[Yaird-devel] Interested to help

[Andrei Popescu]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 01:22:34PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Hi Andrei (and others listening too),
> 
> 
> Sorry for the late response :-(

No problem
 
> >> If interested
> >> in helping with the screening of non-subscriber posts, I'll send you the
> >> administration password privately.
> > 
> > You could encrypt it as well.
> 
> Mailinglist administration goes on unencrypted anyway, but yes, I have
> now sent you the password encrypted.
> 
> Using the commandline program listadmin is much easier than web-based
> admin. Install the Debian package listadmin and put the following in the
> .listadmin.ini file:
> 
> default discard
> adminurl http://{domain}/mailman/admindb/{list}
> password <put it here>
> yaird-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org

Is there so much spam that the default action needs to be 'discard'? 
 
> >> Tell me what you want to work on :-)
> >  
> > Let's start with bug/mailing list triage and we'll take it from there.
> 
> Great!

There was some spam in the queue which I discarded. Then I got this:

WARNING: Failed to append to http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/admindb/yaird-devel: No such file or directory

Should there be a log or something?
 
> > Just so you know. The yaird package and I have a history :) Two years 
> > ago when I started using Debian (sarge was at r0) I didn't want to stick 
> > with sarge so I upgraded directly to sid. All was fine until after a few 
> > weeks I got hit by a yaird bug which would make an unbootable initrd and 
> > I had no spare kernel (now I always keep 2 or 3 installed ;). With a 
> > little help from the debian-user list I repaired my install by chrooting 
> > from a Knoppix disk. I'm running sid ever since.
> 
> I've been bitten like that too. I think a lot of testing users have.
> 
> I would want to make a small Debian package that registers itself as a
> ramdisk generator, depends on both yaird and initramfs-tools, and
> generates *both* styles, with (maybe debconf-selectable) yaird as
> default. That way you would have the reliability of yaird, but also the
> flexibility of initramfs-tools as a backup (when a disk controller crash
> and your spare one use a different driver). How do you think about that?

Sounds cool :)
 
> Oh, and I discourage using Knoppix. Use Debian-installer instead - that
> is closer to a regular Debian system with less risks of odd surprises.
 
sarge's installer wasn't very well suited for this ... 
 
> > About one year ago I changed my laptop so I took the opportunity to make 
> > a clean sid install.  When I was selecting packages I stumbled on yaird 
> > (initramfs-tools was installed by default) so I installed it again 
> > because I like the concept of a software built to optimize as much as 
> > possible. The universal initrd is for people who have no idea of kernel 
> > modules, ... I'm not very fond of universal solutions, I'm using the 
> > software that suits my needs, like yaird, mutt, vim, IceWM, postfix, 
> > getmail, maildrop (though I recommend KDE to novices).
> 
> Sounds like you are a minimalist like me :-)
> 
> For comparison I use ion3 (not IceWM), mc (not vim) and recommend Gnome
> (not KDE). And I use aptitude with its builtin tracking of automatically
> vs. manually selected packages, to always keep the systems as tight as
> possible.
> 
> I recently changed the long description of yaird to make it more obvious
> when it makes sense to use that in favor of initramfs-tools. Your
> wording above is good - could you perhaps look at the current package
> description and see if it could be improved/clarified even further?

It's pretty good

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)
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