Stefano Zacchiroli writes ("working with FSF on Debian Free-ness assessment"):
> TL;DRWell done! > This triaging work is the work for which I'm looking for volunteers. I would love to help. Full disclosure: I'm a GNU maintainer and longstanding supporter of GNU and the FSF, although I don't agree with everything the FSF does (or everything Debian does for that matter). > Ideally, for each valid issue a patch could/should also be produced and > submitted to the corresponding responsible person in Debian. As it is > naturally happens, maintainers will be free to exercise their judgement: > accepting, rejecting, or reworking the proposed patches. This seems like a good idea. > What I'm proposing is basically a soft approach in verifying if all > remaining issues that cause friction among Debian and the FSF can be > solved in the most typical Debian way. The approach might fail, > e.g. due to disagreements on bug validity. But at that point we will > have obtained a list of blockers, that could than be used as > documentation for Debian users who wonder why Debian and FSF disagree on > the Free-ness of Debian. Yes. I think your perspective of wanting and using independent review of how well we are meeting our core objectives is a very good one. Thanks, Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
