Re: Cancel "culture" is a threat to Debian

2021-03-30 Thread kFwUgYlNqnY
On 30/03/2021 20:19, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 06:56:49PM +1100, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: >> Cancel "culture" arrived in Debian and it threatens the project: > https://davidblixtauthor.medium.com/cancel-culture-and-responsibility-b5b8065c3cbd While people should see

Re: forums.debian.net - who's in charge?

2021-03-30 Thread Donald Norwood
Hi, everyone! Ok, I'm in and I see that Felix has been added as well. On 3/30/21 5:44 PM, Martin Meredith wrote: > The technical side of things does need a fair bit of work (the forums need an > upgrade, we need to add Let's Encrypt etc). We can start a thread in the admin area regarding this

Re: forums.debian.net - who's in charge?

2021-03-30 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 10:50:40PM +0100, Martin Meredith wrote: >I've contacted the admins personally - and posted a thread about this in the >"staff" section of the forums, so I hope people will get involved. > >I've also replied to this thread privately (not wanting to expose anyone's >contact

Re: forums.debian.net - who's in charge?

2021-03-30 Thread Martin Meredith
I've contacted the admins personally - and posted a thread about this in the "staff" section of the forums, so I hope people will get involved. I've also replied to this thread privately (not wanting to expose anyone's contact details who may or may not want them so) so that the current admins

Re: forums.debian.net - who's in charge?

2021-03-30 Thread Martin Meredith
Hi Felix, I've also added you to the admin group. The technical side of things does need a fair bit of work (the forums need an upgrade, we need to add Let's Encrypt etc). On Mar 30 2021, at 10:38 pm, Felix Lechner wrote: > Hi Donald, > > On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 1:38 PM Donald Norwood wrote:

Re: forums.debian.net - who's in charge?

2021-03-30 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi Donald, On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 1:38 PM Donald Norwood wrote: > > Ideally a few other DDs will join I would be happy to assist you in a subordinate capacity, if needed. My user name is 'lechner'. I tried three captchas, and there was no TLS. Kind regards Felix Lechner

Re: forums.debian.net - who's in charge?

2021-03-30 Thread Martin Meredith
If you want to register an account, and let me know what it is i can give you access - though we have had a few glitches recently with people complaining about not being able to read the captcha > On 30 Mar 2021, at 21:28, Donald Norwood wrote: > > Hi Steve, > >> On 3/30/21 3:14 PM, Steve

Re: forums.debian.net - who's in charge?

2021-03-30 Thread Donald Norwood
Hi Steve, On 3/30/21 3:14 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Hey Donald, > > I think the key piece I'm looking for is people prepared to admin and > monitor the forums as a safe place for Debian users. Documenting what > that means shouldn't be too hard - we'd want to see our existing CoC > applied. >

Re: forums.debian.net - who's in charge?

2021-03-30 Thread Steve McIntyre
[ Responding to both Mez and Ganneff ] On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 06:50:00PM +0100, Martin Meredith wrote: >Nominally, I was put in charge a while back, as whoever was in charge >of it at the time didn’t want to be involved any more, and there was >a need for something to be done related to the

Re: forums.debian.net - who's in charge?

2021-03-30 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hey Donald, On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 01:32:32PM -0400, Donald Norwood wrote: >On 3/29/21 11:03 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 07:58:33AM -0700, Felix Lechner wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 7:34 AM Steve McIntyre <93...@debian.org> wrote: It's better

Re: Cancel "culture" is a threat to Debian

2021-03-30 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 06:56:49PM +1100, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: > Cancel "culture" arrived in Debian and it threatens the project: https://davidblixtauthor.medium.com/cancel-culture-and-responsibility-b5b8065c3cbd -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS