Re: Misc Developer News (#24)

2011-02-04 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Stefano Zacchiroli z...@debian.org writes: On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 04:13:55PM +, Philipp Kern wrote: http://wiki.debian.org/HowToRelease (which has not been edited since 2009) If you start linking to the wiki, take the right page: http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseTimetable Can the other

Re: Misc Developer News (#24)

2011-02-02 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2011-02-01, Simon Paillard spaill...@debian.org wrote: On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 10:34:48PM +0100, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: * Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de [110201 21:29]: squeeze release live microblogging [..] Is there a ToDo list of things that need to happen during

Re: Misc Developer News (#24)

2011-02-01 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Paul Wise p...@debian.org writes: squeeze release live microblogging -- The Debian squeeze release will be live microblogged[4] to Debian's identica account[5]. Several steps of the release process are quite long and boring, so these quiet periods will be

Re: Misc Developer News (#24)

2011-02-01 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Hi! * Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de [110201 21:29]: squeeze release live microblogging [..] Is there a ToDo list of things that need to happen during the release process, idealy with ETAs? Something that gives an overview without the distractions of funny and otherwise interesting

Re: Misc Developer News (#24)

2011-02-01 Thread Simon Paillard
On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 10:34:48PM +0100, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: * Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de [110201 21:29]: squeeze release live microblogging [..] Is there a ToDo list of things that need to happen during the release process, idealy with ETAs? Something that gives

Re: Misc Developer News (#24)

2010-12-06 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2010-11-07, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Simon Ruggier simo...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone considered patching the screenshot tools of GNOME or KDE to include support for automating the process of submitting to screenshots.debian.org? It would almost

Re: Misc Developer News (#24)

2010-11-17 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, On Sun, 07.11.2010 at 11:45:05 +0800, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: Screenshots on packages.d.o --- You may have noticed that packages.d.o now includes screenshots[1] with a link to a the Debian screenshots site[2]. Where a screenshot isn't available a No

Re: Misc Developer News (#24)

2010-11-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Toni Mueller t...@debian.org wrote: I guess the majority of packages don't lend themselves to have a screenshot. All libraries, and many daemons, come to mind. Would it be possible to exclude the screenshot feature for such packages? It always takes some time

Re: Misc Developer News (#24)

2010-11-17 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 18:42 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Toni Mueller t...@debian.org wrote: I guess the majority of packages don't lend themselves to have a screenshot. All libraries, and many daemons, come to mind. Would it be possible to exclude the

Re: Misc Developer News (#24)

2010-11-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 6:50 PM, Ian Campbell i...@hellion.org.uk wrote: Why does the no screenshot available message need to be an image? If no screenshot is available why not insert the relevant text instead? Currently packages.d.o does not know if a package has a screenshot or not. To do

Re: Misc Developer News (#24)

2010-11-17 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 06:42:49PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: Some libraries warrant screenshots (GTK+, Qt for example). The problem is that there is no reliable way to differentiate between packages that it is appropriate to have a screenshot for and those that should never have a

Re: Misc Developer News (#24)

2010-11-17 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 06:42:49PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: Some libraries warrant screenshots (GTK+, Qt for example). The Debian Pure Blends web sentinel has this screenshot feature for some time and we stumbled upon the same question (without having a reasonable solution). To some extend the

Re: Misc Developer News (#24)

2010-11-17 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2010-11-17, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Toni Mueller t...@debian.org wrote: I guess the majority of packages don't lend themselves to have a screenshot. All libraries, and many daemons, come to mind. Would it be possible to exclude the screenshot

Re: Misc Developer News (#24)

2010-11-17 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 07:14:41PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: Currently packages.d.o does not know if a package has a screenshot or not. To do that it would need to regularly download the screenshots metadata and make use of it. Patches welcome if anyone wants to implement it. I have no idea how

Re: Misc Developer News (#24)

2010-11-17 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 12:34:54PM +, Sune Vuorela wrote: Some libraries warrant screenshots (GTK+, Qt for example). I don't really see why these packages warrants screenshots. their look is fully dependant on the chosen style (and the two mentioned, GTK+ and Qt can actually look

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2010-11-17 Thread Simon Paillard
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 01:45:22PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 07:14:41PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: Currently packages.d.o does not know if a package has a screenshot or not. To do that it would need to regularly download the screenshots metadata and make use of it.

Re: Misc Developer News (#24)

2010-11-17 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2010-11-17, Andreas Tille andr...@an3as.eu wrote: This argument is true for any application using GTK+ or Qt - would you conclude that also in this case a screenshot is not warranted? IMHO No. e.g. seenig the layout of a editor, the structure of a IDE, the appearance of a instant message

Re: Misc Developer News (#24)

2010-11-17 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 17 novembre 2010 à 12:34 +, Sune Vuorela a écrit : On 2010-11-17, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: Some libraries warrant screenshots (GTK+, Qt for example). I don't really see why these packages warrants screenshots. their look is fully dependant on the chosen style (and

Re: Misc Developer News (#24)

2010-11-17 Thread The Fungi
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 12:21:38PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: [...] To some extend the problem also exists for several command line applications. [...] To implement this idea we should probably define a reasonable default xterm to get some consistency and put this information in the usage

Re: Misc Developer News (#24)

2010-11-07 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
A. Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion Q. Why is top posting bad? On 11/07/2010 05:38 AM, Simon Ruggier wrote: Hi all, please CC me on any responses, I'm not subscribed to debian-devel. Has anyone considered patching the screenshot tools of GNOME or KDE to include support

Re: Misc Developer News (#24)

2010-11-07 Thread Simon Ruggier
On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 1:01 AM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Simon Ruggier simo...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone considered patching the screenshot tools of GNOME or KDE to include support for automating the process of submitting to screenshots.debian.org?

Re: Misc Developer News (#24)

2010-11-07 Thread Kai Wasserbäch
Hello Simon, Simon Ruggier schrieb am 07.11.2010 17:19: On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 1:01 AM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: Please file wishlist bugs on the relevant upstream bug trackers. I suspect that wouldn't be received very well. I'll file it on debshots though. why not? just make it

Re: Misc Developer News (#24)

2010-11-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 12:19 AM, Simon Ruggier simo...@gmail.com wrote: I suspect that wouldn't be received very well. I'll file it on debshots though. There isn't much the debshots author can do if upstreams for the screenshot programs don't want support for uploading screenshots to

Re: Misc Developer News (#24)

2010-11-07 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 09:48:13AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: I suspect that wouldn't be received very well. I'll file it on debshots though. There isn't much the debshots author can do if upstreams for the screenshot programs don't want support for uploading screenshots to screenshot sites.

Re: Misc Developer News (#24)

2010-11-06 Thread Simon Ruggier
Hi all, please CC me on any responses, I'm not subscribed to debian-devel. Has anyone considered patching the screenshot tools of GNOME or KDE to include support for automating the process of submitting to screenshots.debian.org? It would almost certainly cause a big increase in the number of

Re: Misc Developer News (#24)

2010-11-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Simon Ruggier simo...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone considered patching the screenshot tools of GNOME or KDE to include support for automating the process of submitting to screenshots.debian.org? It would almost certainly cause a big increase in the number of