Re: All candidates: Membership procedures

2009-03-25 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 12:47:09AM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: The 'minimum count of packages uploaded' seems contradictory with the wish to have people join existing teams. There's a lot of work that we need done and that doesn't involve uploading packages. Not that I have a better metric,

Re: [dissenting]: Proposal: Enhance requirements for General resolutions

2009-03-25 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 09:57:39PM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: This proposal does not come from an abuse to the GR process, but to generalized frustration about the way 2008_002 and specially 2008_003 were handled. Uhm, I can understand the frustration argument about 2008_003 (even though it is

Re: All candidates: Membership procedures

2009-03-25 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 12:47:09AM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: The 'minimum count of packages uploaded' seems contradictory with the wish to have people join existing teams. There's a lot of work that we need done and that doesn't involve

Re: [Amendment] Reaffirm current requirements for GR sponsoring

2009-03-25 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: PROPOSAL START = General Resolutions are an important framework within the Debian Project. While over those years, some problems have arised during the discussion and/or voting of

Re: [Amendment] Reaffirm current requirements for GR sponsoring

2009-03-25 Thread Julien BLACHE
Lucas Nussbaum lu...@lucas-nussbaum.net wrote: Hi, I am hereby proposing the amendment below to the general resolution entitled Enhance requirements for General resolutions. PROPOSAL START = General Resolutions are an

Re: [dissenting]: Proposal: Enhance requirements for General resolutions

2009-03-25 Thread Romain Beauxis
Le Wednesday 25 March 2009 04:57:39 Gunnar Wolf, vous avez écrit : I agree. I fail to see where the GR process was abused. Since that seems the main argument in favour of this change, I fail to see the motivation for it. This proposal does not come from an abuse to the GR process, but to

Re: What will improve Debian most?

2009-03-25 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 09:05:07AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: So looking through the nominations, platforms and the current -vote threads, I'm left wondering if any of this actually matters. Only two candidates running, no IRC debate or rebuttals added to the platforms, [ Don't worry, you

Re: All candidates: Membership procedures

2009-03-25 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 09:44:05AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: I also saw mass updates of Vcs-* fields by a recent contributor which implies as many entries in debian/changelog, yet very few real packaging experience associated to all those uploads. The data would be useful but we need

Re: [Amendment] Reaffirm current requirements for GR sponsoring

2009-03-25 Thread Matthew Vernon
Lucas Nussbaum lu...@lucas-nussbaum.net writes: Hi, I am hereby proposing the amendment below to the general resolution entitled Enhance requirements for General resolutions. PROPOSAL START = General Resolutions are an

Re: [dissenting]: Proposal: Enhance requirements for General resolutions

2009-03-25 Thread Gunnar Wolf
I was requested to forward the following mail by Sven Luther: - Forwarded message from Sven Luther s...@powerlinux.fr - From: Sven Luther s...@powerlinux.fr To: Gunnar Wolf gw...@gwolf.org, listmas...@debian.org Cc: Romain Beauxis to...@rastageeks.org, debian-de...@lists.debian.org,

Re: Question for DPL Candidates: Debian $$$

2009-03-25 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 01:58:02PM +, MJ Ray wrote: Use of debian seems to be limited because it isn't on any approved lists and charties can't get funding for an independent evaluation at the moment. Would you support using donations to fund one or both of those? This is also an issue

Re: [dissenting]: Proposal: Enhance requirements for General resolutions

2009-03-25 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 07:26:30AM -0600, Gunnar Wolf a écrit : I do believe we have moved quite a bit from this problem, which was way more real and bitter several years ago. Today, far more people are willing to tone down their discussion patterns, and the discussion quality is obviously

Re: [Amendment] Reaffirm current requirements for GR sponsoring

2009-03-25 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Not that it makes much difference to 'further discussion', but: On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 04:10:49PM -0700, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: PROPOSAL START = General Resolutions are an important framework within the Debian Project. While

Re: Amendment: automatic expiry-on-failure, to Proposal: Enhance requirements for General resolutions

2009-03-25 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 12:37:02PM +, MJ Ray wrote: AMENDMENT START Replace too small with thought to be too small, but there is a lack of evidence about the correct level. Replace clause c with c) if general

Re: [Amendment] Reaffirm the GR process

2009-03-25 Thread Daniel Baumann
Kurt Roeckx wrote: What about: General Resolution sponsorship requirements sounds like package sponsorship requirements to me. therefore i suggest to be extra clear and change it to 'Requirements for General Resolution Sponsorship'. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3,

Re: All candidates: Membership procedures

2009-03-25 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: Something else that would be interesting to store in UDD is the full bug logs, as it would allow to list the comments that someone posted to bugs. That's expensive, but maybe we could only store a subset of information, like the From, Date, and

Re: Amendment: automatic expiry-on-failure, to Proposal: Enhance requirements for General resolutions

2009-03-25 Thread MJ Ray
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wouter Verhelst wou...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 12:37:02PM +, MJ Ray wrote: AMENDMENT START Replace too small with thought to be too small, but there

Re: [dissenting]: Proposal: Enhance requirements for General resolutions

2009-03-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Romain Beauxis to...@rastageeks.org writes: Le Wednesday 25 March 2009 04:57:39 Gunnar Wolf, vous avez écrit : This proposal does not come from an abuse to the GR process, but to generalized frustration about the way 2008_002 and specially 2008_003 were handled. I understand the furstration

Re: Amendment: automatic expiry-on-failure, to Proposal: Enhance requirements for General resolutions

2009-03-25 Thread Russ Allbery
MJ Ray m...@phonecoop.coop writes: Wouter Verhelst wou...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 12:37:02PM +, MJ Ray wrote: AMENDMENT START Replace too small with thought to be too small, but there is a lack of

Re: [Amendment] Reaffirm current requirements for GR sponsoring

2009-03-25 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 12:25:34PM +, Matthew Vernon wrote: Lucas Nussbaum lu...@lucas-nussbaum.net writes: Hi, I am hereby proposing the amendment below to the general resolution entitled Enhance requirements for General resolutions. PROPOSAL START

Seconding

2009-03-25 Thread Matthew Vernon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lucas Nussbaum lu...@lucas-nussbaum.net writes: Hi, I am hereby proposing the amendment below to the general resolution entitled Enhance requirements for General resolutions. PROPOSAL START

Re: Amendment: automatic expiry-on-failure, to Proposal: Enhance requirements for General resolutions

2009-03-25 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 02:55:32PM +, MJ Ray wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wouter Verhelst wou...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 12:37:02PM +, MJ Ray wrote: AMENDMENT START

Re: Seconding

2009-03-25 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 07:26:20PM +, Matthew Vernon wrote: Lucas Nussbaum lu...@lucas-nussbaum.net writes: Hi, I am hereby proposing the amendment below to the general resolution entitled Enhance requirements for General resolutions. PROPOSAL START

Re: [Amendment] Reaffirm current requirements for GR sponsoring

2009-03-25 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 04:10:49PM -0700, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: PROPOSAL START = General Resolutions are an important framework within the Debian Project. While over those years, some problems have arised during the

Re: [Amendment] Reaffirm current requirements for GR sponsoring

2009-03-25 Thread Ian Jackson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lucas Nussbaum writes ([Amendment] Reaffirm current requirements for GR sponsoring): I hope that Bill Allombert will rescind his own amendment. If he chooses to keep it, I might rescind this one instead (we don't need two keep things as is options

Re: [Amendment] Reaffirm current requirements for GR sponsoring

2009-03-25 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 09:01:38AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 04:10:49PM -0700, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: PROPOSAL START = General Resolutions are an important framework within the Debian Project.

Re: Amendment: Enhance requirements for General resolutions

2009-03-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Joerg Jaspert jo...@debian.org writes: PROPOSAL START General Resolutions are an important framework within the Debian Project. Yet, in a project the size of Debian, the current requirements to initiate one are too

Re: [Amendment] Reaffirm current requirements for GR sponsoring

2009-03-25 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:26:59AM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 09:01:38AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 04:10:49PM -0700, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: PROPOSAL START = General

Re: [Amendment] Reaffirm current requirements for GR sponsoring

2009-03-25 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 04:10:49PM -0700, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: Hi, I am hereby proposing the amendment below to the general resolution entitled Enhance requirements for General resolutions. PROPOSAL START = General

Re: [Amendment] Reaffirm the GR process [rescinded]

2009-03-25 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:42:40PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: Hello developers, I am hereby proposing the amendement below to the General resolution entitled Enhance requirements for General resolutions. PROPOSAL START

Re: [Amendment] Reaffirm current requirements for GR sponsoring

2009-03-25 Thread Frans Pop
Seconded! I know it has been seconded by 5 other DDs already. Fun! Maybe we should just dispense with the voting and just let the highest number of seconds win [1]? /me also watches Kurt scrambling to keep up with the amendmends, seconds and rescinds and would like to note that he seems to be

Re: [Amendment] Reaffirm current requirements for GR sponsoring

2009-03-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 02:12:17AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: Getting seconds is not a vote. It's a low-level check that there is minimum support for an opinion. It's also the most reliable way for a developer to issue a statement of support that will be seen by voters prior to the vote. Many

Re: [Amendment] Reaffirm current requirements for GR sponsoring

2009-03-25 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 02:12:17AM +0100, Frans Pop a écrit : Fun! Maybe we should just dispense with the voting and just let the highest number of seconds win? That sounds like a good idea. Since it is a supermajority vote, I recommend to the proposer to drop the GR if he does not manage to

Re: [Amendment] Reaffirm current requirements for GR sponsoring

2009-03-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl writes: Fun! Maybe we should just dispense with the voting and just let the highest number of seconds win [1]? One of the primary objections to this proposal is that it will be too hard to get the new required number of seconds. It seems quite reasonable to put

Re: [Amendment] Reaffirm current requirements for GR sponsoring

2009-03-25 Thread Frans Pop
Ben Finney wrote: A second is not a vote. That is, it's not a statement that the person prefers that option above all others; it's merely a statement that the person prefers that option to appear on the ballot. Eh, I guess I could have been more obvious than prepending that sentence with Fun!

Re: [Amendment] Reaffirm current requirements for GR sponsoring

2009-03-25 Thread Ben Finney
Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl writes: Eh, I guess I could have been more obvious than prepending that sentence with Fun! to indicate that I was making a joke. But if you'd read on, you'd have seen that I actually completely agree with you […] Maybe I'll go read a dictionary tomorrow and

Re: [Amendment] Reaffirm current requirements for GR sponsoring

2009-03-25 Thread Aníbal Monsalve Salazar
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 06:17:18PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: It's also the most reliable way for a developer to issue a statement of support that will be seen by voters prior to the vote. Many voters don't follow debian-vote and won't follow the pro/con discussions in detail, but the

Re: [Amendment] Reaffirm current requirements for GR sponsoring

2009-03-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 04:10:49PM -0700, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: PROPOSAL START = General Resolutions are an important framework within the Debian Project. While over those years, some problems have arised during the