Re: Work done on the WNPP front

2005-10-02 Thread Matej Vela
David Moreno Garza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

[...]
> A fourth shoot was intended a couple of minutes ago on the ITA bugs. The
> ITAs were a little bit different. Since they represent existing
> packages, the mechanism used here was intended to close bugs, but
> retitling into O. ITAs are a very sensitive part of the WNPP chunk. An
> automatic retitling for ITAs with an inactivity greater than 250 days
> was launched, but it didn't return any bug retitled, which is great
> since at least this shows there is some activity on the BTS regarding
> these bugs.

You can eliminate most of the noise by taking into account only messages
from the prospective adopter (i.e. the owner of the WNPP bug).  See
~vela/ita-age.pl on merkel for a sample implementation; as of today it
lists 20 ITAs older than 250 days.

However, there is an important gotcha with retitling ITAs: currently we
have no reliable way to determine whether the package was previously up
for adoption (RFA) or orphaned (O).

The natural solution is to migrate WNPP bugs to BTS tags.  If I'm
remembering correctly, Anthony Towns talked on IRC about using
orphaned/up-for-adoption tags combined with pending to mark ITAs.
The expiry script would then simply remove the pending tag.

This would also prevent merged bugs from getting into conflicting states
since (unlike titles) they share a single set of tags (see #310181 for
an example of the problem).

Thanks,

Matej


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Re: buzz/rex binaries/install media?

2005-10-18 Thread Matej Vela
Adrian von Bidder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> (Yes, I thought about sending this to -curiosa instead... :-)
>
> For research/fun/..., I want to install historical versions of Debian.  Does 
> anybody have install media of rex and buzz?  I guess it is possible to 
> create packages by starting at bo and compiling the older binaries, but I 
> don't know how easy it would be to recreate the installer disks...

See 
for buzz disks.  I'm sure rex is somewhere around as well.

Regards,

Matej


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Re: New Debian Quality Assurance !

1999-09-16 Thread Matej Vela
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 07:13:46PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> We will feed the task list from now on. The only thing you have to
> do is to subscribe to debian-qa and to visit regulary the web site to
> select a task to do. :-)

When I go to , and click on `#1', I
get this:

 ERROR:
  
  Perl runtime error (interpreter rc=255)
  
 Contents of STDERR channel:
  DBI->connect failed: FATAL 1:  SetUserId: user 'www-data' is not in 
'pg_shadow'
   at /org/qa.debian.org/perl/QA.pm line 380
  Can't call method "do" on unblessed reference at /org/qa.debian.org/perl/QA.pm
  line 383.

Nice work, BTW.