Re: Sponsorskap

2001-02-17 Thread Peter Makholm
"Kim Dahlberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hej! Vi undrar om Ni skulle vilja sponsra vĂ¥rat "demoparty" med > eran linux dist. As a completly non-profit organisation Debian has no funding for sponsoring events or give out free merchandize and CD's. You could probally have some luck in asking l

Dealing with maintainers who are MIA

2001-02-17 Thread Martin Michlmayr
Debian has grown quite a bit and like in most volunteer projects there are members who have lost interest over the time or whose RL doesn't permit them to spend any time on the project anymore. This is problematic because people are responsible for a package or a task but actually don't fulfill th

Re: Dealing with maintainers who are MIA

2001-02-17 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 06:21:26PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > There must be better guidelines what to do in such > cases: it should be easier to do NMUs, to take over packages and to remove > people from the project. As far as NMUs go, there are really only three *rules*: make sure you get i

Re: Dealing with maintainers who are MIA

2001-02-17 Thread John Ferlito
On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 12:11:09PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > Contacting first, waiting for permission, etc are polite and desirable, > but you don't *have* to wait for weeks in between, especially for packages > with RC bugs and with the freeze approaching. Also, you are allowed to > fix non-RC

Philosophy behind Debian

2001-02-17 Thread Brett HALES
Can anybody answer/point me in the correct direction to find out what the philosophy behind the Debian distribution is? Brett