Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

2007-02-27 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2007-02-27, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > maintainers not always responsing to bugs, then probably the simplest > thing to do would be to code up a view in the BTS that lists bugs that > have not had a maintainer response (filtering out responses that appear > to be from the bug submitt

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

2007-02-27 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Don Armstrong [Mon, Feb 26 2007, 01:55:42PM]: > On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Andreas Tille wrote: > > A maintainer who refuses to respond to a reasonable bug report of a > > user does not deserve any user. > > It's not a case of maintainers refusing to respond, it's a case of > some maintainer

Bug#412650: ITP: guilt -- guilt adds Mercurial queues-like functionality on top of git

2007-02-27 Thread Brandon Philips
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Brandon Philips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: guilt Version : 0.20 Upstream Author : Josef "Jeff" Sipek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jsipek/guilt/ * License : GPLv2 Pro

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

2007-02-27 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
On Tuesday 27 February 2007, Ben Finney wrote: > Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > "cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > - an indication the effort of submitting a bug report is apreciated > > > - an indication the effort will _not_ be ignored in the long run > > >

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

2007-02-27 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
On Tuesday 27 February 2007, Ben Finney wrote: > Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > SO rather than sending excuses-templates, when I've had time to check > > the bug is actually there, I do use the confirmed tag to: > > * ack this is an actual bug ; > > * ack that I've been able

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

2007-02-27 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 27 février 2007 à 09:24 +0100, Eduard Bloch a écrit : > And how do you help a maintainer that does not admit that he needs help? I can't believe people are thinking such crap. Please show me where a current maintainer of Mozilla, KDE, GNOME, the glibc, the kernel, X.org or any such big g

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

2007-02-27 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
On Tuesday 27 February 2007, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mardi 27 février 2007 à 09:24 +0100, Eduard Bloch a écrit : > > And how do you help a maintainer that does not admit that he needs > > help? > Please show me where a current maintainer of Mozilla, KDE, GNOME, the > glibc, the kernel, X.org

Re: Bug#412566: ITP: aes2501-wy -- userspace software for usb aes2501 fingerprint scanner

2007-02-27 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 02:50:24AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > I'd post the beautiful fingerprint scan I just did, but that's perhaps > not a great idea. ;-) Don't sorry, I'm quite sure I'll be able to grab a few ones from your glasses at next Debconf. :-) /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.ses

Re: ITP memlockd

2007-02-27 Thread Russell Coker
On Friday 09 February 2007 22:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Where can I get the code ?  :-) http://www.coker.com.au/memlockd/ I've now made a second release of memlockd, it's at the above URL. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://etbe.blogspot.com/ My Blog http://www.coker.com.au/sponsorship.

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

2007-02-27 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 11:04:47AM +0100, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote: > On Tuesday 27 February 2007, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Le mardi 27 février 2007 à 09:24 +0100, Eduard Bloch a écrit : > > > And how do you help a maintainer that does not admit that he needs > > > help? WTF ?! > > Y

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

2007-02-27 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
On Tuesday 27 February 2007, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 11:04:47AM +0100, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote: > > On Tuesday 27 February 2007, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > > Le mardi 27 février 2007 à 09:24 +0100, Eduard Bloch a écrit : > > > Who is not acknowledging such obviou

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

2007-02-27 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 01:37:56PM +0100, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote: > On Tuesday 27 February 2007, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 11:04:47AM +0100, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) > wrote: > > > On Tuesday 27 February 2007, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > > > Le mardi 27 février

Bug#412704: ITP: ocaml-ao -- OCaml bindings for libao

2007-02-27 Thread Romain Beauxis
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Samuel Mimram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: ocaml-ao Version : 0.1.6 Upstream Author : the Savonet Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://savonet.sf.net/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: OCaml Description

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

2007-02-27 Thread Matthias Julius
Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If I receive automatic notification from the BTS that the maintainer > has attached a "confirmed" tag to the bug, that is plenty of > acknowledgement. or "pending", "upstream", "wontfix", "help" or change in severity. Any of those actions indicates that so

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

2007-02-27 Thread Oleksandr Moskalenko
* Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-02-26 21:51:13 -0500]: > If someone would actually like to do something about the problem of > maintainers not always responsing to bugs, then probably the simplest > thing to do would be to code up a view in the BTS that lists bugs that > have not had a maint

Bug#412724: ITP: hg-buildpackage -- Suite to help with Debian packages in Mercurial archives

2007-02-27 Thread John Goerzen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: hg-buildpackage Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : hg clone http://hg.complete.org/hg-buildpackage (coming within a few h

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

2007-02-27 Thread Loïc Minier
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > I already warned you about this privately in december; here's another > "Warn"? You feel the need to warn me? Does bringing me to STFU make you > happy or so? No; I warned you not to put everybody in the same bag in the same pointless discussion tha

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

2007-02-27 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Loïc Minier [Mon, Feb 26 2007, 01:32:50PM]: > On Mon, Feb 26, 2007, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > A good example already comes to my mind where the maintainer > > is doing uploads but only for bugs that have RC priority or important > > and are easy to fix. Not matching this criteri

0-day bug forwarding and bug patching on GNOME bugs

2007-02-27 Thread Loïc Minier
You've read this correctly! Starting NOW, we are in permanent bug triaging, bug forwarding, but patching party on ALL GNOME bugs, pick one before it's too late! You may immediately take any GNOME bugs which didn't receive due care and forward it upstream and/or send a patch to it and/or requ

0-day bug forwarding and bug patching on MOZILLA bugs

2007-02-27 Thread Mike Hommey
You've read this correctly! Starting NOW, we are in permanent bug triaging, bug forwarding, but patching party on ALL MOZILLA bugs, pick one before it's too late! You may immediately take any MOZILLA bugs which didn't receive due care and forward it upstream and/or send a patch to it and/or

0-day bug forwarding and bug patching on X bugs

2007-02-27 Thread Julien Cristau
You've read this correctly! Starting NOW, we are in permanent bug triaging, bug forwarding, bug patching party on ALL X bugs, pick one before it's too late! You may immediately take any X bugs which didn't receive due care and forward it upstream and/or send a patch to it and/or request more

0-day bug forwarding and bug patching on SDL bugs

2007-02-27 Thread Aurelien Jarno
You've read this correctly! Starting NOW, we are in permanent bug triaging, bug forwarding, but patching party on ALL SDL bugs, pick one before it's too late! You may immediately take any SDL bugs which didn't receive due care and forward it upstream and/or send a patch to it and/or request

0-day bug forwarding and bug patching on ALL bugs

2007-02-27 Thread Wouter Verhelst
You've read this correctly! Starting TEN YEARS AGO, we are in permanent bug triaging, bug forwarding, but patching party on ALL bugs, pick one before it's too late! You may immediately take any bugs which didn't receive due care and forward it upstream and/or send a patch to it and/or request mor

Re: 0-day bug forwarding and bug patching on ALL bugs

2007-02-27 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 08:46:11PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > You've read this correctly! Starting TEN YEARS AGO, we are in > permanent bug triaging, bug forwarding, but patching party on ALL > bugs, pick one before it's too late! > > You may immediately take any bugs which didn't receive du

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

2007-02-27 Thread Ben Finney
Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote: > > people are more likely to help you fix a problem if they are > > directly affected by it (cause people tend to scratch their own > > itches). > > That's the theory. My experience for KDE bugs, is that something > l

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

2007-02-27 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO En cette nuit nuageuse du mardi 27 février 2007, vers 01:04, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: > Maintaining packages should be fun and rewarding too. Punishing people > for not doing something that we think is important has its place, but only > sparingly. Reporting bug should be f

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

2007-02-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Vincent Bernat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: >> Maintaining packages should be fun and rewarding too. Punishing people >> for not doing something that we think is important has its place, but >> only sparingly. > Reporting bug should be fun too. Not get

Re: heimdal and ldap

2007-02-27 Thread Brian May
> "Russ" == Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Russ> Correct. This is because the new version of OpenLDAP cannot Russ> be linked against GnuTLS (our local patch is already Russ> problematic in 2.1 and broke in later versions), so it can Russ> only build with OpenSSL, and

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

2007-02-27 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Josselin Mouette [Tue, Feb 27 2007, 10:30:39AM]: > Le mardi 27 février 2007 à 09:24 +0100, Eduard Bloch a écrit : > > And how do you help a maintainer that does not admit that he needs help? > > I can't believe people are thinking such crap. > > Please show me where a current maintain

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

2007-02-27 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Eduard Bloch wrote: > #include > * Don Armstrong [Mon, Feb 26 2007, 01:55:42PM]: > > I'm open to suggestions of real solutions to this problem, > > (indeed, I continue to suggest that interested people jump in and > > help out) but technical hurdles for maintainers to overcom

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Re: heimdal and ldap

2007-02-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> "Russ" == Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Russ> Correct. This is because the new version of OpenLDAP cannot > Russ> be linked against GnuTLS (our local patch is already > Russ> problematic in 2.1 and broke in later versions), so

Re: heimdal and ldap

2007-02-27 Thread Brian May
> "Russ" == Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Russ> A backward compatibility symlink seems like a reasonable Russ> idea to me. Is that already what was proposed in the bug? Russ> (I'm vaguely ancillarily involved in OpenLDAP packaging but Russ> am not really a core memb

Re: heimdal and ldap

2007-02-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> "Russ" == Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Russ> A backward compatibility symlink seems like a reasonable > Russ> idea to me. Is that already what was proposed in the bug? > Russ> (I'm vaguely ancillarily involved in OpenLDAP pack