Re: Please assume good faith

2013-10-28 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 4:31 AM, Nikolaus Rath nikol...@rath.org wrote: David Kalnischkies kalnischk...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 11:31 PM, Nikolaus Rath nikol...@rath.org wrote: Thorsten Glaser t...@mirbsd.de writes: Lars Wirzenius liw at liw.fi writes: I write a backup

Re: Please assume good faith (was Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME)

2013-10-27 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 10/26/2013 09:17 PM, Olav Vitters wrote: On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 12:02:00AM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: I'm fed up with repeated attempts to force components on the rest of the system, but that's mostly a fault of Gnome's upstream There seems to be a trend emanating from packages

Re: Please assume good faith (was Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME)

2013-10-27 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
Can this be taken off-list? I don't care either way, I'd still take his points even if he wasn't. On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Thomas Goirand z...@debian.org wrote: On 10/26/2013 09:17 PM, Olav Vitters wrote: On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 12:02:00AM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: I'm fed up

Re: Please assume good faith (was Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME)

2013-10-27 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Thomas Goirand z...@debian.org (2013-10-27): If you don't mind that I ask: are you a GNOME developer? That comes to mind: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Olav+Vitters+Gnome https://lists.debian.org/20131024192452.ga29...@bkor.dhs.org KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Please assume good faith (was Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME)

2013-10-27 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2013-10-27, Thomas Goirand z...@debian.org wrote: If you don't mind that I ask: are you a GNOME developer? Olav is a gnome developer, yes. /Sune -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Please assume good faith (was Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME)

2013-10-26 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 11:00:42PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: On Do, 24 Okt 2013, Charles Plessy wrote: at this point, I would like to point at a very important part of the revised code of conduct that Wouter is proposing: Assume good faith. On Do, 24 Okt 2013, Adam Borowski wrote:

Re: Please assume good faith (was Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME)

2013-10-26 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 12:02:00AM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: I'm fed up with repeated attempts to force components on the rest of the system, but that's mostly a fault of Gnome's upstream There seems to be a trend emanating from packages involving RedHat devs. I actually went to the

Re: Please assume good faith (was Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME)

2013-10-25 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 01:41:29AM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: Trying to say [GNOME upstream] continuously try to [...] force their blessings on all users. is just wrong. Nobody is forced to use Gnome. Sorry, I've implicitly meant all _of their_ users. My apologies. I write a

Re: Please assume good faith (was Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME)

2013-10-25 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Lars Wirzenius liw at liw.fi writes: I write a backup program. It uses its own storage format, and people sometimes ask if they could use tar files instead. But I am evil incarnate and FORCE them to use my own storage format instead. Should […] can be, and I think that the storage format I've

Re: Please assume good faith (was Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME)

2013-10-25 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 11:38:56AM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: found it usable even in 1.x days), is also true for GNOME: it is said to disable the ability of users to theme and customise it, and Torvalds’ opinions are well-known.) GNOME tweak tool has existed since GNOME 3. It has been

Re: Please assume good faith (was Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME)

2013-10-25 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 25 Oct 2013 16:54:47 +0200, Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl wrote: On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 11:38:56AM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: found it usable even in 1.x days), is also true for GNOME: it is said to disable the ability of users to theme and customise it, and Torvalds’ opinions are

Re: Please assume good faith

2013-10-25 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Thorsten Glaser t...@mirbsd.de writes: Lars Wirzenius liw at liw.fi writes: I write a backup program. It uses its own storage format, and people sometimes ask if they could use tar files instead. But I am evil incarnate and FORCE them to use my own storage format instead. Should […] can be,

Re: Please assume good faith

2013-10-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Nikolaus Rath nikol...@rath.org writes: To cut a long story short, I am not convinced that by open sourcing my code I am acquiring a moral obligation to take into account the preferences of potential users in future versions - no matter how large (or vocal) the userbase. +1 Obviously, there

Re: Please assume good faith

2013-10-25 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Nikolaus Rath dixit: To cut a long story short, I am not convinced that by open sourcing my code I am acquiring a moral obligation to take into account the preferences of potential users in future versions - no matter how large But that’s just the thing! You are! Of course, only in a way, and

Re: Please assume good faith (was Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME)

2013-10-25 Thread Kevin Chadwick
I'm fed up with repeated attempts to force components on the rest of the system, but that's mostly a fault of Gnome's upstream There seems to be a trend emanating from packages involving RedHat devs. I actually went to the RedHat site a few weeks ago to try and get some sort of oversight on

Re: Please assume good faith

2013-10-25 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 11:31 PM, Nikolaus Rath nikol...@rath.org wrote: Thorsten Glaser t...@mirbsd.de writes: Lars Wirzenius liw at liw.fi writes: I write a backup program. It uses its own storage format, and people sometimes ask if they could use tar files instead. But I am evil incarnate

Re: Please assume good faith

2013-10-25 Thread Nikolaus Rath
David Kalnischkies kalnischk...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 11:31 PM, Nikolaus Rath nikol...@rath.org wrote: Thorsten Glaser t...@mirbsd.de writes: Lars Wirzenius liw at liw.fi writes: I write a backup program. It uses its own storage format, and people sometimes ask if they

Re: Please assume good faith (was Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME)

2013-10-25 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 06:15:28PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: On Fri, 25 Oct 2013 16:54:47 +0200, Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl wrote: On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 11:38:56AM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: found it usable even in 1.x days), is also true for GNOME: it is said to disable the ability

Re: Please assume good faith (was Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME)

2013-10-24 Thread Norbert Preining
On Do, 24 Okt 2013, Charles Plessy wrote: at this point, I would like to point at a very important part of the revised code of conduct that Wouter is proposing: Assume good faith. On Do, 24 Okt 2013, Adam Borowski wrote: My apologies, I overreacted. Oh holy s...sunshine (I have to be

Re: Please assume good faith (was Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME)

2013-10-24 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 11:00:42PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: On Do, 24 Okt 2013, Adam Borowski wrote: My apologies, I overreacted. Clear critic with real background - many of us have the same experience - (how many times did my system break in the last years due to GNome?) are silence

Re: Please assume good faith

2013-10-24 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 24 Oct 2013 23:00:42 +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: On Do, 24 Okt 2013, Charles Plessy wrote: at this point, I would like to point at a very important part of the revised code of conduct that Wouter is proposing: Assume good faith. On Do, 24 Okt 2013, Adam Borowski wrote: My

Re: Please assume good faith (was Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME)

2013-10-24 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 16:30 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: Now, let me know - is this the new way of silencing critical voices? No. But it is a gigantic leap forward in the culture of our community. Well arguably, one shouldn't be too surprised if people get more and more pissed off by

Re: Please assume good faith (was Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME)

2013-10-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 11:00:42PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: On Do, 24 Okt 2013, Charles Plessy wrote: at this point, I would like to point at a very important part of the revised code of conduct that Wouter is proposing: Assume good faith. On Do, 24 Okt 2013, Adam Borowski wrote: My

Re: Please assume good faith (was Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME)

2013-10-24 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 06:33:34PM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: I know of my own tickets I've reported upstream and how outrageously GNOME deals with some critical things... Could you give me a few bugnumbers and/or be more concrete what you mean with outrageously? Do you mean someone

Re: Please assume good faith (was Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME)

2013-10-24 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 21:42 +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: Could you give me a few bugnumbers and/or be more concrete what you mean with outrageously? Yeah I could, but this already turned far too much into a flame war. There's e.g. the bug that Evolution silently corrupts eMails, which is known now

Re: Please assume good faith (was Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME)

2013-10-24 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 10:07:53PM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: I'd call such cases even intentional malicious behaviour against user. I'm sure you can easily find the related bugs, but please keep them away from here, since the flames do not need even more coals to burn higher.

Re: Please assume good faith (was Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME)

2013-10-24 Thread Jonathan Dowland
This seems a little bit of a distraction from the issue at hand (Debian Development) — perhaps you and the OP could follow up off list? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Please assume good faith (was Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME)

2013-10-24 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 22:37 +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 10:07:53PM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: I'd call such cases even intentional malicious behaviour against user. I'm sure you can easily find the related bugs, but please keep them away from here,

Re: Please assume good faith (was Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME)

2013-10-24 Thread Brian May
On 25 October 2013 03:33, Christoph Anton Mitterer cales...@scientia.netwrote: Well arguably, one shouldn't be too surprised if people get more and more pissed off by GNOME _upstream_ . They continuously try to push their agenda through and force their blessings (most of the time broken, e.g.

Re: Please assume good faith (was Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME)

2013-10-24 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Fri, 2013-10-25 at 09:39 +1100, Brian May wrote: If you don't like Gnome, nobody is forcing you to use it. Well actually it's not that easy to avoid all of it, at least you get some libraries even when using 3rd party GTK/GNOME apps. Trying to say [GNOME upstream] continuously try to

Re: Please assume good faith

2013-10-24 Thread Russ Allbery
Christoph Anton Mitterer cales...@scientia.net writes: On Fri, 2013-10-25 at 09:39 +1100, Brian May wrote: If you don't like Gnome, nobody is forcing you to use it. Well actually it's not that easy to avoid all of it, at least you get some libraries even when using 3rd party GTK/GNOME apps.

Re: Please assume good faith (was Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME)

2013-10-24 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
Le 25/10/2013 00:39, Brian May a écrit : On 25 October 2013 03:33, Christoph Anton Mitterer cales...@scientia.net mailto:cales...@scientia.net wrote: Well arguably, one shouldn't be too surprised if people get more and more pissed off by GNOME _upstream_ . They continuously try

Please assume good faith (was Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME)

2013-10-23 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 02:09:46AM +0200, Adam Borowski a écrit : Also, GNOME does _not_ absolutely need systemd. Proof: Ubuntu. This part of its packaging in Debian strikes me as being intentionally malicious to push an agenda. And this is not the first time, we had this with Network

Re: Please assume good faith (was Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME)

2013-10-23 Thread Adam Borowski
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 10:25:52AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 02:09:46AM +0200, Adam Borowski a écrit : Also, GNOME does _not_ absolutely need systemd. Proof: Ubuntu. This part of its packaging in Debian strikes me as being intentionally malicious to push an