Re: tb's questions for the candidates

2004-03-07 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Matthias Urlichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you actively take on some responsibility and then fail to actually fulfill that responsibility it and/or fail to tell others that somebody else needs to do the job, that _is_ to actively work against these rules and decisions in my book. No.

Re: keep non-free proposal

2004-03-07 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok, you say it has, but please provide some prove or at least argumentation of it, and the benefit it will bring, over the imagined benefit you believe in. And you haven't responded to the fact that this will make no difference to those users who think

Re: keep non-free proposal

2004-03-07 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes: On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 11:47:16AM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: And believing that ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free is part of Debian seems to be quite common, That's because it's true. That directory is part of a service provided by the

Re: keep non-free proposal

2004-03-07 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes: There _is_ a change: one day we're distributing non-free, the next, we're not. That's the important change. It's not a change of policy, certainly, it's instead a claim that the *existing* policy does *not* need to be changed to meet the concern

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-07 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't see how _my_ failure to communicate with exactitude, and taking shortcuts, does in any way support your argumentation. It is not a unclarity of my thoughts and feeling, just a failure to bring this clearly into words. And you choose to attack me

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-07 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I guess Raul is right, and that the non-free removal GR should indeed propose a rationale saying exactly why it is a good idea. Hogwash. There is no need for everyone who votes for it to agree on a ^^^ Please refrain from using

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-07 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But you are interfering by the time i should spend on things, in particular making it more difficult for me to maintain my non-free package ? A strange way of not interfering with my volunteer time. It is not Debian's job to help you with everything in

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-07 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, from my understanding, hogwash would be the washing water of a pork, or something such. When you don't know a word, look it up. This is so basic. The main point is that i don't master the subtelties of the english language enough to clearly

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-07 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But when i was accepted in the debian project, the social contract clearly said that if i wanted to package non-free packages, they would be distributed by the debian infrastructure. This is a promise the project made to me, as i made the promise to agree

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-07 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: However there is no reason why a third-party non-free.org would feel compelled to limit themselves to our keyring and our policy. They might well accept help from anyone who volunteers, but would they have an NM process equivalent to ours? No reason

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-07 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes: On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 02:37:34PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: It is not Debian's job to help you with everything in your life that you want to volunteer for. Debian has a purpose, and I seek to clarify what that purpose is. Its

Re: keep non-free proposal

2004-03-06 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 09:24:02PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: Sven implied that there is a time for removing non-free, but that this isn't it. You are saying that any time a maintainer wants to put a non-free package on the Debian server

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-06 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. Bug tracking though bugs.debian.org; 2. Developers vetted and a GPG trust path guaranteed through the new maintainer process; 3. Non-free packages must meet same Debian policy as free packages, Some here claim that #1 is trivial to replicate.

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-06 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The response is easy: it won't have our name on it anymore, and we won't be devoting our resources to its support. Which ressources ? Assuredly not the small time the ftp-masters pass on it ? Assuredly not the minimal bandwidth requirement ? You

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-06 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One of the main argument, used by Branden if i remember well, was that removing non-free from the debian infrastructure would force authors of non-free packages to revise their licence, or users to consider alternatives. Exactly in what way does this

Re: keep non-free proposal

2004-03-06 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But if you would have read the rest of my post, or my other mails, you would know that i advocate a case by case schedule for this to happen. I don't understand. I'm asking when is it appropriate to shut down support for the non-free archive on Debian.

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-06 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I will most assuredly consider doing that. And i maintain one of the most non-free packages that can be. One of the seven or so binary-only kernel modules, which is a thing _i_ consider evil, and a threat to all what debian represents in the long run. And

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-06 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Peter Samuelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think it is more than reasonable to entertain the possibility that a similar cause is, in the present case, responsible for a similar result. And even to take action based on that assumption. Or do you always wait for perfect information before

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-06 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Peter Samuelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That may be true. However, you may have overlooked Erinn Clark's post to this thread, which, fortuitously, has just the sort of information you seem to be asking for. By no means would I ever say that the evidence isn't forthcoming. I've seen it

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-06 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yeah, failing arguments, you play with words, how usual of this thread. Huh? No, I said what the changes would be, and they are very important changes to me. They are not important to you perhaps, but it is true that they are important to me. And it is

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-06 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So that does mean, that this argument is not one you (and Mj Ray) think are the reason for moving non-free out of the debian archive ? It might or might not happen that way. I believe that non-free should be removed from Debian regardless. I've told you

Re: keep non-free proposal

2004-03-06 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do you really believe having a non-free archive on the debian infrastructure is in any way different than having a separate non-free.org archive? Yes. How many times do I have to answer this question? Yes, it's different. What does it change in the

Re: keep non-free proposal

2004-03-06 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You can't argue for a change by saying that the current system's no good because it's the current system. I didn't say that, but apparently the thread has been lost. Sven sounded like he was saying that at some point it would be the right time to

Re: keep non-free proposal

2004-03-06 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How come the keep non-free advocates seem to have to do everything? They don't. This is Debian. Nobody has to do anything. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-06 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: yes, bullying happens too. but meekness happens whether there is any actual bullying or not. Meekness isn't harmful, nor does it ever justify your bullying. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: keep non-free proposal

2004-03-06 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes: On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 09:24:02PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: Sven implied that there is a time for removing non-free, but that this isn't it. You are saying that any time a maintainer wants to put a non-free package on the Debian

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-06 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. Bug tracking though bugs.debian.org; 2. Developers vetted and a GPG trust path guaranteed through the new maintainer process; 3. Non-free packages must meet same Debian policy as free packages, Some here claim that #1 is trivial to replicate.

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-06 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The response is easy: it won't have our name on it anymore, and we won't be devoting our resources to its support. Which ressources ? Assuredly not the small time the ftp-masters pass on it ? Assuredly not the minimal bandwidth requirement ? You

Re: keep non-free proposal

2004-03-06 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But if you would have read the rest of my post, or my other mails, you would know that i advocate a case by case schedule for this to happen. I don't understand. I'm asking when is it appropriate to shut down support for the non-free archive on Debian.

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-06 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I will most assuredly consider doing that. And i maintain one of the most non-free packages that can be. One of the seven or so binary-only kernel modules, which is a thing _i_ consider evil, and a threat to all what debian represents in the long run. And

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-06 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Peter Samuelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That may be true. However, you may have overlooked Erinn Clark's post to this thread, which, fortuitously, has just the sort of information you seem to be asking for. By no means would I ever say that the evidence isn't forthcoming. I've seen it

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-06 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yeah, failing arguments, you play with words, how usual of this thread. Huh? No, I said what the changes would be, and they are very important changes to me. They are not important to you perhaps, but it is true that they are important to me. And it is

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-06 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So that does mean, that this argument is not one you (and Mj Ray) think are the reason for moving non-free out of the debian archive ? It might or might not happen that way. I believe that non-free should be removed from Debian regardless. I've told you

Re: keep non-free proposal

2004-03-06 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do you really believe having a non-free archive on the debian infrastructure is in any way different than having a separate non-free.org archive? Yes. How many times do I have to answer this question? Yes, it's different. What does it change in the

Re: keep non-free proposal

2004-03-06 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes: You can't argue for a change by saying that the current system's no good because it's the current system. I didn't say that, but apparently the thread has been lost. Sven sounded like he was saying that at some point it would be the right time to

Re: keep non-free proposal

2004-03-06 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes: How come the keep non-free advocates seem to have to do everything? They don't. This is Debian. Nobody has to do anything.

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-06 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: yes, bullying happens too. but meekness happens whether there is any actual bullying or not. Meekness isn't harmful, nor does it ever justify your bullying. Thomas

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-05 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 11:25:59AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So, Helen is kind enough to summarise her views on why she doesn't participate in the project as fully as she might, and she's called

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-05 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Quite. But you too are ignoring one detail: that behavioral trait is expressed preferentially in one gender; perhaps due to cultural indoctrination, perhaps due to inherent biology. I have no idea if this is true. Moreover, I don't think it

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-05 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 07:58:03PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: The plural of anecdote is not data. True, but then what would you suggest as an alternative means of gathering data? Should we stick the users in a set of test tubes, complete with

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-05 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't think she is guessing. Indeed, the men here have done exactly what she thought they would -- calling her a flake, mentally unstable, inexperieiced, and sexist. See, this wasn't the men. It was particular people. It was not a gender

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-05 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Ben Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1) That debian contains bullying or aggressive elements. She is *not* inventing this, she did *not* come into the discussion with this as a stereotype that she's trying to fit debian into. It's quite clearly observable. This part I agree about. 2)

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-05 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Ben Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: FWIW, I wasn't aware of such a subculture when I joined back in 2001, and even now I'm finding it hard to think of more than a couple of other lesbian/gay/bi DDs. There's Me! But of course, how can we know that there are lots of gay and bi people in

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-05 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Helen Faulkner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Partly it's knowing that I'm going to be dealing with a man (almost certainly), and he may assume I don't know what I'm doing, and he may put me down or be condescending or unkind as a result. Are you assuming that all men will do this? The men who

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-05 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Helen Faulkner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It doesn't take many idiots in the community to put your average interested woman off, if we're going to have to deal with that kind of attitude. And you wonder why there are few female debian developers?! I'm one of those weirdos who has never met

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-05 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Ben Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The problem Helen refers to in the most part is not *overt* sexism. The problem is *subliminal/covert* sexism, where everyone is treated the same way but women in general (through social training, upbringing, whatever) are less well adapted to such

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-05 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Ben Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The question to which Helen was initially responding was not why should we change the environment?. It was why are there so few women in debian?. Fair enough. If there are grander reasons for changing the environment then that's wonderful, but I

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-05 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Helen Faulkner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: People who haven't already, could learn from reading: http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Encourage-Women-Linux-HOWTO/index.html especially the section about the problems women face in approaching linux communities. Mmm, very good HOWTO indeed. --

Re: keep non-free proposal

2004-03-05 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, as you all know i have upto now be mostly a proponent of the keep non-free camp, because, altough i fully would prefer every software in debian to be free, i feel that this is not really yet the time for it. Ah, so there is a time for it? Can you

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-05 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would be really interested in your response to the part of my post you silently skipped, namely : Sure, but please tell me, if we are going to move non-free stuff to non-free.org, exactly how will that change anything over the current

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-05 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And more to the point, what would be the benefit to debian and the free/open/whatever community, since the main point is that these non-free packages are evil ? No, the main point is that non-free software is not part of Debian, and Debian's job isn't to

Re: keep non-free proposal

2004-03-05 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 06:08:33PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, as you all know i have upto now be mostly a proponent of the keep non-free camp, because, altough i fully would prefer every software

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-05 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes: On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 11:25:59AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes: So, Helen is kind enough to summarise her views on why she doesn't participate in the project as fully as she might, and she's

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-05 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Quite. But you too are ignoring one detail: that behavioral trait is expressed preferentially in one gender; perhaps due to cultural indoctrination, perhaps due to inherent biology. I have no idea if this is true. Moreover, I don't think it

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-05 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 07:58:03PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: The plural of anecdote is not data. True, but then what would you suggest as an alternative means of gathering data? Should we stick the users in a set of test tubes, complete with

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-05 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't think she is guessing. Indeed, the men here have done exactly what she thought they would -- calling her a flake, mentally unstable, inexperieiced, and sexist. See, this wasn't the men. It was particular people. It was not a gender

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-05 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Ben Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1) That debian contains bullying or aggressive elements. She is *not* inventing this, she did *not* come into the discussion with this as a stereotype that she's trying to fit debian into. It's quite clearly observable. This part I agree about. 2)

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-05 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Ben Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: FWIW, I wasn't aware of such a subculture when I joined back in 2001, and even now I'm finding it hard to think of more than a couple of other lesbian/gay/bi DDs. There's Me! But of course, how can we know that there are lots of gay and bi people in

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-05 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Helen Faulkner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Partly it's knowing that I'm going to be dealing with a man (almost certainly), and he may assume I don't know what I'm doing, and he may put me down or be condescending or unkind as a result. Are you assuming that all men will do this? The men who

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-05 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Helen Faulkner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It doesn't take many idiots in the community to put your average interested woman off, if we're going to have to deal with that kind of attitude. And you wonder why there are few female debian developers?! I'm one of those weirdos who has never met

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-05 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Ben Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The problem Helen refers to in the most part is not *overt* sexism. The problem is *subliminal/covert* sexism, where everyone is treated the same way but women in general (through social training, upbringing, whatever) are less well adapted to such

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-05 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Ben Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The question to which Helen was initially responding was not why should we change the environment?. It was why are there so few women in debian?. Fair enough. If there are grander reasons for changing the environment then that's wonderful, but I

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-05 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would be really interested in your response to the part of my post you silently skipped, namely : Sure, but please tell me, if we are going to move non-free stuff to non-free.org, exactly how will that change anything over the current

Re: keep non-free proposal

2004-03-05 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes: On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 06:08:33PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, as you all know i have upto now be mostly a proponent of the keep non-free camp, because, altough i fully would prefer every

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-04 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Mike Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We're a previously persecuted minority, dammit, treat us special, we deserve the land you have worked hard for. even though we sit on our asses. New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and the United States all have some similarity vis-a-vis native populations.

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-04 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So, Helen is kind enough to summarise her views on why she doesn't participate in the project as fully as she might, and she's called a flake, mentally unstable and sexist for her beliefs. Well, she said that she doesn't participate because boys will be

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-04 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 06:59:57PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: I think there's something sexist there--not in you, but in her. If there is any truth to the notion that men are better at being bullied, then I think it is only because men get

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-04 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 12:44:22PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: As I said, if there is any truth to the notion that men are better at being bullied. I suspect there is not really much truth to that. Either men are better at being bullied

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-04 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 01:10:08PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: Helen said women are likely to be not so confident that their skills will allow them to survive in an environment like debian, compared to their male counterparts. And then, her

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-04 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: dark hysterical is actually an interesting word, it basically means having a womb. Psychologists once thought it was something women did naturally. Sort of. They thought it was something that happened to women, and not men, and was

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-04 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 06:59:57PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: I think there's something sexist there--not in you, but in her. If there is any truth to the notion that men are better at being bullied, then I think it is only because men get

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-04 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 12:44:22PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: As I said, if there is any truth to the notion that men are better at being bullied. I suspect there is not really much truth to that. Either men are better at being bullied

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Ben Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: people will bully her because she's female. She simply fears that people will bully her (as they bully others, male or female), and her claim is that males (by social training or otherwise) are better suited to such environments than females are. I think

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Mike Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't honestly give a rats ass about what sexuality a person is, but I get seriously pissed off when the 'We're a minority, we're special' card gets pulled. It's the whole PC thing going overboard. Since nobody in my opinion has ever said that...what

tb's questions for the candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
A. What do you think is the greatest challenge facing Debian in the coming year? What would you do as Project Leader to try and meet this challenge? B. What should the Project Leader's role be when Debian comes into significant and important conflict with other free software organizations? (As

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Mike Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't honestly give a rats ass about what sexuality a person is, but I get seriously pissed off when the 'We're a minority, we're special' card gets pulled. It's the whole PC thing going overboard. Since nobody in my opinion has ever said that...what

tb's questions for the candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
A. What do you think is the greatest challenge facing Debian in the coming year? What would you do as Project Leader to try and meet this challenge? B. What should the Project Leader's role be when Debian comes into significant and important conflict with other free software organizations? (As

Re: Questions for the candidates

2004-03-02 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Falk Hueffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have no problem with that content. I dislike reading rants, though. Actually, I would like to hear how the candidates deal with a rant. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Questions for the candidates

2004-03-02 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Falk Hueffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have no problem with that content. I dislike reading rants, though. Actually, I would like to hear how the candidates deal with a rant.

Re: Branden's cryptic advice

2003-03-09 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Richard Braakman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Looking up Frank, we find A pigsty as the first definition. Slightly surprising, but maybe it's a comment on the project's current lack of organization. More likely, the definition we want is further down: unbounded by restrictions, limitations,

Re: Trying to determin the Quorum

2002-04-01 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Debian Project Secretary [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But the Key rings contain keys of people who have left the project, and several people, myself included, have two keys, and it is not easy to determine the total number of developers. May I suggest that one of the Project Secretary's

Re: Trying to determin the Quorum

2002-03-31 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Debian Project Secretary [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But the Key rings contain keys of people who have left the project, and several people, myself included, have two keys, and it is not easy to determine the total number of developers. May I suggest that one of the Project Secretary's

Re: Call for votes for the debian project leader election 2002

2002-03-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Norbert Veber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thats very strange. So if I only consider one candidate vorthy of a vote, and fill in just one square, my vote means nothing? That dosent seem right :) If that's what you think, then you rank them thus: 1) Your candidate 2) None of the above 3 and 4)

debate plans

2002-03-10 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Will someone have the official job of capturing a transcript of the IRC debate and posting it to debian-vote?

Opinions on crypto-in-main

2002-02-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
I would appreciate it if those running for DPL could answer the following: 1) Do you think we have all the legal advice necessary to begin implementing the crypto-in-main transition? If not, what would you do to secure what more legal advice you think is needed? 2) Do you believe

Re: Opinions on crypto-in-main

2002-02-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Michael Koehne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Moin Thomas Bushnell, I would appreciate it if those running for DPL could answer the following: *hm* i dont think that this topic should be done on personal level between the DPL. Its to important for that. Placing crypto in main would

Re: Opinions on crypto-in-main

2002-02-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't think any of the DPL candidates should answer the questions until the campaigning period commencements. We're still in the nomination period for another dozen hours or so. Fine by me. I'm interested in what the candidates think before the

Re: Opinions on crypto-in-main

2002-02-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Previously Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: 1) Do you think we have all the legal advice necessary to begin implementing the crypto-in-main transition? If not, what would you do to secure what more legal advice you think is needed? I don't

Re: Opinions on crypto-in-main

2002-02-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Crypto in main is already being moved forward. It will probably be in working condition by the time a new DPL takes office. I'd go for some better more forward-looking questions. I'm worried by the discussion on debian-legal. Some people are raising

Re: Opinions on crypto-in-main

2002-02-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Given that I'm not a candidate, I don't think I helped you much. :) Just trust that crypto-in-main is a done deal all on it's own at some point in the near future, thanks in no part to myself (other than providing a medium for the discussions and work).

Opinions on crypto-in-main

2002-02-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
I would appreciate it if those running for DPL could answer the following: 1) Do you think we have all the legal advice necessary to begin implementing the crypto-in-main transition? If not, what would you do to secure what more legal advice you think is needed? 2) Do you believe

Re: Opinions on crypto-in-main

2002-02-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Michael Koehne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Moin Thomas Bushnell, I would appreciate it if those running for DPL could answer the following: *hm* i dont think that this topic should be done on personal level between the DPL. Its to important for that. Placing crypto in main would

Re: Opinions on crypto-in-main

2002-02-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't think any of the DPL candidates should answer the questions until the campaigning period commencements. We're still in the nomination period for another dozen hours or so. Fine by me. I'm interested in what the candidates think before the

Re: Opinions on crypto-in-main

2002-02-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Previously Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: 1) Do you think we have all the legal advice necessary to begin implementing the crypto-in-main transition? If not, what would you do to secure what more legal advice you think is needed? I don't

Re: Opinions on crypto-in-main

2002-02-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Crypto in main is already being moved forward. It will probably be in working condition by the time a new DPL takes office. I'd go for some better more forward-looking questions. I'm worried by the discussion on debian-legal. Some people are raising what

Re: Opinions on crypto-in-main

2002-02-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Legal FUD is not going to stop the momentum we already have. Almost all of our ducks are in a row already. Two high profile lawyers (SPI's and HP's) have already looked over the proposals for implementing things, made suggestions on how to procede, and

Re: Opinions on crypto-in-main

2002-02-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Given that I'm not a candidate, I don't think I helped you much. :) Just trust that crypto-in-main is a done deal all on it's own at some point in the near future, thanks in no part to myself (other than providing a medium for the discussions and work). A

Re: [PROPOSED] Michael Bramer must stop spamming or be expelled

2001-10-04 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: He continues to assert on debian-devel that he should have the right to send unsolicited, automatic mails with a default policy of having every maintainer subscribed to his list. How about if instead of this, he sent automated entries to the BTS?

Re: [PROPOSED] Michael Bramer must stop spamming or be expelled

2001-10-04 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I propose that Michael Bramer be ordered to stop sending automated mails to other developers (regarding the DDTS or any other subject). If he does not comply within 24 hours of ratification of this proposal, he will be expelled from the Debian

Re: [PROPOSED] Michael Bramer must stop spamming or be expelled

2001-10-04 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: He continues to assert on debian-devel that he should have the right to send unsolicited, automatic mails with a default policy of having every maintainer subscribed to his list. How about if instead of this, he sent automated entries to the BTS?

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