Re: Upstream guide and front desk

2010-08-21 Thread George Danchev
Lars Wirzenius writes: > On pe, 2010-08-20 at 14:55 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > Now, I've no idea if the above would be appropriate for the upstream > > front desk or not. I leave it up to you to decide whether it's worth > > trying or not. > > I think a debian-upstre...@lists.debian.org

Re: On terminology

2010-07-05 Thread George Danchev
Jan Dittberner writes: > On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 02:57:12PM +0200, Ludovico Cavedon wrote: > > On 07/02/2010 11:14 PM, Faidon Liambotis wrote: > > >Am I the only one who has trouble -and getting laughed at- whenever I > > >try to explain these to potential contributors? > > > > > >Can we _at least_

Re: Debian money

2009-09-12 Thread George Danchev
> Steve McIntyre writes: > > 4 Marketing stuff: > >a box(es) of equipment to take to stands at various shows and > > expos. Might be useful, but could be expensive. Where do we store > > it/them? Who organises shipping? > > I think this is something which we should pursue. I genera

Re: debian

2009-08-22 Thread George Danchev
Quoting "Александр Боровский" : здравствуйте вы не моглибы прислать мне список оранизаций которыерабоаютна linux debian translating from russian: Hello, could you please send me a list of organizations using Debian? the answer is: http://www.debian.org/users/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to de

Re: Please look at mentors.debian.net

2009-08-01 Thread George Danchev
Hi, > Every organisation can only survive (or grow) with a constant stream of > fresh members. This is obviously true. > So please dear Debian Developers: Go to http://mentors.debian.net! There > are people willing to get involved in Debian. But some of them might be in > danger to get frustrate

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-08-01 Thread George Danchev
> On Wed, Jul 29 2009, Stephen Frost wrote: > > * Sune Vuorela (nos...@vuorela.dk) wrote: > >> I'm hoping that we can convince the release team to change their mind. > > > > I doubt you can, and I hope you don't. It could have been announced > > better, but in general I think it's a good thing for

Re: DAM and NEW queues processing

2009-06-25 Thread George Danchev
> On Tue Jun 23 11:30, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > - the NM process could be reduced to 5 to 10 questions choosen by the > >AM amongst the 50+ questions currently in the NM templates, to verify > > that the applicant has some knowledge about different aspects of Debian > > packaging. Then the AM

Re: Voting on messages: a way to resolve the mailing list problems

2009-01-05 Thread George Danchev
On Monday 05 January 2009 12:17:42 MJ Ray wrote: --cut-- > There are already crude mechanisms (reply privately, reply publicly, > report abuse and so on) but they are social more than technical. Agruably, these mechanisms don't reveal the big picture to the society (i.e. what people think about s

Re: Voting on messages: a way to resolve the mailing list problems

2008-12-22 Thread George Danchev
On Monday 22 December 2008 07:47:41 Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, Hi, > So, are there going to be guide;lines for this voting on emails? I'm afraid that I'm not able answer such a question, but I can try to provide a contra-argument (just to prove it wrong or maybe right) -- if we follo

Re: Voting on messages: a way to resolve the mailing list problems

2008-12-21 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 21 December 2008 23:12:08 Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 10:35:14AM +, Jurij Smakov wrote: > > Now, I know that for a bunch of geeks like us it is very tempting to > > start discussing the technical details and how the scoring is > > going to be implemented, and how t

Re: i want to be a part of Debian community

2008-12-21 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 21 December 2008 20:28:18 Okan Demir wrote: > Hello, > > I'm an engineering student from Turkey. I started to use Debian (Etch) > nearly one year ago. I think this period is enough to be a fan of > Debian. From now on i'm a Debian user. > But being a user, does not satisfy my Debian based

Re: Voting on messages: a way to resolve the mailing list problems

2008-12-20 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 21 December 2008 03:49:44 Anthony Towns wrote: > On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 10:35:14AM +, Jurij Smakov wrote: > > * "Vocal minority" dominates "silent majority" by contributing a > > disproportionate amount of list traffic, [...] > > Note that voting can have a similar drawback -- in tha

Re: Voting on messages: a way to resolve the mailing list problems

2008-12-20 Thread George Danchev
On Saturday 20 December 2008 21:33:27 MJ Ray wrote: > Jurij Smakov wrote: [...] > > > So, what can we do about? During a little brainstorming session on IRC > > last night a following idea has emerged: let's have a way to express > > our opinion about the mailing list posts. [...] > > So, people w

Re: Linux System Engineer (100%) in Zurich

2008-12-06 Thread George Danchev
On Friday 05 December 2008 23:34:41 Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2008-12-06 01:58:59, schrieb Chris Bannister: > > > Note: I employ only women (IT and Electronic) > > > > And so is that! > > > > Both illegal in New Zealand and hopefully, nearly(?) all other > > countries. > > Even if it is a proje

Re: Linux System Engineer (100%) in Zurich

2008-12-01 Thread George Danchev
On Monday 01 December 2008 15:42:20 Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 01:05:07PM +, Mark Brown a écrit : > > FWIW similar issues apply in most of Europe too. > > Thank you for the information. For Antartica, the situation of > discrimination has rapidly and positively evolved and

Re: Updated Debian Maintainers Keyring

2007-11-25 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 25 November 2007, Joey Hess wrote: > Steve McIntyre wrote: > > In this particular case, the problem is much worse than just a single > > bug in a package - it's a total failure in the sponsorship > > system. > > From what Ramakrishnan and other sponsors wrote on this thread, it > sounds l

Re: установка debian

2007-04-09 Thread George Danchev
On Monday 09 April 2007 19:39, val wrote: > Вы слишком много расхваливаете debian, но все кто хочет попытаться не то > что работать, а только установить что-нибудь из linux, постоянно > сталкивается с проблемой установки, вы что не знаете что большинство > жёстких дисков сейчас работает на sata, а

Re: notable Debian contributions in 2006

2007-03-25 Thread George Danchev
On Saturday 24 March 2007 19:53, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > - the fact that other Debian maintainers does not try to > > > find a workaround for the problems caused by some outcasts > > > causes damage to the reputation of the Debian project. >

Re: Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-12 Thread George Danchev
On Wednesday 11 October 2006 13:18, Martin Schulze wrote: > Jérôme Marant wrote: > > > > It's not Dunc Tank's fault if your jealous. > > > > > > Hmm, maybe it is because the developer is jealous on/of somebody > > > being directly or indirectly paid by the project while they are > > > not? > > > >

Re: New website layout / design contest?

2006-09-05 Thread George Danchev
On Tuesday 05 September 2006 13:09, Christoph Haas wrote: > On Tuesday 05 September 2006 04:16, Matej Cepl wrote: > > Paul Belanger wrote: > > > After all, the point of any distribution is to sell it to a user. > > > > It is not. For example, Debian Developers usually don't care how many > > users

Re: Recompilation of ALL Debian packages ...

2006-09-01 Thread George Danchev
On Saturday 02 September 2006 02:41, Russ Allbery wrote: > martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The reason I am pushing for this is because of two of my clients, who > > have been wanting to use Debian for three years now but consciously > > decided against it, because it is not guarante

Re: package ownership in Debian

2006-07-31 Thread George Danchev
On Monday 31 July 2006 19:46, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Hubert Chan dijo [Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 12:30:06AM -0400]: > > > I meant with group of maintainers, number of uploaders > 1. Joerg > > > Jaspert said that he wouldn't like to be forced to team maintenance > > > and suggested 0day NMUs for >= normal

Re: package ownership in Debian

2006-07-30 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 30 July 2006 13:24, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 07:57:32PM +0200, Julien Danjou wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 07:23:09PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > So, that's a clear example where the team maintenance can be as useless > > as letting only one people ma

Re: package ownership in Debian

2006-07-29 Thread George Danchev
On Saturday 29 July 2006 09:48, Martin Schulze wrote: > Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > > Co-maintainers are much closer to what is being done in a package > > > than joe-random developer. Also, co-maintainership is far less > > > prone to fire-and-forget uploads that hose things, and are nicer to > >

Re: cool stuff at EDOS - collaboration ideas

2006-07-09 Thread George Danchev
On Saturday 08 July 2006 12:20, Andreas Barth wrote: > Hi, Hello, > Also, they had some engine for package comparison and search (where the > weather was one of the side spin-offs from it). This could help us to > ask more question about package aspects, and they are waiting for inputs > from us

Re: (Debian's Two Choices) The influx of women and the outflux of men. The end of debian as a distro and it's emergance as a women's rights pulpit.

2006-06-11 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 11 June 2006 21:50, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > You are crazy, and should get yourself some professional psychiatric > counceling. I fully agree that this creature [1] has some kind of mental problems, thus trying to keep any sort of normal conversaton with such sort of interlocutors is d

Re: Debian women: please pass away

2006-06-10 Thread George Danchev
On Saturday 10 June 2006 19:01, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Matthew R. Dempsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.06.10.1748 +0200]: > > > yahoo reported to have killed the account to me this morning. > > > > Funny, when I forwarded the email to abuse@ last night, they replied: > > > > Please k

Re: Reforming the NM process

2006-04-25 Thread George Danchev
On Tuesday 25 April 2006 16:14, Thaddeus H. Black wrote: > On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 02:29:56PM +0300, Panu Kalliokoski wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 10:15:20PM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > > Besides, there is no value in a wide-open voting system. This is > > > called an "Internet poll" a

Re: Reforming the NM process

2006-04-15 Thread George Danchev
On Saturday 15 April 2006 17:48, Manoj Srivastava wrote: --cut-- > > We'll never tell that! We just tell "we trust you to maintain > > according to our standards but since you didn't went (yet) through > > full NM, we don't trust you on working on anything you'd want". > > Err, I am not su