Re: Helping busy maintainers

2004-02-15 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Guillem Jover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-10-12 23:07]: > On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 12:10:04AM +1000, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > Paul Hedderly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > atmelwlandriver, drsync, gloo, gtk-menu, matchbox, mmenu, motion, xkbd, > > xstroke > > He states in #197943 he is a little busy

Re: Helping busy maintainers

2003-10-21 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Romain Francoise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-10-12 19:59]: > W: libkemo-m104 source: out-of-date-standards-version 3.5.2 > > Martin, what do you think? The maintainer told me that he tried to contact the upstream maintainer and was told this library is no loner supported. I filed a request for

Re: Helping busy maintainers

2003-10-19 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Marc Singer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-10-19 12:07]: > A few days ago, I asked (debian-admin) for a couple of packages to be > installed in the ia64 sarge chroot. No response so far. Is there > another avenue? They are usually pretty fast with this. Just wait a few more days, it was the weeken

Re: Helping busy maintainers

2003-10-19 Thread Marc Singer
On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 07:51:12PM +1000, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Marc Singer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-10-13 19:11]: > > #189751: lanoche: depends on non-existent xviddetect > > > > I wonder if this is a good candidate to be dropped since removing > > the dependency on xviddetect is more than

Re: Helping busy maintainers

2003-10-19 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Marc Singer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-10-13 19:11]: > #189751: lanoche: depends on non-existent xviddetect > > I wonder if this is a good candidate to be dropped since removing > the dependency on xviddetect is more than a packaging issue. The maintainer agrees. He says lshw is a good alternat

Re: Helping busy maintainers

2003-10-15 Thread Daniel Gubser
Am Son, 2003-10-12 um 16.43 schrieb Martin Michlmayr: > Simon asked for help because of exams. None of his packages currently > have RC bugs, but they could use some attention. > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/[EMAIL PROTECTED] OK, I take uptimed -- Daniel Gubser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Helping busy maintainers

2003-10-14 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Graham Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-10-14 16:39]: > > Stijn de Bekker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Stijn seems to be fairly inactive. He has a number of bugs open for a Yeah, I know. I contacted him recently and he said that some people are interested in adopting his pacakges. I asked who.

Re: Helping busy maintainers

2003-10-14 Thread Graham Wilson
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 12:10:04AM +1000, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > Stijn de Bekker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > RC bug with patch, also new upstream available. > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Stijn seems to be fairly inactive. He has a number of bugs open for a while, and addit

Re: Helping busy maintainers

2003-10-13 Thread Marc Singer
#189751: lanoche: depends on non-existent xviddetect Package: lanoche; Severity: serious; Reported by: Laurent Bonnaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; 177 days old. I've looked into this one a bit. The program displays an HTML report of the hardware on a computer. I wonder if this is a good candid

Re: Helping busy maintainers

2003-10-13 Thread Graham Wilson
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 12:10:04AM +1000, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > Stijn de Bekker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > RC bug with patch, also new upstream available. > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/[EMAIL PROTECTED] I have made an NMU of this package that fixes the RC bug (#210558). -- gram signat

Re: Helping busy maintainers

2003-10-13 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* tbm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-10-13 14:54]: > Grzegorz Prokopski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > pimppa has 1 RC bug (please NMU), php4-interbase has 3 -- it has to > be investigated whether this package shold be removed. Please do > not touch sab

Re: Helping busy maintainers

2003-10-12 Thread Martin Michlmayr
Grzegorz Prokopski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/[EMAIL PROTECTED] pimppa has 1 RC bug (please NMU), php4-interbase has 3 -- it has to be investigated whether this package shold be removed. Please do not touch sablevm. 14:25 < gadek> tbm: I am probably going to ORPHA

Re: Helping busy maintainers

2003-10-12 Thread Guillem Jover
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 12:10:04AM +1000, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > Paul Hedderly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > atmelwlandriver, drsync, gloo, gtk-menu, matchbox, mmenu, motion, xkbd, > xstroke He states in #197943 he is a little busy and will accept co-maints. This bug is 116 days old but I think the

Re: Helping busy maintainers

2003-10-12 Thread Romain Francoise
Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Werner Heuser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Werner mentioned to me that he is moving. He has 2 RC bugs which > have to be fixed. > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/[EMAIL PROTECTED] I had a look at #190685, it is pretty obvious to fix (obsolete GCC swi

Re: Helping busy maintainers

2003-10-12 Thread Joey Hess
Martin Michlmayr wrote: > Brian Mays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Brian said he's busy, but he's around. Perhaps don't NMU, but reproduce > his bugs and send in patches. Give special attention to pcmcia-cs. > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Thomas Hood (and me, kinda) are c

Re: Helping busy maintainers

2003-10-12 Thread Romain Francoise
Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Torsten Landschoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > fox, gimp-python, gmt, gmt-coast-low, gmt-doc, gmt-doc-pdf, gmt-doc-ps, > gmt-examples, gmt-manpages, gmt-tutorial, gnofin, gs, gs-common, gsfonts, > hpijs, libpcap, npadmin, swig, swig-doc, swig1.3, tcpd

Re: Helping busy maintainers

2003-10-12 Thread Martin Michlmayr
Thanks for those who responded. I'm surprised (and delighted) how many people got back to me. I hope you will really help out. I tried to compile a listing of people of whom I think they are busy and need help. Only a small number of developers have asked me to be put on this list; the others a

Re: Helping busy maintainers

2003-10-10 Thread Uwe Steinmann
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 01:45:05AM +1000, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > There are some developers who are clearly too busy to maintain their > packages properly, but yet cannot be considered inactive enough so > that their packages should be given away. I'd like to have a group of > people who are wil

Re: Helping busy maintainers

2003-10-10 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Martin Pitt wrote: > But since IANADD (yet) I would need a sponsor for every upload; in the > last weeks I've sent quite a bunch of bug followups which were only > scarcely answered, thus half-MIA maintainers might not be the best > sponsor candidates... I'm available for sponsoring patch upl

Re: Helping busy maintainers

2003-10-09 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Martin Pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-10-08 18:43]: > >From next Tuesday onward, I have lots of time and I would be > interested in comaintenance of packages (especially RC bug fixing) > until the Sarge release. Sounds good, I've put you on my list. I will send out more information later. > Bu

Re: Helping busy maintainers

2003-10-08 Thread Roland Mas
Martin Pitt, 2003-10-08 19:20:18 +0200 : > But since IANADD (yet) I would need a sponsor for every upload; in > the last weeks I've sent quite a bunch of bug followups which were > only scarcely answered, thus half-MIA maintainers might not be the > best sponsor candidates... > > Can I still be of

Re: Helping busy maintainers

2003-10-08 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 10:08:07 -0700 Ben Gertzfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alioth has been a terrific resource for me in this regard. Using it and > dpatch, I'm easily able to co-maintain packages, maintain bugs, and keep > releases in check with multiple developers. > > I'd highly recomme

Re: Helping busy maintainers

2003-10-08 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Martin Michlmayr wrote: There are some developers who are clearly too busy to maintain their packages properly, but yet cannot be considered inactive enough so that their packages should be given away. I'd like to have a group of people who are willing to help those developers out by co-maintai

Re: Helping busy maintainers

2003-10-08 Thread Martin Pitt
Hi! Am 2003-10-09 1:45 +1000 schrieb Martin Michlmayr: > There are some developers who are clearly too busy to maintain their > packages properly, but yet cannot be considered inactive enough so > that their packages should be given away. I'd like to have a group of > people who are willing to h