Re: [Summary] Discourse for Debian

2020-04-15 Thread Brian Gupta
On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 10:50 AM Neil McGovern wrote: > > Hi Brian, > > On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 10:12:21AM -0400, Brian Gupta wrote: > > Do we have to start by making it a mandatory switch? I don't feel consensus > > to > > move to discourse will be impossible in

Re: [Summary] Discourse for Debian

2020-04-15 Thread Brian Gupta
On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 7:48 AM Neil McGovern wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 07:22:53AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > > Would you be willing to list out which points it is from the given > > "cons" category which you see as positives? > > > > I'd really rather not at this stage, as I'm

Re: Some thoughts about Diversity and the CoC

2020-01-03 Thread Brian Gupta
Tina, Sorry a little late to this thread, but I wanted you to know that I fully support any individual's choices when it comes to their own gender representation, sexual identification and preferences. I understand and support your recent expressed anger. Baiting and attacking minority groups is

Re: Survey on Bug Tracking Tools

2015-06-17 Thread Brian Gupta
On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 4:26 AM, sai11101...@gmail.com wrote: We the students of IIIT Hyderabad (https://iiit.ac.in https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fiiit.ac.insa=Dsntz=1usg=AFQjCNFMgVcVzfdLIP6a-9Vqbq2lVGNXHA), as part of our research on improving the features provided by Bug Tracking

Re: Debian clothing

2015-04-18 Thread Brian Gupta
On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 11:11 PM, John Simmons simmonstrum...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I was thinking about making some hats with the debian logo on them, and selling them to some friends, and possibly putting them on my website for sale. I found this page https://www.debian.org/logos/#open-use

Re: donations and paypal

2014-12-10 Thread Brian Gupta
On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Sylvestre Ledru sylves...@debian.org wrote: On 17/11/2014 10:15, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: On 17/11/14 at 16:09 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: However, this is not a reason to bounce my email from -www@ to -project@

Re: Prospective Trusted Organization - Debian.ch

2014-10-05 Thread Brian Gupta
On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 9:52 AM, Lucas Nussbaum lea...@debian.org wrote: ... === Tax-exemption status === * debian.ch did not apply for tax-exempt status, because the additional bureaucracy and limitations outweigh the advantages at the moment. * debian.ch is subject to tax on earnings if our

What is the current thinking in the Linux Kernel community on firmware blobs?

2014-09-09 Thread Brian Gupta
Obviously, consensus is that blobs were, and still are, essential for Linux's status as a popular commercially viable OS. I'm wondering at the same time if they are considered a necessary evil, and wonder if there would be support [1] to try to work together with vendors to free the firmware

Re: Updating the list of Debian Trusted Organizations

2014-07-08 Thread Brian Gupta
On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 12:03 AM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 12:02 AM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: We are now ready to announce a first official list of Debian Trusted Organizations, per the process defined in the Debian Constitution §5.1.11 and §9, and after the

Re: Maximum term for tech ctte members

2014-05-26 Thread Brian Gupta
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 9:16 PM, Anthony Towns a...@erisian.com.au wrote: Hello world, Would anyone else be supportive of a proposal to set a term for tech ctte membership? The current tech ctte members were appointed: Ian: May/Dec 1998 (15 years, 5 months) [0] Bdale: Apr 2001 (13

Re: A question about patches for upstream

2014-05-06 Thread Brian Gupta
On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk wrote: Marc Haber writes (Re: A question about patches for upstream): I understand. Unfortunately, Debian has a number of developers that are quite impolite while doing their work. In a real company, such people would

Re: Why discussions don't move from debian-private

2014-04-16 Thread Brian Gupta
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: Jakub Wilk jw...@debian.org writes: Someone complained about a lengthy off-topic discussion taking place on debian-private, and suggested to move it to a public mailing list. A follow-up to this. In response to the

Fwd: Debian fundraising

2014-03-15 Thread Brian Gupta
If you are interested in participating in the below discussion (which I just kicked off) please consider joining: https://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-sponsors-discuss and sharing your thoughts. Thanks, Brian -- Forwarded message -- From: Brian Gupta brian.gu

Re: State of the debian keyring

2014-02-24 Thread Brian Gupta
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Lucas Nussbaum lu...@debian.org wrote: Hi, On 22/02/14 at 20:57 -0500, Andrew Starr-Bochicchio wrote: Has there been any analysis of how active the developers are? I'd hazard to guess that a good number should be moved to emeritus status. Perhaps we should

Re: GR proposal: code of conduct

2014-02-24 Thread Brian Gupta
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk wrote: Sune Vuorela writes (Re: GR proposal: code of conduct): Much of irc are semiprivate chatter and socializing and not really something that should be available to the wider public. I don't think this is

Re: mailing list auto subscriptions

2014-02-05 Thread Brian Gupta
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Holger Levsen hol...@layer-acht.org wrote: Hi, I believe every new DD or DM should be auto subscribed to -devel, -project and -devel-announce (and -private for DDs), best with the usual someone subscribed you for this, please confirm confirmation mail, not sure

Re: Debian services and Debian infrastructure

2014-01-07 Thread Brian Gupta
On Jan 7, 2014 3:48 AM, Wouter Verhelst wou...@debian.org wrote: Op 05-01-14 14:28, Joerg Jaspert schreef: On 13446 March 1977, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: I'm worried that this situation is harmful for the project. Yes, seperate development with different requirements than the production

Re: working with FSF on Debian Free-ness assessment

2013-12-25 Thread Brian Gupta
On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Michael Banck mba...@debian.org wrote: On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 08:13:29PM +0100, Dominik George wrote: Just out of curiosity: What's their definition of freedom anyway? You don't know what their definition of freedom is, but continue to assess their

Re: Google contacting (harassing?) new DDs

2013-12-13 Thread Brian Gupta
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 7:32 AM, Marc Haber mh+debian-proj...@zugschlus.de wrote: On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 06:02:27PM +0100, Enrico Zini wrote: it looks like as soon as one becomes DD, an email arrives from Google recruiters. So they basically take our DD selection process as a filter to weed

Re: Code of Conduct: picking up

2013-11-28 Thread Brian Gupta
On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 6:19 AM, Thorsten Glaser t.gla...@tarent.de wrote: On Wed, 27 Nov 2013, Ian Jackson wrote: Inevitably, the CoC will be voted on in a GR. The right time to continue this dogpile is in the vote. Mh… we’ll see how that turns out. Norbert Preining writes (Re: Code of

Re: Should mailing list bans be published?

2013-11-04 Thread Brian Gupta
On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: Camaleón noelamac+gm...@gmail.com writes: The mailing list managers/admins have the right to ban whoever they decide, but in the aim of fair play, the user should also have the right to defend him/herself from the

Re: Buying hardware with Debian money

2013-10-21 Thread Brian Gupta
On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Lucas Nussbaum lea...@debian.org wrote: Hi, I received a few requests for hardware purchases, that I think are worth discussing with the project as a whole in order to progress towards having clear guidelines for what is acceptable and what isn't in terms of

Re: Possibly moving Debian services to a CDN

2013-10-14 Thread Brian Gupta
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 1:36 AM, Tollef Fog Heen tfh...@err.no wrote: ]] Paul Wise About the archive mirrors, some reworded thoughts from the DPL IRC channel when this came up a few days ago: pabs [...] I think the current state of affairs is fine; I don't believe you're one of the person

Re: Report from the DSA Team Sprint 2013-06

2013-06-22 Thread Brian Gupta
On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Martin Zobel-Helas zo...@ftbfs.de wrote: Hi, On Fri Jun 21, 2013 at 14:57:09 -0400, Brian Gupta wrote: o) User and Group Management: Last year we estimated the number of active shell accounts to be on the order of 50.000 over all users/hosts. We

Re: Report from the DSA Team Sprint 2013-06

2013-06-21 Thread Brian Gupta
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Peter Palfrader wea...@debian.org wrote: Comrades! We just finished a very productive Debian System Administration team sprint in LinuxHotel, Essen, Germany. All six of the current DSA members (Faidon, Luca, Martin, Peter, Stephen, Tollef) and our recruit

Re: PaySwarm-based Debian donations

2013-06-17 Thread Brian Gupta
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 10:31 PM, Martin Owens docto...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 2013-06-17 at 19:03 -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: site requesting user's charity You mean user's involvement. You don't want users to be invited to participate in Debian. Debian isn't elitist and it shouldn't care

Answers to questions raised about registering the Debian Logo as our trademark

2013-06-11 Thread Brian Gupta
I finally had a chance to discuss with our legal counsel, and have some answers to the questions raised in the discussion. The summary of the QA is (from list and some of my own): 1) Does registering logo require any changes to TM policy? A: No changes required 2) What are the costs to register

Re: 2nd draft (was: Re: Revising the Code of Conduct)

2013-05-22 Thread Brian Gupta
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 4:52 AM, Wouter Verhelst wou...@debian.org wrote: So, some updates: On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 11:59:06AM -0400, Brian Gupta wrote: I'm wondering if there can be a guidelines/advice section also? For example, perhaps we want to capture something along the lines

Re: Revising the Code of Conduct

2013-05-21 Thread Brian Gupta
On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 6:30 AM, Wouter Verhelst wou...@debian.org wrote: On 21-05-13 11:37, Norbert Preining wrote: Hi all, On Di, 21 Mai 2013, Wouter Verhelst wrote: 1. Do not flame, use foul language, or in general be abusive or disrespectful towards other people on the mailinglists or

Re: [dpl-helpers] next DPL helpers meeting tomorrow (2013-05-14)

2013-05-14 Thread Brian Gupta
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 3:39 AM, Lucas Nussbaum lea...@debian.org wrote: Hi, The next DPL helpers meeting is tomorrow on #debian-dpl: 2013-05-14 Tue 17:00 (date -d @1368550800) The agenda is online[1]. If you are listed on one of the pending actions, it would be great if you could describe

Registering the Debian Logo as our trademark?

2013-04-22 Thread Brian Gupta
Hi all, I have been helping to field trademark inquiries for Debian since late February, and the issue of our Logo has come up a number of times. Currently, our logo is not a registered Trademark, but is considered (and treated by our current Trademark policy) as a common law trademark, in that

Re: Registering the Debian Logo as our trademark?

2013-04-22 Thread Brian Gupta
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Paul Tagliamonte paul...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 04:04:34PM -0400, Brian Gupta wrote: Hi all, I have been helping to field trademark inquiries for Debian since late February, and the issue of our Logo has come up a number of times

Re: Registering the Debian Logo as our trademark?

2013-04-22 Thread Brian Gupta
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Yaroslav Halchenko deb...@onerussian.com wrote: On Mon, 22 Apr 2013, Brian Gupta wrote: Just to make sure: you are talking not about swirl alone, but rather about swirl + word Debian. Is that correct? Yes, the swirl alone. Could it be trademarked? I

Re: Registering the Debian Logo as our trademark?

2013-04-22 Thread Brian Gupta
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Paul Tagliamonte paul...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 04:58:27PM -0400, Brian Gupta wrote: On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Paul Tagliamonte paul...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 04:04:34PM -0400, Brian Gupta wrote: Hi all, I have

Re: Debian participation into GNOME Outreach Program for Women

2013-04-04 Thread Brian Gupta
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 7:36 PM, Paul Tagliamonte paul...@debian.org wrote: On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 04:35:15PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 09:32:47AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit : If not, we can do mission-specific fund raising, I wouldn't mind that either, as

Re: [RFH] answering trademark@d.o inquiries

2013-02-12 Thread Brian Gupta
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 9:36 AM, Stefano Zacchiroli lea...@debian.org wrote: [ Mail-Followup-To: -project ] On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 12:57:40PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: This policy states that the contact for trademark questions is tradem...@debian.org. Where does this address go? I

Re: Copyright assignement for Debian tools?

2013-02-09 Thread Brian Gupta
On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli lea...@debian.org wrote: On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 05:23:59PM +0100, Thomas Koch wrote: I'm currently hacking on the maven-repo-helper package. The source code contains copyright statements from the original author. Now when I add classes it

Re: trademark policy draft

2012-08-06 Thread Brian Gupta
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Gaudenz Steinlin gaud...@soziologie.ch wrote: Philip Hands p...@hands.com writes: Francesco Poli invernom...@paranoici.org writes: ... [...] \item You cannot alter the DEBIAN trademarks in any way. [...] \item Any scaling must retain the original

Re: Call for volunteers to join DebConf Committee

2012-02-01 Thread Brian Gupta
Moray, I am willing to help if you don't have enough folks. A couple caveats: 1) I am moving this week, so will likely not have full time computer access until next Monday. 2) I am currently not planning on attending DC13. (Things could change, if I am really needed onsite, and I can break free

Re: shapado.debian.net now available [Was: user support]

2010-10-03 Thread Brian Gupta
On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Chris Taylor ctay...@debian.org wrote: On Sun, 03 Oct 2010 11:41:29 -0500 Fernando C. Estrada fcestr...@fcestrada.com wrote: Currently the available options are: ask.debian.net shapado.debian.net (current) +1 to ask... -Brian

Re: user support - Shapado instance for Debian

2010-09-30 Thread Brian Gupta
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 12:12 AM, Fernando C. Estrada fcestr...@fcestrada.com wrote: El mié, 29-09-2010 a las 10:04 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli escribió: On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 10:39:13PM -0500, Fernando C. Estrada wrote: I like the idea, currently I'm in the Shapado instance for Debian [1]