Re: Making mentors.debian.net a .org (was: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests)

2012-01-21 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 12:47:59PM +0100, Arno Töll wrote: > DSA is the team which makes a DNS CNAME record, or provides a hosting > facility. In my interpretation they are not making facts by that. Making > mentors.debian.net a .org makes the project official part of Debian, > just li

Re: Making mentors.debian.net a .org

2012-01-20 Thread Ben Finney
Michael Gilbert writes: > This should be a place for contributors to come together to > collaborate and make their work better before pestering a DD about it; > with minimal experienced intervention (mentoring). I'm confused as to what your referent is. When you say “this should be a place for [

Re: Making mentors.debian.net a .org (was: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests)

2012-01-20 Thread Justin B Rye
Jan Hauke Rahm wrote: > On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 01:07:02AM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: >> Like I've said before, this is not about eliminating ambiguity. Every >> single word in every single language is ambiguous. It's simply >> unavoidable. It's about choosing the word with the right context

Re: Making mentors.debian.net a .org

2012-01-20 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 01:07:02AM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: > On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 6:47 AM, Arno Töll wrote: > > That's the plan, but again: tracking sponsor requests as bugs, and > > integrate mentors.debian.net into Debian are unrelated problems. Any > > proposal can be implemented withou

Re: Making mentors.debian.net a .org (was: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests)

2012-01-19 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
I'm putting the l10n-english team in BCC as they *might* want to help us out here but I don't really want to start cross-posting. You'll figure out which list to proceed on, right? On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 01:07:02AM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: > On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 6:47 AM, Arno Töll wrote:

Re: Making mentors.debian.net a .org (was: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests)

2012-01-19 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 6:47 AM, Arno Töll wrote: > DSA is the team which makes a DNS CNAME record, or provides a hosting > facility. In my interpretation they are not making facts by that. Making > mentors.debian.net a .org makes the project official part of Debian, > just like an

Making mentors.debian.net a .org (was: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests)

2012-01-19 Thread Arno Töll
? If I interpret > things correctly, the DSA team [0] is the group that need to make the > call. So lets start that discussion with them (well its already > started with the CC's). DSA is the team which makes a DNS CNAME record, or provides a hosting facility. In my interpretation