Re: "done with consensus decisionmaking", "war", "rearguard battles" [was: Re: REISSUED CfV: General Resolution: Init system coupling]

2014-11-09 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Sun, Nov 09, 2014 at 12:22:07PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: > What's the procedure for removing someone from the technical > committee? An alternative to picking on one committee member would be to disband the current committee entirely, with an explicit rider stating that the action should not

Re: Plan B for kfreebsd

2014-11-09 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 06:05:25PM +1100, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Debian kFreeBSD looks dead in the water and that won't change whilst so > many DDs are so pro systemd -- I think that systemd was the final nail > in the coffin. It won't change so long as people don't work on it. In a reply to a

Re: Plan B for kfreebsd

2014-11-09 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On 2014-11-10 7:05, Andrew McGlashan wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi Steven, On 10/11/2014 10:15 AM, Steven Chamberlain wrote: Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: We discussed kfreebsd at length, but are not satisfied that a release with Jessie will be of sufficient quality. W

Re: Unsubscribing - let's use mailing list bans more frequently.

2014-11-09 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Charles Plessy: > I just suddenly wondered... How come Debian lists are trolled about systemd > and > not the lists on FreeDesktop.org ? Probably because instigating yet another endless discussion, and thereby preventing some systemd proponents from getting more useful work done, is more lik

Re: Plan B for kfreebsd

2014-11-09 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi Steven, On 10/11/2014 10:15 AM, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: >> We discussed kfreebsd at length, but are not satisfied that a >> release with Jessie will be of sufficient quality. We are dropping >> it as an official rele

Re: "done with consensus decisionmaking", "war", "rearguard battles" [was: Re: REISSUED CfV: General Resolution: Init system coupling]

2014-11-09 Thread Gergely Nagy
> "Josh" == Josh Triplett writes: Josh> For the sake of clarity, I'd like to point out that I didn't start this Josh> thread solely because of a single IRC log, but rather because of a Josh> pattern of behavior over the last year that shows no signs of Josh> changing. Regard

Unsubscribing - let's use mailing list bans more frequently.

2014-11-09 Thread Charles Plessy
I just suddenly wondered... How come Debian lists are trolled about systemd and not the lists on FreeDesktop.org ? I do not have an answer but in the short term I am unsubscribing from debian-vote and maybe debian-devel later, until we as a project find a way to fix our communication channels, whi

Re: "done with consensus decisionmaking", "war", "rearguard battles" [was: Re: REISSUED CfV: General Resolution: Init system coupling]

2014-11-09 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Sun, Nov 09, 2014 at 12:22:07PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: > What's the procedure for removing someone from the technical committee? Option 1: Agreement of DPL and an 1:1 majority in TC (6.2.5). Option 2: GR with a 2:1 majority to act with TC powers (4.1.4). Option 3: GR with an 1:1 majority to

"Lennart Poettering Linux" -- some real eye openers here ... don't be blindsided!

2014-11-09 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Forwarding a message "as is" from another mailing list ... very relevant to Linux and the systemd dilemma. begin forward... http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-May/019657.html On Fri, 30.05.14 04:32, Michael Biebl (mbiebl at gmail.com) wrote: > > 2014-05-30 4:26 GMT+02:00

Re: "done with consensus decisionmaking", "war", "rearguard battles" [was: Re: REISSUED CfV: General Resolution: Init system coupling]

2014-11-09 Thread Josh Triplett
For the sake of clarity, I'd like to point out that I didn't start this thread solely because of a single IRC log, but rather because of a pattern of behavior over the last year that shows no signs of changing. On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 01:48:42AM +0100, Bas Wijnen wrote: > On Sun, Nov 09, 2014 at 1

Re: "done with consensus decisionmaking", "war", "rearguard battles" [was: Re: REISSUED CfV: General Resolution: Init system coupling]

2014-11-09 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Sun, Nov 09, 2014 at 12:22:07PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: > [CCed to a wider audience, but reply-to and mail-followup-to set to > avoid a prolonged cross-list thread.] > Sune Vuorela wrote: > > I have a hard time assuming good faith from people who are at war. > > Thank you for calling atten

Re: Maximum term for tech ctte members

2014-11-09 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Nov 09, 2014 at 03:08:39PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum a écrit : > > When replacing two members at a time, it might be a bit difficult to > take that desirable balance into consideration. For example, if there are > three candidates A - B - C in the shortlist, and A and B are basically > clones

Re: "done with consensus decisionmaking", "war", "rearguard battles" [was: Re: REISSUED CfV: General Resolution: Init system coupling]

2014-11-09 Thread Andreas Barth
* Don Armstrong (d...@debian.org) [141109 22:22]: > On Sun, 09 Nov 2014, Josh Triplett wrote: > > (After repetition of the exact wording of the "We aren't convinced" > > wording that ended up passing, and people pointing out that it *will* be > > interpreted as TC opposition to the switch, which su

Re: "done with consensus decisionmaking", "war", "rearguard battles" [was: Re: REISSUED CfV: General Resolution: Init system coupling]

2014-11-09 Thread Josh Triplett
[Please CC me on replies.] Don Armstrong wrote: > On Sun, 09 Nov 2014, Josh Triplett wrote: > > (After repetition of the exact wording of the "We aren't convinced" > > wording that ended up passing, and people pointing out that it *will* be > > interpreted as TC opposition to the switch, which sur

Re: "done with consensus decisionmaking", "war", "rearguard battles" [was: Re: REISSUED CfV: General Resolution: Init system coupling]

2014-11-09 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sun, 09 Nov 2014, Josh Triplett wrote: > (After repetition of the exact wording of the "We aren't convinced" > wording that ended up passing, and people pointing out that it *will* be > interpreted as TC opposition to the switch, which sure enough it did...) The "we are currently skeptical" wor

Re: "done with consensus decisionmaking", "war", "rearguard battles" [was: Re: REISSUED CfV: General Resolution: Init system coupling]

2014-11-09 Thread Josh Triplett
[CCed to a wider audience, but reply-to and mail-followup-to set to avoid a prolonged cross-list thread.] Sune Vuorela wrote: > I have a hard time assuming good faith from people who are at war. > > /Sune > > [17:35:34] > http://meetbot.debian.net/debian-ctte/2014/debian-ctte.2014-10-30-17.00.lo

Re: Maximum term for tech ctte members

2014-11-09 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Lucas" == Lucas Nussbaum writes: Lucas> Hi, Lucas> On 21/10/14 at 17:41 +, Anthony Towns wrote: >> Membership of the Technical Committee is automatically reviewed >> on the 1st of January of each year. At this time, the terms of >> the N most senior members automati

Something Constructive out of Disgust and Rearguard Battles

2014-11-09 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Holger" == Holger Levsen writes: Holger> I'm also utterly disgusted that this GR was proposed by Ian, Holger> someone who perceives himself as loser of the tech-ctte Holger> decision (instead of accepting a group decission of a group Holger> which he is part of) and thus d

Re: REISSUED CfV: General Resolution: Init system coupling

2014-11-09 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2014-11-09, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > (I'm only answering the first part of your mail -- I don't think that > it's fair to alienate Ian and the supporters of Choice 1. I believe > that they are all acting in good faith, pushing for what they think is > best for Debian, and that their opinions sho

Re: REISSUED CfV: General Resolution: Init system coupling

2014-11-09 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Holger Levsen: > After reading https://www.debian.org/vote/2014/vote_003 in full again […] > […] > I'm also utterly disgusted that this GR was proposed by Ian […] Everybody please take a step back and read >> https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2014/11/msg2.html before continuing th

Re: REISSUED CfV: General Resolution: Init system coupling

2014-11-09 Thread Arno Töll
Hi, On 09.11.2014 15:08, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > We have had scenarios in Debian where maintainers, tired of receiving > bug reports about problems on a specific architecture, decided to drop > support for that architecture from their packages. True. Yet we didn't forbid them by GR to do so becau

Re: REISSUED CfV: General Resolution: Init system coupling

2014-11-09 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 09/11/14 at 14:42 +0100, Arno Töll wrote: > Hi, > > On 09.11.2014 13:36, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > With Choice 3, a package maintainer can decide to support only an init > > system that isn't the default if the maintainer considers it a > > prerequisite for its proper operation and no patches >

Re: Maximum term for tech ctte members

2014-11-09 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, On 21/10/14 at 17:41 +, Anthony Towns wrote: > Membership of the Technical Committee is automatically reviewed on > the 1st of January of each year. At this time, the terms of the N > most senior members automatically expire provided they were appointed > at least 4.5 years ago. N is d

Re: REISSUED CfV: General Resolution: Init system coupling

2014-11-09 Thread Arno Töll
Hi, On 09.11.2014 13:36, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > With Choice 3, a package maintainer can decide to support only an init > system that isn't the default if the maintainer considers it a > prerequisite for its proper operation and no patches > or other derived works exist in order to support other i

Re: REISSUED CfV: General Resolution: Init system coupling

2014-11-09 Thread The Wanderer
On 11/09/2014 at 05:26 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Sun, Nov 09, 2014 at 04:27:21AM +0100, Michael Meskes wrote: > >> I'd assume he was referring to: >> >>> If my GR passes we will only have to have this conversation if >>> those who are outvoted do not respect the project's collective >>> d

Re: REISSUED CfV: General Resolution: Init system coupling

2014-11-09 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 09/11/14 at 13:16 +0100, David Weinehall wrote: > I too value standardization. Judging by decisions taking by other large > distributions and upstream development, a fifth, "only support systemd > as init system" would thus have been the most sensible option. But for > political reasons that's

Re: REISSUED CfV: General Resolution: Init system coupling

2014-11-09 Thread David Weinehall
On Sun, Nov 09, 2014 at 11:34:20AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: [snip] > But actually, I dislike (3) even more, for the reasons detailed in the > subthread at [4]. I value standardization a lot. I think that this is > one of the main things that Debian provides. (3) is a big step towards > diminis

Re: Maximum term for tech ctte members

2014-11-09 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 04/11/14 at 15:54 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > - me and Antony discussed various wording possibilities, including at > least two variants: a more mathematical one and one fully in prose. > I've stated my preference among the two, and asked others to comment > on that specific matter.

Re: Maximum term for tech ctte members

2014-11-09 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Tue, November 4, 2014 15:54, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > In the meantime, here is where I think people could help with the > preparation work that needs to be completed before sending out a call > for seconds (if one wants to minimize the risk of fuckups, that is): > > - me and Antony discussed

Re: REISSUED CfV: General Resolution: Init system coupling

2014-11-09 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi Holger, (I'm only answering the first part of your mail -- I don't think that it's fair to alienate Ian and the supporters of Choice 1. I believe that they are all acting in good faith, pushing for what they think is best for Debian, and that their opinions should be respected.) Here is how I

Re: REISSUED CfV: General Resolution: Init system coupling

2014-11-09 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Sun, Nov 09, 2014 at 04:27:21AM +0100, Michael Meskes wrote: > I'd assume he was referring to: > > > If my GR passes we will only have to have this conversation if those > > who are outvoted do not respect the project's collective decision. > > > If my GR fails I expect a series of bitter rear