Generation of vcs snapshots on alioth

2014-08-31 Thread Alexander Wirt
Hi, (fusion|g)forge has a feature that generates snapshot tarballs of all supported VCS every night. Alioth has many, many repositories and snapshot generation takes us several hours every day and it makes alioth really unresponsive. Therefore I disabled the feature in the morning. If you really

Re: Is there any inofficial cgit package since cgit is used on git.debian.org

2014-10-16 Thread Alexander Wirt
On Thu, 16 Oct 2014, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > when seeking for cgit in the Debian package pool I failed. I wonder > whether there is just some inofficial package if we follow the principle > to package what we are using. Any pointers to a source package or > something like this? cgit is c

Re: mailing list for debian-rtc activities

2015-10-26 Thread Alexander Wirt
On Mon, 26 Oct 2015, Daniel Pocock wrote: > > > Hi all, > > I've requested a mailing list on lists.debian.org for general discussion > about RTC > > This includes supporting the rtc.debian.org service, use of any of the > RTC packages and any related projects with communications features like

Re: bendel (lists.debian.org) upgrade today

2017-10-21 Thread Alexander Wirt
On Sat, 21 Oct 2017, Alexander Wirt wrote: > Hi, > > we will upgrade bendel to stretch this evening, expect problems and outages > of lists.debian.org until we are done. if you can read that mail we are probably done. If you find a (new) problem, please tell us (via mail or in #

Re: Naming of teams on salsa.debian.org

2018-01-05 Thread Alexander Wirt
On Fri, 05 Jan 2018, Philipp Huebner wrote: > Hi > > Am 04.01.2018 um 16:57 schrieb Ximin Luo: > > I think it's preferable not to look at this from the point-of-view of > > individual teams, but from the perspective of the project as a whole. > > When non-Debian people navigate salsa.d.o it would

Re: godard (salsa) upgrade

2018-11-20 Thread Alexander Wirt
On Mon, 19 Nov 2018, Alexander Wirt wrote: > Hi, > > we will do a security patching for gitlab soon. It should not take longer > than 30 Minutes. Ok, next try. The update arrived in git and I will do the update now. Alex signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Pride Month Discussion has Run its Course

2019-07-02 Thread Alexander Wirt
On Tue, 02 Jul 2019, Sam Hartman wrote: > > > > [listmaster copied in hopes they will agree with my assessment here] I don't agree, I think that discussion is important and the tone is still civilized. Alex - Listmaster - but mainly speaking for myself

Re: Pride Month Discussion has Run its Course

2019-07-02 Thread Alexander Wirt
On Tue, 02 Jul 2019, Sam Hartman wrote: > >>>>> "Alexander" == Alexander Wirt writes: > > Alexander> On Tue, 02 Jul 2019, Sam Hartman wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >> [listmaster copied in hopes they will

Re: Pride Month Discussion has Run its Course

2019-07-06 Thread Alexander Wirt
On Tue, 02 Jul 2019, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > On 15451 March 1977, Alexander Wirt wrote: > > > > The tone is absolutely civilized. > > > And yet, the cost to people who have to do this education again and > > > again is really high. > > Thats possible, b

Re: Pride Month Discussion has Run its Course

2019-07-06 Thread Alexander Wirt
On Sat, 06 Jul 2019, Alexander Wirt wrote: > On Tue, 02 Jul 2019, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > > On 15451 March 1977, Alexander Wirt wrote: > > > > > > The tone is absolutely civilized. > > > > And yet, the cost to people who have to do this educat

Re: Pride Month Discussion has Run its Course

2019-07-07 Thread Alexander Wirt
On Sat, 06 Jul 2019, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Sat, Jul 06, 2019 at 08:00:58PM +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote: > > But that is my personal mindset I am coming from. If such a mindset is > > outdated nowadays and not wanted anymore I offer to resign as a listmaster. > >

Re: GR proposal: mandating VcsGit and VcsBrowser for all packages, using the "gbp patches unapplied" layout, and maybe also mandating hosted on Salsa

2019-07-24 Thread Alexander Wirt
On Wed, 24 Jul 2019, Alexander Zangerl wrote: > On Wed, 24 Jul 2019 07:07:51 +0200, Philip Hands writes: > >You may be responding on behalf of people who turn out not to exist. > > well, i do exist. i have a few packages that aren't vc'd, and i don't see > any need to change that. while i don't m

Re: Upgrades of godard (salsa) and bendel (lists) today

2019-12-23 Thread Alexander Wirt
On Mon, 23 Dec 2019, Alexander Wirt wrote: Hi, > we will update salsa and lists over the day, expect problems and outages > of lists.debian.org until we are done. We are mostly done, some checks are still pending. If you encounter any problems, please reach us in #alioth or #debian

Re: Some thoughts about Diversity and the CoC

2019-12-24 Thread Alexander Wirt
On Mon, 23 Dec 2019, Sam Hartman wrote: > > "Pierre-Elliott" == Pierre-Elliott Bécue writes: > > Pierre-Elliott> And having seen almost no one telling Geraldo such a > Pierre-Elliott> thing, I find it disturbing to see that much people > > I'm writing this to make it clear that Gera

Debian Google Summer of code and Outreachy participation

2020-02-17 Thread Alexander Wirt
Welcome to another round of Google Summer of Code and Outreachy! # We want you! We're looking for mentors! If you're interested in mentoring, [enter your information here][1]. [1]: https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2020/Projects You can also contact the Debian Outreach team with any question

Re: Proposal to deprecate and remove mailing list specific code of conduct

2020-11-26 Thread Alexander Wirt
Hi, > On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 08:12:35PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > Folks, > > > > We currently have a minimal Debian mailing list code of conduct at > > https://www.debian.org/MailingLists which is, essentially, > > primarily tips on how to format email. At the same time, we have the >

Re: Mailing List Suggestions at recieving end

2021-04-03 Thread Alexander Wirt
On Fri, Apr 02, 2021 at 06:18:40PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > On Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 12:35:18AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 05:21:47PM -0400, Kurt Meyer wrote: > > > I would like to suggest the start of two new mailing lists. > > > > > > The first mailing list wou

Re: Debian and GitLab Open Source Partnership

2021-07-25 Thread Alexander Wirt
On Sun, Jul 25, 2021 at 07:59:26PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > On Sun, Jul 25, 2021 at 06:19:37PM +0200, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: > > Donald Norwood writes: > > > > > Dear all, > > > > > > Debian and GitLab have been in discussion regarding an Open Source > > > Partnership toward which we

Re: salsa.debian.org maintenance

2021-08-06 Thread Alexander Wirt
On Fri, Aug 06, 2021 at 10:10:56PM +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote: > Hi, > > we will perform a security upgrade on salsa.debian.org on 2021-08-06 > (yes, thats today), > around 23:00 CEST. > > The user visible downtime should be less than 30 minutes. I am done, everyth

Re: salsa.debian.org maintenance

2021-08-06 Thread Alexander Wirt
Hi, > we will perform a security upgrade on salsa.debian.org on 2021-08-06 > (yes, thats today), > around 23:00 CEST. > > The user visible downtime should be less than 30 minutes. The maintenance is over. Thanks Alex signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: salsa.debian.org maintenance

2021-09-10 Thread Alexander Wirt
On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 04:09:36PM +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote: > > Hi, > > we will perform a fix for the debian userbadges today around 22:30 > CEST. The user visible downtime should be ~30 Minutes. I am done. Badges are back. Thanks Alex

Re: Squeeze, firmware and installation

2010-05-24 Thread Alexander Wirt
Steve McIntyre schrieb am Monday, den 24. May 2010: Hi, *snip* > >> I'm guessing that we're not likely to want the extra images for all > >> architectures: i386/amd64/powerpc(?). Any others? > > > >I have no idea. I only use i386 and amd64. :) > > Quite. Anybody else? I think we should also in

Re: etherpad clone on debian.net

2010-10-10 Thread Alexander Wirt
Francesca Ciceri schrieb am Sunday, den 10. October 2010: > Hi all, > I'm a member of Debian l10n-italian team and I'm organizing a sort translation > party for users who want to contribute but who don't know exactly how to do > it. :) > > So, the idea is to do a little introduction on IRC (expla

Re: Doesn't Debian work from a live cd?

2011-08-04 Thread Alexander Wirt
Denny Nebgen schrieb am Thursday, den 04. August 2011: > Hi iI was interested in trying Debian Linux on a laptop and was > surprised the only options involved installation before I could even > try the distro out. Is this the normal way it works? No trying it > out without an installation? http://

Re: Public Key

2011-09-09 Thread Alexander Wirt
petroniushatschiim...@arcor.de schrieb am Friday, den 09. September 2011: > Hello, > > what about public key from backports.org? > > Aptitude tells me, is not available. > > Distro : > Lenny, AMD 64 it is in the debian keyring. you should update all security updates and point releases for your

Re: I call solution

2011-09-20 Thread Alexander Wirt
Ben Hutchings schrieb am Tuesday, den 20. September 2011: Hi, > On Tue, 2011-09-20 at 16:36 +0200, Jorge Luis Pinilla Guzman wrote: > > Hello. > > I ask please that this link is removed > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2007/09/msg00077.html > > because noe have given my permission to exh

Re: Debian Mailing Lists <=> Forum

2011-09-24 Thread Alexander Wirt
Ritesh Raj Sarraf schrieb am Saturday, den 24. September 2011: > On 09/23/2011 09:55 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > There already exist web-based interfaces to the Debian mailing > > lists that support posting; e.g. see > > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.general Evaluating gmane as a rep

Re: Installation & Live CD

2012-01-17 Thread Alexander Wirt
riction of wanting it to fit on a CD is less important than it used > to be, but I think it's a bit of a shame that we're not currently > producing a debian-live CD that shows things off reasonably well for a > beginner, and linking to it prominently without an arcane sub-director

Re: Should mailing list bans be published?

2013-10-26 Thread Alexander Wirt
On Sun, 27 Oct 2013, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 10:46:41AM -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit : > > > > What do the rest of you think? > > Given how arbitrarly other bans have been proposed, I think that the outcome > should stay private unless the banned person wishes so. This

Re: Should mailing list bans be published?

2013-10-27 Thread Alexander Wirt
On Sun, 27 Oct 2013, Boris Pek wrote: > Hi, > > > What do the rest of you think? > > +1 for publishing the facts of bans and their reasons in a public mailing > list. > Only with one correction which have been well described by Rhonda: > > >> - It provides a reference point for newcomers to

Re: Code of Conduct: picking up

2013-11-29 Thread Alexander Wirt
oliteness, but a prerequisite that makes > it possible for Debian to run its infrastructure. > > I invite you to please take a moment to read it again. Further mistakes > of that kind from you will not be tolerated, as far as I am concerned. we (listmasters) thought indeed if we shoul

Re: GR proposal: code of conduct

2014-02-13 Thread Alexander Wirt
On Wed, 12 Feb 2014, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 11:45:05AM -0600, Ean Schuessler wrote: > > I hope many of you will agree that while the CoC may be a necessary > > feature for our community it should be governed in a transparent, > > policy-driven and unbiased manner with

Re: GR proposal: code of conduct

2014-02-13 Thread Alexander Wirt
On Thu, 13 Feb 2014, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 02:25:17PM +0100, Alexander Wirt wrote: > > With my experience of the last weeks, I can just say: without me. I > > won't public those bans in the public, if someone else wants to do > > that: f

Re: alpha project machines

2005-07-03 Thread Alexander Wirt
> > > > > BTW, Noah Meyerhans at MIT offered two Alphas but so far he hasn't > > > > > been taken up on his offer. > > > > As far as I know we're not short on offers. Alexander Wirt also offered > > > > an Alpha. > > > Yes,

Re: Screenshots

2005-07-04 Thread Alexander Wirt
Nico Golde schrieb am Montag, den 04. Juli 2005: > Hello Andrew, > > * Andrew Karppinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-07-04 21:47]: > > Why are there are no screen shots on the Debian site? I think some screen > > shots would help. People can make a visual connection to what it could > > look like.

Re: "Debian" Core Consortium

2005-07-24 Thread Alexander Wirt
Florian Weimer schrieb am Sonntag, den 24. Juli 2005: > How is Debian related to the "Debian Core Consortium"? Why are they > using the name "Debian"? Maybe you sould wait until its been more than a plan to do something before crying about names. There isn't anything official yet about the Cons

Re: "Debian" Core Consortium

2005-07-24 Thread Alexander Wirt
Stephen Frost schrieb am Sonntag, den 24. Juli 2005: > * Alexander Wirt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Florian Weimer schrieb am Sonntag, den 24. Juli 2005: > > > > > How is Debian related to the "Debian Core Consortium"? Why are they > > > using

Re: Linux Forums

2006-01-22 Thread Alexander Wirt
Andreas Schuldei schrieb am Sonntag, den 22. Januar 2006: > * Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-01-22 09:11:56]: > > > Mark Daher wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > My name is Mark Daher, owner of LinuxForums.org , I would like to make > > > my site the official forums of the Debian since ther

Re: irc.debian.org

2006-04-30 Thread Alexander Wirt
Steve McIntyre schrieb am Sonntag, den 30. April 2006: > I've heard it suggested by a variety of people that we should move the > official irc.debian.org alias away from freenode to oftc. I can see > that more and more of my own Debian IRC discussions are on oftc, to > the extent that I'm (current

Re: Proposal: Source code is important for all works in Debian, and required for programmatic ones

2006-08-25 Thread Alexander Wirt
Don Armstrong schrieb am Donnerstag, den 24. August 2006: > I'd like to propose the following option to the current GR process. I second this proposal. > > As I will (starting late sunday PDT) be away for a week and a few days > at Burning Man,[i] I will be unable to appropriately respond to > c

Re: Proposal: Source code is important for all works in Debian, and required for programmatic ones

2006-08-25 Thread Alexander Wirt
Alexander Wirt schrieb am Freitag, den 25. August 2006: > Don Armstrong schrieb am Donnerstag, den 24. August 2006: > > > I'd like to propose the following option to the current GR process. > I second this proposal. I have to say a few mores word to it. It would be fully ok

Re: Rethinking stable updates policy

2006-08-26 Thread Alexander Wirt
Martin Schulze schrieb am Samstag, den 26. August 2006: *snip* > That's nothing for a *stable* Debian release. However, thanks to > nobse there is the backports repository which is perfectly suited for > such an effort. Not sure if anybody bothered to backport Mozilla and > friends yet, though.

Re: Proposal: Source code is important for all works in Debian, and required for programmatic ones

2006-09-19 Thread Alexander Wirt
m http://rzlab.ucr.edu > > Don Armstrong > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > >René van Bevern > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >Frank Küster >

Re: Policy (re)delegation

2006-11-01 Thread Alexander Wirt
Anthony Towns schrieb am Donnerstag, den 02. November 2006: > Hey all, > > With this mail I'm formally delegating Debian's policy maintenance to the > following group: > > Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Junichi Uekawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: stable / backports (Re: When Debian 4.1 will arrive... will anyone care?)

2007-04-19 Thread Alexander Wirt
Martin Schulze schrieb am Freitag, den 20. April 2007: Hi Joey, *snip* > > Backports are recompiled packages from testing, so they will run without > > new libraries on a stable Debian distribution. It is not always > > possible to install a package from testing without pulling in lots more >

Re: Need of non-germany-tree in Debian?

2007-07-15 Thread Alexander Wirt
Holger Levsen schrieb am Sonntag, den 15. Juli 2007: > Hi, > > On Sunday 15 July 2007 01:36, Florian Weimer wrote: > > Huh? Distributing computer games without the necessary permission > > under applicable youth protection laws is already forbidden. > [..] > > planetpenguin-racer is affected as

Re: Switching the default startup method

2009-08-24 Thread Alexander Wirt
Raphael Hertzog schrieb am Monday, den 24. August 2009: *snip* > So please point us to bugs related to breakages on upgrades (there have > been some I know, but I think Petter dealt with them correctly) if you > want to use that argument to not switch to insserv by default. The > current bugs tha

Re: Switching the default startup method

2009-08-24 Thread Alexander Wirt
Luk Claes schrieb am Monday, den 24. August 2009: *snip* > Why would file-rc not work properly with dependency based booting? you know what file-rc is doing? You have a configfile where you list your services and the bootlevels. So we have a configfile here. I would have to reorder the whole file

Re: question about a domain name

2005-05-24 Thread Alexander Wirt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am Dienstag, den 24. Mai 2005: > Dear Sir, Madam > > I was looking for buy a domain name (mine) in .org but when I use > www.brou.org, I arrive on www.debian.org ! From your site: This computer has installed the Debian GNU/Linux operating system but has

Re: Debian Linux Deutsch

2003-03-08 Thread Alexander Wirt
Told him that the preferred Language on this list is english Hallo Bernd, Die bevorzugte Sprache auf dieser Liste ist englisch. Am Sam, 2003-03-08 um 17.26 schrieb 1und1: > Hallo, wollte nur sagen, dass ich gerade Versuche mit Knoppix mache, > als jahrelanger Gates Jünger wollte ich halt auc

Re: salsa.debian.org maintenance

2022-03-04 Thread Alexander Wirt
Am Fri, Mar 04, 2022 at 11:33:47AM +0100 schrieb Alexander Wirt: > Hi, > > I will perform a fix for the Debian user badges around 11:45. The user > visible downtime > should less then 30 minutes. And done. Alex signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: salsa.debian.org maintenance

2022-03-17 Thread Alexander Wirt
Hi, > we will perform a minor update around 13:00 CET. The user visible downtime > should not be longer than > 30 minutes. salsa should be back. Alex signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: How about using moderation as a delay system for bad threads?

2022-03-26 Thread Alexander Wirt
Hi, > (adding listmaster to Cc: as I don't know how flexible our mailing list > software would be) > > On Sat, Mar 26, 2022, at 00:10, Charles Plessy wrote: > > How about we make that a feature and introduce a delay of a couple of > > hours between all messages in threads like this one ? > > T

Re: salsa.debian.org maintenance

2022-03-31 Thread Alexander Wirt
Am Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 09:05:46PM +0200 schrieb Alexander Wirt: > Hi, > > I will perform a security update for salsa now. The outage should be no > longer than 30 minutes. And done. Alex signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: salsa accounts

2022-11-01 Thread Alexander Wirt
Hi, simple, your mail address triggers every spam trigger. I doubt it will ever succeed. It looks exactly like a typical type of spammers.AlexAm 01.11.2022 um 19:04 schrieb Alberto Salvia Novella :I tried registering a few times, and it never got approved.(When replying, include my email in the "t

Re: salsa.debian.org maintenance

2023-11-01 Thread Alexander Wirt
On Wed, Nov 01, 2023 at 09:29:41PM +0100, Alexander Wirt wrote: > Hi, > > I will do some upgrades on salsa. Expect some downtime of the service. I have encountered a few problems along the way and will therefore postpone the maintenance. Alex signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: GitLab on salsa.d.o without security support

2023-12-01 Thread Alexander Wirt
On Fri, Dec 01, 2023 at 08:17:02PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: Hi, > The GitLab on salsa.debian.org identifies itself as 16.1.5. This > version is way outside of the three month security support schedule. > Upstream supports the latest three version (so currently 16.6, 16.5 and > 16.4) at every

Re: lists.debian.org maintenance

2024-05-18 Thread Alexander Wirt
On Sat, May 18, 2024 at 10:47:26AM -0500, Steven Robbins wrote: > 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.

Re: lists.debian.org maintenance

2024-05-18 Thread Alexander Wirt
On Sat, May 18, 2024 at 06:24:53PM +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote: > On Sat, May 18, 2024 at 10:47:26AM -0500, Steven Robbins wrote: > > On Friday, May 17, 2024 3:33:30 P.M. CDT Alexander Wirt wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > > we will upgrade bendel.debi

Re: salsa.debian.org maintenance

2025-01-24 Thread Alexander Wirt
Am Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 10:29:26PM +0100 schrieb Alexander Wirt: > Hi, > > you know the drill, I will do some security upgrades right now. Please > expect some service outage. And done, looks like we lost the debian badges (again). I will have to check that later. Alex s

Re: salsa.debian.org maintenance

2025-02-16 Thread Alexander Wirt
Am Sat, Feb 15, 2025 at 08:32:30PM +0100 schrieb Alexander Wirt: > Hi, > > you know the drill. I will do some updates on salsa. Please expect some > service outage(s). And we are done, back with 17.8.2 which is the latest available version. I also readded the DD/DM Information to