Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 05:12:44PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-02 15:20]: This starts with the fact that he is known to actively maintain a quite long killfile For personal mail - not for role accounts. However, he is widely known to have a

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Branden Robinson wrote [ Sorry if I do not answer right inside the thread but the Reply to links in the webform do not work as expected and I did not subscribed to the list. Please CC me, if you want to avoid this.] I'm not sure I can give you the kind of answer you're

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 06:58:12AM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 05:12:44PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: 3. Do you think Debian should continue to support non-free? No. Debian is about creating a operating system with free software, and I don't think we should

Re: Questions for the candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-03 14:37]: Hrm, you're right. I was trying to find some quotes that indicated you both thought that, technically, things were acceptable as they are; Martin's comment doesn't quite indicate that out of context. The quotes were meant to indicate you

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Ben Burton
Ah right, I'll chime in. But on balance I think even that was pretty mild. I very seldom see overt hostility towards women in Debian. I think I have seen more towards gays, and we appear to have more gay and bi male developers than women of any orientation. It's possible that it's all

Re: Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Helen Faulkner
I agree with Ben that the problems are more subtle than overt. I have never noticed overt sexism in my dealings with debian, though maybe I haven't been looking awfully hard either. I think that on average, women are likely to be not so confident that their skills will allow them to survive

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 09:37:11AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 05:12:44PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-02 15:20]: This starts with the fact that he is known to actively maintain a quite long killfile For personal mail

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 09:37:25AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Branden Robinson wrote [ Sorry if I do not answer right inside the thread but the Reply to links in the webform do not work as expected and I did not subscribed to the list. Please CC me, if you want to

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Kalle Kivimaa
Helen Faulkner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: website, possibly? I also think that all debian people could bear in mind that when a woman is interacting with you, it's likely that she's nervous about doing so. That's not your fault, but it's helpful if you are sensitive to the possibility,

[OT] Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Pascal Hakim
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 02:22:53PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 09:37:25AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Branden Robinson wrote [ Sorry if I do not answer right inside the thread but the Reply to links in the webform do not work as expected and

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Michael Banck [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-03 14:16]: How many role accounts are read exclusively by James and no one else? None. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Helen Faulkner
So, anyone blindly assuming that a female Debian user is automatically in the luser category is a fool. I wasn't assuming that. I'm technically not that bad myself. That's not the point. The point is that *on average* I believe a woman is going to feel less confident about this stuff than a

Re: Questions to candidates - Debian/FSF discussions

2004-03-03 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-03 08:33]: It's now over four years since RMS asked -legal for comments on the FDL. Do DPL candidates think agreement is likely in the next three months? How much longer should this discussion be given? What would they do to see more FDL-caused bugs in

Re: Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Simon Law
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 12:11:46PM +, Helen Faulkner wrote: This is my opinion, anyway :) I'm glad you expressed your opinion. I was going to posit it myself, based on conversations with my girlfriend, but hearing it from a woman is much better. There's no rational reason

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-03 06:58]: to use new APT sources list while at the same time supporting the old APT lines (i.e. still keeping it on Debian mirrors) for a while. I knew *somebody* was going to bite this one. Yeah, and simply because having a clear transition

Re: Questions to candidates - Debian/FSF discussions

2004-03-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 15:46:59 +, Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: * MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-03 08:33]: It's now over four years since RMS asked -legal for comments on the FDL. Do DPL candidates think agreement is likely in the next three months? How much longer should

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, 03 Mar 2004 12:11:46 +, Helen Faulkner [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I agree with Ben that the problems are more subtle than overt. I have never noticed overt sexism in my dealings with debian, though maybe I haven't been looking awfully hard either. Well, at least that sounds

Questions to candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Steve Langasek
Two questions. Question 1, to Branden and Martin: Reading over your platforms, I notice that they are very similar. I don't think this is a bad thing; I happen to agree quite strongly with both of your assessments of productive roles the DPL can play in our community. Unfortunately, this

non-free proposal (was Re: Questions to candidates)

2004-03-03 Thread Raul Miller
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 06:58:12AM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: We find (found) ourselves at an impasse, where no actual work can get done. The work of maintaining non-free outside of Debian *needs* to be done by those who want to keep non-free in Debian. But they aren't going to do it while

Re: Questions to candidates - Debian/FSF discussions

2004-03-03 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-03 10:29]: Has all this talking resulted in even an iota of concrete movement on the official FSF position? Have there been any real promises made that there is indeed going to be a change, from hte powers that be in the FSF? Is there

Re: Questions for candidates -- Debian's Organizational Structure

2004-03-03 Thread Gergely Nagy
Which of the groups/people on [1] do you consider delegates? Why or why not? Would you change this? None of them, because none includes my tama, who is an aspiring conqueror, a wanna-be ruler of the world (who wants to start with Debian for some strange reason... maybe because Debian is the

Re: Questions to candidates - Debian/FSF discussions

2004-03-03 Thread David B Harris
On Wed, 03 Mar 2004 10:29:39 -0600 Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-03 08:33]: It's now over four years since RMS asked -legal for comments on the FDL. Do DPL candidates think agreement is likely in the next three months? How much longer should

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Gergely Nagy
Question 1, to Branden and Martin: /me gets hissy and sad and stuff for being discriminated from a question, and goes to his mommy to cry a little *weep-weep* Question 2, to Gergely: Your platform clearly shows your creativity and sense of humor, two traits I believe are important for

Re: non-free proposal (was Re: Questions to candidates)

2004-03-03 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 12:09:23PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: However, if the point of this vote is to decide what it is that we want to do, then I think we'd be better served with a rationale for your proposal. The rationale is so obvious to everybody supporting the resolution and so

Re: non-free proposal (was Re: Questions to candidates)

2004-03-03 Thread Raul Miller
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 06:18:03PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: The rationale is so obvious to everybody supporting the resolution and so incomprehensible to those opposing it that it is not worth the pain to argue about it, IMHO. You're not describing a rationale, you're describing an article

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 17:31, Gergely Nagy wrote: As a female hacker/geek/DD I find myself more and more concerned about the gender ratio in the Debian Developer/User comunity. How can we say make a Universal OS when it's do scarcely related to half the population of the world... I think

Re: Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Raul Miller
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 12:11:46PM +, Helen Faulkner wrote: I think that on average, 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. I don't know why this is true, but I experience

Re: Questions for candidates -- Debian's Organizational Structure

2004-03-03 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Pascal Hakim [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-03 16:48]: Which of the groups/people on [1] do you consider delegates? Why or why not? Would you change this? Before answering this mail, I talked to Pasc on IRC for a while. Pasc was added as a listmaster during my term as DPL, and has done

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Gergely Nagy
As a female hacker/geek/DD I find myself more and more concerned about the gender ratio in the Debian Developer/User comunity. How can we say make a Universal OS when it's do scarcely related to half the population of the world... I think we all agree we want to see more women

Re: Questions for candidates -- Debian's Organizational Structure

2004-03-03 Thread Raul Miller
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 06:16:20PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: No, I am extremely disappointed with the role of the Technical Committee. I actually talked to Peter Palfrader [EMAIL PROTECTED] about this at FOSDEM two weeks ago. While I think that we should in most cases come to a

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Re: Questions for the candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 10:35:18AM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: Please keep what I said about core teams in mind and re-read Internal - Core Teams, Delegates, Communication, Transparency. Many of the points I raise there equally apply to (big) packages and other technical matters. At the

Re: non-free proposal (was Re: Questions to candidates)

2004-03-03 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 06:18:03PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 12:09:23PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: However, if the point of this vote is to decide what it is that we want to do, then I think we'd be better served with a rationale for your proposal. The rationale

Re: non-free proposal (was Re: Questions to candidates)

2004-03-03 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 02:16:13PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 06:18:03PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 12:09:23PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: However, if the point of this vote is to decide what it is that we want to do, then I think we'd be

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 05:51:11PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: Group (b) does not want to do this work because they want non-free to be in Debian, not external to it. For reference, I don't want to do that work because I think it's a waste of time and effort to have a separate archive

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 09:37:25AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Branden Robinson wrote [ Sorry if I do not answer right inside the thread but the Reply to links in the webform do not work as expected and I did not subscribed to the list. Please CC me, if you want to

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 10:34:28PM +1100, Ben Burton wrote: But on balance I think even that was pretty mild. I very seldom see overt hostility towards women in Debian. I think I have seen more towards gays, and we appear to have more gay and bi male developers than women of any

Re: non-free proposal (was Re: Questions to candidates)

2004-03-03 Thread Raul Miller
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 07:21:27PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: I would say it as: For those who understand, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not, none is worthwhile. I think it's not impossible that some (more) of the opponents could be made to understand why people might

Re: Questions for candidates -- Debian's Organizational Structure

2004-03-03 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 04:48:01PM +1100, Pascal Hakim wrote: Hi, Which of the groups/people on [1] do you consider delegates? Why or why not? Formally speaking, I guess only two are. The Release Manager, and the Hardware Donations Manager. Martin can probably tell us if he's made other

Re: keep non-free proposal

2004-03-03 Thread Matt Pavlovich
The position to remove non-free as integrated part of Debian is a technology first, end user second position. While the goal for a 100% free distribution is a great goal, I draw the line when users are negatively impacted for the sake of the goal. It boils down to -- Who do you put first-- the

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Mike Beattie
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 10:23:57AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Conversely, my wife opines that men tend to be more aggressive, and this may be an inherent characteristic of the species (human nature, in other words). From what the two of you are saying, it seems that it is a

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
I have never had a hostile experience with debian, but I still feel really unconfident when I interact with the debian community, even if it's only posting a bug report. I don't understand why this is so, but it's very real. Partly it's knowing that I'm going to be dealing with a man

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Brian May
Helen == Helen Faulkner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Helen I have never had a hostile experience with debian, but I Helen still feel really unconfident when I interact with the Helen debian community, even if it's only posting a bug report. Helen I don't understand why this is so,

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Ben Burton
The problem is you are a flake. $ dict flake ... 4. a person who behaves strangely; a flaky[2] person. [Colloq.] [PJC] ... 2: a person with an unusual or odd personality [syn: {eccentric}, {eccentric person}, {oddball}, {geek}] ... Your yourself say you

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Bob Hilliard
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. The first newbie question I

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Simon Law
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 06:09:56PM -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote: 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

Re: Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 12:11:46PM +, Helen Faulkner wrote: I agree with Ben that the problems are more subtle than overt. I have never noticed overt sexism in my dealings with debian, though maybe I haven't been looking awfully hard either. I think that on average, women are

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Ben Burton wrote: Your yourself say you notice a lot of people exhibiting similar behaviour, so it doesn't appear particularly strange, unusual or odd to me. Having read a lot of Phillip K. Dick lately, that there are a lot of flakes out there doesn't seem odd to me. :-)

Re: Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Helen Faulkner
I don't know you are how long you have been with Debian or what your contributions are, but are you sure that this lack of confidence isn't due to inexperience? I've been using debian increasingly for about 4-5 years now, and have used it almost exclusively for the last couple. I don't think I'm

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Mike Beattie
On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 10:04:09AM +1100, Ben Burton wrote: Colloquialisms are frequently both unkind and inaccurately applied, and regardless of your intentions, your use of flake comes across as no exception. Saying you're a flake, but that's not meant unkindly is like saying I'm not

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Ben Burton
Honestly out of all the flame wars we've had can you think of any where being a yucky girl was an issue? I suspect you've missed the point somewhat. AIUI she does not fear that people will bully her because she's female. She simply fears that people will bully her (as they bully others, male

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Ben Burton
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. Whilst I see what you're saying, I fail to see how my post could possibly be read as pulling the minority card. The quote I gave was

Re: Questions for candidates -- Debian's Organizational Structure

2004-03-03 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Bob Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-03 17:53]: However, as far as I recall, no DPL has ever publicly appointed delegates to positions. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2003/debian-devel-announce-200305/msg5.html -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To

Re: Questions for the candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-03 14:03]: On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 10:35:18AM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: Please keep what I said about core teams in mind and re-read Internal - Core Teams, Delegates, Communication, Transparency. Many of the points I raise there equally

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

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 17:04:36 -0500 (EST), Jaldhar H Vyas [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I have never had a hostile experience with debian, but I still feel really unconfident when I interact with the debian community, even if it's only posting a bug report. I don't understand why this is so,

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 Mike Beattie
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 07:01:35PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: Since nobody in my opinion has ever said that...what are you complaining about? ... We're a minority, please treat us equally, from one side, and We're the majority, so we get special rights, from the other. Again, perhaps

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Ben Burton wrote: I suspect you've missed the point somewhat. AIUI she does not fear that people will bully her because she's female. I think instead of guessing at what we think Helen is saying we should just go by what she actually did say and let her respond to any

Re: tb's questions for the candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Thomas Bushnell, BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-03 19:20]: 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? I think I have covered this pretty thoroughly in the My goals section of my

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 05:04:36PM -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: I have never had a hostile experience with debian, but I still feel really unconfident when I interact with the debian community, even if it's only posting a bug report. [...] Helen I hope you don't take this the wrong way

Re: non-free proposal (was Re: Questions to candidates)

2004-03-03 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 07:21:27PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: I think it's not impossible that some (more) of the opponents could be made to understand why people might disagree with them. But I can't imagine any even theoretically possible scenarios where this would change their opinion,

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 09:02:41PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 17:04:36 -0500 (EST), Jaldhar H Vyas [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I have never had a hostile experience with debian, but I still feel really unconfident when I interact with the debian community, even if

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, 4 Mar 2004 13:57:18 +1000, Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 05:04:36PM -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: I have never had a hostile experience with debian, but I still feel really unconfident when I interact with the debian community, even if it's only

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Heh. Seems tome that you are merely displaying your inexperience Could be. Given there are half a billion women in the world it could take me a while to get the requisite experience. What Helen mentions is not a feeling that is an

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Adam Majer
Helen Faulkner wrote: I wasn't assuming that. I'm technically not that bad myself. That's not the point. The point is that *on average* I believe a woman is going to feel less confident about this stuff than a man with similar skill. Do you have anoher suggestion as to why women don't get

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 01:52:45PM +1300, Mike Beattie wrote: Don't get me wrong, it's not just homosexuals that fit into this gripe, it's also african-americans, .nz's Maori, various religions, and Australians.. this We're a minority, we're special card you mention is used by those who feel

[OT] Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Adam Heath
On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Craig Sanders wrote: this We're a minority, we're special card you mention is used by those who feel marginalised or persecuted, i.e. in an inferior social position. i don't think any of the australians in this forum could be accused of feeling that :) Aren't your

Re: tb's questions for the candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Gergely Nagy
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? We have quite a few challenges coming ahead. There is this SCO case: we shouldn't laugh too hard at them, because that makes us look bad.

Re: Questions for the candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 03:17:55PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 11:27:17PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: As is probably obvious, I have a tendency to answer questions that interest me, whether they were intended rhetorically or not. I seldom ask purely rhetorical

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 03:20:16PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: Here are my questions: 1. My concern is to propagate Custom Debian Distributions because I think we should set a stronger focus to the end user. I see Debian as a missing link between upstream developers and end

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 05:12:44PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: 3. Do you think Debian should continue to support non-free? No. Debian is about creating a operating system with free software, and I don't think we should be in the business of distributing non-free software. I think we

Re: OT: Progeny Linux

2004-03-03 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 08:47:35PM +0100, David N. Welton wrote: Gergely Nagy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Easy one. As seen on debian-devel@ recently, Progeny (I think, correct me if I'm wrong) has this Componentized Linux idea. Which is all nice and good, and should help custom distros all

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 08:24:11AM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 04:12, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-02 15:20]: 3. Do you think Debian should continue to support non-free? No. Debian is about creating a operating system with

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 10:51:18PM +0100, David N. Welton wrote: Zenaan Harkness [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What about Debian distributing documentation - do you see it as software, do you see all documentation (eg. philosophical) as software? Eg. GFDL documentation? RFCs? Another

Re: OT: Progeny Linux

2004-03-03 Thread Martin Schulze
David N. Welton wrote: Easy one. As seen on debian-devel@ recently, Progeny (I think, correct me if I'm wrong) has this Componentized Linux idea. Which is all nice and good, and should help custom distros all right. So, the plans are set straight already. I saw Ian's online journal as

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Martin Schulze
Zenaan Harkness wrote: No. Debian is about creating a operating system with free software, and I don't think we should be in the business of distributing non-free software. I think we should focus on what we do best (create and integrate free software), and this would also get us closer

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 01:12:11AM +0100, Amaya wrote: As a female hacker/geek/DD I find myself more and more concerned about the gender ratio in the Debian Developer/User comunity. How can we say make a Universal OS when it's do scarcely related to half the population of the world... I think

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 06:58:12AM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 05:12:44PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: 3. Do you think Debian should continue to support non-free? Having said this, I don't think the current non-free removal vote is being done correctly. If we

Re: Questions to candidates - Debian/FSF discussions

2004-03-03 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-03-03 07:12:40 + Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, I'm sympathetic to RMS having been injured, and I'm sympathetic to Eben Moglen having to work overtime to counter the outrageous FUD and untruths being spewed by SCO and its shadowy partners. Hrm, emails like

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 05:12:44PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-02 15:20]: This starts with the fact that he is known to actively maintain a quite long killfile For personal mail - not for role accounts. However, he is widely known to have a

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Branden Robinson wrote [ Sorry if I do not answer right inside the thread but the Reply to links in the webform do not work as expected and I did not subscribed to the list. Please CC me, if you want to avoid this.] I'm not sure I can give you the kind of answer you're

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 06:58:12AM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 05:12:44PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: 3. Do you think Debian should continue to support non-free? No. Debian is about creating a operating system with free software, and I don't think we should

Re: Questions for the candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au [2004-03-03 14:37]: Hrm, you're right. I was trying to find some quotes that indicated you both thought that, technically, things were acceptable as they are; Martin's comment doesn't quite indicate that out of context. The quotes were meant to indicate

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Ben Burton
Ah right, I'll chime in. But on balance I think even that was pretty mild. I very seldom see overt hostility towards women in Debian. I think I have seen more towards gays, and we appear to have more gay and bi male developers than women of any orientation. It's possible that it's all

Re: Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Helen Faulkner
I agree with Ben that the problems are more subtle than overt. I have never noticed overt sexism in my dealings with debian, though maybe I haven't been looking awfully hard either. I think that on average, women are likely to be not so confident that their skills will allow them to

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 09:37:11AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 05:12:44PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-02 15:20]: This starts with the fact that he is known to actively maintain a quite long killfile For personal mail

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 09:37:25AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Branden Robinson wrote [ Sorry if I do not answer right inside the thread but the Reply to links in the webform do not work as expected and I did not subscribed to the list. Please CC me, if you want to

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Kalle Kivimaa
Helen Faulkner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: website, possibly? I also think that all debian people could bear in mind that when a woman is interacting with you, it's likely that she's nervous about doing so. That's not your fault, but it's helpful if you are sensitive to the possibility,

[OT] Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Pascal Hakim
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 02:22:53PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 09:37:25AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Branden Robinson wrote [ Sorry if I do not answer right inside the thread but the Reply to links in the webform do not work as expected and

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Michael Banck [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-03 14:16]: How many role accounts are read exclusively by James and no one else? None. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 02:16:45PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 09:37:11AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: However, he is widely known to have a MTTA (medium time to answer) highly dependent on the sender of a message to a role-account attended by him, How many role

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Helen Faulkner
So, anyone blindly assuming that a female Debian user is automatically in the luser category is a fool. I wasn't assuming that. I'm technically not that bad myself. That's not the point. The point is that *on average* I believe a woman is going to feel less confident about this stuff

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Marc Haber [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-03 14:56]: How many role accounts are read exclusively by James and no one else? The question should be, how many role accounts are acted on exclusively by James. To some degree[1], two. Both have been working fine in the last six months, though;

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-03 09:37]: There is no open archive of debian-private but I have some mails stored in my private archive which leaded to this conclusion IMHO. Again - I have no personal problem with this as long as work is done fine - but the DPL might have to face

Re: Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Simon Law
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 12:11:46PM +, Helen Faulkner wrote: This is my opinion, anyway :) I'm glad you expressed your opinion. I was going to posit it myself, based on conversations with my girlfriend, but hearing it from a woman is much better. There's no rational reason

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-03 06:58]: to use new APT sources list while at the same time supporting the old APT lines (i.e. still keeping it on Debian mirrors) for a while. I knew *somebody* was going to bite this one. Yeah, and simply because having a clear transition

Re: Questions to candidates - Debian/FSF discussions

2004-03-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 15:46:59 +, Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: * MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-03 08:33]: It's now over four years since RMS asked -legal for comments on the FDL. Do DPL candidates think agreement is likely in the next three months? How much longer should

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, 03 Mar 2004 12:11:46 +, Helen Faulkner [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I agree with Ben that the problems are more subtle than overt. I have never noticed overt sexism in my dealings with debian, though maybe I haven't been looking awfully hard either. Well, at least that sounds

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