Re: Community renewal and project obsolescence

Hi Raphael, thanks a lot for your analysis and sorry for my late reply. Am Wed, Jan 03, 2024 at 08:01:16PM +0100 schrieb Rafael Laboissière: > > https://salsa.debian.org/rafael/debian-contrib-years > > First of all, I wish you all a happy 2024. +1 > I have updated my repository at salsa.d.o

Re: We need to define a path for Debian to climate neutrality

Am Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 10:20:16AM -0700 schrieb Russ Allbery: > This also has the advantage that, whether or not the specific framing of > this thread is inspiring to a given Debian contributor, everyone wants > longer laptop battery life and lower power bills for their data centers. While I

Re: Questions around Justice and Our Current CoC procedures

Am Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 11:06:54AM + schrieb Scott Kitterman: > On February 23, 2022 8:50:58 AM UTC, Andreas Tille wrote: > >Am Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 12:06:17AM -0500 schrieb Scott Kitterman: > >> > >> Currently a DAM warning is a suspension/expulsion with d

Re: Questions around Justice and Our Current CoC procedures

Am Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 12:06:17AM -0500 schrieb Scott Kitterman: > > Currently a DAM warning is a suspension/expulsion with deferred execution. I > think every non-government job I've had had a discipline process that went: > > 1. Verbal warning. > 2. Written warning. > 3. You're fired.

Debian Med sprint from 2022-02-18 to 2021-02-20

Hi, since more people confirmed the dates Friday 2022-02-18 to Sunday 2021-02-20 the Debian Med team will do the second sprint online at this time. The main information about the sprint can be obtained from the Wiki page[1]. If you have short questions you are kindly invited to ask on our

Re: Using Debian funds to support a gcc development task

Hi On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 11:44:26AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > So, would -project be willing to support our cause through Debian funds? Besides other good reasons to say "no" to this question I'm wondering whether donators of our money would consider supporting gcc on m68k is a

Re: Debian supports pridemonth?

On Mon, Jul 01, 2019 at 08:37:13AM +0200, Gerardo Ballabio wrote: > > On the other hand, nobody but me has spoken openly to say that it was > a mistake to issue that statement. So I'm taking that as meaning that > there is indeed a project-wide consensus that it was ok. I do not consider it a

Re: Debian Helping Scammer Websites to Cheat its Readers?

On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 10:22:01AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 12:01 PM Jeff Licquia wrote: > > > That link on Debian Junior for shoes should probably be removed now. > > The link is pulled directly from the package metadata from > (now-obsolete) Debian releases. The

Re: Apology and DAM decisions

On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 10:33:15PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Norbert, Enrico, Joerg and Jonathan, > > many thanks for all your patience, efforts, and dedication, > > today is a great day for Debian. +1 Best news of today. Thanks to all involved Andeas. -- http://fam-tille.de

Re: should debian comment about the recent 'ransomware' malware.

Hi, On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 09:51:12AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Ian Jackson writes: > > > If these systems were running Debian, big organisations like the British > > government could hire people to provide security support for their > > users, even for

Lets encourage new DDs to run for DPL (Was: Let's make Debian DPLess!?)

On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 01:49:03AM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > the position is a > largely thankless, massive amount of work that's contrary to what Debian is > about (code hacking and solving technical problems[1]). Our kind of people > is strongly awerse to bureaucracy and management. Thus,

Re: Team analysis graphs

On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 08:46:13PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > The code is at > > https://git.debian.org/git/teammetrics/teammetrics.git s/git.debian.org/anonscm.debian.org/ sorry, Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de

Re: Team analysis graphs

Hi Gunnar, On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 01:11:26PM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > The sheer number of files you are presenting is overwhelming as it is, > but, if this person is interested in this data, could you share your > dataset at a finer resolution? (say, monthly instead of yearly) Or, if > you

Re: Team analysis graphs

On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 10:25:35AM +0100, Javier Fernandez-Sanguino wrote: > > The idea for the graphs was first presented at DebConf8[1] and the final > > realisation was done by Sukhbir Singh in a GSoC project[2]. I'm generating > > the graphs at beginning of each month. > > > > Very

Team analysis graphs

Hi, this is my yearly hint to the teammetrics graphs you can find for your team at http://blends.debian.net/liststats/ The idea for the graphs was first presented at DebConf8[1] and the final realisation was done by Sukhbir Singh in a GSoC project[2]. I'm generating the graphs at

Re: Replace the TC power to depose maintainers

On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 01:39:30PM +, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 01:40:31PM +0100, Johannes Schauer wrote: > > > motivation. being able to say "I'm the maintainer of $foo" is a *great* > > > motivation for many. Taking this away *might* cause a lot more harm that > > >

Re: Replace the TC power to depose maintainers

On Sat, Dec 03, 2016 at 05:08:06PM +0100, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: > > > For each such dispute, we should pick a panel of randomly chosen DDs, > > > and have them decide (with a time limit). > > > > No randomness please. Probably all bodies in Debian are either elected > > or appointed (by

Re: does Debian help detect gravitational waves?

On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 06:58:14PM -0500, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > > - Not that I wish that upon ourselves, but rather to accent > importance/significance/value of some folks... I wonder where Debian > Science and Med would end up if Andreas changed his job/moved to > another direction

Re: does Debian help detect gravitational waves?

On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 08:45:02AM +0100, Ole Streicher wrote: > In my opinion, that is the point: NeuroDebian does not look any > different to me than f.e. DebiChem or Debian Astro, or DebianMed. It has > some interesting developments however (the extensive backports solution, > f.e.) BTW, the

Re: does Debian help detect gravitational waves?

On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 03:24:14PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > BTW, while building bigger plans -- who is going to the next Debconf? ;) > > I hope to be there. +1 -- http://fam-tille.de

Re: does Debian help detect gravitational waves?

On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 09:49:59PM +0100, Ole Streicher wrote: > > Anyways -- those were rhetoric questions, not intended for an answer ;) > > Are they? I (being new to this) would be not sure: There are always > tasks (tasks? or packages?) that do not really belong to exactly one > blend -- many

Re: does Debian help detect gravitational waves?

Hi, On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 08:47:37AM -0500, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > > Because we overlap with / part of / superset of both Med and Science, so > we are part of those blends. We didn't feel like duplicating anything > from those two blends within yet another blend would be of any benefit >

Re: does Debian help detect gravitational waves?

On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 03:33:16PM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 02:31:34PM +0100, Ole Streicher wrote: > > There are some problems why Debian is not soo widely used in the science > > analysis (yet): One is that due to our long freeze many important > > packages are

How to contribute paragraphs to release notes

Hi, we are short before the release and I wonder how it would be possible to contribute to the release notes. I have drafted (not finished) some text for the Debian Med Blend[1] which is to long for the general notes and thus will be delivered via other channels. However, I would love to see

Re: Mentoring of the Month for woman

to Debian Derivatives Census[5]. There is also the debian-derivatives mailing list you might possibly want to join. Kind regards and thanks for your interest in the MoM project Andreas. On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 12:21 PM, Andreas Tille andr...@an3as.eu wrote: Hi, since three years I'm

Mentoring of the Month for woman

Hi, since three years I'm running the Mentoring of the Month[1] project in Debian Med. The purpose is to get new people into the Debian Med team and thus into Debian. The effort has lead to some new team members (not all students remained) and some new packages. Both (the members and the

Re: Mentoring of the Month for woman

On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 05:22:48PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: 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

How many people are working on our packages (Was: Team statistics updated)

Hi, On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 11:35:19PM +0100, Joachim Breitner wrote: http://blends.debian.net/liststats/ to show who belongs to your team. nice. Can you add the Haskell team? We are on debian-haskell, maintainer field is pkg-haskell-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org. Done. In

Re: Team statistics updated

Hi Guido, On Fri, Jan 09, 2015 at 09:47:20AM +0100, Guido Günther wrote: Awesome. Could pkg-libvirt (alioth project) be added. Lists are pkg-libvirt-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org pkg-libvirt-disc...@lists.alioth.debian.org Now added (and all the other requested projects).

Re: Team statistics updated

Hi Norbert, On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 05:07:59PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: Hi Andreas, (my email was rejected from the teammetrics-discuss list, administrative reasons???) :-( - this should not be. Need to check. I keep debian-project in CC since this is the list you've got the

Re: Team statistics updated

Hi, On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 11:31:56AM +0100, Mathieu Parent wrote: files. Feel free to use the graphics from http://blends.debian.net/liststats/ to show who belongs to your team. Thsi tool is great. Could the pkg-php-pear and pkg-php-pecl teams be added there? (they have a

Team statistics updated

Hi, the team statistics graphs are updated monthly but the commit statistics were not calculated properly in the last year. So this announcements is for those who do not yet know the work of the GSoC project about teammetrics and also to announce the rewritten code for the commitstat_* files.

Thanks Russ for all your hard work

Hi Russ, I just feel the need to express my deep thanks to all your work in Debian specifically in the endless systemd debate. While I'm personally very neutral and just expect my computer to boot (which it does with systemd) I really appreciate all your sensible and always patient mails on the

How to add avatar image to BTS?

Hi, I was desperately searching for the announcement how to add an avatar image to the bugs in BTS. It seems simply adding an image at www.libravatar.org is not sufficient. Any pointers? Thanks Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: How to add avatar image to BTS?

Hi, On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 08:56:37AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: On Fri, 17 Oct 2014, Andreas Tille wrote: I was desperately searching for the announcement how to add an avatar image to the bugs in BTS. It seems simply adding an image at www.libravatar.org is not sufficient

Re: How to add avatar image to BTS?

Hi again, On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 10:52:07AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: We actually have a fully federated setup, so something as simple as what Sune did will work: http://pusling.com/blog/?p=274 In other words: All those people with proper avatars in BTS have setup some DNS record on

Is there any inofficial cgit package since cgit is used on git.debian.org

Hi, when seeking for cgit in the Debian package pool I failed. I wonder whether there is just some inofficial package if we follow the principle to package what we are using. Any pointers to a source package or something like this? Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de --

Re: Is there any inofficial cgit package since cgit is used on git.debian.org

Hi Alexander, On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 11:35:30AM +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote: when seeking for cgit in the Debian package pool I failed. I wonder whether there is just some inofficial package if we follow the principle to package what we are using. Any pointers to a source package or

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

Hi, On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 10:48:22AM +0600, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 05:40:46PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: Not sure how that's a lot of work since uscan does all the magic for you. I don't use uscan to download tarballs for packages I maintain. Not to

Re: [Proposal] GR: Selecting the default init system for Debian

Hi, On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 01:35:15PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: And, I strongly suggest you trim down both the number of options I will not vote on any GR with more than four options. Note that the number of options on a GR is not necessarily controlled by the proponent. For

Re: [Proposal] GR: Selecting the default init system for Debian

Hi, On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 01:52:44PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: And, I strongly suggest you trim down both the number of options I will not vote on any GR with more than four options. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Geant321 and geant4 in science package

Hi Christophe, On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 12:36:35PM +0100, Christophe Hugon wrote: Hi, I relaunch the question of GEANT4. thanks for bringing this up to the table again as you did last April when I answered[1] that it might be a good idea to contact Debian Science team since the coordination of

Please give a summary (Was: Debian services and Debian infrastructure)

Hi, as a random reader I have the feeling that this thread is about a conflict between DSA members and DPL. For me all these mails do not make the slightest sense and it would help if someone could give a summary what you are talking about and if possible give some example what you think is OK

Re: GR: Selecting the default init system for Debian

Hi Holger, On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 04:53:12PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: o.) my brain hurts, this is difficult, let's go shopping! p.) further discussion p.) is rather I'd prefer fixing some bugs over voting and further discussion is q.) *excellent* (bad) example, why voting is or can be

Re: Debian Enhancement Proposals website temporarly broken.

Hi, On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 07:33:41PM +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: assuming the content is entirely static, we could move dep.debian.net to dillon.debian.org. What about using dep.debian.org? Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Code of Conduct: picking up

On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 04:29:33PM -0500, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 06:21:21AM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: You're not being productive and you're really showing the type of behavior that the CoC works to prevent. +1 Thanks to all those brave people working on CoC

Debian infrastructure teams needing you -- yes, actually you

Hi, in Debian we have some infrastructure projects which to my perception are quite important because they are: 1. directly visible for the user 2. globally needed for all packages I'm personally speaking about I18N and DebTags - may be there are more. After some observation I came to the

Re: Paths into Debian

Hi Moray, On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 08:59:24PM +0100, Moray Allan wrote: At DebConf13 I was interested to hear people's views in the discussion session on Paths into Debian. The video of the session is available here:

Re: Survey of new contributors -- results

On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 01:44:05AM -0700, Vincent Cheng wrote: On the other hand, people who do not already have existing relationships or contacts with DDs, and who want to get involved in Debian, may find it much harder to do so than someone who already knows a DD. Having a

Re: Doing something about should remain private forever emails

On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 07:11:26AM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: So, who's going to do this work? While they're reading every single message sent to the list over the last decade and a half, wouldn't it make more sense to just honor the GR than to make up more work that nobody is ever going to

Re: Debating difficult development issues in essay form

Hi, On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 08:45:08PM +0100, Lars Wirzenius wrote: We think discussions on Debian development mailing lists sometimes suffer from repetition of facts, opinions, and arguments. During a long discussion of a controversial topic, it is hard for anyone to keep track of what has

Debian in space

Hi, Debian seems to have some nice history at NASA reaching from very old news http://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/1997/msg5.html to quite hot news: http://www.zdnet.com/to-the-space-station-and-beyond-with-linux-714958/ (isn't this really cool?) I wonder whether there is

Re: Upstream packaging (was Re: Derivatives, MongoDB and freezes)

[moved to debian-project where it belongs. This mail is in response to https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2013/04/msg00769.html the fork of the thread started at https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2013/04/msg00756.html] On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 10:06:27AM -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote: But

Re: Geant321 and geant4 in science package

Hi Christophe, On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 03:18:41PM +0200, Christophe Hugon wrote: I'm very interested in debian since few years, in a good part because the science packages are not bad. But I think that it should even better with the geant4 package. I don't know why, geant3 is in packages

Re: Debian participation into GNOME Outreach Program for Women

Hi, On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 07:52:18PM -0400, Brian Gupta wrote: OK from my reading of https://live.gnome.org/OutreachProgramForWomen#For_Organizations_and_Companies it seems that Debian can be a participating project, without also being a financial sponsor. IE: We provide mentors and help

Re: I caught up with debtags patch reviews

Hi Enrico, On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 02:33:28PM +0100, Enrico Zini wrote: ... The situation has now greatly improved \o/ Many thanks for your work on this (and for propagating DebTags in general)! I would like to attract your attention to some ongoing discussion at the Debian Blends list[1].

Bug#701533: project: UDD can not access PET database on wagner.debian.org

Package: project Severity: normal Hi, since PET moved from a private machine to wagner.debian.org. This had the side effect that the UDD job was not able to access the PET database any more. A solution was proposed on the Debian QA mailing list[1] which should be an entry into pg_hba.conf: #

Re: Young people and computers

On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 09:23:54PM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote: Now, it seems to be a long and comparatively difficult process that involves demonstrating a relatively high level of technical competence. I wonder whether young people find this intimidating. I do not want to discuss the need for

Re: Young people and computers

Hi, just stumbled upon some quite related article http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/3158 which sounds like a good step. In a German news article[1] you can read that teachers union is not amused about this hardware donation because it is considered plain advertising for the company

For those who care about statistics created by the team metrics GSoC project

Hi, I've just updated the latest stats about selected teams inside Debian now including full 2012. Feel free to visit http://blends.debian.net/liststats/ Some more convenient interface for this graphs was developed in GSoC of 2012. Please stay tuned until this will be finished. Kind

Debian branded electric water boiler made from ceramic

Hi, just stumbled upon http://www.waschbaer.de/catalog/largeImage.html?img=pictures/articles/large/2117210.jpg which is also available with red swirls on white ground but the webform has just this image. For those who would like to make Debian tea ... :-) Have a nice Christmas

Re: Debian branded electric water boiler made from ceramic

Andreas. On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 08:28:10PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: Hi, just stumbled upon http://www.waschbaer.de/catalog/largeImage.html?img=pictures/articles/large/2117210.jpg which is also available with red swirls on white ground but the webform has just this image. For those

Re: [Debconf-discuss-discuss-discuss-and-keep-discussing] ...

Dear Giacomo, On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 08:27:18AM +0100, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: On 12/04/2012 10:36 PM, Josselin Mouette wrote: Is the “outsiders” word also meaning to describe people who were asked for sponsorship and discovered later that the brochure they were sent had almost

Re: A media type for the machine-readable copyright format ?

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 04:45:53PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: - About security, the discussion on debian-devel leads me to think that there is no need to worry. I included a short comment suggesting that field values should be sanitised as usual. Does anybody see other potential

Re: Review of personal information sources in Debian

Hi Enrico, I needed to escape the problem that UDD has sometimes several different spellings for the name of the very same person. I hacked around a bit and finally settled with http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=teammetrics/teammetrics.git;a=blob;f=maintain_names_prefered.py;hb=HEAD It is

Re: Planned changes to Debian Maintainer uploads

Hi, On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 01:57:49PM +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: The ftp team wants to change how allowing Debian Maintainers to upload packages works. The current approach with the DM-Upload-Allowed field has a few issues we would like to address: I have read three responses to this

Re: Planned changes to Debian Maintainer uploads

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 09:21:36PM +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: This is slightly annoying but given that maintainership changes involve an upload too, it hardly seems fatal. Has this been a problem in practice ? I think this has been answered by Gerfried's[2] and David's[3] mails.

Re: revenue sharing agreement with DuckDuckGo

Hi, On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 01:32:18PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Steffen Möller wrote: The problem I see is with a competition with upstream. If we in any way lower the impact firefox has for google, then this has a direct effect not only on firefox but also on our relation with them and

Re: DEP11 is CANDIDATE now!

On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 12:42:25PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Together with Andreas Tille, we are finalising the first proof of principle of using debian/upstream files in YAML format to store additional metadata. Our current approach is only tracking the latest version of a package (in Sid

Re: DEP11 is CANDIDATE now!

Hi, On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 04:04:55PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:  Contents-OrigSource.gz  (containing all the content of original sources)  Contents-Debian.gz      (containing everything in debian/) Half way there: http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/Contents-source.gz Cool! I

Re: Your biggest achievement during past DebConfs (aka new DebConf promoting campaign)

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 10:32:41AM -0500, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: and may be also Mark S -- I believe U. was kinda conceived at debconf 2003 or so ;-) I can confirm that at DebConf03 in Oslo I have heard rumors about a company with no name intending to base a distribution with no name upon

Re: Your biggest achievement during past DebConfs (aka new DebConf promoting campaign)

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 01:16:05AM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: On Montag, 13. Februar 2012, Andreas Tille wrote: I can confirm that at DebConf03 in Oslo I have heard rumors about a company with no name intending to base a distribution with no name upon Debian. sure that wasn't DebConf4

Re: How about using national flags instead of text in debian.org?

On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 12:12:34PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: to try to follow a recognized international standard as closely as possible. Issues around nationality, language, and countries are political landmines, and it's very easy to blunder into an argument that one never intended and

Report from Debian Med sprint

Hi, as you might have noticed the Debian Med team has organised its second sprint in Southport last weekend[1]. I would like to give a short report about this from my personal perspective. I added a short version of my agenda to the Wiki page[2]. 1) Ensembl packaging specifically working on

Re: 1 year release good enough.

On Sun, Jan 01, 2012 at 01:40:36PM -0500, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: Well put Russ!!! Fully ACK. Relative percentage is not that important as long as absolute number is positive, which means that fun goes on and our efforts are of benefit ;) And depending on the audience (field of

Re: Security guidelines for Debian people

On Sat, Nov 05, 2011 at 11:51:33AM +0100, Andreas Schuldei wrote: This thread reminds me of a Dutch management book entitled Managing Professionals? Don't do it![1]. i agree, rules like that become silly, quickly. but if someone explains good best practice to me and motivates why it is

Re: Linuxtag Germany (Berlin) 2011 -- recap

On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 09:43:33AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: I plan to start some game-related blends at some stage. I need to dig a bit more into the technical side of blends first though. IMHO it would be a good idea to use Debian Jr as template for what you are planing. We should agree to sit

Re: Better visibility of what can you do with Debian on the Debian main page

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:06:33AM +0200, Jérôme wrote: Small Apple Apps provide 1 contents and not 1 task, this is redundant programming ( a browser for parents, a browser for children, a browser for cat...). It's like ou must use vim for editing scripts emacs for editing configs and gedit

Re: Better visibility of what can you do with Debian on the?Debian main page

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 08:14:47AM +0200, Adrian von Bidder wrote: And what is wrong with just plain Applications? I think the whole app store thing is blown out of proportion by the marketing teams of a few companies, we do not need to join he hype on this. I'm personally against hypes and

Re: Better visibility of what can you do with Debian on the?Debian main page

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 09:10:47AM +0100, Enrico Zini wrote: I tried to post about it yesterday, but it doesn't seem to have been noticed: http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2011/04/msg00054.html I perfectly noticed your posting and I completely agree with your point that it should be

Re: Better visibility of what can you do with Debian on the?Debian main page

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 11:49:14AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: To google only means to search the web using one specific service which happens to be very popular. Just as (at least in Denmark) non-geeks since long use the term Word to mean word processor even though it only means one

Re: Better visibility of what can you do with Debian on the?Debian main page

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:41:49PM +0100, Enrico Zini wrote: Sorry, I think I misunderstood the thread, I thought you wanted to redesign the current web views of Debian packages so that it is somehow more trendy/modern, but I now realised you only want to find it a trendier/more modern name.

Re: Better visibility of what can you do with Debian on the Debian main page

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 07:22:36AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: We might justify this on the basis that “store” doesn't necessarily mean a place where you buy things, only a place where things are stored for later use; e.g. a farm's grain store or a hospital's medicine store. Ahh ... People

Re: Better visibility of what can you do with Debian on the Debian main page

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 09:54:40AM -0700, Noah Meyerhans wrote: I think a case could be made for Debian's apt system being the original app store Yes. That's what I wanted to say in my previous mail! And because there was a mail about not accepting the term app store because repository is

Re: Better visibility of what can you do with Debian on the Debian main page

[#622274 in CC] On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 05:47:18PM +0200, Adrian von Bidder wrote: Yodel! DiDu! ... Linking to blends and/or subprojects would be addressing target groups, which would probably be useful. I do really like this suggestion! My proposal (which is orthogonal) is linking

Re: blends linked from the main debian page

Hi, On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 03:10:45PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: Sure, that's a relevant question. But after all, it's a policy question as many others that the -www team has to do when deciding what should go on the first page and what should not. So let's proceed one bit at a time.

Re: Report from Med@Tel

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 08:15:06AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: Thanks for the report, I've added it to the TODO list for the next DPN and bounced your mail to debian-publicity. Thanks - I missed that list. A lot of the more popular social media in use today are at odds with free software

Re: Report from Med@Tel

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 09:29:49AM +0200, Olivier Sallou wrote: regarding Twitter, it is very network related, you register to a feed and possibly forward to your followers. I am not sure this would finally touch/ping the final user. Either you already know Debian(Med), and this could be

Re: blends linked from the main debian page

Hi, On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 04:50:14PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: 3. In Debian we have a number of great sub-projects which are not properly exposed even within Debian itself. I have once suggested to float all the blends up to the main Debian page to make it at once look appealing

Re: blends linked from the main debian page

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 05:47:34PM -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: Although Debian blends coincide with the quantization level I foresaw for Debian sub-projects to be mentioned on the main page, it does not need to be a blend. E.g. the NeuroDebian -- we contribute to both DebianScience and

Report from Med@Tel

Hi, I would like to give a short report about my presence at Med@Tel in Luxembourg. This conference for medicine informatics had some Open Source track and the organisers invited me to give an introduction about Debian Med. The slides of my talk are available as well as the paper I submitted

Debian Med presentation at Health care event in Luxembourg

Hi, I'm please to announce that I will present Debian Med (and thus Debian) on an international health care conference Med@Tel[1] in Luxembourg (6-8 April 2011). The talk will be on 7th April in Conference Room 4 in the track Benefits of Free/Libre Open Source Software in Health Care (FLOSS-HC):

Re: Report from this years CeBIT

Hi Alex, thanks for your report and thanks even more for holding the booth that bravely (for sure this is also valid for the other booth stuff). On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 01:00:14PM +0100, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: To make a long story short: Quite a lot people came by simply to thank

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

Hi Tony, I would like to discuss this topic in a separate thread on debian-project where it might belong to. On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 12:55:58AM +, Tony Travis wrote: it would not be a good user experience at all running it under Debian with Iceweasel instead of Firefox, for example, and

Re: Results of the App Installer Meeting

Hi, thanks for the report and the fine work which the report is basing upon. A view remarks: On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 12:13:38PM +1000, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: We do not want the end users we target here to have to learn about packages: they already know what an application is, and this is

Re: Results of the App Installer Meeting

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 12:55:36PM +0100, David Kalnischkies wrote: If I remember correctly, DDTP got a short mention and the result was: Wow, debian really has translations for package descriptions?!? Other distributions seem to have only failed (=very outdated) tries if any. IMHO this does

Svgtune (Was: Report from Debian booth at SfN2010)

On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 05:07:43PM -0500, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: unfortunately to build neurodebian logo without hassle from original inkscape file you would need our little svgtune [1] (which was rejected from Debian); otherwise all sources are there [1]

Re: Svgtune

On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 12:38:53PM +0100, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: Am 26.11.2010 11:47, schrieb Petter Reinholdtsen: [Andreas Tille] Any link to the rejection message to learn about the reasons? Sounds like a cool tool. Searching on Google for wnpp svgtune sent me to URL: http

Re: [DEP5] Asking for common wisdom on new field(s): References*

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 09:57:32PM -0500, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: I really think that this information should be in another file... well, in general I do not mind; but yet 'another file' might introduce more cons than pros This another file is probably used for one year and was discussed

Re: Report from Debian booth at SfN2010

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 03:39:53PM -0500, Michael Hanke wrote: [ there is also a HTML version of this report with images available at: http://neuro.debian.net/booth_sfn2010.html ] Really cool report! Thanks for sharing. For me who is always advertising the idea that Debian can grow trough

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