Hi Mario,
On 18/03/13 at 12:37 +0100, Mario Lang wrote:
Hi.
To make a rather complicated and long story short: Accessibility of
graphical user interfaces in Debian has taken a slight step backward
with the GNOME 3 rewrite. Squeeze was more stable regarding this.
While discussing this
On 18/03/13 at 19:41 -0400, anarcat wrote:
On 2013-03-11, Moray Allan wrote:
When to release: I would also note that we should continue to be
flexible about -ignore tags where appropriate. In some cases
leaving a package in the release with RC bugs is more useful to users
than removing
Hi,
On 18/03/13 at 11:23 +0100, Mònica Ramírez Arceda wrote:
Hi,
I would like to know your opinion about this graph (thanks Francesca!):
http://blog.zouish.org/posts/dw/
Note that I'm not asking for a way to recruit women (there are already
efforts on that). I would like to know if you
On 2013-03-18 14:37, Mario Lang wrote:
While discussing this topic on IRC with other Debian people I was
kind
of shocked to read that basically every feature can be dropped
anytime,
and since accessibility is for a very small user group, that user
group
suffering from big rewrites is normal
Stefano Zacchiroli z...@debian.org writes:
Some of the longest -devel thread in recent years have been about
Debian's (default) init system: SysV, SystemD, Upstart, OpenRC, etc.
Despite folklore, I don't think those thread have been (entirely)
trollish, they all hint at a concrete problem:
anarcat anar...@debian.org writes:
You all have an impressive technical curriculum. Your deeds in Debian
speak for themselves. However, the role of a project leader is unusually
non-technical. In fact, you will have to abandon significant technical
tasks to tend to more administrative or
Paul Tagliamonte paul...@debian.org writes:
I'd ask the DPL candidates to speak a bit about how they intend to
represent Debian externally -- both in terms out downstream outreach, as
well as upstream (or even side-stream) relations.
Like I expressed earlier, elsewhere, I believe that
Hello,
Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org writes:
The Debian ecosystem includes many economical actors, be it companies
or individuals, but we tend to hide those aspects as if they didn't
exist.
Well, we have the debian-companies[1] list, we also have a partners
page[2], and the
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 10:17:41PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 10:39:17PM +0300, Moray Allan wrote:
It appears to me that some DPLs^Wpeople may merely be asking questions
that they find interesting and would like to see discussed. While
it's nice to see these
Gergely Nagy dijo [Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 01:32:32PM +0100]:
I see people around me teach their children to use and control
computers, to build things with them, even before they learn to
write. They have their toys, they build stuff, sometimes they
unknowingly write programs - before the age of
Lucas Nussbaum dijo [Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 07:44:32AM +0100]:
I would like to know your opinion about this graph (thanks Francesca!):
http://blog.zouish.org/posts/dw/
(...)
This graph is a very interesting one. As some of my past actions in
Debian have shown, I like data and statistics,
On 19/03/13 at 19:28 +0100, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
In fact, campaigning period has always been an occasion to discuss big
issues, as you put it, and it would be sad to pass on the occasion.
And personally, I consider that is a false direction in the campaigning
period.
Yes, but the real
Hi Moray,
if you are ellected as DPL, will you stay Debconf chair, which is a
delegation you got from the current DPL? How can you tell the project
which decission you do as DPL and which as Debconf chair?
In your platform you only say you might to less for Debconf while being
DPL.
Cheers,
On 2013-03-19 22:34, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote:
if you are ellected as DPL, will you stay Debconf chair, which is a
delegation you got from the current DPL? How can you tell the project
which decission you do as DPL and which as Debconf chair?
In your platform you only say you might to less for
Hi,
On 18/03/13 at 13:55 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
Some of the longest -devel thread in recent years have been about
Debian's (default) init system: SysV, SystemD, Upstart, OpenRC, etc.
Despite folklore, I don't think those thread have been (entirely)
trollish, they all hint at a
Rhonda
And personally, I consider that is a false direction in the campaigning
period. Addressing big issues isn't something the DPL has more power
for than any other DD-- [...]
Sure they do - we've seen DPLs call things consensus when that's very
unclear to me and invoke their power to Make
* Lucas Nussbaum lu...@debian.org [2013-03-19 07:44:32 CET]:
But it's also about how we see our project. I would like Debian to be
a very welcoming project, and I hate the fact that it's harder for some
groups to get involved.
Given that the context of this statement is lack of women in
Hi!
Lucas wrote in his plateform:
For example, we have been providing a fairly good rolling release for
almost 13 years with testing, but we totally fail at advertising it as
something supported and usable by end users.
Even if a dedicated team is supposed to care about security in
Dear candidates,
In the words of Lars [*]:
We're not very good at dealing with situations where a few individuals
are dominating the discussion by being loud, insistent, and unwilling to
budge
or to give any credence to opposing views. I don't know what to do about
that,
but we
Gergely Nagy alger...@madhouse-project.org writes:
Stefano Zacchiroli z...@debian.org writes:
Some of the longest -devel thread in recent years have been about
Debian's (default) init system: SysV, SystemD, Upstart, OpenRC, etc.
Despite folklore, I don't think those thread have been
On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 11:39:29PM +0100, Jérémy Bobbio wrote:
3. One test I've been taught to use to reason about free software is the
Desert Island test [2] which starts by:
Imagine a castaway on a desert island with a solar-powered
computer.
Obviously, software that are
Hi,
I did not manage to formulate a better subject... the question is about what
should be the usual way to end our formal membership in the Debian project.
In Debian, we stay member until we die or quit (or very exceptionally, are
expelled). The consequence is that it is hard to evaluate how
Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org (20/03/2013):
In Debian, we stay member until we die or quit (or very exceptionally, are
expelled). […]
Or spotted as being MIA. This might help:
http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/MIA
Mraw,
KiBi.
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On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 3:14 AM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
Maybe we could discriminate on the package's priorities. For example,
about a third of the 49 packages *really* blocking the release (not
waiting for a transition) are from extra[2]. Only 5 bugs affect
required, important or standard
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