Stable update procedures

2009-01-29 Thread James Westby
Hi all, I've just got round to reading this week's LWN and it has an interesting article entitled Fedora looks to prevent upgrade disasters http://lwn.net/Articles/316194/ It's subscriber-only for a week, if you can't see it then mail me privately for a subscriber-link, or better yet

Re: TrueCrypt licensing concern

2008-10-07 Thread James Westby
On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 11:05 -0400, Tom spot Callaway wrote: Recently, we had a request to add TrueCrypt to Fedora, and as part of that, we did due diligence on the license. What our legal counsel discovered was truly horrifying: not only was the license non-free, it almost certainly opens the

Re: Why Upstream

2008-09-23 Thread James Westby
On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 21:16 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Added to http://distributions.freedesktop.org/wiki/Packaging/WhyUpstream Note that there seems to be an issue with creating new wiki pages. Adding ?action=edit in the end helps workaround it. Thanks to Toshio Kuriotami for that

Providing more information to users about a package

2008-05-24 Thread James Westby
Hi all, I'm at the airport on my way back from UDS. One of the sessions we did there was a phone conference with Richard Hughes (on Cc) about PackageKit. We got on to talking about wider issues, including how to provide more information about a package when a user is thinking about installing it,

Re: First meeting times and agenda

2008-04-21 Thread James Westby
On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 13:21 +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote: I've been on vacation and only now read this thread. Did the IRC meeting took place? Are there any minutes available? Will there be another meeting? Hi, You can find the log of the meeting at

First meeting times and agenda

2008-03-28 Thread James Westby
Hi all, I would like to get the first meeting organised. We had a tentative date of Weds 9th April 20:00 UTC, but Martin suggested we use a scheduling service, so I created http://doodle.ch/participation.html?pollId=skh8xx69z68hkfzb please go and fill in your availability there. I will take a

Re: Packaging Guidelines discussions

2008-03-26 Thread James Westby
On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 10:17 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: On 16:47 Wed 26 Mar , James Westby wrote: I think IRC meetings would be a good next step. I had a look on freenode, and #distributions is taken, #distributions-devel is not, would that be unacceptable to anyone? Freenode