Re: RFC: Introducing Debian Enhancement Proposals (DEPs)

2008-01-16 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
re might be a lot of interested people who do not read > debian-project. At least I feel DEP0 should go initially to dda. debian-devel-announce is restricted to DD's do we want that for proposing DEP's? On the other hand, finding a DD to forward a proposal would probably b

Re: linhdd concerns

2007-11-29 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
tification field for each (error) > override? That would help generic DD's going through all override > files. override files allow comments which means giving a justification is already possible. So it seems this just needs to be documented as best practice? -- Cheers, cobaco (aka

Re: Making Debian work: a question of trust indeed

2007-11-21 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
ng about which I can afford to wait > > > 2 months between each answer from you. -- Cheers, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Debian Maintainers oup

2007-05-31 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
he DM proposal is nothing more then making that official by giving the sponsoree upload rights for that package. -> do we really need to make this more complicated than: 1) "sponsor officially declares this person can in his opion handle the sponsored package"? 2) sponsoree ge

Re: ideas....

2007-04-08 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
olved with deciding who gets payed become a Debian issue, or remain something outside of Debian -- Cheers, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) pgpLpviIfs8mC.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Developers vs Uploaders

2007-03-18 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
hey decide it's not they can continue working on their package(s) withouth having to jump through any unnecessary hoops for each upload. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2007/03/msg00084.html [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/03/msg9.html [3] https://nm.debian.org/ -- Cheers, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) pgpiCcsWU19yT.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Developers vs Uploaders

2007-03-15 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
, makes them feel that their effort is appreciated), making it more likely they will both get and stay involved. > and lengthened power hierarchy are costs which are outweighed by whatever > advantages you perceive in this plan. It makes the power hierarchy more fine-grained, and that's

Re: Developers vs Uploaders

2007-03-15 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
ebian email adres - (I also seem to recall something about subcriptions to... was it lwn?) that's a lot broader then "being able to upload new versions of a particular package" -- Cheers, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) pgp6QIQ2QIvqt.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Please appoint one new person to the DSA Team

2006-12-22 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
ver the current situation where DSA is a huge blax box that either produces a change or doesn't. -- Cheers, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) pgpTXANSmK8RS.pgp Description: PGP signature

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

2006-06-21 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
On Wednesday 21 June 2006 11:07, Frans Pop wrote: > On Wednesday 21 June 2006 10:42, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote: > > So to back up your assertion that I couldn't possibly have missed it > > could you please provide some references to the lots of times it's >

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

2006-06-21 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
On Tuesday 20 June 2006 19:16, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 12:53:00PM +0200, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 20 June 2006 11:49, Andreas Schuldei wrote: > > > * cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060620

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

2006-06-20 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
On Tuesday 20 June 2006 06:32, Ean Schuessler wrote: > cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote: > > - AFAIK nobody is arguing that Sven's patches aren't up to snuff > > technically > > - AFAIK he hasn't ever abused his d-i commit rights (when he had them) >

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

2006-06-20 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
On Tuesday 20 June 2006 11:49, Andreas Schuldei wrote: > * cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060620 11:02]: > > judging from that Sven was definately in the wrong, of course that log > > doesn't give any explanation at all of Sven's side of the story, so i

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

2006-06-20 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
On Tuesday 20 June 2006 08:08, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 10:43:35PM -0700, Adam McKenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 09:12:15PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 04:53:18PM +0200, cobaco (aka Bart Corn

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

2006-06-19 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
nteraction for every technical contribution Sven makes -> creates extra work for both Sven and the middleman -> adds an otherwise unnecary delay for every fix done by Sven The current 'solution' is IMO akin to telling Sven "yes you can participate in the d-i party, provided you stay outside and do it through the window". Which I think sucks big time as both a solution and a compromise. -- Cheers, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) pgptXphz6PVjK.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Proposal: The future of the Debian NM process

2006-05-17 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
On Wednesday 17 May 2006 01:27, Christoph Berg wrote: > Re: cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) 2006-05-16 > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > what's the rationale for needing a 2nd package? > > > > e.g. I currently maintain 1 small simple sponsered package, I also have

Re: Proposal: The future of the Debian NM process

2006-05-16 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
also have contributed for several years as a translator. If we're introducing a new stage with upload rights for specific packages why shouldn't I be able to get upload rights for my 1 package? -- Cheers, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) 1. Encrypted mail preferred (GPG KeyID: 0x86624ABB

Re: irc.debian.org

2006-05-03 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
eryone I've ever chatted with? it doesn't: - your presence only gets broadcasts to people you've explicitly authorized to subscribe to your presence (and you can de-authorize people at any time) - furthermore you can actually selectively send your presence to people, allowing

Re: irc.debian.org

2006-05-02 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
ents.shtml [8] http://www.jabber.org/software/libraries.shtml [9] http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/ichat/ [10] http://googletalk.blogspot.com/2006/01/xmpp-federation.html -- Cheers, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) 1. Encrypted mail preferred (GPG KeyID: 0x86624ABB) 2. Plain-text mail recommended sin

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

2006-04-06 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
d by the project from the projects point of view. Then why on earth would one be applying to NM-process in the first place? And how on earth would one expect to pass the philosyphy and procedures part of the process? -- Cheers, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) 1. Encrypted mail preferred (GPG

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

2006-04-03 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
7;re a translator/documentation writer, which is largely a consequence of the 'developer' part of the name. Now how easy it is for a pure translator/documentation writer/... to pass NM, I don't know, but from what I hear it _is_ possible with the NM process nowadays (though again the maint

Re: Debian Project Leader report for 2005-04-24

2005-04-25 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
On Monday 25 April 2005 15:40, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 02:36:35PM +0200, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote: > > On Monday 25 April 2005 14:10, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > I think the request is ok (and the release managers have requested > >

Re: Debian Project Leader report for 2005-04-24

2005-04-25 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
triggers an upload storm, he'll stop reporting on release-issues in his emails, not stop sending mails all together. Quite a different thing no? -- Cheers, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) 1. Encrypted mail preferred (GPG KeyID: 0x86624ABB) 2. Plain-text mail recommended since I move html and doub

Re: Poll results: User views on the FDL issue

2005-04-21 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
school term paper and got busted.) er, contribution is normally given in the FOSS world (and when it isn't a firestorm is usually raised) => Free software is not about stealing or plagiarizing others peoples work, it's about "standing on the shoulder of giants". Acknowl

Re: Poll results: User views on the FDL issue

2005-04-19 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
bunkments) somewhere, that we can point people to? Or is everyone currently on their own in finding the pearls of wisdom buried in long threads on mailinglists most of our users don't follow? -- Cheers, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) 1. Encrypted mail preferred (GPG KeyID: 0x86624ABB) 2. Plai

Re: GFDL freedoms

2005-04-14 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
Why on earth would we want to exclude openoffice docs (provided that the contents is licensed freely?) -- Cheers, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) 1. Encrypted mail preferred (GPG KeyID: 0x86624ABB) 2. Plain-text mail recommended since I move html and double format mails to a low priority folder (they're mainly spam) pgpc4DfJbj1aI.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Official Swedish Debian Website

2005-02-24 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
ndex.sv.html incidentely loosing th .nl in the above urls works also (and is probably a lot easier to remembe :) -- Cheers, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) 1. Encrypted mail preferred (GPG KeyID: 0x86624ABB) 2. Plain-text mail recommended since I move html and double format mails to a low priority fol

Re: Bits from the DAMs

2005-02-12 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
to give them a real status? > > They definitely aren't second-class contributors. > > That should be a "traceable action" through the changelogs. no need to trace the changelogs the pages http://www.debian.org/intl/l10n/po-debconf/ keep track of this already -- C

Re: New Front Desk member

2005-01-31 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
tp://www.aetherlumina.com/gnp/ [2] http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/genpr.htm -- Cheers, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) 1. Encrypted mail preferred (GPG KeyID: 0x86624ABB) 2. Plain-text mail recommended since I move html and double format mails to a low priority folder (they're mainly spam) pgpWC3oDN5JTo.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: What would you recommend ...

2005-01-18 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
tall what will be 3.1), > Or ask it another way: Is it easily > possible to upgrade from 3.0 to 3.1? In general it is always possible to do a clean upgrade from one debian release to the next, so this should be possible when sarge releases. [1] http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ -