Re: mass ITPs

2008-03-03 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 15:01:13 +0100, Thomas Weber wrote: > Just for the record: every single package Rafael itp'd is already in > the archive as part of octave2.1-forge. Upstream decided to split this > up, so we follow. > If the software is already packaged, then it doesn't need an ITP bug i

Re: mass ITPs

2008-03-02 Thread Rafael Laboissiere
* Luca Brivio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-03-02 20:28]: > Alle 19:48, sab 1 marzo 2008, Christian Perrier ha scritto: > > If someone cares to listen: when you think about ITPing each and every > > piece of FLOSS that pops around: think about *helping* people who > > maintain existing packages instea

Re: mass ITPs

2008-03-02 Thread Luca Brivio
Alle 19:48, sab 1 marzo 2008, Christian Perrier ha scritto: > If someone cares to listen: when you think about ITPing each and every > piece of FLOSS that pops around: think about *helping* people who > maintain existing packages instead of adding even more noise to our > noisy bunch of various cra

Re: mass ITPs

2008-03-02 Thread Thomas Weber
On 01/03/08 19:48 +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > There seems to be some crazyness about packaging new stuff these > days. That would be fine.if only our existing packages were well > maintained.which, for many of them is certainly not true. Just for the record: every single package Rafa

Re: mass ITPs

2008-03-01 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 08:49:05PM +0100, Romain Beauxis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Le Saturday 01 March 2008 19:48:50 Christian Perrier, vous avez écrit : > > If someone cares to listen: when you think about ITPing each and every > > piece of FLOSS that pops around: think about *help

Re: mass ITPs

2008-03-01 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11311 March 1977, Romain Beauxis wrote: > Hey, reading you I figured out that all newcomers are required to have > contributions in Debian, which means *new packages*. No, it doesn't mean new packages. It means contributions. -- bye, Joerg A.D. 1517: Martin Luther nails his 95 Theses to the

Re: mass ITPs

2008-03-01 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 08:49:05PM +0100, Romain Beauxis wrote: > I figured out that all newcomers are required to have contributions in > Debian, which means *new packages*. Not at all. They must maintain at least one (but preferrably more) packages (if they want to do packaging). They may be t

Re: mass ITPs

2008-03-01 Thread Romain Beauxis
Le Saturday 01 March 2008 19:48:50 Christian Perrier, vous avez écrit : > If someone cares to listen: when you think about ITPing each and every > piece of FLOSS that pops around: think about *helping* people who > maintain existing packages instead of adding even more noise to our > noisy bunch of

Re: mass ITPs

2008-03-01 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Henrique de Moraes Holschuh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, Paul Wise wrote: > > Perhaps in future mass ITPs could be mostly filed with only one to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and the rest to [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead? > > That would defeat a lot of the purp

Re: mass ITPs

2008-02-29 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > And/or creating a new mailing list, debian-itp, debian-devel-itp or > whatever might be a good idea. Quite a big number of mails to the > debian-devel mailing list are ITPs. I also thought the same some time ago, on the other hand "development of De

Re: mass ITPs

2008-02-29 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 06:44:40PM +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > On Fri Feb 29, 2008 at 21:59:58 +0900, Paul Wise wrote: > > Hi Rafael, all, > > > > Perhaps in future mass ITPs could be mostly filed with only one to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and the rest to [EMAIL PROT

Re: mass ITPs

2008-02-29 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, On Fri Feb 29, 2008 at 21:59:58 +0900, Paul Wise wrote: > Hi Rafael, all, > > Perhaps in future mass ITPs could be mostly filed with only one to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and the rest to [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead? And/or creating a new mailing list, debian-itp, debian-devel-itp or wh

Re: mass ITPs

2008-02-29 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Paul Wise [Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:59:58 +0900]: > Perhaps in future mass ITPs could be mostly filed with only one to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and the rest to [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead? (Without entering to discuss the subject matter, just a clarification: they could go to submit@ as usual, wit

Re: mass ITPs

2008-02-29 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, Paul Wise wrote: > Perhaps in future mass ITPs could be mostly filed with only one to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and the rest to [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead? That would defeat a lot of the purpose of the ITPs (like looking at the descriptions, etc). I think we just have to dea

mass ITPs

2008-02-29 Thread Paul Wise
Hi Rafael, all, Perhaps in future mass ITPs could be mostly filed with only one to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and the rest to [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead? -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part