Re: introducing myself

2018-11-10 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Welcome! On Thu, Nov 8, 2018, 1:24 PM Robert Arkiletian wrote: > Hi my name is Robert Arkiletian. I teach high school Computer Science > in Canada. I need the "python-fltk" package > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/pyfltk for myself and my students. I > notice it's currently unmaintained so I'm

"Find something to work on, within Debian" -- a proposed session at Debconf

2016-05-14 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Hi all debian-mentors people, I'm proposing a session at Debconf and wanted to mention that, take feedback, and look for ways to collaborate with others. Here's the details. I chatted briefly with Molly de Blanc about it, and I can take feedback or make edits if people have feedback. If

Bug#755459: RFS: lucene/4.9.0-1 [put in ITP, ITA, RC, NMU if applicable]

2014-07-20 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Hi Raaj + bug, I noticed that some of the areas of the template aren't filled in, such as: * your most recent changelog entry * [fill in name and email of upstream] And so on. Can you send a follow-up mail to the bug with that information? If so, I'll be happy to take a look at this. I'm

Re: Separate gpg signing from package building

2014-07-14 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 8:59 PM, T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, Is it possible to separate gpg signing from package building? As I'm still trying to learn Debian package building, I've found myself fallen into this silly loop many times -- Thinking that the package would be

Re: Any package maintainer interested in YACReader?

2014-07-14 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Hi Luis! On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 9:45 AM, Luis Ángel San Martín Rodríguez luisange...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I would like to know if anyone is interested in maintain the .deb package for YACReader (www.yacreader.com). Right now, and thanks to a contributor, the project has a beta package

Bug#682519: Quick notes

2012-10-01 Thread Asheesh Laroia
First of all, let me say thank you for beginning the work to package this in Debian! Wow... this is a solid package: * You have a man page. * It's lintian clean. * /usr/bin/fbcmd doesn't have a .php extension. How did you even manage to make such an excellent package!? I can't find

Bug#682519: Still looking for sponsor?

2012-09-27 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Hi there, I'm a Debian Developer and possibly interested in reviewing and sponsoring this! Are you still looking? Cheers, -- Asheesh. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: automatic removal of packages from mentors

2012-07-19 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Thu, 19 Jul 2012, Bart Martens wrote: Hi supp...@mentors.debian.net, I understand that packages must be removed from mentors, because disk space is not infinite. I have heard from multiple people requesting sponsorship that one of the reasons to remove packages is that no sponsor was

Bug#680141: This seems fine to upload

2012-07-05 Thread Asheesh Laroia
John Stamp, can you clear the debdiff with the release team in an email to debian-release? Just email them the debdiff and ask if that would be okay, and if they say yes, I will upload this. (If you already have a sponsor lined up, then that's fine, too.) Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#680141: RFS: liblastfm/0.4.0~git20090710-2 [RC]

2012-07-04 Thread Asheesh Laroia
I'm concerned by the following lintian warnings on mentors, which I can reproduce locally: W: liblastfm-fingerprint0: hardening-no-fortify-functions usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblastfm_fingerprint.so.0.4.0 W: liblastfm0: hardening-no-fortify-functions usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblastfm.so.0.4.0

Re: Mentors/debexpo SOAP interface bugs

2011-11-05 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Excerpts from Michael Gilbert's message of Fri Nov 04 21:40:58 -0400 2011: Hi, I'm trying to make use of the mentors soap interface, but it seems to be broken.  I've tried both python-soappy and python-suds and get different errors for each.  Here is the output of the attached scripts that

Re: New software revision on mentors.debian.net

2011-10-01 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Excerpts from Arno Töll's message of Fri Sep 30 11:30:49 -0400 2011: Finally, a random poll: Are you bored from announcements like this, I make on this mailing list regarding Debexpo software updates and bugs since that's not /entirely/ on-topic here and you would hence prefer to use our own

Re: RFS: decibel-audio-player (Adoption, new upstream release)

2011-09-11 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Excerpts from Leonardo Marín's message of Sat Sep 10 15:42:54 -0400 2011: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package decibel-audio-player. * Package name : decibel-audio-player Version : 1.07-1 Upstream Author : Ingelrest Francois athro...@gmail.com *

Re: mentors.dn package removal request

2011-08-28 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Excerpts from Gergely Nagy's message of Sun Aug 28 16:13:55 -0400 2011: Hi! The QA on mentors.d.n wasn't quite clear on whom I shall contact in cases like this, but figured there's no harm asking on -mentors@ either: Hi there! If it's a support question, which this mostly is, then I suggest

Re: RFS: flare

2011-08-23 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Excerpts from Jan-Hendrik (hennr) Peters's message of Mon Aug 22 07:47:10 -0400 2011: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package flare. It's a diablo like rpg game with complete free art and code. This is my first package, hope it's ok ;) That's really exciting! I suggest

Re: RFS: gogglesmm

2011-08-22 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Excerpts from Hendrik Rittich's message of Sun Aug 21 18:16:15 -0400 2011: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package gogglesmm. * Package name: gogglesmm Version : 0.12.3-1 Upstream Author : Sander Jansen s.jan...@gmail.com * URL :

Re: News about the mentors.debian.net transition to upgraded software

2011-08-16 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Excerpts from Stanislav Maslovski's message of Sat Aug 13 06:12:53 -0400 2011: On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 01:48:31PM +0400, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: I guess, the HTTP-based method does not have this absurd 30 minutes long delay... Trying to login and sort things out... Noticed one more

Re: News about the mentors.debian.net transition to upgraded software

2011-08-16 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sat, 13 Aug 2011, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 04:50:42AM -0400, Asheesh Laroia wrote: As of Thu Aug 11 08:47:29 UTC 2011, mentors.debian.net now runs the Debexpo code. FTP upload should be working. There is a cron job that looks for FTP-based uploads every 30 minutes

Re: Download from mentors.debian.net?

2011-08-15 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Excerpts from Torquil Macdonald Sørensen's message of Sun Aug 14 08:30:18 -0400 2011: Hi! Could someone please point me to documentation that explains how to download source packages from mentors.debian.net? I've tried adding: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian/ unstable main

Re: Download from mentors.debian.net?

2011-08-14 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Excerpts from Torquil Macdonald Sørensen's message of Sun Aug 14 08:30:18 -0400 2011: Hi! Could someone please point me to documentation that explains how to download source packages from mentors.debian.net? I've tried adding: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian/ unstable main

Re: Downloading of test data

2011-08-13 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Excerpts from Antonio Valentino's message of Sat Aug 13 07:09:57 -0400 2011: Hi mentors, I have a package (pyepr) that provides a small python extension written in cython. The upstream source includes a test suite that needs some data to be downloaded from the internet (398K) using wget.

Re: News about the mentors.debian.net transition to upgraded software

2011-08-11 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Thu, 11 Aug 2011, Ben Finney wrote: Asheesh Laroia ashe...@asheesh.org writes: * I'm importing all the data onto expo.debian.net over the next day. […] Here's what to expect, by the end of Thu Aug 11: Please note times in UTC, so users around the globe can know when you mean

News about the mentors.debian.net transition to upgraded software

2011-08-10 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Hi all debian-mentors people, The Debexpo code is just about ready for prime-time. We're doing the migration now. Here's the plans for mentors.debian.net's migration onto newer software called debexpo: * I'm importing all the data onto expo.debian.net over the next day. * Once Christoph

Re: News about the mentors.debian.net transition to upgraded software

2011-08-10 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Wed, 10 Aug 2011, Michael Tautschnig wrote: Hi Asheesh, [...] If you upload a new package to mentors.debian.net before the end of Thu Aug 11, then your package might get lost. If you find that's the case, just re-upload it. Couldn't you put a big fat banner on mentors.debian.net during

Re: how to get people to run lintian on their packages

2011-08-02 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Thu, 7 Jul 2011, Paul Wise wrote: It is rare to see an RFS that says The package appears to be lintian clean. and the package (especially binary ones) actually be lintian clean. If we were to change the RFS template, what could we change it to in order to encourage accuracy and for people

Re: RFS: wizznic

2011-08-01 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Edgar Antonio Palma de la Cruz wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package wizznic. * Package name: wizznic Version : 0.9.2-preview2-1 Upstream Author : Jimmy Christensen duste...@users.sourceforge.net * URL :

Updates on debexpo

2011-07-28 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Hi all, A few brief updates on expo.debian.net: * I intend to import the passwords and accounts and packages from mentors.debian.net. * expo.debian.net has had a bunch of bugs fixed. * The canonical place for getting the code is the git.debian.org repository that

Re: Please try expo.debian.net -- a replacement for mentors.debian.net

2011-07-27 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Julian Mehnle wrote: Asheesh Laroia wrote: If there are any others, let me know. Otherwise, about 24 hours from now, I plan to ask signum if we can turn mentors.debian.net off, and make it a debexpo instance. That will mean losing the existing uploaded packages. But I

Please try expo.debian.net -- a replacement for mentors.debian.net

2011-07-26 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Hi all people on debian-mentors, Debexpo is a replacement for http://mentors.debian.net/. I hereby request testers! It is of beta quality -- I think it works fully and has enough features to replace mentors.debian.net. It has the following improvements over http://mentors.debian.net/ : *

Re: Please try expo.debian.net -- a replacement for mentors.debian.net

2011-07-26 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Julien Valroff wrote: Hi Asheesh, Le mardi 26 juil. 2011 à 19:55:00 (+0200 CEST), Asheesh Laroia a écrit : Hi all people on debian-mentors, Debexpo is a replacement for http://mentors.debian.net/. I hereby request testers! It is of beta quality -- I think it works fully

Re: Please try expo.debian.net -- a replacement for mentors.debian.net

2011-07-26 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Kilian Krause wrote: Hi, On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 08:37:36PM +0200, Julien Valroff wrote: It may also help to know whether the package is already in Debian (with a link to packages.d.o in order to know more about the history of the uploads) or if it is a new package.

Re: Please try expo.debian.net -- a replacement for mentors.debian.net

2011-07-26 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Kilian Krause wrote: Hi Asheesh, On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 04:01:26PM -0400, Asheesh Laroia wrote: On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Kilian Krause wrote: [...] * whether or not the orig.tar.gz is original How do we detect this programmatically? Thanks for taking the time to even

Re: Please try expo.debian.net -- a replacement for mentors.debian.net

2011-07-26 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Ben Finney wrote: Asheesh Laroia ashe...@asheesh.org writes: Debexpo is a replacement for http://mentors.debian.net/. I hereby request testers! It is of beta quality -- I think it works fully and has enough features to replace mentors.debian.net. Like many people, I

Re: Please try expo.debian.net -- a replacement for mentors.debian.net

2011-07-26 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Asheesh Laroia wrote: * Please tell me if there are features we need before it can replace mentors.debian.net. Arno found one showstopper bug, and I just fixed it. If there are any others, let me know. Otherwise, about 24 hours from now, I plan to ask signum if we can

Re: RFS: gogglesmm

2011-06-13 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011, Hendrik Rittich wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package gogglesmm. * Package name: gogglesmm Version : 0.12.2-5 Upstream Author : Hendrik Rittich hendrik.ritt...@gmx.de * URL : http://code.google.com/p/gogglesmm/ * License

Re: RFS: micro-evtd (updated package)

2011-06-13 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On 06/11/2011 03:24 PM, Ryan Tandy wrote: Dear mentors and ARM porters, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 3.4-1 of my package micro-evtd. It builds these binary packages: micro-evtd - Linkstation Pro/Kurobox Pro special features support micro-evtd-udeb - Linkstation Pro/Kurobox

Re: RFS: aspell-sr

2011-06-09 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Mon, 6 Jun 2011, Filip Brcic wrote: Just bumping the thread. I would really appreciate if somebody would sponsor the serbian support for aspell package. The package itself is mostly identical to any other aspell-* package, so too much reviewing shouldn't be necessary, I think. This is

Re: RFS: pyflakes3k

2011-06-04 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Thu, 2 Jun 2011, Andrea Corbellini wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package pyflakes3k. * Package name: pyflakes3k Version : 0.4.1-1 Upstream Author : Virgil Dupras * URL : https://bitbucket.org/hsoft/pyflakes3k * License : MIT

Re: New contributors: please come to Debconf and/or Debcamp

2011-05-18 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sat, 7 May 2011, Asheesh Laroia wrote: Hi everyone on debian-mentors, I wanted to send a special invitation for new contributors to Debian: Come to Debconf and Debcamp! Even if you're not a Debian Developer yet. One more plug for this: We'll help pay for you. http://www.debian.org/News

Re: RFS: kildclient (updated packages, fixes FTBS)

2011-05-13 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sun, 8 May 2011, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package kildclient. * Package name: kildclient Version : 2.11.0-1 Upstream Author : me (Eduardo M Kalinowski) * URL : http://kildclient.sourceforge.net/ * License

New contributors: please come to Debconf and/or Debcamp

2011-05-07 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Hi everyone on debian-mentors, I wanted to send a special invitation for new contributors to Debian: Come to Debconf and Debcamp! Even if you're not a Debian Developer yet. Here are the things you need to know: * Debconf is a week-long conference (this year, in Banja Luka, in Bosnia) where

Debexpo deloyment etc. updates

2011-05-03 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Some updates from my debexpo work this morning: (I'm CC:ing debian-mentors so people there know what's up.) * I see that Andrey has rebased his patches onto the current git repo on Alioth. Yay! * We have a Jenkins instance that will notice git updates and automatically build debexpo. Right

Re: LibreOffice project: request for contributors and mentoring

2010-11-10 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, David Nelson wrote: Hi, :-) I'm a member of the LibreOffice community. LibreOffice (LibO) is the office suite project of The Document Foundation (TDF), the community-driven organization that recently forked from the Oracle-managed OpenOffice.org project. TDF/LibO is

Debexpo is online: testing period information

2010-11-09 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Hey all, As promised ([0] and [1]), I put debexpo on the web by November 5. It's online at http://expo.debian.net/. Here's what I'm thinking: It looks nice, and some features work - Wow, http://expo.debian.net/ has some nice color, and a pretty cool

Re: Open RFS lacking (further) responsei

2010-11-03 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Tue, 2 Nov 2010, Michael Tautschnig wrote: [...] I think that, as far as false positives: we should just reply to all the messages. For better or for worse, people will look at mailing list archives and get a feel for what our community is like. (That's my opinion, anyway.) It's clear to

Re: Open RFS lacking (further) response

2010-11-03 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Wed, 3 Nov 2010, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 11:00:23PM -0400, Asheesh Laroia a écrit : On Sun, 31 Oct 2010, Charles Plessy wrote: RFS has something similar in concept to pull requests. How about including in the RFS emails a link to the most relevant diff in the web

Re: Open RFS lacking (further) response

2010-11-01 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sun, 31 Oct 2010, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 09:59:45PM +0200, Michael Tautschnig a écrit : I think this is a superb step in the right direction; while clearly the list on mentors.debian.net, as suggested in another email in this thread, is the more comprehensive list of

Re: Open RFS lacking (further) response

2010-11-01 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sat, 30 Oct 2010, Niels Thykier wrote: On 2010-10-30 08:59, Michael Tautschnig wrote: [...] One technical question, however, remains: Could we have some list of packages that remain to be reviewed? Just telling people please review some package is pretty awkward... Best regards, Michael

Re: RFS: mn-fit (updated package)

2010-10-25 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sun, 24 Oct 2010, Etienne Millon wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 5.13-8 of my package mn-fit. It builds these binary packages: mn-fit - interactive analysis package for fitting data and histograms mn-fit-common - common files for Mn_Fit mn-fit-dev -

Re: hello

2010-10-21 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Fri, 15 Oct 2010, Luca Bertoletti wrote: Hello I'm italian linux users.I worked for erickson and I studied I.T at Università di Milano Bicocca. I know shell scripting and this programmation languages: pyton, perl, java, c, c++ and for the dbms sql languages. I want to know if I want to

Re: RFS: ceph

2010-10-17 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Mon, 18 Oct 2010, Laszlo Boszormenyi wrote: Hi Sage, On Sun, 2010-10-17 at 14:33 -0700, Sage Weil wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package ceph. I was going to make a package of ceph, so I would be happy to be your sponsor. Yay! I hope this works out. The package appears to be

GNOME packaging: Talk to the team

2010-10-13 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Thu, 14 Oct 2010, Paul Wise wrote: On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 7:08 PM, Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de wrote: Exactly. Same here. Isn't there a gnome team? That should become more active in sponsoring then. They probably have enough packages to upload and bugs to triage, best not

Re: Uploading during freeze time

2010-10-11 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Tue, 12 Oct 2010, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: On 11 October 2010 20:28, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote: In aanlktikwokffmtyfhi-yy7j=_fx8_44wbcbu3vcc6...@mail.gmail.com, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: On 11 October 2010 12:11, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.

Re: RFS: c2html (updated package) [Highlight C sources for WWW presentation]

2010-10-11 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Mon, 11 Oct 2010, Mònica wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for a new version 0.9.6-3 of the package c2html. Hi Mònica, Thanks for doing this! The best place to find people who are interested in maintenance on orphaned packages is the QA Team.

Re: Uploading during freeze time

2010-10-11 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Mon, 11 Oct 2010, Russ Allbery wrote: Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso jord...@gmail.com writes: I guess so, although I don't personally even use unstable myself for the aforementioned reasons. However, unstable is used as the desktop version of Debian by a large number of users, and the awkward

Re: Uploading during freeze time

2010-10-11 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Tue, 12 Oct 2010, Paul Wise wrote: On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Asheesh Laroia ashe...@asheesh.org wrote: * Firefox 3.6 has faster JavaScript, which is the difference between this page being usable, and it not: http://openhatch.org/people/. (Admittedly that's a site under my control

Re: RFS: peg-solitaire (Player and Solver)

2010-10-10 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sun, 10 Oct 2010, Innocent De Marchi wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package peg-solitaire. * Package name: peg-solitaire Version : 1.0-0.1 Upstream Author : Innocent De Marchi tangram.pe...@gmail.com * URL :

Re: Four days

2010-10-10 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sat, 9 Oct 2010, Rustom Mody wrote: On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Rustom Mody rustompm...@gmail.com wrote: For example here are a couple of my last questions there: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=10t=55938

Re: Four days

2010-10-10 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sat, 9 Oct 2010, Kevin Lamonte wrote: On Oct 5, 2010, at 2:40 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: We probably should do a better job of identifying these packages and responding to the RFS to tell people that it's of questionable importance (or clearly no importance) and then channeling them into

Re: Monitoring the four days promise

2010-10-08 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, Kartik Mistry wrote: On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Asheesh Laroia ashe...@asheesh.org wrote: Niels wrote up a script that checks the debian-mentors archives for unanswered messages. I set up a nightly job that runs it on the October mailbox. Nice work - Asheesh

Debexpo and how you can help

2010-10-08 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Hey all! In the next month, we're all going to get Debexpo running as an alternative to mentors.debian.net. I'm going to revive this project, and I need some help. (I'm cross-posting; I've set the Reply-To header so that replies go the debexpo devel list.) We're going to get it on the web,

Re: Trying to package Meganizer

2010-10-08 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Fri, 8 Oct 2010, Joachim Langenbach wrote: Good evening, I'm trying to package Meganizer (a software from us) for Debian. Since my goal is the upload into the debian archives, I want to produce a good package. But first, what is Meganizer: Meganizer is an application based on Qt to

Re: Four days

2010-10-08 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 06:41:18AM +1100, Matthew Palmer a écrit : On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 11:11:49AM -0400, Asheesh Laroia wrote: in the first place. Matthew -- sounds like you've identified a commonly-asked question that has an answer. Would you

Monitoring the four days promise

2010-10-07 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Niels wrote up a script that checks the debian-mentors archives for unanswered messages. I set up a nightly job that runs it on the October mailbox. You can see it at http://rose.makesad.us/~paulproteus/four-days/. (I'll move it to people.debian.org somewhat shortly.) Note that if we answer

Re: Four days

2010-10-07 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 11:08:05AM -0400, Asheesh Laroia a écrit : It's a really good idea... maybe I should actually ask my sponsorees to review other people's packages on the debian-mentors list as a sort of social trade -- I upload if you join

Re: Four days

2010-10-06 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Tue, 5 Oct 2010, Matthew Palmer wrote: To clarify: the intended point of this proposal is to solve the perceived problem that DDs don't sponsor packages because they're concerned that they'll end up taking responsibility for a package if the maintainer ups and leaves? I don't actually

Re: Four days

2010-10-05 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Tue, 5 Oct 2010, Michael Tautschnig wrote: [...] I think a possibly good solution would be to set up a mentors.debian.net bug page (similar to other debian resources such as [0]). That would make it much clearer which mentoring tasks are still open. It would also make it possible

Re: Four days

2010-10-05 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Tue, 5 Oct 2010, Johan Van de Wauw wrote: On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 1:00 AM, Asheesh Laroia ashe...@asheesh.org wrote: And what other cultural improvements can we make to debian-mentors? What else can we do to make this place supportive and helpful for the progress of y'all mentees

Re: Four days

2010-10-05 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Mon, 4 Oct 2010, Michal Čihař wrote: Lack of interested mentors is indeed an issue. Nobody has unlimited time and chooses what attracts him. For me it usually means things I know and test or which I find interesting after reading RFS email. It is. At the same time, I think that we can

Re: Four days

2010-10-04 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Hi Michael! Just a few responses... I think the thread that followed answered a lot of your general questions, but I wanted to be sure you understood where I am coming from. On Sun, 3 Oct 2010, Michael Tautschnig wrote: - As a mentor, as far as RFS are concerned, I can only work on packages

Re: Four days

2010-10-04 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Mon, 4 Oct 2010, Ben Finney wrote: Asheesh Laroia ashe...@asheesh.org writes: Since we agree on that general point, can you be the watchdog -- that is, if we try removing pain points that are necessary or useful, can you specifically identify them and remind us why they're worth keeping

Re: Four days

2010-10-04 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Mon, 4 Oct 2010, Ben Finney wrote: Asheesh Laroia ashe...@asheesh.org writes: On Mon, 4 Oct 2010, Ben Finney wrote: So when we identify a point of pain, I think it's essential to ask: is this pain necessary to the learning process for this person? Ben, I'm not sure what you're saying

Re: Four days

2010-10-04 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Mon, 4 Oct 2010, Ben Finney wrote: Michael Gilbert michael.s.gilb...@gmail.com writes: As someone who has attempted to go through the mentoring process, I agree very much that it is rather depressing. How much of that is actually a problem, though? How much is an integral part of gaining

Re: RFS: roxterm (updated package)

2010-10-04 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sun, 3 Oct 2010, Tony Houghton wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.18.5-3 of my package roxterm. It builds these binary packages: roxterm- Multi-tabbed GTK/VTE terminal emulator The package appears to be lintian clean. The upload would fix these

Re: Four days

2010-10-02 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sat, 2 Oct 2010, David D Lowe wrote: Hello Asheesh. As a mentee, this sounds like a great idea. It can get quite discouraging when you don't get any replies to your RFS. I like the implicit permission to remind people of your RFS after four days. So far, I haven't dared to do that: I've

Four days

2010-10-01 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Hey everyone, Niels Thykier and I were talking on #debian-mentors. I was saying that I find the debian-mentors list kind of lonely and impersonal -- it's mostly RFSs, and so many emails don't even get an answer. How depressing! So I was thinking it would be nice if every email thread got a

Re: Subject: RFS: testng (updated package)

2010-08-17 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Mon, 16 Aug 2010, Marcus Better wrote: Hi, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 5.11+dfsg-2 of my package testng. Hey Marcus, Have you talked with the Debian Java team about this? If not, take a look at http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/JavaPackaging and introduce yourself to the

Local mentorship: Philadelphia + Boston

2010-07-26 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Hey all, I wonder -- are there any Debian mentees in the Philadelphia or Boston areas? I currently live in Philly and am moving to Somerville (near Boston) in September. I've found it difficult to consistently mentor and sponsor packages from people far away from me, but I think that if a

Re: My pending RFSs (xpdf, ushare, protoaculous, gordon, checksec)

2010-07-15 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Wed, 14 Jul 2010, Michael Gilbert wrote: Hi, I have the following packages currently prepared and am waiting for review by interested sponsors. Some of these have been pending since December 2009). xpdf (http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/x/xpdf): - I adopted this package a few

Re: RFS: femmes-celebres

2010-07-06 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sun, 13 Jun 2010, Paul Wise wrote: Please don't send HTML mail on Debian lists: http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct Hi Paul, Sorry to dig up an old thread. I'm confused by your message. As far as I can tell, the original poster sent a multipart message, with a text part

Vacation for me until June 1 (meaning no sponsoring in that period)

2010-05-21 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Hi all, I'm going on holiday in Kuala Lumpur and Singapore from tomorrow until June 1. So I won't be able to sponsor any packages during that period. I've been enthusiastically offering to review packages for a few people, but it'll have to wait until then! (but if you live near Kuala

Re: RFS: ooo-thumbnailer (updated package)

2010-05-19 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Wed, 19 May 2010, David D Lowe wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.3.1-2 of my package ooo-thumbnailer. This new upstream version is a significant change from 0.2: it handles Microsoft Office files, using unoconv and gsf-office-thumbnailer for the

Re: RFS: kapow

2010-05-09 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sat, 8 May 2010, Tang Ke wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package kapow. * Package name: kapow Version : 1.3.2-1 Upstream Author : Graeme Gott gra...@gottcode.org * URL : http://gottcode.org/kapow/ * License : GPLV3 Section :

Re: Only in pbuilder: CMake can't find FLTK

2010-05-07 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Thu, 6 May 2010, Gary Briggs wrote: On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 10:28:35PM -0400, Asheesh Laroia wrote: On Wed, 5 May 2010, Gary Briggs wrote: I've been spending the last few days packaging up my pet project. I finally submitted it to the mentors website last night, but I'm aware of one

Re: Only in pbuilder: CMake can't find FLTK

2010-05-06 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Wed, 5 May 2010, Gary Briggs wrote: I've been spending the last few days packaging up my pet project. I finally submitted it to the mentors website last night, but I'm aware of one problem building it, that I'm hoping someone knows how to solve. In one sentence, like the subject says:

Re: RFS: monkey (updated package)

2010-04-23 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010, Thorsten Schmale wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.10.1-1 of my package monkey. It builds these binary packages: monkey - very small and fast open source web server for Linux Did you get this uploaded? If not, where is your

Re: RFS: mailscanner (updated package)

2010-04-13 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sun, 11 Apr 2010, Simon Walter wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 4.79.11-2 of my package mailscanner. It builds these binary packages: mailscanner - email gateway for virus scanning, spam and phishing detection The package appears to be lintian clean.

Re: RFS: drbdlinks (updated package, 2nd try)

2010-04-13 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sat, 10 Apr 2010, Thierry Randrianiriana wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package drbdlinks. * Package name: drbdlinks Version : 1.18-1 Upstream Author : Sean Reifschneider j...@tummy.com * URL :

Re: RFS: evilvte (updated package)

2010-04-10 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sat, 10 Apr 2010, Wen-Yen Chuang wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wen-Yen Chuang wrote: Note: bug #576624 is vte's bug, not evilvte's. evilvte (0.4.6-1) unstable; urgency=low . * New upstream release - avoid an severe VTE bug in version 0.24.0, please see #576624

Re: RFS: scidavis (updated package, 2nd try)

2010-04-10 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Fri, 9 Apr 2010, Ruben Molina wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.2.4-1 of my package scidavis. It builds these binary packages: scidavis - application for scientific data analysis and visualization Updated packages are a great thing. I'm busy right

Re: RSF: logkeys

2010-04-05 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Mon, 5 Apr 2010, Vedran Furač wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package logkeys. I would also note that I'm familiar with this process as, for some years now, I already maintain a couple of packages in debian and hopefully I haven't made any errors when packaging

Re: RFS: ceph

2010-03-09 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sat, 6 Mar 2010, Asheesh Laroia wrote: On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, Sage Weil wrote: On Thu, 11 Feb 2010, Asheesh Laroia wrote: On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Sage Weil wrote: Ok, the build is fixed (man_MANS vs dist_man_MANS in the man/Makefile.am), and pbuilder is behaving fine on my other box

Re: RFS: ceph

2010-03-09 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Tue, 9 Mar 2010, Asheesh Laroia wrote: On Sat, 6 Mar 2010, Asheesh Laroia wrote: On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, Sage Weil wrote: On Thu, 11 Feb 2010, Asheesh Laroia wrote: On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Sage Weil wrote: Ok, the build is fixed (man_MANS vs dist_man_MANS in the man/Makefile.am), and pbuilder

Re: Regarding GSoC

2010-03-08 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Mon, 8 Mar 2010, Sukhbir Singh wrote: Hello everyone. I am interested in participating in Google Summer of Code this year and have a project that pertains to the distribution of Debian over BitTorrent.This is somewhat a solution to the problem posted on the Idea List page (

Re: RFS: ceph

2010-03-06 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, Sage Weil wrote: On Thu, 11 Feb 2010, Asheesh Laroia wrote: On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Sage Weil wrote: Ok, the build is fixed (man_MANS vs dist_man_MANS in the man/Makefile.am), and pbuilder is behaving fine on my other box. The updated .dsc is at http://ceph.newdream.net

Re: RFS: recoverjpeg (updated package)

2010-03-06 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, William Vera wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 2.0-1 of my package recoverjpeg. It builds these binary packages: recoverjpeg - tool to recover JPEG images from a filesystem image I suggest trying to find a sponsor in the debian-forensics

Re: RFS: zynjacku

2010-02-27 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sun, 21 Feb 2010, Jaromír Mikeš wrote: Od: Asheesh Laroia ashe...@asheesh.org * Package name: zynjacku Sorry -- not yet. Super busy. Ask again in another 10 days or so. -- Asheesh. Hello there, Nobody was uploaded zynjacku package yet. So it would be nice if you can do it for me

Re: RFS: slgtk -- FTBFS fix, new uploader

2010-02-25 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Tue, 23 Feb 2010, Jörg Sommer wrote: Dear mentors, I was just reviewing this, but it seems uploaded. Hooray! In the future, try to email the list so we know that. (-: Congratulations, and welcome to DM-Upload-Allowed! -- Asheesh. -- I don't like spinach, and I'm glad I don't, because

Re: RFS: ceph

2010-02-11 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Sage Weil wrote: On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Asheesh Laroia wrote: On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, Sage Weil wrote: I'm having trouble getting pbuilder working; trying on another machine now. And it's not clear to me from the output you sent where those warnings are coming from. I'll

Re: RFS: zynjacku

2010-02-11 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010, Jaromír Mikeš wrote: Od: Asheesh Laroia ashe...@asheesh.org * Package name: zynjacku It looks like a cool package -- I hope you get a sponsor! If not, I'll be freer in a fortnight. Re-ping the list then. Hello, It would be great if you can upload zynjacku

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