Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-16 Thread Martin Read
On 15/10/14 23:01, Adam Borowski wrote: shim doesn't appear to work, at least for me. To get basic functionality like shutdown from GUI, suspend or mounting USB drives, I needed to downgrade the whole Utopia stack to their last working versions. Out of interest, what's the bug number? -- To

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-16 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 10:29:11AM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: Hi, lee: I'm sure we could find quite a few supporters for having a GR amongst the users (here). We don't do a GR among our users. We do that among Debian members/maintainers/developers/take-your-pick. Of those, most

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-16 Thread Matthias Urlichs
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Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-16 Thread Cameron Norman
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 3:02 AM, Martin Read zen75...@zen.co.uk wrote: On 15/10/14 23:01, Adam Borowski wrote: shim doesn't appear to work, at least for me. To get basic functionality like shutdown from GUI, suspend or mounting USB drives, I needed to downgrade the whole Utopia stack to

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-15 Thread The Wanderer
On 10/14/2014 at 04:15 PM, Olav Vitters wrote: On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 06:18:01PM +0200, lee wrote: Considering that the users are Debians' priority, couldn't this issue be a case in which significant concerns from/of the users about an issue might initiate a GR? Wouldn't it speak loudly

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-15 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Mon, 13 Oct 2014, Joey Hess wrote: Only thing I don't understand is why so few votes for systemd-shim out of the group who has it installed. Maybe noatime? That’s probably popular on desktops. “vote” does not really say much, anyway. bye, //mirabilos -- Sometimes they [people] care too

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-15 Thread Joey Hess
Thorsten Glaser wrote: On Mon, 13 Oct 2014, Joey Hess wrote: Only thing I don't understand is why so few votes for systemd-shim out of the group who has it installed. Maybe noatime? That’s probably popular on desktops. “vote” does not really say much, anyway. I doubt noatime has been

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-15 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 01:49:43PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Thorsten Glaser wrote: On Mon, 13 Oct 2014, Joey Hess wrote: Only thing I don't understand is why so few votes for systemd-shim out of the group who has it installed. Maybe noatime? That’s probably popular on desktops.

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-14 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le mardi, 14 octobre 2014, 01.13:48 Wookey a écrit : I'm just pointing out that interested people, who are moderately well-involved, really did miss that a GR was attempted. For the record, I don't disagree; I'm just saying that the GR call was on the right list and that I think that the

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-14 Thread Ian Jackson
Didier 'OdyX' Raboud writes (Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)): Le mardi, 14 octobre 2014, 01.13:48 Wookey a écrit : I'm just pointing out that interested people, who are moderately well-involved, really did miss that a GR was attempted. For the record, I don't disagree; I'm just

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-14 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 11:11:35AM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: I think in future we should probably make a habit of posting something to d-d-a when there is a GR proposal. Yep, liw made the same point on -project in response to a thread I started there on this subject. I still feel we don't

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-14 Thread The Wanderer
On 10/13/2014 at 01:01 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Mon, 13 Oct 2014, Matthias Urlichs wrote: In any case, users _do_ have a say. They can force their systems to remain on sys5 init, or switch to a different distro if that should also turn out Which, I should add, is

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-14 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 14 Oct 2014, Ian Jackson wrote: I think in future we should probably make a habit of posting something to d-d-a when there is a GR proposal. If the proposer thinks posting to d-d-a is a good idea, then they should just do it. Any DD can, after all. They should ideally point out the

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-14 Thread Axel Wagner
Hi, The Wanderer wande...@fastmail.fm writes: Unfortunately, not everyone - or even everyone who would be willing to provide such feedback, or even actively interested in doing so - is going to install that. Luckily, popcon is opt-in anyway, so this has no effect whatsoever on it's quality as

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-14 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 06:18:01PM +0200, lee wrote: Considering that the users are Debians' priority, couldn't this issue be a case in which significant concerns from/of the users about an issue might initiate a GR? Wouldn't it speak loudly for Debian and its ways and for what it stands for,

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, lee: I'm sure we could find quite a few supporters for having a GR amongst the users (here). We don't do a GR among our users. We do that among Debian members/maintainers/developers/take-your-pick. Of those, most … * are perfectly happy with the TC's decision * can live with it * are

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Miles Fidelman
Matthias Urlichs wrote: Hi, lee: I'm sure we could find quite a few supporters for having a GR amongst the users (here). We don't do a GR among our users. We do that among Debian members/maintainers/developers/take-your-pick. Which does kind of lead back to the question of what's the point

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Mon, 13 Oct 2014, Miles Fidelman wrote: Those who are most impacted are sys admins of servers, and upstream developers I’m both, and I joined Debian to try to make an impact… - the two communities most impacted, but that seem to have no say in the matter. … but even then, am drowned by

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 02:21:45PM +0200, Thorsten Glaser a écrit : … but even then, am drowned by the masses. No, you are drowning the masses under your emails, that is different. -- Charles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 13 Oct 2014 14:21:45 +0200 Thorsten Glaser t...@mirbsd.de wrote: On Mon, 13 Oct 2014, Miles Fidelman wrote: Those who are most impacted are sys admins of servers, and upstream developers I’m both, and I joined Debian to try to make an impact… - the two communities most

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Mon, 13 Oct 2014, Neil Williams wrote: (I did not have the chance to Second the GR proposal because I was not even aware that there *was* one.) https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/ Same procedure as previous calls for GR: debian-vote mailing list. If Yeah, surprise, I don’t read

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Miles Fidelman: Judging by the last couple of months, the rest appears to number 6 people. A lot more than that, by my count. Then the question is why almost all of these lot more people did not second the GR proposal. Those who are most impacted are sys admins of servers, and

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Miles Fidelman
Matthias Urlichs wrote: Hi, Miles Fidelman: Judging by the last couple of months, the rest appears to number 6 people. A lot more than that, by my count. Then the question is why almost all of these lot more people did not second the GR proposal. Well... as a couple of people have now

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Ian Jackson
Miles Fidelman writes (Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)): In reading through the archives, I have to say that the GR proposal was both buried in all the broader discussion of systemd, rather long and convoluted reading, and not well publicized. If four other DDs send me and Matthew

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
I really don't buy the argument that the GR proposal was too quiet to be noticed by 6+ people. I mean: the proposition happened to be in the middle of the post-TC decision wave, on the mailing lists where it belonged. The people who cared about the whole default init for Debian question _were_

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Miles Fidelman
Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: I really don't buy the argument that the GR proposal was too quiet to be noticed by 6+ people. I mean: the proposition happened to be in the middle of the post-TC decision wave, on the mailing lists where it belonged. The people who cared about the whole default init

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Matthias Klumpp
2014-10-13 18:23 GMT+02:00 Miles Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.net: Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: I really don't buy the argument that the GR proposal was too quiet to be noticed by 6+ people. I mean: the proposition happened to be in the middle of the post-TC decision wave, on the mailing

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 13 Oct 2014, Matthias Urlichs wrote: In any case, users _do_ have a say. They can force their systems to remain on sys5 init, or switch to a different distro if that should also turn out Which, I should add, is something we measure if the user installs popularity-contest and opts-in to

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Miles Fidelman
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Mon, 13 Oct 2014, Matthias Urlichs wrote: In any case, users _do_ have a say. They can force their systems to remain on sys5 init, or switch to a different distro if that should also turn out Which, I should add, is something we measure if the user

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 13 Oct 2014, Miles Fidelman wrote: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Mon, 13 Oct 2014, Matthias Urlichs wrote: In any case, users _do_ have a say. They can force their systems to remain on sys5 init, or switch to a different distro if that should also turn out Which, I should add,

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, [ Please followup on -user@, there is no need to have this on two lists. ] Miles Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.net writes: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: http://popcon.debian.org/ which sure seems to reinforce the popularity of sysvinit 18sysvinit

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Jeroen Dekkers
At Mon, 13 Oct 2014 13:23:16 -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Mon, 13 Oct 2014, Matthias Urlichs wrote: In any case, users _do_ have a say. They can force their systems to remain on sys5 init, or switch to a different distro if that should also turn out

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le lundi, 13 octobre 2014, 12.23:00 Miles Fidelman a écrit : Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: I really don't buy the argument that the GR proposal was too quiet to be noticed by 6+ people. Actually - I'd contest that, for four reasons: - as I've previously noted - the major impacts of

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Philip Hands
Miles Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.net writes: Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: I really don't buy the argument that the GR proposal was too quiet to be noticed by 6+ people. I mean: the proposition happened to be in the middle of the post-TC decision wave, on the mailing lists where it

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Joey Hess
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: Right now it is the defaults effect, because Debian stable is included in the report. We don't have a testing + unstable report. Yes we do: sysvinit-core systemd-sysv systemd-shim

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Joey Hess jo...@debian.org writes: Yes we do: sysvinit-core systemd-sysv systemd-shim https://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=sysvinit-core+systemd-sysv+systemd-shimshow_installed=onshow_vote=onwant_legend=onwant_ticks=onfrom_date=to_date=hlght_date=date_fmt=%25Y-%25mbeenhere=1 [...]

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Wookey
+++ Didier 'OdyX' Raboud [2014-10-13 17:33 +0200]: I really don't buy the argument that the GR proposal was too quiet to be noticed by 6+ people. I mean: the proposition happened to be in the middle of the post-TC decision wave, on the mailing lists where it belonged. The people who cared

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Ian Jackson
Philip Hands writes (Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)): I'm completely astonished that Ian is willing to suggest that four more people pledging support for it at this stage would be enough for him to attempt CPR on its putrid corpse. You put me in an awkward position. My email

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Joey Hess
Joey Hess wrote: A small percentage of server users are avoiding swiching to systemd, although that group looks to still be shrinking somewhat. Of course, not many people use unstable/testing for servers, so we don't really know much from popcon yet about whether server admins will go for

piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-12 Thread lee
Jonathan Dowland j...@debian.org writes: The tech-ctte exploration was extremely thorough, entirely transparent and I cannot think of any example of a more transparent decision making process in any other Linux community. Not only that, but the entire decision could be overridden by a GR,

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-12 Thread Bas Wijnen
[Moving this to -project, where it belongs; please follow up only there, not on -user or -devel.] On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 06:18:01PM +0200, lee wrote: Why doesn't Debian just do a GR on this issue? Because for a GR, a member of Debian has to request it and it needs to be seconded by at least 5