Firmware

2009-05-01 Thread Luk Claes
Hi As probably many of you know, the most heard criticism from users and press on Lenny's release is lost hardware support because of missing firmware. Users and press are complaining that their servers don't have network anymore after an upgrade or that their notebooks cannot be installed

Re: Firmware

2009-05-01 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Luk Claes said: What do people think of a new vote regarding the status of firmware? Much as I'm not totally ready to watch/have this argument again so soon, I thank you for bringing it up early in the release cycle. I'd personally like to put this one to bed one

Re: Firmware

2009-05-01 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 11:48:58AM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: What do people think of a new vote regarding the status of firmware? One of the options can probably be Peter Palfrader's proposal [1]. I'm very much in favor of having this vote early in the release cycle, and I was pondering about

Supermajority first? (was: Re: Firmware)

2009-05-01 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, May 01, 2009 at 01:58:43PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit : I'm very much in favor of having this vote early in the release cycle, Hi all, There were discussions started on the supermajority requirement, that unfortunately were unconclusive (20090302002303.gm29...@matthew.ath.cx),

Re: Supermajority first?

2009-05-01 Thread Luk Claes
Charles Plessy wrote: Le Fri, May 01, 2009 at 01:58:43PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit : I'm very much in favor of having this vote early in the release cycle, Hi all, There were discussions started on the supermajority requirement, that unfortunately were unconclusive

Re: Supermajority first?

2009-05-01 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 03:52:47PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: Charles Plessy wrote: There were discussions started on the supermajority requirement, that unfortunately were unconclusive (20090302002303.gm29...@matthew.ath.cx), http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2009/03/msg3.html

Re: Supermajority first?

2009-05-01 Thread Luk Claes
Kurt Roeckx wrote: On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 03:52:47PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: Charles Plessy wrote: There were discussions started on the supermajority requirement, that unfortunately were unconclusive (20090302002303.gm29...@matthew.ath.cx),

Re: Supermajority first?

2009-05-01 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 04:20:21PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: Continuing discussions about the supermajority requirements before going to the firmware is probably not a bad idea. I see the point of asking the supermajority vote to be dealt with before voting on firmware. However, I don't see it

Overriding vs Amending vs Position statement

2009-05-01 Thread Luk Claes
Hi There seem to be some disagreements about the terms in the subject. As far as I'm concerned it's pretty clear though and would not need any vote to clarify: Overriding is only used in combination with decisions. You cannot override a document or its interpretation/meaning. You can only

Re: Supermajority first?

2009-05-01 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: For instance, it would be very useful to know whether the current secretary would consider Peter's proposal on firmware to require super majority or not. If the secretary does _not_ think it will imply supermajority, it would be pointless to delay the vote on the

Re: Overriding vs Amending vs Position statement

2009-05-01 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 01 May 2009, Luk Claes wrote: A position statement is a decided on proposal that clarifies the position of the Debian project, but does not explicitly amend a foundation document. [...] So I don't really see what we should vote on unless someone disagrees with above interpretations?

Re: Firmware

2009-05-01 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
On Fri, 2009-05-01 at 13:58 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 11:48:58AM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: What do people think of a new vote regarding the status of firmware? One of the options can probably be Peter Palfrader's proposal [1]. I'm very much in favor of having

Re: Overriding vs Amending vs Position statement

2009-05-01 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Fri May 01 11:56, Don Armstrong wrote: So I don't really see what we should vote on unless someone disagrees with above interpretations? The only question resides with the effect of passing such position statements. Without modifying foundation documents or the constitution, they are

Re: Overriding vs Amending vs Position statement

2009-05-01 Thread Luk Claes
Matthew Johnson wrote: On Fri May 01 11:56, Don Armstrong wrote: So I don't really see what we should vote on unless someone disagrees with above interpretations? The only question resides with the effect of passing such position statements. Without modifying foundation documents or the

Re: Supermajority first?

2009-05-01 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 06:43:56PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: For instance, it would be very useful to know whether the current secretary would consider Peter's proposal on firmware to require super majority or not. If the secretary does _not_ think it will imply supermajority, it

Draft vote on constitutional issues

2009-05-01 Thread Matthew Johnson
As suggested [0] I think we should clarify these issues before any other votes. As such I'd like to suggest a draft for the vote. I'm proposing several options for a couple of reasons. Several of them I would rank above further discussion, but I also want to make sure that there is an option for

Re: Supermajority first?

2009-05-01 Thread Luk Claes
Kurt Roeckx wrote: On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 06:43:56PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: For instance, it would be very useful to know whether the current secretary would consider Peter's proposal on firmware to require super majority or not. If the secretary does _not_ think it will imply

Re: Draft vote on constitutional issues

2009-05-01 Thread Luk Claes
Matthew Johnson wrote: As suggested [0] I think we should clarify these issues before any other votes. As such I'd like to suggest a draft for the vote. I'm proposing several options for a couple of reasons. Several of them I would rank above further discussion, but I also want to make sure

Re: Firmware

2009-05-01 Thread Joey Schulze
Luk Claes wrote: Hi As probably many of you know, the most heard criticism from users and press on Lenny's release is lost hardware support because of missing firmware. Users and press are complaining that their servers don't have network anymore after an upgrade or that their

Re: Overriding vs Amending vs Position statement

2009-05-01 Thread Luk Claes
Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Fri, May 01 2009, Don Armstrong wrote: On Fri, 01 May 2009, Luk Claes wrote: A position statement is a decided on proposal that clarifies the position of the Debian project, but does not explicitly amend a foundation document. [...] So I don't really see what we

Re: Overriding vs Amending vs Position statement

2009-05-01 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 01 May 2009, Manoj Srivastava wrote: If the statements are in contradiction of the foundation document (which is the case in a couple of prior situations), then are you saying that anything in the foundation documents can ve worked around by putting out a position statement, and have

Re: Draft vote on constitutional issues

2009-05-01 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Sat May 02 00:32, Luk Claes wrote: I think trying to propose many options together is very wrong as you are very probably not objective for all the options nor will you be able to word it properly for the ones that do care about an option you don't really care about. I would vote all of

Re: Overriding vs Amending vs Position statement

2009-05-01 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Sat May 02 00:52, Luk Claes wrote: It would be a clear indication that the foundation document should get an update or that the postition statement should get dropped again. I think Manoj's point is that if voting some option X (a position statement in conflict with an FD) means that we

Re: Overriding vs Amending vs Position statement

2009-05-01 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 11:54:15PM +0100, Matthew Johnson wrote: On Sat May 02 00:52, Luk Claes wrote: It would be a clear indication that the foundation document should get an update or that the postition statement should get dropped again. I think Manoj's point is that if voting some

Re: Overriding vs Amending vs Position statement

2009-05-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, May 01 2009, Don Armstrong wrote: Only as binding as we as a group consider them to be. Hmm. Certainly puts the social contract in a new light, though. Since the language they're written in is ambiguous, we can have reasonable differences of opinion as to what the foundation

Re: Overriding vs Amending vs Position statement

2009-05-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, May 01 2009, Steve Langasek wrote: On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 11:54:15PM +0100, Matthew Johnson wrote: On Sat May 02 00:52, Luk Claes wrote: It would be a clear indication that the foundation document should get an update or that the postition statement should get dropped again. I

Re: Overriding vs Amending vs Position statement

2009-05-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, May 01 2009, Luk Claes wrote: Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Fri, May 01 2009, Don Armstrong wrote: On Fri, 01 May 2009, Luk Claes wrote: A position statement is a decided on proposal that clarifies the position of the Debian project, but does not explicitly amend a foundation

Re: Overriding vs Amending vs Position statement

2009-05-01 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 01 May 2009, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Fri, May 01 2009, Don Armstrong wrote: Only as binding as we as a group consider them to be. Hmm. Certainly puts the social contract in a new light, though. It really shouldn't; as a group we decide whether we're going to uphold the social

Re: Firmware

2009-05-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 6:10 AM, Joey Schulze j...@infodrom.org wrote: I would rather like to keep binary firmware blobs outside of Debian/main and maintain them in Debian/non-free with improved and easy ways to load them during the installation. This is what appears to be happening in Linux

Re: Overriding vs Amending vs Position statement

2009-05-01 Thread Ben Finney
Don Armstrong d...@debian.org writes: On Fri, 01 May 2009, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Fri, May 01 2009, Don Armstrong wrote: Only as binding as we as a group consider them to be. Hmm. Certainly puts the social contract in a new light, though. It really shouldn't; as a group we