Re: [Sorry Neil] Wording modification of the The ???no GR, please??? amendement.

2014-10-22 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 22/10/14 at 07:45 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: I propose the following replacement as per article A.1.5 of our Contitution. The Debian project asks its members to be considerate when proposing General Resolutions,

Re: [Sorry Neil] Wording modification of the The ???no GR, please??? amendement.

2014-10-22 Thread Philip Hands
Charles Plessy wrote: I propose the following replacement as per article A.1.5 of our Contitution. The Debian project asks its members to be considerate when proposing General Resolutions, as the GR process may be

Re: Tentative summary of the amendments

2014-10-22 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Nikolaus Rath (2014-10-22 05:09:18) Lucas Nussbaum lu...@debian.org writes: Q2: support for alternative init systems as PID 1 = A2.1: packages MUST work with one alternative init system (in [iwj]) (if you are confused with “one” here,

Re: [Sorry Neil] Wording modification of the The ???no GR, please??? amendement.

2014-10-22 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 07:45:39AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Indeed, you are right: by definition, not all questions have been answered. The existing wording of the amendement is therefore logically inconsistent. I propose the following replacement as per article A.1.5 of our Contitution.

Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-10-22 Thread Sergey Vlasov
Hi Neil, I realized that myself afterwards, please forgive my ignorance. Indeed, I'm not a registered Debian developer, so my vote cannot be accepted. Sergey On 22 October 2014 13:39, Neil McGovern n...@halon.org.uk wrote: Hi Sergey, On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 04:38:49PM +0300, Sergey Vlasov

Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-10-22 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi Sergey, On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 04:38:49PM +0300, Sergey Vlasov wrote: Seconded. I say no to systemd dependency. I want to be able to choose myself what init system to use in my Debian setup. This mail isn't signed, nor do I seem to be able to find you in db.debian.org. Unfortunately,

Re: Tentative summary of the amendments

2014-10-22 Thread Ian Jackson
Jonas Smedegaard writes (Re: Tentative summary of the amendments): Quoting Nikolaus Rath (2014-10-22 05:09:18) I believe Ian's intended reading is that a package that depends on uselessd | systemd (but does not work with sysvinit) would be allowed by his proposal. Yes. In practice such

Re: [Sorry Neil] Wording modification of the The ???no GR, please??? amendement. [and 1 more messages]

2014-10-22 Thread Ian Jackson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Charles Plessy writes ([Sorry Neil] Wording modification of the The ???no GR, please??? amendement.): I propose the following replacement as per article A.1.5 of our Contitution. I'm not entirely convinced this is quite regular. You are the

Re: Tentative summary of the amendments

2014-10-22 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Ian, Le mercredi, 22 octobre 2014, 13.34:27 Ian Jackson a écrit : Jonas Smedegaard writes (Re: Tentative summary of the amendments): I too find it wrong to interpret Ian's text as a war between systemd and sysvinit - that's anything but basically fine! It's only a war between systemd and

Re: [Sorry Neil] Wording modification of the The ???no GR, please??? amendement.

2014-10-22 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org (2014-10-22): The Debian project asks its members to be considerate when proposing General Resolutions, as the GR process may be disruptive regardless of the outcome of the vote.

Re: Maximum term for tech ctte members

2014-10-22 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 05:41:28PM +, Anthony Towns wrote: Text marked as a citation, such as this, is rationale and does not form part of the constitution. It may be used only to aid interpretation in cases of doubt. -- from appendix B in the constitution. OK, I didn't remember that

Re: Tentative summary of the amendments

2014-10-22 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 21/10/14 at 20:09 -0700, Nikolaus Rath wrote: Lucas Nussbaum lu...@debian.org writes: Q2: support for alternative init systems as PID 1 = A2.1: packages MUST work with one alternative init system (in [iwj]) (if you are confused with “one”

Re: Alternative proposal: support for alternative init systems is desirable but not mandatory

2014-10-22 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, On 20/10/14 at 14:47 -0400, Sam Hartman wrote: Joey == Joey Hess jo...@debian.org writes: Joey Why not just make your proposal be something along the lines Joey of reaffirming the technical decision-making process as it Joey currently stands, from the package maintainers,

Re: Reducing the discussion and the voting period to 1 week

2014-10-22 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, On 17/10/14 at 10:01 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: But designing and tuning alternative proposals might take time, so I would prefer to wait a few days before reducing the discussion period, to ensure that we vote with a sensible ballot. I will decide in the middle of next week about that.

Re: Reducing the discussion and the voting period to 1 week

2014-10-22 Thread Luca Falavigna
Hi Lucas, 2014-10-22 17:22 GMT+02:00 Lucas Nussbaum lea...@debian.org: Charles, Luca, can you confirm that you are also fine with shortening the discussion period to one week? Fine for me. Cheers, Luca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Reducing the discussion and the voting period to 1 week

2014-10-22 Thread Ian Jackson
Lucas Nussbaum writes (Re: Reducing the discussion and the voting period to 1 week): I think that the current set of options would be a sensible ballot, and I'm not aware of any discussions to add another option, so I'm inclined to shorten the discussion period. I reached out to Ian in

Re: Alternative proposal: support for alternative init systems is desirable but not mandatory

2014-10-22 Thread Russ Allbery
Lucas Nussbaum lu...@debian.org writes: During the TC discussions in January/February 2014, the TC had a small legitimacy crisis, that resulted in the GR override clause of the default init resolution. I hope that the result of this GR will be able to serve as input in future TC discussions

Re: Tentative summary of the amendments

2014-10-22 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Didier 'OdyX' Raboud o...@debian.org (2014-10-22): Le mercredi, 22 octobre 2014, 13.34:27 Ian Jackson a écrit : Jonas Smedegaard writes (Re: Tentative summary of the amendments): I too find it wrong to interpret Ian's text as a war between systemd and sysvinit - that's anything but

Re: Reducing the discussion and the voting period to 1 week

2014-10-22 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Lucas Nussbaum lea...@debian.org (2014-10-22): On 17/10/14 at 10:01 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: But designing and tuning alternative proposals might take time, so I would prefer to wait a few days before reducing the discussion period, to ensure that we vote with a sensible ballot. I will

Re: Tentative summary of the amendments

2014-10-22 Thread Uoti Urpala
Ian Jackson wrote: Jonas Smedegaard writes (Re: Tentative summary of the amendments): Quoting Nikolaus Rath (2014-10-22 05:09:18) I believe Ian's intended reading is that a package that depends on uselessd | systemd (but does not work with sysvinit) would be allowed by his proposal.

Re: Tentative summary of the amendments

2014-10-22 Thread Aigars Mahinovs
On 22 October 2014 20:14, Uoti Urpala uoti.urp...@pp1.inet.fi wrote: Ian Jackson wrote: Jonas Smedegaard writes (Re: Tentative summary of the amendments): Quoting Nikolaus Rath (2014-10-22 05:09:18) I believe Ian's intended reading is that a package that depends on uselessd | systemd

Re: Tentative summary of the amendments

2014-10-22 Thread Joey Hess
Uoti Urpala wrote: Does this GR imply that such a decision may not be made without a new GR to override this one? I was originally worried about this too, and it's one reason out of many why I strongly dislike using GRs to decide technical matters. My understanding though, is that this GR

Re: [Sorry Neil] Wording modification of the The ???no GR, please??? amendement.

2014-10-22 Thread Anthony Towns
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 07:45:39AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: I propose the following replacement as per article A.1.5 of our Contitution. The Debian project asks its

Re: Reducing the discussion and the voting period to 1 week

2014-10-22 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 05:22:39PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum a écrit : Charles, Luca, can you confirm that you are also fine with shortening the discussion period to one week? I am fine with shortening it. Cheers, Charles -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team,