Bug#1077764: Ruling request on os-release specification implementation

2024-08-04 Thread Joseph R. Justice
Apologies for formatting of the following; I'm reading this using Gmail on an Android tablet with a virtual keyboard. I've read much but not necessarily all of the thread, so the following might have been mentioned and dismissed already. My apologies if this is the case. Reading the thread, it s

Bug#839570: Browserified javascript and DFSG 2 (reopening)

2016-10-02 Thread Joseph R. Justice
[FWIW: I am not a Debian Developer. I am not a Debian Maintainer. I am not someone who (currently) uses Debian (tho I subscribe to some of the mailing lists), nor uses the software being discussed or referred to within this bug. I don't have a horse in this race. I do, however, have Male Answer

Bug#839570: Browserified javascript and DFSG 2 (reopening)

2016-10-03 Thread Joseph R. Justice
On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 6:46 PM, Philip Hands wrote: > Pirate Praveen writes: > > On 2016, ഒക്‌ടോബർ 3 8:22:20 AM IST, "Joseph R. Justice" < > jayare...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >>If I have misunderstood in any way Mr. Praveen's position, or if I have

Bug#839570: Browserified javascript and DFSG 2 (reopening)

2016-10-05 Thread Joseph R. Justice
[I realize there have been several messages subsequent to this, but I'm working down the list in order of presentation by the GMail web interface.] On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 4:13 AM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > Le dimanche, 2 octobre 2016, 14.29:49 h CEST Pirate Praveen a écrit : > > > package:

Bug#839570: Browserified javascript and DFSG 2 (reopening)

2016-10-05 Thread Joseph R. Justice
On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 7:37 AM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: Would the following ballot be a better fit ? > == > C: Decline to rule on #830978 'Browserified javascript and DFSG 2' > FD: Further Discussion > == > I'd like to state again that, if you (the TC as a body) choose not to vote in favor o

Bug#839570: Browserified javascript and DFSG 2 (reopening)

2016-10-05 Thread Joseph R. Justice
On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 9:18 AM, Sam Hartman wrote: > > "Didier" == Didier 'OdyX' Raboud writes: > I do think there are things we could do in this space. > We could set policy consistent with the DFSG on what the definition of > source code in Debian is. > Could the TC offer guidance, or is

Bug#839570: Browserified javascript and DFSG 2 (reopening)

2016-10-05 Thread Joseph R. Justice
On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Sam Hartman wrote: First off, I would like to, sincerely and truly, thank you for responding to my message. I'd been wondering if maybe they were going into a black hole of some sort. You give me some reassurance that they are not, or at least not entirely. T

Re: Bug#839570: Browserified javascript and DFSG 2 (reopening)

2016-10-05 Thread Joseph R. Justice
For the record, I wish the message I am now responding to, and other subsequent responses and discussion, were being sent to the bug mail address *in addition to* all the other addresses they're being sent to. I am choosing to send my response here to the bug mail address, at least in part so ther

Bug#839570: Browserified javascript and DFSG 2 (reopening)

2016-10-05 Thread Joseph R. Justice
On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 12:04 AM, Pa irate Praveen wrote: > On 2016, ഒക്‌ടോബർ 4 7:49:28 PM IST, Sam Hartman > wrote: > > >You're asking questions that don't make sense from a p.process > >standpoint, doing things that have a very low probability of making > >anyone happy, > > A quick update, I

Bug#839570: Browserified javascript and DFSG 2 (reopening)

2016-10-05 Thread Joseph R. Justice
On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 12:55 AM, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] "Joseph R. Justice" > > > Could the TC offer guidance, or issue a statement, on if (and if so > > when) it should ever be permissible to allow a waiver from RC-bug > > status for software whose sourc

Bug#839570: Browserified javascript and DFSG 2 (reopening)

2016-10-05 Thread Joseph R. Justice
On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 12:04 AM, Pirate Praveen wrote: A quick update, I have asked ftp masters to make a ruling on the issue. > #839801. > Forgot to mention in my other response to this message... Should this bug (839570) depend on the FTPmaster ruling request bug (839801), or vice versa, so a

Bug#839570: Browserified javascript and DFSG 2 (reopening)

2016-10-07 Thread Joseph R. Justice
For the record for this bug / discussion: I note Didier 'OdyX' Raboud 's mail to the Debian Secretary, CC'd to the TC list and the FTP Master list, requesting a general interpretation of the TC's ability (if any) to override the decisions made by various Debian delegate teams and individuals. A c