mentors.debian.org as the pseudopackage (Re: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests)

2012-01-23 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 17 Jan 2012, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: SUMMARY === We plan to ask for the creation of a new pseudo-package debian-mentors or mentors.debian.org [3] (contact: debian-ment...@lists.debian.org) in Debian's bug tracking system (the name is still subject to change). A workflow

Re: mentors.debian.ORG?

2008-04-08 Thread Christoph Haas
Moin, Raphael... On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 06:12:25PM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: This is offtopic to your questions, but I should better say this now than forgetting about this idea: For the new users registration process what about making mentors: * require the key to be in a

Re: mentors.debian.ORG?

2008-04-08 Thread Christoph Haas
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 11:20:10PM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: On 11348 March 1977, Christoph Haas wrote: The focus of mentors.debian.net is to host source packages that are supposed to be sponsored. So it's not some weird multiverse non-free binary warez repository or something. That

mentors.debian.ORG?

2008-04-07 Thread Christoph Haas
Fellow earthicans... as part of Google's Summer of Code we are working the debexpo project which is supposed to create a software basis to run social network-enhanced Debian package repositories. Think mentors.debian.net with more social interaction like commenting on other people's packages and

Re: mentors.debian.ORG?

2008-04-07 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11348 March 1977, Christoph Haas wrote: This does not need to happen before fall 2008. But then it would be nice if we could move it then. Who is in charge of the debian.org servers for this matter? Who would have guessed - its DSA, the admins of our machines. -- bye, Joerg Ganneff kde

Re: mentors.debian.ORG?

2008-04-07 Thread Christoph Haas
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 09:28:19PM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: On 11348 March 1977, Christoph Haas wrote: This does not need to happen before fall 2008. But then it would be nice if we could move it then. Who is in charge of the debian.org servers for this matter? Who would have

Re: mentors.debian.ORG?

2008-04-07 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11348 March 1977, Christoph Haas wrote: As soon as that part is done I would like to consider moving the service to an official Debian machine. I've been sponsoring hardware for mentors.debian.net for the last years. In my opinion the mentors server has become an established resource and

Re: mentors.debian.ORG?

2008-04-07 Thread Christoph Haas
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 10:58:36PM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: On 11348 March 1977, Christoph Haas wrote: As soon as that part is done I would like to consider moving the service to an official Debian machine. I've been sponsoring hardware for mentors.debian.net for the last years. In my

Re: mentors.debian.ORG?

2008-04-07 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11348 March 1977, Christoph Haas wrote: One problem with hosting it on a debian.org machine is that this might include software not checked by an ftpmaster/assistant, which might very well be undistributable by Debian. Which is a *BAD* thing to do on a debian host. IMO not very likely to

Re: mentors.debian.ORG?

2008-04-07 Thread Raphael Geissert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Christoph, This is offtopic to your questions, but I should better say this now than forgetting about this idea: For the new users registration process what about making mentors: * require the key to be in a keyserver so it can fetch it from