Re: Current NEW review process saps developer motivation [Was: Looking for new maintainer(s) for GStreamer packages]

2022-08-26 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Gard Spreemann (2022-08-26 08:49:21) > On August 25, 2022 10:52:56 AM GMT+02:00, "Sebastian Dröge" > wrote: > >PS: To preempt any questions as for why, the background for my decision > >to stop maintaining any packages is this thread, but it's really just > >the straw that broke the camel

Re: Current NEW review process saps developer motivation [Was: Looking for new maintainer(s) for GStreamer packages]

2022-08-26 Thread Gard Spreemann
Jonas Smedegaard writes: > Quoting Gard Spreemann (2022-08-26 08:49:21) >> On August 25, 2022 10:52:56 AM GMT+02:00, "Sebastian Dröge" >> wrote: >> >PS: To preempt any questions as for why, the background for my decision >> >to stop maintaining any packages is this thread, but it's really just

Converting Debian OpenStack images to btrfs

2022-08-26 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
(I'm not subscribed to the list, please CC me. Thanks!) Hello! I'm using Debian's OpenStack images to deploy buildd hosts for Debian Ports. [1] To workaround a longstanding qemu/glibc compatibility issue [2], I need the images to use btrfs instead of ext4 and I was wondering whether anyone can

Saturation of the FTP Team's available bandwidth processing NEW

2022-08-26 Thread Phil Morrell
On Wed Aug 24 23:20:30 BST 2022, Sean Whitton wrote: > I'm afraid I cannot respond to a message of this length. As I > mentioned previously, all the ftpteam really have the bandwidth to do > is process what's in NEW. * This is more concerning than its indirect effect on uploader motivation * Man

Re: Current NEW review process saps developer motivation

2022-08-26 Thread Simon McVittie
On Fri, 26 Aug 2022 at 09:09:25 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > The way I see it, the process is clear: provide *source* to build from. > > If there is "source" built from another source, then that other source > is the true source. I hope you agree that we are doing this in order to get some de

Re: Current NEW review process saps developer motivation

2022-08-26 Thread Bastien Roucariès
Le vendredi 26 août 2022, 10:58:28 UTC Simon McVittie a écrit : > On Fri, 26 Aug 2022 at 09:09:25 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > The way I see it, the process is clear: provide *source* to build from. > > > > If there is "source" built from another source, then that other source > > is the tru

Bug#1018175: ITP: funing -- a simple face recognition GUI

2022-08-26 Thread Bo YU
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bo YU X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: funing Version : 0.2.54 Upstream Author : larryw3i * URL : https://pypi.org/project/funing/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python Description :

Re: Current NEW review process saps developer motivation

2022-08-26 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Simon" == Simon McVittie writes: Simon> I don't think building from the least-derived form is always Simon> the right thing to do. For instance, take rust-glib-sys, a Simon> package of Rust bindings for the GLib library, which is one Simon> of the libraries whose handling p

Bug#1018181: ITP: just - Save and run project-specific commands

2022-08-26 Thread Blair Noctis
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Blair Noctis X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, n...@sail.ng * Package name: just Version : 1.4.0 Upstream Author : Casey Rodarmor * URL : https://github.com/casey/just * License : CC0-1.0 Programming Lang:

Bug#1018193: ITP: the-foundation -- Opinionated C11 library for low-level functionality

2022-08-26 Thread Michel Alexandre Salim
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michel Alexandre Salim X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, mic...@michel-slm.name * Package name: the-foundation Version : 1.4.0 Upstream Author : Jaakko Keränen * URL : https://codeberg.org/skyjake/the_Foundation * Li

Comments on proposing NEW queue improvement (Re: Current NEW review process saps developer motivation

2022-08-26 Thread M. Zhou
To be honest, in terms of volunteered reviewing work, waiting for several months is not something new. In academia, it may take several months to years to get a journal paper response. I've ever tried to think of possible ways to improve the process, but several observations eventually changed my

Re: Comments on proposing NEW queue improvement (Re: Current NEW review process saps developer motivation

2022-08-26 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 04:13:43PM -0400, M. Zhou wrote: > If one's enthusiasm on working on some package is eventually > worn out after a break, then try to think of the following question: > > Is it really necessary to introduce XXX to Debian? > Must I do this to have fun? > > Strong motiva

Re: Current NEW review process saps developer motivation

2022-08-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, 2022-08-26 at 11:58 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > I don't think building from the least-derived form is always the > right thing to do. Personally, I believe that instances of that represent bugs in how the upstream source trees and build processes are organised. > For instance, take ru

Re: Current NEW review process saps developer motivation

2022-08-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, 2022-08-26 at 11:58 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > I don't think it's always useful to talk about "the" source or "the" > preferred form for modification, as though there is only one. I see both the licensing and source aspects of the Free Software movement as aspiring to providing a high

Re: Converting Debian OpenStack images to btrfs

2022-08-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, 2022-08-26 at 11:05 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > To workaround a longstanding qemu/glibc compatibility issue [2], I need > the images to use btrfs instead of ext4 and I was wondering whether anyone > can give me some hints on how to convert the images provided at [1] from > ex