Re: Ideas about a GR to fix the DAM

2007-11-22 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 12:55:10AM -0200, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel wrote: > Considering that this is probably a "language misunderstanding" > from a non-native speaker (myself), when you say "there weren't any > candidates for additional DAMs" that means (from what you heard, of > course):

Re: Ideas about a GR to fix the DAM

2007-11-22 Thread Andreas Tille
2007/11/20, Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > No, I _am_ really happy that you can't write something in PL/I and force me > to use it. Trust me on this. Well, I trust you on this. ;-) (BTW, PL/I is not bad - it was my first programming language and had some nice features.) What is wrong is the

Re: Ideas about a GR to fix the DAM

2007-11-22 Thread Andreas Tille
2007/11/21, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Your message has inspired me. I'm sending this email to let you know that, > since I see an open bug on the fortunes-de package, it's my conclusion that > you need more help maintaining it, so Adam Conrad and I are working on an > updated version t

Re: Ideas about a GR to fix the DAM

2007-11-22 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 11:34:38AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > > We might be able to form a group and create a tool with such properties, > > but it will take time. It takes longer if people sit around complaining > > about how it's someone else's responsibility to take the initiative. It > > isn

Re: Ideas about a GR to fix the DAM

2007-11-22 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 22 Nov 2007, Anthony Towns wrote: > RT lets other people track requests of DSA and keyring-maint; currently, > aiui [1], Raphael ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and Matt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) are in that > category at least for DSA. Only for DSA. AFAIK, James is the only one having access to the keyring

Misleading statement in debian-faq s1.5, was: Ideas about a GR to fix the DAM

2007-11-22 Thread MJ Ray
Package: doc-debian Severity: wishlist Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > But if you want a favour from someone -- like access to some restricted > service -- you're much more likely to get it if either (a) that someone > wants to do you the favour already; or (b) you approach it as

Re: Misleading statement in debian-faq s1.5, was: Ideas about a GR to fix the DAM

2007-11-22 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 02:26:41PM +, MJ Ray wrote: >Package: doc-debian >Severity: wishlist > >Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] >> But if you want a favour from someone -- like access to some restricted >> service -- you're much more likely to get it if either (a) that someone >>

Re: Misleading statement in debian-faq s1.5, was: Ideas about a GR to fix the DAM

2007-11-22 Thread MJ Ray
Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 02:26:41PM +, MJ Ray wrote: > >This is something where the project isn't managing > >expectations very well. [...] > > You seem to be trying a land-grab on the word "cooperatively". I don't mean to. I merely suggest that thi