Re: Google Summer of Code 2008

2008-02-27 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 27/02/08 at 22:00 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > On 27/02/2008, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > Many of the students that were selected were already well-known > > Debian contributors or developers. The first problem with that is > > that some of those students used their GSOC time to work on their >

Re: Google Summer of Code 2008

2008-02-27 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 27/02/08 at 11:26 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 06:52:56PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > On 27/02/08 at 11:33 +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > > > I'm not completely persuaded this is correct. Someone should explain > > > why an existing contributor does not con

Re: Google Summer of Code 2008

2008-02-27 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 27/02/08 at 18:51 +0100, Ondrej Certik wrote: > Absolutely, I agree it is not black and white. But this is the > responsibility of the mentor. He needs to be the one, who makes this > decision and he needs to stand behind this decision. I don't know if that's allowed by GSOC, but taking the fin

Bug#468290: ITP: mozilla-dom-inspector -- tool for inspecting the DOM of pages in Mozilla-based browsers

2008-02-27 Thread Mike Hommey
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: mozilla-dom-inspector Version : ?? Upstream Author : Mozilla Foundation * URL : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6622 * License : MPL/GPL/LGPL Programming Lan

Bug#468287: ITP: dkimproxy -- an SMTP-proxy that signs and/or verifies emails, using the Mail::DKIM module

2008-02-27 Thread Thomas GOIRAND
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas GOIRAND <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: dkimproxy Version : x.y.z Upstream Author : Jason Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://dkimproxy.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL v2 Programming Lang: Perl Descript

Bug#468269: ITP: embryo -- SMALL-based abstract machine (AMX) bytecode interpreter

2008-02-27 Thread Jan Luebbe
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jan Luebbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: embryo Version : 0.9.1.042 Upstream Author : Carsten Haitzler and the e17 devel team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.enlightenment.org * License : BSD Programming La

Bug#468268: ITP: edbus -- D-Bus integration for EFL based applications

2008-02-27 Thread Jan Luebbe
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jan Luebbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: edbus Version : 0.1.0.042 Upstream Author : Carsten Haitzler and the e17 devel team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.enlightenment.org * License : BSD Programming Lan

Bug#468267: ITP: edje -- Graphical layout and animation library

2008-02-27 Thread Jan Luebbe
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jan Luebbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: edje Version : 0.5.0.042 Upstream Author : Carsten Haitzler and the e17 devel team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.enlightenment.org * License : BSD Programming Lang

Re: Proposed MBF: Debian upstream version higher than watch file-reported upstream version

2008-02-27 Thread Raphael Geissert
Hello Jörg, Jörg Sommer wrote: > Hello Raphael, > > Raphael Geissert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Jörg Sommer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>jed (U) > > This is a SVN snapshot. There's no release of it. I fail to see how to > point to a changelog file in a SVN repository. How should I handle this >

Re: Bug#468132: ITP: packagekit [...]

2008-02-27 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Am Mittwoch, den 27.02.2008, 11:28 +0100 schrieb Guus Sliepen: > On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 08:53:04AM +0100, Sebastian Heinlein wrote: > > > * Package name: packagekit > > Description : PackageKit provides a distribution neutral interface to > > manage software packages. It provides a sy

Re: Google Summer of Code 2008

2008-02-27 Thread Cyril Brulebois
On 27/02/2008, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Many of the students that were selected were already well-known > Debian contributors or developers. The first problem with that is > that some of those students used their GSOC time to work on their > usual Debian tasks instead of their GSOC project, leading

Re: Bug#468221: ITP: missidentify -- a program to find win32 applications

2008-02-27 Thread brian m. carlson
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 09:07:33PM +0100, Monniez Christophe wrote: Miss Identify is a program to find Win32 applications. In its default mode it displays the filename of any executable that does not have an executable extension (i.e. exe, dll, com, sys, cpl, hxs, hxi, olb, rll, or tlb). The pr

Bug#468221: ITP: missidentify -- a program to find win32 applications

2008-02-27 Thread Monniez Christophe
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Forensics <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Package name: missidentify Version: 1.0 Upstream Author: Jesse Kornblum URL: http://missidentify.sourceforge.net] License: GPL-2+] Description: a program to find win32 applica

Re: Google Summer of Code 2008

2008-02-27 Thread Ondrej Certik
> Er, by what metric have these students "failed" their projects? > > The summer has finished, and it's about time I summarised how we got > on. We had 9 Summer of Code students working for us, and we had a 100% > success rate this year. Woo! Last year we only managed 6 successful > projec

Re: Google Summer of Code 2008

2008-02-27 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 06:52:56PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 27/02/08 at 11:33 +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > > I'm not completely persuaded this is correct. Someone should explain > > why an existing contributor does not concentrate his/her efforts on > > the choosen project instea

Re: Bug#468183: ITP: monkey -- small webserver based on the HTTP/1.1 protocol

2008-02-27 Thread Guus Sliepen
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 03:51:38PM +0100, Thorsten Schmale wrote: > * Package name: monkey > Description : monkey is a small webserver based on the HTTP/1.1 protocol Don't include the name of the package in the short description. Also, "HTTP/1.1 protocol" is more something for the long

Re: On the subject of watchfiles (was Re: Proposed MBF: Debian upstream version higher than watch file-reported upstream version)

2008-02-27 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Andreas Tille dijo [Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 08:21:47PM +0100]: > >Heh, start a bit earlier (think Ruby)... Educate maintainers to > >release proper .tar.gz, not braindead .gem packages containing the > >equivalent to an orig.tar.gz (but created due to a nice > >don't-ask-me-why-that's-not-properly-imp

Re: Google Summer of Code 2008

2008-02-27 Thread Ondrej Certik
> > I would regard > > GSoC as a reasonable means to stress the tasks we would really > > like to have done and encourage people to tackle them. > > I consider that the main goal of GSOC is a social one: let new people > learn about free software projects. If we start to depend on Google > fu

Re: Google Summer of Code 2008

2008-02-27 Thread Andreas Schuldei
* Lucas Nussbaum ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [080227 08:41]: > On 27/02/08 at 00:42 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > Hey folks, > > > > Google are running their Summer of Code programme again this year[1], > > and if we want to take part again we need to apply between March 3rd > > and March 12th. If we'r

Re: Google Summer of Code 2008

2008-02-27 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Wednesday 27 February 2008 18:52, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > However, we cannot blame the managers/mentors here: it's difficult > enough to manage people working remotely, possibly in a different > timezone, and for free (students are paid for their time, not their > mentors). This is also a matte

Re: Google Summer of Code 2008

2008-02-27 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 7:11 PM, Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 27/02/08 at 16:33 +0100, Ondrej Certik wrote: > > If some projects in the past were a failure, it is solely the problem > > of the management (=student's mentor:), it doesn't matter if the > > student was or wasn't a

Re: Google Summer of Code 2008

2008-02-27 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 27/02/08 at 14:04 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > I partly agree here. For instance it might be hard to find out a > reasonable task that fits the skills and interests of the student > out of the pure description if he is not involved in Debian before. Then fix the task or its description? I'm s

Re: Google Summer of Code 2008

2008-02-27 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 27/02/08 at 11:33 +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > I'm not completely persuaded this is correct. Someone should explain > why an existing contributor does not concentrate his/her efforts on > the choosen project instead of wasting time in other tasks Because all DDs are human, tend to hav

Re: Google Summer of Code 2008

2008-02-27 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 27/02/08 at 16:33 +0100, Ondrej Certik wrote: > If some projects in the past were a failure, it is solely the problem > of the management (=student's mentor:), it doesn't matter if the > student was or wasn't a DD. If the student is working on something > else (doesn't matter it is also related

Re: Google Summer of Code 2008

2008-02-27 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 09:42:17AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 27/02/08 at 00:42 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > Hey folks, > > > > Google are running their Summer of Code programme again this year[1], > > and if we want to take part again we need to apply between March 3rd > > and March 12

Re: Google Summer of Code 2008

2008-02-27 Thread Nico Golde
Hi Patrick, * Patrick Winnertz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-02-27 12:14]: > > > > > (1) Forbid DDs and people in the NM process waiting for FD/DAM to > > > > > apply as students. > > > > > > > > I'm not sure we will be able to reach a consensus on this, but my > > > > vote would be for this point. > >

Re: Google Summer of Code 2008

2008-02-27 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 27/02/08 at 00:42 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > Hey folks, > > > > Google are running their Summer of Code programme again this year[1], > > and if we want to take part again we need to apply between March 3rd >

Bug#468183: ITP: monkey -- small webserver based on the HTTP/1.1 protocol

2008-02-27 Thread Thorsten Schmale
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thorsten Schmale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: monkey Version : 0.9.2 Upstream Author : Eduardo Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://monkeyd.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description

Re: Google Summer of Code 2008

2008-02-27 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 09:42:17AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > (1) Forbid DDs and people in the NM process waiting for > FD/DAM to apply as students. What if we do this, and still do not get many new people applying? How about a policy of prioritising non-DD/NM/DM/whatever contributions, rather

Reinclusion of phpGroupware into Debian - Was: [Fwd: RFS: phpgroupware]

2008-02-27 Thread Olivier Berger
Hi. I has been suggested by people met at the FOSDEM this weekend, that I forward my request to -devel list, so here is it. phpGroupware was removed from Debian, and I'm proposing a new packaging (and a new maintainer) in order to have it back if possible (and on time for lenny ;). You'll find be

Re: Looking for co-maintainer for mercurial

2008-02-27 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 08:11 -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > On Tue February 26 2008 6:55:53 am Ondrej Certik wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 1:20 AM, Edward Allcutt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > > So that would make hg the only VCS package maintained in a VCS inferior > > > to itse

Bug#468175: ITP: pymssql -- python database access for MS SQL server and Sybase

2008-02-27 Thread Josselin Mouette
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: pymssql Version : 0.8.0 Upstream Author : Park joon-cheol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Andrzej Kukula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://pymssql.sourceforge.net/ * Li

Re: Looking for co-maintainer for mercurial

2008-02-27 Thread John Goerzen
On Tue February 26 2008 6:55:53 am Ondrej Certik wrote: > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 1:20 AM, Edward Allcutt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > So that would make hg the only VCS package maintained in a VCS inferior > > to itself? :P > > That's because hg-buildpackage is not really used much in Deb

Re: git bikeshedding (Re: triggers in dpkg, and dpkg maintenance)

2008-02-27 Thread John Goerzen
On Tue February 26 2008 2:05:50 pm Ian Jackson wrote: > > It is very unfortunate for git that most of its advocates want to > adopt these almost unmanageable development practices along with the > revision control software. Yes, I agree. And even more ironic that Linus himself doesn't think that

Re: Google Summer of Code 2008

2008-02-27 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: I'm not sure we will be able to reach a consensus on this, but my vote would be for this point. I'm not completely persuaded this is correct. Someone should explain why an existing contributor does not concentrate his/her efforts on the choose

Re: Debian Configuration Packaging System

2008-02-27 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 17:15:48 -0800, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Timothy G Abbott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Anders Kaseorg and I created a system of CDBS modules (which we've >> tentatively packaged as the config-package-dev package) for creating >> Debian configuration packages.

Re: Google Summer of Code 2008

2008-02-27 Thread Patrick Winnertz
Hey, > > > > (1) Forbid DDs and people in the NM process waiting for FD/DAM to > > > > apply as students. > > > > > > I'm not sure we will be able to reach a consensus on this, but my > > > vote would be for this point. > > I'm not completely persuaded this is correct. Someone should explain > why

Re: the new style "mass tirage" of bugs

2008-02-27 Thread William Pitcock
On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 10:20 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > You don’t know Jidanni, do you? It doesn't matter if I do or not. Someone who is trying to contribute shouldn't be told to piss off, or ridiculed on -devel. Doing that will drive away not only that contributor, but any potential contribu

Re: Google Summer of Code 2008

2008-02-27 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 09:55:23AM +0100, Patrick Winnertz wrote: > > > > (1) Forbid DDs and people in the NM process waiting for FD/DAM to > > > apply as students. > > > > I'm not sure we will be able to reach a consensus on this, but my vote > > would be for this point. I'm not completely persu

Re: Bug#468132: ITP: packagekit [...]

2008-02-27 Thread Guus Sliepen
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 08:53:04AM +0100, Sebastian Heinlein wrote: > * Package name: packagekit > Description : PackageKit provides a distribution neutral interface to > manage software packages. It provides a system wide daemon that performs > tasks like refreshing the cash, updating

Re: Idea of Debian mascot

2008-02-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 12:23:33AM -0600, Anibal Avelar wrote: > http://fixxxer.cc/images/mascot/Mascot_Harmony_without_Strings_by_ravenmosher.jpg That looks like some sort of big eyeball? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: Google Summer of Code 2008

2008-02-27 Thread Patrick Winnertz
> > (1) Forbid DDs and people in the NM process waiting for FD/DAM to > > apply as students. > > I'm not sure we will be able to reach a consensus on this, but my vote > would be for this point. Seconded. :) Greetings Winnie > > Cheers. -- .''`. Patrick Winnertz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :'

Re: Google Summer of Code 2008

2008-02-27 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 09:42:17AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > I have had a problem with the way GSOC was handled in Debian in the past > years. > > Many of the students that were selected were already well-known Debian > contributors or developers. The first problem with that is that some of

Bug#468132: ITP: packagekit -- PackageKit provides a distribution neutral interface to manage software packages. It provides a system wide daemon that performs tasks like refreshing the cash, updating

2008-02-27 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sebastian Heinlein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: packagekit Version : 0.1.8 Upstream Author : Richard Hughsie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.packagekit.org * License : GPL2+ Programming Lang: C, Python D