Re: Debian presence on newer platforms

2019-03-25 Thread Brian May
ty high barrier. This was a problem for the last linux.conf.au which uses Matrix successfully. For me the process made perfect since *after* I had done it. Surely it wouldn't be too difficult to write some sort of tool to automate the process? -- Brian May

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

2014-10-16 Thread Brian May
that this isn't a big issue; only a GR can guarantee it won't be an issue tomorrow. Anyone want to help me with my proposal? :-) -- Brian May br...@microcomaustralia.com.au

Re: blablablablablablabla (was Re: lifting censorship during the DPL campaign ...

2009-03-26 Thread Brian May
minor and controversial issues like this one. Assume it was a mistake (even if it was deliberate - who cares?). -- Brian May br...@microcomaustralia.com.au -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Debian Project Leader Election 2009: Final call for nominations.

2009-03-09 Thread Brian May
;-). -- Brian May br...@microcomaustralia.com.au -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: First call for votes for the Lenny release GR

2008-12-17 Thread Brian May
) first, and then decide the wording on (A) and (B) depending on the outcome of (C). In which case, even if there is a conflict, the wording can clarify if the second vote overrides or doesn't override the first result. -- Brian May br...@microcomaustralia.com.au -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Call for seconds: post-Lenny enforceability of DFSG violations

2008-10-27 Thread Brian May
the package altogether, and allow somebody to upload to non-free if deemed appropriate? I think automatically moving it to non-free may not always be the best solution. Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Proposal: GR to deal with effects of a personal dispute

2007-06-01 Thread Brian May
guess none of this matters though, since debian has decided Sven to expulse me anyway, just like they did for Jonathan/Ted Sven Walter, without ever thinking of setting up a procedure to Sven handle expulsion fairly. :-( -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Proposal: GR to deal with effects of a personal dispute

2007-05-31 Thread Brian May
trust that you will give Y. A better approach is required - repeatedly banging your head against the wall is not going to help. No matter how hard or how long you do it for. -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Proposal: GR to deal with effects of a personal dispute

2007-05-30 Thread Brian May
only). -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GR PROPOSAL : The Debian Infrastructure is owned by the whole Debian project, and not a few select individuals.

2007-05-27 Thread Brian May
weeks). Did you, perhaps, mean to say no *more* than two weeks?. Or maybe I just misread it, sorry if I did. -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A question to the Debian community ...

2007-05-17 Thread Brian May
of a list ban, then in end of Sven february with a renewed expulsion request. Some people might see this as justification for banning you from the mailing lists. If you weren't subscribed to the mailing lists, people might stop publicly trying to provoke you. -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: A question to the Debian community ...

2007-05-10 Thread Brian May
their minds, as they have already decided. Would there be anything else that could happen to allow you to forget your old grudges? -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Proposal: Recall the Project Leader

2006-09-24 Thread Brian May
martin == martin f krafft martin writes: martin What the heck are you guys doing??? Let's release etch, martin please ffs. Seconded. -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement

2006-01-04 Thread Brian May
Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] People tend to ask ... but can I really use a license such as the GPL for documentation? I thought GPL was for software only. Do we need to address this point? I'm not sure. That's covered in the GPL FAQ and should be clear from the definition of Program

Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement

2006-01-03 Thread Brian May
? -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Social Contract GR's Affect on sarge

2004-05-02 Thread Brian May
with this thread. -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Social Contract GR's Affect on sarge

2004-05-02 Thread Brian May
with this thread. -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-04 Thread Brian May
-HOWTO/index.html Helen especially the section about the problems women face in Helen approaching linux communities. Seems sensible reading, and could be beneficial even if only read by people who already try to do the right thing. -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Brian May
others file bug reports, because to me, it just comes naturally (now). -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GR: Removal of non-free

2004-01-02 Thread Brian May
support for non-free? Could splitting non-free be seen as counter-productive to our aims? ie. Non-Free software has been just been split from Debian at a cost of 90 man hours; Non-free software must be important for users. Otherwise, if it wasn't important, why bother splitting it apart? -- Brian

Re: GR: Removal of non-free

2004-01-02 Thread Brian May
? -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: our users as one of our priorities

2003-03-08 Thread Brian May
On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 10:29:37AM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: #include hallo.h * Branden Robinson [Fri, Mar 07 2003, 03:23:37PM]: On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 11:37:15AM +1100, Brian May wrote: Perhaps it is more a matter of not demonstrating that you have listened. Well, I don't think

Re: our users as one of our priorities

2003-02-28 Thread Brian May
. Perhaps it is more a matter of not demonstrating that you have listened. (some examples would be ideal here, but I don't have any). (not my observation, just my interpretation of both the comments above, perhaps taken out of context). -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: our users as one of our priorities

2003-02-28 Thread Brian May
. Perhaps it is more a matter of not demonstrating that you have listened. (some examples would be ideal here, but I don't have any). (not my observation, just my interpretation of both the comments above, perhaps taken out of context). -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-16 Thread Brian May
if the information is now obsolete|find out when/if it is going to be implemented|etc)? Sorry about posting this to the mailing list, but I can't seem to work out what your E-Mail address is from the mailing list archive. -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-16 Thread Brian May
if the information is now obsolete|find out when/if it is going to be implemented|etc)? Sorry about posting this to the mailing list, but I can't seem to work out what your E-Mail address is from the mailing list archive. -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Some questions for the DPL candidates

2001-03-13 Thread Brian May
the DPL said "I'll let everybody do what they want to do", that would be bad, because everybody is going to have a different opinion. Instead of 1 project with XXX developers, you are likely to end up with XXX projects with 1 developer each ;-). -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSU

Re: Some questions for the DPL candidates

2001-03-13 Thread Brian May
, that would be bad, because everybody is going to have a different opinion. Instead of 1 project with XXX developers, you are likely to end up with XXX projects with 1 developer each ;-). -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Some questions for the DPL candidates

2001-03-12 Thread Brian May
the information the voters need (in the above case the candidate is extremely biased and probably should not be elected), but at the same time doesn't lock the candidate down to any single decision. -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Some questions for the DPL candidates

2001-03-11 Thread Brian May
ved. I think this conveys all the information the voters need (in the above case the candidate is extremely biased and probably should not be elected), but at the same time doesn't lock the candidate down to any single decision. -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: my answers to questions

2001-03-05 Thread Brian May
s the case)? -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Some questions for the DPL candidates

2001-03-05 Thread Brian May
of course that Australia is a non-US country, where we speak real English(TM) ;-) ) grin -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: my answers to questions

2001-03-05 Thread Brian May
)? -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Some questions for the DPL candidates

2001-02-28 Thread Brian May
that not enough is being done in this area by the project as a whole. * what release of Debian will come standard with IPv6 support? woody+1? Woody+2? What goals (if any) should be set along the way? -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED]

non-free software question

2000-02-16 Thread Brian May
with this? Comments? -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debate Transcripts

2000-02-16 Thread Brian May
on, but it works (I think) ;-) -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: README.Why_non-free (Re: Moving contrib and non-free of master.debian.org )

1999-06-24 Thread Brian May
by doing $ locate README.Why_non-free I think dpkg (or some other package) should provide some mechanism to automatically list all non-free and/or contrib software installed on a system. Especially for non-free software I may have installed ages ago, and never used since... -- Brian May [EMAIL