Re: "Bug of the month", or how to get people fixing bugs

2002-09-02 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Please consider http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?BehavioralEffectOfMetrics. > > > > Especially following section: > > > > | As JimCoplien has been saying for years (repeating an old adage), > > | "What gets measured gets done." Measure the Severity A bug rep

Re: "Bug of the month", or how to get people fixing bugs

2002-09-02 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Jordi Mallach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 12:24:48AM +0300, Richard Braakman wrote: > > > Well, if with "touching" you mean NMU'ing right away to score a point, I > > > wouldn't call it "possitive". > > That's why new bugs are assigned only once a month, though. Players

Re: Digital Alpha 2100A 4/200

2002-06-05 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Thomas Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was refered to debian because of the availability of Digital Alpha > releases. I noticed at Redhat that there are separate releases for the > different alpha processors. From what I've seen here, am I to assume the > Debian release for alpha is a on

Re: RFC: Changing the NM system

2001-01-07 Thread Goswin Brederlow
> " " == Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> 1. Raising the NM entry requirement in order to improve >> Debian's quality. Which is a very good thing. The quality of Debian is hard to measure. Does a single package in unstable by a single maintainer have any effect on debian?

Re: [nm-admin] Need for scanner to become a maintainer?

2000-08-14 Thread goswin . brederlow
Matthew Vernon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > Care should be taken to choose maintainers that recieve their fax on > > the computer, so it can be used directly without another quality loss > > by scanning. > > This means that people without FAX machines can't be

Re: It spreads by casual contact...

2000-08-12 Thread goswin . brederlow
Seth Cohn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [btw, is there a better list than curiosa to send this too? The archive > for curiosa is almost empty, so I decided a cc: to project wasn't out of > line, if only to remind people about the curiosa list...) subscribe...subscribe...subscribe...subscribe. D

Need for scanner to become a maintainer?

2000-08-12 Thread goswin . brederlow
Theres been a long discussion about the passport stuff, but if I remember the old notes on hot to become a maintainer right there was allways the option to send a copy of the passport via good old mail. And don't tell me you have no copy maschine near you. Or what about faxing it to a maintainer

Re: General Resolution: Removing non-free

2000-06-13 Thread Goswin Brederlow
> " " == truename <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [snip] >> I too would be forced to use another dist if the non-free >> software was no longer maintained by debian. > this is wrong. Redhat only have ONE cd as their well-organized > distro, other packages are added by o

Re: why not replace individual programs?

2000-06-12 Thread Goswin Brederlow
> " " == Christian Surchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 06:30:10PM +0200, David N. Welton > wrote: ... > Maybe popularity-contest could help us. We know that pine and > netscape are very important. Mozilla exists, but what about > pine? It

Package Pool [ Re: Tentative Proposal: Regarding experimental use ]

2000-06-11 Thread Goswin Brederlow
> " " == Chris Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Also, implementing the infrastructure for this proposal would > take us 9/10 of the way to implementing package pools (and, in > any event, the pools from what I've heard are just waiting on > potato to release so we don

NO [ Re: General Resolution: Removing non-free ]

2000-06-08 Thread Goswin Brederlow
I want to ask anyone willing to delete non-free: WHAT IS FREE? A lot of stuff in non-free is FREE for most people. Think about gif. Most of the world doesn`t care about the patent. Many Packages in non-free are nearly free, but for some reason not everywhere or for everyone. Debian without non-f

Re: Testing Distribution

1999-12-19 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Could you interact with the popularity-contest package to consider the useage of a apckage for its stableness. The reason is that if nobody updates to a new version, then no bugs will be filled, even if its completly broken. May the Source be withz you. Goswin

Re: Getting rid of section "base" ?

1999-12-06 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Goswin Brederlow writes: > > I don´t like the > > alphabetic sorting. Its hard to find something you don´t know the > > exact name of. > > Hm... often "ls */*pattern*" in lftp was needed and sufficient for m

Re: Getting rid of section "base" ?

1999-12-02 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Goswin Brederlow writes: > > Of cause main guis should be mentioned, but something like gnome woult > > be x11/gnome and the first two level would be exactly spezified and > > relevant. But the third level specifying wh

Re: Getting rid of section "base" ?

1999-12-01 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Goswin Brederlow writes: > > > > Interface: tty (stdio, dialog), X11 (Xt, Qt) > > > > > > Problem I see: we can't sub-classify Xaw and Motif from Xt with such a > > > syntax. > > > &

Re: Getting rid of section "base" ?

1999-11-30 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Goswin Brederlow writes: > > Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > ... > > > tty > > > tty/stdio > > > tty/curses > > > tty/dialog > > > tty/newt > > &g

Re: Getting rid of section "base" ?

1999-11-30 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ... > tty > tty/stdio > tty/curses > tty/dialog > tty/newt > > X11 > X11/Xt > X11/Xt/Xaw > X11/Xt/Motif > X11/Gtk+ > X11/Gtk+/GNOME > X11/Qt > X11/Qt/KDE > X11/Tk I wuld suggest to use a syntax like this in the Packages file: Interface: tty (stdio, dialog)

Re: Proposed change to Debian constitution

1999-11-29 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Edward Brocklesby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [1 ] > Hi, > > The attached document details a modification written by Zephaniah E. Hull > and I, which I am proposing as an amendment to the Debian Constitution. > This hopefully solves one or two problems we have identified in Debian, > namely cl

Re: Getting rid of section "base" ?

1999-11-29 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Isn´t base everything thats on the base.tgz file? I allways thought so. While your at killing the base section, kill the other sections also. Its all a bloody mess. Graphics stuff is in libs, x11 stuff in games, some dev packages are in dev, some in lib some somewhere else. Just some examples: Wh

Re: A `second' to the ``package pool''

1999-10-28 Thread Goswin Brederlow
"Christopher W. Curtis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, ... > adding another level might allow this to work better. Instead of > the seemingly three-tiered design, I would like to suggest a > four-tier: > > stable (release) > frozen > semistable > unstable Sounds good. Stable should be wha

Re: Data does NOT belong in Debian (was: Stop Archive bloat)

1999-10-25 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Fabien Ninoles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 09:43:57PM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote: > > Philippe Troin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > 1) The way the Debian archive works requires the data to be stored > > >

Re: Data does NOT belong in Debian (was: Stop Archive bloat)

1999-10-22 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Anthony Towns writes: > [1 ] > On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 11:00:14PM +0200, Torsten Landschoff wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 09:43:57PM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote: > > > Why not allow Source only packages ? > > That will win nothing. You can't use apt-get o

Re: Data does NOT belong in Debian (was: Stop Archive bloat)

1999-10-20 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Torsten Landschoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 09:43:57PM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote: > > > Why not allow Source only packages ? > > That will win nothing. You can't use apt-get on them, have to rebuilt > and have them twice locall

Re: Data does NOT belong in Debian (was: Stop Archive bloat)

1999-10-19 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Philippe Troin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1) The way the Debian archive works requires the data to be stored > twice (source package and .deb). Why not allow Source only packages ? May the Source be with you. Goswin