india May 2010

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Package review session, May 14th 2010, 6:00 PM.
by Rahul Sundaram 12 May '10

12 May '10

Hi, After the recent surge in new contributors here, we have a number of pending review requests. I would like to organize a package review session where new review requests or existing ones are processed quickly via IRC by swapping reviews. We will be running this at #fedora-india irc channel in freenode, Friday May 14th at 6:00 PM and we can carry it forward based on participation from anyone interested. You do NOT have to be a package maintainer to do informal reviews. Just follow the guidelines at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:ReviewGuidelines If you are existing package maintainer, you can do official reviews and approve any review requests although only a sponsor can approve a review request from a completely new contributor. Reviewing is a great way to learn the nuances of packaging and you are free to ask questions and clarify any doubts about the process while the session is running. See you soon. Rahul

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Unable to boot into Fedora
by kietans＠gmail.com 12 May '10

12 May '10

This may be a trivial problem for most I'm sure. I had Fedora and Windows XP installed on my machine. I had to re-install XP some days back. XP's bootloader replaced grub, hence I'm unable to boot into Fedora. I didn't delete/format the partitions on which Fedora was installed. How can I boot into Fedora again without re-installing it from the beginning? -- Aniket Suryavanshi B.Sc. (Computer Science) student, India. twitter.com/kietan | www.facebook.com/aniket1

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APAC query
by Ankur Sinha 12 May '10

12 May '10

hey, What classification does India come under? The APAC page[1] doesn't list India in the 51 nations. regards, Ankur

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Ambassadors in India
by Rahul Sundaram 12 May '10

12 May '10

Hi, Just a heads up for anyone interested: Over the few years since we started the Fedora Ambassadors initiative, we have several dozens of folks sign up as Ambassadors from India and many of them were not active. As part of the change to assign mentors to new folks interested in becoming ambassadors, we have also taken efforts to remove inactive ones so that we can retain the people who are active participants. We currently have three mentors in India for potential ambassadors - me, Kushal and Susmit and we have consensus that atleast within India, it is better if anyone interested in becoming ambasadors become active contributors first to some sub project of Fedora, be it documentation, artwork, packaging or something else. If you are a people person, attend events, blog and participate in any marketing efforts first before applying to be an ambassadors so that we have a good idea about your interest, skill set and track record in getting things done. I have no interest in pimping up numbers without active participation (ie) quality over quantity. Rahul

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Free media responsibilities
by Ankur Sinha 11 May '10

11 May '10

hi all, This email is to inform you that I cannot fulfill my free media responsibilities for this month(at least). It's because of the large number of wasted DVDs I get while burning media off my laptop. I've had a hard time fulfilling the past few months requests that I accepted. It's probably a bad DVD drive. Since I'm going to spend my vacations in Bangalore (June and most of July), I will try and get media mass burnt to use for the free media program. Thanks and apologies, regards, Ankur (FranciscoD on #fedora)

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Gnote help
by Rahul Sundaram 11 May '10

11 May '10

Hi, Gnote is a port of Tomboy to C++. Since it is a straightforward port, the help documentation from Tomboy has been adopted by Gnote as well. GNOME is shifting from DocBook to using a new format call Mallard that is task based. An example of this change in Tomboy http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/pcutler/~3/aA9sPw3z0gM/ If anyone is willing to help out, I would like to replace the existing Gnote help with a adaptation of the latest Tomboy help. You will have to download Tomboy source from http://git.gnome.org/browse/tomboy, extract the help, search and replace Tomboy with Gnote and replace the screenshots if necessary. The only major difference between Tomboy and Gnote at this point is that Gnote lacks syncing capablities so you will have to omit that from the help fine. Once you created this new help document, you can post to http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnote-list or file a bug report with the help document attached in http://bugzilla.gnome.org. Anyone wants to volunteer? As always, I can guide you. Rahul

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Re: [fedora-india] Ambassadors in India
by steve 11 May '10

11 May '10

Let's just keep this on the list, shall we ? On 05/11/2010 12:24 PM, Ashwin wrote: > On 05/11/2010 11:05 AM, steve wrote: >> [...snip...] >> It is not about ^accountability^ it is about common _courtesy_. Think >> about it this way -- You ^volunteer^ to accompany someone for a movie. >> It is time for the movie to start and you aren't at the theater yet. The >> person tries to call you, but you don't respond. You are unreachable by >> any method. > > Good you said it. So you want to enforce *courtesy* ? Correct ? > No. Courtesy flows .../both ways/. If you cannot be bothered to be courteous to let the project know that you are active, the project cannot extend the courtesy of calling you a contributor anymore, makes sense ? >> >> Will the person be wrong in assuming that you cannot make it and decide >> what to with the tickets based on that assumption ? >> > > Sure, you can decide what to do with tickets. But would you assume your > friend is *dead* and delete his number from your mobile phone records ? > > We do not declare friends to be dead and remove them from records just > because we are not in touch. Do we ? So what do we do ? what do you do ? > Ugh ! you don't really that the capacity to understand metaphors, do you ? For all intents and purposes of the ^project^ (watching the movie) you are in absentia, so you are no longer relevant to the decision making process of what happens to your privilege towards the project (ie: your movie ticket). Don't take a simple metaphor and murder it. Anyways, seems like you either don't have the comprehension ability to understand what is being said, or are just too stuck up to admit you were wrong. This is my last response on this thread. cheers, - steve -- random spiel: http://lonetwin.net/ what i'm stumbling into: http://lonetwin.stumbleupon.com/

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Re: [fedora-india] Ambassadors in India
by steve 11 May '10

11 May '10

Hi, Let's keep this on the list, shall we ? On 05/11/2010 12:07 PM, Ashwin wrote: > On 05/11/2010 10:17 AM, steve wrote: >> Hi Ashwin, >> [...snip...] >> I think you are being: >> a. Overly dramatic >> b. Confusing issues >> c. Intentionally trolling. > > A figment of your imagination. > > Thanks for the accusations. > > with Regards, > ASHWIN You just confirmed this bit of my post: > c. Intentionally trolling: > Just your tone reeks of troll talk. You have not countered any of the essential *points* > people have taken the time to make in an effort to clarify the situation and > have chosen instead to snip out some casual remark and reply to it out of > context. cheers, - steve -- random spiel: http://lonetwin.net/ what i'm stumbling into: http://lonetwin.stumbleupon.com/

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gadmintools - administration tools
by Rahul Sundaram 09 May '10

09 May '10

Hi About half a dozen tools are at http://gadmintools.flippedweb.com/ Couple of them were recently orphaned in Fedora and you can still reuse the spec files. Rahul

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Packaging Requests
by Dhaval Giani 08 May '10

08 May '10

Hi Folks, Some users have been talking about lack of certain scientific applications packaged in Fedora (which are there in other distros). They have pointed out the URLs to me, which I am mentioning here (I have not had the chance to go through and verify whether sources are all compatible to be packaged in Fedora) http://cars9.uchicago.edu/~ravel/software/downloads.html http://www-ssrl.slac.stanford.edu/~swebb/sixpack.htm http://cars9.uchicago.edu/~ravel/software/abouthephaestus.html http://cars9.uchicago.edu/~ravel/software/aboutartemis.html http://cars9.uchicago.edu/~ravel/software/aboutathena.html http://cars9.uchicago.edu/ifeffit/About If someone could take these up, and figure out if they are fit to be packaged in fedora, it would be great! Thanks, Dhaval

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