Re: lists.debian.org maintenance

2024-05-18 Thread Steven Robbins
On Friday, May 17, 2024 3:33:30 P.M. CDT Alexander Wirt wrote: > Hi, > > > we will upgrade bendel.debian.org which hosts our mailinglists now. Please > > expect some service interruptions. > > the maintenance is over, but unfortunately the indexer for list search is > currently broken. It may tak

Re: Lack of replies

2024-01-02 Thread Steven Robbins
On Friday, December 29, 2023 2:18:41 P.M. CST Steven Robbins wrote: > In the case of the BTS: it used to email me but that broke a couple years > ago and apparently it is hard to fix. So currently a class of us don't get > email from any bug reports. Andrey Rakhmatullin asked

Lack of replies

2023-12-29 Thread Steven Robbins
Antonio Russo wrote: > As someone who would like to participate more in the development of Debian, > my personal experience is that making contributions is like dropping a > message in a bottle into the sea. It feels like a complete crap-shot > whether I'll even receive a comment on any code co

Re: Request to Mini DebConf Montreal Organizers: Fight Israel not the DC20 Team

2020-02-22 Thread Steven Robbins
Sam, I did not read any anti-Debian or anti-DebConf sentiment in the Montreal announcement. Literally all it says (second paragraph, first sentence) is that they are unhappy with the location. Nothing more. I think you are entirely overreacting. I find it disappointing. Best, -Steve sig

The copyright checking question

2019-12-29 Thread Steven Robbins
In another thread, Russ Allbery makes a salient observation [1]: Requiring ftpmasters to [review debian/copyright before accepting an upload] is a choice that Debian has made. Maybe it's the right choice, but other choices exist, and other entities make different choices. Russ goe