Proposing to appeal to the tech. comittee about language extensions in scripts.

2012-04-27 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear Russ, Joey, Debian Med team and evrybody, in 2010 I discussed with you in this bug (#190753) about our policy of removing suffixes from program names, and the harm it causes by breaking compatibilty between Debian system using packaged programs, and other UNIX system which installed the

Re: Proposing to appeal to the tech. comittee about language extensions in scripts.

2012-04-27 Thread Roger Leigh
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 06:01:52PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Dear Russ, Joey, Debian Med team and evrybody, Much has been said, and I am not criticizing the points that have been made in favor of renaming, nor I object to promote them to the developers at the moment where they chose a name

Re: Proposing to appeal to the tech. comittee about language extensions in scripts.

2012-04-27 Thread Olivier Sallou
Le 4/27/12 11:01 AM, Charles Plessy a écrit : Dear Russ, Joey, Debian Med team and evrybody, in 2010 I discussed with you in this bug (#190753) about our policy of removing suffixes from program names, and the harm it causes by breaking compatibilty between Debian system using packaged

Re: Bug#190753: Proposing to appeal to the tech. comittee about language extensions in scripts.

2012-04-27 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 06:01:52PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Dear Russ, Joey, Debian Med team and evrybody, As proposed in 2010 (http://bugs.debian.org/190753#98), I would like to ask the Technical Comittee to reconsider our Policy, and restrict it to cases where the name of a program

Re: Bug#190753: Proposing to appeal to the tech. comittee about language extensions in scripts.

2012-04-27 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 07:11:37PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 06:01:52PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Dear Russ, Joey, Debian Med team and evrybody, As proposed in 2010 (http://bugs.debian.org/190753#98), I would like to ask the Technical Comittee to reconsider

Re: Bug#190753: Proposing to appeal to the tech. comittee about language extensions in scripts.

2012-04-27 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 10:31:35AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: G On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 07:11:37PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 06:01:52PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Dear Russ, Joey, Debian Med team and evrybody, As proposed in 2010

Re: Bug#190753: Proposing to appeal to the tech. comittee about language extensions in scripts.

2012-04-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Bill Allombert bill.allomb...@math.u-bordeaux1.fr writes: The constitution does not grant the tech commitee the authority to override the policy process. Hm, I don't believe that's the case. Constitution 6.1.1 explicitly says: The Technical Committee may: 1. Decide on any matter of

Re: Bug#190753: Proposing to appeal to the tech. comittee about language extensions in scripts.

2012-04-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Bill Allombert bill.allomb...@math.u-bordeaux1.fr writes: 5. No detailed design work. The Technical Committee does not engage in design of new proposals and policies. Such design work should be carried out by individuals privately or together and discussed in ordinary

Re: Bug#190753: Proposing to appeal to the tech. comittee about language extensions in scripts.

2012-04-27 Thread Joey Hess
Charles Plessy wrote: As proposed in 2010 (http://bugs.debian.org/190753#98), I would like to ask the Technical Comittee to reconsider our Policy, and restrict it to cases where the name of a program is an interface (http://bugs.debian.org/190753#128). Actually, my message

Re: Health 2.0 Developer Challenge

2012-04-27 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
FWIW a little update: apparently my wife is not planing to go to this meeting and my submission for Debian Med was not selected as one to be showcased at the Forum. so I guess I will skip this one ;) Cheers, On Thu, 29 Mar 2012, Andreas Tille wrote: IMHO the answer is quite simple to

looking to get involved,

2012-04-27 Thread Chris Wrobel
Hello Everyone, I am a student working towards my informatics degree and would like to get involved in this project. My strength is the informatics part and I'm learning more and more about the bio side of the field. I would be happy working on packaging software projects for use with

Re: Health 2.0 Developer Challenge

2012-04-27 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 07:42:09PM -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: my submission for Debian Med was not selected as one to be showcased at the Forum. :-( Seems we need to work a bit more until they will approach us actively to run a showcase. ;-) Thanks for your effort anyway Andreas.

Re: Proposing to appeal to the tech. comittee about language extensions in scripts.

2012-04-27 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 11:29:17AM +0200, Olivier Sallou wrote: Le 4/27/12 11:01 AM, Charles Plessy a écrit : Dear Russ, Joey, Debian Med team and evrybody, ... As proposed in 2010 (http://bugs.debian.org/190753#98), I would like to ask the Technical Comittee to reconsider our