Re: Joining Debian

2010-02-18 Thread Leo 'costela' Antunes
[CC'ing Mathew just in case he stopped reading this thread; sorry for the possibly duplicate email] Paul Wise wrote: I just realised that what you have just done violates the license of Matthew's document. Please read the copyright / license section of it at the very end. Mathew had answered

Re: Joining Debian

2010-02-18 Thread Leo costela Antunes
Paul Wise wrote: Changing the URL for that FAQ needs: Matthew to be willing to edit and maintain the new URL. Some people do not like using Debian's wiki, not sure if Matthew feels that way. I understand not liking wiki markup, but for a text document with just simple bullet lists, links and

Re: Joining Debian

2010-02-13 Thread Nicolas Alvarez
Paul Wise wrote: On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 4:23 AM, Leo costela Antunes cost...@debian.org wrote: Putting my money where my mouth is: done. http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMentorsFaq I just realised that what you have just done violates the license of Matthew's document. Please read the

Re: Joining Debian

2010-02-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Nicolas Alvarez nicolas.alva...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Wise wrote: On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 4:23 AM, Leo costela Antunes cost...@debian.org wrote: Putting my money where my mouth is: done. http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMentorsFaq I just realised that what you

Re: Joining Debian

2010-02-13 Thread Nicolas Alvarez
Paul Wise wrote: That isn't the problem, the problem is that Matthew's document is GPL and he has designated the HTML document as the source code, which is obviously not being distributed on the wiki. So if I download a GPL program written in Python and translate it to C, then distribute both

Re: Joining Debian

2010-02-12 Thread Leo costela Antunes
Leo costela Antunes wrote: Matthew Palmer wrote: In addition, the FAQ for this list: http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html might answer some of your questions. As a side note, wouldn't the wiki be the perfect place for this? Don't get me wrong, I totally appreciate the

Re: Joining Debian

2010-02-12 Thread Paul Gevers
Putting my money where my mouth is: done. http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMentorsFaq Thanks again for putting it all together! I hope the footer suffices as an expression of that gratitude! :) Great. While I was browsing throu it, I notice the following issues (I don't thing I know the

Re: Joining Debian

2010-02-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 4:23 AM, Leo costela Antunes cost...@debian.org wrote: Putting my money where my mouth is: done. http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMentorsFaq Changing the URL for that FAQ needs: Matthew to be willing to edit and maintain the new URL. Some people do not like using Debian's

Re: Joining Debian

2010-02-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 4:23 AM, Leo costela Antunes cost...@debian.org wrote: Putting my money where my mouth is: done. http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMentorsFaq I just realised that what you have just done violates the license of Matthew's document. Please read the copyright / license section

Joining Debian

2010-02-08 Thread Luis Pedro
Hello, My name is Luis Pedro and I would like to join you all, and try to do something useful for free software. I am familiar with Linux, familiar with programming, but not much familiar with software development for Debian Linux. I followed some tutorials from Ubuntu, which is the son of

Re: Joining Debian

2010-02-08 Thread Chris Taylor
Hi Luis, You should take a look at the documents located at http://www.debian.org/devel/ Namely you should read the New Maintainers Guide: http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ The Debian Developers' Reference: http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ And you should also read the

Re: Joining Debian

2010-02-08 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 01:40:29PM -0800, Chris Taylor wrote: You should take a look at the documents located at http://www.debian.org/devel/ Namely you should read the New Maintainers Guide: http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ The Debian Developers' Reference:

Re: Joining Debian

2010-02-08 Thread Leo costela Antunes
Matthew Palmer wrote: In addition, the FAQ for this list: http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html might answer some of your questions. As a side note, wouldn't the wiki be the perfect place for this? Don't get me wrong, I totally appreciate the work. It just seems like a bit

Re: Joining Debian

2010-02-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 08 February 2010 15:26:49 Luis Pedro wrote: My name is Luis Pedro and I would like to join you all, and try to do something useful for free software. I am familiar with Linux, familiar with programming, but not much familiar with software development for Debian Linux. I followed some

Re: joining Debian / packaging buildd

2003-03-21 Thread Roger Leigh
Jeremy Lainé [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You might be interested in http://www.whinlatter.uklinux.net/buildd/ Definitely, I'm looking through it right now. You should probably subscribe to buildd-discuss at nocrew.org. Done, and browsing through the archives I see I'm going pretty

Re: joining Debian / packaging buildd

2003-03-21 Thread Roger Leigh
Jeremy Lainé [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You might be interested in http://www.whinlatter.uklinux.net/buildd/ Definitely, I'm looking through it right now. You should probably subscribe to buildd-discuss at nocrew.org. Done, and browsing through the archives I see I'm going pretty

Re: joining Debian / packaging buildd

2003-01-29 Thread Jeremy Lainé
You should probably subscribe to buildd-discuss at nocrew.org. done, but no reply so far. In the meantime, I have started work using your package as a base, and have got the buildd package to generate an /etc/default/buildd via debconf. It is structured exactly like the current

Re: joining Debian / packaging buildd

2003-01-29 Thread Jeremy Lainé
You might be interested in http://www.whinlatter.uklinux.net/buildd/ Definitely, I'm looking through it right now. You should probably subscribe to buildd-discuss at nocrew.org. Done, and browsing through the archives I see I'm going pretty much the same way as you as I also rely on

Re: joining Debian / packaging buildd

2003-01-29 Thread Jeremy Lainé
You should probably subscribe to buildd-discuss at nocrew.org. done, but no reply so far. In the meantime, I have started work using your package as a base, and have got the buildd package to generate an /etc/default/buildd via debconf. It is structured exactly like the current

joining Debian / packaging buildd

2003-01-28 Thread Jeremy Lainé
Hi! I am interested in becoming a Debian developer and have already produced a number of Debian packages, but they fall in the pet packages category referred to in another thread on this list. The most recent ones are mpf70-source and mpf70-utils, respectively the source for a kernel module

joining Debian / packaging buildd

2003-01-28 Thread Jeremy Lainé
Hi! I am interested in becoming a Debian developer and have already produced a number of Debian packages, but they fall in the pet packages category referred to in another thread on this list. The most recent ones are mpf70-source and mpf70-utils, respectively the source for a kernel module

Re: joining Debian / packaging buildd

2003-01-28 Thread Roger Leigh
Jeremy Lainé [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In the meantime, I think I've found something to sink my teeth in, namely packaging buildd. I realise it's a big bugger, but as packaging it seems to have been on the TODO list for a while I suppose any work I put into it is that much done.. You might