Re: opencity NMU to mentors

2007-09-13 Thread Thanasis Kinias
scripsit Neil Williams: [...] No URL, no bug reports, no detail - how do you propose that it gets sponsored? There is no duplication involved in an NMU - but you must engage with the maintainer, explain your proposals, detail your patches and allow time for the maintainer to either do the

Re: opencity NMU to mentors

2007-09-13 Thread Thanasis Kinias
scripsit Cyril Brulebois: [...] The Right Thing to do is to contact the maintainers first. And it is not like the Games Team were totally unresponsive, especially when it comes to handling copyright-related problems (see Miriam's — in particular but not only — incredible work bugging upstreams

Re: opencity NMU to mentors

2007-09-13 Thread Neil Williams
On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 13:19:09 -0700 Thanasis Kinias [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is to do a non-DD NMU and let the Games Team sponsor it if they want... it seemed silly to duplicate the work. No URL, no bug reports, no detail - how do you propose that it gets sponsored? Sounds like a request

Re: opencity NMU to mentors

2007-09-13 Thread Neil Williams
On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 13:43:35 -0700 Thanasis Kinias [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: scripsit Cyril Brulebois: [...] The Right Thing to do is to contact the maintainers first. And it is not like the Games Team were totally unresponsive, especially when it comes to handling copyright-related

Re: opencity NMU to mentors

2007-09-13 Thread Thanasis Kinias
scripsit Neil Williams: On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 13:19:09 -0700 Thanasis Kinias [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is to do a non-DD NMU and let the Games Team sponsor it if they want... it seemed silly to duplicate the work. No URL, no bug reports, no detail - how do you propose that it gets

Re: opencity NMU to mentors

2007-09-13 Thread Thanasis Kinias
scripsit Neil Williams: (Something I do myself - rough and ready packages that are nowhere near release, but the patches always go to the BTS.) The only reason to upload packages to mentors.debian.net is to request sponsoring - if your changes are just patches and not a request to take

Re: opencity NMU to mentors

2007-09-13 Thread Neil Williams
On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:09:55 -0700 Thanasis Kinias [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds like a request for sponsorship to me - and one that was lacking the most basic information. Well, I expect if I were requesting sponsorship I would have entitled the e-mail `RFS: ...' Not always. and

Re: opencity NMU to mentors

2007-09-13 Thread Miriam Ruiz
I would beg everyone in the thread to keep calm. There seems to have been a miscomunication among all of us, so lets let it that way and forget about it, please. It won't do any good for anyone to keep discissing this. To be honest, when I read the first mail I thought How can this be? They're

Re: opencity NMU to mentors

2007-09-13 Thread Thanasis Kinias
scripsit Miriam Ruiz: I would beg everyone in the thread to keep calm. There seems to have been a miscomunication among all of us, so lets let it that way and forget about it, please. I like that idea very much. We have better things to do. [snip] To be honest, when I read the first mail I

opencity NMU to mentors

2007-09-12 Thread Thanasis Kinias
Greetings, I've put a NMU of the opencity pacakge on mentors. I'm not looking to hijack the package, just fix some serious policy violations. The package was breaking FHS, so I rebuilt it for my own system after I filed a bug. In doing so I noticed a couple of copyright problems and filed

Re: opencity NMU to mentors

2007-09-12 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:10:25 -0700 Thanasis Kinias [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The package was breaking FHS, Details? Is the breakage RC? so I rebuilt it for my own system after I filed a bug. Number? In doing so I noticed a couple of copyright problems and filed those bugs too.

Re: opencity NMU to mentors

2007-09-12 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Neil Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] (13/09/2007): The package was breaking FHS, Details? Is the breakage RC? Two docs files outside /usr/share/doc. He probably couldn't read “should” in Policy 12.3. Number? #442029 Please note that I didn't reach the retitle[1] when I answered. 1.

Re: opencity NMU to mentors

2007-09-12 Thread Cyril Brulebois
[ I bounced the two previous mails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put the list back in the loop with this mail. ] Cyril Brulebois [EMAIL PROTECTED] (12/09/2007): My questions about the exact content of the bug remains, because “FHS violations” isn't self-explanatory. For the sake of