On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 02:26:36AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > That's kind of a strange position to take, isn't it? Does this mean > > that the many users who use Debian directly sheerly on technical > > excellence alone, without sharing Debian's "founding values", are > > not part of the "Debian world"? For that matter, I don't know of > > any derivative Debian distributions that require their developers to > > agree to the social contract; so by that standard, are *any* of them > > part of the "Debian world"?
> The context here is whether announcements from such groups > are on topic on d-d-a. I have a local LUG where lots of people use > Debian -- and there are debian based install fests and so on (and > talks, and BOF meetings over beer and pizza). I am not sure I think > gating the announcements from my LUG to the d-d-a list is > appropriate. > In this context, we have a low volume lists that all > developers are supposed to subscribe to, and keeping the noise in the > mailing list down is probably best. I wasn't defending the post to d-d-a, which I agree was pretty inappropriate; I'm just trying to figure out this odd attempt at excommunication. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/
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