Re: BREAKING NEWS: Debian developers aren't trusted

2007-02-14 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, On Thu Feb 15, 2007 at 13:13:36 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > -vote dropped > > On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 03:06:01PM +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > > > Maintaining a buildd isn't trivial, there's: > > > > > > - making sure they don't get rooted, and their builds compromised > > >

Re: BREAKING NEWS: Debian developers aren't trusted

2007-02-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 01:13:36PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > -vote dropped > > On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 03:06:01PM +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > > i think someone running more than one autobuilder for more than _two_ > > years now (okay, not for the officical archive, but i see that as > >

Re: Criteria for a successful DPL board

2007-02-14 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > How is the current DPL board proposal different from the > project SCUD that was tried out a couple of DPL's ago? From what I > recall, project SCUD started out with a bang, but did not end up > making much of an impression on me. Give

Re: help

2007-02-14 Thread RJ Gillis
Hey guys... Thanks for all the responses and I got it figured out; my buddy went there and thought it was a Quick-time like player needed to view the page. Nothing happened and so he never told me about it. But I would think a program install would show you something...? Anyway, from reading y

Re: BREAKING NEWS: Debian developers aren't trusted

2007-02-14 Thread Anthony Towns
-vote dropped On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 03:06:01PM +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > > Maintaining a buildd isn't trivial, there's: > > > > - making sure they don't get rooted, and their builds compromised > > - keeping the chroot up to date > > - keeping in sync with w-b / sbuild chan

Re: Packages

2007-02-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 15 February 2007 00:15, joseph irvin wrote: > I would like to try Debian Linux, but don't know which packages I > need. Which packages would you recommend for the average user, > including internet, photos, email, word processing, and music? The best thing to do is probably to downloa

Packages

2007-02-14 Thread joseph irvin
I would like to try Debian Linux, but don't know which packages I need. Which packages would you recommend for the average user, including internet, photos, email, word processing, and music? Can entire packages be downloaded or do individual files need to be downloaded? thank you! Rev.

Re: Social Committee proposal text (diff)

2007-02-14 Thread Andreas Schuldei
* Wouter Verhelst ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [070213 17:18]: > "I don't like this person, but I have to work with him in this project, > so I would like to hide that fact from him/her. I don't want to rank > him/her above NOTA, but I also don't want to have to explain that" that problem can easily be av

Sponsoring

2007-02-14 Thread Alen Savic
Debian.org #REVO.gaming Alen »kobrzZz« Savic Dear Mr. or Mrs., How would it be, to become a sponsor of successful team (clan) of players playing a computer game called CALL OF DUTY? We are a group of 9 players, and we are playing for a multi-gaming clan, named #REVO.gaming. This clan is 3 yea

Re: Social Committee proposal text (diff)

2007-02-14 Thread MJ Ray
Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "I don't like this person, but I have to work with him in this project, > so I would like to hide that fact from him/her. I don't want to rank > him/her above NOTA, but I also don't want to have to explain that" So, what can one conclude about debian fr

Re: Criteria for a successful DPL board

2007-02-14 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, How is the current DPL board proposal different from the project SCUD that was tried out a couple of DPL's ago? From what I recall, project SCUD started out with a bang, but did not end up making much of an impression on me. Given that this has been tried before, and mostly did no

Re: Criteria for a successful DPL board

2007-02-14 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Anthony Towns wrote: > Grr. I shouldn't be doing this, but I can't help myself. Here's some > counterpoint to some of Raphael's points. Please consider them only > to moderate some of his claims, not necessarily to disagree with them > in principle. Heh, you're right. I tend t

Re: BREAKING NEWS: Debian developers aren't trusted

2007-02-14 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, > Maintaining a buildd isn't trivial, there's: > > - making sure they don't get rooted, and their builds compromised > - keeping the chroot up to date > - keeping in sync with w-b / sbuild changes > - keeping in sync with the infrastructure upstream (building from > incoming

Re: Criteria for a successful DPL board

2007-02-14 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 12/02/07 at 11:00 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hello, > > I've been talking about having a DPL board and I might want to go further > and try the principles out by proposing a DPL board in the upcoming > elections. So I'm explaining here how I expect such a board to work. > Feel free to comm

Re: BREAKING NEWS: Debian developers aren't trusted

2007-02-14 Thread Frank Küster
[moving this to a more appropriate list] Anthony Towns wrote: > On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 07:12:31PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 11:33:19AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: >> > On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 11:11:55PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: >> > > On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 06

Re: Criteria for a successful DPL board

2007-02-14 Thread Anthony Towns
Grr. I shouldn't be doing this, but I can't help myself. Here's some counterpoint to some of Raphael's points. Please consider them only to moderate some of his claims, not necessarily to disagree with them in principle. On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 08:55:10AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > But you're