Re: Question to all candidates: what to do with the Debian money, shall we invest in hardware and cloud?

2024-04-10 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2024/04/10 16:08, Felix Lechner wrote: On Wed, 27 Mar 2024 13:57:55 +0200, Jonathan Carter wrote: every single hardware request over the last 4 years (whether from DSA or from a DD) has been approved. Mine wasn't, although I probably didn't follow the proper procedure. I just wrote

Re: Question to all candidates: what to do with the Debian money, shall we invest in hardware and cloud?

2024-03-27 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi! On 2024/03/27 12:25, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: Would you be ok spending 100k USD on buying hardware for a new Debian cloud, for example? I've always volunteered to operate it for Debian, but it never went through, because I haven't spent time to find where to host it and so on, but

Re: Question to candidates: How do you plan to manage finances/accounting?

2024-03-25 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Sruthi On 2024/03/22 19:51, Sruthi Chandran wrote: I agree on your point of lack of transparency about the finances. But from what I understood from highvoltage's  platform last year, the problem is more to do with the current delayed, manual and tedious accounting process. The accounting

Re: Candidates question: politics and Debian

2024-03-24 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2024/03/23 18:48, Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana wrote: Maybe is it time to Debian has its own outreachy program? To have DDs mentoring paid interns to learn how to package, how to contribute for softwares/tools used by Debian, and so on. In the last Debian Outreach Delegation, this is one

Re: This does not have to be a GR

2023-11-27 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2023/11/22 01:37, Kurt Roeckx wrote: I would also like to point out that, in the current state, on Saturday the discussion period is over and a vote is automatically called. Not so sure how automatic that was meant to be, but for what it's worth, I didn't see enough interest in extending

Re: Call for seconds: Delegate to the DPL

2023-11-26 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2023/11/26 21:24, Bill Allombert wrote: We should not just put out a statement just because others have done so, because we might inadvertently propagate FUD. Yep, it's a minefield. Anything we say can be used by a manipulative politician to make it seem that we support their cause.

Re: Call for seconds: Delegate to the DPL

2023-11-24 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Bill On 2023/11/24 19:14, Bill Allombert wrote: I offer the following ballot option for your consideration. - GENERAL RESOLUTION STARTS - The Debian developers delegate to the Debian Project Leader the task of issuing a Public Statement about the 'EU Cyber Resilience Act and

Re: This does not have to be a GR

2023-11-21 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Kurt On 2023/11/22 01:37, Kurt Roeckx wrote: While Debian has stakes in the CRA, and should issue a statement if only to show we exists, I am quite sure that a GR is not necessary for Debian to issue such statement, and I am quite unconvinced the GR process is the best option for the purpose

Debian's 30th Birthday (was: Re: Platform)

2023-03-20 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Paulo On 2023/03/15 16:29, Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana wrote: I believe this year is a special because it's 30 years of Debian. So we need a speciall call for celebration  I agree, last year I was swamped around Debian's birthday nearly even missed it altogether. I was thinking then

Re: On community and conflicts

2023-03-15 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2023/03/15 19:00, Thomas Koch wrote: Half a year later, would you mind sharing a comment on my exclusion? I'm glad that DAM didn't take too long to take action. Would you be open to have a (public?) call with me and maybe also people from the project (e.g. community team)? There have been

Platform

2023-03-14 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hey everyone I suppose some people might be wondering if I'm writing a platform for this election- and the answer is YES! I meant to have it ready by the end of the weekend, but got hit by some tummy bug that's been going around and just couldn't concentrate on the platform much. I'll work

Re: Debian Project Leader Elections 2023: Call for nominations

2023-03-09 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Kurt On 2023/03/03 21:39, Debian Project Secretary - Kurt Roeckx wrote: | Period | Start | End | |+-+---| | Nomination | Saturday 2023-03-04 | Friday 2023-03-10 | I gave it consideration, and will run again

Re: Requesting Extension (was: Re: Changing how we handle non-free firmware)

2022-09-15 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Everyone On 2022/09/07 18:26, Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) wrote: As per the Debian Constitution[1] (4.2¶3), I'm requesting an extension for the discussion period of 7 days. Thank you all for taking the time to polish or add voting options over the last week. I believe that the options

Re: Possible draft non-free firmware option with SC change

2022-09-09 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
On 2022/09/09 18:37, Bdale Garbee wrote: "Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)" writes: I do think some parts are important to include though, how about: I disagree strongly on this. We should work REALLY hard to have the SC capture the commitments we're making to our users, and

Re: Possible draft non-free firmware option with SC change

2022-09-09 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
On 2022/09/09 18:04, Russ Allbery wrote: We encourage careful review of the licensing of these packages before use or redistribution, since the guarantees of the Debian Free Software Guidelines do not apply to them. Looks good to me. It summarizes the gist of the issue very

Re: Possible draft non-free firmware option with SC change

2022-09-08 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
On 2022/09/08 11:27, Phil Morrell wrote: 5. Works that do not meet our free software standards We acknowledge that our users may require the use of works that do not conform to the Debian Free Software Guidelines. Such packages are not part of the Debian system, but we

Requesting Extension (was: Re: Changing how we handle non-free firmware)

2022-09-07 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Dear Debian Secretary and Debian Developers As per the Debian Constitution[1] (4.2¶3), I'm requesting an extension for the discussion period of 7 days. Apologies for jumping this on the last minute, I've been off-sick and have been fiercely triaging and catching up with issues the last day

Re: Changing how we handle non-free firmware

2022-08-25 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
On 2022/08/22 19:32, Gunnar Wolf wrote: = We will include non-free firmware packages from the "non-free-firmware" section of the Debian archive on our official media (installer images and live images). The included firmware binaries will*normally* be enabled by

Re: General Resolution: Liquidate donated assets as soon as possible

2022-08-16 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Louis-Philippe On 2022/06/19 01:43, Louis-Philippe Véronneau wrote: This is a proposal for Debian to create a guideline for our TOs when they receive donations of non-fiat assets. It is a result of the constructive debate we had on debian-private, and hopefully it will not be too divisive

Re: General resolution: Condemn Russian invasion of the Ukraine

2022-04-08 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Jonathan On 2022/04/08 11:44, Jonathan Dowland wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong, but Debconf is not formally a part of Debian, and so cannot be bound by the outcome of a GR anyway. Due to how DebConf started and how it evolved, and the pace that they had to move on to get things done, they

Re: Question to all candidates: GDPR compliance review

2022-04-01 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2022/04/01 20:28, Adrian Bunk wrote: Would you commit to something more specific, like that our Data Protection team will reply to debian-project within 3 months discussing all issues mentioned in the discussion at [1] so far, and with their reply having been proof-read by our GDPR lawyer?

Re: Question to all candidates: GDPR compliance review

2022-04-01 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Adrian (I'm including the data-protection team, perhaps they can expand on your question or comment on my feedback) On 2022/03/31 22:08, Adrian Bunk wrote: The discussion starting in [1] is about privacy in Debian with a focus on the GDPR of the European Union. It started with the GDPR,

Re: Question to all candidates: Ongoing/future legal projects

2022-03-30 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2022/03/30 07:33, Paul Wise wrote: On Tue, 2022-03-29 at 20:47 -0700, Felix Lechner wrote: It furthermore seems that I did not follow the proper process when filing my request, as Paul Wise pointed out. My reference to the Hardware/Wanted wiki page was referring to the procedure for after

Re: Question to all candidates: Ongoing/future legal projects

2022-03-27 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Richard On 2022/03/24 22:17, Richard Laager wrote: The disbursements that I've heard about seem to be relatively "small potatoes" things. Is there some huge wasteful spending occurring that I've missed? Most of it is small potatoes (typically less than $1000, typically for hardware or

Re: Question to all candidates: Ongoing/future legal projects

2022-03-27 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Paul On 2022/03/26 01:27, Paul Wise wrote: We have these documents related to that: https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DPL#Money https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DPL/AskingForMoney https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DPL/SponsoringGuidelines These were written by Stefano Zacchiroli in 2010 when he was

Re: Questions about Debian derivatives

2022-03-27 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Paul On 2022/03/27 05:53, Paul Wise wrote: Debian's relationship with the various distributions derived from Debian and approach to existing and new derivatives has had a wide range of states. Most derivatives recieve indifference from Debian. When it comes to the indifference, I think for

Re: Question to all candidates: how is Debian doing?

2022-03-25 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Lucas On 2022/03/17 17:54, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: As someone who used to care a lot about Debian, but who hasn't been able to pay much attention to the project lately, I was wondering: I don't think anyone would hold it against you that you've got busy with other stuff, having a life

Re: Question to all candidates: Ongoing/future legal projects

2022-03-25 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2022/03/25 11:41, Jonathan Carter wrote: For example, I requested $217 for a one-time SSD & RAM upgrade to help operate lintian.d.o in November of 2021. My request was not granted. I didn't even receive a response from Jonathan (other than a request for more information, with which I comp

Re: Question to all candidates: Ongoing/future legal projects

2022-03-25 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Felix On 2022/03/25 02:18, Felix Lechner wrote: For example, I requested $217 for a one-time SSD & RAM upgrade to help operate lintian.d.o in November of 2021. My request was not granted. I didn't even receive a response from Jonathan (other than a request for more information, with which I

Re: To all candidates: Debian and people with disabilities

2022-03-24 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Sam On 2022/03/23 06:04, Sam Hartman wrote: This has gotten much much better. * You can hold down space bar in orca focus mode, when you release, you know you will be muted. (push to talk key) * The accessibility of the icons is much better. The buttons are "pressed" when muted and

Re: To all candidates: Debian and people with disabilities

2022-03-21 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Devin On 2022/03/20 19:09, Devin Prater wrote: * Have you heard of the Debian Accessibility group? I have indeed.   * If so, have you worked with them in the past, or are you currently working with them? I haven't directly worked with them directly, but I have been on the receiving

Re: Question to all candidates: Ongoing/future legal projects

2022-03-19 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2022/03/18 20:08, Felix Lechner wrote: Which would you be prepared to provide as DPL? > Whichever the members perceive as proper. How would you gauge that, Felix? It's impractical to have a vote every time a decision is to be made, which is why voters want to know how a potential DPL

Re: Question to all candidates: Ongoing/future legal projects

2022-03-17 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Molly On 2022/03/17 16:57, Molly dB wrote: In November 2021, it was discussed in debian-private that a team from Debian had been working with a lawyer for a while. (Not sharing details: issues remain ongoing.) How would you transition into taking on this particular responsibility and similar

Re: Question to all candidates: rotation on positions of power

2022-03-16 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Charles On 2022/03/16 14:28, Charles Plessy wrote: thank you for running ! I have a question for you (and only you). Yay, thanks for the question! What do you think of the reform of the Technical Committee that introduced a limit to the time people can serve in, and would you consider

Re: Question to all candidates: Monthly "Bits from the DPL"

2022-03-16 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Louis-Philippe On 2022/03/16 20:12, Louis-Philippe Véronneau wrote: I would like to know what is the stance of the 3 candidates on producing monthly "Bits from the DPL" reports on their activities. I like them very much and I think they are a great way to keep us all informed of what the

Re: Debian Project Leader Elections 2022: Call for nominations

2022-03-09 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Kurt On 2022/03/05 01:15, Debian Project Secretary - Kurt Roeckx wrote: Please make sure that nominations are sent to (or cc:'d to) debian-vote, and are cryptographically signed. I'll be standing for another term. -Jonathan OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Informal Discussion: Identities of Voters Casting a Particular Ballot are No Longer Public

2022-02-16 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2022/02/14 20:42, Felix Lechner wrote: Based on the way people with minority opinions are treated, you would have to expel a lot of people. Which people with minority opinions were mistreated? We're a group with a very, very large spectrum of opinions and so far it's only been in the

Re: Diffs for GR: Change the resolution process

2021-11-26 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2021/11/27 03:34, Russ Allbery wrote: Here is a Salsa diff with the current version of the constitution: https://salsa.debian.org/rra/webwml/-/compare/master...gr-2021-003?from_project_id=65952 Thank you! I've been meaning to do this for a while! -Jonathan

Re: Waiting for the voting vote to finish... :-)

2021-11-23 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2021/11/23 17:59, Steve McIntyre wrote: would you be willing to let peb and I propose the secret ballots GR? We were hoping we were in line behind Russ. > Sure, no worries. Ah, I also had one, but can wait my turn. I considered starting a thread in -project in the meantime, but I'm

Re: Renaming the FTP Masters

2021-11-11 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2021/11/11 21:48, Bastian Blank wrote: I'm really surprised that ftp master is more important than the weird definition of DD and DM. You left out "non-uploading DD" :) -Jonathan

Re: Renaming the FTP Masters

2021-11-11 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Marc On 2021/11/11 17:29, Marc Haber wrote: On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 05:37:55PM -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: PS For people who are concerned that a retreat from the term "master" is somehow the language police run dangerously amok, it's worth asking why you feel so committed to

Re: Renaming the FTP Masters

2021-11-05 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Joerg On 2021/11/04 23:14, Joerg Jaspert wrote: I would like to rename the FTP Masters team—ideally via a General Resolution. Ideally? Its the worst possible way to go about. I'm at a loss to actually find polite words to describe how off it is, That might be slightly harsh, Felix only

Re: General Resolution: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board result

2021-04-19 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2021/04/18 23:36, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > Complaining about the > voting system because you don't like the outcome or because you could > announce the outcome in an awkward way is not helpful. Who complained about the voting system because they didn't like the outcome of this particular vote?

Ways forward regarding the RMS GR

2021-04-12 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Debian Developers Over the course of the last few days, I've received many mails regarding the RMS GR, both on this list, on debian-private and in private. These mails contain a wide spectrum of concerns and even ideas on how to improve our situation, each of which come with their own set of

Re: REPOST, SIGNED: Re: Amendment to RMS/FSF GR: Option 5

2021-04-08 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Tina On 2021/04/08 06:15, Martina Ferrari wrote: > Ah, Adam, sending unsolicited private email? Fuck that, you were in the > first line on my bingo card. Personally, I would've ignored an unsolicited post like that and deleted it. Not that I'm telling you that's what you should've done, but

Re: Cancel "culture" is a threat to Debian

2021-04-04 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2021/04/01 17:57, Sergey B Kirpichev wrote: > On Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 04:50:15PM +0200, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: >> The first option is one option, the others are different and less >> strong. Having strong options in a GR doesn't turn the whole GR in a >> blackmail > > I would disagree.

Re: New option for the RMS/FSF GR: reaffirm the values of the majority

2021-04-04 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2021/04/04 05:47, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > I did actually read this as satire and was quite amused by it - I > didn't think it could have been read as a serious request until the > first response to it. I would appreciate it if we could keep satire and comedy a bit dialed back for a but. As

Re: Having a "DPL committee"?

2021-03-26 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi peb On 2021/03/26 20:54, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: > I wonder in that case if such a person sould be either: > > 1. Nominated by the DPL > 2. Co-elected (ie voting for a couple of people) > 3. Elected separately on the same time frame (but that could lead to > issues if the DPL and vice-DPL

Re: concern - proprietary software promotion in Debian

2021-03-26 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Pasha On 2021/03/26 20:29, Pasha wrote: > I saw some people are sending github links to promote their cause. > > github is not a free software. It a proprietary service owned by a > company. > > My question is depending on the side a developer choose he has the > right not to use any

Re: Amendment to rms-open-letter GR

2021-03-25 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Sean On 2021/03/25 22:17, Sean Whitton wrote: > The point of this is not to call for the removal of the entire FSF > board, as the open letter does, while still supporting the main thrust > of the open letter, which is about Stallman himself. > > The vote to restore Stallman to the board was

Re: How to motivate contributors to work on QA

2021-03-25 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hey Christian On 2021/03/23 11:42, Christian Kastner wrote: > However, looking at this from the other side of the argument, I still > believe that relying on pure volunteer work has significant downsides to > the quality of our distribution, downsides that IMO could or should > easily be avoided

Re: Question to Jonathan: What did you Mean

2021-03-25 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Sam On 2021/03/25 17:58, Sam Hartman wrote: >>>>>> "Bart" == Bart Martens writes: > > Bart> On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 11:53:23PM +0200, Jonathan Carter wrote: > >> On this particular issue, I feel it's better that individual >

Perhaps we should start addressing shortcomings in our eco-system (Was: Re: What changes do you want in Debian?)

2021-03-25 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2021/03/19 11:13, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > 1/ Why have you all given up on the idea to lead Debian? This question still bothers me a bit. Firstly, I don't see my previous term or my upcoming term that way. I believe that considering the climate in recent years in Debian, and considering all

Re: General resolution: ratify https://github.com/rms-open-letter/rms-open-letter.github.io

2021-03-25 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Dear project secretary On Wed, 24 Mar 2021 13:54:16 -0700 Steve Langasek wrote: > Under 4.1.5 of the Constitution, the developers by way of GR are the > body who has the power to issue nontechnical statements. Due to the timeliness of this GR, please reduce the discussion period for this GR to

Re: Asking DPL to shorten Discussion Period for rms-open-letter

2021-03-24 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2021/03/24 23:19, Sam Hartman wrote: > I suspect that the issues surrounding the open letter asking rms to step > down and for the FSF board to resign are fairly well understood at this > point. > It's been an ongoing issue. > > I don't think we're going to get much benefit out of a prolonged

Re: Willingness to share a position statement?

2021-03-24 Thread Jonathan Carter
Sorry, for some reason I didn't get Gunnar's original mail so going to reply here... On 2021/03/24 02:24, M dB wrote: >> https://opensource.org/OSI_Response >> https://rms-open-letter.github.io/ >> >> Now, as for my question: I thought repeatedly over the last couple of >> days whether to

Re: diversity

2021-03-24 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Bart On 2021/03/23 11:11, Bart Martens wrote: > A question about diversity. We all know that some profiles are > underrepresented: gender, etnic group, disability, age, sexual preference, > education degree, rich/poor, spoken & written languages... > > 1/ One way of addressing this, is

Re: How can we make Debian packaging more standardised?

2021-03-22 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi pollo On 2021/03/19 20:05, Louis-Philippe Véronneau wrote: > In becoming a DD, one of the main challenges I faced was the absence of > a standard way to package software in Debian. > > I've since seen first hand how having a very large number of ways to > package things in Debian confuse and

Re: Having a "DPL committee"?

2021-03-22 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2021/03/19 21:01, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: > The idea was discussed two years ago. Sam chose a range of people to > help him with delegations. It's come up a few times in past platforms and discussions on -vote too! > Being a DPL is a high-energy thing even when one doesn't try to "lead" >

Re: What changes do you want in Debian?

2021-03-19 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Raphaël On 2021/03/19 11:13, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > when I look back at my old platforms[1][2]3] I can already see a trend > where we move from "concrete changes that we want to see in Debian" to > "some vague idea of how we want to run the project" but this trend seems > to have continued

Re: How to leverage money to accomplish high impact Debian projects

2021-03-19 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2021/03/18 23:33, Philip Hands wrote: > There were enough people keen on that happening that if we'd each had an > earmarked e.g. 1k budget to allocate, we could have just agreed it > amongst ourselves, and done it, without a lot of back and forth on the > lists trying to establish whether

Re: How to leverage money to accomplish high impact Debian projects

2021-03-18 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2021/03/18 21:44, Philip Hands wrote: > I've been pondering how it might be possible to spend more of Debian's > money, and it occurred to me that we could allocate a budget to each DD > which they could spend on pretty-much anything (as long as, for Debian > funds, the expenditure is allowed

Re: How to leverage money to accomplish high impact Debian projects

2021-03-18 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Raphaël On 2021/03/18 19:46, Raphael Hertzog wrote:> I announced this on debian-project[1] and on Planet Debian[2] a while ago. > But at this point, we have only funded a single project[3], leaving us > with more than 25 KEUR available for further projects. > > I did not expect this lack of

Re: Debian Project Leader Elections 2021: Call for nominations

2021-03-11 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Kurt On Sat, 6 Mar 2021 20:39:44 +0100 Debian Project Secretary - Kurt Roeckx wrote: > Please make sure that nominations are sent to (or cc:'d to) > debian-vote, and are cryptographically signed. I hereby self-nominate for the DPL 2021 term. -Jonathan pgpr5E_bf053T.pgp Description:

Re: [draft] Cancel this year's in-person Debian Developers Conference DebConf20

2020-05-22 Thread Jonathan Carter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 2020/05/22 20:08, Jonathan Carter wrote: > (and besides, the India team has already won for next year). If > they get Correction: I mean of course, Kosovo. - -Jonathan - -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁

Re: [draft] Cancel this year's in-person Debian Developers Conference DebConf20

2020-05-22 Thread Jonathan Carter
you to consider the above at least one more time before posting that GR. - -Jonathan - -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ https://wiki.debian.org/highvoltage ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋ https://debian.org | https://jonathancarter.org ⠈⠳⣄ Debian, the universal operating system. -BEGIN

Re: DPL blindsides

2020-04-16 Thread Jonathan Carter
bility to share this information with the DCC in the case of DebConfs, or the DPL or Community Team when it comes to other DebConf events. This would help provide some additional sanity checks and also for posterity. -Jonathan -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ https://wiki.

Re: DPL blindsides

2020-04-12 Thread Jonathan Carter
was made purely by the DC17 local team. > In > (<1501234967.2211370.1055405832.1d2d7...@webmail.messagingengine.com> > message not available in public), by a previous DPL to the event > planning team, including Jonathan Carter, the email noted that by > actively not answering or

Re: Question to Jonathan & Brian: Diversity in Debian

2020-03-30 Thread Jonathan Carter
that our project members have. -Jonathan -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ https://wiki.debian.org/highvoltage ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋ https://debian.org | https://jonathancarter.org ⠈⠳⣄ Be Bold. Be brave. Debian has got your back. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Q to all candidates: NEW queue

2020-03-27 Thread Jonathan Carter
the team has more time to address their problems internally then the day to day problems will eventually get better too. -Jonathan [1] https://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ https://wiki.debian.org/highvoltage ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋ https://debian.or

Re: Response to jcc's rebuttal

2020-03-27 Thread Jonathan Carter
build consensus to make the necessary > changes. Great! Yes I still stand with the idea that a GR should be used for final votes, not as a polling tool, and the options should be clear enough that people understand what they vote for and what the consequences of each option mean. -Jonathan

DPL blindsides

2020-03-23 Thread Jonathan Carter
:) - -Jonathan - -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ https://wiki.debian.org/highvoltage ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋ https://debian.org | https://jonathancarter.org ⠈⠳⣄ Be Bold. Be brave. Debian has got your back. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEExyA8CpIGcL

Re: Question to all: Outreach

2020-03-20 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2020/03/20 02:12, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 3:30 PM Jonathan Carter wrote: >> Non-uploading DD's existed at the time, I just had no interest in >> becoming a non-uploading DD when it was already my intent to become an >> uploading DD. > > I don't thi

Re: Question to all: Outreach

2020-03-19 Thread Jonathan Carter
t it's not an issue and that you don't have to be a DD in order to be on the DebConf committee. TBH I'm having trouble following your line of questioning and exactly what you're concerned about, if I missed something, please ask again and keep it to one question per paragraph. -Jonathan -- ⢀⣴

Re: Question to all: Outreach

2020-03-19 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2020/03/19 14:00, Sam Hartman wrote: >>>>>> "Jonathan" == Jonathan Carter writes: > > Jonathan> On 2020/03/19 12:39, Paul Wise wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 9:54 AM Jonathan Carter wrote: > >> > >&g

Re: Question to all: Outreach

2020-03-19 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2020/03/19 12:39, Paul Wise wrote: > On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 9:54 AM Jonathan Carter wrote: > >> My honest answer? Yes, it would be nice if all the delegates could be >> project members, I understand your concern, but often it's best to be >> willing to work with peop

Re: Question for all candidates: Sam's non-platform: Delegates

2020-03-18 Thread Jonathan Carter
reserving some bandwidth for delegations even when other exciting things are happening. Also actively checking in on delegations that are known to need some support, like the DebConf team in the period before Debconf starts and probably also scheduled check-ins with delegations like the treasurers. -Jonathan

Re: What are your thoughts on discourse?

2020-03-18 Thread Jonathan Carter
questions for the DPL elections on here. Both questions and answers could go unnoticed and unread. I think it’s better to choose a future discussion and plan it ahead, rather than test it in production mid-way of a DPL election. """ -Jonathan -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Jonathan Ca

Re: What are your thoughts on discourse?

2020-03-18 Thread Jonathan Carter
to the DPL candidates on this list, rather than test Discourse for DPL Q midway through a DPL election. And I also forgot to mention, nice initiative I do think that it has potential. -Jonathan -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ https://wiki.debian.org/highvoltage ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋

Re: Question to all: Outreach

2020-03-18 Thread Jonathan Carter
at least familiar with those. It doesn't seem reasonable for someone to represent Debian in an official capacity if they don't even know what Debian is. -Jonathan -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ https://wiki.debian.org/highvoltage ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋ https://debian.or

Re: Question to all: Outreach

2020-03-18 Thread Jonathan Carter
p me from > becoming interested in computers. Several female physicists I know probably > played with dolls as well, yet they are what they are now. I'm sure that you're smart enough to know that you're completely missing the point there. -Jonathan -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)

Re: Question to all: Outreach

2020-03-18 Thread Jonathan Carter
less than that to have to aim as high as being like Linus. -Jonathan -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ https://wiki.debian.org/highvoltage ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋ https://debian.org | https://jonathancarter.org ⠈⠳⣄ Be Bold. Be brave. Debian has got your back.

Re: Question to all: Outreach

2020-03-18 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hey Enrico On 2020/03/18 11:58, Enrico Zini wrote: > On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 11:36:24AM +0200, Jonathan Carter wrote: > >> My honest answer? Yes, it would be nice if all the delegates could be >> project members, I understand your concern, but often it's best to be >> wil

Re: Question to all: Outreach

2020-03-18 Thread Jonathan Carter
s front as a prospective DPL, I think it takes the whole project to make this happen and drive it forward to make it a success and to get the best bang for our buck. In the meantime I'm glad that Outreachy can help take care of some of the work. -Jonathan -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)

Re: Question to all: Outreach

2020-03-18 Thread Jonathan Carter
-Jonathan -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ https://wiki.debian.org/highvoltage ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋ https://debian.org | https://jonathancarter.org ⠈⠳⣄ Be Bold. Be brave. Debian has got your back.

Re: Question to Jonathan: how do you intend to prioritise?

2020-03-17 Thread Jonathan Carter
hough this mail is already long and I think I've shown that the ideas listed there are more than just a bunch of nice words on a platform. -Jonathan -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ https://wiki.debian.org/highvoltage ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋ https://debian.org | https://jonathancarter.org

Re: Typically self-nominations are short

2020-03-12 Thread Jonathan Carter
stress about it. This was how I chose to self-nominate and it was my choice to make. -Jonathan -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ https://wiki.debian.org/highvoltage ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋ https://debian.org | https://jonathancarter.org ⠈⠳⣄ Be Bold. Be brave. Debian has got your back.

Why I'm running for DPL

2020-03-12 Thread Jonathan Carter
usually a lot more concise, but if you've made it this far, then a sincere thank you for reading :) -Jonathan -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian Developer - https://wiki.debian.org/highvoltage ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋ https://debian.org | https://jonathancarter.org

Re: Last minute cominbations G+D and/or G+E

2019-12-04 Thread Jonathan Carter
ng myself. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian Developer - https://wiki.debian.org/highvoltage ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋ https://debian.org | https://jonathancarter.org ⠈⠳⣄ Be Bold. Be brave. Debian has got your back.

Re: If we're Going to Have Alternate Init Systems, we need to Understand Apt Dependencies

2019-12-04 Thread Jonathan Carter
] https://www.debian.org/vote/2019/vote_002 -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian Developer - https://wiki.debian.org/highvoltage ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋ https://debian.org | https://jonathancarter.org ⠈⠳⣄ Be Bold. Be brave. Debian has got your back.

Re: Proposal to overturn init systems premature GR

2019-12-04 Thread Jonathan Carter
n't know if I like it or not. Let's finish the work > on getting the ballot right and then vote. Absolutely, losing another day to get a proposal right is a very small price to pay in the grand scheme of things, where rushing it creates the risk of having to repeat it all again in the future. -Jonathan --

Re: Proposal: Init Diversity

2019-11-21 Thread Jonathan Carter
sues already mentioned (and perhaps s/to be value/to be of value), I also second this. - -Jonathan - -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian Developer - https://wiki.debian.org/highvoltage ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋ https://debian.org | https://jonathancarter.org ⠈⠳⣄ Be Bold. Be brave

Re: First Debian community-wide IRC sessions scheduled: Meet the new DPL and ask him anything!

2019-04-22 Thread Jonathan Carter
again on micronews. -Jonathan -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian Developer - https://wiki.debian.org/highvoltage ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋ https://debian.org | https://jonathancarter.org ⠈⠳⣄ Be Bold. Be brave. Debian has got your back.

First Debian community-wide IRC sessions scheduled: Meet the new DPL and ask him anything!

2019-04-21 Thread Jonathan Carter
, please get in touch. -Jonathan -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian Developer - https://wiki.debian.org/highvoltage ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋ https://debian.org | https://jonathancarter.org ⠈⠳⣄ Be Bold. Be brave. Debian has got your back.

Re: Thank you to all of the candidates

2019-04-21 Thread Jonathan Carter
uite excited about Debian going forward). Thanks for all the kind words! I had lots of fun and will likely run again next year if circumstances allow. -Jonathan -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian Developer - https://wiki.debian.org/highvoltage ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋ https://debian

Thanks for the questions, any more before voting starts?

2019-04-06 Thread Jonathan Carter
or something that you'd like more details on, or if there's something that's nagging you that hasn't yet been covered, then now is probably a good time to ask :-) -Jonathan -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian Developer - https://wiki.debian.org/highvoltage

Re: Q to all candidates: about advancing Debian (as organisation) while not being DPL

2019-04-03 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Chris On 2019/04/03 15:00, Chris Lamb wrote: > On 2019/03/29 16:01, Jonathan Carter wrote: >> I agree that an overloaded DPL role can be harmful to both Debian and >> the individual in the role. I think it's important for a DPL to take a >> step back every now and again an

Re: Q to all candidates: what is the long-term role of traditional Linux distributions?

2019-04-03 Thread Jonathan Carter
there, even if it may take some time. Debian as it exists now is already very usable as a high quality base that can be used to consume 3rd party sources, so if that aspect had more attention and focus, what would you like to see better in Debian as a base system? -Jonathan -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Jonathan Car

Re: Q: Do you believe in Supercow?

2019-04-02 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hey David On 2019/04/02 17:51, David Kalnischkies wrote: > On Mon, Apr 01, 2019 at 11:04:17PM +0200, Jonathan Carter wrote: >>> for DPL Candidates"[1] article as stats about the prospective DPLs seem >>> to be in demand[2] I had to wonder if the DPL candidates wanted t

Re: Q: top three things you would like to change if that was easy?

2019-04-02 Thread Jonathan Carter
colours to scripts, because then you could associate error tones and success tones as well which would make apps that use those libraries automatically more accessible. -Jonathan -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian Developer - https://wiki.debian.org/highvoltage ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋

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