Ports web-pages - progress report

1998-08-17 Thread Jules Bean
Right. Well, today I cleared a 207 email backlog (that *doesn't* include mailing lists...), finally. I also found time to construct an index page for /ports/, and make a few trivial mods to sparc/index and sparc/problems. As soon as I get a change, I will work on moving the ARM page over to wml,

Re: port pages

1998-08-17 Thread Jules Bean
[Marcus: If this message seems utterly irrelevant to you, please keep reading...] On 17 Aug 1998, Jim Pick wrote: > > Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > I'll help. (I guess I'll have to do some research so I can figure out > > > how to update the Debian website) > > > > You need t

Re: port pages

1998-08-17 Thread Jules Bean
On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, Nils Lohner wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Jule > s Bean writes: > >On 16 Aug 1998, Jim Pick wrote: > >> > Other notes: > >> > > >> > I have nothing on the MIPS port. I have no idea what the 'java' port > even > >> > is! And I suspect that the debian-hurd proj

Re: Is NPL DFSG complient or not?

1998-08-17 Thread Adam P. Harris
Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > However, a list of common popular licenses that have been > > examined and are known to qualify would be a good thing, as long as > > no claim is made about correctness or completeness which may open us > > up to liabil

Re: port pages

1998-08-17 Thread Jim Pick
Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'll help. (I guess I'll have to do some research so I can figure out > > how to update the Debian website) > > You need to move to using wml. But that's entirely painless. I can do > the initial tranformation, if you like. If you wish to, you can b

Re: port pages

1998-08-17 Thread Christopher C Chimelis
On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, Jules Bean wrote: > This email is also Cc:ed to the authors of the port pages. Note that I am > unsure of whether we have formally notified them that we're linking to > their sites, and it may be friendly to give them a chance to react before > posting their links... Sounds

Re: port pages

1998-08-17 Thread Nils Lohner
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jule s Bean writes: >On 16 Aug 1998, Jim Pick wrote: >> > Other notes: >> > >> > I have nothing on the MIPS port. I have no idea what the 'java' port even >> > is! And I suspect that the debian-hurd project doesn't belong on this >> > page anyway. >> >> I don't

Re: port pages

1998-08-17 Thread Jules Bean
On 16 Aug 1998, Jim Pick wrote: > > Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Port-Page-Authors: I'd like to see your pages moved to debian mirrors and > > converted into the house style. I need you to tell me a) how much of your > > work I may use and b) How much you are prepared to/would

Outage at debian.crosslink.net / www.us.debian.org

1998-08-17 Thread Michael Shields
Could whoever has access to the DNS temporarily point www.us.debian.org to another machine? The 9GB Debian drive here is dying, and unfortunately my last shelf-spare drive just got used, and you cannot get disk drives in DC at 2 am on a Sunday night. I will most likely be able to get the disk rep

Re: port pages

1998-08-17 Thread Jim Pick
Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Port-Page-Authors: I'd like to see your pages moved to debian mirrors and > converted into the house style. I need you to tell me a) how much of your > work I may use and b) How much you are prepared to/would like to help. I'll help. (I guess I'll have

Re: port pages

1998-08-17 Thread Jules Bean
On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Nils Lohner wrote: > > Jules/Webmasters, could you please create http://www.debian.org/ports/index.h > tml? Nothing complex for now, just an index page having links to all of the > individual port pages that looks somewhat like the standard style we've been > using. I'd l