Thread Arno Töll
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Re: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests

2012-01-19 Thread Muammar El Khatib
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:59:14PM +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > SUMMARY > === > > We plan to ask for the creation of a new pseudo-package > debian-mentors or mentors.debian.org [3] (contact: > debian-mentors@lists.debian.org) in Debian's bug tracking system (the >

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

2012-01-19 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
then it's only a minor step to a dget-mentors-Script (or maybe a patch for dget to automatically take a look at the url field, when downloading from mentors). Granted, not a really good solution, but doable. Best regards, Alexander -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...

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

2012-01-19 Thread Arno Töll
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Re: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests

2012-01-19 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
these machines. diff.gz/debian.tar.gz could still be accessible to all, so non-DDs could still at least do (limited) reviews. And with a proper get-orig-source rule (or a way on mentors to provide a link to the source tarball?) even full reviews by non-DDs would be possible. Best regards, Ale

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

2012-01-19 Thread Arno Töll
e > officially part of the team as well. Is there a list of the current > official members? mentors.debian.net went through several generations of developers who coded parts of it. These days only me (in NM too, but no DD yet) and Asheesh Laroia (paulproteus) made notable code contribution

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

2012-01-19 Thread Arno Töll
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Re: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests

2012-01-19 Thread Arno Töll
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Re: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests

2012-01-19 Thread Raphael Hertzog
nd help liberate it: http://debian-handbook.info/liberation/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120119083953.ge7...@rivendell.home.ouaza.com

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

2012-01-18 Thread Michael Gilbert
to help people become contributors". The "mentors" term far too heavily sways the discussion toward the needs/demands of the mentor. Anyway, a major danger of bike-shedding here, but words do have significant meaning, and we should put the critical thought in to getting it right.

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

2012-01-18 Thread Michael Gilbert
ncern and as such deserves to be treated more on a case-by-case basis; rather assuming there is going to be a lot of abuse leading the discussion toward a strong a priori solution (in this case rejecting officialization of mentors). Best wishes, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-r

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

2012-01-18 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 09:27:46PM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Adam Borowski , 2012-01-18, 14:15: > >>UPLOADING PACKAGES > >>-- > >> > >>After you uploaded a package, please close the bug report by > >>sending a mail to nnn-d...@bugs.debian.org. Do not close RFS > >>bugs in debian/

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

2012-01-18 Thread Jakub Wilk
NEW queue? I'm not sure if this is what we want. Anyway, I don't think closing RFS bugs manually would be big hassle to sponsors. -- Jakub Wilk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas

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

2012-01-18 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
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