Re: hosted project management tools

2015-10-21 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
e your login/account requirements, though. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F

Re: hosted project management tools

2015-10-21 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ping the things I actually want to create. no, sorry. but its rather easy to install. php and a database and you are done. authentication in integration into other tools is a different thing, though. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Develope

Re: Announcing GNU ethical criteria for code repositories

2015-11-27 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
oes not need to be, we should not force them. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F

Re: more official Debian cloud images (Re: Debian Project News - January 1, 2016)

2016-01-03 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
it should be possible to find a way. - -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Versi

Re: Censorship in Debian

2018-12-23 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
to do so. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F

Re: On having and using a Code of Conduct

2019-01-04 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
That sounds more like a self-made police than a team that you trust to mediate an issue. In my opinion, all kinds of decisions should be done by a team that has the delegation to do them - DAM. Nobody else. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Li

Re: Proposal: mediators

2019-01-08 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
involved in Debian politics at all. A view that is not biased at all makes much more sense, especially when people in the project do not like the outcome... Thanks, Bernd -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp

Re: Debian and Non-Free Services

2019-09-16 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ng that? I think this entire thread is nothing more > than a stalking horse for Ian's crusade to get everyone to use dgit and we > should just move on. Absolutely. Nobody should be forced to use a tool - or not. Also if you want to send a pull request and don't

Re: Debian and Non-Free Services

2019-09-16 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
t and/or for better cooperation with > upstream. Either that or packages are just being removed from Debian and provided in an external repository. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fi

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

2019-09-23 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ow easy it will be > (for example) to add some kind of CI/CD for all packages. > > Cheers, > > Thomas Goirand (zigo) > -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F

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

2019-09-24 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
out for free. Bernd -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F

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

2019-09-24 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
SP participants > and similar stuff. As I see it, the next BSP will happen in a month in > Vaumarcus... and ack... There are way more important things to do than to discuss the place of git repositories. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://b

Re: Debian and Non-Free Services

2019-10-09 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
o sane things. Brend -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F

Re: Debian and Non-Free Services

2019-10-09 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ey are supposed to do or not. Git is like your favorite car. You can buy one from VW with maybe-broken-software, it will serve you well until it dies. Or you can build your own "free" car, it will serve you well until it dies. Would you like it that various people tell you no

Re: Some thoughts about Diversity and the CoC

2019-12-13 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
standards, but it's not reasonable to hold them to superhuman standards. No, either we have a CoC or not. If it goes so much against your believes, humanity or whatever else, that you can't answer in a sane language, ask somebody else to answer in your name. Especially when you are in a

Re: Do we still value contributions?

2019-12-26 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ew queue sounds like a very good idea to me, if it helps the ftp team to be faster. At the same time we'll get hints to license violations from our upstreams... -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.d

Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian

2020-04-09 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
you become a DD would be an extra bonus. Bernd -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F

Re: Tone policing by a member of the community team [Was, Re: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board]

2021-04-10 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
n creating the best distribution instead. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F

Re: Tone policing by a member of the community team [Was, Re: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board]

2021-04-11 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
hought police and you don't know (and actually I don't want to know) whats going on in the brain of some people. Debian is a large project that attracts people from all over the world, so there will be always people with opinions and backgrounds that we personally don't want to supp

Re: Abusive language on Debian lists

2021-04-11 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
if so you might be able to join form whereever you are at that moment :) -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F

Re: Support timeframe

2010-06-25 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Debian - which is a community effort mostly - you can get a release quicker or longer security support for a release, if you pay somebody to do so. There are several companies and consultants who employ/are Debian developers and would be willing to do such a job. -- Bernd Zeimetz

Re: debian-private declassification team (looking for one)

2010-07-01 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
hould be (probably against their wish) being published. And finally I think we should release Squeeze first before doing any work on this, a (good) release is much more important than bringing the muddy fights of debian-private to the public. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian

Re: On terminology

2010-07-02 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
r is too widely used..., even maintainer and 'New Maintainer' is confusing enough) -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93

Re: Linux in Canada, might severely affect all free software projects

2010-07-03 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
gt; and to publicly speak out against it. I think people should not fight against such a stupid law. Instead they should spend their time to fight against DRM and any kind of lock which cripples today's medias. > > > Kind regards, > --Toni++ > > -- Bernd Zeimetz

Re: On terminology

2010-07-05 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
d not be a good change > of terminology. Also Debian Developers are able to upload stuff, therefore uploaders. No no, that just doesn't fit :) -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG

Re: On terminology

2010-07-05 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ch > details can be changed going forward without a GR) if that will help. Better to do that with a general restructuring of all the membership stuff instead of starting over and over again. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de

Re: Problems with NM Front Desk

2010-07-06 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
O. This is *not* okay. The proper way is to contact the MIA team and let them handle the situation *OR* to get the OK from the maintainer. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.

Re: buildd/porter/maintainer roles again

2010-07-12 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ease being a porter. > > I do think that buildd admins that doesn't care for the architechture > they are buildd maintaining for should try hard handing over that > responsibility to someone who does care for the arch. Or they should work closely with the porters to notify them ab

Re: DEP-5 meta: New co-driver; current issues

2010-08-12 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
e done automatically, even if it means that we need to spend time to write tools to do so (yes, I know this is not an easy task). So my opinion in short words: DEP-5 is a nice idea, but too far away from reality. Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Dev

Re: DEP-5 meta: New co-driver; current issues

2010-08-12 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 08/12/2010 03:27 PM, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > On to, 2010-08-12 at 14:59 +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: >> On 08/12/2010 02:45 PM, Lars Wirzenius wrote: >> > It would be good to have DEP-5 done quite early in the squeeze+1 >>> development cycle to give as much ti

Re: DEP-5 meta: New co-driver; current issues

2010-08-13 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
like "this package is licensed under license FOO, but with the following exceptions" - and then add a field which takes a longish text with the exceptions. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.de

Re: DEP-5: Ack section

2010-08-31 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
PL. > > +# Acknowledgements > + > +Many people have worked on this specification over the years. > +The following alphabetical list is incomplete, > +please suggest missing people: > +Russ Allbery, > +Ben Finney, > +Sam Hocevar, > +Steve Langasek, > +Charles

Re: DebianGIS - Mapping of Debian on #Planet #Earth. #People, #Developers, #Computers, #News, #Events, etc. http://gis.debianart.org

2010-09-24 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
t. And private date from db.debian.org should not be published. Otherwise I really like the idea! Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485

Re: DebianGIS - Mapping of Debian on #Planet #Earth. #People, #Developers, #Computers, #News, #Events, etc. http://gis.debianart.org

2010-09-24 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
> But you can send your full name and photograph for a more complete profile. Good idea! Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95

Re: etherpad clone on debian.net

2010-10-10 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
crap - if I remember right that was the reason why I did not install Etherpad here). -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 43

Re: Request: Hires version of debian-women logotype

2011-05-12 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ebian+women+svg+logo+download The first result points to a list of logos by MiriamRuiz, which includes the women logo, too. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprints: ECA1 E3F2 8E11

Re: Debian page at Google+

2011-11-08 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
an page, at least for trademark reasons. Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprints: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UN

Re: RFC - Changing current policy of debian.net entries

2012-06-25 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
#x27;s > blessed is mostly a project internal issue. mentors is a special case here as it might distribute non-distributable stuff when people upload buggy packages. So there is no real way to run this as official Debian service imho. > > [...] -- Bernd Zeimetz

Re: RFC - Changing current policy of debian.net entries

2012-06-25 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 06/25/2012 05:39 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 05:01:11PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: >> mentors is a special case here as it might distribute non-distributable >> stuff when people upload buggy packages. So there is no real way to run >> th

Re: DebConf travel sponsorship

2012-07-05 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
later - the result is probably that those people who are not able to attend without being sponsored are not able to come at all because they can't pay that sum in advance. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de

Re: Google contacting (harassing?) new DDs

2014-01-17 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
read your mind, and if you don't reply they obviously try to contact you again. That's also my experience. Works fine for me. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1

Re: [Proposal] GR: Selecting the default init system for Debian

2014-01-27 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, On 01/27/2014 08:39 PM, Guillem Jover wrote: > This is the revised draft GR proposal (please see below); I'm looking for > sponsors now. please stop wasting people's time and let the TC do their work instead. Thanks. - --

Re: ideas....

2007-04-07 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Heya, > > 2)One real issue with Debian is a lack of admin tools, (such as yast > is for > SuSE). Considering starting a project to develop a range of gui based > admin > tools for Debian. One of the reasons why I am using Debian is that there is no yast. Tools like yast too often try to know more t

Re: Bits from the DPL

2007-04-28 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
able to ship the binaries of huge projects I'm sure there's enough disk space to ship the sources, too. Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Range Voting - the simpler better alternative to Condorcet voting

2007-06-05 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
yourself, so please point us to some scientific paper(s) which support(s) your claim. Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: please

2007-06-06 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
> Nor does loadable firmware. Are you confusing it with closed-source > kernel code like in madwifi? > > the last time I took a look into the sources of madwifi it was not closed source, except for the firmware blob. But I have to admit that i didn't read the source since it works well on my

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

2007-07-13 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
>> Sorry, but this is NOT REALY RIGHT! >> >> The new german LAW is talking about Software which was build to hack >> sites. "Security Software like nmap, nessus etc." are not build to >> do illegal hacking. (Greetings from my Advocat from Offenburg) >> > > Interpretation of that law differs

Re: wiki.debian.org: Who's maintaining it

2007-09-08 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
site; if not, I'm definitely sure > that we can draw new blood from the remainder of our 1049-odd developer > pool :) > I'd be willing to maintain it, but I'm still waiting for an AM :( But If there's something you can do without beeing DD, please

Re: Debian-Med

2007-09-09 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ed/ and http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed The debian-med mailinglist, which is probably a better place for your questions is here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-med/ Hope that helps, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Informacion licencias

2007-09-21 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
oes not only contain the acceptable licenses, but also a list of bad licenses, inlucing links to the debian-legal archive. Taking a look at the recent changes showed me, that the MPL seems to be acceptable for main now - interesting news. -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Linux for a school

2007-11-08 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
sponsor within minutes. -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: call for seconds: on firmware

2008-11-17 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
en if I can see where you're coming from in merging it into the "current" GR, that's not what was asked for. Do we now need a GR to tell the secretary that a proposed and seconded GR should not be merged into other GRs? -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/

Re: KDE 4.x in Debian

2008-11-18 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
getting beyond experimental, and >>> traversing unstable/testing/stable? >> unstable: within a week after lenny release >> testing: probably a month later > > Not 10 days? Do you really think it won't have RC bugs? :P :P -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GN

Re: Discussion: Possible GR: Enhance requirements for General Resolutions

2008-12-29 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
if there's not a really good reason to do so. If we want Debian to be used in business ("enterprise" *gasp*) installations, we should at least be able to tell people when we're about to release, without having them to fear a delay for months or years due to a GR. Cheers, Bernd

Re: Discussion: Possible GR: Enhance requirements for General Resolutions

2008-12-30 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 01:50:37AM +0100, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: >>> b) Delaying a decision of a Delegate or the DPL [ยง4.2(2.2)], >>> as well as resolutions against a shortening of discussion/voting >>> period or to overwrite a TC

Re: Discussion: Possible GR: Enhance requirements for General Resolutions

2009-01-05 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
b) 4.2.7 is reworded to state: > Q is half of the square root of the number of current Developers. >Q need not be an integer and is not rounded. So we have Q people in case of floor(Q)==Q and floor(Q)+1 otherwise? Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz

Re: Results of the Lenny release GR

2009-01-13 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
t; Proposal: hand Robert Millan a nice cup of STFU. > Seconded. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprint: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subj

Re: Results of the Lenny release GR

2009-01-13 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
on destroying the project at the moment is *you*. Please don't continue until somebody asks for a vote to remove your from all lists or the whole project, I'm sure enough people would second that. Better go and fix your packages, that would be something useful you could help

Re: Debian Membership

2009-03-14 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
to ensure that new DDs have a common knowledge, which is needed definitely. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprint: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org wit

Re: Genericly-named debian.net domains for private use (was Re: Point to semi-official backported packages?)

2009-03-31 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
s quite simple too: for any $X.debian.org, > $X.debian.net should point to $X.debian.org. (A reasonable exception > could be www.debian.net containing a list of .debian.net names.) Implementing this rule would be very appreciated. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Deve

Re: Twittering on planet.d.o?

2009-04-19 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
oing your > microblogging. > > I suggest you remove the feed until there is some kind of proper support > specifically for microblogging as suggested in other replies. Seconded. Please don't abuse planet for this microbloging stuff. Thanks. - -- Bernd Zeimetz

Re: Who uses @packages.d.o mail?

2009-05-23 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ld block spam very well there. Its not really possible to use such restrictions on the mailtainer contact mail, though. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprint: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-p

Re: DAM and NEW queues processing

2009-06-23 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ple will acc= epted as NM, but not with the DM process in the current state. But that's anoth= er theme. Cheers, Bernd (speaking with his FD hat on) --=20 Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF

Re: DAM and NEW queues processing

2009-06-23 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 23/06/09 at 12:06 +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: >> No way. Most reports show that a lot of NMs don't know about a lot of >> things asked during the NM process. This is true even for those who >> are DM already. > > Is that really problem? W

Re: DAM queues processing

2009-06-23 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
M with the comment "I'm not entirely happy, but its your job to decide..." Also it is good to have more than one person read the mboxes, sometimes you just miss important points/words because you're braindead after reading too many mails. -- Bernd Zeimetz

Re: DAM and NEW queues processing

2009-06-23 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
out jetring... and so on. I did not yet find the time to write down all the changes I'd like to have first, but that will happen some day. Cheers, Bernd P.S. Anybody willing to re-write the NM page? I have a long list of todos for that... -- Bernd Zeimetz

Re: DAM and NEW queues processing

2009-06-23 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
hat I've witnessed recently). The NM process should neither be pain for the NM nor for the AM. If it is I'm happy to hear the facts why it is pain, instead of useless babbling. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EA

Re: DAM and NEW queues processing

2009-06-23 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
opyright. And if somebody is able to download packages from the NEW queue Debian is distributing them. If this is not allowed, you could end up with some extra fun with lawyers... -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C B

Re: DAM and NEW queues processing

2009-06-23 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > Lucas Nussbaum wrote: >> On 23/06/09 at 12:55 +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: >>> Lucas Nussbaum wrote: >>>> On 23/06/09 at 12:06 +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: >>>>> No way. Most reports show that a lot of NMs don't kn

Re: DAM queues processing

2009-06-23 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 23/06/09 at 14:29 +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: >> Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: >>> I'd be perfectly fine with FD being the last review step, and DAM >>> "just" in charge of creating the account, trusting FD judgement. >>>

Re: DAM queues processing

2009-06-23 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Peter Palfrader wrote: > On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > >> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 02:29:20PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: >>> What you miss is that I move all problematic candidates to DAM with >>> the comment "I'm not entirely happy, bu

Re: DAM and NEW queues processing

2009-06-23 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
NMs first while Nms with one package only and no other activity will stay there much longer. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 43

Re: DAM and NEW queues processing

2009-06-23 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ugh in a week or two except in > rare situations. That never seemed like a difficult wait to me. Ack. Same for adding debug packages and similar things like soname bumps. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E

Re: DAM and NEW queues processing

2009-06-24 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
d sometimes forgotten. Would be great if somebody with spare time could write a cronjob which compares the account names in the NM database with the output of getent and set the account created field I didn't find the time for it yet... Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz

Re: DAM queues processing

2009-06-24 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
know where FD members are listed so we can get this fixed... -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: DAM and NEW queues processing

2009-06-24 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
AM could provide a summary for that mail, after all, the > AM should know the applicant enough to be able to write that up, > right? No need for that. Read debian-newmaint for a summary if you're interested, that's why the AM report is posted there. Definitely I'm not goi

Re: DAM and NEW queues processing

2009-06-24 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
you're interested in spending several (often 10-20) hours *every* week on repeating tasks, or if you want to rewrite nm.d.o, please contact FrontDesk. Thanks, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067

Re: DAM and NEW queues processing

2009-06-24 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
be enough to just have a special automated mail > congratulating new developers on -newmaint (or modify the subject of > this mail to congratulate them?) I'd be happy to modify the cronjob to send such mails to -project, if the interest is large enough. Does anybody want to come up

Re: DAM and NEW queues processing

2009-06-25 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Mike Hommey wrote: > On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 01:32:14AM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: >> Don Armstrong wrote: >>> On Wed, 24 Jun 2009, Steve Langasek wrote: >>>> Ok - then I guess my problem is that the list of names included in >>>> these is so non-notabl

Re: DAM and NEW queues processing

2009-06-26 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
g clearly going wrong there. Once I'm finished to clean up those candidates which are assigned to their AM since years and went away, I'll start to keep an eye on the length of the process. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprints: 06C8

Re: DAM and NEW queues processing

2009-06-26 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > Ahh... the old dear bureaucracy! > "It is not my task, so go away and never come back" ;-) > > Is it so difficult that a cronjob will call two scripts and merge the > results > in a single mail? yes. -- Bernd Zeimetz

Re: DAM and NEW queues processing

2009-06-26 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
towards becoming DD and knowing all the things a DD needs to know is a slow but steady one. Your AM is happy with that, so I can't see a problem here. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B F

Re: DAM and NEW queues processing

2009-06-28 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Bernd Zeimetz said: >> Don Armstrong wrote: >>> On Wed, 24 Jun 2009, Steve Langasek wrote: >>>> Ok - then I guess my problem is that the list of names included in >>>> these is so non-notable (

Re: DAM and NEW queues processing

2009-06-28 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
here is a chance that I have to investigate manually why it failed again. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- T

New Debian Developers

2009-06-30 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
I'll start to send them automatically soon. - -- Debian New Maintainer Frontdesk Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprint: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: U

Re: ia32-libs{-tools}, multiarch, squeeze

2009-07-03 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
mess, the idea is broken by the design and it has numerous RC bugs. Do you *really* want to have more reasons? -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D4

Re: ia32-libs{-tools}, multiarch, squeeze

2009-07-05 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
uld have added another one - breaking apt completely while removing the ia32 packages is not nice. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB

Re: ia32-libs{-tools}, multiarch, squeeze

2009-07-06 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Bernd Zeimetz writes: > >> Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >>>> and it has numerous RC bugs. >>> Lets see: >>> http://packages.qa.debian.org/i/ia32-libs-tools.html >>> >>> RC bugs: 1 >> There were 6 bugs

Re: DAM and NEW queues processing

2009-07-21 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
k out people like translators > (though that's more of a theoretical concern than a practical one). There are templates for doc writers, and it should not be too hard to work out something for translators. I can't see a problem here. -- Bernd Zeimetz D

Re: Re-thinking Debian membership - take #1: inactivity

2009-07-23 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
to measure activity is necessary here probably. But voting is a good thing to look at, definitely. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171

Re: Re-thinking Debian membership - take #1: inactivity

2009-07-23 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 23/07/09 at 10:52 +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: >> Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> * DDs which are not active for 2 years or more automa

Re: Re-thinking Debian membership - take #1: inactivity

2009-07-23 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 10:52:20AM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > >> My opinion in two short comments: > >> - reduce the time to 1 year > > This introduces the possibility that, even if the DD votes in every election > and uploads their p

Re: Re-thinking Debian membership - take #1: inactivity

2009-07-24 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ode and from CIA.vc. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debia

Re: Re-thinking Debian membership - take #1: inactivity

2009-07-24 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 11:52:11PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: >> But I know that there are/will be DDs which do infrastructure stuff only, and >> rarely upload packages. Such DDs should never be regarded as MIA, of course. > > I am not convinced of

Re: Re-thinking Debian membership - take #1: inactivity

2009-07-25 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
lot of teams where outsiders can help and earn trust witout being able to break things. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6

Re: Re-thinking Debian membership - take #1: inactivity

2009-07-25 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Bernd Zeimetz (26/07/2009): >> See above. Also: There're a lot of teams where outsiders can help and >> earn trust without being able to break things. > > Do you mean people like Simon Paillard? With contributions in l10n, > i18n,

Re: debian developers from *any* country ?

2009-07-28 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
iving in the mentioned countries - for example at the embassies - I guess it would make sense to give them a chance to meet for keysigning, too. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
x, X, GNU > toolkit, ...). The only reason for this dream is to make sure that Debian fixes the Ubuntu bugs for free. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
d a new distribution then... or to start a GR. Not sure what is better for my nerves. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
er, dsa,) to find an appropriate date." Of course its not easy to find a date which makes all teams completely happy, but the release team should try to do so at least. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A

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