Re: CD purchases

Frans Pop wrote: On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Alissa Dirubbo wrote: My name is Alissa DiRubbo, and I am the librarian at Bryant & Stratton College, Liverpool, NY. We have a faculty member that is interested in purchasing the Debain GNU/Linux installation CD's (2007),for our collection. Before we

Re: Improving the DAM-queue?

Bastian Venthur wrote: > Hi, > > Taking the data available on nm.debian.org, I've noticed that in the > last six months only 28 applicants became Debian Developers. This means > roughly every 6.4 days an applicant gets processed by a DAM. > > Further I've noticed that by this time 25 of the 28 appl

Re: DPL caretaking

Joey Hess wrote: > Anthony Towns wrote: > >> Sorry this took longer than I'd hoped. Anyway here's the caretaking stuff >> so we can get on with the DPL recall vote stuff without having to worry >> about things being left in the lurch. I'll be trying to avoid exercising >> any DPL powers from now

Re: Branding for Debian derivatives -- "Debian Distilled"

Henning Makholm wrote: > Scripsit Anthony Towns > > >> Okay, so this is just my idea. Add grains of salt to taste, etc. >> >> The idea is to take the Debian "official use" logo [0] which we've >> never really made much use of, and declare it the logo for derivatives >> instead. Add the word "di

Re: Extremadura Regional Government of Spain will switch to Debian GNU/Linux and ODF on all the computers

Michael Banck wrote: > On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 01:30:21PM +0200, Jesus Climent wrote: > >> According to Millan, >> > > You seem to not have introduced Mr. Millan until this point, maybe write > his full name and position/involvement to this here. Sorry if I just > missed it. > > Also, if

Re: package ownership in Debian

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Clint Adams wrote: > >>> Yes, and we could start by really enforcing co-maintainership. Make it 100% >>> mandatory for all essential, required and base packages at first. >>> >> Are there packages which are particularly well co-ma

Re: "Debian Powered" Logo

Julien BLACHE wrote: > Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > >>> >>> >> Something, yes. Maybe you could try to use the text only three times. >> > > OK, here it is with the text repeated only 3 times, in a closed

Re: Call for a new DPL mediation ... This will be the only thread i will reply to in the next time about this issue.

Chris Waters wrote: > On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 05:55:42PM -0700, Adam McKenna wrote: > >> On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 05:09:10PM -0700, Chris Waters wrote: >> >>> It doesn't matter! The DPL has no authority in the matter! >>> > > >> He seems to think he does. At least, he has authori

Re: Issues regarding powerpc and Sven

MJ Ray wrote: > Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> Quite. I saw AJ's words as being complementary, not derogatory. >> > > Well, normal people think it's derogatory to write that > normal people do one thing, but you did something else(!) > Another term for "normal" might be "average",

Re: irc.debian.org

Marco d'Itri wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I agree with Steve. While I agree that freenode has many flaws (the biggest being NOIDPRIVMSG), I find that while I am in Debian channels on >>> Exactly, why is an optional feature such a big flaw? >>> >> Because i

Re: irc.debian.org

Marco d'Itri wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >> I agree with Steve. While I agree that freenode has many flaws (the >> biggest being NOIDPRIVMSG), I find that while I am in Debian channels on >> > Exactly, why is an optional feature such a big flaw? > Because it's the default and p

Re: irc.debian.org

Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Steve McIntyre] > >> I can see that more and more of my own Debian IRC discussions are on >> oftc, to the extent that I'm (currently) not on any freenode >> channels at all. >> > > For me it is the other way around. I am currently on one channel on > OFTC, whi

Re: Third call for votes for the debian project leader election 2006

ing the answer, since it's a topic I don't know much about. I don't think the question is designed so much as to test whether I know about library compile options as my ability to do research and to process, understand and utilize the information I find. I think that Debian and t

Re: PR work

Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Don't forget that we have debian-news *and* debian-announce, while only high-priority announcements are sent to debian-announce. Why do we have that distinction? Both lists are very low-traffic, with approximate

Re: Private copies of list replies

Manoj Srivastava wrote: I guess it is time to move to a more capable MUA, no? manoj How many Joe/Jane users do you think can handle the complexity and different paradigm required by mutt? These mailers are easy to use, and are well integrated into the desktop environment. Mos

Re: Private copies of list replies (Was: Re: buildd and experimental)

Glenn Maynard wrote: On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 07:56:42PM +, MJ Ray wrote: I continue to think that you have not read the DRUMS discussions. No insult is meant, but you show no signs of having done so. I read the messages you linked. They complained that it's not a standard and ass

Re: Candidate questions: expulsions process

MJ Ray wrote: Benjamin Seidenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Say (said, saying, says): 2. To express in words: Say what's on your mind. 3. a. To state as one's opinion or judgment; declare: I say let's eat out. b. To state as a determination of fact: It's ha

Re: Private copies of list replies

Glenn Maynard wrote: I'm also failing to see any reasons people would *not* set M-F-T if they want CCs (or if they specifically don't; Debian lists aside, most other lists have no such policy). I'm not charged for email on a per-header basis; there's no drawback to setting it. Thunderbird,

Re: Questions about Ubuntu

Joey Hess wrote: Benjamin Seidenberg wrote: I think what we need to do is create some kind of meta-package that would pull in a full environment like what is installed by Ubuntu (which I know has been discussed in the past) and then offer an official "Debian Desktop" CD that wo

Re: Questions about Ubuntu

David N. Welton wrote: Andreas Schuldei wrote: Debian needs to learn to re-integrate the improvements from derived distributions and would get a long way just doing that. On top of that there should not be a problem becoming more innovative ourselfs - there are enough cool problems to solve.

Re: Debian on one dvd?

Siward de Groot wrote: On Wednesday 14 December 2005 15:46, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: Also the stock image does not include source code correct? Then how do we meet the conditions of the GPL? I don't think the written offer option is feasible for the publishers (though I'll ask to make sure.)