Re: Is Philippe Troin MIA?

2004-11-04 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 01:26:15PM +1100, Anibal Monsalve Salazar wrote: > On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 08:09:12AM +1000, Anibal Monsalve Salazar wrote: > > > >If Philippe Troin would like to give away bzip2, I will take it. > > Philippe, I'm very interested on upgrading bzip2 to the current > policy v

Re: Is Philippe Troin MIA?

2004-11-04 Thread Anibal Monsalve Salazar
On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 08:09:12AM +1000, Anibal Monsalve Salazar wrote: > >If Philippe Troin would like to give away bzip2, I will take it. Philippe, I'm very interested on upgrading bzip2 to the current policy version and fixing a number of its 21 bugs. This package has never been uploaded to un

Re: Ranking of the worst maintainers

2004-11-04 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 09:46:38PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: Please explain your understanding of the relation of the words a) help - as I wroteand b) insult - as you interpreted my mail Have you checked the thread title lately? Mike Stone

Re: Ranking of the worst maintainers

2004-11-04 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Thomas Viehmann wrote: help. Perhaps we might focus on the ranking numbers 100 to 500 and forget the top most because it is hard to automatically handle these. What's next? Having an IRC bot that will randomly insult developers with open bugs in their packages, with the lev

Re: Ranking of the worst maintainers

2004-11-04 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Andreas Tille wrote: help. Perhaps we might focus on the ranking numbers 100 to 500 and forget the top most because it is hard to automatically handle these. What's next? Having an IRC bot that will randomly insult developers with open bugs in their packages, with the level of agression in the

Re: Ranking of the worst maintainers

2004-11-04 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Riku Voipio wrote: True. That list looks to me like the list of the most used packages (dpkg, mount and glibc at the top...) By taking popcon.debian.org statistics into account, the list will probably look quite a bit different. It still won't take in account the work done by

Re: Ranking of the worst maintainers

2004-11-04 Thread Riku Voipio
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 04:37:25PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Eduard Bloch wrote: > > http://people.debian.org/~blade/pranger/ranking.html > I seems to me that by these metrics the "best" way to contribute to > Debian is to find something extremely obscure that has 1 user (you, or > perhaps your