Re: Debconf

2009-07-21 Thread James Westby
martin f krafft wrote: also sprach James Westby jw+deb...@jameswestby.net [2009.04.13.2326 +0200]: Event Title: vcs-pkg.org workgroup Subtitle: Drafting a roadmap for vcs-pkg.org Track: DebConf Event type: Workshop (or should it be BoF? There is no explanation) This just happened on IRC in

Re: Debconf

2009-04-14 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:26:31PM +0100, James Westby wrote: OK, it's a bit last minute, sorry, but here is a proposal that I will submit to debconf in 24 hours time, any feedback is welcome. Thanks! Event type: Workshop (or should it be BoF? There is no explanation) I think it should be a

Re: Debconf

2009-04-14 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
Hi James, just a small issue: On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:26:31PM +0100, James Westby wrote: Event Title: vcs-pkg.org workgroup Subtitle: Drafting a roadmap for vcs-pkg.org Track: DebConf Event type: Workshop (or should it be BoF? There is no explanation) Abstract:

Re: Debconf

2009-04-14 Thread James Westby
On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 10:31 +0200, Jan Hauke Rahm wrote: Hi James, just a small issue: On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:26:31PM +0100, James Westby wrote: Event Title: vcs-pkg.org workgroup Subtitle: Drafting a roadmap for vcs-pkg.org Track: DebConf Event type:

Re: Debconf

2009-04-14 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach James Westby jw+deb...@jameswestby.net [2009.04.13.2326 +0200]: If any DebConf attendees have a radically different proposal then I suggest you go ahead and submit it, as the deadline is on the 15th of this month, and we can then decide which of the proposals to withdraw afterwards

Re: Debconf

2009-04-14 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 11:41:51AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: I always try to say modern VCS, instead of distributed. The problem with SVN and all the other centralised VCS is not that they are centralised, but that they basically don't know what merges are. They pretend to merge, and SVN

Re: Debconf

2009-04-14 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Jan Hauke Rahm i...@jhr-online.de [2009.04.14.1146 +0200]: Interesting point. Let's say we keep that field open until there is an idea of implementation that would actually work. We can drop support for VCSs and distros then if needed. ;-) Absolutely. I definitely did not mean to

Re: Debconf

2009-04-13 Thread James Westby
On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 14:00 +, James Westby wrote: So, a first proposal to get us going: a half-day BoF on vcs-pkg, attempting first to define the problems the project should solve, and then sketching out a roadmap to tackle them. OK, it's a bit last minute, sorry, but here is a proposal

Re: Debconf

2009-03-31 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Jan Hauke Rahm i...@jhr-online.de [2009.03.30.1207 +0200]: Is this going to be decided before April, 15th? If I attend debconf I'd definitely need sponsoring and thus to register before April, 15th. This project would be an intersting point on my list of reasons to attend debconf

Re: Debconf

2009-03-30 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:18:30PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Stefano Zacchiroli z...@debian.org [2009.03.25.1625 +0100]: Martin, given that you are also among DebConf organizers, how about hosting *at* DebCamp a vcs-pkg meeting? We can announce it here and see whether other

Re: Debconf

2009-03-26 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 23:18 Wed 25 Mar , martin f krafft wrote: Are any of the RedHat/Fedora, Suse, Arch, Gentoo, YourDistroHere people interested? For Gentoo, I am interested but this is an extraordinarily bad time for me. I expect to defend my Ph.D. thesis around this time. If there's some funded

Re: Debconf

2009-03-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Donnie Berkholz dberkh...@gentoo.org writes: For Gentoo, I am interested but this is an extraordinarily bad time for me. I expect to defend my Ph.D. thesis around this time. If there's some funded opportunity to meet later in the year, or perhaps next DebConf, that should be possible for me.

Re: Debconf

2009-03-26 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Donnie Berkholz dberkh...@gentoo.org [2009.03.26.1232 +0100]: For Gentoo, I am interested but this is an extraordinarily bad time for me. I expect to defend my Ph.D. thesis around this time. If there's some funded opportunity to meet later in the year, or perhaps next DebConf, that

Re: Debconf

2009-03-25 Thread James Westby
On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 18:41 +0100, martin f krafft wrote: I will probably be there and I am definitely interested in doing something vcs-pkg. I am a little weary though about doing something in a Debian/Ubuntu-only context, because this group is already strongly Debian/Ubuntu-centric [0], so

Re: Debconf

2009-03-25 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 02:00:19PM +, James Westby wrote: On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 18:41 +0100, martin f krafft wrote: I will probably be there and I am definitely interested in doing something vcs-pkg. I am a little weary though about doing something in a Debian/Ubuntu-only context,

Re: Debconf

2009-03-25 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Stefano Zacchiroli z...@debian.org [2009.03.25.1625 +0100]: Martin, given that you are also among DebConf organizers, how about hosting *at* DebCamp a vcs-pkg meeting? We can announce it here and see whether other people, not necessarily related to Debian, are willing to attend