Re: Let's resurrect Debian Weekly News (act the second)

2010-04-02 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Alexander Reichle-Schmehl [2010.04.01.1757 +0200]: > A blog is more or less a real time media: Something happens and soon > after that it should be mentioned there. The newsletter has the > luxury to wait a bit longer, and also show the outcome of a > discussion. Wordpress implemen

Re: Invite to join the Release Team

2010-04-02 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Micah Anderson writes: > Clint Adams writes: >> [Adding and M-F-T-ing -project] [...] >> Were you there? Were Debian funds spend on this endeavor? What >> happened there? Most importantly, why is it all so secretive? > > Did I miss a response to these questions? I'm interested to know the > an

Re: Let's resurrect Debian Weekly News (act the second)

2010-04-02 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
I've seen in your other post that you and Tolimar are already organizing some meeting to have a common work-flow, so I'll just comment on a minor point and wait for your synergies to sprout :) On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 06:24:12PM +0200, Ana Guerrero wrote: > If somebody wants to volunteer to be adde

non-free Packages as build-dependency of contrib / non-free ones & autobuilding

2010-04-02 Thread Andreas Barth
Hi, currently our policy says that main packages must only (build-)depend on main packages, but contrib and non-free packages could use packages from contrib and non-free. In practice build-dependencies from non-free are not used by the buildds for two reasons: 1. (mostly historical) we need to

Re: Question to all Candidates: we want more, aren't we?

2010-04-02 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hello, [switching to debian-project] On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 09:57 +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > Debian project raise it's expectation every year: higher quality, more > package, more architectures, more Desktops, etc... (cool). > > How do we face the challenge to do more every year? This fir

Help the DPL (DPL calling for help?)

2010-04-02 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hi all, A new DPL will be elected soon. All candidates have good platforms, but's let's be realistic, they probably already have a job(!), so they have "limited" amount of time to make their platform happen. My first 2¢ is: Do call for help ¨ You can't make it happ

Fragmented projects, driven by the buzz and motivation (aka Buzect)

2010-04-02 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hi all, Let's imagine that Debian (and/or the DPL), need and want to accomplish a task, but no one is stepping up. There are many examples: Debian design, Debian News, reviewing Wikipedia articles related to Debian, Release notes, testing the release, etc. The problem with those tasks is that the

Re: non-free Packages as build-dependency of contrib / non-free ones & autobuilding

2010-04-02 Thread Charles Plessy
Hi Andreas and everybody, I think that it would be acceptable to ask the maintainers of packages for which auto-building is not allowed their opinion about dropping support for them. This would solve the problem entirely, and aren't these packages rare cornercases? I could not think of examples wh