Re: Support for non-free-firmware in project webpages

2023-01-31 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 02:31:44PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > > OK, great, but I'm not sure precisely now what patch I should send - > ie, what ought to be in the page footer. Since you know the answers, > would you mind arranging that the popcon web pages contain the right > references ? > >

Re: Support for non-free-firmware in project webpages

2023-01-27 Thread Bill Allombert
ugs against, or a repository for the server > > side to file merge requests against. > > I looked here: > https://popcon.debian.org/ > and then at the page footer. > > It has > [Popularity-contest project] by Avery Pennarun, Bill Allombert and > Petter Reinholdtsen. > w

Re: Support for non-free-firmware in project webpages

2023-01-26 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 03:43:38PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hi Bill, > > I might have overlooked better contact information, but couldn't find a > popcon.debian.org to report bugs against, or a repository for the server > side to file merge requests against. > > I'm not sure how that

Re: Support for non-free-firmware in project webpages

2023-01-22 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 03:43:38PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hi Bill, > > I might have overlooked better contact information, but couldn't find a > popcon.debian.org to report bugs against, or a repository for the server > side to file merge requests against. There are a popularity-contest

Re: Debian Services Census

2014-02-19 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 10:14:13AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Hi, On Wed, 19 Feb 2014, Ingo Jürgensmann wrote: Unfortunately I have a problem with the renaming of my pet service Buildd.Net on https://wiki.debian.org/Services. I added my service as BuilddNet and it got renamed to

Re: Copyright arrangements for a web project

2013-12-14 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 12:32:59PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: Nevertheless your opinion is interesting to me [...] [explanations] Thanks for that. If you find clarification of the license that are grounded in the actual text and written by B. Kuhn or the FSF, please forward them.

Re: Copyright arrangements for a web project

2013-12-12 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 02:44:19PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: * Personally I'm an AGPLv3 proponent. The system ought to be suitable for AGPLv3 provided that its submodules are AGPLv3-compatible (and if they aren't, then we can probably write a licence exception). (The main program I'm

Re: Copyright arrangements for a web project

2013-12-12 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 07:45:14PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: Bill Allombert writes (Re: Copyright arrangements for a web project): I am fine with the stated purpose of the AGPLv3, however I do not think the actual implementation is compatible with free software. Perhaps I haven't looked

Re: Who uses @packages.d.o mail?

2009-05-23 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 10:30:03PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: Hello all, So I've looked through a few weeks of mail logs to packages.debian.org, and it looks like it collects some useful mail from automated scripts on various debian.org machines (primarily ries), and about 1000 spams a day

Re: Please appoint one new person to the DSA Team

2006-12-21 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 04:06:56PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: I would greatly appreciate it if people would help the process by supporting the efforts of the DSA team consistently rather than heaping praise on them when they fix compromises and scorn on them the rest of the time. It would

Re: Please appoint one new person to the DSA Team

2006-12-21 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 04:01:47PM +0100, Andreas Schuldei wrote: * Bill Allombert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061221 15:12]: As I suggested in my DPL platform, having someone reading debian-admin who has no DSA priviledge but handle communication issues could help (by providing status and ETA

Re: Please appoint one new person to the DSA Team

2006-12-20 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 02:22:43AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 09:06:01PM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: It is known among debian developers that the Debian System Administration Team (aka DSA or [EMAIL PROTECTED]) is not really responsive. So apparently this

Re: Debian Etch Stable.

2006-12-13 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 04:02:53PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: Personally, I'd say that now would be the time for any anti-payment people to say we can do this better, and look, we'll prove it, and make up their own target date for etch, and demonstrate how much energy and effort can be

Re: Hardware for Debian people

2006-12-08 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 12:57:11AM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: On 10860 March 1977, Joerg Jaspert wrote: So, if you want a machine from the following list, send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and give a rough description what you plan to do with it. Hihi, Update: Please notice that the

Re: Debian Weekly News - November 28th, 2006

2006-12-08 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 12:21:59AM +, Stephen Gran wrote: This one time, at band camp, Steve McIntyre said: On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 09:08:54PM +, Bill Allombert wrote: On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 01:00:46PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: The best thing that can be done to reconcile

Re: Debian Weekly News - November 28th, 2006

2006-12-05 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 01:00:46PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Baz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I prefer to see etch released in a timely manner - I prefer to see the DWN released weekly in the same excellent degree. An organization such as The Debian Project can certainly do both. Anthony

Re: Sun T2000 available for SPARC development

2006-11-26 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 07:03:44PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: - Experimental Linux kernel build server (Bastian Blank) - GCC 4.2 tests on SPARC (Martin Michlmayr) If you would like to have access, please get in contact with Bastian at [EMAIL PROTECTED] The specification of the

Re: Sun T2000 available for SPARC development

2006-11-26 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 06:46:43PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 04:49:37PM +, Bill Allombert wrote: I propose to set up a lintian.debian.org-equivalent for sparc on this machine, but this requires 10GB of diskspace and a local mirror. Tell me if you think

Re: Improving the DAM-queue?

2006-10-15 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 02:37:14PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 11:53:27AM +, Bill Allombert wrote: On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 10:14:39AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Bastian Venthur [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.10.11.1002 +0200]: This is quite

Re: Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-14 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 10:09:06AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Person A gets mad becuase he is afraid that person B will will get pay for something that both had originally agreed to do for free. Now there's a key part of the problem: this

Re: Improving the DAM-queue?

2006-10-14 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 10:14:39AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Bastian Venthur [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.10.11.1002 +0200]: This is quite frustrating, since most of the applicants are surely doing already the normal work every Developer has to do, but are not able to upload or

Re: Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-08 Thread Bill Allombert
[mostly reposting what I sent to debian-private] On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 12:34:01PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: I also explained that Dunc-Tank's initial experiment of funding release manager is not a long term model for us. And as a board member, I said that I don't intend to fund other

Re: Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-08 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 12:34:01PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: The set of projects that can be funded are projects proposed by Debian developers. I expect Debian developers to propose only projects that are improving Debian. If some of those projects also serve the private interest of

Re: Fundamental flaw in bug reporting system

2006-06-29 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 02:54:09PM -0700, Michael Wheatley wrote: The fundamental problem is that a newbie lacks the understanding of the system or the patience that is needed to submit a bug report. I hate to break it to you, but becoming an advanced user does not make you more patient :)

Re: Debian women: please pass away

2006-06-09 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 10:21:44PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: We have a strong suspicion of who the author is. This mail has been sent to harm Debian. We should not make the task easier by using it as a pretext to harm ourself by throwing random accusations, so please let us exerce some

Re: ftp.debian.org cannot be reached

2006-06-07 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 09:24:18AM +0200, Michael Gro?er wrote: Someone gave me an answer that was rather useless to me: He gave me a URL that was a dead link. But: I found out that (nearly) all other people in this forum and in my circle of friends could resolve that link, but I could

Re: Shouldn't we have more ftp masters ?

2006-06-03 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 09:47:18AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: How much longer do you want to continue this idiotic one-up-manship before you're willing to try a different approach of working with people? Hello Anthony, Please assume the DPL asked you that exact same question. What would you

Re: Debian derivatives and the Maintainer: field (again)

2006-01-17 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 11:44:48AM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: It is important, in particular, to account for the fact that Ubuntu is not the only Debian derivative, and that proposals like yours would amount to Debian derivatives being obliged to fork *every source package in Debian* for the

Re: non-free firmware

2006-01-11 Thread Bill Allombert
I have argued previously (on debian-legal and elsewhere) that for some types of works, such as icons, fonts, and documentation, source code is not important to the modifiability of a work in the same way that it is to programs. There are many cases in which the original source form used by

Re: Automated testing - design and interfaces

2005-11-18 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 12:08:25PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: maintainer didn't really test the package after installing it because it was too much trouble. If it can be standardised and automated, and if a way can be found for Ubuntu to share tests with Debian, then everyone wins. piuparts

Re: Automated testing - design and interfaces

2005-11-18 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 03:35:25PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: Bill Allombert writes (Re: Automated testing - design and interfaces): piuparts is a first answer to that: it allows maintainer to check that their package will install, remove and upgrade in a clean environnement. Yes

Re: Automated testing - design and interfaces

2005-11-17 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 06:43:32PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: So, what do you think ? Currently Debian packages are tested through a lot of channel: -- At build-time, if the package run a test-suite in debian/rules, which is strongly encouraged. -- By the maintainer before uploading them.

Re: Discussion of bug #311683, default kde install shows porn

2005-06-06 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 06:02:54PM +0200, R. Armiento wrote: Result: users of KDE with the 'random screensaver' setting eventually find their screens filled with sexually explicit content. And even if that should be fixed, users flipping through the screensavers risk being presented with

Re: Consultant entries that will be removed unless there is an email address provided

2005-05-27 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 11:26:05AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 07:15:14PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, uh, our stable release manager and security team lead is being de-listed as a Debian consultant because he hasn't