Re: Facilitating contributions by newcomers

2014-11-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > I have attached a diff of a working example using the built-in > mimetypes module. This isn't a very big improvement since it's still > based on file extensions, but changing the check to use the > python-magic module on pypi should be tri

Bug#769089: marked as done (RFS: mwc/1.7.2-2 [RC])

2014-11-11 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Wed, 12 Nov 2014 05:23:48 +0100 with message-id <1415766228.4291.1.ca...@jff-webhosting.net> and subject line Re: Bug#769089: RFS: mwc/1.7.2-2 [RC] has caused the Debian Bug report #769089, regarding RFS: mwc/1.7.2-2 [RC] to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the

Bug#769089: RFS: mwc/1.7.2-2 [RC]

2014-11-11 Thread Jörg Frings-Fürst
Hello, I close this bug. CU Jörg Am Dienstag, den 11.11.2014, 10:24 +0100 schrieb Jörg Frings-Fürst: > Package: sponsorship-requests > Severity: important > [...] -- pgp Fingerprint: 7D13 3C60 0A10 DBE1 51F8 EBCB 422B 44B0 BE58 1B6E pgp Key: BE581B6E CAcert Key S/N: 0E:D4:56 Jörg Frings-F

Bug#764460: Bug#765179: RFS: yubikey-neo-manager/0.2.2-1 [ITP] -- YubiKey NEO management graphical user interface

2014-11-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, 2014-10-26 at 18:53 -0400, Harlan Lieberman-Berg wrote: > 1. There are several generated files included as part of the tarball > that really should be removed, if possible. The m4 stuff has several > examples of generated files in it - aclocal.m4, several Makefile.in's, > much of the con

Re: Facilitating contributions by newcomers

2014-11-11 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 12 Nov 2014, Christian Kastner wrote: > Going even further, what would you see as possible solutions for > augmenting bug reports tagged 'entry-point' with the information I > mention in first post, ie: > > On 2014-11-09 20:20, Christian Kastner wrote: > > * A specific objective (bug fix

Re: Facilitating contributions by newcomers

2014-11-11 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2014-11-11 23:23, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 11/11/14 at 14:13 -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: >> On Tue, 11 Nov 2014, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: >> >>> [0] https://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/GiftTag >> >> Does anyone have any thoughts about elevating the gift tag to a >> fully-fledged BTS tag? > > I

Re: Making "entry-point" nee "gift" a real BTS tag [Re: Facilitating contributions by newcomers]

2014-11-11 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 12 Nov 2014, Stéphane Aulery wrote: > Le mardi 11 novembre 2014 à 03:07:31, Don Armstrong a écrit : > > > > The existing help tag is really for bugs for which the maintainer needs > > or wants help; these are basically a superset of entry-point, and bugs > > which are more difficult than

Re: Facilitating contributions by newcomers

2014-11-11 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2014-11-11 20:28, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 09/11/14 at 20:20 +0100, Christian Kastner wrote: > Do you have how-can-i-help installed? > The WNPP list might not be the best approach to finding interesting > packages to adopt. But looking at the intersection with packages you > have installed loc

Re: Facilitating contributions by newcomers

2014-11-11 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2014-11-11 14:43, Stéphane Aulery wrote: > Le mardi 11 novembre 2014 à 02:30:56, Simon Chopin a écrit : >> Quoting Stéphane Aulery (2014-11-11 13:51:50) >>> >>> A tag "easyhack" (or whatever) for BTS would be welcome, like the >>> LibreOffice >>> project Easy_Hacks made: >> >> This already exis

Re: Making "entry-point" nee "gift" a real BTS tag [Re: Facilitating contributions by newcomers]

2014-11-11 Thread Stéphane Aulery
Le mardi 11 novembre 2014 à 03:07:31, Don Armstrong a écrit : > > The existing help tag is really for bugs for which the maintainer needs > or wants help; these are basically a superset of entry-point, and bugs > which are more difficult than it would be reasonable for a new > contributor to help.

Re: Making "entry-point" nee "gift" a real BTS tag [Re: Facilitating contributions by newcomers]

2014-11-11 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 11 Nov 2014, Stéphane Aulery wrote: > Le mardi 11 novembre 2014 à 02:45:26, Don Armstrong a écrit : > > On Tue, 11 Nov 2014, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > I am totally in favor of turning it into a real tag. > > > > > > There has been discussions about renaming the tag (see thread starting >

Re: Making "entry-point" nee "gift" a real BTS tag [Re: Facilitating contributions by newcomers]

2014-11-11 Thread Stéphane Aulery
Le mardi 11 novembre 2014 à 02:45:26, Don Armstrong a écrit : > On Tue, 11 Nov 2014, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > I am totally in favor of turning it into a real tag. > > > > There has been discussions about renaming the tag (see thread starting > > at https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2013/09/

Making "entry-point" nee "gift" a real BTS tag [Re: Facilitating contributions by newcomers]

2014-11-11 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 11 Nov 2014, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > I am totally in favor of turning it into a real tag. > > There has been discussions about renaming the tag (see thread starting > at https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2013/09/msg00096.html ; my > personal preference is entry-point > (https://lists

Re: Facilitating contributions by newcomers

2014-11-11 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 02:13:09PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Tue, 11 Nov 2014, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > Have you considered adding the 'gift' tag[0] to some BTS bugs? > > I probably should do that; I actually wasn't that familiar with the > gift tag before this e-mail. Just to share a rec

Re: Facilitating contributions by newcomers

2014-11-11 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 11/11/14 at 14:13 -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Tue, 11 Nov 2014, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > Have you considered adding the 'gift' tag[0] to some BTS bugs? > > I probably should do that; I actually wasn't that familiar with the gift > tag before this e-mail. > > > how-can-i-help now uses thi

Re: Facilitating contributions by newcomers

2014-11-11 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 11 Nov 2014, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Have you considered adding the 'gift' tag[0] to some BTS bugs? I probably should do that; I actually wasn't that familiar with the gift tag before this e-mail. > how-can-i-help now uses this tag to list bugs affecting Debian > infrastructure in a separ

Bug#769142: marked as done (RFS: rsskit/0.3-3 -- GNUstep RSS framework [RC])

2014-11-11 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Tue, 11 Nov 2014 21:33:32 +0100 with message-id <5462729c.9070...@wollumbin.marsaxlokk.dhcp.io> and subject line Re: Bug#769142: RFS: rsskit/0.3-3 -- GNUstep RSS framework [RC] has caused the Debian Bug report #769142, regarding RFS: rsskit/0.3-3 -- GNUstep RSS framework [RC] to

Re: Facilitating contributions by newcomers

2014-11-11 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi Don, On 09/11/14 at 13:44 -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Sun, 09 Nov 2014, Christian Kastner wrote: > > With the recent gamification of just-about-everything, I was wondering > > whether following such an achievement-oriented approach, with > > opportunities for contribution formulated as a l

Bug#769142: RFS: rsskit/0.3-3 -- GNUstep RSS framework [RC]

2014-11-11 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: owner -1 ! On 11-11-14 19:47, Yavor Doganov wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "rsskit". > It builds these binary packages: > This upload is targeted for t-p-u; the debdiff was pre-approved by the > release team (release.d.o #768923). Checking, building etc... Paul

Re: Facilitating contributions by newcomers

2014-11-11 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 09/11/14 at 20:20 +0100, Christian Kastner wrote: > The WNPP list in itself is useful, but when looking at it again > recently, I distinctly recalled how foreign most of the packages were to > me when I first started contributing -- not a great motivator into > getting involved with something. A

Re: jessie freeze policy: about translation updates

2014-11-11 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 11 Nov 2014, bilibop project wrote: > Jessie Freeze Policy [1] says that "translation updates and documentation > fixes that are included with fixes for the above criteria" can be > considered. > > What does exactly mean "translation updates" ? Does it include the add of > new debconf .po

Bug#769142: RFS: rsskit/0.3-3 -- GNUstep RSS framework [RC]

2014-11-11 Thread Yavor Doganov
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: important Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "rsskit". It builds these binary packages: librsskit-dev - GNUstep RSS framework (development files) librsskit0 - GNUstep RSS framework (runtime library) librsskit0-dbg - GNUstep RSS framewo

jessie freeze policy: about translation updates

2014-11-11 Thread bilibop project
Hi, Jessie Freeze Policy [1] says that "translation updates and documentation fixes that are included with fixes for the above criteria" can be considered. What does exactly mean "translation updates" ? Does it include the add of new debconf .po files (i.e add support for a language that is not

Re: Re: Automated build process for special purpose chroot-ed packages

2014-11-11 Thread Peter Viskup
That seems to be quite a big overhead and does not meet our security requirements. We cannot change the design at the moment (e.g. migrate to LXC,...). We need to run those services (rsyslog in our case) in chroot for security purposes. Any proposals to build those packages from one source are appr

Re: Automated build process for special purpose chroot-ed packages

2014-11-11 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 6:51 AM, Peter Viskup wrote: > Could somebody comment on this approach whether it's reasonable or better > would be to have separate copies of sources for every package? Some more > detailed proposals from your side how to accomplish this (e.g. debian/rules > for every pack

Re: Facilitating contributions by newcomers

2014-11-11 Thread Stéphane Aulery
Le mardi 11 novembre 2014 à 02:30:56, Simon Chopin a écrit : > Quoting Stéphane Aulery (2014-11-11 13:51:50) > > > > A tag "easyhack" (or whatever) for BTS would be welcome, like the > > LibreOffice > > project Easy_Hacks made: > > This already exists, see the tag "gift"[1]. > > [1] https://wik

Re: Facilitating contributions by newcomers

2014-11-11 Thread Simon Chopin
Quoting Stéphane Aulery (2014-11-11 13:51:50) > Le mardi 11 novembre 2014 à 10:02:14, Christian Kastner a écrit : > > > > And I also fully agree that RFAs and Os are mostly uninteresting, but > > doing general QA work is a very important way of contributing to Debian, > > and I'm almost certain th

Automated build process for special purpose chroot-ed packages

2014-11-11 Thread Peter Viskup
Hi all, I am beginner in Debian packaging and would like to ask you for an opinion regarding use of debhelper to create chroot-ed packages. Somebody of you already worked on some similar solution probably. Background: - requirement to have more instances of same service in chroot-ed environment

Re: Facilitating contributions by newcomers

2014-11-11 Thread Stéphane Aulery
Le mardi 11 novembre 2014 à 10:02:14, Christian Kastner a écrit : > > And I also fully agree that RFAs and Os are mostly uninteresting, but > doing general QA work is a very important way of contributing to Debian, > and I'm almost certain that many DDs would help more in this regard if > it didn'

Re: about bug self-reporting

2014-11-11 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 12:18:46AM +0100, bilibop project wrote: > My question is: is it welcome to file a bug report against my own package ? I frequently do that as a reminder to myself. That way, I can handle my own observations just as any normal bug report. Greetings Marc -- --

Bug#769089: RFS: mwc/1.7.2-2 [RC]

2014-11-11 Thread Jörg Frings-Fürst
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: important Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "mwc" Package name: mwc Version : 1.7.2-2 Upstream Author : Michael Till Beck URL : https://github.com/Debianguru/MailWebsiteChanges License

Re: Facilitating contributions by newcomers

2014-11-11 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2014-11-09 22:44, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Sun, 09 Nov 2014, Christian Kastner wrote: >> With the recent gamification of just-about-everything, I was wondering >> whether following such an achievement-oriented approach, with >> opportunities for contribution formulated as a list of specific tas

Re: Facilitating contributions by newcomers

2014-11-11 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2014-11-11 03:59, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > It is possible to find packages that are not well maintained, but do > we have an interface for locating them? Even when they are located, > contributing to them isn't always easy, especially if the maintainer > is busy or MIA (assuming the package isn

Bug#769076: RFS: bitz-server/0.1.6-1 [ITP]

2014-11-11 Thread Jörg Frings-Fürst
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "bitz-server" Package name: bitz-server Version : 0.1.6-1 Upstream Author : Uditha Atukorala URL : https://github.com/uditha-atukorala/bitz-server L

Re: Facilitating contributions by newcomers

2014-11-11 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2014-11-11 03:06, Paul Wise wrote: > On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 9:50 AM, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > >> How do you see the transition from a mentee to a DM going? > > Something like this: > > Do a bunch of tasks through the proposed program. > > Feel more confident in your knowledge of Debian. I

Re: Facilitating contributions by newcomers

2014-11-11 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2014-11-10 22:12, Roger Light wrote: > I think this is a worthwhile idea, but would like to suggest that if > you're going to go down the approach of badges/accomplishments then it > would be good to consider how to encourage existing DDs to become > active in mentoring. That's one of the key p

Re: Facilitating contributions by newcomers

2014-11-11 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Paul Wise , 2014-11-11, 10:01: The match field for a test matches files based on their names and the program passes the matched files to the tests. The mime support should add a field mime-match that would cause the program to match files based on their mime type (using python-magic) and add