Bug#846002: About the internal and external view of Blends (Was: Bug#846002: blends-tasks must be priority:standard and not make a mess out of tasksel menu)

2017-02-06 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, Feb 06, 2017 at 06:04:18PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > > ... > > to Ubuntu). We could do a pretty good service to this type of user to > > make Debian "easy to install". This installation topic comes up in > > every talk I have given (see [1] at 35:20) and since 14 years I can not > > giv

Bug#846002: About the internal and external view of Blends (Was: Bug#846002: blends-tasks must be priority:standard and not make a mess out of tasksel menu)

2017-02-06 Thread Ian Jackson
Andreas Tille writes ("About the internal and external view of Blends (Was: Bug#846002: blends-tasks must be priority:standard and not make a mess out of tasksel menu)"): > May be this is the right time to clarify the role of Blends inside > Debian and I'd like to adju

About the internal and external view of Blends (Was: Bug#846002: blends-tasks must be priority:standard and not make a mess out of tasksel menu)

2017-02-06 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, On Sun, Feb 05, 2017 at 12:38:59AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > Would it be a sensible compromise to reassign this bug to d-i tagging it > > RC for buster to make sure a Blends menu will exist in the buster > > installer. > > While I think it's important to get it fixed for buster, I don

Bug#846002: blends-tasks must be priority:standard and not make a mess out of tasksel menu

2017-02-06 Thread Holger Levsen
On Sat, Feb 04, 2017 at 12:16:01PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > Would it be a sensible compromise to reassign this bug to d-i tagging it > RC for buster to make sure a Blends menu will exist in the buster > installer. besides what Tollef already said about the severity I think a fresh new bug is

Bug#846002: blends-tasks must be priority:standard and not make a mess out of tasksel menu

2017-02-04 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Andreas Tille > On Fri, Feb 03, 2017 at 02:10:43PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > > > > > I do have time now, so perhaps while we're reverting those changes > > > Cyril will be open to persuasion that we could also patch the blends > > > back in, and make the menu clearer overall using my

Bug#846002: blends-tasks must be priority:standard and not make a mess out of tasksel menu

2017-02-04 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, Feb 03, 2017 at 02:10:43PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > > > I do have time now, so perhaps while we're reverting those changes > > Cyril will be open to persuasion that we could also patch the blends > > back in, and make the menu clearer overall using my early suggestion > > of prefi

Bug#846002: blends-tasks must be priority:standard and not make a mess out of tasksel menu

2017-02-03 Thread Sam Hartman
Hi, first, you've made the point that you were hoping the TC would help the blends team and the d-i team work together. I think that Phil's suggestions for a technical approach are quite good, and I hope that will move forward in the buster cycle. With regard to stretch, I honestly don't think th

Bug#846002: blends-tasks must be priority:standard and not make a mess out of tasksel menu

2017-02-03 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Since I've been asked in an IRC query whether I might be willing to consider this suggestion: Philip Hands (2017-02-03): > I think this is in part a symptom of mixing up multiple questions in > one request. > > There seems to be a consensus that the priority change was misguided, > and that's th

Bug#846002: blends-tasks must be priority:standard and not make a mess out of tasksel menu

2017-02-03 Thread Philip Hands
Ole Streicher writes: ... >>> The TC has the power to decide here, and you were asked to do so. If you >>> think that d-i took the right decision, you should decide so (and then >>> you don't need to use your power), but not just let them decide. >> >> That's what the current ballot effectively

Bug#846002: blends-tasks must be priority:standard and not make a mess out of tasksel menu

2017-02-03 Thread Ole Streicher
Hi Tollef, On 02.02.2017 21:29, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] Ole Streicher Am 31.01.2017 um 16:26 schrieb Sam Hartman: > If they don't want to do that for stretch, that's a decision within > their pervue that we clearly don't have the votes to override. >> I have read Sams "vote to ov

Bug#846002: blends-tasks must be priority:standard and not make a mess out of tasksel menu

2017-02-02 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Ole Streicher Hi > >> Am 31.01.2017 um 16:26 schrieb Sam Hartman: [...] > >>> If they don't want to do that for stretch, that's a decision within > >>> their pervue that we clearly don't have the votes to override. [...] > This makes it a case where one can ask the TC for a decision, if a

Bug#846002: blends-tasks must be priority:standard and not make a mess out of tasksel menu

2017-02-02 Thread Ole Streicher
Hi Tollef On 02.02.2017 19:47, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] Ole Streicher > >> Am 31.01.2017 um 16:26 schrieb Sam Hartman: >>> If you go back one meeting further, my interpretation is that the consensus >>> of >>> the committee seems to be that ultimately this decision belongs to the >>> install

Bug#846002: blends-tasks must be priority:standard and not make a mess out of tasksel menu

2017-02-02 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Ole Streicher > Am 31.01.2017 um 16:26 schrieb Sam Hartman: > > If you go back one meeting further, my interpretation is that the consensus > > of > > the committee seems to be that ultimately this decision belongs to the > > installer team. > > That is, in this case, a number of members on t

Bug#846002: blends-tasks must be priority:standard and not make a mess out of tasksel menu

2017-02-01 Thread Ian Jackson
Sam Hartman writes ("Bug#846002: blends-tasks must be priority:standard and not make a mess out of tasksel menu"): > My reading of that is that the consensus of the TC is that the D-I team > should make this decision. I can see why Ole is frustrated. I don't think this i

Bug#846002: blends-tasks must be priority:standard and not make a mess out of tasksel menu

2017-02-01 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Ole" == Ole Streicher writes: Georg commented that if we're going to delegate to D-I, we should hurry up and do so unless this turn into another TC failure. I personally think we've taken long enough this is already a TC failure and have expressed regret for my actions that contributed to

Bug#846002: blends-tasks must be priority:standard and not make a mess out of tasksel menu

2017-02-01 Thread Ole Streicher
Hi Sam, Am 31.01.2017 um 21:45 schrieb Sam Hartman: > Ole> Hmm, IMO there are two things here: First, in our constitution, > Ole> the installer team has no specific granted rights, apart from > Ole> being maintainers of the relevant packages. This makes the Ole> > conflict primarily a conflict b

Bug#846002: blends-tasks must be priority:standard and not make a mess out of tasksel menu

2017-01-31 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Am 2017-02-01 04:45, schrieb Sam Hartman: What I think several of us did is look at the technical details and decide we believe that the installer team was the right set of people to make this technical decision. So, I think the TC will make its decisions on a technical foundation a lot les

Bug#846002: blends-tasks must be priority:standard and not make a mess out of tasksel menu

2017-01-31 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Ole" == Ole Streicher writes: Ole> Hi Sam, Am 31.01.2017 um 16:26 schrieb Sam Hartman: >> If you go back one meeting further, my interpretation is that the >> consensus of the committee seems to be that ultimately this >> decision belongs to the installer team. That is, in

Bug#846002: blends-tasks must be priority:standard and not make a mess out of tasksel menu

2017-01-31 Thread Ole Streicher
Hi Sam, Am 31.01.2017 um 16:26 schrieb Sam Hartman: > If you go back one meeting further, my interpretation is that the consensus of > the committee seems to be that ultimately this decision belongs to the > installer team. > That is, in this case, a number of members on the TC seem to believe > t

Bug#846002: blends-tasks must be priority:standard and not make a mess out of tasksel menu

2017-01-31 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Ole" == Ole Streicher writes: Hi. If you go back one meeting further, my interpretation is that the consensus of the committee seems to be that ultimately this decision belongs to the installer team. That is, in this case, a number of members on the TC seem to believe that the installer t

Bug#846002: blends-tasks must be priority:standard and not make a mess out of tasksel menu

2017-01-30 Thread Ole Streicher
Dear Technical Committee, after reading the CTTE meeting log from 2017-01-26 [1], I feel a bit disappointed. As far as I understand (I am not a long-term DD yet), the Technical Committee has the task to decide items, where a consensus could not be reached. Here, this is obviously the case, as one