Re: Valuing non-code contributions -- was Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-18 Thread Curt
On 2014-11-18, Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 06:32:43AM -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: Some people think sex should only be for procreation... Are you procreation or against it? In your case I'm against it. ;-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-17 Thread Eduard Bloch
Hallo, * st [Tue, Nov 11 2014, 02:01:46AM]: Hans wrote: And at the beginning things never work perfect That's why they shouldn't make it into Stable as defaults, now should they? We shouldn't and we are not. Because it's not the beginning, systemd already has multiple years of history

Re: Valuing non-code contributions -- was Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 01:13:05PM -0500, Ric Moore wrote: On 11/15/2014 08:51 AM, Curt wrote: On 2014-11-15, Renaud OLGIATI ren...@olgiati-in-paraguay.org wrote: Why can't you wrap your lines while you're at it? Can't you set your mail client to wrap them for you ? Sure, and I can

Re: Valuing non-code contributions -- was Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-17 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/17/2014 6:10 AM, Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: Excuse me, but some people think anatomy jokes are distasteful. Some people think sex should only be for procreation... PC police get sooo tiring... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Valuing non-code contributions -- was Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 06:32:43AM -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: Some people think sex should only be for procreation... Are you procreation or against it? -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the

Re: Valuing non-code contributions -- was Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-15 Thread Curt
On 2014-11-11, Rob Owens row...@ptd.net wrote: I don't mean to single out the poster of this comment, because it is something I've seen repeated by several Debian developers and some non-developers. Other forms of it are If you want that fixed, please submit a patch, or the response I got

Re: Valuing non-code contributions -- was Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-15 Thread Ron
On Sat, 15 Nov 2014 10:45:11 + (UTC) Curt cu...@free.fr wrote: I don't mean to single out the poster of this comment, because it is something I've seen repeated by several Debian developers and some non-developers. Other forms of it are If you want that fixed, please submit a

Re: Valuing non-code contributions -- was Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-15 Thread Curt
On 2014-11-15, Renaud OLGIATI ren...@olgiati-in-paraguay.org wrote: Why can't you wrap your lines while you're at it? Can't you set your mail client to wrap them for you ? Sure, and I can killfile the troll, correct the spelling and grammatical errors of the slothful and the ignorant,

Re: Valuing non-code contributions -- was Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-15 Thread Ron
On Sat, 15 Nov 2014 13:51:44 + (UTC) Curt cu...@free.fr wrote: Why can't you wrap your lines while you're at it? Can't you set your mail client to wrap them for you ? Sure, and I can killfile the troll, correct the spelling and grammatical errors of the slothful and the ignorant,

Re: Valuing non-code contributions -- was Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-15 Thread Ric Moore
On 11/15/2014 08:51 AM, Curt wrote: On 2014-11-15, Renaud OLGIATI ren...@olgiati-in-paraguay.org wrote: Why can't you wrap your lines while you're at it? Can't you set your mail client to wrap them for you ? Sure, and I can killfile the troll, correct the spelling and grammatical errors

Re: Re: Valuing non-code contributions -- was Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-12 Thread berenger . morel
Le 11.11.2014 22:53, Miles Fidelman a écrit : On a broader note, Debian, Linux, *nix in general, and FOSS software are a complex and highly-interdependent ecosystem. Yes some people just take, but an awful lot of us contribute in various ways, in various places, to the overall ecosystem - be it

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-12 Thread Andre N Batista
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 06:23:26PM +0100, Laurent Bigonville wrote: Le Tue, 11 Nov 2014 11:58:33 -0500, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org a écrit : On 11/11/2014 9:26 AM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud o...@debian.org wrote: Blaming the Debian project for letting the Debian distribution evolve

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-12 Thread Laurent Bigonville
Le Wed, 12 Nov 2014 15:29:27 -0200, Andre N Batista andrenbati...@gmail.com a écrit : On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 06:23:26PM +0100, Laurent Bigonville wrote: Le Tue, 11 Nov 2014 11:58:33 -0500, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org a écrit : On 11/11/2014 9:26 AM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud

Re: Valuing non-code contributions -- was Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-12 Thread Keith Peter
On 11 November 2014 19:43, Erwan David er...@rail.eu.org wrote: Le 11/11/2014 20:21, Don Armstrong a écrit : On Tue, 11 Nov 2014, Erwan David wrote: Le 11/11/2014 18:59, Don Armstrong a écrit : When I (or someone else) asks people to show us the code, it's really just shorthand for someone

Re: Valuing non-code contributions -- was Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 11 nov 14, 20:43:42, Erwan David wrote: Your email makes me me regretting contibuting by translating doc (a long time ago) otr contibuting bugs... This kind opf stance is completely full of contempt agains non coders. But coders are nothing if nobody uses or test. Might be a

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 12 nov 14, 19:55:08, Laurent Bigonville wrote: The TC decisions can be overruled by a GR with a simple majority, see the point 4.1.4 of the Constitution[0] [0] https://www.debian.org/devel/constitution#item-4 Actually it currently requires a 2:1 majority, but the TC took special

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-11 Thread Jean-Marc
Mon, 10 Nov 2014 18:23:13 +0100 Hans hans.ullr...@loop.de écrivait : Hi all, hi Hans, [...] This kind of discussion made me unsubscribing to Debian lists. If all these people code only 10 lines everytime they troll, we can get a brand new init-system in less than a month. Happy hacking

Re: Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 11 nov 14, 03:15:12, tor...@riseup.net wrote: I don't want to use systemd, what are my options inside of a debian communication channel makes sense to me (assuming one has been a Debian user in the past). https://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser#systemd Feel free to add anything

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-11 Thread Joe
On Tue, 11 Nov 2014 10:02:12 +0100 Jean-Marc jean-m...@6jf.be wrote: This kind of discussion made me unsubscribing to Debian lists. If all these people code only 10 lines everytime they troll, we can get a brand new init-system in less than a month. Does this code have to make sense, or

Re: Re: Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-11 Thread tor...@riseup.net
On Ma, 11 nov 14, 03:15:12, tor...@riseup.net wrote: I don't want to use systemd, what are my options inside of a debian communication channel makes sense to me (assuming one has been a Debian user in the past). https://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser#systemd Feel free to add anything

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-11 Thread Hans
Am Montag, 10. November 2014, 12:12:10 schrieb Don Armstrong: On Mon, 10 Nov 2014, Tanstaafl wrote: Exactly. I for one am getting sick and tired of being called names on this list like 'hater' and 'whiner' Sorry, Don, I did not want to afferon t someone. As I am not native English speaking,

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-11 Thread st
Hans wrote: I just wanted to show ways, where EVERYONE might be happy Sure. Sure. Everybody who has invested years into learning Debian is just jumping of joy now that it is suddenly turned into a completely different OS _and_ they have to find another Unix _and_ learn it almost from scratch

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-11 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le mardi, 11 novembre 2014, 20.08:08 st a écrit : Hans wrote: I just wanted to show ways, where EVERYONE might be happy Sure. Sure. Everybody who has invested years into learning Debian is just jumping of joy now that it is suddenly turned into a completely different OS _and_ they have to

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-11 Thread st
Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: Blaming the Debian project for letting the Debian distribution evolve in ways defined by its volunteers is unfair. Blaming? Did I say a word about Stable becoming less and less stable since about Etch? No. Did I mention that I had to get almost all essential

Valuing non-code contributions -- was Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-11 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - From: _...@debian.org Debian also was always and will always stay technically defined by those volunteering to make it what it is. By extension, it is explicitly not defined by those not putting work (but only words) into it; unmaintained software and code paths

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-11 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/11/2014 9:26 AM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud o...@debian.org wrote: Blaming the Debian project for letting the Debian distribution evolve in ways defined by its volunteers is unfair. Eh? My understanding is that this systemd mess is due to a vote of the technical committee, a vote that was in

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-11 Thread Laurent Bigonville
Le Tue, 11 Nov 2014 11:58:33 -0500, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org a écrit : On 11/11/2014 9:26 AM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud o...@debian.org wrote: Blaming the Debian project for letting the Debian distribution evolve in ways defined by its volunteers is unfair. Eh? My understanding is

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-11 Thread Miles Fidelman
Tanstaafl wrote: On 11/11/2014 9:26 AM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud o...@debian.org wrote: Blaming the Debian project for letting the Debian distribution evolve in ways defined by its volunteers is unfair. Eh? My understanding is that this systemd mess is due to a vote of the technical committee, a

Re: Valuing non-code contributions -- was Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-11 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 11 Nov 2014, Rob Owens wrote: This type of comment says to me that my contributions to Debian are useless if they are not in the form of code. https://contributors.debian.org/ is everyone who we know has contributed to Debian in one of the ways that we currently measure. [Granted, it's

Re: Valuing non-code contributions -- was Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-11 Thread Erwan David
Le 11/11/2014 18:59, Don Armstrong a écrit : On Tue, 11 Nov 2014, Rob Owens wrote: This type of comment says to me that my contributions to Debian are useless if they are not in the form of code. https://contributors.debian.org/ is everyone who we know has contributed to Debian in one of the

Re: Valuing non-code contributions -- was Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-11 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 11 Nov 2014, Erwan David wrote: Le 11/11/2014 18:59, Don Armstrong a écrit : When I (or someone else) asks people to show us the code, it's really just shorthand for someone needs to do this work, and it currently isn't important enough for me to do it. Asking to provide a patch

Re: Valuing non-code contributions -- was Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-11 Thread Erwan David
Le 11/11/2014 20:21, Don Armstrong a écrit : On Tue, 11 Nov 2014, Erwan David wrote: Le 11/11/2014 18:59, Don Armstrong a écrit : When I (or someone else) asks people to show us the code, it's really just shorthand for someone needs to do this work, and it currently isn't important enough for

Re: Valuing non-code contributions -- was Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-11 Thread Miles Fidelman
Erwan David wrote: Le 11/11/2014 18:59, Don Armstrong a écrit : On Tue, 11 Nov 2014, Rob Owens wrote: This type of comment says to me that my contributions to Debian are useless if they are not in the form of code. https://contributors.debian.org/ is everyone who we know has contributed to

Re: Valuing non-code contributions -- was Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-11 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - From: Rob Owens row...@ptd.net - Original Message - From: _...@debian.org Debian also was always and will always stay technically defined by those volunteering to make it what it is. By extension, it is explicitly not defined by those not putting

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 11 nov 14, 11:58:33, Tanstaafl wrote: On 11/11/2014 9:26 AM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud o...@debian.org wrote: Blaming the Debian project for letting the Debian distribution evolve in ways defined by its volunteers is unfair. Eh? My understanding is that this systemd mess is due to a

Re: Re: Valuing non-code contributions -- was Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-11 Thread Miles Fidelman
On Tue, 11 Nov 2014,Don Armstrong d...@debian.org mailto:don%40debian.org wrote: On Tue, 11 Nov 2014, Erwan David wrote: Le 11/11/2014 18:59, Don Armstrong a écrit : When I (or someone else) asks people to show us the code, it's really just shorthand for someone needs to do this work,

systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-10 Thread Hans
Hi all, I am now watching this systemd quarrel for a long time, and I must say, there is so much energy wasted in this. Please stop it! Really! There are solutions, which all will be happy. Solutions, that will bring debian forward, too. - If you don't want to use systemd, just leave it. You

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-10 Thread golinux
On Mon, 11/10/14, Hans hans.ullr...@loop.de wrote: Subject: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, November 10, 2014, 11:23 AM Hi all, [cut] - If you do not like the behaviour of Leonard Poettering, do not quarrel with him. Hey, I

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-10 Thread Hans
-- You could at least spell the perp's name correctly if you are going to come to his defense. It's LENNART! Sorry for that, I hope he will not blame me for that. However, I intended not to tark part on any side! Neither Lennarts nor the systemd-haters. My intention

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-10 Thread st
Hans wrote: And at the beginning things never work perfect That's why they shouldn't make it into Stable as defaults, now should they? -- Best nightdreams. Serge Tiunov, Do you really think you think http://e-head.net when you do think you

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-10 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 11/11/2014 5:46 AM, Hans wrote: -- You could at least spell the perp's name correctly if you are going to come to his defense. It's LENNART! Sorry for that, I hope he will not blame me for that. However, I intended

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/10/2014 2:01 PM, st s...@kem.ru wrote: Hans wrote: And at the beginning things never work perfect That's why they shouldn't make it into Stable as defaults, now should they? Exactly, it should remain in unstable unless/until it can be released *perfectly* stable, so if that means it

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/10/2014 2:08 PM, Andrew McGlashan andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au wrote: On 11/11/2014 5:46 AM, Hans wrote: Sorry for that, I hope he will not blame me for that. However, I intended not to tark part on any side! Neither Lennarts nor the systemd-haters. It's not about haters ...

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-10 Thread Martin Read
On 10/11/14 19:26, Tanstaafl wrote: Exactly, it should remain in unstable unless/until it can be released *perfectly* stable, so if that means it stays in unstable for 5 years, so be it. If you want *perfectly* stable software, why are you using software that isn't formally proven? -- To

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/10/2014 2:50 PM, Martin Read zen75...@zen.co.uk wrote: On 10/11/14 19:26, Tanstaafl wrote: Exactly, it should remain in unstable unless/until it can be released *perfectly* stable, so if that means it stays in unstable for 5 years, so be it. If you want *perfectly* stable software,

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-10 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 10 Nov 2014, Tanstaafl wrote: Exactly. I for one am getting sick and tired of being called names on this list like 'hater' and 'whiner' Just to underline this, calling people names like hater, whiner, etc. are not conducive to discussions, are not appropriate on Debian mailing lists,

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-10 Thread Miles Fidelman
Tanstaafl wrote: On 11/10/2014 2:08 PM, Andrew McGlashan andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au wrote: On 11/11/2014 5:46 AM, Hans wrote: Sorry for that, I hope he will not blame me for that. However, I intended not to tark part on any side! Neither Lennarts nor the systemd-haters. It's not

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-10 Thread tor...@riseup.net
And you really think making another thread about the subject is the right way to stop the discussions about systemd? You couldn't have said that in one of the existing threads? You missed the option to invest the energy in distributions which don't use systemd. People are angry, disappointed,

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-10 Thread Miles Fidelman
tor...@riseup.net wrote: And you really think making another thread about the subject is the right way to stop the discussions about systemd? You couldn't have said that in one of the existing threads? You missed the option to invest the energy in distributions which don't use systemd. People

Re: Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-10 Thread tor...@riseup.net
You know, it is still possible that the installer team will fix bug #668001, systemd-shim will stabilize, and it will remain possible in some future release of Jessie, to build and run a Jessie system without systemd taking over one's system. Or maybe folks will come to their senses for Jessie+1.

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-10 Thread Miles Fidelman
tor...@riseup.net wrote: You know, it is still possible that the installer team will fix bug #668001, systemd-shim will stabilize, and it will remain possible in some future release of Jessie, to build and run a Jessie system without systemd taking over one's system. Or maybe folks will come to