Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?

2013-04-03 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Russ Allbery (Cc to owner@bugs, M-F-T to -project.) Note that we already did do something about it by deprecating close in the BTS in favor of sending a real email message to -done that is copied to the submitter. The Debian BTS now nags the maintainer about telling the submitter

Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?

2013-04-03 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On 03.04.2013 06:09, Chris Knadle wrote: On Tuesday, April 02, 2013 20:34:28, Russ Allbery wrote: Note that we already did do something about it by deprecating close in the BTS in favor of sending a real email message to -done that is copied to the submitter. The Debian BTS now nags the

Re: [all candidates] Debian as an FSF Free Software Distribution

2013-04-03 Thread Ian Jackson
Wouter Verhelst writes (Re: [all candidates] Debian as an FSF Free Software Distribution): Personally, I think we shouldn't be worried about the FSF's opinion regarding the freeness of our distribution any more than the FSF is worried about our opinion of the GFDL. My starting point is that

Re: [all candidates] on distribution-wide changes and scalability

2013-04-03 Thread Ian Jackson
Lucas Nussbaum writes (Re: [all candidates] on distribution-wide changes and scalability): On 14/03/13 at 17:55 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: - Debian should decide to use a single VCS (say, Git), for all packages, uniform repository structure and work-flow, and give by default

Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?

2013-04-03 Thread Ian Jackson
Chris Knadle writes (Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?): On Tuesday, April 02, 2013 13:53:24, Ian Jackson wrote: The purpose of a bug report is not to help solve the submitter's problem. ... No, I don't agree with this. I understand that this reteoric helps explain

Re: [all candidates] Debian as an FSF Free Software Distribution

2013-04-03 Thread Wouter Verhelst
[your mail-to-news gateway seems to keep the Newsgroup header in the mail, which confuses my MUA. Dunno if that's a bug, but you might want to look into it] On 03-04-13 14:38, Ian Jackson wrote: Wouter Verhelst writes (Re: [all candidates] Debian as an FSF Free Software Distribution):

Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?

2013-04-03 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes: From the point of view of the bug reporter, the message the DD has sent (whether intended or not) is I'm not even going to dignify this with a response. *click* It's not /only/ this rudeness that's the problem, though; the bug reporter has

[all candidates] the release process

2013-04-03 Thread Jonathan Dowland
What are the candidates opinion on the current release process? Can it be improved? What role should the DPL play in such work? Thanks - with apologies for raising this at a release-sensitive time, but obviously it has to be at a vote-appropriate timeā€¦ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: [all candidates] the release process

2013-04-03 Thread Moray Allan
On 2013-04-03 09:38, Jonathan Dowland wrote: What are the candidates opinion on the current release process? Can it be improved? What role should the DPL play in such work? Thanks - with apologies for raising this at a release-sensitive time, but obviously it has to be at a vote-appropriate

Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?

2013-04-03 Thread Chris Knadle
On Wednesday, April 03, 2013 09:40:50, Ian Jackson wrote: Chris Knadle writes (Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?): On Tuesday, April 02, 2013 13:53:24, Ian Jackson wrote: The purpose of a bug report is not to help solve the submitter's problem. ... No, I don't

Re: [all candidates] the release process

2013-04-03 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On 3 Apr 2013, at 17:29, Moray Allan mo...@sermisy.org wrote: The campaign period already finished a few days ago Yes, I was aware of that when I posted, but RL interfered with me asking prior to voting opening. I sought advice as to whether it was appropriate to ask further Qs and got a

Re: [all candidates] the release process

2013-04-03 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 06:36:14PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On 3 Apr 2013, at 17:29, Moray Allan mo...@sermisy.org wrote: The campaign period already finished a few days ago Yes, I was aware of that when I posted, but RL interfered with me asking prior to voting opening. I sought