On Wed, August 27, 2014 04:54, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Russ Allbery [2014-08-26 19:43 -0700]:
>> I believe Debian's major expenses are Debconf, team meetings
>> (mostly travel and possibly some lodging and food), and computing
>> hardware. I would be surprised if Bitcoin were useful
On Thu, October 2, 2014 11:45, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> It would be great if a team could magically form to maintain it as a
> Debian package. I'm Ccing people who already expressed interest in
> helping with this, but feel free to just join the fun!
Maybe this fun Debian Quiz could also serve as s
On tiisdei 14 Septimber 2010, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> So, for the past years we have had x.0.y with growing `y' for point
> releases, and skiping to (x+1).0.0. And the zero in the middle carries
> no meaning anymore.
It also doesn't do any harm, does it?
I would vastly prefer not to change our versi
Hi Douglas,
On Thursday 20 January 2011 16:45:50 g...@ccil.org wrote:
> I'm curious why only eleven Squirrelmail plug-ins seem to be available as
> Debian packages: http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=squirrelmail
>
> Specifically, I don't see that the Unsafe Image Rules plug-in is availab
On Thu, November 3, 2011 18:44, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Nov 2011, Jakub Wilk wrote:
>> * Lars Wirzenius , 2011-10-30, 17:33:
>> >>Personally, I think some guidelines for DD's about securing
>> >>their personal machines where their private keys are located
>> >>would be a goo
On Tue, March 20, 2012 09:06, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
>> Shouldn't the various teams handling the group take care of managing
>> them? Do they currently fail at that?
>
> I think we can say that yes, they generally fail at asking for people to
> be removed from groups. I'm still a member of webwml
On Wed, March 21, 2012 13:16, Clint Adams wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 10:07:30AM +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
>> So I would advise to only make an effort to 'clean up' groups that have
>> sufficiently 'dangerous' consequences attached to them.
>
> The
On Thu, March 29, 2012 04:27, Paul Wise wrote:
> Probably you missed the part of the email that says we should add
> t=debian by default to every new DDG search URL? I would suggest that
> it should be up to the users what t= should be set to when sending
> search requests to DDG, not Debian.
I'm
On Thu, June 14, 2012 16:56, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 09:31:39AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
>> I have not added links to their competitors, as I think that it would
>> be bad taste, but yes, I invite every developer to consider Free
>> alternatives such as Gitorious or
On Fri, June 22, 2012 23:01, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote:
> There is nothing carved into stone yet! I just want to hear your
> comments on this. The key point is that lay users will not understand
> the difference between debian.net and debian.org, and we should not
> require that they do. The purpose
On Wed, August 1, 2012 18:54, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Lars Wirzenius writes:
>
>> I'll leave the discussion with this counter suggestion: change the
>> trademark policy to say:
>
>> We call ourselves the Debian project. You can use our name as long
>> as it doesn't make reasonable people con
On Tue, August 14, 2012 16:51, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> I agree with this. In dealing with lawyers on behalf of Debian, I've
> quickly learned that there are almost never "100% safe" or "100% risky"
> positions. It is *always* a cost/benefit/risk analysis. You ask the
> experts to evaluate the r
On Mon, October 1, 2012 12:27, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> I haven't touched (nor looked into) the official logo. My impression is
> that that that logo is massively underused and basically unknown to most
> of our public out there. My personal take on it is that we should simply
> ditch it, focusi
On Mon, October 8, 2012 16:52, Paul Tagliamonte wrote:
> Right now, the way I understand it is that you can, in a DFSG and legal
> way, create a document with the Debian logo & brand, and create a
> "certificate" that looks to be from Debian, and sell them as some sort
> of certification from Debia
On Mon, October 8, 2012 20:54, Paul Tagliamonte wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 08:48:40PM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
>> On Mon, October 8, 2012 16:52, Paul Tagliamonte wrote:
>> > Right now, the way I understand it is that you can, in a DFSG and
>> legal
>> >
On Tue, October 30, 2012 12:38, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> * Lars Wirzenius , 2012-10-30, 09:45:
>>>AFAIK Matthew Garrett hasn't been "active and directly involved
>>>participant in the Debian development community" for years. What is
>>>the reason for keeping his blog on planet.d.o?
>>Matthew has been bl
On Mon, February 11, 2013 14:54, Antonio Terceiro wrote:
> There are several cases where upstream explicitly puts "Copyright 2013 The
> Foo Developers" and similar statements. Are they invalid as well? If they
> are valid, wouldn't "Copyright 2013 Debian Project" have the similar (if
> not the same
On Fri, March 15, 2013 21:03, Simon Paillard wrote:
> Regardless avatar on/off, I really miss the CSS that used to have a grey
> background for email headers in BTS.
You have an old version of the CSS cached. Use shift-F5 to solve this.
Cheers,
Thijs
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Op donderdag 9 mei 2013 23:40:45 schreef Wouter Verhelst:
> I do agree that sometimes, mailinglists aren't the best possible medium
> to hold a discussion. However, I'm not convinced that your proposal is
> the best way to fix that. I think that with all its flaws, mailinglists
> (and/or usenet) ar
On Tue, June 18, 2013 04:31, Martin Owens wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-06-17 at 19:03 -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
>> site requesting user's charity
>
> You mean user's involvement. You don't want users to be invited to
> participate in Debian. Debian isn't elitist and it shouldn't care that
> the tool being
On Wed, August 7, 2013 21:52, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> 22/37 were sponsored as part of a team
> 10/37 had a friend or colleague sponsor them
> 5/37 were sponsored as part of debian-mentors
>
> Other things mentioned (once):
> - sponsored by the previous maintainer when adopting a package
> - sponsor
On Wed, August 28, 2013 18:12, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> ]] Lucas Nussbaum
>
>> I like this idea of "max outstanding of $300" instead of an explicit
>> time limit. But I think that your proposal makes it possible for DSA to
>> not get reimbursed if the DPL is grumpy and decides not to approve the
>>
On Mon, September 23, 2013 14:46, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> Did you tag them 'gift'?
> https://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/GiftTag
This may just be me, as it's very personal, and no offense intended at
you, but I really detest the name 'gift' of that tag and that prevents me
from using it.
Taggin
On Tue, September 24, 2013 14:02, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 07:51:53AM -0400, Paul Tagliamonte wrote:
>> Its not just you - while I appreciate using a word other than bitesized
>> or
>> low-hanging-fruit, I tend to get the same slightly off putting feeling
>> about "gift"
On Wed, October 16, 2013 15:01, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> I do realize that most of the value of a CDN is not in its software
> parts. But I'm under the impression there is still quite a bit of
> software behind commercial CDN offerings. So my question is: would the
> CDN providers we're going to
On Wed, November 20, 2013 19:03, anarcat wrote
>>> And saying that "because there's proprietary firmware in your BIOS it's
>>> okay to offload all of Debian's infrastructure to a non-free CDN is
>>> okay"
>>> seems to me to be a slippery slope.
>>
>> Nobody has talked about moving all of Debian's i
On Thu, December 5, 2013 02:15, Ian Jackson wrote:
> I would go further and say that I think it would be better to do
> things differently. For a team which is functioning well, it would be
> helpful if the DPL delegated to the team the authority over its own
> composition, explicitly reserving th
On Thu, December 5, 2013 11:46, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> This was discussed in
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2013/05/msg00018.html.
> Main points are:
> * it facilitates the monitoring of the team manpower, which helps
> taking proactive actions before things get too difficult.
> * it
Hi Venkatesh,
On Fri, December 13, 2013 09:44, Venkatesh Pawar wrote:
> I am Venkatesh Pawar need a link for debian lenny os source code for
> some operation purpose. So can you please tell me from where should i
> download source code of debian lenny os. It will be great help if uou help
> me
On Mon, January 6, 2014 11:38, Stephen Gran wrote:
> I don't think jumping straight to a solution that puts all of the
> responsibility for every idea for a service in Debian on DSA shoulders is
> either the only way to go or even a good way to go. There are plenty
> of bad ideas that should be al
Hi Peter,
On Fri, January 10, 2014 02:45, link master wrote:
> My name is Pete Crisaf and Im getting in touch on behalf of our company
> www.dzineit.net .We noticed that youve linked to our website on your page
> > with the text (new york web design) and am requesting that
> you remove the link.
On Mon, February 10, 2014 18:26, Daniel Pocock wrote:
> http://www.itwire.com/opinion-and-analysis/open-sauce/63079-debian-init-system-vote-has-become-a-farce
>
> finishes off with the line "And users are still expected to take this
> lot seriously."
>
> Not really objective journalism
Even if obj
On Sun, April 20, 2014 06:12, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> Kurt Roeckx dijo [Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 12:51:45AM +0200]:
>> On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 09:41:40PM +, Clint Adams wrote:
>> > Upon request. Made with an unpackaged set of keyrings[0].
>>
>> Thanks for the update.
>> (...)
>> So we seem to making
Hi René,
On Thu, June 12, 2014 10:54, René Bleisch wrote:
> Hi,
> are there any news concerning the planned LTS of Squeeze? (How to get it
> and so on)
> I'm quite a bit frustated:
>
> * there were no more news since 26. April.
> * the standard support has ended by 31.May (no news about it ?!)
Hi Juan,
On Mon, June 16, 2014 20:35, Juan Barrera wrote:
> My name is Juan Barrera. I am a security analyst at Trustwave. I am
> looking for information about whether or not Proftpd-1.3.3a is going
> continue receiving support. Visiting:
> https://www.debian.org/News/2014/20140424 says that De
On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 13:41 +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> But your post makes it all the more clear that *a lot* of Debian
> people need to get the facts straight, and that a Debian vs. Ubuntu
> comparison on #debian is definitely not out of place.
My biggest surprise whas that the channel opera
On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 12:08 +0100, Adrian von Bidder wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 December 2005 19.33, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > ... it's worth considering a GR ...
>
> I really liked your analysis up to that point.
>
> I can't see any reason why we would need a GR here.
I think it's an interesting app
Hello Koen,
> This is a request to remove spam from
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-l10n-portuguese/2002/01/msg00026.html.
> My reason for requesting the removal of this page is that it is the most
> powerful link (on google) for bethedealer.com, a poker website that spams
> alot. Koen
Every mes
On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 14:59 +, Thaddeus H. Black wrote:
> The time has come for the peasants to bear up the hill
> on which James is king the message: James, your service
> is recognized, but enough is enough.
Have you considered, before sending this, that you might have only heard
one side
On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 22:46 -0300, Guilherme de S. Pastore wrote:
> You have dropped a nuclear bomb to kill a
> cockroach, and the cockroach is still alive.
I consider this a bit of a hyperbole. Appearently you can still read and
post to the lists, albeit through another account. It might be anno
On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 13:32 +0100, Harald Geyer wrote:
> I don't want future employers to be able to google about my bugs.
http://bugs.debian.org/robots.txt
Thijs :)
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Hey Marc,
Thanks for this initiative; I'd just decided to not get involved in the
threads on -newmaint anymore because even though I feel strongly about
the issue, the threads were just a repeat of themselves. However, your
mail seems to be different, in that it comes from someone actually
involve
On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 21:33 +0200, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote:
> Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [...]
> > I am not sure 6 months of sustained contributions is really necessary, I
> > think "several months" or "sustained contributions" are alright, where
> > both measures are up for i
On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 08:39 +0200, Benjamin Mesing wrote:
> > like your studies (beeing in a computer science PhD/MSC "helps"),
> Well this might be interesting for the Debian project, but applicants
> might not want this to become public knowledge. Please do not assume,
> that this is for any par
On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 19:34 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> 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 (curren
On Sat, 2006-05-06 at 07:27 +0100, MJ Ray wrote:
> "de facto standard" (which is a contradiction anyway)
I disagree because I'm using de facto as a modifier to standard, but
that's off topic here.
> Try asking: how hard is it for project funds to be used to pay
> someone's entire personal mobile
On Sat, 2006-05-06 at 13:09 +0100, Simon Huggins wrote:
> > Since Debian doesn't donate any money to Freenode, I think that the
> > question of donation spending is not relevant to what network Debian
> > should choose as its default.
>
> By pointing irc.d.o at freenode, it says "Debian supports f
On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 12:34 -0400, Evan Prodromou wrote:
> So: if there's a public statement by Debian or
> debian-legal on a license (like http://people.debian.org/~evan/ccsummary
> is now), would it be misleading for an organization to point to that
> statement? Especially if it was clear that th
Hello Wouter,
On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 12:45 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> Perhaps a formulation like
>
> Since Debian has no authority to hold money or property, any
> monetary donations for the Debian Project must be made to an
> organization that has been vetted by the DPL to
On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 18:51 +0100, David Pashley wrote:
> Presumably because transfering money between countries involves
> non-neglegable cost, where as transfer of ownership of hardware
> doesn't[0].
I understand that - my point is that I don't see a clear reason to
*disallow* other of such "vet
On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 15:10 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> If you can't think of anything useful to do,
> you might like to look at http://ftp-master.debian.org/unmet-deps/ for
> a bunch of ftp-masterish problems that no one else is looking at much
> these days.
Might be a dumb question, but isn't
On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 23:32 -0500, Ean Schuessler wrote:
> Social politics creeping into Debian is one of the greater mortal
> dangers that we face.
I surely hope not. Your mail suggests that someone who has severe social
problems but is technically competent is per definition fit as a
developer.
On Sun, 2006-07-23 at 23:47 -0400, Joe Smith wrote:
> That is true. However this ammendment substancially changes the section
> that talks about SPI, so it would be reasonable to have SPI's board look at
> it if they so desire.
> At best they could find some text that ought to be tweeked, and at w
On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 08:48 +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
> There's a nother problem with team maintained packages. The Security
> Team has to work on packages that are team-maintained in sid every
> once in a while. Often we want to get in touch with the maintainer
> privately before disclosure o
On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 10:50 +0200, Loïc Minier wrote:
> I don't quite understand the various steps that a package traverses
> when uploaded to SPU. Is some document explaining that? In short, I
> would just like to understand the number of steps, the human-triggered
> transitions, and the pub
On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 10:09 -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> The project should decide how it wants to handle filibustering,
> if it feels like doing anything about it, of course. But now, any GR
> has a veto contingent of only 6 developers.
How about we see how to solve that when it act
On Sun, 2006-10-15 at 20:18 -0400, Hubert Chan wrote:
> I also appreciated the package summaries at the bottom of DWN.
> (e.g. these are new packages in the archive this week, these packages
> have been orphaned, etc). Is there some other easy way to find that
> information?
They are automatical
On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 22:39 +0100, Luk Claes wrote:
> Personally, I think the idea of a DD having to ack his nomination, though only
> after being nominated by some (Q?) fellow DDs would be better than a plain
> self-nomination. What do others think?
What would be better about it? I haven't seen
On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 19:43 +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
> 1. why is this allegedly a 'benefit'? what's so special about
> libraries?
> why is a new libc6 or libssl etc more scary than a new apache or php
> etc?
When using a backports package, the breakage is confined to that
package. When pulling
Hi,
Sorry for breaking the thread and chiming in late, I was until recently not
aware of this thread and not subscribed to debian-project. I hope my comments
can still be considered.
>The version must be the version of the last upload, plus +nmuX,
>This special versioning is needed to
On Wednesday 20 August 2008 10:06, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> On 20/08/08 at 09:38 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
> > > The past weeks I had several encounters with the situation that a
> > > maintainer completely overlooked a
On Thu, August 21, 2008 10:33, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 01:33:16PM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
>> But perhaps we need another mechanism to signal this. Consecutive
>> uploads to the same distribution should not cause previously present
>> version entr
On Wed, August 20, 2008 14:14, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Say stable and testing have 1.0-1. Sid has 1.0-2.
> stable-security has 1.0-1+etch1 The maintainer wants to upload something to
> t-p-u. If we had a codename that sorted before etch we would be screwed.
I don't think we're "screwed", rather t
On Friday 22 August 2008 15:49, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> Conclusion: we need a way to version stable/testing uploads that avoids
> this.
While I'm not convinced that it's a pressing issue that needs resolving, if
people badly want it I'll use the new system.
> I think that instead, we should use
On Wed, November 26, 2008 11:12, martin f krafft wrote:
> You may be 70 and capable to do a job which required me to invest 2 years
> into you,
I'd be with you if the ad required a maximum age that was actually
somewhere close to the pension age. Your example does not compare with the
arbitrary ag
On Wed, July 29, 2009 14:24, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote:
> If you don't like that, don't shoot the messenger, because they
> might get sick of being shooten at at every occasion; thanks.
I think an important critic in this thread is the way the message was
brought: DD's like myself are learni
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