Christian Ehrhardt: Advocate

2021-04-20 Thread Steve Langasek (via nm.debian.org)
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Michael Hudson-Doyle: Advocate

2017-06-15 Thread Steve Langasek
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Re: Advocacy for Harlan Lieberman-Berg

2014-08-31 Thread Steve Langasek
is it acceptable to advocate someone for a technical role in Debian while having no direct knowledge of their technical work? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Re: DM application of Daniel Jared Dominguez

2014-06-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 02:19:09PM -0500, D. Jared Dominguez wrote: On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 01:55:12PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: Hi Jared, On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 01:21:59PM -0500, D. Jared Dominguez wrote: On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 01:07:54PM -0600, Daniel Jared Dominguez wrote: This is my

Re: Advocacy for Laszlo Kajan

2012-10-08 Thread Steve Langasek
if he's qualified to be a DD? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com

Re: DM application of Neutron Soutmun

2012-01-27 Thread Steve Langasek
/dkg/weblog/48 So you intend to sign his new key based on a mail signed with his *new* key asserting that the fingerprint of his *new* key is correct? I'm hoping that there were private follow-ups between the two of you explaining why this is inadequate... -- Steve Langasek Give

Re: Advocating Clint Byrum cl...@ubuntu.com

2011-10-27 Thread Steve Langasek
and mysql server packages are of as high quality as his work in Ubuntu, and I selfishly recommend that Debian take full advantage of his talents by giving him upload rights. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set

Re: NM Report for Week Ending 08 Aug 2010

2010-08-08 Thread Steve Langasek
, before they wind up in the no advocate for 6 weeks column. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ slanga

Re: Advocating Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au

2010-02-27 Thread Steve Langasek
, it's a distraction. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com

Re: Advocating Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au

2010-02-15 Thread Steve Langasek
. ;) No, the mailing list policy is to not whine on the lists when someone doesn't respect your preference regarding CCs. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Re: Legal names (was: AM report for Vagrant Cascadian vagr...@freegeek.org)

2009-08-01 Thread Steve Langasek
currently in it) will be able to recover that information if needed? Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org

Re: Why 0 new developer? (Re: NM Report for Week Ending 15 Mar 2009)

2009-03-21 Thread Steve Langasek
fill in the missing pieces of this story? Frankly the whole NM application was a complete waste of time. While I am sure some DDs want new members, the collective doesn't. I think that's quite a leap, given the public record. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough

Re: Debian Membership

2009-03-15 Thread Steve Langasek
is a necessary precondition. I just think it's important that we explicitly steer clear of any processes that would result in someone having voting rights in Debian as a result of hand waving.) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Re: former DD

2008-09-26 Thread Steve Langasek
get expired out as MIA without anyone trying to contact you. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL

Re: Search Debian New Maintainers

2008-08-21 Thread Steve Langasek
in this list. (Also, I'm not sure what multiple choice answers to this are really going to tell you...) Regards, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Re: Search Debian New Maintainers

2008-08-21 Thread Steve Langasek
through the hard work of becoming a Debian developer for as trivial a reason as I hate Microsoft Windows. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Re: Debian Maintainer Application for Jose Luis Tallon

2008-06-17 Thread Steve Langasek
queue to be doing so, but there should be positive evidence given by his recent sponsors about the quality of his newer work, because his older work was not yet of the quality that it should be for unsupervised package uploads. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long

Re: Debian Maintainer Application for Jose Luis Tallon

2008-06-14 Thread Steve Langasek
be positive evidence given by his recent sponsors about the quality of his newer work, because his older work was not yet of the quality that it should be for unsupervised package uploads. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Re: Debian Maintainer application

2008-01-12 Thread Steve Langasek
to clarify my reason for saying it, and my position on the subject [Mon Dec 17 2007] [20:44:07] Atomo64 so once again I ask your forgiveness if that's how it was understood since I hadn't intended it to mean that in the least -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough

Re: DM advocation for Martin-'Eric Racine

2007-11-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 11:40:35AM +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: On 11/26/07, Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 12:25:10PM +0900, Kenshi Muto wrote: I'd like to advocate Martin-'Eric Racine [EMAIL PROTECTED] for DM. He is already under NM, TS stage

Re: fresh blood gets congested: long way to become DD

2006-01-10 Thread Steve Langasek
to make impartial decisions or give people a second chance that they're prejudging?!) in such a manner. The least anyone making such comments owes you is to explain what they think you need to change in order to give yourself a decent chance. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever

Re: Queue processing

2005-11-17 Thread Steve Langasek
maintaining packages and also have sponsors who would like this. AIUI, the DAM and FD do encourage developers to send them testimonials regarding NMs that they've worked with... -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set

Re: Queue processing

2005-11-15 Thread Steve Langasek
; so indeed, it doesn't look as though you're being repeatedly passed over, but that *something* is happening -- just not the something you're looking for yet. :) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can

Re: [debian-newmaint] fresh blood gets congested: long way to become DD

2005-11-10 Thread Steve Langasek
hard to understand that as a criticism, and it's just not working... I just can't bring myself to think that military and intelligence organizations have appropriate standards that can be fairly compared to Debian. :) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS

Re: Task and Skills messages

2004-03-15 Thread Steve Langasek
it. Personally (and speaking as a maintainer, not as an AM), I think it's a good idea for people who maintain PHP-based packages to have a healthy appreciation for why PHP, among all available scripting engines in Debian, is a PITA to maintain. :P -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc

Re: AM Report for Joseph Nahmias

2003-09-10 Thread Steve Langasek
active interest in the release process, demonstrating that he is already making valuable contributions to the project. We could use more developers like Joe who are willing to go beyond maintaining their little corner of the archive. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer pgpvDd6TUlBZs.pgp

Re: Excessive wait for DAM - something needs to be done

2003-07-17 Thread Steve Langasek
important. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer pgpUsTaIlvLb0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Big problem - GnuPG key deleted

2003-07-15 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 08:39:41AM +0200, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: Content-Description: signed data On Monday 14 July 2003 23:48, Steve Langasek wrote: On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 03:35:43PM +0200, Robert Jördens wrote: So sign all the requests about revoking signatures

Re: Big problem - GnuPG key deleted

2003-07-14 Thread Steve Langasek
. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer pgpp8eNQvARZK.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Work-needing packages report for Jul 11, 2003

2003-07-13 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 12:16:56AM +0200, Thomas Viehmann wrote: Steve Langasek wrote: And adopting is the only way to improve the existing system? I would argue that finding bad packages and *filing for their removal* is a far better example of improving the existing Debian system than

Re: Warning about Debian New Maintainer Application

2003-02-03 Thread Steve Langasek
decide to avoid computers like the plague whilst doing so :-) Are you familiar with what the Developer's Reference says about one's duties when going on vacation? -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer pgp5Vvo0e3Muc.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: AM Report for Week Ending 08 Dec 2002

2002-12-16 Thread Steve Langasek
stand a year from now. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer pgp6gFQmnFPKO.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: AM Report for Week Ending 08 Dec 2002

2002-12-15 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 01:51:19PM +1100, Andrew Lau wrote: On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 02:17:09PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: Or were you suggesting that Eray's application should simply be rejected, and the file closed? Personally, I'd rather be rejected than having to wait another a year

Re: AM Report for Week Ending 08 Dec 2002

2002-12-14 Thread Steve Langasek
is exemplary. You might disagree with the DAM's reasoning for holding up the application (I certainly don't), but I don't see why you would object to the comment on the NM page. Or were you suggesting that Eray's application should simply be rejected, and the file closed? -- Steve Langasek postmodern

Re: Trouble becoming a member

2002-09-17 Thread Steve Langasek
to our NMs when they begin. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer pgpbOEzjuZN6V.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Trouble becoming a member

2002-09-17 Thread Steve Langasek
to paddle across the Atlantic, uphill *both ways* to find another developer... ;) Steve Langasek postmodern programmer pgpXeNgaZ6HU7.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Trouble becoming a member

2002-09-17 Thread Steve Langasek
, should be enough to prevent mere $1,000 forgeries. And when NMs can expect to spend maybe half a year in the queue anyway, the reasonable effort to contact a local DD should include a corresponding increase in effort to be considered reasonable. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer

Re: Trouble becoming a member

2002-09-17 Thread Steve Langasek
they are actively aware of it. They should be - but are they? (And is this, perhaps, something to be noted in the FAQs, if not?) Yes, making sure that our developers are well-educated is always a concern. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer pgpoiDi7WtDFO.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Trouble becoming a member

2002-09-17 Thread Steve Langasek
to have the skillset to try to infiltrate the project -- namely, a script kiddie. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer pgpSxeaOH5K6n.pgp Description: PGP signature