Re: Improving coordination / support for upstreams

2010-09-05 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, CJ: On Wednesday 01 September 2010 21:49:31 CJ Fearnley wrote: [...] > Here are some concrete ideas that might positively improve our > coordination with upstreams: [...] > - Add a reportbug --kudos-upstream facilitity to send kudos upstream >* This will require a standard metadata a fiel

Re: QTS ( was Re: user support - Shapado instance for Debian)

2010-10-08 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi Tshepang: On Thursday 07 October 2010 19:02:39 Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 18:13, Andrei Popescu wrote: [...] > > You ask a question, and someone answers. If you find the answer > useful, you vote it as correct, and the answerer gets points for that. > You also get

Re: QTS ( was Re: user support - Shapado instance for Debian)

2010-10-08 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Stefano: On Friday 08 October 2010 10:22:24 Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 11:03:42PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: > > Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > > ask.debian.net is not taking anything away from you. You can ignore it > > > the way you ignore Debian web forums, for example. ask.d

Re: Partners

2010-12-19 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Jonathan: On Saturday 18 December 2010 02:06:27 Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: > Please keep this discussion on-list, that is > debian-project@lists.debian.org, and avoid top-posting > (http://idallen.com/topposting.html). > > On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 12:51:50AM +, anthony budd wrote: > > If a s

Re: On cadence and collaboration

2009-08-05 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Mark, I'm glad you took towards this list the effort of this message: On Wednesday 05 August 2009 11:21:38 Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > Hi folks > > I've stayed quiet in this discussion, though several folks have invoked > my name and ascribed motivations to me that were a little upsetting. I'm

Re: On cadence and collaboration

2009-08-05 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Julien: On Wednesday 05 August 2009 20:42:03 Julien BLACHE wrote: > Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > Hi, > > >> From the very start of the Debian Project, Debian has been different > >> from everything else: different package management tools, different > >> philosophy, different organization, you

Re: On cadence and collaboration

2009-08-05 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Marc: On Wednesday 05 August 2009 22:24:56 Marc Haber wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 09:32:36PM +0200, Jesús M. Navarro wrote: > > In other words: freeze on december the first doesn't mean that if, say, > > Gnome will publish it's new shiny 1.2

Re: On cadence and collaboration

2009-08-05 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Jan: On Wednesday 05 August 2009 21:53:20 Jan Hauke Rahm wrote: [...] > > I'm interested in the reactions of other distributions. Are they likely > to change their release cycle to fit yours? Or would you be willing to > change Ubuntu's release dates if SuSE proposed LTS releases to come out

Re: On cadence and collaboration

2009-08-05 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Mark: On Wednesday 05 August 2009 23:28:19 Mark Shuttleworth wrote: [...] > I think most are waiting to see if Debian and Ubuntu can do this. If we > can, I am very confident we will get a group of other distributions > participating in the version harmonisation discussions in the first > roun

Re: On cadence and collaboration

2009-08-05 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Julien: On Wednesday 05 August 2009 22:09:04 Julien BLACHE wrote: > "Jesús M. Navarro" wrote: > [...] > > > > Why? I really don't see your point unless you mean for the packager > > under current conditions where no real branches are allowed on De

Re: Summary of the debian-devel BoF at Debconf9

2009-08-20 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Manoj: On Wednesday 19 August 2009 02:10:04 Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Tue, Aug 18 2009, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 03:25:30PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >> > And really, if some logical conclusion is so broken that this > >> > brokeness has its own name, then ev

Re: Switching the default startup method

2009-08-24 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Steve: On Monday 24 August 2009 09:19:28 Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 08:38:21AM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: [...] > > Eh. This translates to: "it is ok that the admin cannot switch back > > from insserv to oldstyle booting". > > > > And that is a statement that I heavily

Re: Switching the default startup method

2009-08-24 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Tollef: On Monday 24 August 2009 10:27:07 Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] Andreas Barth > > | Eh. This translates to: "it is ok that the admin cannot switch back > | from insserv to oldstyle booting". > | > | And that is a statement that I heavily disagree with. I think neither > | our users nor o

Re: time-based release freezes

2009-09-06 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Stefan: On Saturday 05 September 2009 17:27:22 Stefan Krueger wrote: > Hello Debianteam, > > I hope you understand my terrible english ;) > > It is the fixed release cycles, my opinion ist that 2years are too short, > because Debian is used more as a server operating system, the people how > w

Re: time-based release freezes

2009-09-06 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Sylvain: On Sunday 06 September 2009 17:06:24 Sylvain Sauvage wrote: > Hi, > > Jesús M. Navarro, dimanche 6 septembre 2009, 16:34:45 CEST > > >[…] > > So you advocate for a 3 year release. You are aware that with a 2 year > > release and at least one year of wa

Re: Debian money

2009-09-10 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Steve: On Thursday 10 September 2009 01:57:14 Steve McIntyre wrote: [...] > 4 Marketing stuff: Yes. There's a kindof "market point" I've been wishing on Debian for years "knowing" that it simply could happen: certifications and generally rising attention to commercial producers, both har

Re: Debian money

2009-09-10 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Alexander: On Thursday 10 September 2009 22:11:24 Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: > Hi! > > Jesús M. Navarro schrieb: > >> 4 Marketing stuff: > > [..] > > > So, if Debian can be truly so great for companies from IBM to Alfresco, > > to Oracle (and the

Re: Debian money

2009-09-20 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Bernd: On Wednesday 16 September 2009 19:14:41 Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > > Some months ago Debian asked for sponsored hardware: > > http://www.debian.org/News/2009/20090208 > > > > I did not read any news about his, so maybe we could use some > > money for such infra

Re: possible abuse of debian and GPL

2009-10-27 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
On Tuesday 27 October 2009 20:10:10 MJ Ray wrote: > richard newton wrote: > > The following site appears to be selling a computer with a modified > > Debian system. I could find nothing on the site about the OS or where I > > might get the source code. > > In one of the screenshots I noticed it wa