Re: Results of the Lenny release GR

2009-01-13 Thread Frank Küster
why we have GRs. But we do need, and we do have other ways to live our democracy. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Results of the Lenny release GR

2009-01-11 Thread Frank Küster
. The question is whether it is worth the disadvantages to our users, when we still expect (or hope or something in between) that the files will be released under a DFSG-free license once we manage to attract enough attention from Donald. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) VCD

Re: RFC: General resolution: Clarify the status of the social contract

2008-12-28 Thread Frank Küster
be comparable to Debian as it is. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Bug reports of DFSG violations are tagged ???lenny-ignore????

2008-10-24 Thread Frank Küster
, just look at texlive's most recent RC bugs -- Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) ADFC Miltenberg B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal - Use Cases

2007-06-26 Thread Frank Küster
. It would be great if the non-DD, but DM-members could make an upload in such a case. I'm not sure, though, that *our* team members would be very open to that. I could ask, if you like. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich

Re: %20Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal

2007-06-25 Thread Frank Küster
the patch is being neglected, ask about it on debian-qa. Which could have sped up the fixing of the bug as well as removal of the package... Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Re: %20Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal

2007-06-25 Thread Frank Küster
-- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal

2007-06-24 Thread Frank Küster
their old version, those with new ones should probably rather learn those tools that are currently developped. The only problem is if a long-term user gets a new machine... Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal

2007-06-24 Thread Frank Küster
, and they'd end up in Debian by the next release with minimal required Debian maintainer work. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal

2007-06-24 Thread Frank Küster
have much time frequently Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal

2007-06-24 Thread Frank Küster
from) concepts I did present in a TUG meeting at Oxford in 2000. Interesting - is that talk available somewhere? Neither www.tug.org nor uk.tug.org seem to have it. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal

2007-06-22 Thread Frank Küster
. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

How does NM work? (was: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal)

2007-06-22 Thread Frank Küster
(I think), it was completely different to that. Can you point me to the information what has changed? Or may it be that this depends very much on the AM? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX

Re: Proposal: GR to deal with effects of a personal dispute

2007-05-30 Thread Frank Küster
-- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Re: Q 2 all candidates: Usage of [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2007-03-17 Thread Frank Küster
, this is not specific to the press/news issue - in fact I personally have never found that to be a problem, and I've found Joey someone with whom it's generally fun to work with.) Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian

Re: Question to the candidates: inclusion of the kFreeBSD-* ports

2007-03-04 Thread Frank Küster
happens outside. This leads to the creation of ugly hybrids as dunc-tank. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-03-04 Thread Frank Küster
clear but he most certainly | had the moral right to be involved in dunc-tank. ` So do you think he was doing it as DPL looking for new ways, or as a DD? Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-03-04 Thread Frank Küster
Kalle Kivimaa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm confused. In your other mail you wrote I think you find that *I* wrote what you quoted after this. Uups, sorry. I was really confused. Just forget about it. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-03-04 Thread Frank Küster
, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-03-02 Thread Frank Küster
the fact that our DPL, as soon as he felt the wind blowing in his face, turned his back on the project and founded dunc-tank, out of the control of the project, but with unclear boundary to it, and with him juggling with DPL, DD and personal hats. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule

Re: Question to the candidates: inclusion of the kFreeBSD-* ports

2007-03-01 Thread Frank Küster
-announce/2005/06/msg00012.html I'm puzzled. The mail you cite explains a really simple way to make a source buildable with SElinux on linux, and without on other OSes. How can you take that as an argument for separating the archives? Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule

Re: Questions to all candidates: Release importance, release blockers, release quality

2007-02-28 Thread Frank Küster
of? Currently, the oldest one I find on http://sam.zoy.org/blog/ is from December 11th. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-02-28 Thread Frank Küster
not being paid for computer work at all. So, personally I don't have any strong feelings against funding DDs, by whichever means. I have strong feelings, though, against dunc-tank and our current DPL's behavior in that field. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-02-27 Thread Frank Küster
with that. I don't understand how that relates to the question. dunc-tank was not really going outside Debian and prove them wrong, instead it was going half-outside and forcing a problematic decision, wasn't it? Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding

Re: Question to the candidates: inclusion of the kFreeBSD-* ports

2007-02-27 Thread Frank Küster
start wondering why is he avoiding that part?. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Re: DPL 2007 (Resend)

2007-02-24 Thread Frank Küster
Simon Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, it appears as if my first mail was reflowed at some point, which made the signature go bad. It fails again here... -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX

Re: DPL 2007 (Resend)

2007-02-24 Thread Frank Küster
Martin Zobel-Helas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Sat Feb 24, 2007 at 11:21:38 +0100, Frank Küster wrote: Simon Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, it appears as if my first mail was reflowed at some point, which made the signature go bad. It fails again here

Re: BREAKING NEWS: Debian developers aren't trusted

2007-02-15 Thread Frank Küster
by adding people. Even if nobody had asked so far, we should ask people who seem capable of doing it. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Re: BREAKING NEWS: Debian developers aren't trusted

2007-02-15 Thread Frank Küster
with agreements. Let's see how long it takes until I can't stop myself from adding a but. Thank you for that mail. I'm not going to reply now, maybe later, for fear of not being able to be equally constructive. Or I'll just refer to it one day. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule

Re: BREAKING NEWS: Debian developers aren't trusted

2007-02-14 Thread Frank Küster
that we still have something to do when etch is released: Start making some changes in the project. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Re: BREAKING NEWS: Debian developers aren't trusted

2007-02-14 Thread Frank Küster
Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:34:38PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: Holger Levsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 14 February 2007 20:21, Marc Haber wrote: Judging from broad knowledge, you might send them to /dev/null for maximum effect. Do you

Re: BREAKING NEWS: Debian developers aren't trusted

2007-02-13 Thread Frank Küster
requested these contact addresses to be added to http://www.debian.org/intro/organization. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Re: [GR] DD should be allowed to perform binary-only uploads

2007-02-11 Thread Frank Küster
Kurt Roeckx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 03:27:25PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The error rate on requeue requests that reach me is significant, even from people who are well-informed and involved in the process (e.g., fellow

Re: [GR] DD should be allowed to perform binary-only uploads

2007-02-10 Thread Frank Küster
with -vote.) For my part, it's because a) I'm lazy, b) I'm currently not subscribed to -project or -devel (so please Cc me if you move). Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Re: [GR] DD should be allowed to perform binary-only uploads

2007-02-10 Thread Frank Küster
. And help debugging at least when asked. My experience with that is very bad. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Re: [GR] DD should be allowed to perform binary-only uploads

2007-02-09 Thread Frank Küster
-only uploads, or require bin+src, but discard the binary packages. On the social side, the availability of buildd admins for work and communication needs to be improved, by whatever measures are appropriate. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst

Re: [GR] DD should be allowed to perform binary-only uploads

2007-02-08 Thread Frank Küster
be allowed. Should normally means something: need not in all cases, but really should except if there are strong reasons against. Which seems to be just the current situation, from the point of view of those who have the power to reject binary uploads... Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster

Re: Proposal to delay the decition of the DPL of the withdrawal of the Package Policy Committee delegation

2006-10-27 Thread Frank Küster
no answer in the BTS are fixed soon, only those that he discusses might be tricky, or he reluctant to fix them. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Re: Proposal to delay the decition of the DPL of the withdrawal of the Package Policy Committee delegation

2006-10-27 Thread Frank Küster
, but should take the time for talking. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Re: Proposal to delay the decition of the DPL of the withdrawal of the Package Policy Committee delegation

2006-10-27 Thread Frank Küster
, you should back up this claim with some | references. I have the opposite impression ` Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Re: Proposal to delay the decition of the DPL of the withdrawal of the Package Policy Committee delegation

2006-10-27 Thread Frank Küster
. And both are different to meeting in person or talking on the phone. Should we found a group that collects money to pay the DPL's phone bill if he needs to give certain fellow DDs a call? Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ

Re: Proposal to delay the decition of the DPL of the withdrawal of the Package Policy Committee delegation

2006-10-27 Thread Frank Küster
by others. I repeat what I wrote: I'm asserting nothing of the kind. Ian might be, but I'm not. Sorry, I was confused because you answered as if you could read Ian's mind, so I must have concluded you were the same person. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein

Re: Proposal to delay the decition of the DPL of the withdrawal of the Package Policy Committee delegation

2006-10-26 Thread Frank Küster
if I had, I don't think it would change much. Anthony, I ask you as the DPL, please delay that decision yourself, thus making this stupid voting process unnecessary. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian

Re: [PROPOSAL] Final consensual proposal for the problematic firmware issue in the linux kernel sources.

2006-10-13 Thread Frank Küster
. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Re: [PROPOSAL] Final consensual proposal for the problematic firmware issue in the linux kernel sources.

2006-10-12 Thread Frank Küster
as the installer components (.udebs) used by the debian-installer. END OF PROPOSAL Yup. That one. -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive) pgpl9FF0JEoj8.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Call for votes for GR: : Handling source-less firmware in the Linux kernel

2006-10-09 Thread Frank Küster
, how it comes that it is self-contradictory, and provide a fix for the script that does that. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Re: Call for votes for GR: : Handling source-less firmware in the Linux kernel

2006-10-09 Thread Frank Küster
-tempered. And how about your offering him to proofread the ballot? Or just doing it, since he actually posted it in public for that very purpose? Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Re: [AMENDMENT]: Release Etch now, with source-less but legal and freely licensed firmware

2006-10-05 Thread Frank Küster
. The problem is that several people (also on -legal) have shown evidence that some of the firmware under discussion never was intended to comply with the GPL, for various reasons. I don't feel well with just ignoring this evidence. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein

Re: [AMENDMENT]: Release Etch now, with source-less but legal and freely licensed firmware

2006-10-05 Thread Frank Küster
Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 05 October 2006 11:43, Frank Küster wrote: first of all, I wonder why so few people from the teams involved take part in this discussion. I assume one reason might be that they prefer IRC. However, debian-vote is the list that's supposed

Re: Asking for the ban of Frans Pop from debian-vote ...

2006-10-05 Thread Frank Küster
in this discussion as being not among those who [are] remotely reasonable (with a few exceptions who are mostly forced to stay involved because of their roles in the project) is a personal attack on Sven (and maybe others), what else? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein

Re: Kernel Firmware issue: are GPLed sourceless firmwares legal to distribute ?

2006-10-05 Thread Frank Küster
?) statements by so many people, without trying to sum up on a web page or similar. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Re: [AMENDMENT]: Release Etch now, with source-less but legal and freely licensed firmware

2006-10-05 Thread Frank Küster
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: List masters, this is evidence that Frans is not going to stop this, and as i asked yesterday, i now re-iterate the demand for his ban from debian-vote. Come on, calm down. That one was neither insulting nor attacking. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster

Re: [PROPOSAL] Let's ship all firmwares included inthe pristine upstream kernel tarball in debian/etch.

2006-10-05 Thread Frank Küster
Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, this is at least clearly worded, unambiguous, and if it succeeds will allow to release etch without delay (at least without delay because of firmware problems). It seems this is not true (qlogic), and still might be interpreted, namely as trying

Re: do not modify blobs

2006-10-04 Thread Frank Küster
the fact that I was aware of its existence...), how about typhoon? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Re: Kernel Firmware issue: are GPLed sourceless firmwares legal to distribute ?

2006-10-04 Thread Frank Küster
that, whether in the particular cases there's in fact any doubt, etc. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Re: [AMENDMENT]: Release Etch now, with source-less but legal and freely licensed firmware

2006-10-03 Thread Frank Küster
modification, or if there is no source + | available. However, we still require that the firmware has a + | license that, in principle, allows distribution (possibly under + | conditions we currently cannot fully meet). ` What do you think? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single

Re: [AMENDMENT]: Release Etch now, with source-less but legal and freely licensed firmware

2006-10-03 Thread Frank Küster
. However, see my answer to Anthony Towns. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Re: [AMENDMENT]: Release Etch now, with source-less but legal and freely licensed firmware

2006-10-03 Thread Frank Küster
+ | included in the kernel. However, we still require that the + | firmware has a license that allows distribution. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Re: [AMENDMENT]: Release Etch now, with source-less but legal and freely licensed firmware

2006-10-03 Thread Frank Küster
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 03 Oct 2006 14:09:50 +0200, Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: | 4. We give priority to the timely release of Etch over sorting every - | bit out; for this reason, we will treat removal of sourceless + | bit out

Re: Summary? (Or: my vote is for sale!)

2006-10-03 Thread Frank Küster
to me as well), but there was nothing that I could have done about that. I don't think it's true. It has been pointed out that some of the consequences have already been raised during the discussion, but were overheard. And that's all Adrian and Marc were talking about. Regards, Frank -- Frank

Re: Summary? (Or: my vote is for sale!)

2006-10-03 Thread Frank Küster
, or not at all you, who is to be blamed. manoj tired of being labeled as deceptive, misleading, or abusive of his postiion Maybe that's more in your ear that in people's (my, Marc's) mouth? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ

Re: [AMENDMENT]: Release Etch now, with source-less but legal and freely licensed firmware

2006-09-28 Thread Frank Küster
allowed to do so, and the firmware is | distributed upstream under a license that complies with the DFSG. ` Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive) pgppuD19PhRZ0.pgp Description

Re: [AMENDMENT]: Release Etch now, with source-less but legal and freely licensed firmware

2006-09-28 Thread Frank Küster
to distribute them, and that they are distributed upstream under a license that complies with the DFSG. Hence they can be included if this proposal passes. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Re: Call for votes

2006-09-27 Thread Frank Küster
allowed to do so, and the formware is | distributed under a DFSG free license. ` without or, better, with the editorial changes ;-) suggested by Aníbal. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX

Re: Splitting out Choice #1 from vote_004

2006-09-26 Thread Frank Küster
discussion That looks fine to me. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Re: Splitting out Choice #1 from vote_004

2006-09-26 Thread Frank Küster
one in the first place Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Re: The Sourceless software in the kernel source GR

2006-09-19 Thread Frank Küster
in fact count when in doubt. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Re: Proposal - Defer discussion about SC and firmware until after the Etch release

2006-09-12 Thread Frank Küster
involving any of the proposals made so far. But I'd never rank a proposal higher than further discussion in which *I* declare that I want the SC to be reverted. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX

Re: Firmware Social Contract: GR proposal

2006-09-05 Thread Frank Küster
this poll as an indication that we should revert the SC change, or that we have failed (in fact, we have succeeded to a large extent, just not 100%) or that we are being hypocritical. I also second the rest of Sven's statement ;-) Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein

Re: Firmware Social Contract: GR proposal

2006-09-05 Thread Frank Küster
, even if we do miss our goals. Regards, Frank [1] and that is not only because of firmware, but also because there are still non-free bits hidden somewhere; they have been found in the past months and years, and they're probably going to be found in the future. -- Frank Küster Single Molecule

Re: Firmware Social Contract: GR proposal

2006-09-05 Thread Frank Küster
of a failure if we release etch in summer 2008, without non-free firmware in main? I'm sure you wouldn't; just the argument would be phrased differently (drop the repeatedly, replace meets by make a release that meets and extended by incredibly long). Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule

Re: Firmware Social Contract: GR proposal

2006-09-05 Thread Frank Küster
. The key point seems to be that you want to renew a discussion that, according to many's perception, has already taken place sufficiently, while you said somewhere that it hadn't... Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich

Re: Let's vote ...

2006-09-05 Thread Frank Küster
and then implement the resulting course of action. [...] So, let's vote on this proposal, and then we can either continue to discuss this without having to deal with the etch release deadlines, or delay etch appropriately while we first discuss a solution and then implement it. Seconded ;-) -- Frank Küster

Re: Proposal: Source code is important for all works in Debian, and required for programmatic ones

2006-08-25 Thread Frank Küster
users and our perspective. -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive) pgpHgm25o7zAm.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Proposal: Source code is important for all works in Debian, and required for programmatic ones

2006-08-25 Thread Frank Küster
Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: René van Bevern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I second this proposal independently of the presence of the D clause, although I prefer it being not removed. Same for me Ah, yes, and to make things clear: While I second this proposal, I still think

Re: Constitutional Amendment GR: Handling assets for the project

2006-07-24 Thread Frank Küster
read it) does not back Bernhard's interpretation. There's been a sensible request to give one of the entities which this amendment talks about the opportunity to comment. I find your reaction to this very strange. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding

Re: Constitutional Amendment GR: Handling assets for the project

2006-07-21 Thread Frank Küster
occasionally, instead of referring to the particular place where SPI is the last resort for decisions? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Re: Vote analysis

2006-04-10 Thread Frank Küster
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au wrote: If I remember how my script works well enough to use it correctly, the clone candidates (ones that a lot of voters rank next to each other) were: 326 votes (77%), Ari and Ted That's very unfair to Zeke. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single

Re: Questions to the candidates

2006-03-13 Thread Frank Küster
is missing (e.g. buildd administration). Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)

Re: Questions to the candidates

2006-03-13 Thread Frank Küster
Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frank Küster wrote: 5. Do you see any services for our users or developers missing or poorly maintained? If so, which and what do you plan to do to fix this? I'm not directly aware of anything important missing at the moment. I know that we

Debian Backup Server (was: Questions to the candidates)

2006-03-13 Thread Frank Küster
? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)

Re: Question to all candidates about stable point releases

2006-03-12 Thread Frank Küster
in the project for the past few months. See, for instance: [... list snipped ] Public communication is important for people in key positions, but personal communication, especially when an answer has been requested explicitly, is even more. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy

NM process (was: Question to all candidates about the NM process)

2006-03-07 Thread Frank Küster
immediate feedback on my achievements (and not via the BTS...), and to take it serious. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)

Re: NM process

2006-03-07 Thread Frank Küster
was wrong at the time when I passed [1]? Frank [1] https://nm.debian.org/nmstatus.php?email=frank%40kuesterei.ch -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)

Re: Reflections about the questions for the candidates

2006-03-05 Thread Frank Küster
machines (after the CVS corruption last year) and never got any answer. At least one other person told me he had asked about the same, so this would have deserved a public answer. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian

Re: Reflections about the questions for the candidates

2006-03-05 Thread Frank Küster
Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-03-05 18:48]: I also asked the DPL a question about backups of the development machines (after the CVS corruption last year) and never got any answer. FWIW, there is a dedicated backup server now. I don't know

Re: Reflections about the questions for the candidates

2006-03-05 Thread Frank Küster
announced yet; or he had assigned one of the DPL team members to do that. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)

Re: Question for all candidates

2006-03-04 Thread Frank Küster
mean we'd rather not reelect you, because in the second year that would be replaced by Liberté Égalité Guillotine? ;-) Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)

Re: Question for all candidates about their Plattform pages

2006-03-03 Thread Frank Küster
Jutta Wrage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. One of the candidates uses pictures to illustrate his platform, but does not give an alternative description for lynx users and blind people - accident? I didn't see any pictures in firefox, either. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule

Re: Code of conduct, question to all candidates

2006-03-03 Thread Frank Küster
or not? Would the code be a good thing, or would it necessarily be a threat to freedom of speech, and stifle innovation? Should any kind of behavior be allowed on Debian mailing lists? And, do you think this code of conduct should be enforced? How? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single

Re: GFDL GR, vote please!

2006-02-10 Thread Frank Küster
of applying this test to a GFDL'ed document is that it is non-free. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)

Re: DFSG4 and combined works

2006-02-10 Thread Frank Küster
Yavor Doganov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 09 Feb 2006 19:15:08 +0100, Frank Küster wrote: And then, has nobody ever raised the rumor that the purpose of this GFDL is non-free hullaboo is just to make sure that we will have our non-free section, for ever? I feel it the same way

Re: DFSG4 and combined works

2006-02-09 Thread Frank Küster
that the purpose of this GFDL is non-free hullaboo is just to make sure that we will have our non-free section, for ever? I'm going to do something sensible now, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)

Re: Democracy in Debian

2006-02-07 Thread Frank Küster
_did_ you mean? The procedure to replace the secretary is suboptimal, from a democracy point of view. And who do you think ought to run that vote? Well, e.g. the TC. I don't care enough about it to propose any changes, though. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy

Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-07 Thread Frank Küster
of GFDL will be satisfied. With the effect that the reference card is no longer a reference card (but maybe a couple of cards, or so). In other words: You can't turn the manual into a reference card. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie

Democracy in Debian (was: Anton's amendment)

2006-02-03 Thread Frank Küster
, leader and SPI board is an other characteristic of a democratic organization. If anyone wants to follow up on this, it's probably better to move to -project, but in that case please Cc me, I'm not subscribed there. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f

Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-03 Thread Frank Küster
. He's open to be convinced, but for sure not if you start telling him that he doesn't know his business at all. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)

Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-03 Thread Frank Küster
holder, to be non-free. I am not aware of any works in Debian under such a license. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)

Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-03 Thread Frank Küster
your whims, then your modifications are usefull and freedom 3 gives you the right to distribute them. Removing lengthy political rants is clearly a real need if it comes to reducing space. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ

Re: A clarification for my interpretation of GFDL

2006-02-03 Thread Frank Küster
you have been proven wrong by the example or until nobody cares enough to further discuss your statements. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)

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