direct ikiwiki repo access and alioth accounts

2008-03-17 Thread martin f krafft
vcs-pkg.org is backed by Git. If you prefer filesystem access, you can clone it: git://git.debian.org/git/vcs-pkg/ikiwiki.git http://git.debian.org/git/vcs-pkg/ikiwiki.git but since there is little point in sending patches (it's easier and quicker to go through the web), I am happy to hand out

Re: Requirements of a VCS packaging tool

2008-03-17 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach James Westby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.03.17.1938 +0100]: > Martin asked that we look at what such a tool needs to do, > so here's my attempt at starting that discussion. As you already pointed out, this is not what I asked for, but it's very useful nonetheless. > I do not believe thi

Re: Introduction and vcs-pkg.org/people/ pages

2008-03-17 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.03.17.2143 +0100]: > The preview button didn't work when I was trying to make a page. This > confused me for a while, until I decided to just commit my "broken" > markup anyway and it worked fine. Bug reported. It's the table plugin. I suppos

Re: Introduction and vcs-pkg.org/people/ pages

2008-03-17 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Jesse Keating <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.03.17.2159 +0100]: > Also, the template has "Fedora" as a tag, but the front page is looking > for "fedora" as a tag. I changed my page manually. Fixed, although tags are case-insensitive, which I didn't know. -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[EM

Re: Introduction and vcs-pkg.org/people/ pages

2008-03-17 Thread Jesse Keating
On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 13:43 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > The preview button didn't work when I was trying to make a page. This > confused me for a while, until I decided to just commit my "broken" > markup anyway and it worked fine. Heh, I did the same. Also, the template has "Fedora" as

Re: Introduction and vcs-pkg.org/people/ pages

2008-03-17 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 17:41 Mon 17 Mar , martin f krafft wrote: > I thus invite you all to surf on over to http://vcs-pkg.org/people/ > and create yourself a page. Please make sure to use the template > linked there, which IkiWiki should do for you, but I think I've hit > a bug. Well, it's all there on the page..

Re: bzr-loom plugin

2008-03-17 Thread Jelmer Vernooij
Am Montag, den 17.03.2008, 09:18 + schrieb James Westby: > On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 09:17 +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:> > > Is anyone using bzr-loom for packaging? > Not that I know of yet. The plugin is only a few weeks old. I plan > to start looking at it more in depth for packaging soon. It's

Re: Requirements of a VCS packaging tool

2008-03-17 Thread James Westby
On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 18:38 +, James Westby wrote: > Hi, > > Martin asked that we look at what such a tool needs to do, > so here's my attempt at starting that discussion. Looking back this isn't what Martin asked for at all, oops. I'll see if I can provide what he did want tomorrow. I thin

Requirements of a VCS packaging tool

2008-03-17 Thread James Westby
Hi, Martin asked that we look at what such a tool needs to do, so here's my attempt at starting that discussion. I do not believe this document will be entirely complete, please add anything else that you think is important. This is obviously also coloured by my own experience and views from deve

Introduction and vcs-pkg.org/people/ pages

2008-03-17 Thread martin f krafft
Hi, As this list continues to grow (~70 people now), I am surely not the only one wondering who we all are. Specifically, since vcs-pkg is (supposed to be) a cross-distro effort, I am curious as to what other distros are currently represented and with whom we're all dealing. Instead of sending in

Re: bzr-loom plugin

2008-03-17 Thread James Westby
On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 12:43 +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach James Westby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.03.17.1018 +0100]: > > It is similar, but there are some differences that I think make it > > more appropriate. > > > > You may be able to achieve the same abilities with these tools thou

Re: conary - package management and maintenance?

2008-03-17 Thread Jesse Keating
On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 16:31 +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > I recently encountered Conary[0] and initially thought of it as > a package installation manager, but it turns out that it also > handles the other side, the package maintenance side. > > 0. http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Conary > > Which ve

conary - package management and maintenance?

2008-03-17 Thread martin f krafft
Hi, I recently encountered Conary[0] and initially thought of it as a package installation manager, but it turns out that it also handles the other side, the package maintenance side. 0. http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Conary Which version control system does it use? Does Conary address the vcs-pkg

Re: bzr-loom plugin

2008-03-17 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach James Westby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.03.17.1018 +0100]: > It is similar, but there are some differences that I think make it > more appropriate. > > You may be able to achieve the same abilities with these tools though, > I'm not experienced with them. I've been lurking at your mail

Extremadura meeting canceled (was: Upcoming Extremadura session: 2-6 April 2008 - response needed)

2008-03-17 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.03.11.2034 +0100]: > I have recently applied for an Extremadura slot for vcs-pkg, and we > would have the chance to meet at the next meeting, which is at the > beginning of next month, 2-6 April. There hasn't been the level of interest which I

Re: bzr-loom plugin

2008-03-17 Thread James Westby
On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 09:17 +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > Hi, > > > There is a new plugin for Bazaar, called the loom plugin. > > > > https://launchpad.net/bzr-loom > > What you describe sounds like something of 'guilt', or 'stg' for > 'git'. > It is similar, but there are some differences th