Resignation: Elana Hashman (ehashman)

2022-07-14 Thread Elana Hashman
All, I've made the very difficult decision to resign from the Debian Technical Committee, effective August 1, 2022. This should provide some time to complete any final action items and transition my duties. It has been a great honour to serve the project in this way, and I hope that perhaps in

Re: please review bits/202206.txt in tech-ctte.git

2022-07-05 Thread Elana Hashman
On 2022-07-05 06:44, Christoph Berg wrote: Re: Niko Tyni Please review. I'd prefer to send this out before Friday (2022-07-08) if possible. I pushed two minor changes. I've now done the same. Apologies for the delay, I was quite ill last week. - e

Bug#1007717: Ballot and call for votes

2022-06-26 Thread Elana Hashman
On Mon, Jun 20, 2022 at 05:31:16PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > Hello, > > I hereby call for votes on the following resolution: > > BEGIN BALLOT > > Using its powers under constitution 6.1.5, the Technical Committee > issues the following advice: > > 1. It is not a bug of any severity for a

Re: Next meeting -- one week early, 5th April @ 7pm UTC

2022-03-30 Thread Elana Hashman
On 2022-03-29 14:43, Matthew Vernon wrote: Due to both the current interpersonal situation and the impeding DebConf22 CfP, can we have our meeting a week early? Please let me know if you can't. * DebConf22 CfP -- what sort of talk do we want to submit? FWIW, I'm afraid I won't be at

Re: Next meeting -- one week early, 5th April @ 7pm UTC

2022-03-29 Thread Elana Hashman
On 2022-03-29 13:11, Sean Whitton wrote: Hello, On Tue 29 Mar 2022 at 01:01pm -07, Sean Whitton wrote: Due to both the current interpersonal situation and the impeding DebConf22 CfP, can we have our meeting a week early? Please let me know if you can't. I think I'm the only person who is

Bug#1004611: Resignation & call for votes to elect the Chair

2022-02-20 Thread Elana Hashman
nue in the role if the committee agrees. > > The ballot: > > ===BEGIN > > A: Christoph Berg > B: Helmut Grohne > C: Elana Hashman > D: Simon McVittie > E: Niko Tyni > F: Matthew Vernon > G: Sean Whitton > H: Gunnar Wolf > > ===END My apolog

Bug#1003738: tech-ctte: Call for votes on TC membership of Matthew Vernon

2022-01-18 Thread Elana Hashman
On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 11:56:20AM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > > ===BEGIN > The Technical Committee recommends that Matthew Vernon be > appointed by the Debian Project Leader to the Technical Committee. > > H: Recommend to Appoint Matthew Vernon > F: Further Discussion > ===END I vote: H >

Bug#1003737: tech-ctte: Call for votes on TC membership of Helmut Grohne

2022-01-18 Thread Elana Hashman
On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 11:55:17AM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > > ===BEGIN > The Technical Committee recommends that Helmut Grohne be > appointed by the Debian Project Leader to the Technical Committee. > > H: Recommend to Appoint Helmut Grohne > F: Further Discussion > ===END I vote: H > F

Bug#994388: tech-ctte: More specific advice regarding merged-/usr and implications of #978636

2021-10-22 Thread Elana Hashman
On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 08:13:08PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > I'm calling for votes on the following resolution as formal advice from > the Technical Committee (Constitution §6.1.5). There are no non-accepted > amendments, so the options to vote on are "yes" or "further discussion". I vote

Bug#994275: Call for votes on "Reverting breaking changes in debianutils"

2021-10-22 Thread Elana Hashman
On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 12:30:54PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > Hello, > > I hereby call for votes on the following ballot to resolve #994275. The > voting period starts immediately and lasts for up to one week, or until > the outcome is no longer in doubt (Constitution 6.3.1). > > ===

Bug#985270: Resignation + Call for votes for new Chair

2021-03-15 Thread Elana Hashman
takes effect. > > The ballot is the following: > > ===BEGIN=== > > The chair of the Debian Technical Committee will be: > > A : Margarita Manterola > B : David Bremner > C : Niko Tyni > D : Gunnar Wolf > E : Simon McVittie > F : Sean Whitton > G

Re: Resignation + Call for votes for new Chair

2021-03-15 Thread Elana Hashman
A : Margarita Manterola > B : David Bremner > C : Niko Tyni > D : Gunnar Wolf > E : Simon McVittie > F : Sean Whitton > G : Elana Hashman > H : Christoph Berg > > ===END=== I vote: B > F > C = D = E > A = G > H - e signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#976462: tech-ctte: Should dbgsym files be compressed via objcopy --compress-debug-section or not?

2021-03-08 Thread Elana Hashman
On 2021-03-06 11:11, Jakub Wilk wrote: * Elana Hashman , 2021-02-17, 11:06: Would you be able to research some representative slice of popular packages that would be affected by the policy change (at least 10) and share the on-disk sizes with compression vs. without? Not exactly what you

Bug#982987: tech-ctte: Call for votes for new CTTE member

2021-02-17 Thread Elana Hashman
On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 12:45:05PM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > ===BEGIN > > The Technical Committee recommends that Christoph Berg be > appointed by the Debian Project Leader to the Technical Committee. > > A: Recommend to appoint Christoph Berg > B: Further Discussion > > ===END I have not

Bug#976462: tech-ctte: Should dbgsym files be compressed via objcopy --compress-debug-section or not?

2021-02-17 Thread Elana Hashman
Hi Niels, Most of the arguments in this and previous bugs are anecdotal. It would be helpful to provide a concrete analysis of the disk space savings that compression provides, and whether it is a reasonable default. There is a discussion about KDE debug symbols requiring 10Gi of disk space a

Bug#978636: move to merged-usr-only?

2021-01-31 Thread Elana Hashman
On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 11:45:55AM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > Dear Technical Committee members, > > I call for votes on the following ballot to resolve #978636. The voting > period starts immediately and lasts for up to one week, or until the > outcome is no longer in doubt (§6.3.1). > >

Bug#975075: tech-ctte: Should maintainers be able to block init compatibility changes?

2020-12-21 Thread Elana Hashman
On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 09:04:00PM -0800, Elana Hashman wrote: > > I caution folks from speculating too much on the maintainer's > motivations and reasoning while they haven't yet had a chance to share > their perspective on the bug. :) > > From what I can see reading th

Bug#975075: tech-ctte: Should maintainers be able to block init compatibility changes?

2020-11-19 Thread Elana Hashman
On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 04:20:46PM -0800, Tianon Gravi wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Nov 2020 at 23:33, Josh Triplett wrote: > > Any inclusion of work into a package necessitates *some* amount of > > development and packaging resources by the maintainer of that package. > > Even if someone else offers

Bug#965080: Resignation + Call for votes for new Chair

2020-07-18 Thread Elana Hashman
> The ballot is the following: > > ===BEGIN=== > > The chair of the Debian Technical Committee will be: > > A : Philip Hands > B : Margarita Manterola > C : David Bremner > D : Niko Tyni > E : Gunnar Wolf > F : Simon McVittie > G : Sean Whitton