Re: low-hanging-fruit bug user tag for new comers first contributions

2018-05-31 Thread Ken
Dear all, Sorry to butt in, but I am exactly a newcomer who has been looking for a spot to contribute. I have packaged RPMs for university projects and used cvs, svn, git, etc in various projects, so I am not exactly totally clueless. But I did have some learning curve for debian. I have bee

Re: low-hanging-fruit bug user tag for new comers first contributions

2018-05-31 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 06/01/2018 01:06 AM, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Thu, 31 May 2018, Chris Lamb wrote: >> I think what's missing to make this a reality is some sort of >> newcomer-friendly aggregated view of such issues and — naturally — for >> them to be kept up-to-date with enough details needed to implement >> t

Work-needing packages report for Jun 1, 2018

2018-05-31 Thread wnpp
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 1301 (new: 10) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 158 (new: 0) Total number of packages reque

Re: low-hanging-fruit bug user tag for new comers first contributions

2018-05-31 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 31 May 2018, Chris Lamb wrote: > I think what's missing to make this a reality is some sort of > newcomer-friendly aggregated view of such issues and — naturally — for > them to be kept up-to-date with enough details needed to implement > them. I support this completely. The existing newco

Bug#900532: ITP: estscan -- ORF-independent detector of coding DNA sequences

2018-05-31 Thread Steffen Moeller
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Steffen Moeller * Package name: estscan Version : 3.0.3 * URL : http://estscan.sourceforge.net/ * License : non-free custom Programming Lang: C, Fortran Description : ORF-independent detector of coding DNA sequences

Bug#900531: ITP: tinyjsd -- Lightweight JavaScript Debugger for Thunderbird and Firefox

2018-05-31 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Daniel Kahn Gillmor * Package name: tinyjsd Version : 1.2 Upstream Author : Patrick Brunschwig * URL : https://sourceforge.net/u/pbrunschwig/tinyjsd * License : MPL 2.0 Programming Lang: JavaScript Description :

Bug#900529: ITP: jsunit -- A suite to perform unit tests for JavaScript in Thunderbird and Firefox

2018-05-31 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Daniel Kahn Gillmor * Package name: jsunit Version : 0.1.4 Upstream Author : Patrick Brunschwig * URL : https://sourceforge.net/u/pbrunschwig/jsunit * License : MPL 2.0 Programming Lang: JavaScript Description :

Re: low-hanging-fruit bug user tag for new comers first contributions

2018-05-31 Thread Chris Lamb
Chris Lamb wrote: > > So I wonder if we couldn't do something similar in Debian: a > > low-hanging-fruit usertag (of course, another name is fine to me...) > > Good idea. How about the pre-existing "newcomer" tag: > > https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#tags My reply was far too abrupt; sor

Re: low-hanging-fruit bug user tag for new comers first contributions

2018-05-31 Thread Chris Lamb
Hi Thomas, > So I wonder if we couldn't do something similar in Debian: a > low-hanging-fruit usertag (of course, another name is fine to me...) Good idea. How about the pre-existing "newcomer" tag: https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#tags :) Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chr

low-hanging-fruit bug user tag for new comers first contributions

2018-05-31 Thread Thomas Goirand
Hi there! Reading the Debian mentors list, I read someone that didn't understand why a fix to a package wasn't included in the package, even though he provided a patch, and that it was very easy to fix. I also remember lamby's self presentation where he explained what made him do more in Debian w

Re: Bits from the DPL (May 2018)

2018-05-31 Thread Chris Lamb
Hi Yves-Alexis, > > * Discussing a potential scenario where we could provide hardware > >encryption keys for all Developers, […] > would it be possible to get more details on this? If it was > already discussed publicly I have missed it You did not miss anything; it was not discussed in publ

Re: Bits from the DPL (May 2018)

2018-05-31 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Thu, 2018-05-31 at 17:33 +0100, Chris Lamb wrote: > * Discussing a potential scenario where we could provide hardware >encryption keys for all Developers, partly as another benefit of being a >DD [25] but moreoever to raise the general le

Re: RFR: email about regressions [was: Dealing with ci.d.n for package regressions]

2018-05-31 Thread peter green
> In my perception, the biggest reason is a social one. The is resistance > to the fact that issues with autopkgtests out of one's control can block > one's package (this is quite different than in Ubuntu). Can you elaborate on how this is different than in Ubuntu? It sounds pretty similar to me

Re: packages which have not been rebuild since December 2016

2018-05-31 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 05:33:10PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > > We have the "upload_history" relation but that will only give us an > > upper limit (roughly 50% of the archive). > > I think this should be relatively easy to compute: yes, that's the easy part, once you have the data :) >

Re: Please remove your obsolete repos from alioth *NOW*

2018-05-31 Thread Herbert Fortes
Em 31-05-2018 14:50, Alexander Wirt escreveu: On Thu, 31 May 2018, Herbert Fortes wrote: Hi, On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 10:41:21PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 06:30:20PM +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote: There it doesn't make sense to keep anything on alioth which is also on

Re: Please remove your obsolete repos from alioth *NOW*

2018-05-31 Thread Alexander Wirt
On Thu, 31 May 2018, Herbert Fortes wrote: > Hi, > > > On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 10:41:21PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > > > On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 06:30:20PM +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote: > > > > There it doesn't make sense to keep anything on alioth which is also on > > > > salsa. Everything els

Processed: [bts-link] source package general

2018-05-31 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > # > # bts-link upstream status pull for source package general > # see http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/05/msg1.html > # https://bts-link-team.pages.debian.net/bts-link/ > # > user debian-bts-l...@lists.debian.org Setting

Bug#900515: ITP: ruby-fileutils -- Ruby gem providing a namespace for several file utility methods for copying, moving, removing, etc.

2018-05-31 Thread Miguel Landaeta
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Miguel Landaeta * Package name: ruby-fileutils Version : 1.1.0 Upstream Author : Minero Aoki * URL : https://github.com/ruby/fileutils * License : BSD Programming Lang: Ruby Description : Ruby gem providing a Nam

Re: Please remove your obsolete repos from alioth *NOW*

2018-05-31 Thread Herbert Fortes
Hi, On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 10:41:21PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 06:30:20PM +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote: There it doesn't make sense to keep anything on alioth which is also on salsa. Everything else gets archived for historical purposes. Every repo that is on salsa a

Re: packages which have not been rebuild since December 2016

2018-05-31 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Wed, 2018-05-30 at 22:29:24 +0100, Chris Lamb wrote: > > One issue we forgot to mention there is that all binary packages built > > with dpkg < 1.18.17 need to be rebuild. Is that something easy to find > > out with UDD? > > Unless I'm missing something, I don't think that UDD has this. W

Bug#900492: ITP: golang-gopkg-olivere-elastic.v5 -- Elasticsearch client for Golang

2018-05-31 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dmitry Smirnov X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, pkg-go-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org Control: block 823556 by -1 Package name: golang-gopkg-olivere-elastic.v5 Version: 5.0.69 Upstream Author: Oliver Eilhard License: Exp

Bug#900484: ITP: r-cran-zip -- GNU R package for cross-platform zip compression

2018-05-31 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Package: wnpp Owner: Dirk Eddelbuettel Severity: wishlist * Package name: r-cran-zip Version : 1.0.0-1 Upstream Author : Gábor Csárdi, Kuba Podgórski, and Rich Geldreich * URL or Web page : https://cran.r-project.org/package=zip * License : CC0 Description : GNU R pa

Bug#900483: ITP: solvate -- arranges water molecules around protein structures

2018-05-31 Thread Steffen Moeller
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Steffen Moeller * Package name: solvate * URL : http://www.mpibpc.mpg.de/grubmueller/solvate * License : custom Programming Lang: C Description : arranges water molecules around protein structures The package is team-maintai