Re: Bundled votes and the secretary

2008-12-11 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Josselin Mouette wrote: What this position requires is the minimal level of morality to not use it to favor an opinion or another. And this is something Manoj has been repeatedly doing; first in the GFDL GR, next in the etch firmwares GR, now in the lenny one. I do not trust anymore the

Re: call for seconds: on firmware (was: on firmware (possible proposal))

2008-11-14 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
In gmane.linux.debian.devel.vote, Peter Palfrader wrote: I'm hereby proposing the following general resolution: | Firmware is data such as microcode or lookup tables that is loaded into | hardware components in order to make the component function properly. | It is not code that is run on the

Re: Proposed amendment: Resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-24 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Julien BLACHE wrote: I belive that Robert's resolution is a waste of time in that it adds Doubly so. AOL. Cheers, Moritz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Technical committee resolution

2008-04-03 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Holger Levsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FWIW, it's orphaned since yesterday. But let's keep it in Lenny as well, I no longer care. Can you please elaborate? Orphaned, pretty bad security record, let's keep it - I don't understand. Of course it's meant ironic (for the first part), but the

Re: Technical committee resolution

2008-03-31 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Don Armstrong wrote: Well, just to pick an example, if the TC had chosen you to deal with the wordpress-in-stable issue, and you had personally decided it needed to be in stable, and had done whatever work was initially needed to get it into stable with security support, you'd still be

Re: Question for all candidates: inter-dependancy of works the growing Debian project.

2008-03-16 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Charles Plessy wrote: I started to wonder about modularity in the use of the Debian infrastructure in 2006, because of a problem with the clustalw package. As you can see on the graph, its popcon score started to decrease around july.

Re: Question for all candidates: inter-dependancy of works the growing Debian project.

2008-03-11 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Charles Plessy wrote: Although I am not yet a DD, as it can happen anytime before or after the elections, I would like to ask a question to the candidates. Debian is growing bigger everyday. I would like to know if you think that it should adapt to its new size, and if yes, how can you help

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal, updated

2007-06-27 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Hi, I second the GR proposal quoted below. Cheers, Moritz =3D=3D=3D=3D Debian Maintainers Proposal =3D=3D=3D=3D The Debian Project endorses the concept of Debian Maintainers with limited access, and resolves that: 1) A new keyring will be created, called the Debian maintainers

Re: Firmware Social Contract: GR proposal

2006-09-10 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
In gmane.linux.debian.devel.vote, ajt wrote: Thanks Aj, that's the best GR proposed so far. I second the proposal below. Cheers, Moritz The Debian Project resolves that: (a) The Social Contract shall be reverted to its original form, as at

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

2006-08-23 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
In gmane.linux.debian.devel.vote, you wrote: It's my hope that this strikes a reasonable balance between respecting the views of individual developers and advancing a viable policy for the project so that we can move forward together on the goal of making each Debian release a first-class,

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

2006-08-23 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Bernhard R. Link wrote: 4. Determines that as a special exception to DFSG #2, source code for device firmware will not be required until we have the technical means to split them out in a convenient way for our users. I'd rather suggest to give a direct hint in time. Like until etch

Re: Question to all candidates about stable point releases

2006-03-07 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Anthony Towns wrote: There are, for instance, a range of outstanding RC bugs on sudo as a result of the security release for it that need fixing, which aiui aren't being worked on Bdale said he would prepare a patch, that would add more documentation and whitelist some more env vars like

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

2006-02-09 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Adeodato Simó wrote: Debian and the GNU Free Documentation License = This is the position of the Debian Project about the GNU Free Documentation License as published by the Free Software Foundation: 1. We consider that the GNU Free

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-28 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Anton Zinoviev wrote: Hereby I am proposing an amendment to the GR about GFDL opened by Anthony Towns [Sun, 01 Jan 2006 15:02:04 +1000] I wish to thank everybody who will support this amendment, especially I wish to thank those who second it. I second the amendment quoted below. It's my

Re: State of the GR

2006-01-28 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
In gmane.linux.debian.devel.vote, you wrote: As far as I am aware, neither the proposal nor the amendment have been modified/re-ratified; and no other GR or amendment has met the required number of seconds; so the page at I just seconded it; Anton's amendment now has the required

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

2006-01-13 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
In linux.debian.vote Adeodato wrote: I propose an amendment to this GR, consisting in replacing the existing text with the one below. I initially tried to follow Anthony's original text as close as possible, and just add a paragraph and reword a couple sentences, but I didn't quite