Re: Request to link to your site

2016-03-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 4:42 AM, Meagan Jones wrote: > Please let me know if you can provide us with your written permission to > post a link or links to your website. You do not need permission to link to websites from your website: https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkMyths.html http://fairuse.s

Re: Any Debian support for CubaConf

2016-02-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 5:13 AM, Valessio Brito wrote: > CubaConf = Conferencia Internacional de Software Libre April 25-27 - > Cuban Art Factory Havana/Cuba You might want to re-send this mail to this mailing list: https://lists.debian.org/debian-events-ha/ -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.o

Re: does Debian help detect gravitational waves?

2016-02-23 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 10:41 PM, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > Since "Pure Blends" is a TM, i.e. means smth specific now (which is > great), NeuroDebian shouldn't get under the "Pure Blends" section. > Actually may be some blends listed there aren't really "Pure Blends" > (not yet at least) in the

Re: does Debian help detect gravitational waves?

2016-02-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 7:58 AM, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > We could continue this discussion and my replies would be like > - NeuroDebian is not a derivative, all our work targets stock Debian > distribution (sooner or later). We are more of an extension ;) (aren't > blends are as well?) Deb

Re: support for new mailing list debian-events-apac?

2016-02-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 4:52 AM, Daniel Pocock wrote: > There are various debian-events-* mailing lists, I've requested a new > one for Asia/Pacific region events: > > https://bugs.debian.org/814779 I support the creation of debian-events-apac. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Re: does Debian help detect gravitational waves?

2016-02-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 7:21 PM, Daniel Pocock wrote: > https://www.lsc-group.phys.uwm.edu/lscdatagrid/doc/reference-platform.html > > The Ganglia graph (top right corner of the page) appears to be generated > on a Debian host using the official packages (it has ganglia-webfrontend > in the URL)

Re: 1 question

2016-01-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 9:05 PM, Mohsen wrote: > I need know debian operation system who created or who made it !? 😊 > Thank u for answer I need to win iPod If you are going to install Debian on the iPod after you get it, then you can read this link ;) https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/project-

Re: INSTALL DEBIAN TOUCH ON SMARTPHONE WITH ANDROID

2015-12-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 6:56 PM, SERGIO TAFUR PINA wrote: > I want to try it on my Smartphone Sony Xperia E3. Unfortunately this device is not supported by Linux mainline and so it isn't possible for Debian to support this device. The best you can get right now is a chroot under Android, please

Re: Debian Project Contribution - Sheetal

2015-12-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 4:48 AM, sheetal shalini wrote: > Hi, My name is Sheetal and I am doing my Btech 2nd year. I am keenly > interested in contributing to your organization, by taking up open source > projects. Excellent! > I know C++, C, Python, HTML, CSS, JS, Django. I use Ubuntu OS. I hav

Re: Odbc drivers for Debian

2015-12-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 10:35 PM, Denis Yanov wrote: > I would like to know how I could post them into Debian software package > listing https://packages.debian.org/stable/database/ As I told you on debian-www, please read through this document: http://mentors.debian.net/intro-maintainers If you

Re: Software Freedom Conservancy needs our cash

2015-12-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 6:23 AM, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > Indeed. And instead of simply adding blog posts, the project may make > an official public statement about it. The publicity team and associated folks posted these when the campaign began. https://identi.ca/debian/note/hPj5AtNkQxGfsgI9upgBWA

Re: Software Freedom Conservancy needs our cash

2015-12-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 3:48 AM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > It might be a little more complicated than that given our own 501(c) > status, I think (but I am no longer a lawyer end never was an American > tax lawyer. Debian has no legal status, perhaps you are thinking of SPI? -- bye, pabs https

Re: Software Freedom Conservancy needs our cash

2015-12-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 9:42 PM, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 01:17:53PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: >> Conservancy is an amazingly good thing. They are the only >> organisation doing GPL enforcement for non-FSF projects. > Where can I read some examples about this? Their supp

Re: A Broken Link on your Website

2015-11-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 6:50 PM, Riley Baird wrote: > Thanks for reporting this, but we can't change mailing list messages, > even if the links are broken. They're like an archive of history! Pretty sure that mail was spam. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Re: Announcing GNU ethical criteria for code repositories

2015-11-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 10:16 PM, Ian Jackson wrote: > I took a look at these and many of these seem to be the kind of things > that Debian would care about too. I don't know if we want to adopt > some set of principles like this and if so where we would document > that. Some related pages: htt

Re: vmdebootstrap sprint report

2015-11-10 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 9:45 PM, Sam Hartman wrote: > I'd really appreciate fewer [image build tools] rather than more tools. This has been a topic of discussion since at least 2009 and probably earlier. Since then the problem has gotten worse, not better. Of course, it didn't help that the live-

Re: "Do you want to mount the drive, 'cancel' or 'allow'?"

2015-09-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 9:16 PM, Marcin Wolcendorf wrote: > ... You have contacted the debian-project list, which does not offer user support, please contact one of the Debian user support channels for help. https://www.debian.org/support https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/ http://forums.debi

Re: Mini-DebConf in Cambridge, UK - November 5-8 2015

2015-09-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 5:04 PM, Edward Lukacs wrote: > For people like me, it would be a huge service if ARM could publish some > more basic information about the fundamentals of booting. I am learning > about uboot, but it is a generic bootloader and I have no idea how it fits > when working wi

Re: Repository Link are NOT https://

2015-09-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 7:20 AM, Vincent Bernat wrote: > There is still the initial ISO image that would benefit from HTTPS > because the user may not verify the GPG signature. Maybe > cdimage.debian.org could be switched to HTTPS? cdimage.d.o is just a redirector so that isn't going to help unles

Re: cdimage?? What should we call it?

2015-08-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 6:08 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Looking at the various proposals, those caught my attention: > - get.debian.org > - download.debian.org > - install.debian.org > - installer.debian.org I kind-of like the idea of pointing all of these to the relevant service. -- bye,

Re: Help using this system

2015-07-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 7:12 AM, Charles M. DayIII wrote: > I have had a laptop loaded with just Debian Linux so I can train myself to > use Linux. In future, please contact one of the Debian user support channels for help. https://www.debian.org/support https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/ ht

Re: GNOME Panel Problem

2015-06-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 9:56 AM, Nader Sherif wrote: > I have a quick question please. I've just downloaded Debian 8 with GNOME > classic on VMware 11. > I can't move the panel on my desktop to the bottom or add new panels at all > I've tried selecting "super+left ctrl+right click" & other differen

Re: Wiki

2015-05-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 8:24 AM, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 04:24:01PM -0400, Ethan wrote: > >> So I was trying to access the wiki and was met with a 403. Maintenance, >> yeah? Was just wondering when I could expect to see the wiki open for use >> again. > > You don't mention

Re: Met Debian Dutch users/devs last week at openSUSE conference :-)

2015-05-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 4:14 PM, Amey Abhyankar wrote: > I also need to buy 1 Debian t-shirt now. ^_^ > Unfortunately not available in India :-( Perhaps these links help: https://www.debian.org/misc/merchandise https://wiki.debian.org/Merchandise -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Re: Graphic contribution for wiki and general communication

2015-04-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 3:20 PM, juliette Belin wrote: > I'm Juliette Belin, a french student. I've create the Debian Jessie theme > and would like to continue contributing to the Debian project. Great :) > Do you think that infographic ... could be useful ? > what do you think of this idea ? G

Re: Improvement distribution

2015-04-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 4:02 AM, iuri maia azeredo wrote: > Most politely I come to ask to include gcc compiler into The standard > distribution (source codes I think not necessary for regular Linux user). FYI debian-devel would have been a better place to suggest this as debian-project is for no

facts/stats/titbits for release live-denting

2015-04-12 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, Some folks in the publicity team are thinking about live-denting the release. This will basically be relaying IRC to identi.ca/debian and elswhere, with wording changes for people not as familiar with Debian. In the past we have interspersed the updates with some filler during the slow per

Re: Entrepreneurial freedom for the Debian Partners Programme

2015-04-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 10:52 AM, Luca Filipozzi wrote: > I do not find it antithetical to FLOSS principles to acknowledge, publically, > the contributions that organizations provide to Debian, be they academic > institutions such as MIT or corporations such as Bytemark. Random thought, it might b

Re: CD Images

2015-03-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 9:06 AM, Dave Turner wrote: > It’s a mystery to me too. I just thought I should raise it as a heads-up > because I do administer DNS servers and am generally well-versed in this > type of thing, but the name simply doesn’t resolve for me. and I don’t know > why. It’s the

Re: Regarding the recent update on the xfce packages

2015-03-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 4:29 AM, Dark Serph wrote: > Please, think fondly in updating the xfce packages on JESSIE, before > launching it! Your suggestion would probably have best been sent to the maintainers of the Xfce packages in Debian rather than debian-project. Unfortunately since we are in

Re: non-financial donations (was: call for help: partners program)

2015-03-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 6:33 PM, martin f krafft wrote: > If Debian had a wishlist, we could let partners join by donating > hardware on this list — until the need is higher and we cannot wait > and have to buy the hardware ourselves, so this would need to be > actively managed. We have a hardwar

Re: NVD report on vulnerabilities

2015-03-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 9:13 PM, adRnia . wrote: > 1. A understanding of the GFI report on vulnerabilities in Linux. Other than > Heartbleed and Shellshock vulnerability, how can we assess the vulnerability > of Debian Linux OS and applications? On a generic level. I've no idea what a GFI report

Re: What do you expect from the DPL?

2015-02-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 4:57 AM, Ana Guerrero Lopez wrote: > Lucas sent an email asking people to encourage their 'dream DPL' [1]. > I have already encouraged a few people in the last weeks, but when discussing > with them, they all tell me very different things about the DPL role. When > I asked:

Re: How can I advertise to fill a Debian sys admin position?

2015-02-11 Thread Paul Wise
[Dropping inappropriate CCs] On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 9:26 AM, Mark Laurence Donald Emerson wrote: > My organization needs to fill a sys admin position with someone proficient > in Debian. Can you direct me to a means to advertise for that position among > such individuals, such as an email list w

Re: Mentoring of the Month for woman

2015-02-10 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 4:51 PM, Andreas Tille wrote: > since three years I'm running the "Mentoring of the Month"[1] project in Great initiative :) > So if there is any woman who is interested in learning Debian packaging You might want to send a copy of this mail to the debian-women list. >

Re: Debian calendar, events and more

2015-02-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 8:44 PM, Laura Arjona Reina wrote: > What about adding EventAggregator macro for MoinMoin in wiki.debian.org, This sounds interesting, thanks for the idea. Someone would need to package it for Debian and get it into backports though. What do you think of that Daniel? Seems

Re: Debian calendar, events and more

2015-02-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 4:22 PM, Daniel Pocock wrote: > There are probably a few ways to go about this without a formally > constituted events team: All good ideas, probably a combination of them is required. > b) we could ask DSA to host a CalDAV server such as DAViCal[1]. Each Just an FYI, DS

Re: Debian calendar, events and more

2015-02-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 3:06 AM, Daniel Pocock wrote: > Has anybody else ever looked at this concept or know of any existing > work in this area other than the events wiki? When the Debian events team existed and was maintaining www.d.o/events, I filed #645720 requesting an iCal feed for www.d.o/e

Re: Debian User has a question

2015-01-31 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 7:56 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: > This sounds like a question for debian-cd :) SCNR. debian-cd is more of a development list than a user support list. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org wi

Re: Debian User has a question

2015-01-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 9:53 PM, Hou bey wrote: > This is a special question to Debian Project. You have contacted the debian-project list, which is for non-technical topics related to the Debian Project. The debian-project list is not for user support, please contact one of the Debian user suppo

Re: About the recent DD retirements

2015-01-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 5:40 AM, Torsten Landschoff wrote: > I am subscribed to about 10 Debian mailing lists but can hardly follow > more than a few discussions a week. Therefore my mailbox is filled with > unread Debian email. I notice we have a library for automatic text summarisation in Debia

Re: About the recent DD retirements

2015-01-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, 2015-01-23 at 10:57 +, Anthony Towns wrote: > - having automated scripts pull everything from CPAN (et al), package >it as debs, and publish it That already exists IIRC but I don't know where it is. If you want to work on the more general problem here I'd suggest looking at two

Re: About the recent DD retirements

2015-01-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 6:28 PM, Anthony Towns wrote: > - there are "archive networks" for most programming languages these days: >CPAN, CRAN, Hackage, PyPI, RubyGems, NPM, CCAN, etc. Installing >software from these sources is often necessary for Debian users, but >doesn't mesh well w

Re: About the recent DD retirements

2015-01-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 10:46 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: > cp and ls just work, which is great, but it also means they've > never felt any particular desire to work on them. That reminds me of this recent talk about trends in copyleft: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ItFjEG3LaA -- bye, pabs htt

Re: similarities between logos for CLUSTER and Debian

2015-01-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 4:07 AM, Tiago Bortoletto Vaz wrote: > Just for some fun, I've found another (debian?) swirl in a very > different business, a string instruments maker in Romania. See first and > last pages of their cello catalog: > > http://www.gliga.ro/cello.pdf I expect this is due to t

Re: debian 8

2014-12-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 3:38 AM, ĐŃ€Ń‚Ń‘ĐŒ wrote: > Hello. I prefer to use the stable releases of operating systems. Lately I've > heard a lot about izmenenii status 8 on Debian stable. Please tell me when > can we expect this event. I would be grateful for an answer. Sincerely John > DOE Debian rele

Re: Urgent, confirmation of Debian 7.7.0 amd64 specs

2014-12-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 12:55 PM, Shio Gai Quek wrote: > My name is Quek from Malaysia. I am now downloading Debian 7.7.0 amd64. ... > Before I decide to install it for my upcoming "compute-server", I need to > confirm with ALL the following: Please contact one of the Debian user support channels

Re: Thank you

2014-12-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 2:19 AM, Tomas Tintera wrote: > I just want to thank you all for your great work. > ... It is messages like these that make doing Debian stuff worthwhile, thank you for your kind words :) > That said, I wish you a bunch of helping hands, happy users and > pleasure from you

Re: Debian at IEEE OSSCOM 2015 in Jordan?

2014-11-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, 2014-11-30 at 12:50 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > The IEEE sent the attached mail to the press team. Lucas thinks this is probably spam, so sorry for the noise! -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Debian at IEEE OSSCOM 2015 in Jordan?

2014-11-29 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, The IEEE sent the attached mail to the press team. They are organising OSSCOM (International Conference on Open Source Software Computing) in September 2015 in the city of Amman, Jordan. The conference has links to higher education institutions[2] so I've CCed debian-edu folks. Their Syste

Re: donations and paypal

2014-11-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > However, this is not a reason to bounce my email from -www@ to -project@ > without making it clear that you did that (by forwarding it instead of > bouncing it, for example). FTR, I was the one who bounced the message, not David. -- bye,

Re: debian-boston-soc

2014-11-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 4:52 AM, Sam Hartman wrote: > Apologies for the debian-boston-soc mailing list going away. I changed > infrastructure a couple of years ago and it made it a bit more difficult > to host mailing lists. > I'd be happy if someone else wanted to run a Debian Boston mailing lis

Re: How to add avatar image to BTS?

2014-10-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 4:55 AM, Don Armstrong wrote: > Now, I suppose I could also fall farther back onto gravatar instead of > just libravatar, but I just figured that setting up an account on > libravatar was easy enough that I didn't need to bother. libravatar already falls back on gravatar.

Re: Prospective Trusted Organization - Debian.ch

2014-10-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 7:52 AM, Philipp Hug wrote: > The statements are published together with the annual general meeting minutes: > http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-ch/docs.git/tree/meetings/2014 > > They are not automatically forwarded but are published in the above > well-known location.

Re: DEP-5 (copyright file format) ... gap with practice

2014-09-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Jonathan Dowlandwrote: > But how do you feel about the slightly different situation of shipping a > pristine tarball but not performing an autoreconf (etc etc) prior to > ./configure -- thus deviating from the "normal" process of building that > package from source

Re: Conversa sobre comunidades parceiras Campus Party - Debian

2014-09-17 Thread Paul Wise
2014-09-18 0:36 GMT+08:00 Giulliana Bianconi: > Escrevo para convidar a comunidade Debian a ser parceira na prĂłxima Campus > Party. 0/ Please contact the Debian groups that are in Brasil: https://wiki.debian.org/LocalGroups#Brazil https://wiki.debian.org/DebianDay/2014 -- bye, pabs https://wi

Re: How i can help Debian?

2014-09-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 5:00 PM, Alex Chubov wrote: > Hi, My name is Alex Chubov. I wanna join to your community. How i can help > Debian? I am FreeBSD, GNU/Linux admin and can be Russian translator or > maintainer, etc... What to do? There are many ways to help Debian: https://www.debian.org/in

Re: debian based distro few questions

2014-09-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 8:12 PM, Robert Szeliga wrote: > Halo, (sorry about my english) for example if i do litlle change in debian > distro instaling by defoult other software, remove some package can i call > then my own distro with my logo, and put that operating system on my website > and obtai

Re: What is the content of DEBIAN CD - please tell us more about DEBIAN CD?

2014-09-08 Thread Paul Wise
You have contacted the Debian project mailing list, which is not for user support, please contact one of the Debian user supportchannels for help. https://www.debian.org/support https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/ http://forums.debian.net/ http://ask.debian.net/ irc://irc.oftc.net/debian -- by

Re: Updating the list of Debian Trusted Organizations

2014-07-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > It feels a bit strange to have a very official document (the > constitution) link to a very easy editable document (a wiki page). I > would rather have a page on www.d.o listing the TOs... My initial thought was to put it in a subsection he

Re: Updating the list of Debian Trusted Organizations

2014-07-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Brian Gupta wrote: > Auditors team has been maintaining a list in the wiki [1]. I updated > it to include the latest updates, but Lucas may have other thoughts > about where and how to maintain the list. I"m thinking that at minimum, the constitution should link t

Re: Updating the list of Debian Trusted Organizations

2014-07-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 12:02 AM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > We are now ready to announce a first official list of Debian Trusted > Organizations, per the process defined in the Debian Constitution §5.1.11 > and §9, and after the required public discussions. > > So, here it comes. The list of Debian

Re: Question on About Page

2014-06-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > In February 1998 a group moved to replace the term "Free Software" > with "Open Source Software". This terminology debate reflects > underlying philosophical differences, but the practical requirements > placed on software lice

Re: Maximum term for tech ctte members

2014-05-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: > Paul Wise writes: > >> No-one in the thread seems to be reading Planet Debian, but here is an >> alternative proposal: > >> http://xana.scru.org/xana2/ranticore/techctte/ > > I do read Planet Debian, act

Re: Maximum term for tech ctte members

2014-05-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 9:16 AM, Anthony Towns wrote: > Would anyone else be supportive of a proposal to set a term for tech ctte > membership? No-one in the thread seems to be reading Planet Debian, but here is an alternative proposal: http://xana.scru.org/xana2/ranticore/techctte/ -- bye, pa

Re: @debian.org mail adress

2014-05-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 5:56 AM, Kolega Wikipedia wrote: > How to get @debian.org email addres? Please read these web pages: https://www.debian.org/intro/help https://www.debian.org/devel/join/ -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@

Re: Sponsoring a Tails hackfest?

2014-05-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 11:01 PM, intrigeri wrote: > 1. Six packages for Tails-specific software (liveusb-creator, If you mean the Fedorahosted liveusb-creator, that looks useful to have in Debian for non-technical users. If upstream could be made build-time flexible about distros, it could be use

Re: Sponsoring a Tails hackfest?

2014-05-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 6:24 PM, Holger Levsen wrote: > while some zealous purist still believe Debian Edu ain't a pure blend The sprint I mentioned was in June 2011 and was apparently for releasing the DebianEdu based on Debian squeeze. At that time there were less DebianEdu things in Debian than

Re: Sponsoring a Tails hackfest?

2014-05-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 6:00 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > In 2011, I asked the former DPL for sponsoring a 2 months trip to India > with the purpose of giving talks and participating in local sessions > about FreedomBox - also a non-pure Debian Blend. Indeed, definitely not the first time events

Re: 20140407 keyring report

2014-04-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 4:06 PM, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > I think it has been suggested earlier in related discussions that a > cleanup of long time inactive DD's may make a rather significant dent in > the number of 1024 bits keys. Is this something you're considering? That would be something fo

Re: duck.debian.net shows: lintian and alioth disagree

2014-04-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 5:07 PM, ОlĐ” ЅtrДісhĐ”r wrote: > Is there a reason why alioth does not use the Debian bug system but a > local one? Also, the bug report above is not open (requires a login on > Alioth), which IMO contradicts the DFSG: Best ask the alioth admins about those two issues. --

Re: duck.debian.net shows: lintian and alioth disagree

2014-04-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 4:30 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > According to DUCK, this worked on 2014-03-23 and broke in between > 2014-03-23 and 2014-03-27 on which it first did not work (there > was no check in between). This got broken relatively recently and the alioth admins haven't yet fixed it,

Re: Prospective Trusted Organizations - (FFIS), Debian France

2014-03-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 4:57 AM, Steve Langasek wrote: > While I don't think there's any question that FFIS should be one of Debian's > TOs, I think having the answers to these questions is important in order to > protect both parties, so that there's some record of what the expected > relationship

Debian locations lists

2014-03-01 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, I've collected a list of links to lists of places around the world where Debian has some affiliation: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianLocations I'm wondering if anyone knows of any more that I may have missed. If you do, please add them to the wiki page. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.

Re: Restrictions for TOR connections on Debian IRC channels

2014-03-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 9:06 PM, Stuart Prescott wrote: > We've routinely ended up banning all tor users from many Debian IRC channels > due to this sort of abuse. The availability of account cloaks on OFTC now > means that we can permit legitimate tor users easily so I'd support these > bans becom

Re: GR proposal: code of conduct

2014-03-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 7:37 PM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > I think the increasing importance of IRC for people to keep up to date > on developments in Debian is a bad thing as it excludes people who > cannot use IRC regularly enough (such as myself). The sheer volume of > unedited logs will be too

Re: GR proposal: code of conduct

2014-02-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 11:41 PM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Op woensdag 26 februari 2014 15:25:25 schreef Alexander Wirt: >> - When replying to messages on the mailing list, do not send a carbon copy >> (CC) to the original poster unless they explicitly request to be copied. > > Well, heh. ... > I t

Re: GR proposal: code of conduct

2014-02-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 3:02 AM, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > Thus I suspect that the logs won't be very useful. Due to Debian being focussed in the European timezones, most of my use of IRC is reading backlog, which is pretty much the same has reading public logs. I still find IRC useful and even ess

Re: State of the debian keyring

2014-02-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 5:47 PM, Enrico Zini wrote: > This means hooking into any place where a signature verification or a > decryption actually happens in Debian: I can think of uploads, > db.debian.org, voting, keyring requests, RT tickets filed, emails > received by lists or the BTS: are there

Re: GR proposal: code of conduct

2014-02-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 2:01 AM, Ian Jackson wrote: > Is it really the case that making the logs available as public text > files produces too much search engine exposure etc. (which is I guess > the real concern) ? Several of our derivatives (at least Maemo, Ubuntu) have public logs of their IRC

Re: GR proposal: code of conduct

2014-02-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 5:48 AM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > For IRC it's a bit more difficult, because we do not long our IRC > channels by default (or at least I'm not aware we do), with the > exception of meetings run with the help of meetbot. ... > i.e. publicly log our IRC channels. That wou

Re: debian as unix

2014-02-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 2:05 PM, tre mor wrote: > Debian 7.2 is conform with the Posix.1-2008/SUSv.4? If not, when will be? If you would like to check Debian's conformance with POSIX/SUSv.3, please use the POSIX Test Suite (PCTS:151-2) available here and the Open Group's test suites. http://www.

Re: State of the debian keyring

2014-02-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 8:35 AM, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > So, what do you suggest? Set a deadline (say 1 year?) for removal of all 1024 bit keys from the keyring. Notify all users of 1024 bit keys via all addresses listed in the MIA db and all UIDs on those keys. Remind people that coming to DebConf

Re: Thank You Debian

2013-12-31 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 10:42 PM, Dan Krusi wrote: > To all the Debian developers and contributors: thank you for an amazing > Linux distribution! I couldn't imagine my professional life without Debian. > So a big thank you for all your hard work over the years - it is very much > appreciated. Gl

Re: a SIP or XMPP service for debian.org

2013-12-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 5:44 PM, Daniel Pocock wrote: > I've started a wiki on this topic, it provides a detailed plan from > start to finish: > > https://wiki.debian.org/UnifiedCommunications/DebianDevelopers DSA have traditionally only provided forwarding services for communications, not hostin

Re: Das geht ja gut los

2013-12-16 Thread Paul Wise
A new point release just went out, the new netinst has version 7.3.0: http://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/2013/msg6.html http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/7.3.0/amd64/iso-cd/debian-7.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso The website will be updated soon. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/Pau

Re: Need debian lenny source code

2013-12-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Venkatesh Pawar wrote: > I am Venkatesh Pawar need a link for debian lenny os source code for > some operation purpose. So can you please tell me from where should i > download source code of debian lenny os. It will be great help if uou help > me. Others have

Re: The "tell me if I'm being stupid" statement

2013-12-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 3:32 AM, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > I know it's only a small gesture, but it'd be really neat if we talked > about doing this on a slightly more wide-spread scale. Do we need explicit statements like this? I always had the impression that everyone feels free to ask people to

Re: Choqok 1.4 on Debian Wheezy repos?

2013-11-21 Thread Paul Wise
Control: severity 712188 serious Control: tags 712188 + patch fixed-upstream On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 3:13 PM, gregor herrmann wrote: > On Thu, 21 Nov 2013 07:43:32 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > >> On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 5:13 AM, Eliseu Cendron Carvalho wrote: >> > So, is the

Re: Choqok 1.4 on Debian Wheezy repos?

2013-11-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 5:13 AM, Eliseu Cendron Carvalho wrote: > So, is there any chance to make Choqok 1.4 available on Debian Wheezy repos? Please file a release-critical bug (severity serious) about this issue. http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting If the maintainer doesn't respond quickly t

Re: Werbeartikel?

2013-11-11 Thread Paul Wise
I'm sorry no-one replied to your email yet. Unfortunately Debian does not have the resources to send out free promotional items or items for raffles. If you wish to print your own items or buy some, please take a look at our web pages listed below. [Automatische Übersetzung] Es tut mir leid nieman

Re: about debian server

2013-11-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 6:35 AM, Antoine Morales wrote: > Please could you send me the link to download debain server? You have contacted the debian-project list, which is for non-technical discussion of topics related to the Debian Project but not for user support, please contact one of the Debia

Re: Help bringing bugs.debian.org / debbugs back on track (Re: bits from the DPL -- September 2013)

2013-10-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 5:40 PM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > a debate. There is no debate here, just a bad suggestion from someone who has been annoying Debian for years and is banned from the BTS control bot due to this. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: Help bringing bugs.debian.org / debbugs back on track (Re: bits from the DPL -- September 2013)

2013-10-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 8:51 AM, Filipus Klutiero wrote: > However, I am not convinced that development of bugs.debian.org should go > through Debbugs development. Unfortunately, I am not an ITS-s expert, and I > can't recommend a particular engine. There are many free ITS engines, some > of which

Re: Possibly moving Debian services to a CDN

2013-10-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 2:16 AM, Joey Hess wrote: > But apparently not one solved by free software included in Debian. > Perhaps it's worth avoiding using it if that will help encourage the > development of libre alternatives. I guess the hardest part of the problem is logistics to get machines a

Re: Possibly moving Debian services to a CDN

2013-10-13 Thread Paul Wise
About the archive mirrors, some reworded thoughts from the DPL IRC channel when this came up a few days ago: I would suggest forwarding/bouncing this mail to the debian-mirrors list. I think the current state of affairs is fine; some CDNs in use (cloudfront.d.n), some normal mirrors, mirror.d.o/h

Re: Moving to stronger keys than 1024D

2013-10-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > In addition to Paul's numbers, we have also the DM keyring, which is > in a much better shape quite probably because it's much newer. Good news. > - Give a suitable time window for the key migration and disable old > keys. Jonathan gave a f

Re: Moving to stronger keys than 1024D

2013-10-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 7:02 AM, AnĂ­bal Monsalve Salazar wrote: > It has been considered irresponsible to use 1024D keys at this point in > time. > > What are the plans to disable 1024D keys? There are more people using 1024-bit keys than >= 2048-bit keys (in debian-keyring.gpg), many of these are

Re: Debian "tech tree"

2013-09-10 Thread Paul Wise
Something semi similar that Fedora did: https://apps.fedoraproject.org/ Their code is open so we could probably adapt it to non-infrastructure things. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: Debian companies group

2013-09-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Michael Meskes wrote: > It is not just the description but the subscription policy that is changed. > But > my goal is to get some feedback about the idea in general as it hasn't got > much > traction so far. If there is no interest from companies we can simply c

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