Re: draft alternative proposal: fix problem at the root

2014-12-03 Thread Josselin Mouette
Clint Adams cl...@debian.org wrote: On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 10:50:30PM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: Disbanding the TC would likely do more harm than good. There would be no way to conclude a disagreement. I believe that there is evidence prior to 1999

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

2014-11-10 Thread Josselin Mouette
think it should be clear now that he will not step back unless the project asks him to do so. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Re: Can you all please stop?

2014-11-01 Thread Josselin Mouette
systemd criticism in factual terms, rather than entirely made-up claims or vague accusations of destroying the Unix way of life. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Legitimate exercise of our constitutional decision-making processes [Was, Re: Tentative summary of the amendments]

2014-10-29 Thread Josselin Mouette
for it to be done. Amen to that, a thousand times. Cheers, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1414577459.4977.7.ca

Re: `systemd --system` as a viable way out of the systemd debate?

2014-10-28 Thread Josselin Mouette
. Cheers, -- .''`.Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1414491132.28333.66.camel@dsp0698014

Re: Legitimate exercise of our constitutional decision-making processes [Was, Re: Tentative summary of the amendments]

2014-10-28 Thread Josselin Mouette
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: If GNOME supported being built without those features, yes, it's fairly straightforward. I probably overstated it by saying it's trivial, but I don't think it would be that hard. But that's from the *packaging* perspective,

Re: Tentative summary of the amendments

2014-10-25 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 24 octobre 2014 à 14:47 +0200, Josselin Mouette a écrit : There have been, are and will be people with different requirements that systemd does not and will not satisfy. Which requirements are not satisfied by systemd? I’m pretty sure the upstream systemd

Re: Tentative summary of the amendments

2014-10-24 Thread Josselin Mouette
Aigars Mahinovs aigar...@gmail.com wrote: On 24 October 2014 12:35, Ansgar Burchardt ans...@debian.org wrote: In fact, they want to require that if P supports only A (and not A|B) that the maintainers of P have to patch P to make it support B. In the good old

Re: Tentative summary of the amendments

2014-10-24 Thread Josselin Mouette
Aigars Mahinovs aigar...@gmail.com wrote: So you want to force everyone to use systemd No, I want every package to work with the default init system. Those who only use packages that work with another init system, can use it. (by breaking enough software so that Debian

DPL candidates: managing the CTTE memberships

2014-03-28 Thread Josselin Mouette
. -- .''`.Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1396000679.5311.71.camel@dsp0698014

Re: Rationale for GRs

2011-03-11 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 11 mars 2011 à 13:29 +, Martin Meredith a écrit : On 11/03/11 12:41, Matthew Vernon wrote: I've been thinking for a while now that it would be good if general resolutions had a Rationale with them. Won't this require a GR to put it into force? What is the rationale for

Re: Standardization, large scale changes, innovations

2010-03-31 Thread Josselin Mouette
. This doesn’t raise questions about the competence of the newcomer. This raises questions about the competence of the person who designed the package. Cheers, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “A handshake with whitnesses is the same `- as a signed contact.” -- Jörg Schilling

Re: Standardization, large scale changes, innovations

2010-03-31 Thread Josselin Mouette
an opinion. I don't think much of it, but you are indeed entitled to it. I wouldn’t expect you to be able to question your own choices anyway. Actually, I shouldn’t be discussing this with you, this is pointless as always. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “A handshake with whitnesses

Re: Standardization, large scale changes, innovations

2010-03-31 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 31 mars 2010 à 05:53 -0700, Manoj Srivastava a écrit : I wouldn’t expect you to be able to question your own choices anyway. I personally think that would apply to present company as well. Wow. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “A handshake with whitnesses

Re: Standardization, large scale changes, innovations

2010-03-30 Thread Josselin Mouette
. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “If you behave this way because you are blackmailed by someone, `-[…] I will see what I can do for you.” -- Jörg Schilling signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: planet.debian.org is RC buggy (?)

2010-03-27 Thread Josselin Mouette
of the Constitution. Cheers, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “If you behave this way because you are blackmailed by someone, `-[…] I will see what I can do for you.” -- Jörg Schilling signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Question for all candidates: Care of Core infrastructure

2010-03-15 Thread Josselin Mouette
functionality. Cheers, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “A handshake with whitnesses is the same `- as a signed contact.” -- Jörg Schilling -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Bits from the release team and request for discussion

2009-08-11 Thread Josselin Mouette
to be wrong. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “I recommend you to learn English in hope that you in `- future understand things” -- Jörg Schilling signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée

Re: Firmware

2009-05-02 Thread Josselin Mouette
radeon cards) is highly widespread. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “I recommend you to learn English in hope that you in `- future understand things” -- Jörg Schilling signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée

Re: GR proposal: Do not require listing of copyright holders

2009-03-22 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 22 mars 2009 à 14:55 +0100, Peter Palfrader a écrit : The original discussion isn't even half over and you come running to us screaming GR. Way to abuse our constitution and waste everyone's time. Not appreciated. Not at all. And should anyone appreciate the fact that FTP

Re: GR proposal: Do not require listing of copyright holders

2009-03-22 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 22 mars 2009 à 16:09 +, Sam Kuper a écrit : If that pressure stems from a concern that without proper license information, Debian users/developers/etc could face legal action, then I, for one, as a Debian user, appreciate it. Hint #1: the complete list of copyright holders has

GR proposal: Do not require listing of copyright holders

2009-03-21 Thread Josselin Mouette
Hi, as per Constitution 4.1.3, I am proposing the following General Resolution. 8 - 8 - 8 - 8 - 8 - The Debian project hereby resolves that the copyright files of binary packages shipped in the distribution are not required to contain an accurate and up-to-date listing of

Re: GR proposal: Do not require listing of copyright holders

2009-03-21 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 21 mars 2009 à 20:34 +0100, Holger Levsen a écrit : seconded. Though I would appreciate if it would clarify that debian/copyright still needs to be present and list the licence and *should try to* list all authors. IMHO the policy is already clear on it. Furthermore, I don’t think

Re: GR proposal: Do not require listing of copyright holders

2009-03-21 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 21 mars 2009 à 20:04 +0100, Patrick Schoenfeld a écrit : Its so easy to give his own opinion more weight by using extortion as a method. Call it extortion if you want, but this is probably going to happen to a number of large packages unless this requirement goes away. -- .''`.

Re: New section for firmware.

2008-12-24 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 23 décembre 2008 à 19:02 -0600, Peter Samuelson a écrit : Without weighing in on whether there _is_ a class of software for which users shouldn't have the right to look at and modify source code, this whole phrase run on the host CPU needs to die and be replaced by something more

Re: New section for firmware.

2008-12-23 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 23 décembre 2008 à 13:07 +0100, Kurt Roeckx a écrit : The idea is to create a new section that contains files like firmware images and FPGA data that gets written to the hardware to make it fully functional. It is not meant for drivers that run on the host CPU. There is no reason to

Re: New section for firmware.

2008-12-23 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 23 décembre 2008 à 15:27 +0100, Michael Banck a écrit : How about ???Software that is not executed on the host CPU??? ? That can include e.g. non-free documentation, which clearly doesn???t belong in the same place than nVidia binary drivers. While I think that non-dfsg-free

Re: New section for firmware.

2008-12-23 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 23 décembre 2008 à 21:23 +0100, Michael Banck a écrit : Why? In essence, it is very similar to a firmware. It can also be necessary (e.g. for game data) to make free software work, in a similar way to the kernel with firmware. While that might be true technically, I don't think

Re: gr_lenny vs gr_socialcontract

2008-12-19 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 19 décembre 2008 à 12:36 +0100, Marc Haber a écrit : This is something we need to agree to disagree on. There are people who still focus on The Universal Operating System, and who are willing to make compromises in freedom without being willing to make a totally non-free OS. And

Re: Why the gr_lenny ballot is the way it is

2008-12-18 Thread Josselin Mouette
Manoj, please stop your logorrhea. By the time it would take to read your 27 posts on this list in 8 hours, it would be enough to fix a handful of bugs. Le mercredi 17 décembre 2008 à 12:15 -0600, Manoj Srivastava a écrit : Also, splitting a vote into multiple ballots, with related

Re: I hereby resign as secretary

2008-12-18 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 18 décembre 2008 à 08:44 -0600, Manoj Srivastava a écrit : As to the people who emailed me that they are putting together a petition for the DAM to have me removed from the project, I hear you too. Regardless of what you did as the Secretary, I fail to see any reason to

Re: Bundled votes and the secretary

2008-12-14 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 13 décembre 2008 à 22:09 +0100, Robert Millan a écrit : For the record, I think the Secretary's interpretation of the Constitution is perfectly correct. Whether it is correct or not is irrelevant here. The Secretary is deciding this without justification, in an inconsistent way

Re: Bundled votes and the secretary

2008-12-11 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 11 décembre 2008 à 15:38 +0200, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho a écrit : More strongly, I believe Manoj has repeatedly shown the sort of moral courage and sound judgment that the Secretary's job requires, and I believe it would be a grave loss if he were to step down. It would be a shame if

Re: Resolving the controversy

2008-11-23 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 23 novembre 2008 à 10:25 +1100, Ben Finney a écrit : Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Le dimanche 23 novembre 2008 à 00:09 +1100, Ben Finney a écrit : You seem to have missed what I said: In order to have *anyone* fix them, they need to be acknowledged as DFSG

Re: Resolving the controversy

2008-11-23 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 22 novembre 2008 à 19:49 -0600, Manoj Srivastava a écrit : Could you take this tone away from -vote, please? Manoj, please don’t take this personally, but I don’t think you are qualified to tell what is an appropriate tone for a discussion. -- .''`. : :' : We are

Re: Resolving the controversy

2008-11-22 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 23 novembre 2008 à 00:09 +1100, Ben Finney a écrit : You seem to have missed what I said: In order to have *anyone* fix them, they need to be acknowledged as DFSG violations. Would you please stop your lies and go trolling elsewhere? Please? Happily the Debian kernel maintainers

Re: Resolving the controversy

2008-11-21 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 22 novembre 2008 à 01:54 +0100, Jacob Hallén a écrit : The first paragraph of the SC is a lie! Then later: 2. The SC states that the goals of Debian is to produce a totally free software distribution. This implies that practicality for users is not a concern and that Debian is

Proposed wording for the SC modification

2008-11-17 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 15 novembre 2008 à 09:45 -0600, Debian Project Secretary a écrit : ,[ Proposal 6: Exclude source requirements from firmware (defined) ] | Firmware is data such as microcode or lookup tables that is loaded into | hardware components in order to make the component function properly.

Re: Proposed wording for the SC modification

2008-11-17 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 17 novembre 2008 à 14:05 +0100, Peter Palfrader a écrit : This is not part of my GR as proposed and seconded. The Secretary made it clear that if your proposal wins, the SC *will* be amended. Therefore I think we should decide on a new wording before the vote instead of letting someone

Re: Discussion: granting discretion to release team (was: Call for seconds: DFSG violations in Lenny)

2008-11-17 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 17 novembre 2008 à 16:04 +0100, Robert Millan a écrit : On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 12:10:07AM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: I would welcome a more permanent answer to the firmware question, really, I'm not really pleased with the trolls that arise on the subject prior to every

Re: Proposed wording for the SC modification

2008-11-17 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 17 novembre 2008 à 13:01 -0600, Ean Schuessler a écrit : So it would be legitimate to distribute an install image for Windows Mobile cellular phones as a package in main? No, the proposal wouldn’t allow that since it only lifts DFSG #2. Such an image would still fail DFSG #1, #3, #7,

Re: Proposed wording for the SC modification

2008-11-17 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 17 novembre 2008 à 13:26 -0600, Ean Schuessler a écrit : No, the proposal wouldn’t allow that since it only lifts DFSG #2. Such an image would still fail DFSG #1, #3, #7, and probably #5 and #6. No, it would not. The image is firmware and is not subject to DFSG requirements.

Re: call for seconds: on firmware

2008-11-16 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 15 novembre 2008 à 19:39 -0600, Manoj Srivastava a écrit : Hm, no, the impression that I got from this discussion that at least several people here think the result of Further discussion is: i Do we require source for firmware in main: Yes ii Do we allow

Re: call for seconds: on firmware

2008-11-16 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 16 novembre 2008 à 11:24 -0600, Manoj Srivastava a écrit : The social contract says that the debian system and all its components will be 100% free, free as determined by the dfsg. All its components include the unstable suite as well. Why are you focusing on the release

Re: call for seconds: on firmware

2008-11-16 Thread Josselin Mouette
First of all, please stop the obnoxious cross-posting. It makes the threads unreadable anyway. (If you could stop the condescending and pedantic tone, that would help as well, but I guess that would be asking too much of you.) Le dimanche 16 novembre 2008 à 11:34 -0600, Manoj Srivastava a écrit

Re: DFSG violations in Lenny: new proposal

2008-11-10 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 11 novembre 2008 à 04:49 +, Ben Hutchings a écrit : So far as I can see, the only significant difference between #5 and #2 (or #3) is the requirement that upstream distributes under a license that complies with the DFSG. But it is surely irrelevant whether the licence text says

Re: Possible amendment for Debian Contributors concept (was: Call for seconds: Suspension of the changes of the Project's membership procedures.)

2008-10-28 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 28 octobre 2008 à 20:38 +0100, Peter Palfrader a écrit : So either we, the project, a) work with them and try to convince them of the merits of alternate proposals, or b) we could force a system they aren't convinced of upon them using a GR - probably not something that will work very

Re: Proposed amendment: Resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-26 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 25 octobre 2008 à 20:26 +0200, Robert Millan a écrit : I'd appreciate if you don't use a GR procedure for that, though, it makes us look like a bunch of clowns. it makes us look like a bunch of clowns. look like a bunch of clowns a bunch of clowns clowns -- Robert Millan

Re: Proposed amendment: Resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-26 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 26 octobre 2008 à 15:17 +0100, Robert Millan a écrit : For those who didn't get Josselin's witty remark, this happens because I dared to complain that my words were being missrepresented by Steve Langasek on IRC, pretending that I said something I never did. No, this happens

Re: [DRAFT] resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-24 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 23 octobre 2008 à 16:08 +0200, Robert Millan a écrit : On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 08:36:24AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Your lack of knowledge of Debian processes sucks (that means: you annoy us (at least me) with your stance and the fanatic way you defend it in public, please stop

Re: Proposed amendment: Resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-24 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 24 octobre 2008 à 18:40 +0200, Thomas Viehmann a écrit : --- The Debian project, recognizing that bugs do not fix themselves, applauds Ben Hutchings's efforts to remove non-DFSG-conformant bits from the linux-2.6 package in a way that is still making users a priority. It

Re: Proposed vote on issue of the day: trademarks and free software

2008-09-19 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 19 septembre 2008 à 11:45 +0200, Wouter Verhelst a écrit : I'd hope the FSF actually specializes in writing software, rather than making statements. However, writing Free Software is not possible unless there is a healthy community around it; the FSF thus takes a leading role and

Re: Technical committee resolution

2008-03-27 Thread Josselin Mouette
On jeu, 2008-03-27 at 19:06 +, Ian Jackson wrote: The main symptom of the TC's brokenness is that it is not making decisions, or not making them fast enough. I haven't heard anyone suggest that the TC is actually making wrong decisions. Even the glibc maintainers? -- .''`. : :' :

Re: Technical committee resolution

2008-03-10 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 10 mars 2008 à 09:21 +0100, Andreas Barth a écrit : * Anthony Towns ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [080310 03:49]: The idea is to encourage DPLs to appoint two new members during their term, so we get new blood in the committee, and people don't get stuck in the committee until they

Re: Supermajority requirement off-by-one error, and TC chairmanship

2008-02-15 Thread Josselin Mouette
On ven, 2008-02-15 at 15:50 +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: I'm not so sure this is an off-by-one *error*; for example, when simple majority is required, then a strict 50% against vs 50% in favour result should result in the status quo being kept. A simple majority thus needs to say *more* than

Re: Supermajority requirement off-by-one error, and TC chairmanship

2008-02-15 Thread Josselin Mouette
On ven, 2008-02-15 at 22:49 +0100, Bas Wijnen wrote: On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 10:09:57PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: On ven, 2008-02-15 at 15:50 +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: Having said that, I agree with you that it makes sense for the TC to not require 'X + 1', since the electorate

Re: Constitutional amendment: reduce the length of DPL election process

2007-08-05 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 04 août 2007 à 12:27 +0200, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : That's because you only take into account controversial GR. Not all GR need to be controversial. Sometimes I'm tempted to use GRs to try have some official position statements from Debian on some topics. And this is what GRs are

Re: The Debian Maintainers GR

2007-07-30 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 30 juillet 2007 à 20:22 +1000, Anthony Towns a écrit : The only way I can see for anyone without ftpmaster privileges to implement it, GR or not, is by automatically re-signing uploads from DMs with their own keys, which doesn't sound terribly ideal to me. That hasn't prevented some

Re: On the Debian Maintainers GR

2007-07-28 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 28 juillet 2007 à 19:55 +0100, Matthew Garrett a écrit : Sure, Don't quit Debian then is a valid response (though I'm perhaps old-fashioned in terms of thinking that as a full member of an organisation I have a duty to participate in its democratic process, which I'm not

Re: On the Debian Maintainers GR

2007-07-26 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 26 juillet 2007 à 21:48 +0200, gregor herrmann a écrit : I don't see a contradiction here; on the contrary I can imagine that DMs take some work off the shoulders of DDs in teams. I fail to see how. More pet packages mean more work for transitions, for the release team, for other

Re: On the Debian Maintainers GR

2007-07-26 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 26 juillet 2007 à 16:20 +0200, Loïc Minier a écrit : But what if this results in higher quality packages than the one of overly busy DDs (because the maintainers are very focused on their pet packages)? Did you think of this consequence? If someone can make such packages, he

Re: On the Debian Maintainers GR

2007-07-26 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 26 juillet 2007 à 18:34 +0200, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, Josselin Mouette wrote: If someone doesn't want to be a DD because the NM process is broken I haven't said that. Previous discussions gave examples of people who don't want to stay DD for political

Re: On the Debian Maintainers GR

2007-07-26 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 26 juillet 2007 à 17:52 +0200, Loïc Minier a écrit : On Thu, Jul 26, 2007, Josselin Mouette wrote: If someone can make such packages, he should become a DD, full stop. Don't bother replying if you don't read the thread. Thanks for your concern, but I have read the whole thread

Re: On the Debian Maintainers GR

2007-07-26 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 26 juillet 2007 à 16:30 +0200, Loïc Minier a écrit : So are you saying that an unexpected consequence of the Debian maintainers uploading their packages alone could be that the Debian sponsors would have to look for different packages to sponsor? Yay, even more crap in the archive!

Re: On the Debian Maintainers GR

2007-07-26 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 26 juillet 2007 à 19:07 +0200, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : Well, for the record, I haven't appreciated Loïc's rhetorical questions. But he clearly signed rhetorical and only Joss felt the need to fell in the trap of replying. What exactly makes you think this wasn't only intentional on

Re: GR idea related to ongoing licensing discussions

2007-06-08 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 07 juin 2007 à 18:49 +0200, Marco d'Itri a écrit : If not, stop trolling. Accusing people who oppose your views of trolling shows lack of dialectic skills. I have a hard finding another word to describe someone calling people not sharing his views a revisionist. -- .''`. : :' :

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

2007-05-31 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 30 mai 2007 à 11:50 +0100, MJ Ray a écrit : 1. Sven Luther is suspended from all debian lists for a year, which should be similar to (b), because the project generally liked his two-month self-suspension and wishes not to receive his discussion contributions at the moment. 2.

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

2007-05-31 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 31 mai 2007 à 11:03 +, Cord Beermann a écrit : politically... we don't want to be list police. we don't speak enough languages and don't have the time to do that. We run the lists, we have more enough to do to keep the spam level low. So the step-in and adding a ban on

Re: Question for Gustavo and Sam: bringing back the fun

2007-03-17 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 16 mars 2007 à 10:27 +, MJ Ray a écrit : It's sort of disappointing how much less trouble I've had since adding such disclaimers to the end of emails containing jokes. There seem to be far too many starched attitudes around. Ah, thanks. I was looking for a translation of the

Re: Question for Gustavo and Sam: bringing back the fun

2007-03-16 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 15 mars 2007 à 15:19 -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit : Many of us probably missed the humor because of the missing disclaimer explaining ha-ha, this was only a joke, I don't really think we should have flamewars despite the fact that I'm frequently a rude jerk to others in the project.

Re: Question to all the candidates: please explain GR-2006-001

2007-03-16 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 16 mars 2007 à 08:35 +0100, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : While there are other problems than the invariant section, it was really the biggest problem and the others will probably disappear with the next GFDL update AFAIK. That's good news to hear. I've not followed the GFDL affair

Re: Question for Gustavo and Sam: bringing back the fun

2007-03-15 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 15 mars 2007 à 19:43 +0200, Lars Wirzenius a écrit : I've tried not participating or reading lists with large flame contents: for significant parts of 2006 I did not read -devel and -project (for instance). The result was that you're cut off from any sense of what the project is doing

Re: Question to the candidates: RC bugs fixed

2007-03-15 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 15 mars 2007 à 22:10 +0100, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : My biggest technical contributions over the last year are: - the management of the Python transition and the development/fixing/modifications of the corresponding dh_{python,pycentral,pysupport} scripts.

Re: Question to the candidates: RC bugs fixed

2007-03-15 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 15 mars 2007 à 23:04 +0100, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Pierre Habouzit wrote: Uuuh which part do you refer to ? The part that I did and that nobody else was willing to do. Discuss with Josselin and Doko so that we actually have gone forward even if it has

Re: Question to the candidates: RC bugs fixed

2007-03-15 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 15 mars 2007 à 23:29 +0100, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : For readers who are interested in a more neutral point of view, I invite them to read the archives of debian-python during the month of june: http://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2006/06/threads.html I don't think you make a good

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

2007-03-05 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 05 mars 2007 à 14:52 +0200, Kalle Kivimaa a écrit : Criticise, yes. Mock, no. If I understand your opinion, Greg Folkert's way of criticising people is acceptable, while Sam's is not. Is that correct? -- .''`. : :' : We are debian.org. Lower your prices, surrender your code. `.

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

2007-03-05 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 05 mars 2007 à 13:58 +0200, Kalle Kivimaa a écrit : This attitude is the very single one that I absolutely hate in volunteer organizations. Why should you get mocked for doing things you like with no compensation? What moral right do the mockers have? I'm getting pissed off by this

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

2007-03-05 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 05 mars 2007 à 15:05 +0200, Kalle Kivimaa a écrit : Well, if *I* get compensated enough, I'm willing to be mocked :) So yes, I find it somewhat more acceptable. As a semi-RL example, I've been thinking about a game fee for sports officials: travel costs plus 20 euros per each insult

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

2007-03-04 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 04 mars 2007 à 18:13 +1000, Anthony Towns a écrit : Yup, though that shouldn't be much of a challenge. The other problem is that the list doesn't seem active, so it's not incredibly clear that people are actively maintaining the port. The number of patches submitted for this port

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

2007-03-04 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 04 mars 2007 à 10:21 +0100, Andreas Barth a écrit : I hope you realize that your blog posts were one of the reasons why I reduced the time I spend on the release dramatically. It is just frustrating if people try to destroy the work you are doing. I hope you realize Sam's blog

Re: Question for the candidates

2007-03-02 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 02 mars 2007 à 03:04 -0800, Steve Langasek a écrit : Which release-critical bug will each of you fix in order to convince me to vote for you? :) Is this offer valid for non-candidates to make you vote for the candidate of their choice? -- .''`. : :' : We are debian.org.

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-02-27 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 27 février 2007 à 18:36 +1000, Anthony Towns a écrit : I'd rather see a Dunc-Tank report (and criticism and analysis of that) before thinking more about it. Aren't you the one supposed to write it? -- .''`. : :' : We are debian.org. Lower your prices, surrender your code. `. `'

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-02-27 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 27 février 2007 à 13:45 +0200, Kalle Kivimaa a écrit : Pierre Habouzit [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I absolutely don't like the implications of that assertion. Well, if an entity A feels that they would benefit from paying a DD for his Debian work, they have two choices: 1. They

Question for candidates: the d-i conflict

2007-02-27 Thread Josselin Mouette
Hi, I'd like to ask Anthony and Steve what they think of how they handled the conflict between Frans Pop and Sven Luther, and other candidates how they would have handled this conflict. To everyone: how would you avoid such situations to become this problematic in the future? -- .''`. : :' :

Re: BREAKING NEWS: Debian developers aren't trusted

2007-02-15 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 16 février 2007 à 01:27 +1000, Anthony Towns a écrit : (If there's something more than the general comments Frank made, I'm still not seeing it. TTBOMK, the non-free and experimental builds aren't at all integrated with the buildd.d.o stuff, and there's been no particular interest

Re: BREAKING NEWS: Debian developers aren't trusted

2007-02-12 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 12 février 2007 à 19:35 +1000, Anthony Towns a écrit : There are different levels of trusting. One can think that no DD would introduce malware in the archive and anyway could think also that some developers are not good for certain tasks because of attitude/lack of

Re: BREAKING NEWS: Debian developers aren't trusted

2007-02-11 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 11 février 2007 à 04:24 +0200, Kalle Kivimaa a écrit : Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Personally, I don't like either of the checks, but I've seen zero effort from Aurelian and friends to demonstrate they can be trusted, Quoting partial sentences without disclosing

BREAKING NEWS: Debian developers aren't trusted

2007-02-10 Thread Josselin Mouette
e samedi 10 février 2007 à 13:05 +1000, Anthony Towns a écrit : Personally, I don't like either of the checks, but I've seen zero effort from Aurelian and friends to demonstrate they can be trusted, -- .''`. : :' : We are debian.org. Lower your prices, surrender your code. `. `' We

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

2006-10-26 Thread Josselin Mouette
. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2006/10/msg00233.html [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/06/msg00017.html [3] http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2006/10/msg00238.html Seconded. -- Josselin Mouette/\./\ Do you have any more insane proposals

Re: Firmware vote rationale

2006-10-12 Thread Josselin Mouette
- be done for etch if someone did all the required work. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom

Re: Status of recall and affimation resolutions

2006-10-04 Thread Josselin Mouette
missed something. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée

Re: Call for a vote: Re-affirm support to the Debian Project Leader

2006-10-04 Thread Josselin Mouette
; do not endorse nor support his other projects [ ] Further discussion I'm attaching the proposed WML page for this vote (vote_006.wml). I agree with the call for vote, the proposed ballot and the WML page. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL

Re: A summary of the current firmware GRs (Was: Summary? (Or: my vote is for sale!))

2006-10-03 Thread Josselin Mouette
. If it is, it will of course not make much sense to keep it this way. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message

Re: Another proposal

2006-10-03 Thread Josselin Mouette
or participate in outside Debian. --- snip here --- Indeed, sorry for the bad English of the proposal. I accept this new wording if the seconders follow. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: State of the GR's: Part 2 - Position statement on the DPL and Dunc-Tank

2006-10-02 Thread Josselin Mouette
this in the constitution, and having it in a single ballot would make things clearer. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de

Another proposal

2006-09-30 Thread Josselin Mouette
I don't like the plethora of proposals that come up on -vote these days, but Loïc's proposed GR doesn't look acceptable to me. The text of the proposal is attached. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Splitting out Choice #1 from vote_004

2006-09-27 Thread Josselin Mouette
sure this is the intention, but IMO this discussion is turning into paramecia hair-splitting with an axe. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom

Re: Splitting out Choice #1 from vote_004

2006-09-26 Thread Josselin Mouette
the current situation, implying a delay in the release. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom

Re: Splitting out Choice #1 from vote_004

2006-09-26 Thread Josselin Mouette
to rethink them in this context and propose other amendments. That may lead to a marginally clearer choice, but frankly, if we delay the vote until we have the perfect proposal, it will never happen. Manoj, is there anything preventing to start the vote right now? -- .''`. Josselin Mouette

Re: Splitting out Choice #1 from vote_004

2006-09-26 Thread Josselin Mouette
. This leads to a case of tactical voting. If I prefer my proposal over Frederik's, but I'd prefer that none of them would pass, I should still put mine before NOTA to give it a better chance to hit 3:1. I know I'm nitpicking, but isn't this whole thread about nitpicking? ;) -- .''`. Josselin

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