Re: MIA Maintainers: how to help

2004-05-30 Thread Grant Bowman
of activity in this area overall. Each situation can not easily be classified. -- -- Grant Bowman<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/ http://packages.qa.debian.org// http://db.debian.org/ to get a developer's http://qa.debian.org/

Re: Zephaniah E. Hull (warp@debian.org) MIA ?

2004-03-30 Thread Grant Bowman
Still no reply I guess... -- -- Grant Bowman<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Grant Bowman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040314 22:02]: > * Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040314 16:56]: > > * Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-03-11 1

Re: [gpm] patches applied...

2004-03-30 Thread Grant Bowman
the new maintainer can sort through the patches and the new maintainer can work with you to get the appropriate patches applied. Best Regards, -- -- Grant Bowman<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Nico Schottelius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040330 07:00]: > Hello! &g

Re: Zephaniah E. Hull (warp@debian.org) MIA ?

2004-03-14 Thread Grant Bowman
I was able to catch this conversation as it began asking the same questions I posed recently. Technically I'm not an MIA DD, I'm retired, but same difference. :-) Regards, -- -- Grant Bowman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Forwarded message from Grant Bowma

findutils maintenance

2002-10-01 Thread Grant Bowman
le. After upgrading to ext3 my updatedb would remove my database each day. I am sure an increasing number of people will be having this problem. Thank you, -- -- Grant Bowman<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Consistency checking for wnpp.

2002-05-12 Thread Grant Bowman
is a cron-job run once each hour. > > You can also start to clean that mess. I have started but some > are still to resolve. Looks great, thanks Ola. -- -- Grant Bowman<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

APT dependency feature

2002-05-02 Thread Grant Bowman
hurd. They use libc0.3 and libc0.3-dev. The libstdc++ package needs to be changed, but I was hoping that apt could ignore this error and keep going, at least for now. Thanks in advance, -- -- Grant Bowman<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: [2002-04-30] Release Status Update

2002-04-30 Thread Grant Bowman
Debian-QA, Joey has a good point. Perhaps if QA had a better organizational structure we could be more active in conducting testing of this scale. The efforts I've seen over the past six months seem to have stalled. -- -- Grant Bowman<[EMAIL P

Re: Implementing my proposal for the organisation of QA

2002-01-10 Thread Grant Bowman
t would be very useful. A separate discussion should take place on the use of this TODO system to influence the behavior of those carrying them out. -- -- Grant Bowman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Implementing my proposal for the organisation of QA

2002-01-10 Thread Grant Bowman
e informed on what it takes to keep QA running well. -- -- Grant Bowman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Stale ITAs done

2002-01-03 Thread Grant Bowman
* Thomas Bushnell, BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020103 15:10]: > Ok, I've gone through all the ITAs on the wnpp list and used Adrian's > algorithm. > [...] Thanks Thomas! -- -- Grant Bowman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: qa.debian.org website status

2002-01-03 Thread Grant Bowman
* Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011219 02:11]: > On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 07:56:12PM -0800, Grant Bowman wrote: > > > > Why aren't these pages in the debian-wml CVS with the rest of the > > > > Debian WWW site? It is due to the PHP generated

Re: Suggestion for the organization of QA work

2001-12-21 Thread Grant Bowman
hould work - the goal isn't to prevent people from > working in a task but to coordinate the work and to find more people if > needed. I look forward to getting this moving after the holidays or as time allows. Cheers, -- -- Grant Bowman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: qa.debian.org website status

2001-12-18 Thread Grant Bowman
* Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011214 02:45]: > On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 01:29:46AM -0800, Grant Bowman wrote: > > Why aren't these pages in the debian-wml CVS with the rest of the > > Debian WWW site? It is due to the PHP generated charts? > > > >

Re: Moving packages@qa.debian.org

2001-12-16 Thread Grant Bowman
> I assume we have a consensus on this? > > (Have to check.) This was discussed on the debian-qa list previously and has been in process for awhile. I think we already have consensus. -- -- Grant Bowman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Low Averge Bug Counts

2001-12-16 Thread Grant Bowman
* Anthony Towns [011215 23:26]: > I'm not sure why everyone's Cc'ing me on this thread. Sorry, I won't Cc you anymore. Heh. > On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 01:50:01PM -0800, Grant Bowman wrote: > > > What about people like myself who are stuck with crappy bits of

Re: Low Averge Bug Counts

2001-12-15 Thread Grant Bowman
* Matthew Vernon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011215 12:17]: > Grant Bowman writes: > > I believe it would be a real boost to those developers who are doing > > such an excellent job in keeping their packages bug-free to make some > > kind of public praising from the QA

qa.debian.org website status

2001-12-14 Thread Grant Bowman
ticed this but it never really registered before. -- -- Grant Bowman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Suggested text for woody announcement from debian-qa

2001-12-14 Thread Grant Bowman
ems such as the top bug-closers and bug-filers over the past month. -- -- Grant Bowman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Suggestion for the organization of QA work

2001-12-11 Thread Grant Bowman
thing more would be a waste of effort and not enforcable anyway. -- -- Grant Bowman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Low Averge Bug Counts

2001-12-11 Thread Grant Bowman
y increase the bug system activity level but it's public communication and incrases communication with the users that choose to look into the matters. I feel it rewards the right results: closing bugs. -- -- Grant Bowman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Low Averge Bug Counts

2001-12-08 Thread Grant Bowman
* Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011208 11:07]: > On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 11:20:52AM -0800, Grant Bowman wrote: > > Christian Kurz and I came up with some other factors that are measurable > > and may need to be taken into account to increase the validity of the > &

Re: Low Averge Bug Counts

2001-12-07 Thread Grant Bowman
e formulas for prioritization and scheduling that may be applicable. I can pull out the information I have. Cheers, -- -- Grant Bowman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Grant Bowman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011205 15:23]: > Thanks to Takuo Kitame we can get a v

Low Averge Bug Counts

2001-12-05 Thread Grant Bowman
ch an excellent job in keeping their packages bug-free to make some kind of public praising from the QA group. I would be happy to work on the wording with anyone else who would like to participate. Anthony, this might tie in well somehow with the freeze. Suggestions? -- -- Grant B

Bug#116719: Status of debian-qa-packages mail list

2001-12-01 Thread Grant Bowman
Hi there, I was just curious about how long it takes to set up a mail list. I know it's the holidays and all, but there isn't any status in this bug after a a full month. Thanks, -- -- Grant Bowman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Suggestion for the organization of QA work

2001-11-26 Thread Grant Bowman
ry to understand what issues people are having. Ultimately, it's the users that benefit from the work done in QA. In this project, QA can even be seen as "free support." Care needs to be taken in how this reality is presented, but I think it's true. -- -- Grant Bowman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: WNPP bug overview

2001-11-25 Thread Grant Bowman
devel/wnpp/ to understand them fully. I am a bit surprised I didn't find these definitions clearly spelled out in the developers-reference. Section 9 goes over the process, but doesn't have a chart of definitions as the web page does. I also just noticed that the web page needs

Re: Inconsistent spelling of QT and GNOME

2001-11-08 Thread Grant Bowman
developers and QA/users perspective. Much has been done for gathering collective input from developers and policy, but less so within the various Debian functions to gather and use input from "very much less experienced developer/users" and (gasp) even non-technical users. If Debian is increasingly successful, there will be more and more of these non-techies interested in Debian. QA may be a good place to establish more of a voice for this. -- -- Grant Bowman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

dpkg manpage over 3 years old

2001-08-29 Thread Grant Bowman
t. I hope you are able to get the help you need in updating this package and the development resources to improve it. I am not sure what I can do to help, but if you posted a wishlist somewhere I and others might be able to assist somehow. Regards, -- -- Grant B

Orphaning package rc

1998-12-02 Thread Grant Bowman
Hello, I am not able to maintain the package rc. Please change the maintainer to Debian QA . Thank you, -- -- Grant Bowman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>