Re: DEP5: reasons for not pushing Bazaar changes to Subversion

2010-12-23 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 03:36:11PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > I honestly have had a hard time following the discussion here on the > mailinglist due to not easily being able to see our "whiteboard" of > the progressing draft. If everyone else involved (in _developing_ the > DEP - use of it is

Re: DEP5: reasons for not pushing Bazaar changes to Subversion

2010-12-23 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 08:20:26PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 09:55:59AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit : Half-baked versions of the format, not really controlled by anyone, have been floating around for a long while. Dear Stefano and everybody, In a first devel

Re: dep5, whats the status? Re: DEP5: reasons for not pushing Bazaar changes to Subversion

2010-12-23 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Thursday 23 December 2010 12:51:59 Lars Wirzenius wrote: > I, personally, think it would be better to wait for the first version of > DEP5 that is marked CANDIDATE, which I intend to announce on > debian-devel-announce. Hopefully that will happen quite soon. Those who > already use some revision

Re: dep5, whats the status?

2010-12-23 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 11:51:59 +, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > Those who > already use some revision, such as pkg-perl, should stick to what they > are using now. Agreed, and the fact that r135 in svn hasn't changed for some time (and the development happened somewhere else) was actually helpful for

Re: dep5, whats the status? Re: DEP5: reasons for not pushing Bazaar changes to Subversion

2010-12-23 Thread Holger Levsen
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Re: dep5, whats the status? Re: DEP5: reasons for not pushing Bazaar changes to Subversion

2010-12-23 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On to, 2010-12-23 at 12:34 +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > for those who are just marking mails in this thread as read... ;-) > > On Donnerstag, 23. Dezember 2010, Charles Plessy wrote: > > Using revision 135 of the DEP from svn.debian.org is a waste of time, for > > the people who would li

Re: DEP5: reasons for not pushing Bazaar changes to Subversion

2010-12-23 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On to, 2010-12-23 at 09:55 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > So, let's get back to the basic principles at stake. The point hardly is > Bzr vs SVN; rather it seems to be whether the working draft of a DEP > should be constantly updated and trivially accessible, for instance on > the web at the can

dep5, whats the status? Re: DEP5: reasons for not pushing Bazaar changes to Subversion

2010-12-23 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, for those who are just marking mails in this thread as read... ;-) On Donnerstag, 23. Dezember 2010, Charles Plessy wrote: > Using revision 135 of the DEP from svn.debian.org is a waste of time, for > the people who would like to write a copyright file, or for the peopole who > would like to

Re: DEP5: reasons for not pushing Bazaar changes to Subversion

2010-12-23 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 09:55:59AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit : > > Half-baked versions of the format, not really controlled by anyone, have been > floating around for a long while. Dear Stefano and everybody, In a first development phase, the wiki was used, the contents were peer-control

Re: DEP5: reasons for not pushing Bazaar changes to Subversion

2010-12-23 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 06:23:10PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >>> In my opinion, DEP5 is a work in progress, and as such discouraged >>> for general consumption. This is indicated my its status as >>> "DRAFT". > >>I concur. > > If only for this specific process then I agree it is of little va

Re: cross-distro work on App Store/Software Center - looking for volunteers

2010-12-23 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
[ M-F-T to lea...@d.o for volunteering ] I've received more details about this. There are now on board people from Fedora, openSUSE, Ubuntu, Mageia. The plan is to have a 2-3 days face to face meeting in Nürnberg (Germany) during the 3rd week of January 2011. Later on discussions will be moved to