Re: make 4.0: archive rebuild resulted in 73 packages broken (help wanted)

2014-04-29 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 23:01:58 -0700, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Debian X Strike Force debia...@lists.debian.org xserver-xorg-video-vmware I've split the rule in

Re: goals for hardening Debian: ideas and help wanted

2014-04-29 Thread Marko Randjelovic
On Tue, 29 Apr 2014 11:52:14 + Patrick Schleizer adrela...@riseup.net wrote: Marko Randjelovic: I was thinking about some kind of wizard: - create a chroot if doesn't already exist - create a launcher for your DE - create a shell script to run a program from terminal or a simple

Re: goals for hardening Debian: ideas and help wanted

2014-04-29 Thread Kevin Chadwick
observers: the entire paragraph is very wrong.) Yes, chroots help isolating things, but, just like systrace(4), they are far from being inescapable. I also said the following and nothing is inescapable atleast in any general conversation, so who is being black and white now! Chroot provides

Re: goals for hardening Debian: ideas and help wanted

2014-04-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Marko Randjelovic marko...@eunet.rs writes: I added this: Debian policy should require that in every source package all security packages should be clearly marked as such in standard and easily parsable way with optional further references. I don't agree with this statement. I think there

Re: goals for hardening Debian: ideas and help wanted

2014-04-29 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Thorsten Glaser t...@debian.org, 2014-04-29, 15:35: A wide misconception. Chroots are easily implemented and add security almost for free (often /dev/log is all that is needed) and so can be used by default without any potential problems, they also never bring new risks and always make life

Re: make 4.0: archive rebuild resulted in 73 packages broken (help wanted)

2014-04-29 Thread Felipe Sateler
On Mon, 28 Apr 2014 23:01:58 -0700, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Felipe Sateler fsate...@debian.org csound (U) pulseaudio (U) On both I'm getting this: dpkg-buildpackage: warning: debian/rules must be updated to support the 'build-arch' and 'build-indep' targets (at least 'build-arch'

Re: make 4.0: archive rebuild resulted in 73 packages broken (help wanted)

2014-04-29 Thread Adam Borowski
On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 11:01:58PM -0700, Manoj Srivastava wrote: David Suárez kindly did an archive rebuild with the new version of make in experimental, and the results of the build are at: http://aws-logs.debian.net/ftbfs-logs/results-make4/ The summary: 73 packages

Re: make 4.0: archive rebuild resulted in 73 packages broken (help wanted)

2014-04-29 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Manoj Srivastava sriva...@ieee.org, 2014-04-28, 23:01: Moritz Muehlenhoff j...@debian.org fbi A bashism (echo -e) in mk/Autoconf.mk slightly corrupts the first line of Make.config: -e LIB := lib Apparently the new make doesn't like it. Beware of #584233 when fixing this bug.

Re: New Cinnamon Maintainer, looking for help

2014-04-29 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi, I've been working with Maxy in creating these packages and I can answer your questions. On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Jonathan Dowland j...@debian.org wrote: Hi, yes, I realise you can't push to that repo, so you have another. That's not my point. There's nothing stopping your other

Re: goals for hardening Debian: ideas and help wanted

2014-04-29 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Tue, April 29, 2014 18:45, Russ Allbery wrote: Marko Randjelovic marko...@eunet.rs writes: I added this: Debian policy should require that in every source package all security packages should be clearly marked as such in standard and easily parsable way with optional further references.

Re: goals for hardening Debian: ideas and help wanted

2014-04-29 Thread Kevin Chadwick
___ I have no idea why RTFM is used so aggressively on LINUX mailing lists because whilst 'apropos' is traditionally the most powerful command on Unix-like systems it's 'modern' replacement 'apropos' on Linux is a tool to help psychopaths learn to control their anger

Re: goals for hardening Debian: ideas and help wanted

2014-04-29 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 29 avril 2014 à 15:35 +, Thorsten Glaser a écrit : A wide misconception. Chroots are easily implemented and add security almost for free Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! (To casual observers: the entire paragraph is very wrong.) Maybe you should go read a book or two

Re: make 4.0: archive rebuild resulted in 73 packages broken (help wanted)

2014-04-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, Apr 29 2014, Felipe Sateler wrote: On Mon, 28 Apr 2014 23:01:58 -0700, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Felipe Sateler fsate...@debian.org csound (U) pulseaudio (U) Add to that: Kari Pahula k...@debian.org gecode Russ Allbery r...@debian.org krb5 (U) Missing

Re: make 4.0: archive rebuild resulted in 73 packages broken (help wanted)

2014-04-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Manoj Srivastava sriva...@ieee.org writes: On Tue, Apr 29 2014, Felipe Sateler wrote: On Mon, 28 Apr 2014 23:01:58 -0700, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Felipe Sateler fsate...@debian.org csound (U) pulseaudio (U) Add to that: Kari Pahula k...@debian.org gecode Russ Allbery

Re: New Cinnamon Maintainer, looking for help

2014-04-28 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 04:14:36PM +0200, Maximiliano Curia wrote: The cinnamon package and dependencies included in Debian are currently uninstallable, and have been unmantained for a year. I have prepared new packages, adding their sources to the collab-maint alioth project. There's still

Re: New Cinnamon Maintainer, looking for help

2014-04-28 Thread Matteo F. Vescovi
these packages into Debian shape, so I encourage anyone who's interested to contact me, so that we can work together. I'd love to help, somehow. -- Matteo F. Vescovi Debian Maintainer GnuPG KeyID: 0x83B2CF7A

Re: goals for hardening Debian: ideas and help wanted

2014-04-28 Thread Marko Randjelovic
If you have more ideas, please add them to the wiki page. If you have more information, please add it to the wiki page. If you would like to help, please choose an item and start work. - security patches should be clearly marked as such in every *.patch file - easy create and run

Re: goals for hardening Debian: ideas and help wanted

2014-04-28 Thread Jacob Appelbaum
On 4/25/14, Kevin Chadwick ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: previously on this list Paul Wise contributed: I have written a non-exhaustive list of goals for hardening the Debian distribution, the Debian project and computer systems of the Debian project, contributors and users.

Re: goals for hardening Debian: ideas and help wanted

2014-04-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 8:07 AM, Marko Randjelovic wrote: - security patches should be clearly marked as such in every *.patch file That sounds like a good idea, could you add it to the wiki page? - easy create and run programs from chroot and alternate users Could you detail what you

New Cinnamon Maintainer, looking for help

2014-04-26 Thread Maximiliano Curia
Hi, Cinnamon is a desktop environment based on GNOME, but with a different shell and some other replaced parts (screensaver, file manager, system settings, etc). It was created by Linux Mint, but it's independent of the distribution. The cinnamon package and dependencies included in Debian are

Re: New Cinnamon Maintainer, looking for help

2014-04-26 Thread Mateusz Łukasik
encourage anyone who's interested to contact me, so that we can work together. Hi Maximiliano, I'm not Cinnamon user, but I have contact by the another users with that environment. I can help you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: goals for hardening Debian: ideas and help wanted

2014-04-25 Thread Cameron Norman
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 9:49 AM, Giacomo Mulas giacomo.mula...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 24 Apr 2014, Steve Langasek wrote: The apparmor policies in Debian apply a principle of minimal harm, confining only those services for which someone has taken the time to verify the correct profile.

Re: goals for hardening Debian: ideas and help wanted

2014-04-25 Thread Kevin Chadwick
, please add them to the wiki page. Though it will take some guts, the best way I see for a distro to help users secure their machines is to provide sudoers entries disabled by default and enabled either manually through requests during various package installs or a sudoers-policies package

Re: goals for hardening Debian: ideas and help wanted

2014-04-24 Thread Lesley Binks
distribution, the Debian project and computer systems of the Debian project, contributors and users. https://wiki.debian.org/Hardening/Goals If you have more ideas, please add them to the wiki page. If you have more information, please add it to the wiki page. If you would like to help, please

Re: goals for hardening Debian: ideas and help wanted

2014-04-24 Thread Rowan Thorpe
On 10:57 Thu 24 Apr 2014, Paul Wise wrote: ..[snip].. https://wiki.debian.org/Hardening/Goals Regarding the line (at that page): Refuse to install packages that are known to have X number of unplugged exploits (i.e. X number of open security bugs in the bug tracker) unless e.g.

Re: goals for hardening Debian: ideas and help wanted

2014-04-24 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 24 apr 14, 11:06:27, Rowan Thorpe wrote: On 10:57 Thu 24 Apr 2014, Paul Wise wrote: ..[snip].. https://wiki.debian.org/Hardening/Goals Regarding the line (at that page): Refuse to install packages that are known to have X number of unplugged exploits (i.e. X number of open

Re: goals for hardening Debian: ideas and help wanted

2014-04-24 Thread Richard van den Berg
I suggest it might be better if exploits were each given a quick/approximate ranking in terms of severity (and if the severity is unknown it could be assigned a default median ranking), so that the algorithm you mention wouldn't just add number of unplugged exploits, but add them by weight

Re: goals for hardening Debian: ideas and help wanted

2014-04-24 Thread Giacomo Mulas
a) help package maintainers learn how to create and include appropriate configuration files so that their package works with the MAC framework b) create some tools (debhelper-like?) to make it relatively easy to find the minimum access rights a package needs and implement them in a configuration file c

Re: goals for hardening Debian: ideas and help wanted

2014-04-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 11:45:46AM +0200, Giacomo Mulas wrote: On Thu, 24 Apr 2014, Paul Wise wrote: Would the inclusion of more AppArmor profiles be applicable? Thanks, added along with SELinux/etc. I second that. Actually, some time ago I tried using both AppArmor and SELinux, but gave up

Re: goals for hardening Debian: ideas and help wanted

2014-04-24 Thread Giacomo Mulas
On Thu, 24 Apr 2014, Steve Langasek wrote: The apparmor policies in Debian apply a principle of minimal harm, confining only those services for which someone has taken the time to verify the correct profile. There are obviously pros and cons to each approach to MAC, which I'm not interested in

Help wanted: test new shadow source package (login, passwd, uidmap, etc.)

2014-04-24 Thread Christian PERRIER
Hello fellow developers, I would like to request your help in testing the new version of the shadow package (that provides login, passwd and such other important or base packages). Debian is upstream for shadow since Nicolas François (with my help) took over the maintenance of shadow back

goals for hardening Debian: ideas and help wanted

2014-04-23 Thread Paul Wise
information, please add it to the wiki page. If you would like to help, please choose an item and start work. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: goals for hardening Debian: ideas and help wanted

2014-04-23 Thread Cameron Norman
If you have more ideas, please add them to the wiki page. If you have more information, please add it to the wiki page. If you would like to help, please choose an item and start work. Would the inclusion of more AppArmor profiles be applicable? Thanks, -- Cameron Norman

Re: goals for hardening Debian: ideas and help wanted

2014-04-23 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, 2014-04-24 at 02:53 -0007, Cameron Norman wrote: Would the inclusion of more AppArmor profiles be applicable? Thanks, added along with SELinux/etc. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: goals for hardening Debian: ideas and help wanted

2014-04-23 Thread Jean-Baptiste Boisseau
more ideas, please add them to the wiki page. If you have more information, please add it to the wiki page. If you would like to help, please choose an item and start work. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise What about challenging a bit more default packages regarding security

Accepted how-can-i-help 6 (source all)

2014-03-12 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 16:43:49 +0100 Source: how-can-i-help Binary: how-can-i-help Architecture: source all Version: 6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Lucas Nussbaum lu...@debian.org Changed-By: Lucas Nussbaum lu

Diploma thesis about media choice and usage in Free Software communities: I need your help.

2014-03-01 Thread Mario Fux Debian ML
communities as well. So please take some time or add it to your todo list or, even better, go directly to my questionnaire [1] and help me make a great diploma thesis and improve the Free Software community in some ways. The questionnaire [1] takes some 20 to 30 minutes. At the end

Accepted how-can-i-help 5 (source all)

2014-02-27 Thread Tomasz Nitecki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 20:48:27 +0100 Source: how-can-i-help Binary: how-can-i-help Architecture: source all Version: 5 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Lucas Nussbaum lu...@debian.org Changed-By: Tomasz Nitecki t

Bug#738908: RFH: how-can-i-help -- show opportunities for contributing to Debian

2014-02-13 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Hi, I like this package a lot, but I don't have the bandwidth required to maintain it on my own. I would love to get some help with it. The package is quite simple, and is maintained in collab-maint. Feel free to get in touch with me if you want to help. Please

DebConf14 organizing team needs your help to raise funds! (Won't take long.)

2014-02-10 Thread Brian Gupta
Hello! We are well into the planning for DebConf14 which will take place in Portland, Oregon, USA during the 23rd-31st of August, 2014. It looks like it is again going to be a great event and hope that everyone can come, but to make it happen we need your help. We are now contacting potential

FW: Again ask for a mentor who can help me by private mail

2014-02-03 Thread Roelof Wobben
Hello, A few days ago I ask here for a mentor who can help me with becoming a Debian Maintainer. Eribo has volunteered me where I thank him a lot. But because I copied a few things from a package he maintains he wants to stop mentoring me. This was a really really stupid thing to do

Re: FW: Again ask for a mentor who can help me by private mail

2014-02-03 Thread Arno Töll
Hi Roelof, On 03.02.2014 19:51, Roelof Wobben wrote: But because I copied a few things from a package he maintains he wants to stop mentoring me. This was a really really stupid thing to do and it will never happen again do I understand it correct, that your (former) mentor stopped mentoring

Re: FW: Again ask for a mentor who can help me by private mail

2014-02-03 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 07:56:57PM +0100, Arno Töll wrote: If so, not you should be hit with the holy hammer of clue, but your mentor. Uh, yeah. What the hell? Who is this guy (Eribo) and why does not think it's not OK for you to take freely licensed code and use it in-line with their licensing?

Re: FW: Again ask for a mentor who can help me by private mail

2014-02-03 Thread Jonathan Dowland
You may have better luck on debian-mentors (but I echo what others are saying… it sounds like your mentor is not behaving in the spirit of open source software) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Again ask for a mentor who can help me by private mail

2014-02-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 1:35 AM, Roelof Wobben wrote: Again ask for a mentor who can help me by private mail I would strongly suggest *not* doing things in private. In Debian we do as much as possible in public and this includes mentoring. If you have any questions, ask them on the debian

Accepted how-can-i-help 4 (source all)

2014-02-03 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 22:16:08 +0100 Source: how-can-i-help Binary: how-can-i-help Architecture: source all Version: 4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Lucas Nussbaum lu...@debian.org Changed-By: Lucas Nussbaum lu

Accepted how-can-i-help 3 (source all)

2014-01-19 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 11:24:13 +0100 Source: how-can-i-help Binary: how-can-i-help Architecture: source all Version: 3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Lucas Nussbaum lu...@debian.org Changed-By: Lucas Nussbaum lu

Accepted how-can-i-help 2 (source all)

2014-01-04 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2014 17:23:48 +0100 Source: how-can-i-help Binary: how-can-i-help Architecture: source all Version: 2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: high Maintainer: Lucas Nussbaum lu...@debian.org Changed-By: Lucas Nussbaum lu

Accepted how-can-i-help 1 (source all)

2013-11-29 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 11:44:11 +0100 Source: how-can-i-help Binary: how-can-i-help Architecture: source all Version: 1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Lucas Nussbaum lu...@debian.org Changed-By: Lucas Nussbaum lu

Help needed to maintain wordpress

2013-11-14 Thread Raphael Hertzog
[ Bcc debian-devel to make the offer both to new maintainers and experienced ones ] Hello, I would like to find someone willing to take over the maintenance of wordpress in Debian (the most popular software to run a blog). The package is in a relatively good shape but it needs active

Bug#728934: ITP: yara -- help to identify and classify malwares

2013-11-06 Thread Joao Eriberto Mota Filho
://code.google.com/p/yara-project * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: C Description : help to identify and classify malwares YARA is a tool aimed at helping malware researchers to identify and classify malware samples. With YARA you can create descriptions of malware families based

Accepted how-can-i-help 0.9 (source all)

2013-10-31 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 08:54:34 +0100 Source: how-can-i-help Binary: how-can-i-help Architecture: source all Version: 0.9 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Lucas Nussbaum lu...@debian.org Changed-By: Lucas Nussbaum lu

Accepted how-can-i-help 0.8 (source all)

2013-10-30 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 20:46:41 +0100 Source: how-can-i-help Binary: how-can-i-help Architecture: source all Version: 0.8 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Lucas Nussbaum lu...@debian.org Changed-By: Lucas Nussbaum lu

Accepted how-can-i-help 0.7 (source all)

2013-10-29 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 22:19:16 +0100 Source: how-can-i-help Binary: how-can-i-help Architecture: source all Version: 0.7 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Lucas Nussbaum lu...@debian.org Changed-By: Lucas Nussbaum lu

Re: [debian-mysql] MySQL.. no.. _I_ need your help!

2013-10-28 Thread Akhil Mohan
Hi Clint, I am Akhil Mohan, new to the list and eager to help everyone here in packaging latest releases of MySQL server. Amongst the points highlighted by you, I think packaging MySQL 5.6 would be one of the priorities and I would like to participate in bringing up quality packages

Re: [debian-mysql] MySQL.. no.. _I_ need your help!

2013-10-28 Thread Rene Engelhard
for Debian. [...] I am asking you, the Debian developers, to step up and help. I am basically unable to contribute more than an hour a month now. There is a new round of secret CVE bugs to fix, and some old bugs that need to be handled. I think my October hour is about to be available, so I might

Re: [debian-mysql] MySQL.. no.. _I_ need your help!

2013-10-27 Thread Clint Byrum
Excerpts from Jonathan Aquilina's message of 2013-10-25 23:36:22 -0700: I would like to help in some capacity. Would working in a chrooted environment or would one need a fully fledged os? These days I have no standing machines of Debian. I do spin up cloud instances often that I use to do

Re: [debian-mysql] MySQL.. no.. _I_ need your help!

2013-10-27 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
of 2013-10-25 23:36:22 -0700: I would like to help in some capacity. Would working in a chrooted environment or would one need a fully fledged os? These days I have no standing machines of Debian. I do spin up cloud instances often that I use to do smoke testing. Basically all of my

Re: [debian-mysql] MySQL.. no.. _I_ need your help!

2013-10-27 Thread Stewart Smith
Clint Byrum spam...@debian.org writes: I am asking you, the Debian developers, to step up and help. I am basically unable to contribute more than an hour a month now. There is a new round of secret CVE bugs to fix, and some old bugs that need to be handled. I think my October hour is about

Re: [debian-mysql] MySQL.. no.. _I_ need your help!

2013-10-26 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
I would like to help in some capacity. Would working in a chrooted environment or would one need a fully fledged os? On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 5:32 PM, Clint Byrum spam...@debian.org wrote: Greetings earthlings, As some of you may know, I've been doing the bulk of the package maintenance

Re: MySQL.. no.. _I_ need your help!

2013-10-26 Thread Patrick Galbraith
Clint - perhaps you and I can talk about this in Hong Kong? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5f7ce033-3ae0-4c17-8356-a31015a72...@patg.net

MySQL.. no.. _I_ need your help!

2013-10-25 Thread Clint Byrum
, such as my children, and seeing the sun shine every once in a while. Thus, I have found almost no time for packaging MySQL for Debian. I am asking you, the Debian developers, to step up and help. I am basically unable to contribute more than an hour a month now. There is a new round of secret CVE bugs

help needed: dist-upgrade of quantz.debian.org

2013-10-12 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, i would like to dist-upgrade quantz.debian.org to wheezy this weekend. It would be helpful if someone who knows the running cronjobs and services on quantz.d.o could contact me either by mail or on IRC. Cheers, Martin -- Martin Zobel-Helas zo...@debian.orgDebian System Administrator

Accepted doublecmd-help 0.5.5-1 (source all)

2013-10-06 Thread Graham Inggs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 15:33:48 +0200 Source: doublecmd-help Binary: doublecmd-help-en doublecmd-help-ru doublecmd-help-uk Architecture: source all Version: 0.5.5-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Graham Inggs gra

Help needed to debug a failing bot on i18n.debian.org

2013-09-30 Thread Christian PERRIER
Hello fellow developers, The i18n crowd needs your help. In order to provide translators and teams with valuable material to work, we have a few automated processes that are running on the i18n.debian.org machine. The source code for all this stuff is stored in git+ssh://git.debian.org/git

Re: Help needed to debug a failing bot on i18n.debian.org

2013-09-30 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Christian PERRIER bubu...@debian.org (2013-09-30): So, in short, we need fellow developers' help. Preferrably from people who can access i18n.debian.org and work under the debian-i18n role in order to test things as they are. In short, Debian developers who would be granted that role(maybe

Re: Help needed to debug a failing bot on i18n.debian.org

2013-09-30 Thread Cyril Brulebois
that part to work reliably. I think I'll drop -devel@ from any further replies since the call for help was answered, and people know where to follow the rest, should they be interested. Mraw, KiBi. From 94ea088fc1de135abe80e19eb11151ae95bba4c3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Cyril Brulebois k

Re: Help needed to debug a failing bot on i18n.debian.org

2013-09-30 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org): Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org (2013-09-30): Yes; debian-i18n membership ping. Can't see the page on alioth due to: Permission denied. This project's administrator will have to grant you permission to view this page. so can't request

Accepted how-can-i-help 0.5 (source all)

2013-09-12 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 08:18:17 +0200 Source: how-can-i-help Binary: how-can-i-help Architecture: source all Version: 0.5 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Lucas Nussbaum lu...@debian.org Changed-By: Lucas Nussbaum lu

Accepted how-can-i-help 0.6 (source all)

2013-09-12 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 09:03:27 +0200 Source: how-can-i-help Binary: how-can-i-help Architecture: source all Version: 0.6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Lucas Nussbaum lu...@debian.org Changed-By: Lucas Nussbaum lu

Accepted how-can-i-help 0.4 (source all)

2013-08-26 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 18:12:35 +0200 Source: how-can-i-help Binary: how-can-i-help Architecture: source all Version: 0.4 Distribution: experimental Urgency: low Maintainer: Lucas Nussbaum lu...@debian.org Changed-By: Lucas Nussbaum lu

Accepted how-can-i-help 0.2 (source all)

2013-08-25 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 19:22:44 +0200 Source: how-can-i-help Binary: how-can-i-help Architecture: source all Version: 0.2 Distribution: experimental Urgency: low Maintainer: Lucas Nussbaum lu...@debian.org Changed-By: Lucas Nussbaum lu

Accepted how-can-i-help 0.3 (source all)

2013-08-25 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 21:16:42 +0200 Source: how-can-i-help Binary: how-can-i-help Architecture: source all Version: 0.3 Distribution: experimental Urgency: low Maintainer: Lucas Nussbaum lu...@debian.org Changed-By: Lucas Nussbaum lu

Accepted how-can-i-help 0.1 (source all)

2013-08-24 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 17:29:45 +0200 Source: how-can-i-help Binary: how-can-i-help Architecture: source all Version: 0.1 Distribution: experimental Urgency: low Maintainer: Lucas Nussbaum lu...@debian.org Changed-By: Lucas Nussbaum lu

Re: Requesting DDs who want to help greet new contributors

2013-08-18 Thread Michael Stapelberg
Hi Asheesh, I just watched your talk on my way home from DebConf and decided I want to join you in the welcoming team or whatever it will be called :). A few more details on what will be happening and what is the expectation of me (and others) would be appreciated. -- Best regards, Michael

Re: Requesting DDs who want to help greet new contributors

2013-08-04 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
I'll request help. The stated goals are: * Reach out to new contributors, thank them for their work and get feedback. * Reach out to people who might be ready to apply for upload rights and help them. * Reach out to contributors that went inactive and get feedback from them and offer

Re: Requesting DDs who want to help greet new contributors

2013-08-04 Thread Andreas Tille
be help getting new developers in my talk at DebConf[1] when I present numbers that we have won one DD per year (in average) who admitted that he is only in Debian *because* this specific Blend exist. If this is possible for a leaf project as I defintely regard medicine and biology how much better

Re: Requesting DDs who want to help greet new contributors

2013-08-01 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Wed, 31 Jul 2013, Paul Wise wrote: I already do similar stuff but without the benefit of the tool you are working on, just based on mailing list mails from folks asking how to get involved or what I remember of folks activities. I might be interested to get more involved here but that

Re: Requesting DDs who want to help greet new contributors

2013-08-01 Thread Asheesh Laroia
the concept of Developer Advisory Team is, and second I'll request help. The stated goals are: * Reach out to new contributors, thank them for their work and get feedback. * Reach out to people who might be ready to apply for upload rights and help them. * Reach out to contributors that went

Re: Requesting DDs who want to help greet new contributors

2013-08-01 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 02:24:43AM -0400, Asheesh Laroia wrote: I agree that mentoring is often very effective. I'd like to give some report at DebConf[1] about Mentoring of Month[2]. The report will probably not fill more than 15-20min and the focus of this BoF is rather on seeking more

Re: Requesting DDs who want to help greet new contributors

2013-07-31 Thread Paul Wise
I already do similar stuff but without the benefit of the tool you are working on, just based on mailing list mails from folks asking how to get involved or what I remember of folks activities. I might be interested to get more involved here but that would probably need to be later in the year.

Requesting DDs who want to help greet new contributors

2013-07-30 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Hi all Debianites, I've been inspired by the Developer Advisory Team in another project [1], and so I want to create a similar team within Debian. In this email, first I'll summarize what the concept of Developer Advisory Team is, and second I'll request help. The stated goals are: * Reach

Re: Requesting DDs who want to help greet new contributors

2013-07-30 Thread Charles Plessy
Team is, and second I'll request help. The stated goals are: * Reach out to new contributors, thank them for their work and get feedback. * Reach out to people who might be ready to apply for upload rights and help them. * Reach out to contributors that went inactive and get feedback

Re: Requesting DDs who want to help greet new contributors

2013-07-30 Thread Nicolas Guilbert
is, and second I'll request help. The stated goals are: * Reach out to new contributors, thank them for their work and get feedback. * Reach out to people who might be ready to apply for upload rights and help them. * Reach out to contributors that went inactive and get feedback from

Re: Requesting DDs who want to help greet new contributors

2013-07-30 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Wed, 31 Jul 2013, Charles Plessy wrote: Hi Asheesh, When I saw a couple of emails about Developer Advisory Team on debian-mentors, I had a hard time figuring out what it was about, and since I had no extra time to find an answer, I concluded that Ubuntu do what it wants... The goals

Re: adequate now reports incompatible-licenses - need help to verify and file bugs

2013-07-24 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Sune Vuorela nos...@vuorela.dk, 2013-07-10, 11:59: On 2013-07-10, Andreas Beckmann a...@debian.org wrote: osgearth: incompatible-licenses /usr/bin/osgearth_cache LGPLv3+ (libgnutls.so.26) + GPLv2 (libpoppler.so.19) osgearth: incompatible-licenses /usr/bin/osgearth_toc LGPLv3+

Re: how can we help DSA save money

2013-07-22 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2013-07-21 08:09, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: The only realistic alternative to spending the money here would be if some company donated the equivalent in hardware. It's not really possible to code ourselves out of this one. Well, we could make snapshot store binary deltas. That would kill some

Re: how can we help DSA save money

2013-07-22 Thread Steven Chamberlain
can measure impact of xz and other compression of .debs * dedup.d.n seems it could help reduce unnecessary growth of the archive in future * de-duplicating between *versions* of a package is another area of interest; just one method of that is:- On 2013-07-22 09:31, Philipp Kern wrote: Well

Re: how can we help DSA save money

2013-07-22 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Steven Chamberlain Hi! On 2013-07-21 08:09, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: Backups is 8 x 4T Seagate Constellation drives. Bytemark is 24 x 4T Seagate Constellation drives. We get setup, hosting, power, etc donated, so that is not part of the cost there. Thanks; was this just a

Re: how can we help DSA save money

2013-07-22 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 2013-07-22 14:50, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: There are practical problems with your suggestions, such as resizing the RAID taking a very long time when we add a new disk (you're looking at weeks of seriously reduced performance). That seems like a limitation of software, at one of the lower

Re: how can we help DSA save money

2013-07-22 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 2013-07-22 15:49, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: It's not, it's a limitation of resizing a raid and that requiring about a billion seeks across the disk surface. I didn't realise it was hardware RAID. If for example it is possible to create multiple, smaller hardware RAIDs over time, then maybe all

Re: how can we help DSA save money

2013-07-22 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
not mention ZFS until now, because I didn't want limit anyone's thinking to filesystems. But I did have it in mind all along. That does not help with resizing the RAID, given it's a hardware RAID. But again, feel free to suggest patches, the code that's driving snapshot is all out there, afaik

Re: how can we help DSA save money

2013-07-22 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Steven Chamberlain On 2013-07-22 15:49, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: It's not, it's a limitation of resizing a raid and that requiring about a billion seeks across the disk surface. I didn't realise it was hardware RAID. If for example it is possible to create multiple, smaller hardware

Re: how can we help DSA save money

2013-07-22 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 07:13:57PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: ]] Steven Chamberlain On 2013-07-22 15:49, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: It's not, it's a limitation of resizing a raid and that requiring about a billion seeks across the disk surface. I didn't realise it was hardware

Re: how can we help DSA save money

2013-07-21 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
storage). It's quite a bit of storage. Snapshot is large. This is somewhere that contributors could help instead of financially, but by designing, developing, or simply documenting solutions that would fulfill DSA needs. The only realistic alternative to spending the money here would be if some

Re: how can we help DSA save money (was: bits from the DPL - June 2013)

2013-07-20 Thread Steven Chamberlain
hardware. (And also because this stood out as being quite a big purchase if it is just storage). This is somewhere that contributors could help instead of financially, but by designing, developing, or simply documenting solutions that would fulfill DSA needs. I know this happens a bit already, DSA

Re: how can we help DSA save money (was: bits from the DPL - June 2013)

2013-07-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
. (And also because this stood out as being quite a big purchase if it is just storage). We're not talking about a home NAS... This is somewhere that contributors could help instead of financially, but by designing, developing, or simply documenting solutions that would fulfill DSA needs. I know

Re: [Piuparts-devel] adequate now reports incompatible-licenses - need help to verify and file bugs

2013-07-19 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Mittwoch, 10. Juli 2013, Andreas Beckmann wrote: I just noticed in my local piuparts instance that adequate now issues incompatible-licenses tags, too. Nice feature, Jakub! :-) adequate 0.7 is now installed on pejacevic.d.o and piu-slave, so from now on, these results will be shown on

Re: Systemd support in Debian packages: how to help

2013-07-16 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, On 15/07/13 at 21:39 +0200, Michael Stapelberg wrote: Hi, I am sorry for starting yet another thread on systemd, but we feel this particular post is important and should spread as widely as possible (i.e. beyond just readers of planet debian):

Re: Systemd support in Debian packages: how to help

2013-07-16 Thread Michael Biebl
Hi Lucas, thanks for your input! Am 16.07.2013 14:50, schrieb Lucas Nussbaum: Hi, On 15/07/13 at 21:39 +0200, Michael Stapelberg wrote: Hi, I am sorry for starting yet another thread on systemd, but we feel this particular post is important and should spread as widely as possible (i.e.

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