Re: "Bug of the month", or how to get people fixing bugs

2002-08-30 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 06:21:46PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sat, 31 Aug 2002, Anthony Towns wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 11:23:23AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > > - Destructive help - This person shouldn't ever touch my packages > > > > again > > >

Re: "Bug of the month", or how to get people fixing bugs

2002-08-30 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 31 Aug 2002, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 11:23:23AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > - Destructive help - This person shouldn't ever touch my packages again > > Heh. Someone fucking up bash's essential behaviour comes to mind. It > > happened once. > >

Re: "Bug of the month", or how to get people fixing bugs

2002-08-30 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 11:23:23AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > - Destructive help - This person shouldn't ever touch my packages again > Heh. Someone fucking up bash's essential behaviour comes to mind. It > happened once. Yeah, screw you too. (Actually it's happened more th

Re: admins: please clarify /etc/motd on auric

2002-08-30 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 05:49:07PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > It is far harder to remember all the timezone names, probably. Do you know > from the top of your head what is BST (or BRST as we often use it here?) Surely everyone knows that that's British Summer Time? -- "You gr

Re: admins: please clarify /etc/motd on auric

2002-08-30 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Martin Schulze wrote: > This won't change if the motd would say it's UTC-0500, nor if it would say > PDT, so why all this? If such a warning does affect us, we need to check It is far harder to remember all the timezone names, probably. Do you know from the top of your head

Re: admins: please clarify /etc/motd on auric

2002-08-30 Thread Martin Schulze
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Martin Schulze wrote: > > Branden Robinson wrote: > > > You expect me to know where all of our machines are hosted? I'm the SPI > > > Treasurer and I don't know that. Maybe Mako Hill knows. > > > > No, I only expect you to be able to type

Re: admins: please clarify /etc/motd on auric

2002-08-30 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Martin Schulze wrote: > Branden Robinson wrote: > > You expect me to know where all of our machines are hosted? I'm the SPI > > Treasurer and I don't know that. Maybe Mako Hill knows. > > No, I only expect you to be able to type date on both the remote and > the local machin

Re: admins: please clarify /etc/motd on auric

2002-08-30 Thread Martin Schulze
Branden Robinson wrote: > > Oh come on! If you ask somebody on the street for the current time, > > do you expect him to answer with a note that it's Hong Kong time instead > > of local time? What other time than local would make sense when not > > stated differently? > > You expect me to know w

Re: finding support staff

2002-08-30 Thread Martin Schulze
laurent wrote: > Hello, > > My company has just licensed a debian based software and we are > currently looking for experienced support technicians knowledgable in > debian. this is our first venture into software. my question is where do > i start looking? i just subscribed to a few mailing li

Re: admins: please clarify /etc/motd on auric

2002-08-30 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 09:13:34AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > Branden Robinson wrote: > > Please do not run personal cronjobs on auric between 14:30 and 17:30 > > > > I assume this means local time for auric, but it might be nice to add > > the timezone identifier. > > Oh come on! If you

finding support staff

2002-08-30 Thread laurent
Hello, My company has just licensed a debian based software and we are currently looking for experienced support technicians knowledgable in debian. this is our first venture into software. my question is where do i start looking? i just subscribed to a few mailing lists. pardon my lack of kn

Re: "Bug of the month", or how to get people fixing bugs

2002-08-30 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 03:45:18AM +0100, Andrew Suffield écrivait: > People register to play, and each month, all the players are given > three randomly selected bugs to tackle. Points are awarded to those I had a similar idea long ago but I never tried to do anything with it because of the possi

Re: admins: please clarify /etc/motd on auric

2002-08-30 Thread Radovan Garabik
On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 09:13:34AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > Branden Robinson wrote: > > Please do not run personal cronjobs on auric between 14:30 and 17:30 > > > > I assume this means local time for auric, but it might be nice to add > > the timezone identifier. > > Oh come on! If you

Re: "Bug of the month", or how to get people fixing bugs

2002-08-30 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Peter Makholm wrote: > Andres Salomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > fixing bugs, to simply closing them in the BTS. Sometimes, it's good to > > keep bugs open in the BTS (tagged w/ wontfix, documenting a problem that > > other people may bring up; or tagged w/ unreproducable

Re: "Bug of the month", or how to get people fixing bugs

2002-08-30 Thread Peter Makholm
Andres Salomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > fixing bugs, to simply closing them in the BTS. Sometimes, it's good to > keep bugs open in the BTS (tagged w/ wontfix, documenting a problem that > other people may bring up; or tagged w/ unreproducable, as another [...] Of course this shouldn't ch

Re: "Bug of the month", or how to get people fixing bugs

2002-08-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 12:29:22AM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote: > Interesting idea. I'd be interested in a list of the negative aspects > of this, that you came up w/. My personal feeling is against it, as it > changes the focus people have; the goal people have changes from > fixing bugs, to sim

Re: "Bug of the month", or how to get people fixing bugs

2002-08-30 Thread Torsten Landschoff
> People register to play, and each month, all the players are given > three randomly selected bugs to tackle. Points are awarded to those > whose assigned bugs get fixed during that month, with the idea being > that people would endeavour to ensure their bugs get fixed swiftly, by > whatever mea

Re: admins: please clarify /etc/motd on auric

2002-08-30 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Mark Brown wrote: > On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 09:13:34AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > > Branden Robinson wrote: > > > > I assume this means local time for auric, but it might be nice to add > > > the timezone identifier. > > > Oh come on! If you ask somebody on the street f

Re: admins: please clarify /etc/motd on auric

2002-08-30 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 09:13:34AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > Branden Robinson wrote: > > I assume this means local time for auric, but it might be nice to add > > the timezone identifier. > Oh come on! If you ask somebody on the street for the current time, > do you expect him to answer wit

Re: admins: please clarify /etc/motd on auric

2002-08-30 Thread Martin Schulze
Branden Robinson wrote: > Please do not run personal cronjobs on auric between 14:30 and 17:30 > > I assume this means local time for auric, but it might be nice to add > the timezone identifier. Oh come on! If you ask somebody on the street for the current time, do you expect him to answe

Re: "Bug of the month", or how to get people fixing bugs

2002-08-30 Thread David Schmitt
[Please Cc: me since I am not subscribed, I hope mutt figures this out] On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 03:45:18AM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > Here's the basic idea: turn bug-fixing into a game (a counterbalance > to the huge quantities of time which moon-buggy and frozen-bubble have > taken away fro