Re: Co-maintaining Kaffe

2004-03-05 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 23:27, Ean Schuessler wrote: > [...] we need to talk [...] Yes! And you did. Thanks for joining us last evening on #kaffe (irc.gnu.org). I am really glad that we are communicating now. > Reasonably, however, you need to acknowledge > that Arnaud's efforts to work with

Re: Co-maintaining Kaffe

2004-03-05 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
Ognyan Kulev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What's your opinion about setting up pkg-kaffe project and the package > being in CVS? Done ;-) https://alioth.debian.org/mail/?group_id=1205 the cvs will soon be in place... -- .''`. : :' :rnaud `. `' `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Co-maintaining Kaffe

2004-03-05 Thread Dalibor Topic
Hi Ean, Ean Schuessler wrote: Hi Dalibor, I regret that I wasn't at FOSDEM with you, but I was inconveniently in America at the time. I'll also agree that we haven't had many email discussions but I do think that every one we have had has been initiated by me. But finger pointing isn't product

Re: Co-maintaining Kaffe

2004-03-05 Thread Kalle Kivimaa
Adam Majer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I really, really think that we need to have some sort of a proper > process for this type of thing without people getting pissed off. This > process should also be put in the debian policy; a sort of a virtual Actually we do have this. You want either Techi

Re: Co-maintaining Kaffe

2004-03-04 Thread Ognyan Kulev
Ean Schuessler wrote: In any case, I have decided to continue with my maintainership and have an alarming appetite for flamemail when I've put my mind to something. In the interest of saving everyone keystrokes I move that we get used to the fact that I am still the maintainer and talk about mov

Re: Co-maintaining Kaffe

2004-03-04 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
lioth make it possible non-dd to join the effort... and two young sexy hackers already proposed to help... ;-) if you want to help kaffe in debian, you can join [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Maybe our first step in co-maintaining kaffe could be to resolve the >> problem with building kaffe on other

Re: Co-maintaining Kaffe

2004-03-04 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
Stefan Gybas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > >> Take an account on Alioth (it'll be the same as your Debian login), drop >> me a mail when you have your account and I'll add you to pkg-java >> project. > > I have already done this on 15-Jan-2004 and sent Ean a mail about > it

Re: Co-maintaining Kaffe

2004-03-04 Thread Stefan Gybas
Arnaud Vandyck wrote: Take an account on Alioth (it'll be the same as your Debian login), drop me a mail when you have your account and I'll add you to pkg-java project. I have already done this on 15-Jan-2004 and sent Ean a mail about it. However, I did not get a response. I propose kaffe to be

Re: Co-maintaining Kaffe

2004-03-04 Thread Adam Majer
is list becomes excessive, then you can make debian-kaffe, but until that happens, I really think it might be better to have debian-java the maintainer for Kaffe. Maybe our first step in co-maintaining kaffe could be to resolve the problem with building kaffe on other arches. What do you think of

Re: Co-maintaining Kaffe

2004-03-04 Thread Adam Majer
Ean Schuessler wrote: In any case, I have decided to continue with my maintainership and have an alarming appetite for flamemail when I've put my mind to something. In the interest of saving everyone keystrokes I move that we get used to the fact that I am still the maintainer and talk about mov

Re: Co-maintaining Kaffe

2004-03-04 Thread Adam Majer
elijah wright wrote: You simply making Arnaud the official maintainer sounds like a good idea. Several people have mentioned that it is "a nice thing" to leave you as the maintainer because this is your "last debian package", but i submit that that *has* to cease to be an issue if you're not going

Re: Co-maintaining Kaffe

2004-03-04 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
! I'm not a newbie nor a child, you can trust me! Also, even if someone make a mistake, it'll be only in the cvs, not in the package. I hope you'll be responsive. I prefer a mail where you tell 'sorry I don't have time ATM' than no response at all. I propose [EMAIL PRO

Re: Co-maintaining Kaffe

2004-03-04 Thread Ean Schuessler
Hi Dalibor, I've suspended my discussion of the topic on -devel for the convenience of other Debianers (many of whom think Java is fat, slow, proprietary and silly). I regret that I wasn't at FOSDEM with you, but I was inconveniently in America at the time. I'll also agree that we haven't had

Re: Co-maintaining Kaffe

2004-03-04 Thread Ean Schuessler
Hi Mark, I don't think I've made any attempt to paint my past maintainership as exemplary or even good for that matter. To have any reasonable discussion, however, we need to talk about events since I made my request for help with the Kaffe package. I know Arnaud has done a lot of good work an

Re: Co-maintaining Kaffe

2004-03-04 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > >> Ean Schuessler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > The only reason that my mail went to -devel was your request to remove >> > Kaffe from seven architectures with

Re: Co-maintaining Kaffe

2004-03-04 Thread elijah wright
er <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: Arnaud Vandyck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Co-maintaining Kaffe > Resent-Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 14:43:52 -0600 (CST) > Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Arnaud, > > You know perfectly well that you are

Re: Co-maintaining Kaffe [erratta]

2004-03-04 Thread Ean Schuessler
On Thursday 04 March 2004 14:43, Ean Schuessler wrote: > When I returned to Dallas on the 25th I spent a day or so catching up with > work and then prepared a Kaffe 1.1.4 package. When I went to upload this > package I found, once again, that you had already performed an NMU. You > knew I was inten

Re: Co-maintaining Kaffe

2004-03-04 Thread Ean Schuessler
Arnaud, You know perfectly well that you are distorting the facts. Presumably, you think that you can escalate this situation to the point that QA will take Kaffe away from me and make you the maintainer. If that is your strategy, then fine, but I'll tell you now that it is a stupid and counter

Re: Co-maintaining Kaffe

2004-03-04 Thread Adam Heath
On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > Ean Schuessler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The only reason that my mail went to -devel was your request to remove > > Kaffe from seven architectures without consulting me. You made that > > request to -devel and that request required this respons

Re: Ean, please orphan Kaffe!, was Re: Co-maintaining Kaffe

2004-03-04 Thread Mark Howard
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 11:52:06PM +0100, Stefan Gybas wrote: Subject: Re: Ean, please orphan Kaffe!, was Re: Co-maintaining Kaffe Please do this. It is clear that you are not working together productively. Arnaud has been doing an excellent job with kaffe - it seems he has more time to spend on

Re: Co-maintaining Kaffe

2004-03-04 Thread Dalibor Topic
Hi Ean, Ean Schuessler wrote: The only reason that my mail went to -devel was your request to remove Kaffe from seven architectures without consulting me. You made that request to -devel and that request required this response. If you feel foolish then lay the blame closer to the source. He con

Re: Co-maintaining Kaffe

2004-03-04 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
Kenneth Pronovici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > However, it still seems best to just let the QA team sort things out. > They should be able to advise you on what else to do if you continue > to feel that a hijack is justified. Thanks for your explanations, Cheers, -- .''`. : :' :rnaud `.

Re: Co-maintaining Kaffe

2004-03-04 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 01:14:56PM +0100, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > > And 7.4 details how the QA handles orphaning packages maintained by > > inactive maintainers. > > I'd like someone to point me where is the reference of the ITH?! It's > the second time I read about ITH but I don't know where to s

Re: Co-maintaining Kaffe

2004-03-04 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, As an up-up-stream maintainer for GNU Classpath, which is used by kaffe and as a kaffe developer I must say that I find some emails about maintaining the kaffe package for Debian highly unfair to Arnaud. Arnaud does all the work on kaffe and communicates with lots of other package maintainers

Re: Co-maintaining Kaffe

2004-03-04 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
Ean Schuessler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The only reason that my mail went to -devel was your request to remove > Kaffe from seven architectures without consulting me. You made that > request to -devel and that request required this response. If you > feel foolish then lay the blame closer

Re: Co-maintaining Kaffe

2004-03-04 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kalle Kivimaa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Arnaud Vandyck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I did not find the exact procedure in devref, can you point me somewhere >> to be the more specific about this, thanks. > > 5.9.5 says: I know this section, I r

Re: Co-maintaining Kaffe

2004-03-04 Thread Kalle Kivimaa
Arnaud Vandyck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I did not find the exact procedure in devref, can you point me somewhere > to be the more specific about this, thanks. 5.9.5 says: "It is not OK to simply take over a package that you feel is neglected - that would be package hijacking. You can, of cou

Re: Co-maintaining Kaffe

2004-03-04 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
Bob Snyder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Stefan Gybas wrote: > >> Ean has already stated that Arnaud and Ben should be a co-maintainer >> of Kaffe in >> http://lists.debian.org/debian-java/2004/debian-java-200401/msg00086.html. Why >> should Arnaud not upload if Ean is not responding? Ean should I

Re: Co-maintaining Kaffe

2004-03-03 Thread Ben Burton
Hi. Since my name has come up in the context of kaffe co-maintainership a few times now, I figure I might as well clarify my position. I expect I would have neither the time nor the kaffe-specific expertise to be a co-maintainer - my main use of kaffe is in testing other packages under different

Re: Co-maintaining Kaffe

2004-03-03 Thread Bob Snyder
Stefan Gybas wrote: Ean has already stated that Arnaud and Ben should be a co-maintainer of Kaffe in http://lists.debian.org/debian-java/2004/debian-java-200401/msg00086.html. Why should Arnaud not upload if Ean is not responding? Ean should IMHO not be the "main maintainer" and decide about u

Ean, please orphan Kaffe!, was Re: Co-maintaining Kaffe

2004-03-03 Thread Stefan Gybas
Ean Schuessler wrote: The last significant change to Kaffe from a *packaging* perspective was migrating it to DBS and that was my work. Your recent NMUs (which have been The most significant work on the Kaffe package in the last 12 months was the move to 1.1. Arnaud has created test packages [1

Re: Co-maintaining Kaffe

2004-03-03 Thread Ean Schuessler
The only reason that my mail went to -devel was your request to remove Kaffe from seven architectures without consulting me. You made that request to -devel and that request required this response. If you feel foolish then lay the blame closer to the source. The last significant change to Kaffe

Re: Co-maintaining Kaffe

2004-03-03 Thread Stefan Gybas
Bob Snyder wrote: Clearly from your email you think Arnaud should be the/a maintainer of Kaffe. I'm not arguing that point, I just think to make that happen you need to follow b or c from above, not just make it happen and see if anyone notices. Ean has already stated that Arnaud and Ben should

Re: Co-maintaining Kaffe

2004-03-03 Thread Bob Snyder
Stefan Gybas wrote: Ean Schuessler wrote: That said, I must protest whole-heartedly with the way you are dealing with me as the maintainer of Kaffe. Performing an NMU that adds yourself as an Uploader and uses a non-NMU version number is gross breach of protocol. I have talked to Arnaud abou

Re: Co-maintaining Kaffe

2004-03-03 Thread Stefan Gybas
Ean Schuessler wrote: That said, I must protest whole-heartedly with the way you are dealing with me as the maintainer of Kaffe. Performing an NMU that adds yourself as an Uploader and uses a non-NMU version number is gross breach of protocol. I have talked to Arnaud about the Kaffe package at F

Re: Co-maintaining Kaffe

2004-03-02 Thread Adam Majer
Arnaud Vandyck wrote: Again, I deeply appreciate your work but I admonish you to follow procedure or I will take this up with Project leadership. I do not appreciate the way you deal with the situation. Sending this mail to the public list before even trying to talk with me is not a way to p

Re: Co-maintaining Kaffe

2004-03-02 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
r package! > Circumscribe your excitement and go about things in the proper way if > you wish to work with me on Kaffe. Following the process is an > integral part of what makes Debian work. The subject of your mail is 'Co-maintaining Kaffe' but I don't see nothing concre

Co-maintaining Kaffe

2004-03-02 Thread Ean Schuessler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi Arnaud, First, I would like to start by saying how much I appreciate your enthusiasm and all of the hard work you are putting into Kaffe. I think that your efforts are definitely producing a better product and I hope that we will be able to work together t