of
reasonable guidelines which will help maintainers/ftpmaster/TC to
decide without that?
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On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 01:16:38PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 00:12:18 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:
Thoughts?
I'm very much in favour of something like this. Debian is better off
without schilyware imo.
That's an obvious example, but (as others have pointed out
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 09:47:10AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
On Thu, Sep 10 2009, Steve McIntyre wrote:
Well, what happens if somebody wants to maintain software where there
is a strong set of opinion that we don't want it? In this case, I'd
like to delegate the power to the ftpmasters
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 11:00:53AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
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There has been some discussion in the last couple of years about
whether or not Debian should distribute software that was written by
developers that we consider to be hostile.
In my opinion, the current
to us. If we
can't have a sensible relationship with the upstream developers, then
I believe it would be better not to expose Debian and our users to the
problems that will likely arise from packaging and distributing their
software.
Thoughts?
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funding? Thoughts?
6 Dunc tank 2?
a Some people think this could be made to work, but I'm really not
convinced at all.
b We could offer bounties for specific work, maybe, but there would
be a lot of discussion needed before we could set something up
like this
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regular sysv-rc and
file-rc for years, why should we just stop now?
Supported is rather a strong term for what we've had with file-rc;
it's never worked well compared to sysv-rc.
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on our mailing
lists rather than diving in to feed flames in the arguments. Maybe
some people think that's a bad thing.
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the control we need in
terms of actually stabilising for release.
A time-based freeze could mean for some teams that they'll have to
stop work basically for months to a year.
Exaggeration, -1.
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It's a FAIL.
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On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:52:43AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 09:19:51AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:
The new simplified swirl looks cleaner, and it would be nice to move
to a free-er font. The example changes to the website made it look
Might it be worth considering
such additional work.
Why not let the new maintainers introduce themselves, then ?
That sounds a very sensible idea, yes.
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want,
but we already have 2 questions in the pipeline with lawyers through
SPI so it may take a while to get a response.
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release. The
5.0.1 updates just contain the differences between 5.0.0 and 5.0.1. If
you want to update from 4.0rX to 5.0.X then you'll need much more than
that. See
http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#update-cd
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, and the DPL
still needs to approve it.
We've discussed this and I'm entirely happy to accept the TC's
recommendations for new members. Doubly so, as I personally
recommended both! Until now, I just hadn't said so
publically. Fixed. :-)
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this discussion right now, just after
the first vote that has already delayed Lenny, is not going to help
you or anybody. It *is* clear that a substantial majority of DDs want
us to release Lenny soon rather than attempt to fix every last
issue. Please drop it for now.
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large amounts of data as weasel between debian
hosts. I don't rule out that it happens, I would just like to know if
it's a daily routine.
For reference, I do it multiple times daily from cron, to transfer
files around for the daily CD builds.
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note stuck to the mini-bar saying Paul: This fridge and
fittings are the correct way around and do
findings to d-d-a in a week or so.
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the CD/DVD releases we
did for etch, and they *all* had version 1.1.0-9etch1. Are you *sure*
you didn't have backports.org or lenny in your sources.list?
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Did we ever agree a policy about what's acceptable/reasonable for
blog feeds linked from planet.d.o? I'm very tempted to disable Ian
Murdock's Solaris propaganda, for example...
Thoughts?
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You lock the door
to these
decisions. I guess everyone implied that this would be left to the
discretion of soc-ctte, hoping that they wouldn't do anything drastic.
Yes, that was my understanding.
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We don't
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 07:56:25AM +0100, Bastian Venthur wrote:
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña schrieb:
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 10:27:12PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote:
If you'd like to mentor, you will need to register as such[2] and fill
in your profile, checking the Debian box in the list
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On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 09:56:53PM +0100, Richard Hirner wrote:
Hello,
On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 17:12:51 + Steve McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Is there anything in particular you're looking for more info about?
Although the Wiki page gives a clear overview, I think we would need a
more
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 07:56:25AM +0100, Bastian Venthur wrote:
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña schrieb:
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 10:27:12PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote:
If you'd like to mentor, you will need to register as such[2] and fill
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On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 12:15:08PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 12:53:52AM +, Steve McIntyre wrote:
IMO setting up an RT system will not fundamentally solve any of this, but
will at most make it more manageable. The only way to solve this is by
having new blood
absolutely not touch.
Yup, sounds eminently sensible.
So, basically my question remains: why does it have to be so incredibly
difficult to allow new members into these teams?
Historical reasons as much as anything else. That's not an excuse, and
things should be improving soon.
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On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 08:14:37AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 01:40:45AM +, Steve McIntyre wrote:
Things have opened now and I'm in the middle of the application for
Debian. One thing they're asking for is a backup admin, so I guess
you're it... :-)
Sure
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 12:44:41AM +, Steve McIntyre wrote:
On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 02:22:23PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 03:58:12PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote:
Anyone want to volunteer to take the lead on the first couple of steps?
I guess I'm ready to act
for Debconf (if you miss that deadline, another batch can
always be done of course, but that will incur another weaver's setup fee
which seems to be somewhere between 300 500 GBP).
I can't really afford it, but sod it. Count me in for a proper 8-yard
kilt, same as you.
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On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 03:58:12PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote:
Anyone want to volunteer to take the lead on the first couple of steps?
I guess I'm ready to act as a project admin and (if needed) mentor again.
I was interested
-- Summer of Code work
Anyone want to volunteer to take the lead on the first couple of steps?
I guess I'm ready to act as a project admin and (if needed) mentor again.
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Stretched
to do.
This would start by rescinding the Vancouver proposal, and generally
not conflating executive and legislative power.
What on earth are you babbling about?
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On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 11:17:54AM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:
On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 11:11:49 +0200, Andreas Barth wrote:
* Steve McIntyre ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061016 11:09]:
If people have to pay something for them (even
something really cheap), then they're more likely to take an interest
this is
a reason to favour a move to oftc.
Ditto.
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The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that
English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on
occasion, English has
, oftc is also a sister org under the SPI
umbrella.
Thoughts?
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not match the
checksum and fail part way through the install.
See
http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#small-dvd
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The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that
English is about as pure as a cribhouse
to the users -- the other half of the Social Contract -- that they *are* an
exception.
Absolutely - I'd back up 100% a vote to add such a disclaimer...
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You raise the blade, you make the change... You re-arrange me
-update-3.1r1-i386-2.iso.torrent
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Yes, they're correct.
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the
difference, not the full ISOs.
Or you can also download/use the update CDs - they will also cover
what you need...
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wrong??
You're using a program to download the images that is not 64-bit
clean, so is wrapping at 4GB.
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as the truth.
The barbecue mentioned has become an annual event hosted by me
(Steve McIntyre) personally at my house in Cambridge each
August. Attendees are normally a mix of UK DDs, UK Debian users and
random geeks from the Cambridge area. This weekend past saw the fourth
such event. It was never
an amd64 or Intel 64-bit Xeon
processor, you'll need to download the (unofficial) amd64 ISO instead;
see
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/sarge-amd64/
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/jigdo-area
and
http://mirror.ac.uk/mirror/ftp.fi.debian.org/debian-cd
needs updating to cope. Please feel free to contact me off-list and
I'll help you work it out.
Steve (for the Debian CD team)
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Can't keep my
. Disk performance falls through the floor as
more people start using the same spindles, so we're much better off if
we can get a dedicated machine or, failing that, a dedicated set of
disks for the mirror and build space.
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