On Wed, 19 May 2010, David D Lowe wrote:
Dear mentors,
I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.3.1-2
of my package "ooo-thumbnailer".
This new upstream version is a significant change from 0.2: it handles
Microsoft Office files, using unoconv and gsf-office-thumbnailer for
the additio
Hi all,
I'm going on holiday in Kuala Lumpur and Singapore from tomorrow until
June 1. So I won't be able to sponsor any packages during that period.
I've been enthusiastically offering to review packages for a few people,
but it'll have to wait until then!
(but if you live near Kuala Lumpu
On Sun, 13 Jun 2010, Paul Wise wrote:
Please don't send HTML mail on Debian lists:
http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct
Hi Paul,
Sorry to dig up an old thread. I'm confused by your message.
As far as I can tell, the original poster sent a multipart message, with a
text part an
On Wed, 14 Jul 2010, Michael Gilbert wrote:
Hi,
I have the following packages currently prepared and am waiting for
review by interested sponsors. Some of these have been pending since
December 2009).
xpdf (http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/x/xpdf):
- I adopted this package a few mon
On Tue, 20 Jul 2010, Henrik null wrote:
Hi!
My name is Henrik. I have almost two years of experience of
object-oriented programming and feel comfortable with Java, C#/C++,
Python, MATLAB, GTK and Java Swing. Next month I will start my education
to Master of Science in Engeneering at the Roy
Hey all,
I wonder -- are there any Debian mentees in the Philadelphia or Boston
areas?
I currently live in Philly and am moving to Somerville (near Boston) in
September. I've found it difficult to consistently mentor and sponsor
packages from people far away from me, but I think that if a me
On Mon, 16 Aug 2010, Marcus Better wrote:
Hi,
I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 5.11+dfsg-2 of my package
"testng".
Hey Marcus,
Have you talked with the Debian Java team about this? If not, take a look
at http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/JavaPackaging and introduce yourself to
the
Hey everyone,
Niels Thykier and I were talking on #debian-mentors. I was saying that I
find the debian-mentors list kind of lonely and impersonal -- it's mostly
RFSs, and so many emails don't even get an answer.
How depressing!
So I was thinking it would be nice if every email thread got a p
On Sat, 2 Oct 2010, David D Lowe wrote:
Hello Asheesh.
As a mentee, this sounds like a great idea. It can get quite
discouraging when you don't get any replies to your RFS. I like the
implicit permission to remind people of your RFS after four days. So
far, I haven't dared to do that: I've j
Hi Michael! Just a few responses... I think the thread that followed
answered a lot of your general questions, but I wanted to be sure you
understood where I am coming from.
On Sun, 3 Oct 2010, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
- As a mentor, as far as RFS are concerned, I can only work on packages w
On Mon, 4 Oct 2010, Ben Finney wrote:
Asheesh Laroia writes:
Since we agree on that general point, can you be the watchdog -- that
is, if we try removing pain points that are necessary or useful, can
you specifically identify them and remind us why they're worth
keeping?
Thanks fo
On Mon, 4 Oct 2010, Ben Finney wrote:
Asheesh Laroia writes:
On Mon, 4 Oct 2010, Ben Finney wrote:
So when we identify a point of pain, I think it's essential to ask:
is this pain necessary to the learning process for this person?
Ben, I'm not sure what you're saying.
On Mon, 4 Oct 2010, Ben Finney wrote:
Michael Gilbert writes:
As someone who has attempted to go through the mentoring process, I
agree very much that it is rather depressing.
How much of that is actually a problem, though? How much is an integral
part of gaining humility as to the state of
On Sun, 3 Oct 2010, Tony Houghton wrote:
Dear mentors,
I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.18.5-3
of my package "roxterm".
It builds these binary packages:
roxterm- Multi-tabbed GTK/VTE terminal emulator
The package appears to be lintian clean.
The upload would fix these bug
On Tue, 5 Oct 2010, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
[...]
I think a possibly good solution would be to set up a
mentors.debian.net bug page (similar to other debian resources such as
[0]). That would make it much clearer which mentoring tasks are still
open. It would also make it possible categor
On Tue, 5 Oct 2010, Johan Van de Wauw wrote:
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 1:00 AM, Asheesh Laroia wrote:
And what other cultural improvements can we make to debian-mentors? What
else can we do to make this place supportive and helpful for the progress of
y'all mentees into sparkly D
On Mon, 4 Oct 2010, Michal Čihař wrote:
Lack of interested mentors is indeed an issue. Nobody has unlimited time
and chooses what attracts him. For me it usually means things I know and
test or which I find interesting after reading RFS email.
It is. At the same time, I think that we can incr
Michael, thanks for suggesting new ideas even in the face of people making
fun of you. It shows that you care about Debian, and I appreciate that.
On Tue, 5 Oct 2010, Michael Gilbert wrote:
One is to use the mentors mailing list as the maintainer for mentee
packages. That way the burden of qu
On Tue, 5 Oct 2010, Matthew Palmer wrote:
To clarify: the intended point of this proposal is to solve the
perceived problem that DDs don't sponsor packages because they're
concerned that they'll end up taking responsibility for a package if the
maintainer ups and leaves?
I don't actually see
Niels wrote up a script that checks the debian-mentors archives for
unanswered messages.
I set up a nightly job that runs it on the October mailbox.
You can see it at http://rose.makesad.us/~paulproteus/four-days/.
(I'll move it to people.debian.org somewhat shortly.)
Note that if we answer a
On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, Charles Plessy wrote:
Le Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 11:08:05AM -0400, Asheesh Laroia a écrit :
It's a really good idea... maybe I should actually ask my sponsorees to
review other people's packages on the debian-mentors list as a sort of
social "trade" --
On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, Kartik Mistry wrote:
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Asheesh Laroia wrote:
Niels wrote up a script that checks the debian-mentors archives for
unanswered messages.
I set up a nightly job that runs it on the October mailbox.
Nice work - Asheesh and Niels!
Can this be
Hey all!
In the next month, we're all going to get Debexpo running as an
alternative to mentors.debian.net. I'm going to revive this project, and I
need some help. (I'm cross-posting; I've set the Reply-To header so that
replies go the debexpo devel list.)
We're going to get it on the web, i
On Fri, 8 Oct 2010, Joachim Langenbach wrote:
Good evening,
I'm trying to package Meganizer (a software from us) for Debian. Since
my goal is the upload into the debian archives, I want to produce a good
package. But first, what is Meganizer:
Meganizer is an application based on Qt to manag
On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, Charles Plessy wrote:
Le Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 06:41:18AM +1100, Matthew Palmer a écrit :
On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 11:11:49AM -0400, Asheesh Laroia wrote:
in the first place.
Matthew -- sounds like you've identified a commonly-asked question that
has an answer. Woul
On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, Matthew Palmer wrote:
On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 11:11:49AM -0400, Asheesh Laroia wrote:
On Tue, 5 Oct 2010, Matthew Palmer wrote:
To clarify: the intended point of this proposal is to solve the
perceived problem that DDs don't sponsor packages because they're
conc
On Sun, 10 Oct 2010, Innocent De Marchi wrote:
Dear mentors,
I am looking for a sponsor for my package "peg-solitaire".
* Package name: peg-solitaire
Version : 1.0-0.1
Upstream Author : Innocent De Marchi
* URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/peg-solitaire/
* Licen
On Sat, 9 Oct 2010, Rustom Mody wrote:
On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Paul Wise wrote:
On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Rustom Mody wrote:
For example here are a couple of my last questions there:
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=55938
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f
On Sat, 9 Oct 2010, Kevin Lamonte wrote:
On Oct 5, 2010, at 2:40 PM, Don Armstrong wrote:
We probably should do a better job of identifying these packages and
responding to the RFS to tell people that it's of questionable
importance (or clearly no importance) and then channeling them into
assi
On Tue, 12 Oct 2010, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
On 11 October 2010 20:28, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
In , Jordi
Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
On 11 October 2010 12:11, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
wrote:
It gets used as "unstable+1" during the freeze, since there's no better
place.
So why n
On Mon, 11 Oct 2010, Mònica wrote:
Dear mentors,
I am looking for a sponsor for a new version 0.9.6-3
of the package "c2html".
Hi Mònica,
Thanks for doing this! The best place to find people who are interested in
maintenance on orphaned packages is the QA Team.
http://wiki.debian.org/qa.d
On Mon, 11 Oct 2010, Russ Allbery wrote:
Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso writes:
I guess so, although I don't personally even use unstable myself for the
aforementioned reasons. However, unstable is used as the "desktop"
version of Debian by a large number of users, and the awkward
development it get
On Tue, 12 Oct 2010, Paul Wise wrote:
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Asheesh Laroia wrote:
* Firefox 3.6 has faster JavaScript, which is the difference between this
page being usable, and it not: http://openhatch.org/people/. (Admittedly
that's a site under my control, so I can impro
On Thu, 14 Oct 2010, Paul Wise wrote:
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 7:08 PM, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
Exactly. Same here. Isn't there a gnome team? That should become more
active in sponsoring then.
They probably have enough packages to upload and bugs to triage, best
not overload them more.
On Mon, 18 Oct 2010, Laszlo Boszormenyi wrote:
Hi Sage,
On Sun, 2010-10-17 at 14:33 -0700, Sage Weil wrote:
I am looking for a sponsor for my package "ceph".
I was going to make a package of ceph, so I would be happy to be your
sponsor.
Yay! I hope this works out.
The package appears to b
On Fri, 15 Oct 2010, Luca Bertoletti wrote:
Hello I'm italian linux users.I worked for erickson and I studied I.T at
Università di Milano Bicocca.
I know shell scripting and this programmation languages: pyton, perl, java,
c, c++ and for the dbms sql languages.
I want to know if I want to became
On Sun, 24 Oct 2010, Etienne Millon wrote:
Dear mentors,
I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 5.13-8
of my package "mn-fit".
It builds these binary packages:
mn-fit - interactive analysis package for fitting data and histograms
mn-fit-common - common files for Mn_Fit
mn-fit-dev -
On Sun, 31 Oct 2010, Charles Plessy wrote:
Le Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 09:59:45PM +0200, Michael Tautschnig a écrit :
I think this is a superb step in the right direction; while clearly the list on
mentors.debian.net, as suggested in another email in this thread, is the more
comprehensive list of
On Sat, 30 Oct 2010, Niels Thykier wrote:
On 2010-10-30 08:59, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
[...]
One technical question, however, remains: Could we have some list of packages
that remain to be reviewed? Just telling people "please review some package" is
pretty awkward...
Best regards,
Michael
On Tue, 2 Nov 2010, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
[...]
I think that, as far as false positives: we should just reply to all the
messages. For better or for worse, people will look at mailing list archives
and get a feel for what our community is like. (That's my opinion, anyway.)
It's clear to m
On Wed, 3 Nov 2010, Charles Plessy wrote:
Le Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 11:00:23PM -0400, Asheesh Laroia a écrit :
On Sun, 31 Oct 2010, Charles Plessy wrote:
RFS has something similar in concept to pull requests. How about including in
the RFS emails a link to the most relevant diff in the web
Hey all,
As promised ([0] and [1]), I put debexpo on the web by November 5. It's
online at http://expo.debian.net/.
Here's what I'm thinking:
It looks nice, and some features work
-
Wow, http://expo.debian.net/ has some nice color, and a pretty cool
logo.
On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, David Nelson wrote:
Hi, :-)
I'm a member of the LibreOffice community. LibreOffice (LibO) is the
office suite project of The Document Foundation (TDF), the
community-driven organization that recently forked from the
Oracle-managed OpenOffice.org project.
TDF/LibO is cu
Some updates from my debexpo work this morning:
(I'm CC:ing debian-mentors so people there know what's up.)
* I see that Andrey has rebased his patches onto the current git repo on
Alioth. Yay!
* We have a Jenkins instance that will notice git updates and
automatically build debexpo. Right n
Hi everyone on debian-mentors,
I wanted to send a special invitation for new contributors to Debian: Come
to Debconf and Debcamp! Even if you're not a Debian Developer yet.
Here are the things you need to know:
* Debconf is a week-long conference (this year, in Banja Luka, in Bosnia)
where m
On Sun, 8 May 2011, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
Dear mentors,
I am looking for a sponsor for my package "kildclient".
* Package name: kildclient
Version : 2.11.0-1
Upstream Author : me (Eduardo M Kalinowski)
* URL : http://kildclient.sourceforge.net/
* License
On Sat, 7 May 2011, Asheesh Laroia wrote:
Hi everyone on debian-mentors,
I wanted to send a special invitation for new contributors to Debian:
Come to Debconf and Debcamp! Even if you're not a Debian Developer yet.
One more plug for this: We'll help pay for you.
http://www.debia
On Thu, 2 Jun 2011, Andrea Corbellini wrote:
Dear mentors,
I am looking for a sponsor for my package "pyflakes3k".
* Package name: pyflakes3k
Version : 0.4.1-1
Upstream Author : Virgil Dupras
* URL : https://bitbucket.org/hsoft/pyflakes3k
* License : MIT
Sect
On Mon, 6 Jun 2011, Filip Brcic wrote:
Just bumping the thread.
I would really appreciate if somebody would sponsor the serbian support for
aspell package. The package itself is mostly identical to any other aspell-*
package, so too much reviewing shouldn't be necessary, I think.
This is grea
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011, Hendrik Rittich wrote:
Dear mentors,
I am looking for a sponsor for my package "gogglesmm".
* Package name: gogglesmm
Version : 0.12.2-5
Upstream Author : Hendrik Rittich
* URL : http://code.google.com/p/gogglesmm/
* License : GPLv3
Sect
On 06/11/2011 03:24 PM, Ryan Tandy wrote:
Dear mentors and ARM porters,
I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 3.4-1
of my package "micro-evtd".
It builds these binary packages:
micro-evtd - Linkstation Pro/Kurobox Pro special features support
micro-evtd-udeb - Linkstation Pro/Kurobox P
Hi all people on debian-mentors,
Debexpo is a replacement for http://mentors.debian.net/. I hereby request
testers! It is of "beta" quality -- I think it works fully and has enough
features to replace mentors.debian.net.
It has the following improvements over http://mentors.debian.net/ :
* M
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Julien Valroff wrote:
Hi Asheesh,
Le mardi 26 juil. 2011 à 19:55:00 (+0200 CEST), Asheesh Laroia a écrit :
Hi all people on debian-mentors,
Debexpo is a replacement for http://mentors.debian.net/. I hereby
request testers! It is of "beta" quality -- I thin
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Kilian Krause wrote:
Hi,
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 08:37:36PM +0200, Julien Valroff wrote:
It may also help to know whether the package is already in Debian (with
a link to packages.d.o in order to know more about the history of the
uploads) or if it is a new package.
pack
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Kilian Krause wrote:
Hi Asheesh,
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 04:01:26PM -0400, Asheesh Laroia wrote:
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Kilian Krause wrote:
[...]
* whether or not the orig.tar.gz is original
How do we detect this programmatically?
Thanks for taking the time to even
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Ben Finney wrote:
Asheesh Laroia writes:
Debexpo is a replacement for http://mentors.debian.net/. I hereby
request testers! It is of "beta" quality -- I think it works fully and
has enough features to replace mentors.debian.net.
Like many people, I have fa
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Asheesh Laroia wrote:
* Please tell me if there are features we need before it can replace
mentors.debian.net.
Arno found one showstopper bug, and I just fixed it.
If there are any others, let me know. Otherwise, about 24 hours from now,
I plan to ask signum if we can
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Julian Mehnle wrote:
Asheesh Laroia wrote:
If there are any others, let me know. Otherwise, about 24 hours from
now, I plan to ask signum if we can turn mentors.debian.net off, and
make it a debexpo instance.
That will mean losing the existing uploaded packages. But I
Hi all,
A few brief updates on expo.debian.net:
* I intend to import the passwords and accounts and packages from
mentors.debian.net.
* expo.debian.net has had a bunch of bugs fixed.
* The canonical place for getting the code is the git.debian.org
repository that http://wiki.debian.org/Debe
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Edgar Antonio Palma de la Cruz wrote:
Dear mentors,
I am looking for a sponsor for my package "wizznic".
* Package name: wizznic
Version : 0.9.2-preview2-1
Upstream Author : Jimmy Christensen
* URL : http://sf.net/wizznic/
* License : GPL
On Thu, 7 Jul 2011, Paul Wise wrote:
It is rare to see an RFS that says "The package appears to be lintian
clean." and the package (especially binary ones) actually be lintian
clean. If we were to change the RFS template, what could we change it to
in order to encourage accuracy and for people
Hi all debian-mentors people,
The Debexpo code is just about ready for prime-time. We're doing the
migration now.
Here's the plans for mentors.debian.net's migration onto newer software
called debexpo:
* I'm importing all the data onto expo.debian.net over the next day.
* Once Christoph Ha
On Wed, 10 Aug 2011, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
Hi Asheesh,
[...]
If you upload a new package to mentors.debian.net before the end of
Thu Aug 11, then your package might get lost. If you find that's the
case, just re-upload it.
Couldn't you put a big fat banner on mentors.debian.net during
On Thu, 11 Aug 2011, Ben Finney wrote:
Asheesh Laroia writes:
* I'm importing all the data onto expo.debian.net over the next day.
[…]
Here's what to expect, by the end of Thu Aug 11:
Please note times in UTC, so users around the globe can know when you
mean :-)
Okay!
As
Excerpts from Antonio Valentino's message of Sat Aug 13 07:09:57 -0400 2011:
> Hi mentors,
> I have a package (pyepr) that provides a small python extension written
> in cython.
> The upstream source includes a test suite that needs some data to be
> downloaded from the internet (398K) using wget.
Excerpts from Torquil Macdonald Sørensen's message of Sun Aug 14 08:30:18 -0400
2011:
> Hi!
>
> Could someone please point me to documentation that explains how to download
> source packages from mentors.debian.net?
>
> I've tried adding:
>
> deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian/ unstable
Excerpts from Torquil Macdonald Sørensen's message of Sun Aug 14 08:30:18 -0400
2011:
> Hi!
>
> Could someone please point me to documentation that explains how to download
> source packages from mentors.debian.net?
>
> I've tried adding:
>
> deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian/ unstable
Excerpts from Stanislav Maslovski's message of Sat Aug 13 06:12:53 -0400 2011:
> On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 01:48:31PM +0400, Stanislav Maslovski wrote:
> > I guess, the HTTP-based method does not have this absurd 30 minutes
> > long delay... Trying to login and sort things out...
>
> Noticed one mor
On Sat, 13 Aug 2011, Stanislav Maslovski wrote:
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 04:50:42AM -0400, Asheesh Laroia wrote:
As of Thu Aug 11 08:47:29 UTC 2011, mentors.debian.net now runs the
Debexpo code.
FTP upload should be working. There is a cron job that looks for
FTP-based uploads every 30 minutes
Excerpts from Hendrik Rittich's message of Sun Aug 21 18:16:15 -0400 2011:
>
> Dear mentors,
>
> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "gogglesmm".
>
> * Package name: gogglesmm
>Version : 0.12.3-1
>Upstream Author : Sander Jansen
> * URL : http://code.goog
Excerpts from Jan-Hendrik (hennr) Peters's message of Mon Aug 22 07:47:10 -0400
2011:
> Dear mentors,
>
> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "flare".
> It's a diablo like rpg game with complete free art and code.
> This is my first package, hope it's ok ;)
That's really exciting! I sugges
Excerpts from Gergely Nagy's message of Sun Aug 28 16:13:55 -0400 2011:
> Hi!
>
> The Q&A on mentors.d.n wasn't quite clear on whom I shall contact in
> cases like this, but figured there's no harm asking on -mentors@ either:
Hi there! If it's a support question, which this mostly is, then I sugg
Excerpts from Leonardo Marín's message of Sat Sep 10 15:42:54 -0400 2011:
> Dear mentors,
>
> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "decibel-audio-player".
>
> * Package name : decibel-audio-player
> Version : 1.07-1
> Upstream Author : Ingelrest Francois
> * URL
Excerpts from Arno Töll's message of Fri Sep 30 11:30:49 -0400 2011:
> Finally, a random poll: Are you bored from announcements like this, I
> make on this mailing list regarding Debexpo software updates and bugs
> since that's not /entirely/ on-topic here and you would hence prefer to
> use our o
Excerpts from Michael Gilbert's message of Fri Nov 04 21:40:58 -0400 2011:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to make use of the mentors soap interface, but it seems to
> be broken. I've tried both python-soappy and python-suds and get
> different errors for each. Here is the output of the attached scripts
>
On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 8:59 PM, T o n g wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to separate gpg signing from package building?
>
> As I'm still trying to learn Debian package building, I've found myself
> fallen into this silly loop many times -- Thinking that the package would
> be fine, I build it wit
Hi Luis!
On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 9:45 AM, Luis Ángel San Martín Rodríguez <
luisange...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to know if anyone is interested in maintain the .deb package
> for YACReader (www.yacreader.com). Right now, and thanks to a
> contributor, the project has a beta packa
Hi Raaj + bug,
I noticed that some of the areas of the template aren't filled in, such as:
* "your most recent changelog entry"
* "[fill in name and email of upstream]"
And so on.
Can you send a follow-up mail to the bug with that information? If so, I'll
be happy to take a look at this.
I'm
Welcome!
On Thu, Nov 8, 2018, 1:24 PM Robert Arkiletian wrote:
> Hi my name is Robert Arkiletian. I teach high school Computer Science
> in Canada. I need the "python-fltk" package
> https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/pyfltk for myself and my students. I
> notice it's currently unmaintained so I'm
Hi all debian-mentors people,
I'm proposing a session at Debconf and wanted to mention that, take
feedback, and look for ways to collaborate with others. Here's the
details.
I chatted briefly with Molly de Blanc about it, and I can take feedback or
make edits if people have feedback. If pe
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