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

2007-06-01 Thread Hamish Moffatt
or second draft General Resolutions and 3 propose themselves as a Project Leader candidate in elections. FWIW a suspended developer doesn't have such powers anyway. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: A question to the Debian community ... (Was: Question for Sam Hocevar Gay Nigger Association of America)

2007-05-11 Thread Hamish Moffatt
versus Aj versus d-i versus the DAMs, the thread should cease immediately. (And perhaps all parties involved should be executed. Starting with me for getting sucked in.) Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: A question to the Debian community ... (Was: Question for Sam Hocevar Gay Nigger Association of America)

2007-05-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 06:32:41PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 11:45:03PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 08:21:15AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: Well, i got suspended for a year, because i dared present myself as DPL, No, that's simply not true

Re: A question to the Debian community ... (Was: Question for Sam Hocevar Gay Nigger Association of America)

2007-05-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
for a year, because i dared present myself as DPL, No, that's simply not true. You have delusions of grandeur. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bits from the 2IC

2007-02-20 Thread Hamish Moffatt
this year (as he did last year), and that's all. Feel free to send a Bits from Gustavo message to d-d-a if you like. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: BREAKING NEWS: Debian developers aren't trusted

2007-02-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 11:33:19AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 11:11:55PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 06:00:12PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 06:35:07PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Uh, what's this if not peer

Re: BREAKING NEWS: Debian developers aren't trusted

2007-02-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 09:15:17PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 07:12:31PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Then you don't see any conflict of interest between the arm buildd admin and the ftp-master? No, I don't. I don't see any conflict of interest in being a package

Re: BREAKING NEWS: Debian developers aren't trusted

2007-02-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
was not accurate I thought my intended meaning was fairly clear.) Thanks Frank. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: BREAKING NEWS: Debian developers aren't trusted

2007-02-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 06:00:12PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 06:35:07PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Uh, what's this if not peer review? It's not peer review when we discuss it later and none of us (including you) have any power to do anything about it, except via

Re: BREAKING NEWS: Debian developers aren't trusted

2007-02-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
rejected, but is the original problem being addressed? Frankly I think ftp-master abused his dual roles (ftp-master and arm buildd admin) in this incident; any one else's actions would have been subject to peer review. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: BREAKING NEWS: Debian developers aren't trusted

2007-02-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 02:18:12PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 07:56:36AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: This is a two-way street though. Aurelien was trying to solve a problem he perceived to exist with the arm port. His solution has been rejected, but is the original

Re: BREAKING NEWS: Debian developers aren't trusted

2007-02-11 Thread Hamish Moffatt
and generally used to enforce their own opionions and mantaining very high the level of unuseful flaming. The context doesn't make the above quote any more pleasant. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

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

2007-02-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
, but produce broken binaries? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: First call for vote on immediate vote under section 4.2.2

2006-10-29 Thread Hamish Moffatt
of anything proposed by Aj!. Not helpful. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Proposal: The DFSG do not require source code for data, including firmware

2006-09-01 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 03:07:11PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 11:00:44PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: To those who consider ROM-less hardware cheap and nasty I suggest the opposite is true. I design hardware (FPGAs) professionally for expensive communications

Re: Proposal: The DFSG do not require source code for data, including firmware

2006-09-01 Thread Hamish Moffatt
that to be distributed to meet the DFSG. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Proposal: The DFSG do not require source code for data, including firmware

2006-08-29 Thread Hamish Moffatt
- it loads different firmware for midi and spdif modes! Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GR proposal - Restricted-media amendments to the DFSG

2006-04-07 Thread Hamish Moffatt
please explain why this amendment is necessary also? The current clause #6 does not appear to prevent this restriction either. I asked this same question before the last GR and nobody replied, despite claims that these exemptions were necessary. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Questions for all candidates: plurality of mandates

2006-03-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
on the same topic; is the above quote not one of the most condescending seen on a debian project list in quite some time? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A new practical problem with invariant sections?

2006-02-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
of the GFDL's requirements. That Debian expects that simply providing the source alongside ... does not appear to make this non-free. It might make be inconvenient for us and/or require us to change the ftp-master scripts, but that doesn't seem to affect its freeness. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB

Re: A new practical problem with invariant sections?

2006-02-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 02:34:32AM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: [Hamish Moffatt] That Debian expects that simply providing the source alongside ... does not appear to make this non-free. It might make be inconvenient for us and/or require us to change the ftp-master scripts

Re: GFDL GR: Amendment: invariant-less in main v2

2006-02-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
software licenses like the the GPL or the BSD license. ---8--- -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
intention that you be able to build the software, including the automatic relicensing? Isn't there an implicit grant of permission? There may be good examples of GFDL/GPL interaction problems, but the above example is absurd, IMHO. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: DFSG, GFDL, and position statementsd

2006-02-02 Thread Hamish Moffatt
want to modify the text to make it explicit (one way or the other other). Declaring our interpretation doesn't mean modifying the text, and doesn't need 3:1. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-01-24 Thread Hamish Moffatt
is also important but open to interpretation. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Amendment: invariant-less in main (Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement)

2006-01-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org - Oh, George, you didn't jump into the river. How sensible of you! -- Mrs Banks in «Mary Poppins» -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Alternate proposal for Declassification of debian-private archives

2005-12-04 Thread Hamish Moffatt
is less generous than Aj's original proposal - the author cannot veto for unreasonable reasons, only request anonymity. I think it's right to clarify the situation for quotes, but a full veto as per the original proposal is also desirable. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: Third call for votes for the debian project leader election 2 005

2005-04-04 Thread Hamish Moffatt
-announce and the Debian Weekly News editors(!). I'm not sure another vote for the cabal is newsworthy ;-) Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Vote for the Debian Project Leader Election 2005

2005-03-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
so sorry for that one, that was a really stupid mistake. The good thing is that is received quite a bunch of interesting replies, along with a few (well deserved) criticisms. Again, sorry for beeing such an idiot :/ Does that mean you improved your vote also? ;-) Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt

Re: DPL candidates QA summaries

2005-03-23 Thread Hamish Moffatt
worth spending ones time on such things! Thanks for collating this information David.. helps with the decision! Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Branden's time commitments (was: Re: followup to my time-management question)

2005-03-20 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 10:26:36PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I should have noted that xfree86 is not up-to-date with upstream as you indicate, and I'm sorry for the oversight. That's a bit unfair. X.Org is a fork and so it's

Re: Branden's time commitments (was: Re: followup to my time-management question)

2005-03-20 Thread Hamish Moffatt
-project/2004/01/msg00099.html That's quite enough time wasted, anyway. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Question for candidate Towns [Was, Re: DPL election IRC Debate - Call for questions]

2005-03-07 Thread Hamish Moffatt
that the ftp-master group as a whole will accomplish its appointed tasks, which includes processing NEW packages. If there are insufficient ftp-master-hours to keep the backlog to a reasonable limit then additional ftp-masters should be trained. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: Clarification about krooger's platform

2005-03-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Solved that one problem, but not the general problem. I second Marcelo's request. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Question for candidate Towns [Was, Re: DPL election IRC Debate - Call for questions]

2005-03-05 Thread Hamish Moffatt
regardless of the circumstances. This relates to the better quality packaging you were talking about too. In the end I rearranged the packaging so that the NEW package wasn't needed, though I might be violating the letter of policy now. Just to avoid NEW processing delays each time. Hamish -- Hamish

Re: Second Call for votes: General resolution: Sarge Release Schedule in view of GR 2004-003

2004-06-29 Thread Hamish Moffatt
.html Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What your ballot should look like if you're in favor of releasing sarge

2004-06-24 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 11:27:07PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The current vote will determine what the majority of voters think. Hopefully that will be the end of it. Not likely. The last vote determined what 3/4 of the voters thought

Re: What your ballot should look like if you're in favor of releasing sarge

2004-06-24 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 12:57:20AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That was because the voters were 20% of the developers, as you well know. I'm also hoping that we've engaged enough of the developers that we might get a representative vote

Re: Discussions in Debian

2004-06-24 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 05:25:28AM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: [You have quite neatly just demonstrated what argumentum ad hominem actually is, though]. Do you have that phrase on a macro key yet? Bored, Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Discussions in Debian

2004-06-23 Thread Hamish Moffatt
at its finest. Are you not aware that you are the proposer of the two most divisive GRs that Debian has ever had? It is interesting that this does not occur on most lists. I think we have a troll infestation. We certainly do. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: What your ballot should look like if you're in favor of releasing sarge

2004-06-23 Thread Hamish Moffatt
, at the expense of all else. Yes, some developers think that, as is their right. Would you please allow others to have opinions that differ from your own? The current vote will determine what the majority of voters think. Hopefully that will be the end of it. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL

Re: Proposal - Statement that Sarge will follow Woody requirement for main.

2004-05-23 Thread Hamish Moffatt
, we resolve that all programs must meet the DFSG, and all software must be legally distributable. Are you deliberately using both software and programs, and do you therefore mean different things by them? Could you please define them? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: Effect of GR 2004_003

2004-05-22 Thread Hamish Moffatt
about the freedoms expected for everything on a Debian CD, as well as the near universal agreement on debian-legal attest to the clear meaning of the DFSG. An impartial analysis would be more useful I think. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Social Contract GR's Affect on sarge

2004-05-05 Thread Hamish Moffatt
the proposer had indeed called for one. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: meta-issue: interpreting the outcome of the pending vote

2004-05-05 Thread Hamish Moffatt
for our local politicians. Cheers Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Proposal - Deferment of Changes from GR 2004-003

2004-05-05 Thread Hamish Moffatt
sooner. I think you should say which is not free, rather than which is not free software, given the text of your new SC. This is not a formal proposal for an amendment. I don't want to be associated with your proposal. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Social Contract GR's Affect on sarge

2004-05-05 Thread Hamish Moffatt
have now redefined software totally; it is no longer either equivalent to or a strict superset of computer programs. It is now defined as a set of any bits that some entity (person or company) gave us on disk or via computer network. Storage in ROM chip is not enough. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB

Re: Social Contract GR's Affect on sarge

2004-05-05 Thread Hamish Moffatt
the proposer had indeed called for one. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: meta-issue: interpreting the outcome of the pending vote

2004-05-05 Thread Hamish Moffatt
for our local politicians. Cheers Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Proposal - Deferment of Changes from GR 2004-003

2004-05-05 Thread Hamish Moffatt
sooner. I think you should say which is not free, rather than which is not free software, given the text of your new SC. This is not a formal proposal for an amendment. I don't want to be associated with your proposal. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Proposal - Deferment of Changes from GR 2004-003

2004-04-30 Thread Hamish Moffatt
To The Social Contract (2004 vote 003) be immediately rescinded. I second this amendment. It deserves to be an option on the ballet. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Proposal - Deferment of Changes from GR 2004-003

2004-04-30 Thread Hamish Moffatt
To The Social Contract (2004 vote 003) be immediately rescinded. I second this amendment. It deserves to be an option on the ballet. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Social Contract GR's Affect on sarge

2004-04-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 11:43:05AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 20:22:27 +1000, Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Perhaps for our next GR, we can contemplate whether it's appropriate that less than 20% of the developers is enough to change one of our most

Re: Social Contract GR's Affect on sarge

2004-04-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 01:08:05PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 04:02:47PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: No, you need 46 people and only three quarters of them need agree. That is less than 4% of our developer community. (My mistake; each valid option must have

Re: Social Contract GR's Affect on sarge

2004-04-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 09:53:04AM -0400, Buddha Buck wrote: Hamish Moffatt wrote: [bad stuff] I don't like Manoj's tone in this thread. It's harsh, accusatory, and somewhat rude. It seems like he is reacting defensively, as if he feels people are blaming him for the results they don't

Re: Social Contract GR's Affect on sarge

2004-04-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 11:43:05AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 20:22:27 +1000, Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Perhaps for our next GR, we can contemplate whether it's appropriate that less than 20% of the developers is enough to change one of our most

Re: Social Contract GR's Affect on sarge

2004-04-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 01:28:28AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 16:02:47 +1000, Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: That is bot, BTW, how quorum works. You would need at least 46 people to change the foundation documents, as long as they were of one mind

Re: Social Contract GR's Affect on sarge

2004-04-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 01:08:05PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 04:02:47PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: No, you need 46 people and only three quarters of them need agree. That is less than 4% of our developer community. (My mistake; each valid option must have

Re: Social Contract GR's Affect on sarge

2004-04-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 09:53:04AM -0400, Buddha Buck wrote: Hamish Moffatt wrote: [bad stuff] I don't like Manoj's tone in this thread. It's harsh, accusatory, and somewhat rude. It seems like he is reacting defensively, as if he feels people are blaming him for the results they don't

Re: Social Contract GR's Affect on sarge

2004-04-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 10:22:50AM +0100, Jochen Voss wrote: On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 12:31:15AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Usually it refers to changes that clarify the meaning without changing that meaning. I'd be interested in hearing your definition, since you seconded the GR. Yes

Re: Social Contract GR's Affect on sarge

2004-04-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 10:34:55AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 00:31:15 +1000, Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I'm stunned that this GR passed. I was surprised when the secretary called for votes because the proposal wasn't anything close to ready for voting

Re: Social Contract GR's Affect on sarge

2004-04-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 10:22:50AM +0100, Jochen Voss wrote: On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 12:31:15AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Usually it refers to changes that clarify the meaning without changing that meaning. I'd be interested in hearing your definition, since you seconded the GR. Yes

Re: Social Contract GR's Affect on sarge

2004-04-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 10:34:55AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 00:31:15 +1000, Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I'm stunned that this GR passed. I was surprised when the secretary called for votes because the proposal wasn't anything close to ready for voting

Re: Social Contract GR's Affect on sarge

2004-04-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
was surprised when the secretary called for votes because the proposal wasn't anything close to ready for voting. The tally sheet makes interesting reading: http://www.debian.org/vote/2004/gr_editorial_tally.txt Draw your own conclusions. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Social Contract GR's Affect on sarge

2004-04-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
was surprised when the secretary called for votes because the proposal wasn't anything close to ready for voting. The tally sheet makes interesting reading: http://www.debian.org/vote/2004/gr_editorial_tally.txt Draw your own conclusions. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GR: Alternative editorial changes to the SC

2004-04-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
to be leaving those drivers in until the project decides what to do about the whole problem. The kernel source tree is huge and I can't see any sign that Herbert is aware of particular problems but ignoring them. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GR: Editorial amendments to the social contract

2004-03-30 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 04:31:49AM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 01:21:33AM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: Raul Miller wrote: * There are people in Debian. Fine, there are a bunch of silly interpretations as well. The context indicates

Re: GR: Editorial amendments to the social contract

2004-03-30 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 04:31:49AM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 01:21:33AM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: Raul Miller wrote: * There are people in Debian. Fine, there are a bunch of silly interpretations as well. The context indicates

Re: GR: Editorial amendments to the social contract

2004-03-29 Thread Hamish Moffatt
things; it's a project, an OS, among others. So Debian will remain 100% Free Software is not entirely clear, given that Debian is a bunch of people in certain contexts. Why not spell out the context? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: GR: Editorial amendments to the social contract

2004-03-29 Thread Hamish Moffatt
things; it's a project, an OS, among others. So Debian will remain 100% Free Software is not entirely clear, given that Debian is a bunch of people in certain contexts. Why not spell out the context? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Q: guidelines for post-campaign period?

2004-03-25 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 05:18:42PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 19:50:17 +1100, Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: In Australia we have a 'blackout' on electronic media advertising for the three full days before an election. Umm. The link below tells us

Re: Q: guidelines for post-campaign period?

2004-03-24 Thread Hamish Moffatt
:-) In Australia we have a 'blackout' on electronic media advertising for the three full days before an election. http://www.aec.gov.au/_content/what/faqs/elect_ad.htm (Polling days are always Saturdays, and advertising is banned from midnight on the previous Wednesday.) Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB

Re: Q: guidelines for post-campaign period?

2004-03-24 Thread Hamish Moffatt
:-) In Australia we have a 'blackout' on electronic media advertising for the three full days before an election. http://www.aec.gov.au/_content/what/faqs/elect_ad.htm (Polling days are always Saturdays, and advertising is banned from midnight on the previous Wednesday.) Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-20 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 11:49:55AM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: they're wrong. Where if someone slips up and gets a little overenthusiastic, Err, you think that uploading a major new version of a major package is a slip up? It seems a bit more deliberate than that to me. Hamish -- Hamish

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-20 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 11:49:55AM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: they're wrong. Where if someone slips up and gets a little overenthusiastic, Err, you think that uploading a major new version of a major package is a slip up? It seems a bit more deliberate than that to me. Hamish -- Hamish

Re: Proposed transition plan for non-free and call for help

2004-03-11 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 03:43:47PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 11:38:47PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: I suspect some of our users might not want to use packages from a less trusted source. I would have concerns myself. Of course, and this was indeed one the prime

Re: keep non-free proposal

2004-03-11 Thread Hamish Moffatt
? Gentoo? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: keep non-free proposal

2004-03-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
users who can't view PDFs in their own language without packages like cmap-adobe-japan1, xpdf-japanese etc? It's not like they can choose to use the free nv driver instead of the closed source nvidia; TTBOMK there is no free solution at all. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: Proposed transition plan for non-free and call for help

2004-03-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 03:43:47PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 11:38:47PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: I suspect some of our users might not want to use packages from a less trusted source. I would have concerns myself. Of course, and this was indeed one the prime

Re: keep non-free proposal

2004-03-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
users who can't view PDFs in their own language without packages like cmap-adobe-japan1, xpdf-japanese etc? It's not like they can choose to use the free nv driver instead of the closed source nvidia; TTBOMK there is no free solution at all. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: Proposed transition plan for non-free and call for help

2004-03-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
it's important to note that you have proposed the possibility of adding non-free.org maintainers who are not debian.org maintainers. I suspect some of our users might not want to use packages from a less trusted source. I would have concerns myself. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: First Call for votes: General resolution for the handling of the non-free section

2004-03-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
believe that we will have non-free.org up at about the same time we drop non-free from the Debian archive. However the GR does not require that, so nobody can depend on it. The answer to Gerfried's question is further discussion I believe. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
a big part of why I don't want non-free removed from ftp.debian.org yet. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: keep non-free proposal

2004-03-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
for your Pentium 4 or Athlon XP processor. But then you may think it's quite reasonable to demand the source code for both... Actually said source code would probably be quite useful from an educational POV. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: First Call for votes: General resolution for the handling of the non-free section

2004-03-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
believe that we will have non-free.org up at about the same time we drop non-free from the Debian archive. However the GR does not require that, so nobody can depend on it. The answer to Gerfried's question is further discussion I believe. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: First Call for votes: General resolution for the handling of the non-free section

2004-03-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
, and dislike c, how should I mark the three options? 123. That is, you prefer a over b, and b over c. -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
a big part of why I don't want non-free removed from ftp.debian.org yet. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: keep non-free proposal

2004-03-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
for your Pentium 4 or Athlon XP processor. But then you may think it's quite reasonable to demand the source code for both... Actually said source code would probably be quite useful from an educational POV. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-07 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 10:38:10AM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 05:48:23PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Don't trivialise on debian.org to just an /etc/apt/sources.list entry though. The advantage IMHO to having Debian host non-free packages is quality control

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-07 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 10:38:10AM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 05:48:23PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Don't trivialise on debian.org to just an /etc/apt/sources.list entry though. The advantage IMHO to having Debian host non-free packages is quality control

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
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Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-05 Thread Hamish Moffatt
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Re: Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-01 Thread Hamish Moffatt
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Re: Proposal: Keep non-free

2004-02-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
software packages. == I'm a bit late, but I second this too. Thanks for proposing it Andrew. And thanks to Raul for his early proposals. (And sorry I dropped off the face of the list half way though.) Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB

Re: Proposal: Keep non-free

2004-02-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 07:00:36PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 01:48:48AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: I propose that the Debian project resolve that: == Acknowledging that some of our users

Re: keep non-free proposal

2004-01-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
of the original which has been carried over. We don't make any committment not to keep non-free documentation out of main, only non-free software. Thanks Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: keep non-free proposal

2004-01-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
of the original which has been carried over. We don't make any committment not to keep non-free documentation out of main, only non-free software. Thanks Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Comparison and rebuttal of Raul Miller/20040119-13 against Andrew Suffield/GR Editorial

2004-01-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 02:17:16AM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: Bugs are things that break software, not arbitrary third-party specifications. We consider violations for the FHS to be be bugs. Why is that different? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Comparison and rebuttal of Raul Miller/20040119-13 against Andrew Suffield/GR Editorial

2004-01-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 02:17:16AM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: Bugs are things that break software, not arbitrary third-party specifications. We consider violations for the FHS to be be bugs. Why is that different? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: non-free and users?

2004-01-24 Thread Hamish Moffatt
free will. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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