Re: Finding sponsors for Debian

2012-03-12 Thread Martin Schulze
Arno Töll wrote: as somebody who pushed $work to donate money to Debian (i.e. via FFIS), I always wondered about the financial merits of these donations. As much as I am involved to work within Debian, I have no clue what you used our money for. I am probably not literally interested what for

Re: Technical committee resolution

2008-04-04 Thread Martin Schulze
Holger Levsen wrote: Hi Moritz, On Thursday 03 April 2008 23:51, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: And if so, what is the plan for wordpress in etch and lenny? I recommend to drop it from Lenny, but if people choose to repeat mistakes I won't waste my time on argueing. Thanks for clarifying.

Re: Results for General Resolution: Endorse concept of Debian maintainers

2007-08-07 Thread Martin Schulze
Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: Hi, On Sat Aug 04, 2007 at 19:54:00 -0500, Debian Project Secretary wrote: Hi, The resolution passes, with 386 votes from 345 developers. The winners are: Option 1 Endorse the concept of Debian Maintainers

Re: Constitutional amendment: reduce the length of DPL election process

2007-08-01 Thread Martin Schulze
Marc Haber wrote: I think that a longer term could be a good idea. There must be a reason why DPLs are usually invisible and unable to address the real problems in the project. Which, of course and quite naturally, simply vanish when they take the burdon of being DPL another year. Regards,

Re: The Debian Maintainers GR

2007-07-30 Thread Martin Schulze
Joerg Jaspert wrote: On 11096 March 1977, Anthony Towns wrote: And there's the usual spin. Not everything's about who has power over whom, Joerg. At least try to have the courage to stand up in public for what you do in private. I dont have a problem with it being public. I have one

Re: On the Debian Maintainers GR

2007-07-28 Thread Martin Schulze
Andreas Barth wrote: * Martin Schulze ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [070728 11:37]: Andreas Barth wrote: * Holger Levsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [070727 13:02]: Sure. But why shouldnt trusted non-DDs not be able to upload their teams packages? And a subscriber and active Debian Edu developer

Re: On the Debian Maintainers GR

2007-07-26 Thread Martin Schulze
Nacho Barrientos Arias wrote: It appears to me that the DM concept as sketched in the GR is mainly meant to let NMs upload earlier, i.e. it tries to fix the fact that front-desk or DAM approval take too long. I think the fix for that is just to find someone besides Joerg to also read the

Re: On the Debian Maintainers GR

2007-07-26 Thread Martin Schulze
Raphael Hertzog wrote: - Not everybody deserves to be DD. [2] [2] The NM process rejects some people who have the technical abilities to maintain packages but who are not in sync with the rest of the community. I fail to see why we should refuse their technical contribution. The NM process

Re: On the Debian Maintainers GR

2007-07-26 Thread Martin Schulze
Raphael Hertzog wrote: maintained by someone who isn't keeping up with Debian-wide changes, and Why that ? I expect all DM to be subscribed to d-d-a and would suggest a check (or even some enforcement with auto-subscription if we really want). Why is this not written in the GR but the use

Re: On the Debian Maintainers GR

2007-07-26 Thread Martin Schulze
Josselin Mouette wrote: Le jeudi 26 juillet 2007 à 16:20 +0200, Loïc Minier a écrit : But what if this results in higher quality packages than the one of overly busy DDs (because the maintainers are very focused on their pet packages)? Did you think of this consequence? If someone

Re: On the Debian Maintainers GR

2007-07-26 Thread Martin Schulze
Nacho Barrientos Arias wrote: Nacho Barrientos Arias wrote: It appears to me that the DM concept as sketched in the GR is mainly meant to let NMs upload earlier, i.e. it tries to fix the fact that front-desk or DAM approval take too long. I think the fix for that is just to find

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal, alternative update

2007-07-09 Thread Martin Schulze
Steffen Joeris wrote: I took ajs proposal and modified it to fit my understanding of DM. See the patch below the proposal, together with my comments for more information. I avoid repeating most of the arguments, which were send several times in dozens of mails. This is just my proposal and

Re: ajt's anti-rebuttal

2007-03-16 Thread Martin Schulze
Anthony Towns wrote: On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 06:35:59PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: * Anthony Towns (aj@azure.humbug.org.au) [070314 19:25]: Since then we've also had Debian Times established I don't see at all how this is realated to you being DPL - in fact, I would have prefered a more

Re: Debian Project Leader Elections 2007: Draft ballot

2007-03-10 Thread Martin Schulze
Marc Haber wrote: Or are we going to require an IQ test before people allowing to vote, understanding the ballot being one of the test? Seconded. Regards, Joey -- The MS-DOS filesystem is nice for removable media. -- H. Peter Anvin signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: BREAKING NEWS: Debian developers aren't trusted

2007-02-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Hamish Moffatt wrote: ] I am really upset by the way the ARM build daemons are managed. The ] packages are not uploaded regularly, with sometimes three days between ] two uploads. [...] ] ] All of that resulted in ARM being the slowest architecture to build ] packages. [...]

Re: BREAKING NEWS: Debian developers aren't trusted

2007-02-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Frank Küster wrote: I don't imagine Aurelien's any less upset, but as far as I can see, there aren't actual problems with the way arm's keeping up at present: Another problem is that the buildd email mailbox is apparently piped to /dev/null. FWIW, buildd mail is processed by a

Re: [GR] DD should be allowed to perform binary-only uploads

2007-02-12 Thread Martin Schulze
Wesley J. Landaker wrote: On Monday 12 February 2007 09:08, Stephen Gran wrote: [...] reproducibility will suffer. The fact that it failed to run the binary correctly in this failure instance is good. But another day, it may fail to correctly run gcc, and that would be bad if it exited 0

Re: [GR] DD should be allowed to perform binary-only uploads

2007-02-11 Thread Martin Schulze
Note that if you can get SPI to transfer the debian.org zone to other DNS servers than the current ones, you can NMU the infrastructure. Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I heavily disagree to that. The current servers are owned by Debian or sponsored to Debian by some people. So

Re: BREAKING NEWS: Debian developers aren't trusted

2007-02-11 Thread Martin Schulze
Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 04:24:45AM +0200, Kalle Kivimaa wrote: Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Personally, I don't like either of the checks, but I've seen zero effort from Aurelian and friends to demonstrate they can be trusted, Quoting

Re: [GR] DD should be allowed to perform binary-only uploads

2007-02-11 Thread Martin Schulze
Julien BLACHE wrote: Note that if you can get SPI to transfer the debian.org zone to other DNS servers than the current ones, you can NMU the infrastructure. But (probably) only if it was at the request of the DPL. Could be at the request of the Project, via a GR I think, if the DPL

Re: [GR] DD should be allowed to perform binary-only uploads

2007-02-11 Thread Martin Schulze
Julien BLACHE wrote: Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unlikely. SPI usually has a defined authorisationship with an associated project, this refers to people, not the project as a whole or their developers or their internal voting results. However, a GR should be able to kick

Re: Proposal to delay the decition of the DPL of the withdrawal of the Package Policy Committee delegation

2006-10-26 Thread Martin Schulze
Seconded. Regards, Joey Martin Wuertele wrote: I disagree with the Policy delegation decision of our DPL [1] and therefore propose a resolution as defined in section 4.2.2 of the Debian constitution to delay the decision of the Debian Project Leader keeping the Package Policy

Re: Proposal to delay the decition of the DPL of the withdrawal of the Package Policy Committee delegation

2006-10-26 Thread Martin Schulze
Steve Langasek wrote: On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 09:40:43PM +0200, Martin Wuertele wrote: I disagree with the Policy delegation decision of our DPL [1] and therefore propose a resolution as defined in section 4.2.2 of the Debian constitution to delay the decision of the Debian Project Leader

Re: Summary? (Or: my vote is for sale!)

2006-10-03 Thread Martin Schulze
Sven Luther wrote: Jurij, i still think your draft is lightyears more clear and to the point than most GRs out there. One comment. As BLOB stands for Binary Large OBject, binary blob is somewhat strange. Regards, Joey -- Given enough thrust pigs will fly, but it's not necessarily a

Re: Proposal: Recall the Project Leader

2006-09-25 Thread Martin Schulze
Martin Schulze wrote: On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 07:10:25PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: I'd say that I'm not more comfortable with Steve McIntyre beeing involved and a DPL-assistant (or whatever name his position has) either, so if Aj stops beeing involved with dunc-tank, (1

Re: Proposal: Recall the Project Leader

2006-09-23 Thread Martin Schulze
Michael Banck wrote: On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 12:05:39AM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: Again, the question is: is this organisation sufficiently outside of Debian when the DPL is intimately involved. In my opinion, the answer is obviously no, meaning that this quarantine will not work and

Re: Proposal: Recall the Project Leader

2006-09-23 Thread Martin Schulze
John Goerzen wrote: * Debian itself donated $1000 to the Gnome project to fund its development due to a dispute with KDE over Qt licensing. I don't recall this coming with strings such as can't be spent on programmer time. So there is even precedent for the project doing this sort of

Re: Proposal: Recall the Project Leader

2006-09-23 Thread Martin Schulze
Matthew R. Dempsky wrote: On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 07:43:22PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: Anthony Towns ends up his announce[1] about dunc-tank.org with these two paragraphs: A question that has been raised is whether the organisation can be sufficiently outside of Debian when

Re: Proposal: Recall the Project Leader

2006-09-23 Thread Martin Schulze
Pierre Habouzit wrote: Le jeu 21 septembre 2006 20:44, Graham Wilson a écrit : On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 07:10:25PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: I'd say that I'm not more comfortable with Steve McIntyre beeing involved and a DPL-assistant (or whatever name his position has) either, so

Re: Proposal: Recall the Project Leader

2006-09-23 Thread Martin Schulze
martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.09.23.2110 +0200]: It's not about a timely release, it's about Debian directly or indirectly paying *some* developers for the work they signed up to. No, it's about a timely release and enabling two people of core

Re: Proposal: Recall the Project Leader

2006-09-20 Thread Martin Schulze
Seconded. Regards, Joey Denis Barbier wrote: Hi, Anthony Towns ends up his announce[1] about dunc-tank.org with these two paragraphs: The first article[2] on the topic's already been published; with one somewhat inaccuracy - this is not a Debian project, and is

Re: The Sourceless software in the kernel source GR

2006-09-19 Thread Martin Schulze
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 18:46:50 -0700, Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: But just like the groundwork and foundation of a structure, the non-actionable content of a resolutions can contain information on how the actionable content is to be interpreted. As such, it is part of the

Re: Proposal: Apologize for releasing etch with sourceless/non-free firmware

2006-09-15 Thread Martin Schulze
Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 11:03:47AM +0100, Daniel Ruoso wrote: I propose the following option to the GR: PROPOSAL The Debian Project reaffirms its commitment of providing a 100% free operating system, and reaffirms the decisions taken by GR 2004-03, but some

Re: Firmware Social Contract: GR proposal

2006-09-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Anthony Towns wrote: The Debian Project resolves that: (a) The Social Contract shall be reverted to its original form, as at http://www.debian.org/social_contract.1.0 ARGS. This is certainly one of the worst GR proposals I've seen. Not seconded, of course. I believe it would

Re: Firmware Social Contract: GR proposal

2006-09-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Josselin Mouette wrote: Le mardi 05 septembre 2006 à 19:07 -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG a écrit : For me the key question is whether the d-i team is actually doing the work or not. Are they? If the answer is yes, then I might vote for a delay. If the answer is no, then I see no reason that

Re: Firmware Social Contract: GR proposal

2006-09-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Anthony Towns wrote: 1. I'm utterly frustrated with your ways. The mail on d-d-a could not have any other answer that please release etch in time, that's something a perfect moron could have predicted without a doubt. 26% of the people on the forums said supporting hardware

Re: Proposal: The DFSG do not require source code for data, including firmware

2006-08-23 Thread Martin Schulze
Steve Langasek wrote: The application of DFSG#2 to firmware and other data The Debian Project recognizes that access to source code for a work of software is very important for software freedom, but at the same time

Re: Proposal: The DFSG do not require source code for data, including firmware

2006-08-23 Thread Martin Schulze
Sven Luther wrote: What Steve and others who seconded him propose is to ship non-free firmware in main, and declaring it as data, and thus disguising it as free software. I guess that's a good statement, it's disquising firmware, not necessarily as Free Software, but disguising it. We should

Re: Question for all candidates: handle debian-admin more openly

2006-03-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Bill Allombert wrote: On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 11:47:25AM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: Why would we need more total CPU time? Not even leisner is overloaded at the moment, and it's probably the slowliest machine. (leisner has a different problem, though). Hence, please explain why we

Re: Questions to the candidates

2006-03-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Frank Küster wrote: 5. Do you see any services for our users or developers missing or poorly maintained? If so, which and what do you plan to do to fix this? I'm not directly aware of anything important missing at the moment. I know that we struggled to get packages.d.o running

Re: Question for all candidates: handle debian-admin more openly

2006-03-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Steve Langasek wrote: On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 11:20:47PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: Such requests and requirements change the situation. However, I have to admit that I first read about this particular requirement here. I noticed some babbling about ppc64, sparc64, mips64 and s390x

Re: Questions to the candidates

2006-03-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Frank Küster wrote: Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frank Küster wrote: 5. Do you see any services for our users or developers missing or poorly maintained? If so, which and what do you plan to do to fix this? I'm not directly aware of anything important missing

Re: Debian Backup Server (was: Questions to the candidates)

2006-03-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Frank Küster wrote: Moving this to -devel, it's off-topic for -vote; Cc to -admin. Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At some place where it can be found even if you don't want to look up a month-old announcement. What about http://db.debian.org/machines.cgi, and the developers

Re: Question for all candidates: handle debian-admin more openly

2006-03-11 Thread Martin Schulze
Bill Allombert wrote: Example of non-priviledged services include secondary web services and developers accessible port machines with separate accounts. As an aside, I think there should be more developers-accessible port machines. Why? Having two developers-accessible port

Re: Questions for Andreas Schuldei

2006-03-11 Thread Martin Schulze
Andreas Schuldei wrote: You were very busy and I knew you and joey had issues and a hard time working together. In the same IRC conversation I first asked Anthony about his working relationship with Joey. He would have been an excellent contact point inside FTP-master to work with him on e.g.

Re: Questions for all candidates: plurality of mandates

2006-03-10 Thread Martin Schulze
Anthony Towns wrote: More generally, Joey's a member of DSA and as such has root on security-master.d.o; if he really wanted to he could maintain the dak install there (or an entirely different system) himself for security I must not do that. Being a system administrator is not a green light

Re: question for all candidates

2006-03-10 Thread Martin Schulze
Andreas Schuldei wrote: Pigs can fly and the Security Team is changing. I like to believe that the DPL team had a role in that. If it worked so well for It didn't have. The changes were underway and in discussion independently. the security team, why do you think it should be impossible for

Re: question for all candidates

2006-03-10 Thread Martin Schulze
martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.03.10.2250 +0100]: Pigs can fly and the Security Team is changing. I like to believe that the DPL team had a role in that. If it worked so well for It didn't have. The changes were underway and in discussion

Re: question for all candidates

2006-03-09 Thread Martin Schulze
Andreas Schuldei wrote: * Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-03-07 20:09:11]: When important teams seem to be disfunctional or have a hard time to find a structure that scales into the future I would however use my powers of delegation to restructure the team from the outside. I

Re: Question for all candidates: handle debian-admin more openly

2006-03-09 Thread Martin Schulze
Sven Luther wrote: On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 07:31:49AM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: Bill Allombert wrote: Example of non-priviledged services include secondary web services and developers accessible port machines with separate accounts. As an aside, I think there should be more

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Request to be approved as FTP-Master]

2006-03-09 Thread Martin Schulze
martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.03.08.0853 +0100]: This has been rejected by James Troup. What was the reason? No reason given. Regards, Joey -- MIME - broken solution for a broken design. -- Ralf Baechle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Question for all candidates: handle debian-admin more openly

2006-03-08 Thread Martin Schulze
Bill Allombert wrote: On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 10:56:57PM +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: Now my question: 1.) Do you think it would be a good idea to handle debian-admin more openly? 2.) Would you encourage debian-admin to do so? If yes, how? 3.) Do you think more DSA

Re: NM process (was: Question to all candidates about the NM process)

2006-03-07 Thread Martin Schulze
Pierre Habouzit wrote: almost 3 monthes to have an AM 2 days to pass TS and PP 5 days more because of a mail of mine, stuck on an SMTP exactly 8 monthes (WTF !?!?!) to have then my account created. Did you notice that things have changed a bit since Joerg is acting as pre-DAM? Regards,

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Request to be approved as FTP-Master]

2006-03-07 Thread Martin Schulze
- Forwarded message from Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 14:23:33 +0100 From: Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: XX Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Request to be approved as FTP-Master I hereby request to be approved as FTP-master

Re: Question to all candidates about stable point releases

2006-03-07 Thread Martin Schulze
Anthony Towns wrote: which is to change the queue structure so that uploads don't enter proposed-updates until approved by the SRM. I'm wondering why you don't take the more obvious step: add the SRM as an ftp-master for specifically updating stable. I was made an ftp-master for the

Re: Question to all candidates about stable point releases

2006-03-07 Thread Martin Schulze
Anthony Towns wrote: *sigh* Full ack. For the record: Feb 6th: SRM sends mail to ftp-master trying to negotiate a timeline Mar 5th: SRM sends another mail since nobody replied to the old one Mar 5th: aj complains that nobody answered his mail from Feb 22 about modificating

Re: Question to all candidates about stable point releases

2006-03-07 Thread Martin Schulze
Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Tue, 07 Mar 2006, Marc Haber wrote: I note that it took you 16 days to reply, and that you seem to want to build a dependency between a change which is not strictly needed to make a point release (if it were needed, why was it possible to release 3.1r1?) and

Re: Question to all candidates about stable point releases

2006-03-07 Thread Martin Schulze
Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Tue, 07 Mar 2006, Andreas Barth wrote: It seemed obvious to me. If uploads to s-p-u are blocked for approval by the SRM, this needs to happen just after a point release so that s-p-u is empty to start with the new system (probably because once a package is

Re: Question to all candidates about stable point releases

2006-03-07 Thread Martin Schulze
Marc Haber wrote: and that you seem to want to build a dependency between a change which is not strictly needed to make a point release (if it were needed, why was it possible to release 3.1r1?) and 3.1r2. May I ask why? The dependency is the other way -- that change needs to

Re: Questions for Jeroen van Wolffelaar and Andreas Schuldei

2006-03-07 Thread Martin Schulze
Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 07:33:36PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: Thanks for the answers. However, to a large extent they seem to be We didn't fulfil many of our aims last year, but we will this year and justification for that seems to be I'll be in charge

Questions to the candidates

2006-03-07 Thread Martin Schulze
Hi, I'd like to ask some questions to the prospecitve project leaders: 1. Which are Debians top five strengths in your opinion? 2. Where do you identify Debians top five problems? 3. Do you plan to do anything to change the public recognition that Debian suffers from severe release problems

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Request to be approved as FTP-Master]

2006-03-07 Thread Martin Schulze
Martin Schulze wrote: - Forwarded message from Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 14:23:33 +0100 From: Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: XX Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Request to be approved as FTP-Master I hereby request

Re: Question to all candidates about stable point releases

2006-03-06 Thread Martin Schulze
Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 01:02:20PM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: Though Martin 'Joey' Schulze as stable release manager presents lists of packages that are accepted into the next stable point release on a regular basis, they normally are not released

Re: Reflections about the questions for the candidates

2006-03-05 Thread Martin Schulze
Frank Küster wrote: * Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-03-05 18:48]: I also asked the DPL a question about backups of the development machines (after the CVS corruption last year) and never got any answer. FWIW, there is a dedicated backup server now. I don't know any details

Re: GR Proposal 2: Declassification of -private

2005-11-22 Thread Martin Schulze
Margarita Manterola wrote: Also, people in the NM queue that have to agree to the Social Contract and the DFSG, might be interested in knowing why these documents have the shape they have before actually agreeing to them. Once they leave NM-mode and enter DD-mode they can read the archive

Re: Vote for the Debian Project Leader Election 2005

2005-03-24 Thread Martin Schulze
John Goerzen wrote: Well... So much for: 1) secret ballots 2) reading directions Reading is a lost art nowadays. -- Michael Weber I'm also quite appalled by the vote. *sigh* Regards, Joey -- No question is too silly to ask, but, of course, some are too silly

Re: DPL Nominations

2005-03-14 Thread Martin Schulze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to have three Debian Project Co-Leaders. No. However, a DPL is free to consult people he trusts in certain matters in order to be able to talk properly. I read that the current DPL was already doing to. All the nominees are so good I think Debian would

Re: Questions to all DPL candidates

2005-03-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Eduard Bloch wrote: I would like to know your opinion about the discrimination of the contrib and non-free parts of the Debian archive(*). Do you think that hidding important pieces of software does serve our users? (with or without the bug license teaching messages) Out of curiosity, which

Re: Question for candidate Towns

2005-03-13 Thread Martin Schulze
martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.03.11.1715 +0100]: That people who would like to know more about Debian internals have no easy way of finding out, and if they approach those that know at the wrong time, or not in the way those would expect

Re: Question for candidate Towns

2005-03-11 Thread Martin Schulze
martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.03.11.1222 +0100]: Which machines are you talking about? All those marked as restricted on db.debian.org. And of course, ftp-master.debian.org and security.debian.org :) So that was just a bogus comment to keep up

Re: Question for candidate Towns

2005-03-11 Thread Martin Schulze
martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.03.11.1353 +0100]: And the point is what exactly? That people who would like to know more about Debian internals have no easy way of finding out, and if they approach those that know at the wrong time

Re: Questions for candidate Walther

2005-03-08 Thread Martin Schulze
Matthew Garrett wrote: Jonathan Walther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I committed to working toward a six-month cycle. As DPL, I have no desire to act unilaterally. Once a sufficient number of us are inspired with the right vision, things will just happen. As DPL, my job is to

Re: Red-tops, was: Clarification about krooger's platform

2005-03-07 Thread Martin Schulze
MJ Ray wrote: I may do that later, so for future: Does [EMAIL PROTECTED] have an archive? Yes, it's on master:/home/debian/archive/debian-dwn and readable by the Debian (800) group. Regards, Joey -- If nothing changes, everything will remain the same. -- Barne's Law -- To

Re: Vote Robinson for DPL!

2005-02-22 Thread Martin Schulze
Ean Schuessler wrote: You guys knew this was coming. When I shelved this flamewar months ago I made it clear that the problem would be revisited at a future date. That future date is here and I want to know how SPI has corrected its accounting problems. I want to know the filing procedures.

Re: Vote Robinson for DPL!

2005-02-20 Thread Martin Schulze
Ean Schuessler wrote: On Saturday 19 February 2005 02:30 pm, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Branden's implication on IRC was that he had already paid it when he got the note from your mother, and that you had already said Huzzah! when your mother sent the reminder, suggesting that you and she

Re: Vote Robinson for DPL!

2005-02-20 Thread Martin Schulze
Ean Schuessler wrote: On a single day: - My mother sent Branden another reminder to pay SPI's very late postage bill. - Branden posted a message to the list saying he finally paid it. - I read Branden's message and said huzzah!. I really wonder why you posted this and started yet another

Re: Vote Robinson for DPL!

2005-02-20 Thread Martin Schulze
Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Ean Schuessler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A strained suggestion at best. A promise from SPI to pay is not the same as a check in hand. My Mom doesn't read spi-private. Worst case scenerio, I did not run into my Mom's office and shout they paid! the second I

RfD: Proposed General Resolution on Sarge Release

2004-05-04 Thread Martin Schulze
I wonder if we have (or want) a resolution that would explicitly exclude sarge from a stronger interpretation of the social contract than it was on April 1st? That would not have to change a foundation document again and hence don't require a 3:1 majority. It would also allow the Release Manager

Re: meta-issue: interpreting the outcome of the pending vote

2004-05-04 Thread Martin Schulze
Branden Robinson wrote: I have some questions: 1) If none of the proposed courses of actions meets the 3:1 majority requirement, it is the same as FURTHER DISCUSSION, right? I believe so. 1a) If so, what do we do? Is Anthony Towns's interpretation of the Social Contract and its

RfD: Proposed General Resolution on Sarge Release

2004-05-04 Thread Martin Schulze
I wonder if we have (or want) a resolution that would explicitly exclude sarge from a stronger interpretation of the social contract than it was on April 1st? That would not have to change a foundation document again and hence don't require a 3:1 majority. It would also allow the Release Manager

Re: meta-issue: interpreting the outcome of the pending vote

2004-05-04 Thread Martin Schulze
Branden Robinson wrote: I have some questions: 1) If none of the proposed courses of actions meets the 3:1 majority requirement, it is the same as FURTHER DISCUSSION, right? I believe so. 1a) If so, what do we do? Is Anthony Towns's interpretation of the Social Contract and its

Re: Amendment to the Constitution: Add a new foundation document

2004-05-02 Thread Martin Schulze
Andreas Barth wrote: * Manoj Srivastava ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040502 20:25]: On consultation with the other sponsors, I have decided to add a sunset clause to the proposed Transition Guide, so that the specific references to Sarge are ex-purged after it is released. This

Re: Proposal - Deferment of Changes from GR 2004-003

2004-04-29 Thread Martin Schulze
Craig Sanders wrote: you obviously can't understand simple instructions. i'll give them to you once more just in case some faint glimmer of understanding manages to seep in: DO NOT CONTACT ME AGAIN. I DO NOT WISH TO COMMUNICATE WITH YOU. Then maybe you should stop communicating with him

Re: Proposal - Deferment of Changes from GR 2004-003

2004-04-29 Thread Martin Schulze
Craig Sanders wrote: you obviously can't understand simple instructions. i'll give them to you once more just in case some faint glimmer of understanding manages to seep in: DO NOT CONTACT ME AGAIN. I DO NOT WISH TO COMMUNICATE WITH YOU. Then maybe you should stop communicating with him

Re: Proposal - Deferment of Changes from GR 2004-003

2004-04-28 Thread Martin Schulze
Steve Langasek wrote: affirming its committment to principles of freeness for all works it distributes, but recognizing that changing the Social Contract today would have grave consequences for the upcoming stable release, a fact which does not serve our goals or the interests of our users,

Re: Proposal - Deferment of Changes from GR 2004-003

2004-04-28 Thread Martin Schulze
Raul Miller wrote: Do you have some proprosal to make on how you think this issue should be resolved? Well, I do believe that non-program software should be as free as program software, so I'd go the way Anthony described to resolve this issue: i.e. help Nathanael to extract firmware blobs and

Re: Proposal - Deferment of Changes from GR 2004-003

2004-04-28 Thread Martin Schulze
Steve Langasek wrote: affirming its committment to principles of freeness for all works it distributes, but recognizing that changing the Social Contract today would have grave consequences for the upcoming stable release, a fact which does not serve our goals or the interests of our users,

Re: Proposal - Deferment of Changes from GR 2004-003

2004-04-28 Thread Martin Schulze
Raul Miller wrote: Do you have some proprosal to make on how you think this issue should be resolved? Well, I do believe that non-program software should be as free as program software, so I'd go the way Anthony described to resolve this issue: i.e. help Nathanael to extract firmware blobs and

Re: Proposal - Deferment of Changes from GR 2004-003

2004-04-28 Thread Martin Schulze
Andreas Barth wrote: * Martin Schulze ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040428 12:40]: Raul Miller wrote: Do you have some proprosal to make on how you think this issue should be resolved? Well, I do believe that non-program software should be as free as program software, so I'd go the way

Re: Social Contract GR's Affect on sarge

2004-04-27 Thread Martin Schulze
Florian Weimer wrote: Jochen Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You should not be. Debian is about freedom, so we should struggle to not distribute non-free items. Debian is the distribution that distributes the largest chunk of non-free software. Please keep this in mind. Remembering

Re: Social Contract GR's Affect on sarge

2004-04-27 Thread Martin Schulze
Gunnar Wolf wrote: After the tremendous amount of dust this post has lifted, I think i have only one complaint: I agree with you, we must remain true to what ourselves define as our foundation documents. Many of us (I surely did) could not see this consequence when we voted for the editorial

Re: Social Contract GR's Affect on sarge

2004-04-27 Thread Martin Schulze
Florian Weimer wrote: Jochen Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You should not be. Debian is about freedom, so we should struggle to not distribute non-free items. Debian is the distribution that distributes the largest chunk of non-free software. Please keep this in mind. Remembering

Re: Social Contract GR's Affect on sarge

2004-04-27 Thread Martin Schulze
Gunnar Wolf wrote: After the tremendous amount of dust this post has lifted, I think i have only one complaint: I agree with you, we must remain true to what ourselves define as our foundation documents. Many of us (I surely did) could not see this consequence when we voted for the editorial

Re: Social Contract GR's Affect on sarge

2004-04-26 Thread Martin Schulze
Anthony Towns wrote: As such, I can see no way to release sarge without having all these things removed from the Debian system -- ie main. This will result in the following problems: * important packages such as glibc will have no documentation This should not be too bad given that

Re: Social Contract GR's Affect on sarge

2004-04-26 Thread Martin Schulze
Andreas Barth wrote: * Anthony Towns ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040426 07:10]: As this is no longer limited to software, and as this decision was made by developers after and during discussion of how we should consider non-software content such as documentation and firmware, I don't believe I

Re: Social Contract GR's Affect on sarge

2004-04-26 Thread Martin Schulze
Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: Did you have a look to FSF-related software in the last few time? I normally use them, of course. Issue a 'man emacs' for instance What am I supposed to read there? Mine doesn't say that it's using the FDL but since its date says it's from 1995 December 7, I

Re: Social Contract GR's Affect on sarge

2004-04-26 Thread Martin Schulze
Andreas Barth wrote: * Anthony Towns (aj@azure.humbug.org.au) [040426 07:10]: As this is no longer limited to software, and as this decision was made by developers after and during discussion of how we should consider non-software content such as documentation and firmware, I don't believe

Re: Social Contract GR's Affect on sarge

2004-04-26 Thread Martin Schulze
Anthony Towns wrote: As such, I can see no way to release sarge without having all these things removed from the Debian system -- ie main. This will result in the following problems: * important packages such as glibc will have no documentation This should not be too bad given that

Re: Social Contract GR's Affect on sarge

2004-04-26 Thread Martin Schulze
Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: Did you have a look to FSF-related software in the last few time? I normally use them, of course. Issue a 'man emacs' for instance What am I supposed to read there? Mine doesn't say that it's using the FDL but since its date says it's from 1995 December 7, I

Re: Social Contract GR's Affect on sarge

2004-04-26 Thread Martin Schulze
Michael Banck wrote: On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 02:32:34PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: Issue a 'man emacs' for instance What am I supposed to read there? Mine doesn't say that it's using the FDL but since its date says it's from 1995 December 7, I

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