Re: shapado.debian.net now available [Was: user support]

2010-10-03 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi, On Sat, Oct 02, 2010 at 07:01:37PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 01:59:18PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > Comments? Volunteers? > > Thanks to Shapado developers (and in particular Patrick Aljord) and to > Fernando C. Estrada and Luis Uribe (current admins),

Re: Debian accepting Social Micropayment?

2010-08-18 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi Steffen, On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:10:57PM +0200, Steffen Möller wrote: > > Ehm, yeah, and my father is the emperor of china, then. > > As you know, in Debian we have to deal at least with: > > > > - uncorporative upstreams > > - dead upstreams > > - corporative upstreams > > > which would

Re: Debian accepting Social Micropayment?

2010-08-18 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi Steffen, I assume nothing in your mail is adressing me privately so I'm quoting it in my reply to the mailing list. On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 06:18:39PM +0200, Steffen Möller wrote: > On 08/17/2010 05:24 PM, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 05:02:43PM +0200,

Re: Debian accepting Social Micropayment?

2010-08-17 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi, On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 05:02:43PM +0200, Steffen Möller wrote: > "flattr" or otherwise support that package. The amount collected should > then go to upstream. Maybe we should not do this for all packages but > only when upstream asks for it. I guess we as a project will already run into dis

Re: Problems with NM Front Desk

2010-07-07 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi Felipe, On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 11:51:21AM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote: > On 06/07/10 10:09, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: > > > AFAICT, none of this justifies silently removing someone from the NM > database. yes, you are probably right. But OTOH if a candidate fails the basic

Re: Problems with NM Front Desk

2010-07-06 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi, On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 03:13:34PM +0200, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: > I, as an outsider, don't want to "investigate and report" on people, in > general; I'm just concerned with packages being in a good shape (especially > the ones that I know of, and if I can help in any way). we

Re: let's add news.debian.net to planet.d.o (!?)

2009-12-07 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi, On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 09:07:04AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > I have been recently wondering [2] why that feed is not on Planet. Ana > would be glad to be there, but she has the impression that Planet policy > forbids non-individual feds to be there. I've been checking the current > gu

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-08-04 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 11:17:01AM +0100, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 08:57:50AM +0200, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: > > Of course it would be nicer if patches were reported automatically to us. > > This is by no means a universally held view within Debia

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-08-03 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi, On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 08:04:12AM +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > Yes, but OTOH we strongly support copyleft softwares versus the BSD- > like softwares, because we expect to have back the works and > because we expect to behave as a big community. > > I agree with you, it is not thiefs,

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-08-03 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 09:34:39PM +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 06:40:06PM +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote: > >> THEY STEAL our packages > > > > Uarg. That sentence let me discard everything sensible/intelligent > > you might have said in your mail. I often read sentences like tha

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-08-03 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi, On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 06:40:06PM +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote: > THEY STEAL our packages Uarg. That sentence let me discard everything sensible/intelligent you might have said in your mail. I often read sentences like that in the discussion. It makes me sick and wonder if I do invest my time in

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-30 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi, On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 01:07:39PM +, Anthony Towns wrote: > I'm not aware of any apples-to-apples comparisons of Debian's and Ubuntu's > "quality"; but personally I haven't seen much evidence that Debian's > is significantly superior (NB: I haven't used Ubuntu LTS personally, > though). T

Re: Debian redesign

2009-07-29 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 04:51:22PM +0200, Ana Guerrero wrote: > Agnieszka Czajkowska has presented this morning at DebConf a very nice > redesign proposal off the Debian logo and the Debian website. She has been > working on this all the last year as part of her master thesis in Design. > > You c

Re: Re-thinking Debian membership - take #1: inactivity

2009-07-23 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi, On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:56:00PM +0200, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 10:52:20AM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > > > My opinion in two short comments: > > > - reduce the time to 1 year > > This introduces the possibility that, even if the DD votes in every election > and u

Re: Should this be sent to your bug center?

2009-02-23 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi, On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 11:11:39PM -0800, Evan Larson wrote: > I am not using your OS but I am encountering a strange bug on my computer that > says I am. When I try to navigate to en.wikipedia.org this page is shown when people install lighttpd and don't configure it. Its on the webserver yo

Re: Re-thinking Debian membership

2008-10-24 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi, On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 01:35:43PM +0200, cobaco wrote: > AIUI he's just advocating having the equivalent of a (publicly scrutinized) > NMU for the keyring, that is: > - have trusted gatekeeper(s) who normally does all changes > - have all changes be public (many eyes make all bugs shallow) >

Re: Re-thinking Debian membership

2008-10-24 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > * Membership is controlled via GnuPG keyrings, primarily maintained by the > Debian Account Manager. The keyrings shall be maintained in a way that > allows any member to change them, and that is fully transparent to the > members in general, and that further make