Re: Let's abandon debian-devel.

2014-11-14 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Andrey Rahmatullin] Not all Debian contributors are Debian Contributors whatever that means. Lots of people without keys somewhere in official keyrings are doing useful work. Some of them are even maintaining packages. And actually, come January, a pretty high fraction of official Debian

Re: Let's abandon debian-devel.

2014-11-11 Thread Gergely Nagy
David == David L Craig dlc@gmail.com writes: David On 14Nov10:2154+0100, Gergely Nagy wrote: You do realize topic lists are public too, right? David Yes, but most Debian users don't even know about David them nor do they need to since the traditional David lists have

Re: Let's abandon debian-devel.

2014-11-11 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 08:50:52AM +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: I'd be in favor of a different approach: moderate debian-devel. Not the content, but the list of people allowed to post. Pre-seed it with the email adresses in our keyring and auto-add anybody who signs their email with a key in

Aw: Let's abandon debian-devel.

2014-11-11 Thread Steffen Möller
Hi Charles, after unsubscribing from debian-vote, I had a bit of a thought about debian-devel, which is hard to follow now, and suddenly I saw something very clear. This year's freeze seems of an excellent quality and promises to be brief. Is that thanks to debian-devel ? Not much.

Re: Let's abandon debian-devel.

2014-11-11 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Andrey Rahmatullin: On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 08:50:52AM +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: I'd be in favor of a different approach: moderate debian-devel. Not the content, but the list of people allowed to post. Pre-seed it with the email adresses in our keyring and auto-add anybody who

Re: Let's abandon debian-devel.

2014-11-11 Thread Ben Finney
Andrey Rahmatullin w...@debian.org writes: On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 08:50:52AM +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: I'd be in favor of a different approach: moderate debian-devel. Not the content, but the list of people allowed to post. Pre-seed it with the email adresses in our keyring and

Re: Let's abandon debian-devel.

2014-11-11 Thread Martin Bagge / brother
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2014-11-11 12:25, Ben Finney wrote: But all Debian Contributors have their OpenPGP key in the project's keyring. No? Most certainly not. Parts where many people who is not DD nor DM takes part include docs, web, translations and graphics. -

Re: Let's abandon debian-devel.

2014-11-11 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 10:25:05PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: I'd be in favor of a different approach: moderate debian-devel. Not the content, but the list of people allowed to post. Pre-seed it with the email adresses in our keyring and auto-add anybody who signs their email with a key

Re: Let's abandon debian-devel.

2014-11-11 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 12:22:53PM +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: I'd be in favor of a different approach: moderate debian-devel. Not the content, but the list of people allowed to post. Pre-seed it with the email adresses in our keyring and auto-add anybody who signs their email with

Re: Let's abandon debian-devel.

2014-11-11 Thread Brett Parker
On 11 Nov 22:25, Ben Finney wrote: Andrey Rahmatullin w...@debian.org writes: On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 08:50:52AM +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: I'd be in favor of a different approach: moderate debian-devel. Not the content, but the list of people allowed to post. Pre-seed it with

Re: Let's abandon debian-devel.

2014-11-11 Thread Wookey
+++ Charles Plessy [2014-11-10 23:25 +0900]: Hi all, From now on I will try to see if I can give to Debian the same quality of contribution without being subscribed to debian-devel. And I invite you to think about it and *not* to discuss it on this list. Just a data-point: I joined

Re: Let's abandon debian-devel.

2014-11-11 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Andrey Rahmatullin: I know. So? If the first email of a non-DD gets delayed for a few hours, that's an acceptable price to pay IMHO. Nothing about delays wasn't mentioned in your previous email Moderating (some) emails to d-d implies delaying those emails until a human moderator looks

Re: Let's abandon debian-devel.

2014-11-11 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 01:30:58PM +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: Andrey Rahmatullin: I know. So? If the first email of a non-DD gets delayed for a few hours, that's an acceptable price to pay IMHO. Nothing about delays wasn't mentioned in your previous email Moderating (some) emails

Re: Let's abandon debian-devel.

2014-11-11 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 12:42:38PM +0100, Martin Bagge / brother wrote: But all Debian Contributors have their OpenPGP key in the project's keyring. No? Most certainly not. Parts where many people who is not DD nor DM takes part include docs, web, translations and graphics. I think there

Re: Let's abandon debian-devel.

2014-11-11 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 01:30:58PM +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: I know. So? If the first email of a non-DD gets delayed for a few hours, that's an acceptable price to pay IMHO. Nothing about delays wasn't mentioned in your previous email Moderating (some) emails to d-d implies delaying

Re: Let's abandon debian-devel.

2014-11-11 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Tuesday, November 11, 2014 12:41:12 PM Neil McGovern wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 01:30:58PM +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: Andrey Rahmatullin: I know. So? If the first email of a non-DD gets delayed for a few hours, that's an acceptable price to pay IMHO. Nothing about

Re: Let's abandon debian-devel.

2014-11-11 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Scott Kitterman: On Tuesday, November 11, 2014 12:41:12 PM Neil McGovern wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 01:30:58PM +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: Andrey Rahmatullin: I know. So? If the first email of a non-DD gets delayed for a few hours, that's an acceptable price to pay

Re: Let's abandon debian-devel.

2014-11-11 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Dienstag, 11. November 2014, Matthias Urlichs wrote: I'd be willing to help out. So would I. me too, should this road be chosen. cheers, Holger signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Let's abandon debian-devel.

2014-11-11 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 02:13:20PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: On Dienstag, 11. November 2014, Matthias Urlichs wrote: I'd be willing to help out. So would I. me too, should this road be chosen. Excellent. In that case, my position is now meh :) Neil -- signature.asc Description:

Re: Re: Let's abandon debian-devel.

2014-11-11 Thread Joe Neal
On 2014-11-11 12:25, Ben Finney wrote: But all Debian Contributors have their OpenPGP key in the project's keyring. No? Most certainly not. Parts where many people who is not DD nor DM takes part include docs, web, translations and graphics. FWIW, when I first started running sid

Let's abandon debian-devel.

2014-11-10 Thread Charles Plessy
Hi all, after unsubscribing from debian-vote, I had a bit of a thought about debian-devel, which is hard to follow now, and suddenly I saw something very clear. This year's freeze seems of an excellent quality and promises to be brief. Is that thanks to debian-devel ? Not much. Excellent work

Re: Let's abandon debian-devel.

2014-11-10 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 11:25:35PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Hi all, after unsubscribing from debian-vote, I had a bit of a thought about debian-devel, which is hard to follow now, and suddenly I saw something very clear. This year's freeze seems of an excellent quality and promises to

Re: Let's abandon debian-devel.

2014-11-10 Thread David L. Craig
On 14Nov10:2325+0900, Charles Plessy wrote: With most of the work done on topic mailing lists, trolls lose the lever effect they have when feasting on debian-devel or debian-vote. Let's make our project stronger by reducing thr attack surface for troublemakers. But weaker by becoming

Re: Let's abandon debian-devel.

2014-11-10 Thread Gergely Nagy
David == David L Craig dlc@gmail.com writes: David On 14Nov10:2325+0900, Charles Plessy wrote: With most of the work done on topic mailing lists, trolls lose the lever effect they have when feasting on debian-devel or debian-vote. Let's make our project stronger by

Re: Let's abandon debian-devel.

2014-11-10 Thread David L. Craig
On 14Nov10:2154+0100, Gergely Nagy wrote: You do realize topic lists are public too, right? Yes, but most Debian users don't even know about them nor do they need to since the traditional lists have been doing their jobs for quite a while. If you shut them down, I expect most of the public

Re: Let's abandon debian-devel.

2014-11-10 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Monday, November 10, 2014 04:55:20 PM David L. Craig wrote: On 14Nov10:2154+0100, Gergely Nagy wrote: You do realize topic lists are public too, right? Yes, but most Debian users don't even know about them nor do they need to since the traditional lists have been doing their jobs for

Re: Let's abandon debian-devel.

2014-11-10 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2014-11-10 18:20, David L. Craig wrote: On 14Nov10:2325+0900, Charles Plessy wrote: With most of the work done on topic mailing lists, trolls lose the lever effect they have when feasting on debian-devel or debian-vote. Let's make our project stronger by reducing thr attack surface for

Re: Let's abandon debian-devel.

2014-11-10 Thread David L. Craig
On 14Nov11:0036+0100, Philipp Kern wrote: On 2014-11-10 18:20, David L. Craig wrote: But weaker by becoming more non-public? At what point is the Social Contract undermined? What about transforming those lists into readable by all but open only to certain responsible posters instead?

Re: Let's abandon debian-devel.

2014-11-10 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Philipp Kern: Discussions should move to the appropriate venues (like bugs and focussed lists for subprojects, maintainance lists) instead of providing a soapbox of anger. Hmm. We already have a bunch of focused lists for subprojects. The problem with splitting it all up and disbanding