Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 02:14:04PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: For any architecture that builds directly from accepted, having wanna-build on ftp-master has some improvements. Not really, the volume of changes in the Packages file is small and it changes only every 15 minutes. Bastian --

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op ma, 14-03-2005 te 16:09 -0800, schreef Steve Langasek: You do know that m68k is the only architecture still carrying around 2.*2* kernels in sarge? False. See sparc32. Even if it is true that we do still carry 2.2 into sarge, that is only for Mac; not for any of the other subarchitectures.

Re: m68k (was: Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-15 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op di, 15-03-2005 te 10:49 +0100, schreef David Schmitt: Does m68k have developers to support d-i Yes. Stephen Marenka and, to a lesser extent, myself, have ported d-i to the m68k port, and we do not intend to let it slip away now that it does work. -- EARTH smog | bricks

Re: SCC proposal (was: Re: Questions for the DPL candidates)

2005-03-15 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op ma, 14-03-2005 te 20:54 -0500, schreef Daniel Jacobowitz: On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 07:51:05PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: Perhaps, but then why not just use the existing testing setup? Because, as has been explained several times, it doesn't scale. What are the exact problems? My main

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op di, 15-03-2005 te 11:32 +0100, schreef Julien BLACHE: For $DEITY's sake. Will you please understand that the Ubuntu folks totally failed to inform their fellows about what was going on ? In july 2003, I co-founded NixSys, a company that provides support and other things on Free Software; I

Re: status of buildds?

2005-03-15 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Ingo Juergensmann | On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 11:34:58PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: | On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 10:41:12AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: | Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: |If the s390 team is unhappy with w-b, they can simply set up their own |

Re: Vancouver meeting - clarifications

2005-03-15 Thread Frank Küster
Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (And please remember that even if the proposed policy would become effective without any change, that doesn't necessarily mean the end to a certain architecture, Can you please elaborate on this? Many people have pointed out that having no testing, no

Scrum Development Process

2005-03-15 Thread Michael D. Ivey
In another thread, Martin mentioned the Scrum development process. Since I suspect I'm the only DD who is also a Certified Scrum Master, I'd like to extend an offer to assist any group within Debian that wants to implement Scrum or a Scrum-derivative. I don't know if anyone has tried using Scrum

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Julien BLACHE
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Schmitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sure, and I won't say the contrary. But having a great infrastructure (which is the case) and great people doing good work is of no help in making Debian if you haven't got any packages. We have some 10k+

Re: Vancouver meeting - clarifications

2005-03-15 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Andreas Barth wrote: | - the release architecture must have N+1 buildds where N is the number | required to keep up with the volume of uploaded packages The reason for this proposal should be instantly clear to everyone who ever suffered from buildd backlogs. :) Well, certainly the N+1

Re: SCC proposal (was: Re: Questions for the DPL candidates)

2005-03-15 Thread Will Newton
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 12:59, Wouter Verhelst wrote: My main gripe with the proposal, as it currently stands, is that it provides a solution for problems that haven't been discussed in detail, without much space for improvements. I agree. I think there is a spectrum of measures that could

Re: status of buildds?

2005-03-15 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 02:38:44PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | So, you call me not trustworthy, although it was *me* to first help out m68k | when kullervo was unable to keep up with package building? You are not a DD, so Debian does not have a trust relationship with you. It has

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Julien BLACHE
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Short of a yeah, we're there on IRC when the bylaws were published and official and all on july 21st, 2003, I didn't do anything to inform anyone what I was up to, which is considerably less than can be

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: Has the kernel team made any advances to the m68k kernel team for a closer cooperation? Or did they just yelled Hey! We are now taking over the kernel development, no matter if more capable people are outside of the project!? Ingo, that's backwards. The m68k

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: Anyway, even Galileo Galilei was entitled to be an idiot when he stated that not the earth is the middle of the universe... Sure, but for every Galileo who's vindicated by history there are thousands of idiots (or, to be more exact, otherwise mostly-intelligent

.d.o machines which are down (Re: Questions for the DPL candidates)

2005-03-15 Thread Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader
* Julien BLACHE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-15 11:44]: I wonder also, do we still not have some sun donated sparc box running part of our infrastructure ? How will that stay if we drop sparc support ? According to db.d.o: The complete URL is http://db.debian.org/machines.cgi just for

Re: [RFC] OpenLDAP automatic upgrade

2005-03-15 Thread Dave Holland
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 01:36:17AM +0100, Torsten Landschoff wrote: As you might have noticed or not we are working on getting OpenLDAP 2.2 into unstable. The packages are mostly working fine (as available in experimental) but what is missing is a really tested upgrade path from OpenLDAP 2.0

The sarge release disaster - some thoughts

2005-03-15 Thread Adrian Bunk
Hi, I'm a former Debian developer, and this mail contains some subjective observations of mine regarding what lessions Debian might learn from mistakes during the sarge release cycle. Contents: - Introduction - Have a second plan - Discover problems early and react - RC bugs - only a metric -

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 03:22:44PM +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: Has the kernel team made any advances to the m68k kernel team for a closer cooperation? Or did they just yelled Hey! We are now taking over the kernel development, no matter if more capable people are outside of the project!?

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
Ingo wrote: On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 03:22:44PM +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: Besides: It's not the team members' job to stalk prospective members until they agree to join the team. (Kernel team, release team, whatever.) It's the new member's job to show the team that he's able to do a good

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 22:43 +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 03:52:22PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote: On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 09:25:02PM +0100, Julien BLACHE wrote: Sure that's good. It stops to be that good when they're obviously trying hard to impose their employer's

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: Ah, you mean it's up to the team to sit there and wait until someone mistakenly stumbles in and does some work instead of looking around for valid new members, when there's need for help? See, that's exactly my point. I didn't say *any* of what you think I meant.

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 11:04 +0100, Julien BLACHE wrote: Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How could we know ? We know nothing about Ubuntu, nothing about Canonical, nothing about the goals, nothing about how everything was done to begin with, nothing about who works or doesn't work

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Julien BLACHE | That's not what I'm asking for. Ubuntu is kind of special; it has | nothing to do with Corel, SkoleLinux or Progeny. (It's Skolelinux, btw.) | They want to be as close to Debian as possible, by contributing back | etc, which is good, as long as they're not trying to impose

Re: Vancouver meeting - clarifications

2005-03-15 Thread Stephen Frost
* Andreas Barth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: (And, BTW, newraff is a quite mature box. Of course, there is always more and better hardware available, but newraff is already a very good machine. And, we want to give the testing migration script more tasks, like handling of the udebs, which puts

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 11:32 +0100, Julien BLACHE wrote: Tollef Fog Heen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | How could we know ? We know nothing about Ubuntu, nothing about | Canonical, nothing about the goals, nothing about how everything was | done to begin with, nothing about who works or doesn't

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 02:44:10PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: *yawn* Ingo, please go away. I'm asking you nicely. Don't come back until you have something constructive to say - at the moment you're not helping anyone. My dearest, beloved Steve, although I understand that not everyone likes

Re: Security support for tier-2 (was: Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-15 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Sven Luther wrote: Because of [1], because they said they will drop security on tier-2 arches and that porters should be left to fend by themselves, did they not ? Nothing's going to prevent porters from adding stable-security (or whatever) to their autobuilders, so even if they drop

Re: .d.o machines which are down (Re: Questions for the DPL candidates)

2005-03-15 Thread Ben Collins
As I understand it, the plan was to convert auric into a buildd but the RAID needs to be fixed. Ben Collins was looking into this but I don't know about the status. I've also heard discussions several months ago about using one of Ben's really fast machines. This is based on what I've

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 22:49 +0100, Sven Luther wrote: Ok, let me be blunt about this. It is a political problem, the dpkg/buildd/ftp-master admin have not the will to implement such a solution, and thus block any attempt to implement this kind of problem. We would need at least a dpkg

Re: .d.o machines which are down (Re: Questions for the DPL candidates)

2005-03-15 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Ben Collins wrote: I have an e3500 to replace both auric and vore (and the raid), but I Suddenly it occures to me that we might have no stable release for some important machines in our infrastructure once etch is out. H Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To

s390 not currently projected releasable (was: Re: Dropping from mirror network vs dropping from tier-1)

2005-03-15 Thread David Schmitt
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 12:08, Frank Küster wrote: (exactly because of arches like s390 who should be able to reach tier-1 easily, but really have no reason to be on the mirror network). But it does *not* say that s390 is likely to be among the released architectures. And I do not

Re: The sarge release disaster - some thoughts

2005-03-15 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi Adrian, On Tuesday, 15 Mar 2005, you wrote: The timeline for another failed release date: - August 2nd 2004: announcement - August 8th 2004: Official security support for sarge begins - September 15th 2004: announced release date The milestone that included the start of the official

Re: Vancouver meeting - clarifications

2005-03-15 Thread Peter 'p2' De Schrijver
I strongly disagree with this. There is a need for a set of base packages to work, but it's entirely reasonable to have a release for eg m68k without KDE or other large package sets. It's not as if debian/m68k would be unusable without KDE packages for example. You might try to

Re: .d.o machines which are down (Re: Questions for the DPL candidates)

2005-03-15 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-15 16:06]: I have an e3500 to replace both auric and vore (and the raid), but I Suddenly it occures to me that we might have no stable release for some important machines in our infrastructure once etch is out. We can move services to supported

stable - yes or no? (was: Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-15 Thread David Schmitt
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 12:57, Henning Makholm wrote: Scripsit Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] This really makes unstable snapshotting, or building stable once it's released as Anthony has also suggested in this thread, look like much better options than trying to build out of testing.

Re: [RFC] OpenLDAP automatic upgrade

2005-03-15 Thread Quanah Gibson-Mount
sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 01:36:17AM +0100, Torsten Landschoff wrote: a) the preinst checks if the database format has changed between the old version and the version that we are upgrading to is this an underlying database format change, or simply

discussing Debians qualities (was: Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-15 Thread David Schmitt
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 14:34, Julien BLACHE wrote: David Schmitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sure, and I won't say the contrary. But having a great infrastructure (which is the case) and great people doing good work is of no help in making Debian if you haven't got any packages. We have some

Re: The sarge release disaster - some thoughts

2005-03-15 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Le Mardi 15 Mars 2005 16:15, Martin Zobel-Helas a écrit : I think the real problem within Debian is the lack of communication of some people within the project. If the wanna-build admins and/or the ftp-masters would have said: stop, were are still missing , without it you will not be able

Re: Vancouver meeting - clarifications

2005-03-15 Thread Stephen Frost
* Peter 'p2' De Schrijver ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I hope you can agree that we need to say that almost all packages that should be build are build. And I consider 97.5% to be a reasonable level. Also, if we exclude too much, we might start to ask the question why we should do a stable

Re: SCC proposal (was: Re: Questions for the DPL candidates)

2005-03-15 Thread David Schmitt
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 02:02, John Goerzen wrote: Simply making a snapshot -- or posting a set of .debs -- does not make Debian stable. See #2, for instance. See below, please. 2) Provides no way for such a stable release to be integrated into the security build system; That's

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 16:10 +, Scott James Remnant wrote: On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 16:51 +0100, Marc Haber wrote: On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 15:41:16 +, Scott James Remnant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 15:38 +0100, Marc Haber wrote: It does a significant number of

Re: The sarge release disaster - some thoughts

2005-03-15 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi Pierre, On Tuesday, 15 Mar 2005, you wrote: Le Mardi 15 Mars 2005 16:15, Martin Zobel-Helas a écrit : Full ACK on the whole mail. Greetings Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: .d.o machines which are down (Re: Questions for the DPL candidates)

2005-03-15 Thread Julien BLACHE
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Martin, Thanks for following up. BTW, couldn't we get our acts together and buy new disks for all those poor machines which disks are dead ? If there is demonstrated need to

Re: .d.o machines which are down (Re: Questions for the DPL candidates)

2005-03-15 Thread Stephen Frost
* Ben Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Also, this will make two ultrasparc machines available for some of our new sparc developers. I can't pay to ship them, but if Debian foots the bill, I'll get them to the right ppl. I'd be willing to help with the shipping bill, and possibly with the

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread David Nusinow
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 01:56:58PM +0100, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: Well, someone[TM] decided somewhen[TM] that d-i is mandatory for sarge. You bitch about dropping an official stable Debian release on the one hand, and then 24 hours later you bitch about having to release an official stable

Re: Security support for tier-2

2005-03-15 Thread Frank Küster
Matthias Urlichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Hi, Sven Luther wrote: Because of [1], because they said they will drop security on tier-2 arches and that porters should be left to fend by themselves, did they not ? Nothing's going to prevent porters from adding stable-security (or whatever)

Re: .d.o machines which are down (Re: Questions for the DPL candidates)

2005-03-15 Thread Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader
* Stephen Frost [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-15 11:04]: Also, this will make two ultrasparc machines available for some of our new sparc developers. I can't pay to ship them, but if Debian foots the bill, I'll get them to the right ppl. I'd be willing to help with the shipping bill, and

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Julien BLACHE
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tollef Fog Heen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | That's not what I'm asking for. Ubuntu is kind of special; it has | nothing to do with Corel, SkoleLinux or Progeny. (It's Skolelinux, btw.) Sorry. | They want to be as close to Debian as possible, by

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op di, 15-03-2005 te 15:38 +0100, schreef Ingo Juergensmann: Beside that, I think I made an excellent job during my work for the m68k port. ACK. When you were still involved in the m68k port, your contributions were usually quite valuable. That time's long gone now, though. And I could still

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread David Nusinow
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 08:04:31AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 15:52:22 -0500, David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sarge was already very late before Ubuntu existed. Our mirror network was already strained before Ubuntu existed. Our release team was struggling to get

Re: .d.o machines which are down (Re: Questions for the DPL candidates)

2005-03-15 Thread Stephen Frost
* Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: * Stephen Frost [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-15 11:04]: Also, this will make two ultrasparc machines available for some of our new sparc developers. I can't pay to ship them, but if Debian foots the bill, I'll get them

Re: Using Debian funds (was .d.o machines which are down (Re: Questions for the DPL candidates))

2005-03-15 Thread Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader
* Julien BLACHE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-15 16:47]: The problem isn't there, it's that we're not used to spending Debian funds when we need to. This has already been discussed a couple of weeks ago :) Where was this and what should we (have) spent money on? (I'm not sure what you refer to.

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Julien BLACHE
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Scott James Remnant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For $DEITY's sake. Will you please understand that the Ubuntu folks totally failed to inform their fellows about what was going on ? And at the time, there was no Canonical website, no Ubuntu website.

Re: stable - yes or no?

2005-03-15 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit David Schmitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tuesday 15 March 2005 12:57, Henning Makholm wrote: Scripsit Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] This really makes unstable snapshotting, or building stable once it's released as Anthony has also suggested in this thread, look like much better

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread David Schmitt
On Monday 14 March 2005 21:35, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Looking just at the ones I reported: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?which=submitterdata=brederlo% 40informatik.uni-tuebingen.dearchive=no #249397: FTBFS: amd64 missing in Architecture list Package: mga-vid; Severity:

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 05:14:54PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: And I could still do - but I'm not allowed anymore. Great Job, Mr. Troup! Oh, come on, this isn't fair. You're not allowed to anymore because you stubbornly refused to pledge you would not compromise Debian's security unless

Re: .d.o machines which are down (Re: Questions for the DPL candidates)

2005-03-15 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 11:04:42AM -0500, Stephen Frost wrote: * Ben Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Also, this will make two ultrasparc machines available for some of our new sparc developers. I can't pay to ship them, but if Debian foots the bill, I'll get them to the right ppl. I'd

Re: Security support for tier-2

2005-03-15 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Matthias Urlichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, Sven Luther wrote: Because of [1], because they said they will drop security on tier-2 arches and that porters should be left to fend by themselves, did they not ? Nothing's going to prevent porters from adding stable-security (or whatever)

Re: .d.o machines which are down (Re: Questions for the DPL candidates)

2005-03-15 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 04:10:49PM +, Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader wrote: * Stephen Frost [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-15 11:04]: Also, this will make two ultrasparc machines available for some of our new sparc developers. I can't pay to ship them, but if Debian foots the

Re: Security support for tier-2

2005-03-15 Thread Aurélien Jarno
Frank Küster a écrit : There is one problem: These porters would need a debian.org machine to host their archive, and this puts again some workload on the ftpmasters and system admins. From the Vancouver proposal it seemed to me that it was not planned to provide such ressources. If there is more

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 05:14:54PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: When he declined (after seriously considering the option), and, because he didn't receive a pledge from you (and thus couldn't in any reasonable way trust you) locked you out of Debian hardware, you rambled on and screamed that

Re: The sarge release disaster - some thoughts

2005-03-15 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 04:15:38PM +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: On Tuesday, 15 Mar 2005, you wrote: [...] Also i hoped the release team and the ftp-masters would have worked on the current release instead of planing for the next on. Having all these people together sitting in one room

Re: .d.o machines which are down (Re: Questions for the DPL candidates)

2005-03-15 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 11:17:54AM -0500, Stephen Frost wrote: * Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: * Stephen Frost [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-15 11:04]: Also, this will make two ultrasparc machines available for some of our new sparc developers. I

An alternative analysis of the etch architecture proposal

2005-03-15 Thread Adrian Bunk
Let's analyze the requirements the release team sent for release architectures: - it must first be part of (or at the very least, meet the criteria for) scc.debian.org (see below) - there must be a developer-accessible debian.org machine for the architecture. That's obvious. - the

Re: debian/kernel security issues (Was: Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-15 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 09:50:22AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 04:51:55PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 01:14:30AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 06:10:30PM -0500, Andres Salomon wrote: Yes, I would like to reiterate

Re: stable - yes or no?

2005-03-15 Thread David Schmitt
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 17:08, Henning Makholm wrote: Scripsit David Schmitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tuesday 15 March 2005 12:57, Henning Makholm wrote: Scripsit Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] This really makes unstable snapshotting, or building stable once it's released as Anthony

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 12:29:06PM +0100, David Schmitt wrote: On Tuesday 15 March 2005 03:09, Anthony Towns wrote: Soon everyone loves you, and you get a huge userbase, and hit 10% of i386+amd64 downloads or five times powerpc's current userbase or so, and say I wanna be on ftp.d.o!! Then

Re: Using Debian funds (was .d.o machines which are down (Re: Questions for the DPL candidates))

2005-03-15 Thread Julien BLACHE
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem isn't there, it's that we're not used to spending Debian funds when we need to. This has already been discussed a couple of weeks ago :) Where was this and what should

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] Therefore, we're planning on not releasing most of the minor architectures starting with etch. They will be released with sarge, with all that implies (including security support until sarge is archived), but they would no longer be included in

Re: The sarge release disaster - some thoughts

2005-03-15 Thread Jan Niehusmann
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 05:39:37PM +0100, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: So where is the lack of communication you detected? Well, at least to me it's completely unclear why it took so long to address the points you mentioned (t-s, d-i). There are probably very good reasons, and people did work hard

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread David Schmitt
On Monday 14 March 2005 22:37, Brian M. Carlson wrote: On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 20:45 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: Architectures that are no longer being considered for stable releases are not going to be left out in the cold. I disagree. I feel that maintainers are going to ignore the SCC

Re: status of buildds?

2005-03-15 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We did that last year for m68k, mips, mipsel and alpha and it produced a great flame since some machines where hosted by non DDs and none of them were approved by the debian admin team. The opinions (including an RM too) expressed in that flame

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 08:13:50AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 10:45:45 +1000, Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au wrote: Once you get over giggling at the phrasing (or maybe that's just me), there're a few answers. The ones that come to my mind are: (a) Just build

Re: status of buildds?

2005-03-15 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Ingo Juergensmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's the job of w-b admins to add new buildds in a timely manner. If they don't do that, they simply fail (one significant part of) their job. This not only happens to s390 now but already happened in the past to m68k for example. Ok, let's

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 01:41:01PM +0100, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 12:59:43PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: With the new proposal of de facto dropping m68k support, I'm this -- close to recommend to Roman, that he better should invest his time into other

Re: Vancouver meeting - clarifications

2005-03-15 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Peter 'p2' De Schrijver wrote: [snip] I think we should distinguish between what's really necessary to have a useable release and what is nice to have. It's obviously nice to compile almost everything for all archs. But if upstream is too broken for this to be possible, it might make more

Re: discussing Debians qualities

2005-03-15 Thread Julien BLACHE
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Schmitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are all working for the stable release, you know. We're all trying to provide the best software in the best distribution. That's partly why we're all trying to slip a new revision of a package under the

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Reinhard Tartler
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 15:11:01 +0100, Tollef Fog Heen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Hamish Moffatt | OK, that makes sense. Can you buy those architectures new? (Surely yes | in the case of s390 at least, probably mipsel also as the mips CPU | manufacturers are alive and well.) [EMAIL

Re: status of buildds?

2005-03-15 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 09:07:46AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: It's the job of w-b admins to add new buildds in a timely manner. If they don't do that, they simply fail (one significant part of) their job. This not only happens to s390 now but already happened in the past to m68k

Re: An alternative analysis of the etch architecture proposal

2005-03-15 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 05:50:23PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: [...] - issues with space on ftp.debian.org and on mirrors (especially hindering amd64) It might be a better point to start moving non-released architectures (GNU Hurd and sh) to a different location. Depending on what exactly

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 11:04:09AM +0100, Julien BLACHE wrote: Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Details about Ubuntu and its goals can be found on the website. In many respects there is more information available about Ubuntu activity, and the goals of the project, than about

Re: stable - yes or no?

2005-03-15 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit David Schmitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tuesday 15 March 2005 17:08, Henning Makholm wrote: Scripsit David Schmitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] If a arch can show that it is able to support a high-quality-Debian-stable as we all know and love, it can be promoted to tier-1. Um, isn't the

Re: .d.o machines which are down (Re: Questions for the DPL candidates)

2005-03-15 Thread Stephen Frost
* Ben Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 11:17:54AM -0500, Stephen Frost wrote: * Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: * Stephen Frost [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-15 11:04]: Also, this will make two ultrasparc machines available for

Alternative: Source-Centric Approach [w/code]

2005-03-15 Thread John Goerzen
As I have been reading the discussions about the SCC proposal for etch, it seems that these are the main problems: 1) Difficulty with, and speed of, buildd systems 2) Difficulty of syncing testing across all archs given #1 3) Difficulty getting security releases out in time, given slow archs

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Henning Makholm ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050315 12:45]: Scripsit Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there an underlying reason why the wanna-build management for all architectures needs to happen on ftp-master? For any architecture that builds

Re: s390 not currently projected releasable (was: Re: Dropping from mirror network vs dropping from tier-1)

2005-03-15 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 04:12:51PM +0100, David Schmitt wrote: Looking at the stats[1], the amount of compiled packages seems to be a blocker: 250-300 need-build packages. At approximatly 9000 source packages, around 8820 must be built to satisfy the 98% barrier. Looking at longer timeframe

Re: Alternative: Source-Centric Approach [w/code]

2005-03-15 Thread Marc Singer
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 11:25:23AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: So, what do you think? Could this work? I like the idea a lot. What I'd like to see is a way to do a cross-platform build for the small system targets. I do a lot of ARM work: low-performance, resource limited targets. Frankly,

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Reinhard Tartler wrote: On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 15:11:01 +0100, Tollef Fog Heen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Hamish Moffatt | OK, that makes sense. Can you buy those architectures new? (Surely yes | in the case of s390 at least, probably mipsel also as the mips CPU | manufacturers are alive

Re: Security support for tier-2

2005-03-15 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Henning Makholm wrote: Nothing's going to prevent porters from adding stable-security (or whatever) to their autobuilders, True - for as long as they do not try to upload the result to the Debian archive, which will carry only unstable. I do not consider this to be set in stone. The

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 09:22:06AM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 11:04:09AM +0100, Julien BLACHE wrote: And now you're pointing us to the Ubuntu website, but it's a bit late. As soon as a proper website was up and running, the URL in the announcement above became a

Re: Alternative: Source-Centric Approach [w/code]

2005-03-15 Thread Stephen Frost
* Marc Singer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 11:25:23AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: So, what do you think? Could this work? I like the idea a lot. What I'd like to see is a way to do a cross-platform build for the small system targets. I do a lot of ARM work:

Re: Alternative: Source-Centric Approach [w/code]

2005-03-15 Thread Lech Karol Pawaszek
On Tuesday 15 of March 2005 18:25, John Goerzen wrote: [...] More on srcinst: [...] So, what do you think? Could this work? What's a difference between srcinst and apt-build ? ;-) Regards. -- Lech Karol Pawaszek ike You will never see me fall from grace... [KoRn]

Re: discussing Debians qualities

2005-03-15 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Julien BLACHE wrote: The time it takes to do a release nowadays might very well be related to the use of testing. I tend to think we did better before we introduced testing. Probably. On the other hand, I think that the coverage we get from testing is a lot higher than from unstable, by

Re: discussing Debians qualities

2005-03-15 Thread Adam Heath
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Matthias Urlichs wrote: Hi, Julien BLACHE wrote: The time it takes to do a release nowadays might very well be related to the use of testing. I tend to think we did better before we introduced testing. Probably. On the other hand, I think that the coverage we get

Re: Alternative: Source-Centric Approach [w/code]

2005-03-15 Thread Marc Singer
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 12:42:54PM -0500, Stephen Frost wrote: - Mirror only the popular archs. - Support buildds for stable-enough archs that run them. - Try to include everything in a release, but drop archs more quickly than has been done in the past if there's a lack of resources,

Re: stable - yes or no?

2005-03-15 Thread Frank Küster
David Schmitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 15 March 2005 17:08, Henning Makholm wrote: Last but not least, nobody can prohibit you from assembling a package pool for $tier-2-arch which mostly resembles Debian/stable tier-1. Of course. But they _are_ saying that if I do it, it has

Re: Alternative: Source-Centric Approach [w/code]

2005-03-15 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, John Goerzen wrote: 1) Difficulty with, and speed of, buildd systems 2) Difficulty of syncing testing across all archs given #1 2a) Bugs on small arch which blocks testing migration of big arch There are not many people who can do in-depth debugging on most small architectures,

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 11:17:25 -0500, David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 08:04:31AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: From what is public visible, the security team has lost at least one of the active members to ubuntu with no replacement up to today. We didn't lose him to

Re: discussing Debians qualities

2005-03-15 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Adam Heath wrote: On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Matthias Urlichs wrote: Probably. On the other hand, I think that the coverage we get from testing is a lot higher than from unstable, by the simple fact that more people risk using testing as their day-to-day system. (I wouldn't dream of

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