Hello Bernhard and everybody,
I think that the ‘RPM hell’ that you used to comment my propositions is more
related to a situation when independant distributions are using the same
package format, than when a distribution offers multiple repositories that obey
to a policy that keeps the whole
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org wrote:
Regarding my proposal, that is internal to Debian, I do not think that it is
impossible. What I propose is a way for package maintainers to signal that
their package is peripheral in the Debian system, in an opt-in
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 05:46:49PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
I suppose I shouldn't really be discussing this too much since it's a
question for the DPL candidates rather than a general discussion topic,
I believe this kind of interaction is perfectly fine, as it is showing
various hidden
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 04:52:19AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
So at the start of the week, I asked:
Eh, kudos for this experiment, even if people on IRC commented that
there might have been a second reason for your question :-P, I didn't
see this coming. I feel like replying to a couple of
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 03:17:03PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
In my experience, trivial RC bugs on not-so important packages attract
volunteers because it is very rewarding to close RC bugs.
snip
So in my opinion, not all RC bugs are equal, and a better priority
system would be useful to
Dear candidates,
[I don't intend to start a flame war, but I do have venom for planets]
planet.d.o has became one of the most visible media for Debian, if not
the most visible one. Do you think it is a good thing?
DFSG / rc-buggy
¨¨¨
I consider blogs as non-free, proprietary
[ oops, looks like this one has slipped through the cracks of my mutt ]
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 11:49:53PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
As a developer, how do you embody the spirit and culture that has made
Debian a great operating system?
I surely don't claim to embody all of the spirit and
Hey,
* Frank Lin PIAT fp...@klabs.be [2010-03-27 13:44]:
[I don't intend to start a flame war, but I do have venom for planets]
planet.d.o has became one of the most visible media for Debian, if not
the most visible one. Do you think it is a good thing?
[...]
On what are you basing this
Hi,
Sorry if we are getting a little bit off-topic, feel free to follow up
on debian-project (I would still be interested by the candidates PoV)
On Sat, 2010-03-27 at 14:49 +0100, Nico Golde wrote:
Hey,
* Frank Lin PIAT fp...@klabs.be [2010-03-27 13:44]:
[I don't intend to start a flame war,
Le Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 04:13:11PM +0800, Paul Wise a écrit :
Does popcon not already provide a way to order packages based on
importance? rc-alert has both options for sorting bugs by both local
global popcon score.
Hi Paul,
Popcon is definitely a potent indicator, but has its flaws as
Hi Serafeim,
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:15:45AM +0100, Serafeim Zanikolas wrote:
Dear candidates,
With respect to attracting new contributors, please ponder the idea of a
formal one-on-one mentoring scheme (as opposed to one-off interactions via
d-mentors).
I tend to believe that what we
Le samedi 27 mars 2010 à 13:39 +0100, Frank Lin PIAT a écrit :
DFSG / rc-buggy
¨¨¨
I consider blogs as non-free, proprietary material (a very few have a
proper license, the distribution media s*cks anyway).
Breaks DFSG #1: A document (HowTo...) published on planet can't be
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 01:39:06PM +0100, Frank Lin PIAT wrote:
Dear candidates,
[I don't intend to start a flame war, but I do have venom for planets]
planet.d.o has became one of the most visible media for Debian, if not
the most visible one. Do you think it is a good thing?
Not
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 01:39:06PM +0100, Frank Lin PIAT wrote:
planet.d.o has became one of the most visible media for Debian, if not
the most visible one. Do you think it is a good thing?
Our Planet, like any other Planet out there, is just what it is: an
aggregator of individual blogs.
Hi Hector,
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 05:55:35PM +0100, Hector Oron wrote:
[...]
Secondly, I was wondering how Debian could make it easier for people
to contribute than other (derivatives and non-derivatives)
distributions. I came up with a really nice draft howto[1]
When you say I came up
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 04:03:06PM +0100, Frank Lin PIAT wrote:
I doubt that a lot of users are reading planet (why should they..).
IT specialist and corporate consumers want to know what is going on for
the next release.
Well, if they use planet.d.o for that, is their problem. Actually, it
Nico Golde wrote:
when it comes to our users. I have no numbers to prove that but I doubt that
a
lot of users are reading planet (why should they..).
Because:
j...@gnu:~/tmp/xscreensaver-5.10grep planet.debian.org -r .
./debian/patches/53_XScreenSaver.ad.in.patch:+*textURL:
On Sat, 2010-03-27 at 17:56 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
Le samedi 27 mars 2010 à 13:39 +0100, Frank Lin PIAT a écrit :
DFSG / rc-buggy
¨¨¨
I consider blogs as non-free, proprietary material (a very few have a
proper license, the distribution media s*cks anyway).
Frank Lin PIAT wrote:
I consider blogs as non-free, proprietary material (a very few have a
proper license, the distribution media s*cks anyway).
I didn't notice a license on your email either. But every time I recall
licenses of email being discussed, the conclusion has been that it
doesn't
Joey Hess wrote:
Because:
j...@gnu:~/tmp/xscreensaver-5.10grep planet.debian.org -r .
./debian/patches/53_XScreenSaver.ad.in.patch:+*textURL:
http://planet.debian.org/rss20.xml
./debian/changelog:+ Now use planet.debian.org instead of .net
Which is run regularly by 10%
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org wrote:
* Do you need to come up with a GR to change membership procedures, or is
there
a different way?
I will cast a GR if I think it is needed. If I am wrong, the result will be
NOTA, and I will resign as DPL.
You'd
Dear Candidates,
First of all, I wish you all the very best for the elections!
At the outset, this question is not meant to be inflammatory or to
express ire at a particular individual or set of individuals involved;
I have great respect for the contributions of all involved in the
community.
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 06:57:41PM +0100, Frank Lin PIAT wrote:
May be some content could be moved to collaborative media, bts, etc
May be some I am doing something post could be turned into a news
May be that allowing comments should be a best practice
A corporate blog is just
Frank Lin PIAT fp...@klabs.be writes:
May be that allowing comments should be a best practice
http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/faqs/comments.html
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On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 06:47:13PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
However, as one of my initial actions as DPL, I do intend to submit a
post to debian-devel-announce with a set of guidelines for people to
follow when flamewars happen (and when they don't, in order to avoid
them).
Why is
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 05:26:36PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 06:47:13PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
However, as one of my initial actions as DPL, I do intend to submit a
post to debian-devel-announce with a set of guidelines for people to
follow when flamewars
Le Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 05:42:24PM -0300, Margarita Manterola a écrit :
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org wrote:
* Do you need to come up with a GR to change membership procedures, or is
there
a different way?
I will cast a GR if I think it is needed.
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 01:40:44AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 05:26:36PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 06:47:13PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
However, as one of my initial actions as DPL, I do intend to submit a
post to
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 8:39 PM, Frank Lin PIAT fp...@klabs.be wrote:
The content isn't archived. Is this a problem? a feature?
Actually the text at least is archived (but not exactly like a mailing
list), an example:
http://planet.debian.org/cgi-bin/search.cgi?terms=DPL
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bye,
pabs
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