Re: Looking for an advocate

2005-02-24 Thread Nico Golde
Hallo Matthew, * Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-02-24 14:26]: > On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 01:46:24PM +0100, Nico Golde wrote: > > Hello Matthew, > > > > * Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-02-23 11:04]: > > > On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 10:12:19AM +0100, Nico Golde wrote: > > > > * Sha

Re: Looking for an advocate

2005-02-23 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 01:46:24PM +0100, Nico Golde wrote: > Hello Matthew, > > * Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-02-23 11:04]: > > On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 10:12:19AM +0100, Nico Golde wrote: > > > * Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-02-23 09:52]: > > > > For those so versed in t

Re: Looking for an advocate

2005-02-23 Thread Nico Golde
Hello Matthew, * Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-02-23 11:04]: > On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 10:12:19AM +0100, Nico Golde wrote: > > * Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-02-23 09:52]: > > > For those so versed in the jargon soup that the last sentence did not > > > sound strange to >

Re: Looking for an advocate

2005-02-23 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 10:12:19AM +0100, Nico Golde wrote: > * Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-02-23 09:52]: > > For those so versed in the jargon soup that the last sentence did not sound > > strange to > > them, it was supposed to be ironic (despite being factually true). > > yes i

Re: Looking for an advocate

2005-02-23 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 10.12, Nico Golde wrote: > yes i know this problem too. at the beginning of my debian > envolvement i had big problems with it to. i know there are > many places which explain dam, am etc. but i think it would > be great to have a list with this acronyms on a special

Re: Looking for an advocate

2005-02-23 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Tuesday 22 February 2005 21.51, Christoph Berg wrote: > Speaking as someone who recently passed the NM queue (I'm waiting for > DAM approval), I can say that the best way to get used to all stuff is > to just use it. I've been using Debian for several years now, and have > been hanging around i

Re: Looking for an advocate

2005-02-23 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, * Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-02-23 09:52]: > Nico Golde wrote: > >[...] > >It seems that many people don't see this document. Maybe it > >would be a good choice to include it as a special part in > >the NMG? > >Regards Nico > > > As someone who has only recently tried to scale t

Re: Looking for an advocate

2005-02-22 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Shachar Shemesh wrote: > There is a document on the site, though I couldn't find it the last > five times I looked for it, explaining a step-by-step in creating a > deb. This one should be the first one up there. And if you find it, > do send me a link. I don't think I need it any more (my package

Re: Looking for an advocate

2005-02-22 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Steve Kemp wrote: If you have constructive comments on how the pages could be improved for new maintainers they would be greatfully received either here on on the mailing list for website development, debian-www. Hmm, that's tough. To this point, I'm not sure I know everything that is there.

Re: Looking for an advocate

2005-02-22 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Shachar Shemesh in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > As someone who has only recently tried to scale the "new developer" > documentation, I can tell you that there is room for improvement. I have > been going over those docs several times in the past few days, and each > time I find myself lost in front

Re: Looking for an advocate

2005-02-22 Thread Steve Kemp
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 10:24:27PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Personally, I think it's a shame. Then again, I > have not (yet, I hope) earned for my key to be placed in the Debian key > ring, so one may say I have not earned the right to complain. I think that's exactly backwards. Most

Re: Looking for an advocate

2005-02-22 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Nico Golde wrote: [...] It seems that many people don't see this document. Maybe it would be a good choice to include it as a special part in the NMG? Regards Nico As someone who has only recently tried to scale the "new developer" documentation, I can tell you that there is room for improvemen

Re: Looking for an advocate

2005-02-20 Thread Nico Golde
Hello Matthew, * Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-02-20 12:01]: > On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 05:28:21PM +0100, Martin Theiss wrote: > > > On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 11:42:44AM +0100, Martin Theiss wrote: > > > > my name is Martin Theiss and I am looking for an ad

Re: Looking for an advocate

2005-02-19 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 05:28:21PM +0100, Martin Theiss wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 11:42:44AM +0100, Martin Theiss wrote: > > > my name is Martin Theiss and I am looking for an advocate who will guide > > > me > > > through the new maintainer process.

Re: Looking for an advocate

2005-02-19 Thread Martin Theiss
Hi Matthew Palmer, *, Matthew Palmer wrote: > On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 11:42:44AM +0100, Martin Theiss wrote: > > my name is Martin Theiss and I am looking for an advocate who will guide me > > through the new maintainer process. > > http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/de

Re: Looking for an advocate

2005-02-19 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 11:42:44AM +0100, Martin Theiss wrote: > my name is Martin Theiss and I am looking for an advocate who will guide me > through the new maintainer process. http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html You don't ask random people off the street to a

Looking for an advocate

2005-02-19 Thread Martin Theiss
Hi, my name is Martin Theiss and I am looking for an advocate who will guide me through the new maintainer process. Currently I am maintaining wininfo and will maintain nxtvepg, which is currently maintained by Gerd Knorr. I'm also very interested in openldap2, which is very out of date a

Sponsor request : looking for an advocate to become an mgs packager

2002-09-07 Thread Olivier Michel
Hi ! I have packaged the mgs language, a new language for the simulation of dynamical systems. The project home page is http://mgs.lami.univ-evry.fr and the distribution can be found at http://mgs.lami.univ-evry.fr/Distributions/ in both POTATO and WOODY version (with a problem on the POTATO ver

Sponsor request : looking for an advocate to become an mgs packager

2002-09-07 Thread Olivier Michel
Hi ! I have packaged the mgs language, a new language for the simulation of dynamical systems. The project home page is http://mgs.lami.univ-evry.fr and the distribution can be found at http://mgs.lami.univ-evry.fr/Distributions/ in both POTATO and WOODY version (with a problem on the POTATO ve

Re: Looking for an advocate to become "taper"-maintainer

2002-09-02 Thread Craig Small
On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 09:18:15PM +0200, Markus Kolb wrote: > my intention is to adopt the taper-Package. > I just package the new taper upstream release. > Well, to start the NM-process and become a new maintainer I need an > advocate. > Is anyone interested in doing this for me? > I'd be very ha

Re: Looking for an advocate to become "taper"-maintainer

2002-09-02 Thread Craig Small
On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 09:18:15PM +0200, Markus Kolb wrote: > my intention is to adopt the taper-Package. > I just package the new taper upstream release. > Well, to start the NM-process and become a new maintainer I need an > advocate. > Is anyone interested in doing this for me? > I'd be very h

Looking for an advocate to become "taper"-maintainer

2002-09-02 Thread Markus Kolb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, my intention is to adopt the taper-Package. I just package the new taper upstream release. Well, to start the NM-process and become a new maintainer I need an advocate. Is anyone interested in doing this for me? I'd be very happy if waiting has a

Looking for an advocate to become "taper"-maintainer

2002-09-02 Thread Markus Kolb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, my intention is to adopt the taper-Package. I just package the new taper upstream release. Well, to start the NM-process and become a new maintainer I need an advocate. Is anyone interested in doing this for me? I'd be very happy if waiting has a

Looking for an advocate

2002-08-26 Thread Markus Kolb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I want to become a Debian developer and so I am looking for an advocate for me. I propose to adopt the taper package from Piotr Roszatycki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. He got an email with my intention in the early morning of Aug 25th. Hope to

Looking for an advocate

2002-08-26 Thread Markus Kolb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I want to become a Debian developer and so I am looking for an advocate for me. I propose to adopt the taper package from Piotr Roszatycki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. He got an email with my intention in the early morning of Aug 25th. Hope to

Re: Looking for an advocate

2002-08-23 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 10:52:35PM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > Jens> I would like to be a full-blown Debian Developer, and therefore > Jens> I need an advocate. I maintain the following packages (see > Jens> http://www.diku.dk/~jpsecher/debian.html) > > Jens> My short-term plans are to get m

Re: Looking for an advocate

2002-08-23 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Jens> I would like to be a full-blown Debian Developer, and therefore Jens> I need an advocate. I maintain the following packages (see Jens> http://www.diku.dk/~jpsecher/debian.html) Jens> My short-term plans are to get mosml (a compiler) out of nonfree If you succeed that would be really great

Re: Looking for an advocate

2002-08-22 Thread Jens Peter Secher
> I suppose that mosml is moscow ML, based on the caml-light engine, but > using the SML syntax ? > If so, i suppose the non-freeness comes from the moscow ML guys reusing > the caml-light engine, [...] > caml-light was later replaced by ocaml, which, after various tries > finally got released und

Re: Looking for an advocate

2002-08-22 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 11:49:50AM +0200, Jens Peter Secher wrote: > > I would like to be a full-blown Debian Developer, and therefore I need > an advocate. I maintain the following packages (see > http://www.diku.dk/~jpsecher/debian.html) > > changetrack > libfile-ncopy-perl >

Looking for an advocate

2002-08-22 Thread Jens Peter Secher
I would like to be a full-blown Debian Developer, and therefore I need an advocate. I maintain the following packages (see http://www.diku.dk/~jpsecher/debian.html) changetrack libfile-ncopy-perl sml-mode buddy mosml (nonfree) mosml-libs mu

Re: Looking for an advocate

2002-08-22 Thread Jens Peter Secher
> I suppose that mosml is moscow ML, based on the caml-light engine, but > using the SML syntax ? > If so, i suppose the non-freeness comes from the moscow ML guys reusing > the caml-light engine, [...] > caml-light was later replaced by ocaml, which, after various tries > finally got released un

Re: Looking for an advocate

2002-08-22 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 11:49:50AM +0200, Jens Peter Secher wrote: > > I would like to be a full-blown Debian Developer, and therefore I need > an advocate. I maintain the following packages (see > http://www.diku.dk/~jpsecher/debian.html) > > changetrack > libfile-ncopy-perl >

Looking for an advocate

2002-08-22 Thread Jens Peter Secher
I would like to be a full-blown Debian Developer, and therefore I need an advocate. I maintain the following packages (see http://www.diku.dk/~jpsecher/debian.html) changetrack libfile-ncopy-perl sml-mode buddy mosml (nonfree) mosml-libs m

Re: Prospective developer looking for an advocate

2002-07-16 Thread Scott Dier
* Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020716 13:58]: > would like to get it signed. However, I'm currently bouncing between > Appleton, WI and Omaha, NE, and so it's difficult to schedule anything If you ever make it up near Minneapolis give me a ring. I'll try to keep you in mind if I make it tow

Re: Prospective developer looking for an advocate

2002-07-16 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 01:58:06PM -0500, Joe Wreschnig wrote: > I'm interested in becoming a Debian developer. I have several years of > experience in using Debian, and about a year of experience in packaging > and maintaining my own software, as well as some other software I find > useful. I hav

Re: Prospective developer looking for an advocate

2002-07-16 Thread Scott Dier
* Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020716 13:58]: > would like to get it signed. However, I'm currently bouncing between > Appleton, WI and Omaha, NE, and so it's difficult to schedule anything If you ever make it up near Minneapolis give me a ring. I'll try to keep you in mind if I make it to

Re: Prospective developer looking for an advocate

2002-07-16 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 01:58:06PM -0500, Joe Wreschnig wrote: > I'm interested in becoming a Debian developer. I have several years of > experience in using Debian, and about a year of experience in packaging > and maintaining my own software, as well as some other software I find > useful. I ha

Prospective developer looking for an advocate

2002-07-16 Thread Joe Wreschnig
Hi all, I'm interested in becoming a Debian developer. I have several years of experience in using Debian, and about a year of experience in packaging and maintaining my own software, as well as some other software I find useful. I have my own APT archive available at http://www.sacredchao.net/sof

Prospective developer looking for an advocate

2002-07-16 Thread Joe Wreschnig
Hi all, I'm interested in becoming a Debian developer. I have several years of experience in using Debian, and about a year of experience in packaging and maintaining my own software, as well as some other software I find useful. I have my own APT archive available at http://www.sacredchao.net/so

Re: looking for an advocate

2002-01-07 Thread Patrice Neff
Robert Bihlmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I common approach is to produce one or more packages so that potential > advocates can judge your abilities "from afar". You mean something like that? ;-) patrice

Re: looking for an advocate

2002-01-07 Thread Patrice Neff
Robert Bihlmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I common approach is to produce one or more packages so that potential > advocates can judge your abilities "from afar". You mean something like that? ;-) patrice -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: looking for an advocate

2002-01-07 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Patrice Neff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > You are correct, that would be wise. Do you know any developers personally? > > No, I don't know anyone yet. So I'm still looking. I common approach is to produce one or more packages so that potential advocates can judge your abilities "from afar".

Re: looking for an advocate

2002-01-07 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Patrice Neff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > You are correct, that would be wise. Do you know any developers personally? > > No, I don't know anyone yet. So I'm still looking. I common approach is to produce one or more packages so that potential advocates can judge your abilities "from afar".

Re: looking for an advocate

2002-01-06 Thread Patrice Neff
Adam McKenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You are correct, that would be wise. Do you know any developers personally? No, I don't know anyone yet. So I'm still looking. patrice

Re: looking for an advocate

2002-01-06 Thread Patrice Neff
Adam McKenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You are correct, that would be wise. Do you know any developers personally? No, I don't know anyone yet. So I'm still looking. patrice -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: looking for an advocate

2002-01-05 Thread Adam McKenna
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 01:30:36PM +0100, Patrice Neff wrote: > Adam McKenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > First of all, please don't advocate on your page that people put your site > > in > > their apt sources list. This is bad security practice. Most people know > > this but some do not.

Re: looking for an advocate

2002-01-05 Thread Adam McKenna
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 01:30:36PM +0100, Patrice Neff wrote: > Adam McKenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > First of all, please don't advocate on your page that people put your site in > > their apt sources list. This is bad security practice. Most people know > > this but some do not. > >

Re: looking for an advocate

2002-01-04 Thread Patrice Neff
Adam McKenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > First of all, please don't advocate on your page that people put your site in > their apt sources list. This is bad security practice. Most people know > this but some do not. This sound reasonable. I have removed the links to this page, so it's curren

Re: looking for an advocate

2002-01-04 Thread Patrice Neff
Adam McKenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > First of all, please don't advocate on your page that people put your site in > their apt sources list. This is bad security practice. Most people know > this but some do not. This sound reasonable. I have removed the links to this page, so it's curre

Re: looking for an advocate

2002-01-03 Thread Adam McKenna
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 09:41:43PM +0100, Patrice Neff wrote: > Hi all, > > I have created some Debian packages. You can have a look at > . > All of these packages are lintian clean and I have laboured a bit to > get a nice package.

looking for an advocate

2002-01-03 Thread Patrice Neff
Hi all, I have created some Debian packages. You can have a look at . All of these packages are lintian clean and I have laboured a bit to get a nice package. I now think they are quite ok. So I'm asking for someone to have a look at

Re: looking for an advocate

2002-01-03 Thread Adam McKenna
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 09:41:43PM +0100, Patrice Neff wrote: > Hi all, > > I have created some Debian packages. You can have a look at > . > All of these packages are lintian clean and I have laboured a bit to > get a nice package.

looking for an advocate

2002-01-03 Thread Patrice Neff
Hi all, I have created some Debian packages. You can have a look at . All of these packages are lintian clean and I have laboured a bit to get a nice package. I now think they are quite ok. So I'm asking for someone to have a look a