On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Harry McGregor wrote: > Well, I guess I will though in a few ideas... I don't post to the > debian-jr list often, but several of you probably know me (Ben, Sam, > etc).
Yup, sure do ;-) > > To be honest, what we're doing is taking a lot from Debain. I really like > > the way Debian handles things (orphaned packages, WNPP, etc), so I'm > > trying to push to make our organization more modular, and less reliant on > > certain key individuals (such as myself) who can be flaky (such as myself > > ;-) > > Come on Sam you are being too hard on yourself. I've had way too many problems in my personal life (most recently, father getting pace-maker) to say that I haven't been a flake. When you suddenly don't answer e-mails for a month, you're a flake ;-) > Anyone that asks about debs for download does not under stand debian... > that is one of the first things I clear up with my Linux networking > classes at the local community college. I know, but bear in mind that the people that help us out at tux4kids are a pretty diverse bunch, and most Linux developers we have come from the RPM realm. We actually had a dispute at one point between one of our developers and a debian packager because they wanted the deb on our site :-/ (As a matter of fact, this was the reason I first got into Debian, so I could be better informed if such conlficts came up in the future). > > (FYI, tuxmath is headed by Bill Kendrick, and is a math game that plays > > like Missle Command. After Sept.11th, the project got hammered pretty > > severely because of certain imagery we had in the game that we all became > > very concerned about post 9/11... Now that's many months later, it seems > > innocent again and I really want to see the project flourish) > > Well, then I hope that you don't mind me mentioning it during my > presentation at linux world 2002 san francisco <duck> Mentioning Tux of Math Command? No, go right ahead. We're actually trying to get people back interested in the project again. Though, I need to update the site for it (I've been avoiding it because of all the pain it caused shortly after 9/11... We were really hard on ourselves immediately following it: http://www.geocrawler.com/mail/thread.php3?subject=%5BTuxmath-devel%5D+Changing+TuxMath&list=15167 ) And it would be wonderful if we could get a deb package of it by then as well. Currently, I think that the DEB package is the only one we're lacking for it. > I am thinking of this list as a status list, new version available for > packing, etc. I think most maintainers would freely subscribe, unless > they were told that they had to. That's a much better way of explaining it. I think I may suggest to the list maintainer that he uses that description. -- Sam Hart University/Work addr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Personal addr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
