Re: Updates of http://changelogs.ubuntu.com

2007-09-08 Thread Joel Bryan Juliano
On 9/7/07, Pär Andersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I often use the "view changelog" feature in aptitude to review changes before > installing updates of important packages. This downloads the changelog from > http://changelogs.ubuntu.com which unfortunately very often fails as the > chan

Re: Updates of http://changelogs.ubuntu.com

2007-09-08 Thread Pär Andersson
On Friday 07 September 2007 09.54.46 Pär Andersson wrote: > I often use the "view changelog" feature in aptitude to review changes > before installing updates of important packages. This downloads the > changelog from http://changelogs.ubuntu.com which unfortunately very often > fails as the change

Re: Apprenticeship periods at university, working on Ubuntu!

2007-09-08 Thread Sarah Hobbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: > but in the meantime I would like to check if there is some people at > ubuntu who is able to mentor a student from inside. The idea is to let > the student write from scratch or refine an existing blueprint, jointly > chosen b

Re: new packages freeze policy

2007-09-08 Thread Sarah Hobbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Could someone remind me the purpose of this distinction? Why should > newer, buggier packages be given a later freeze time? > Because nothing else can possibly depend on them. Whereas with current packages, if you upgrade package x that package y

Re: Position on large GPLed programs

2007-09-08 Thread Reinhard Tartler
"Aaron Whitehouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What is the current position on big, GPLed programs? Do we just > package anything GPL and then modify our approach when/if mirrors > start to complain? FYI: We already ship GPLed games like Nexuiz (500MB+), and are likely to get openarena 0.7 (200

Re: new packages freeze policy

2007-09-08 Thread Scott Ritchie
On Sat, 2007-09-08 at 00:50 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Saturday 08 September 2007 00:40, Scott Ritchie wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 23:00 +0200, Michael Bienia wrote: > > > On 2007-08-31 00:12:41 -0700, Scott Ritchie wrote: > > > > On this note, I got completely confused by the deadline

Re: Apprenticeship periods at university, working on Ubuntu!

2007-09-08 Thread Aaron Whitehouse
This would be a great help to Ubuntu, in a way similar to the Google SoC. I would suggest that you look at how the Google SoC is run in Ubuntu and model your approach on that. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GoogleSoC2007 > An important thing that I would like to ensure is that, if the blueprint > has bee