Re: Using Cloudflare as CDN for debian.org website

2019-06-26 Thread MJ Ray
On Sat, 15 Jun 2019 19:14:58 +0700 Bagas Sanjaya wrote: > [...] Is it OK for debian.org website to use reCAPTCHA challenge > feature (which is available in Pro plan and higher) when using > Cloudflare as CDN? It's never OK for anyone to use recaptcha because it discriminates against people wit

Bug#924888: why bsd.license?

2019-04-03 Thread MJ Ray
On Mon, 1 Apr 2019 12:26:13 +0200 Laura Arjona Reina wrote: > BSD, and > > I have checked that the content of the bsd.license file matches the > BSD-3-Clause license at opensource.org, so I've updated the links to > > https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause > > and removed the file. Coul

Re: switch back

2016-05-23 Thread MJ Ray
ction to whoever you email, rather than threaten to shoot them. Regards, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html

Re: suggestion to rephrase https://www.debian.org/releases: make clear the names 'stretch' and 'sid' are invariant

2015-12-29 Thread MJ Ray
Holger Wansing wrote: - The unstable distribution is called sid. + The unstable distribution is always called sid. [...] I am not sure if it's worth it. But what do others think? I think that would be clearer and is worth doing. -- MJ Ray http://people.debian.org/~mjr/

Re: Need your help,please!

2013-08-30 Thread MJ Ray
there's some reason you think that we are involved. Thanks, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for h

Bug#707651: Wiki password recovery not working for me

2013-05-13 Thread MJ Ray
Steve McIntyre <93...@debian.org> > Slightly taken aback by the severity: important bug, but whatever... It's debatably correct: "important: a bug which has a major effect on the usability of a package, without rendering it completely unusable to everyone." Being unable to recover a password has

Re: Bug#701938: [www.debian.org] Debian Trademarks: Branden Robinson presented as DPL

2013-03-04 Thread MJ Ray
Holger wrote: > The Debian UK Society, by Branden Robinson (Debian Project Leader at the time > of decision). That line is rather moot. That business no longer exists and I think zack has just terminated its licence for that reason. http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/webwml/webwml/english/trademar

Re: Rocket Lawyer Sponsorship for Debian

2013-02-26 Thread MJ Ray
e project. Hope that informs, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire (including development

Re: http://www.debian.org/contact

2012-12-04 Thread MJ Ray
Zack M-D > on the end of the first line it says "it is by no means inclusive.", i > think it means "it is by no means exhaustive.". I think you're probably correct. Thanks for pointing it out. Probably "it is not complete" would be even clearer. I don't have chance to edit it right now. Maybe

Re: Bug#690231: wiki.debian.org: error in Locale page (sshd vs. ssh))

2012-10-16 Thread MJ Ray
Paul Wise > On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 5:28 PM, MJ Ray wrote: > > > This is a bug. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=678540 > > I agree, reCaptcha is suboptimal but the alternative is for the wiki > team (1.5 persons) to revert lots of spam daily instead of

Re: Bug#690231: wiki.debian.org: error in Locale page (sshd vs. ssh))

2012-10-16 Thread MJ Ray
Paul Wise > On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 11:14 PM, Francesco Potortì wrote: > > > There is a field named "ReCaptcha (required)" without any picture or > > input field. And I am refused subscription because I entered no captcha. > > It is likely that you will need to enable JavaScript, accept > third

Re: Broken Link

2012-08-21 Thread MJ Ray
Hossein > I want to see list of all packages, those has not maintainer yet. I > found related link in the following mentor webpage. But the link was > broken. check it. > Open this we page: http://www.debian.org/News/1997/19971125.en.html Things have moved since 1997 and I think the News archiv

Re: Entry not submitted

2012-07-25 Thread MJ Ray
" If I were you, I'd look for hosting with a system administrator that puts real locks on the doors. Regards, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer. In My Opinion Only: see http:

Bug#678540: wiki.debian.org - no accessible login/registration method

2012-06-22 Thread MJ Ray
Package: wiki.debian.org Severity: normal The account creation page http://wiki.debian.org/FrontPage?action=newaccount requires people to pass a reCaptcha, which is annoying for able-bodied users and downright impossible for some users with disabilities. The login page http://wiki.debian.org/Fron

Bug#678539: wiki.debian.org - "Immutable Page" on all pages

2012-06-22 Thread MJ Ray
Package: wiki.debian.org Severity: normal Every page on the wiki says "Immutable Page" even when they can be edited if one logs in. If registration is required, change the message to "Login to Edit" or just hide it for unauthenticated users. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-www-requ...@lis

Re: Debian website redirect issue

2012-03-30 Thread MJ Ray
Matt Wirth > I've been trying over several days to get to the debian.org website, but > keep getting a circular redirect. This issue also affects many (but not > all) sub-pages (including the bug tracker). > > Any idea on when a fix is coming? (or if it's not a problem with the > website?) Not

Re: remove my comments

2012-02-05 Thread MJ Ray
r for the project's responses to such requests and http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#maintenance for who you need to contact (not debian-www) if there is a reason to. Hope that informs, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http://koha-community.org supp

Re: HTTP 500 Error

2012-01-14 Thread MJ Ray
t seems to work for me. Please could you test it and let me know whether it works for you too? Hope that helps, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.t

Re: Request for removing email address from public webpage

2012-01-05 Thread MJ Ray
i-spam, to move to something with decent user-controlled anti-spam. Sadly, I don't know about .fr email hosts though. Hope that informs, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer. In

Re: Bug#388141: Handling the copyright mess of the website

2012-01-04 Thread MJ Ray
r material on the website if asked, so long as the previous licence(s) also held. Hope that informs, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ema

Re: changelog to tzdata missing

2012-01-01 Thread MJ Ray
Holger Wansing > MJ Ray wrote: > > Latest version in http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/t/tzdata/ > > is 2011n-0squeeze1 - anyone know why? > > See > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=650941#34 That explains it. I found some similar bugs whe

Re: changelog to tzdata missing

2011-12-30 Thread MJ Ray
ages.debian.org source code is at http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=webwml/packages.git;a=summary Thanks, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.or

Re: www.debian.org website optimization for handheld devices

2011-11-18 Thread MJ Ray
Martin Zobel-Helas > If you want to try, my slightly modivied version is available on > http://people.debian.org/~zobel/mobile-www/ That's a big improvement on my aging nokia e90! Both the logos are obscured by things (the search box clobbers the top left one, the "Download Debian 6.0" box clob

Re: Order for Linux OS

2011-08-15 Thread MJ Ray
ellers. Ways to get CD/DVDs are listed at http://www.debian.org/distrib/ Hope that helps, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. Webmaster, Debian Developer, Past Koha RM, statistician, former lecturer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.h

Re: Placing An Order To Norway..

2011-08-08 Thread MJ Ray
>I'm Anne Loarie from Norway.I want to place an order and i know the > difficulties encountered when shipping internationally,But that will not be a > problem because i am registered with a shipping company which I've used > severally times without any delay nor damage. I wouldn't reply

Re: 'Debian -- About Debian' international

2011-06-27 Thread MJ Ray
at's about it. I've had similar emails at other projects. Ignore or report. Hope that informs, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. Webmaster, Debian Developer, Past Koha RM, statistician, former lecturer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.or

Bug#436212: closed by Simon Paillard (Re: Bug#436212: 64 Studio should be listed at misc/children-distros)

2011-04-30 Thread MJ Ray
Thank you for fixing this. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-www-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110430194119.107729e...@nail.towers.org.uk

Re: Url wiki.debian.org redirects to french home

2011-04-13 Thread MJ Ray
Jose G. López wrote: > Just a note, going to http://wiki.debian.org redirects to > http://wiki.debian.org/fr/FrontPage?action=show&redirect=PageD%27Accueil > (french) Works for me: I get Front Page in English. Can you try from another browser or connection? If you click to your preferred languag

Re: Language selection is not persistent

2011-02-06 Thread MJ Ray
Sergio Conde Gómez wrote: > Well but that means that I have to put first en or en_US and maybe the only > website that I want in English is Debian website. If so, use a web browser that can set a per-site language and accurately report that preference to the web server. For Iceweasel/Firefox, try

Re: Information on incoming.debian.org

2010-09-13 Thread MJ Ray
Jan Christoph Uhde asked: > http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/resources.html#incoming-system > this page says packages in incoming are verified by a script called > Katie. And has > been approved by a FTP master. It seems to me that there is not much of > checking on packages in incom

Re: blessing non-profit, worldwide CD vendors

2010-07-29 Thread MJ Ray
Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > AFAICT from our page, this situation > is fairly peculiar as other vendors are for-profit, even if some of them > permits CD buyers to pay more and give the difference to Debian. I > think that difference warrant some kind of "blessin

Bug#571146: www.debian.org: add link to IBM Public License

2010-02-28 Thread MJ Ray
Russ Allbery > Could you add a link to the IBM Public License 1.0 to > www.debian.org/legal/licenses/? This license is used by Postfix and > OpenAFS and has been accepted in Debian main since 2000. I suspect it didn't appear there because the name isn't distinctive and varies a bit (see below).

Re: Potential www redesign at www.deb.at

2009-10-07 Thread MJ Ray
hey convery? Do we think we're too big to fit on the screen? Or are we happy to be sliced-and-diced?) and I think the current #hometoc shading makes it look like a footer on some screen sizes so some people won't scroll past. Those are only minor bugs, though. All in all, good work! --

Re: A few questions about consultants page

2009-04-29 Thread MJ Ray
Giuseppe Sacco wrote: > 1. is there any ordering for all consultants in the same country? I think it might be roughly date-ordered, but it's not consistent. > 2. I noticed a lot of pages with "additional_info" translated. Should we > ask the submitter for additional_info translations? I don't k

Re: Emails in bug reports

2009-04-18 Thread MJ Ray
Shams Fantar wrote: > In all bug reports (bugs.debian.org), after the "Reported by", the email > is shown like this : m...@domain.tld, couldn't you replace @ by AT and . > by DOT for example, this would avoid spams. It wouldn't avoid spams because the bug report emails are received as email by nu

Re: HTML errors in DPN pages

2009-02-17 Thread MJ Ray
Peter Krefting wrote: > MJ Ray: > > > Moreover, a name cannot be only a number. See > > http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/types.html#type-id > > An anchor name can ( is valid), but it is not allowed using > the current syntax (using the id attribute: foobar is > no

Re: HTML errors in DPN pages

2009-02-16 Thread MJ Ray
gt; > Release Update > > Thanks for noticing and reporting this. I'm not sure how the pages > are generated, so I've copied debian-publicity. Moreover, a name cannot be only a number. See http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/types.html#type-id I made that mistake a few years ago and

Re: Logo illegal?

2009-02-16 Thread MJ Ray
Angel lukoba wrote: > Hello, there is a spanish company with a logo equal Debian, the page web is: > http://carditi.com/ > > I think this is illegal, I notice you to take action legal. That one does look like an exact copy just tinted green. Unless someone tells me not to, I'll email and ask the

Bug#509546: www.debian.org: not suitable consultants list

2009-01-17 Thread MJ Ray
Hi - I've been cc'd on the change request, but I thought I was told to leave it to the consultants team, so I'm not acting on it. Hope that's OK, -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only: see http://people.debian.org/~mjr/ Please follow http://www.uk.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: Swiss donation instructions on /donations

2009-01-09 Thread MJ Ray
martin f krafft wrote: > I've been asked to place a link to debian.ch onto > http://www.debian.org/donations to make it easier for folks in > .ch/.li to make donations. I will do this myself unless people > oppose or someone else steps in in the next two weeks. Please link to the delegation messa

Re: facebook page http://www.facebook.com/pages/Debian/9801962186

2009-01-02 Thread MJ Ray
"Christian Balcerowski" wrote: > Today I became fan of your facebook page > http://www.facebook.com/pages/Debian/9801962186 . > > Since I've not found a way to contact an admin from there, I wanted to > report, that the "information" > section on the right should be moved to the left, if possible,

Bug#509546: www.debian.org: not suitable consultants list

2008-12-29 Thread MJ Ray
Hideki Yamane wrote: > On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 12:58:44 + > MJ Ray wrote: > Just search with "nihonlinux" :) > http://slashdot.jp/linux/article.pl?sid=02/10/29/1244228 > > # or ask DDs in slashdot.jp (ODSN, http://osdn.jp/). Should we stop linking to a debi

Bug#509546: www.debian.org: not suitable consultants list

2008-12-29 Thread MJ Ray
nnouncement on http://www.debian.org/consultants/info though. Might be worth emailing them just to check that they still work with debian. Hope that helps, -- MJ Ray (slef) Webmaster for hire, statistician and online shop builder for a small worker cooperative http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ http://mjr.to

Bug#508377: www.debian.org: broken link on Debian GNU/Hurd Development page

2008-12-12 Thread MJ Ray
Jani Uusitalo wrote: > On http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-devel there's a link, labeled > 'Development of the Hurd', which refers to > http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/devel.html - this page doesn't exist on the > server (it responds with a 404 - Page Not Found). New link probably should

Bug#507873: CD vendors cleanup needed

2008-12-05 Thread MJ Ray
Package: www.debian.org X-Debbugs-Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Forwarded: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm putting this report into the bug tracker so someone else can complete it before I do, if appropriate. Frank Lin

Re: It works!

2008-11-24 Thread MJ Ray
"Tó Almeida" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://search.debian.org/apache2-default/?q=merda > It works! It seems it was a temporary failure. Now it is working. Thanks, -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only: see http://people.debian.org/~mjr/ Please follow http://www.uk.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofcond

Re: it works ;)

2008-11-24 Thread MJ Ray
Jutta Zalud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > when I use the search-button on top of http://www.debian.org/ > or http://www.debian.org/releases/lenny/ > I come to http://search.debian.org/apache2-default/ ;) It seems it was a temporary failure. Now it is working. Thanks, -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only:

Bug#505253: www.debian.org: Logo page missing licenses

2008-11-16 Thread MJ Ray
Alex Brotman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I also meant the ones just above those two links, the "Power By" images. > > "Here are some more buttons that have been made for Debian: " > > The images are hosted on the debian servers, but there is no license > associated with them. I believe those ima

Bug#505253: Upstream uncontactable for one site...

2008-11-16 Thread MJ Ray
[EMAIL PROTECTED] SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: host celiknet.com [212.175.105.24]: 550 5.1.1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User unknown; rejecting Ouch. -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only: see http://people.debian.org/~mjr/ Please follow http://www.uk.debian.org

Re: Debian Constitution: supercede or supersede?

2008-11-10 Thread MJ Ray
Jens Seidel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wonder about the usage of supercede. Is it OK to replace it by (or with :-?) > supersede? Amazingly, LEO is actually correct for once. Yes, strictly speaking AIUI, that should be supersede. Manoj will have to rule whether it requires a vote to fix a typ

Re: Survey about the Debian Wiki

2008-11-01 Thread MJ Ray
goldenberg anne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the uses and conceptions of the Debian Wiki within the Debian > community : > http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/labcmo/portraitdulibre/index.php?sid=65733&lang=en It says "Caution: JavaScript execution is disabled in your browser. You may not be able to answ

Re: Secretary? Delegate? [Was: Draft ballot for Proceedural Vote: Suspension of the changes of the Project's membership procedures.]

2008-10-28 Thread MJ Ray
Neil McGovern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/07/msg4.html I've added Neil McGovern under Secretary to webwml/english/intro/organization.data Hope that's OK, -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only: see http://people.debian.org/~mjr/ Please follow http://w

Re: CVS webwml/english/devel

2008-10-12 Thread MJ Ray
h is a pain AFAIK by requiring the whole webwml to be checked out and many files to be modified) is replaced with something @debian that watches commits and tries to tell the difference between translatable and auto-translatable changes? (First two thoughts: reading commit messages and regexps on the dif

Re: My email address is listed in plaintext on one of your webpages

2008-09-25 Thread MJ Ray
Jaakko Tapani Peltonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/f/falconseye/falconseye_1.9.3-1$ > > Can you please change this page so that the address is listed as "jaakko > dot peltonen at hut dot fi"? The source for that page is currently being removed from

Re: DebianShop Hacked SIte ?

2008-09-23 Thread MJ Ray
Gerfried Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Erm - when disabling such stuff please make sure you are tracking it. > Just reenabled the site, the defacement is gone. I let the shop owner know and I would have reacted to any email from them saying it was fixed. As it is, we have no idea whether th

Re: hello + inform you of a broken website link

2008-09-02 Thread MJ Ray
"Didier Gilbert Kacou Tanoé" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i tried to access to the following beb address : > http://packages.debian.org/unstable/devel/perl-byacc.html > from the following website address : > http://invisible-island.net/byacc/byacc.html > > please, could you give me the new link !

Re: DebianShop Hacked SIte ?

2008-08-26 Thread MJ Ray
Laurent Léonard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le samedi 23 août 2008 à 01:38, Rouven Mueller a écrit : > > the DebianShop URL: http://www.debianshop.com displays the following > > message and nothing else: > > > > 0hhh o loveee joomla... yheee o love hacked joomla ;) ((( RED EYE OWNZ > > )))by m4V3R

Re: Licenses links broken

2008-07-18 Thread MJ Ray
t;Work in Progress" section is very out of date. Replace the second and third paragraphs with a simple link to debian-legal's archive, perhaps? Hope that explains, -- MJ Ray (slef) Webmaster for hire, statistician and online shop builder for a small worker cooperative http:

Re: 404 for help request details

2008-07-07 Thread MJ Ray
Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 09:43:23AM +0100, James Youngman wrote: > > http://www.debian.org/News/1997/19971125 points to > > http://www.debian.org/doc/prospective-packages.html but the latter > > just produces a 404. > > Todays equivalent would probably

Re: on smart_change.pl (Re: two whitespaces after full stop are correct in english !!)

2008-07-02 Thread MJ Ray
Simon Paillard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 10:14:30AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > Oops, I made this error. Your help is of course welcome: I do not know > > how to use `smartchanges', nor where to find it (how about devscripts?). > > That is the tool to be known by eve

Re: Debian

2008-07-01 Thread MJ Ray
> Can I order one cd\dvd? Please see the list at http://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/ Hope that helps, -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only: see http://people.debian.org/~mjr/ Please follow http://www.uk.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Bug#488436: www.debian.org: debian.org redirecto to www.en.debian.org

2008-06-30 Thread MJ Ray
it > in fact redirects to www.us.debian.org instead of the generic > www.debian.org. OK. That's not what the bug report said (see Subject). I see later email from Josip Rodin about this, so I'll bow out now. Thanks for your help, -- MJ Ray (slef) Webmaster for hire, statistician and online sh

Re: Hebrew Translation for Debian About Page

2008-06-19 Thread MJ Ray
Gerfried Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 18.06.2008, 21:42 +0100 schrieb MJ Ray: > > Please read the old thread and bring only new points > > Thanks, if you are going to ask that from others, could you be so kind > to do it yourself? I did - I didn

Re: Hebrew Translation for Debian About Page

2008-06-18 Thread MJ Ray
Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, MJ Ray wrote: > > When reasonably possible, phrase things in such a way to avoid > > assuming gender, or switch some examples, but don't assume that the > > Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is true or use it to

Re: Hebrew Translation for Debian About Page

2008-06-18 Thread MJ Ray
Gerfried Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Erm, no, it might be common style, but it's not "OK". I'm totally with > Oz here, it's a kind of laziness to not use a neutral form instead when > possible - and many females don't feel addressed, even if they are not > even directly aware of it.

Re: Remake of the website

2008-06-15 Thread MJ Ray
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just took a look to the list of things to do, and I want to suggest > something that would make those changes easier to do. Why don't we remake > all the website, starting from zero ? [...] I'll assume that was a serious question and not trolling, but it looks like a

Re: error at https://nm.debian.org/gpg_offer.php

2008-06-11 Thread MJ Ray
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > https://nm.debian.org/gpg_offer.php -- > Bern, > Biel: Mario Iseli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > is listed under US - United States. Thanks for pointing that out. Myself, I'm not sure how that page is generated, so I'll send a copy of this reply to the team responsible. Th

Re: conversion to subversion

2008-05-13 Thread MJ Ray
Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 08 May 2008, Josip Rodin wrote: > > Speaking of which, we have been getting a few requests via alioth - would it > > be possible for alioth to avoid using personal mails and instead mail > > webmaster@, or even [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Well, no, it

Re: conversion to subversion

2008-03-26 Thread MJ Ray
MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tommi Vainikainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Also by switching to Subversion, people can make their own choice: there > > is at least git-svn, bzr-svn, and hg-svn. > > I didn't find any of those installed on debian.or

Re: help from opendesigns.org ?

2008-03-26 Thread MJ Ray
Andre Felipe Machado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could it be possible an invitation for cooperation with > http://www.opendesigns.org/ > for a contest about new Debian site design? I think it's possible, but I'm slightly concerned that the page doesn't validate (malformed URIs). Does it say anyw

Re: conversion to subversion

2008-03-26 Thread MJ Ray
Tommi Vainikainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Please, don't move from CVS to SVN and junk all the contributors and > > many of their tools for a minimal gain like tracking file moves. > > Consider moving to somethin

Re: debian-news link

2008-03-25 Thread MJ Ray
Ryan Lovett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On http://www.debian.org/News/2008/, the "debian-news" link pointing to > http://lists.debian.org/debian-news/debian-news-2008/ is giving me a 404. I've changed it to point to http://lists.debian.org/debian-news/ because the 2008 archive does not exist yet.

Re: conversion to subversion

2008-03-25 Thread MJ Ray
Bas Zoetekouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter wrote: [...] > > And what are the gains from moving to Subversion? Besides tracking copies > > and having a globally unique revision history, I can't really see any > > gains as far as webwml is concerned. But feel free to enlighten me. > > Better

Re: News RSS

2008-03-19 Thread MJ Ray
James Harr asked: > Could you set up an RSS feed for the news page? I found this answer: "XML RSS Feed" at http://rss.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.announce Hope that helps, -- MJ Ray (slef) Webmaster for hire, statistician and online shop builder for a small worker coo

Bug#388141: Discussions elsewhere

2008-03-12 Thread MJ Ray
These two bugs are being discussed by DPL candidates after http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2008/03/msg00065.html and the current DPL has been asked the current status by an SPI board member, as reported in http://lists.spi-inc.org/pipermail/spi-general/2008-March/002538.html One candidate's te

Bug#468765: # of supported packages (was Re: Is oldstable security support duration something to be proud of?)

2008-03-11 Thread MJ Ray
Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, MJ Ray wrote: > > I'm proud about the work that's been done, but I'm not proud that > > 3.1 has security support for only a year after 4.0 was released. > > You yourself may not be, but

Bug#468765: # of supported packages (was Re: Is oldstable security support duration something to be proud of?)

2008-03-10 Thread MJ Ray
Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > If there are serious numbers of developers and contributors who don't > feel proud about the work that's been done, then they should voice > support for some modification to the text. [...] Sorry, but that's a misleading requirement. I'm proud abou

Re: Debian Wiki license.

2008-03-04 Thread MJ Ray
Franklin PIAT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If someone can confirm that the page wiki.debian.org/copyright.html > never existed, could we consider that the license of http://debian.org > was the one applicable to the wiki at that time ? (based on the fact > that wiki.debian.org is a child domain of

Re: Package searches in French, despite Accept-Language

2008-02-19 Thread MJ Ray
Adrian Irving-Beer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The main Debian site is fine, but when searching for packages, I get > the UI in English and the package descriptions in French (when > available). Confirmed here with curl -H 'Accept-Language: en-gb, en-ca;q=0.8, en;q=0.7, fr-ca;q=0.5, fr;q=0.3, ja;

Bug#463553: www.debian.org: partners/ Black Cat Networks have ceased ops?

2008-02-01 Thread MJ Ray
Package: www.debian.org Tags: help http://www.debian.org/partners/ includes Black Cat Networks and links to http://www.blackcatnetworks.co.uk/ which says Black Cat Networks are pleased to announce that RapidSwitch have taken over running all our services. All sales and support enquiries for

Re: Debian user lists

2008-01-09 Thread MJ Ray
Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think that there's some kind of bug in the Debian Mailing Lists index for > Users [1] . There's no any debian-user-lang list in this category, but > they exists. > [1] ://lists.debian.org/users.html The page appears to be truncated. I

Re: [WikiVote] Translation Namespace Policy

2008-01-05 Thread MJ Ray
tion is nice, but doesn't seem to be considered (or did I miss it?). > 2. Could you vote for your favorite proposition on > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianWiki/TranslationNamespace#wikivote ? No, I couldn't. Please remove the Immutable Page lock. Hope that helps, -- MJ Ray http:/

Re: vnc page hijacked

2008-01-05 Thread MJ Ray
en me to it. > > True, but that is not a good reason for making all translations out of > date :) Then give a less awkward tool for English-language editors to signal automatable changes. Or maybe it's better to support domain squatters? Regards, -- MJ Ray http://mjr.towers.org.u

Re: jengpal wants to chat

2008-01-04 Thread MJ Ray
jengpal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gmail offers: [...] > - Powerful spam protection But powerful spamming of innocent mailing lists, it would seem. So, Google Talk repeats a bug from Orkut and Googlemail (Gmail is another company's service in GB and DE) that's at least two years old. The invit

Re: vnc page hijacked

2008-01-04 Thread MJ Ray
I'm not sure how to do that with smart_change.pl - can anyone suggest? I left it more than a day, so you could have beaten me to it. Hope that explains, -- MJ Ray http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html tel:+44-844-4437-237 - Webmaster-developer, statistician, sysadmin, online shop builder, consume

Re: vnc page hijacked

2008-01-04 Thread MJ Ray
Bengt Nilsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On the page > http://www.debian.org/News/1998/19980915b there is a link > "[1] VNC web page http://www.orl.co.uk/vnc/ "that should display an > article about VNC. > > It takes you to some dating service site. Thanks for telling us. orl.co.uk is owned by

Re: [maybe] Numerous problems with Debian Changelog on packages.debian.org

2007-12-18 Thread MJ Ray
sftf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Security updated packages changelogs missing. I think that may be the problem discussed in http://lists.debian.org/debian-www/2007/12/msg00038.html if you have time to work on it. Regards, -- MJ Ray http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html tel:+44-844

Re: displaying email adresses

2007-12-13 Thread MJ Ray
Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ah, sorry, because there was no "Re: " messages in the link MJ Ray sent, > I thought that answers to bugs were not archived. Is there an archives > that keeps threads somewhere ? [...] See the link I sent, particularly the &quo

Re: debian changelog link is broken from this page

2007-12-13 Thread MJ Ray
Dan Aronson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://packages.debian.org/etch/libruby1.8 This doesn't look like bug #422074 - packages.debian.org's changelogs for bin NMUs are broken. Is it another known bug? Is it a hangover from a fixed bug (that update seems to be [2005-07-10]). Confused, -- MJR

Re: displaying email adresses

2007-12-13 Thread MJ Ray
is deliberate: no surrender. Any spammer with half a brain cell is XOVERing linux.debian.bugs.dist on an NNTP server and getting lots of email addresses more cheaply than using any web pages. The newsmaster wouldn't even think it unusual, whereas someone spidering a web site is often noti

Re: displaying email adresses

2007-12-12 Thread MJ Ray
Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, Don Armstrong wrote: > > If humans can read it, spammers can too. > > That's inaccurate. You are missing rule #3: Spammers are stupid. Where did you find that rule? It seems to be a unjustified assumption. Assumption is the mother of

Re: displaying email adresses

2007-12-11 Thread MJ Ray
Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, MJ Ray wrote: [...] > > In short, spam must be stopped at source. It is not possible to > > publish *and* to hide completely from spammers. If you are postmaster > > on a debian box, please make sur

Re: displaying email adresses

2007-12-11 Thread MJ Ray
stopped at source. It is not possible to publish *and* to hide completely from spammers. If you are postmaster on a debian box, please make sure you have active anti-spam measures and act against any local spammers in a timely and severe manner. Best wishes, -- MJ Ray http://mjr.towers.org.uk/e

Re: CoverCD Agreement - Debian

2007-12-11 Thread MJ Ray
Katarzyna Kaczor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Do you mind if we re-distribute your Software with our publication? No, I'm pretty sure we don't mind. You may want to tell [EMAIL PROTECTED] or others about it when it happens. (A lot of things here say "cd" but apply to DVD too.) > We would

Re: Info on this site

2007-11-09 Thread MJ Ray
"Hans-J. Ullrich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I think, if a debian server would have been compromised, this should be > appear at once on the webside. Also, when the main server is down, everyone > should be informed about the non-reachable server (like at the moment). > IMO , these infor

Re: Re; why is this page comming up???

2007-11-02 Thread MJ Ray
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I need to know why this page is coming up . I am going to a website that has > nothing to do with this site. [...] netwinner "Choose a game and begin winning..." displays fine for me. Either your computer or Internet Service Provider might be broken. Please call your l

Re: What's the proper comma usage in DSAs?

2007-10-28 Thread MJ Ray
Jens Seidel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > DSAs use the comma in the following sentence very inconsistently. What's > correct? > > For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed > For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed I would almost always use the with-comma

Re: [patch] Update for webwml/english/events/2007/1023-systems.wml

2007-10-20 Thread MJ Ray
nks. Hope that helps, -- MJ Ray http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html tel:+44-844-4437-237 - Webmaster-developer, statistician, sysadmin, online shop builder, consumer and workers co-operative member http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ - Writing on koha, debian, sat TV, Kewstoke http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ --

Re: CSS error

2007-10-04 Thread MJ Ray
"Pedro Valencia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You have a error in css file. Visit > http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.debian.com%2F Hello! No we don't. Visit http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#vendor-keywords Bye -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only: see http://peop

Re: packages.debian.org updated

2007-09-30 Thread MJ Ray
o the new stuff in the cvs.debian.org code? Last time I looked at packages.d.o, I really couldn't connect the cvs.d.o code to what was displaying, so I gave up trying to patch and just sent comments. Hope that explains, -- MJ Ray http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html tel:+44-844-4437-237 -

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