On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Baruch Even wrote: > * Muli Ben-Yehuda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040312 15:36]: > > On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 09:55:35AM +0200, Baruch Even wrote: > > > 1. GnuCash and personal accounting for Israelis > > > > Yes please > > I'm not an expert accountant, I can speak from my experience on what > worked and what I do, which works for me.
Another yes from me here. > > > > I'd like to know if there is interest in these topics (or other similar > > > topics). > > > > ISTR you were (still are?) > > Still are for both, depending on what you consider interesting in b :-) > > > a) a debian maintainer (maybe you'd like to talk about that) > > I could do some talk about Debian, though I wouldn't know what specifics > could interest the peoples. How does one become a Debian maintainer? I head there was some sponsorship involved. How do decisions get decided in a totally distributed system of people? Is the Debian system really distributed? Or are there several people at the top, directing it? How do developers pack a .deb package? Supposing I have developed a package, how to insert it into the .deb mirrors? I suppose some protocol keeps the mirrors trusted - what prevents someone from putting an infected package on a mirror (for example, hamakor server gets broken into, and everybody updates their openssl to a buggy/broken one. How can the system discover this - for example by comparing signatures to other mirrors, maybe? There are stable, unstable and testing debians. what is the difference between them exactly? what is the criterion for moving a package between thos distros? does a whole distro become from unstable to testing, or do parts leak from one category to another? What are the problems of the Debian development model? What are Debian's guidelines? (For example, pine is not really free, so I cannot get it compiled for Debian, but I can get the source. On the other hand, on RedHat I had a compiled pine, I believe, so this was not a pine restriction. I think.). These are the things that interest me, that I can think of right now. I am not sure if these are good lecture topics, but If you care to answer these questions anyway (not in a the form of a lecture, but in writing), I think this should make a good interview (for example on whatsup). Thanks, Orna. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
