Re: Abusive language on Debian lists

2021-04-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 11 apr 21, 00:56:04, Eldon Koyle wrote: > > I feel these words always contribute to a toxic environment, however they > are being used intentionally by people I respect who hold a lot of influence > in this group, in open defiance of the accepted rules. Using a small shell > script (or

Re: Debian artwork Bullseye - not allowed ?

2020-08-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 14 aug 20, 09:54:12, JCZ wrote: > Hello dear Debian team, > > > This morning, I tried to create an account there: > > https://wiki.debian.org/DebianDesktop/Artwork/Bullseye?action=newaccount > > Because I would like to participate to Debian artwork for Bullseye... > > I encode my

Re: Please consider making "corectrl" part of the debian distribution

2020-06-28 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 27 iun 20, 08:46:37, Peter Ehlert wrote: > > On 6/27/20 7:18 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > In this particular case you might want to file an RFP (Request For > > Package). > > > > https://wiki.debian.org/RFP > > very interesting.  I

Re: Please consider making "corectrl" part of the debian distribution

2020-06-27 Thread Andrei POPESCU
[Assuming you are not subscribed, sorry for the Cc: in case you are] On Sb, 27 iun 20, 15:21:42, hans_pali...@web.de wrote: > > please consider making the application "corectrl" a part of the > official debian (testing) distribution within the next few month. Please note that debian-project is

Re: alioth-lists and mailman3 (was Re: Discourse usability)

2020-04-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 19 apr 20, 18:55:10, Alex Muntada wrote: > Hi Andrei, > > > On Vi, 17 apr 20, 00:42:49, Abhijith PA wrote: > > > > > > I run a mailman3 instance with debian mailman3 package at > > > lists.fsci.org.in for FSCI[1]. If anyone interested to > > > try/test or need to run as lists.debian.net

Re: Discourse usability

2020-04-17 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 17 apr 20, 00:42:49, Abhijith PA wrote: > > I run a mailman3 instance with debian mailman3 package at > lists.fsci.org.in for FSCI[1]. If anyone interested to try/test or > need to run as lists.debian.net :) you are more than welcome. alioth-lists.debian.net might be interested / a good

Re: Testing Discourse for Debian - Moderation concepts

2020-04-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 13 apr 20, 19:56:28, Neil McGovern wrote: > > Firstly, trust levels. These are the levels of "trust" that the platform > has in any particular user. Instead of explaining it here, please have a > read of the following: >

Re: Testing Discourse for Debian

2020-04-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 13 apr 20, 15:23:28, Dan Purgert wrote: > On Apr 13, 2020, Russ Allbery wrote: > > The thing with the "newer" projects that I've seen (and maybe I'm just a > curmudgeon trapped in a young person's body) is that they come off to me > as the early dotcom "exactly like X, except on the

Re: Testing Discourse for Debian

2020-04-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 13 apr 20, 14:23:30, Sean Whitton wrote: > > (a) would more clearly benefit from having more structure. It is less > clear that (b) would benefit, and (b) benefits from the posting of diffs > and replying using inline comments. It seems like Salsa would be better suited for commenting on

Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian

2020-04-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 11 apr 20, 19:27:53, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 10:04:55AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > I must be missing something so I'm asking: what is the *benefit* of > > avoiding collisions with Debian accounts? > > > f...@salsa.debia

Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian

2020-04-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 08 apr 20, 19:40:27, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 14:30:43 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > > > Hi Zhu > > > > On Wed, Apr 08, 2020 at 07:50:22PM +0800, Shengjing Zhu wrote: > > > 1. Can you still keep the "-guest" enforcement, so it's still easy to > > > recognize who is

Re: Package request

2020-03-28 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 26 mar 20, 00:15:10, Justin wrote: > Hello guys, I am inquiring if you make a package which would like > onenote for microsoft. Do you have a interactive package that would be > used just like onenote or similar? > Also do you make a package like a virtual machine or similar where you >

Re: Upgrade From Debian 8 to Debian 10

2019-07-08 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 08 iul 19, 08:58:34, Ammad Khan wrote: > Hi Team, Just another Debian user :) > I'm running large number of servers on Debian 8 and now want to > directly upgrade them from Debian 8 to Debian 10. > Is it possible to upgrade dist directly and what is harm with this > process? Debian 8

Re: Sticker / Advertising

2019-05-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 13 mai 19, 06:49:05, Jonathan Schmid wrote: > Ladies and Gentlemen, > > i'm a big fan of Linux and am very interested in your company. > I would be very happy about stickers / advertising articles of your company. > > Greetings > Jonathan Schmid Hi Jonathan, See

Re: CD/DVD Vendor no longer has valid domain name

2015-08-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Hi Tristan, On Du, 09 aug 15, 15:09:02, Tristan B. Kildaire wrote: On the CD/DVD's vendors page here https://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/, the last vendor based in South Africa does not have a valid existing domain name anymore and I suggest your remove it. This is the no-longer existing

Re: Any plans to add Pale Moon browser to the repository?

2015-03-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 12 mar 15, 12:50:17, fidelis wrote: Hello, Hi fidelis, I just wanted to know if you have any plans to add Pale Moon browser to the repository. If not would you consider it? Just for your information, debian-project is dedicated to non-technical discussions. Information about

Re: Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 11 aug 14, 19:38:47, David Weinehall wrote: On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 06:00:05PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: I do: I see a reason to netinst a 0.629xCD size desktop install rather than a 0.829xCD size desktop when bandwidth is costly. Yes, but if you netinst you can *pick* your

Bug#747290: Please display the new Code of Conduct

2014-05-07 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Package: www.debian.org Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-project@lists.debian.org On Ma, 06 mai 14, 13:45:11, Brian Gupta wrote: All kidding aside, is there a plan to post the CoC, and make it easy to find from www.d.o? (Perhaps either in the About section, or on the about Debian

Re: Wheezy 7.3 KDE

2014-01-28 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 28 ian 14, 14:39:14, Harangozo Sandor wrote: Hi, No one could answer me on IRC channels (Debian, Debian-KDE, KDE, KWIN..) when I use KDE desktop environment I like to use two effects, Glide and Magic Lamp. On every distibution I've tried works except Debian, so it is not a

Re: Surveying new package maintainers about their experience of contributing to Debian

2013-07-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 19 iul 13, 22:20:42, Joseph R. Justice wrote: I just think it would be good for the survey to explicitly acknowledge that non-packaging contributors and non-packaging contributions exist, and that Debian desires to also improve the way those efforts are made, even though _this_ survey

Re: Surveying new package maintainers about their experience of contributing to Debian

2013-07-19 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 19 iul 13, 15:41:27, Simon Chopin wrote: The fact is, I don't think we have much to track non-packaging contributions and contributors in the first place. Before considering adressing them the same kind of survey, we would probably need a way to identify them. For translators the

Re: PaySwarm-based Debian donations

2013-06-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 19 iun 13, 10:33:42, MJ Ray wrote: I would prefer a simpler listing of which developers are available for hire and which projects they are interested in working on. If that could be presented in the PTS, package managers or reportbug, that would be great. Would anyone block such

Re: KickStarter for Debian packages - crowdfunding/donations for development

2013-06-16 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 15 iun 13, 21:38:24, Manu Sporny wrote: Yes, we probably don't want to create a Mos Eisley in Debian. However, knowing that you can go somewhere to hire Debian developers to fix issues that you're having with the system would be very helpful for companies (like ours and the ones we

Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?

2013-04-07 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 02 apr 13, 17:34:28, Russ Allbery wrote: Starting off with a maintainer that closes my bug report with no explanation at all? How do I join the team, when the team refuses to communicate? Why would I make another bigger offer my time, when the team doesn't offer theirs even when

Re: A Debian contributor StackOverflow

2013-04-07 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 05 apr 13, 09:22:34, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: Right. Let me add as a shameless plug that the service is in dire need of volunteer admins that help with the setup (shapado configuration, themes, etc.) and also keep a link with upstream development to discuss our needs, cherry pick

Re: Size of images of disks of a distribution kit of debian

2013-03-17 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 17 mar 13, 10:38:01, Деревянкин Андрей wrote: Good afternoon. Whether and it is impossible to unite all 8 dvd of files of images in one file an image? Gradually dvd consign drives to the past, now on system units any more don't put dvd drives. Appeared a card with a capacity more

Re: how to install scanner on my Debian

2013-01-17 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 17 ian 13, 21:24:33, aniakufel wrote: I have been a user of Debian for about half a year and generally speaking the whole process on installing this system did not cause me a lot of problems, hovewer some minor problems, as usual, had to appear. There is one problem I do not how to

Re: Validity of DFSG #10

2013-01-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 06 ian 13, 19:09:28, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 05:46:44PM +, Bart Martens wrote: How would you organize setting up an authoritative and maintained list of verified DFSG-free licenses ? Which formal steps would need to be completed before an additional

Re: privatsphähre

2012-12-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 22 dec 12, 17:21:12, fab...@gmx.li wrote: Guten Abend, bitte entfernen Sie diesen Beitrag, oder entfernen Sie meinen Namen und email-adresse. http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-german/2005/12/msg01687.html http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/disclaimer lG, Andrei -- Offtopic

Re: A Broken Linux Link on Your Site - Follow-up

2012-12-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 12 dec 12, 11:24:31, Erin Williams wrote: Hi Michele, Hi Erin, debian-project is a mailing list of the Debian Project. http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/ I wanted to follow up with you and make sure you had received my email I sent a little bit ago regarding the broken link on

Re: Opinion on Debian documentation

2012-12-01 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 01 dec 12, 11:57:05, Osamu Aoki wrote: 2. Debian web site This is the pages accessible as www.debian.org and mostly managed by people discussing on debian-...@lists.debian.org . Actual contents are managed by CVS at :ext:usern...@cvs.debian.org:/cvs/webwml as explained

Re: Opinion on Debian documentation

2012-11-28 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 28 nov 12, 20:25:17, Alexandru Vochescu wrote: Hi, I am working at a task at google code-in where i have to write about documentation structure of other projects. I chose to write about Debian, because i'm used to Debian (I have Debian Sid). And this

Re: Bug#686481: debian-reference instructs users on how to install non-free software

2012-09-03 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 03 sep 12, 22:14:44, Osamu Aoki wrote: I am reporting this bug because Stefano Zacchiroli has called for a free-ness assessment [2]. It is up to the package maintainer on how to proceed. So you are making me feel I am doing something DPL does not approve... But I can not find

Re: revenue sharing agreement with DuckDuckGo

2012-03-29 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 28 mar 12, 20:56:31, Kumar Appaiah wrote: The current default for some browsers in Debian informs webmasters about which browser is being used. The user can, naturally, change it to suit his/her needs. How does merely using this string to track hits to DDG (with no changes to the

Re: revenue sharing agreement with DuckDuckGo

2012-03-29 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 29 mar 12, 09:04:16, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: On Thu, March 29, 2012 04:27, Paul Wise wrote: Probably you missed the part of the email that says we should add t=debian by default to every new DDG search URL? I would suggest that it should be up to the users what t= should be set to

Re: trademark licenses and DFSG: a summary

2012-02-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 19 feb 12, 19:56:11, Uoti Urpala wrote: Stefano Zacchiroli leader at debian.org writes: - Debian should neither seek nor accept trademark licenses that are specific to the Debian Project. (Suggested by Steve Langasek. In addition to Steve's reasoning, I think that doing

Re: Debian Etch - Pre R0

2011-06-23 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Hi, debian-project is not about technical support, please contact debian-user instead (Reply-To: set accordingly). To your question: On Jo, 23 iun 11, 06:50:54, Greg Heath wrote: Hi, I have a client that appears to be running a pre-release or beta release of Etch R0, the date on the build

Re: Privacy matter

2011-05-24 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma, 24 mai 11, 16:23:19, Reese Newell wrote: This link on facebook is nothing I have ever done and I want it to be removed immediately from showing up in searches, can you please remove it from your website. It is deragatory and I do not want it showing up with my name on google.

Re: No good user experience of Debian (Was: Packaging r-bioc-simpleaffy)

2011-03-01 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma, 01 mar 11, 00:37:23, Tony Travis wrote: Together with my colleagues, I arranged a biologist's 'power' user workshop in Florence during which we spent one of the three days in a University computer lab set up entirely with Debian Etch workstations running Iceweasel, to connect as NX

Re: DEP5: CANDIDATE and ready for use in squeeze+1

2011-01-14 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 14 ian 11, 08:56:16, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 03:20:37AM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: and it's ok by Policy, then I'd be happy to apply a patch someone provides. :) Here is one. Index: dep5.mdwn

Re: QTS ( was Re: user support - Shapado instance for Debian)

2010-10-07 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Jo, 07 oct 10, 03:33:08, Fernando C. Estrada wrote: track experts by tag: shapado automatically detects people that are experts in some fields. That is to say, if you answer a question about “kde” or “ruby” and get some upvotes, shapado will notice it. Then, if a question gets asked about

Re: QTS ( was Re: user support - Shapado instance for Debian)

2010-10-07 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Jo, 07 oct 10, 19:02:39, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: You ask a question, and someone answers. If you find the answer useful, you vote it as correct, and the answerer gets points for that. How can I do that by mail only? You also get email notifications if you so wish if you got a new

Re: QTS ( was Re: user support - Shapado instance for Debian)

2010-10-06 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mi, 06 oct 10, 21:42:37, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: One solution: all package maintainers subscribe to debian-user, and set filters on their respective packages. Would this be sub-optimal? Unfortunately yes. In too many cases it is impossible to tell from the subject (or even body) if a

Bug#595217: Please create a debian-upstream list to serve as upstream guide and front desk

2010-09-02 Thread Andrei Popescu
Package: lists.debian.org Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-project@lists.debian.org On Jo, 02 sep 10, 07:13:58, Lars Wirzenius wrote: On ke, 2010-09-01 at 19:27 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: Unless you consider it's necessary to be a DD for this I could join as well. After all, I

Re: Upstream guide and front desk

2010-09-01 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mi, 01 sep 10, 11:41:34, Jeremiah Foster wrote: On Aug 23, 2010, at 17:01, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: Hi! Am 15.08.2010 18:08, schrieb Lars Wirzenius: That sounds like a good idea. As long as I would not be alone, I would be willing to join such a list and answer

Please set a /topic or similar for #debian-ro on Freenode

2010-08-09 Thread Andrei Popescu
[Please keep -l10n-romanian in the loop] Hello, While the official Debian channels are those at OFTC, many people seem to use (only) Freenode. This is not a problem with channels like #debian with hundreds of participants in both networks, but can be a big issue for emerging communities.

Re: Please set a /topic or similar for #debian-ro on Freenode

2010-08-09 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 09 aug 10, 12:18:07, Joerg Jaspert wrote: Because of this I would like to have some means to suggest using #debian-ro in OFTC rather than Freenode. Currently I'm running a bot telling people joining that they should switch to OFTC, but I don't like to spam people. I also tried

Re: Debian ISOs available for very fast download

2010-05-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,20.May.10, 21:54:22, David Voisin wrote: The platform is a mix between central server and pear to pear. There are various machines on the web that we actually own (but this could be extended to any computer willing to share on internet) that contain the various ISO blocks, and a

Re: Debian ISOs available for very fast download

2010-05-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,21.May.10, 10:58:41, Dirk Neumann wrote: Sounds like a distributed jigdo ;) Normal jigdo is already distributed: some packages are read from one mirror, some others from another mirror and some from your local harddisk/cdrom/dvdrom/bdrom/cf/... Sure, but: - you have to manually

Re: Questions about present Gnome and the Linux kernel versions

2009-07-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue,07.Jul.09, 15:59:10, Kumar Appaiah wrote: P. S. I'd request someone who knows more than me to please write an FAQ answer for Why does Ubuntu have/do/... but not Debian? When will Debian have it?... type question. Something like this?

Re: Re-thinking Debian membership

2008-10-26 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,25.Oct.08, 21:56:09, Manoj Srivastava wrote: If you are not voting or uploading packages, everythign else you do can be done without a maintainers hat on, so you do not need to be a DD. Does this mean you oppose to the concept of having non-packagers being members of

Re: Re-thinking Debian membership

2008-10-25 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,25.Oct.08, 00:36:06, Aurelien Jarno wrote: My point is that if your only activity in Debian is periodically answering an automated email, I don't see the point of staying member of the project. How about this: every Debian Member chooses his own method of stating I am active in the

Re: Re-thinking Debian membership

2008-10-25 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,25.Oct.08, 09:41:35, Manoj Srivastava wrote: If you are not voting or uploading packages, everythign else you do can be done without a maintainers hat on, so you do not need to be a DD. Does this mean you oppose to the concept of having non-packagers being members of the

Re: Developer Status

2008-10-24 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,24.Oct.08, 14:31:42, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: contributor.debian.org mail --- We are considering to implement an @contributor.debian.org mail forwarding setup which would be open for DC/DM too. Such addresses would continue to be valid even after a person

Re: Sound servers for Debian 4.0r3 i386

2008-10-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,05.Oct.08, 00:35:18, Michael Banck wrote: On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 08:33:26PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: Please post the exact error message you get (if any) when you run mpg123. It might help to turn off any KDE/Gnome specific sound handling as they sometimes block the device

Re: Debian v 4.0r3 cd iso images

2008-10-04 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sb,04.oct.08, 09:24:19, César Bergara wrote: I had download some 4.0r3 cds version for i386 architecture, but i need to download the iso-image cd-19. Are there websites with the olds stable version? I did like to download the sources codes (of the 4.0r3 version, too). If you have

Re: Sound servers for Debian 4.0r3 i386

2008-10-04 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sb,04.oct.08, 09:30:15, César Bergara wrote: The downloades cds of Debian 4.0r3, have a problem: the sound server (alsa) have a problem and can't play sounds (of kde's soft or gnome's soft, but xmms play sounds; but mpg123 don't). [nitpick: alsa rather represents a driver, esd (for Gnome)

Re: how can I boot from USB? or with Live CD?

2008-01-02 Thread Andrei Popescu
[Redirecting to d-user] On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 05:29:16PM +0200, Ginis.com wrote: hello, my name is George... I have Windows XP... how can I boot from USB? or with Live CD? other 2 linux I have boot from USB... I wait for your answer... if you want... thanks a lot... What do