On Fri, Jul 15, 2016, Thaddeus H. Black wrote:
> > All appearances of the word Chairman shall be
> > replaced with the word Chair.
>
> I oppose this and all efforts to emasculate the
> Debian Project.
Did something change since 12 years ago, when you agreed to join a
project that advocated
On Thu, Jun 21, 2007, Anthony Towns wrote:
1) A new keyring will be created, called the Debian maintainers keyring.
It will be initially maintained in alioth subversion using the jetring
tool, with commit priveleges initially assigned to:
[...]
* the Jetring developers
On Mon, Jun 25, 2007, Anthony Towns wrote:
Shortly before leaving DebConf someone (whose name I've forgotten,
sadly) suggested that some sample use cases for the DM process might be
useful. Here's some that come to my mind:
Another use case that I'd like to mention is the Ubuntu maintainer
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007, Matthew Garrett wrote:
Sam Hocevar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I DID NOT CREATE THIS WEBSITE AND I AM NOT A MEMBER OF THIS ORGANISATION.
While I appreciate that member is almost certainly something without
any especially well defined meaning, you seem to have had
On Mon, Apr 09, 2007, Matthew Blanc wrote:
Hello, I came across this link on a forum I frequent, and was wondering if
these allegations about sam are true?
Yes. Everything you may read on the Internet is true, and it is
especially true of this forum you frequent.
Kind regards,
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On Thu, Mar 29, 2007, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
I would argue that the ballot has a similar clearcut
distinction: The ranking is the number the voter enters, the ordering
of the choices has the prefix Choice, and actually precedes the
actual option.
FYI, I was today congratulated
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007, MJ Ray wrote:
but after that, I didn't find another search result until he mentioned
the 2007 marketing campaign. Is this the sort of fire and forget
reporting that we would expect if Steve McIntyre were elected DPL?
How would other candidates avoid dropping topics
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007, Sven Luther wrote:
1) Can you tell us a few of the most important mistakes you have made during
these past two years with regard to debian ?
I am aware of no technical mistake that had important consequences and
was not quickly fixed.
My obvious social mistake
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote:
IMHO things like this could have been avoided by having a proper team
behind [EMAIL PROTECTED] and those both mailing lists which is at least 4
persons.
How do you plan help the press team out here? Do you think a delegation
of one person is
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007, Francesco Poli wrote:
How did you vote for the GR on the GFDL[1] (GR-2006-001) and why?
Option 1-: GFDL-licensed works are unsuitable for main in all cases
/ Option 2: GFDL-licensed works without unmodifiable sections are free
|/ Option 3---: GFDL-licensed
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007, Margarita Manterola wrote:
This is for Gustavo and Sam, who have both stated in their campaigns
that they want to bring back the fun to Debian. Now, I'm all for
Debian being more fun, but I wonder:
How do you plan to bring back the fun? What are the specific steps
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007, Anthony Towns wrote:
Sam thinks our BTS is ugly and hardly usable because of the wnpp
pseudopackage.
Uhm, there's no because here in my platform, it was just the most
prominent example that made it clear that packages with many bugs are
very difficult to manage through
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007, Thaddeus H. Black wrote:
Please brag about RC bugs you have fixed since sarge's release, excluding
bugs in your own packages. Of interest are both the quantity and
intractability of the bugs. If you have not fixed RC bugs but have made
another noteworthy Project-oriented
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
We all know from experience (and this is not specific to Debian) that
the persons that get elected do not distribute their actions over the
term of office regularly. They are usually active just after they get
elected, then they start to be less
On Mon, Mar 12, 2007, David Moreno Garza wrote:
I'd like to know that if you really had in mind to run for DPL this year
or you only happened to do it because Simon Richter blogged about
getting the French DPL:
http://www.hogyros.de/?q=node/237PHPSESSID=b0f1085279dae935669d872a48e1a085
I
On Mon, Mar 12, 2007, Adrian von Bidder wrote:
On Saturday 10 March 2007 10.29:32 Pierre Habouzit wrote:
Then each candidate could chose a glyph to represent him on the
ballot:
♥, ♫, ♀, …
Unicode!
I ♥ a ballot with 65535 options.
(and we could still extend that to UCS32)
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007, Josip Rodin wrote:
How much time do you generally have to read Debian-related e-mail?
How much for the Debian mailing lists?
If you only mean read, reading e-mail is a continuous process for
me and I don't know how much time it sums up to. About half of the
legitimate
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007, Kari Pahula wrote:
I would like to hear what the candidates think about the non-free
section. Is having it hosted on Debian's infrastructure still worth
it?
It was never worth it. It has brought disagreement with the FSF
(nothing new, I know) which as a result did not
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007, Osamu Aoki wrote:
I took this as the approval of the fact that you (Sam Hocevar) created
this site.
I DID NOT CREATE THIS WEBSITE AND I AM NOT A MEMBER OF THIS ORGANISATION.
KINDEST REGARDS,
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SAM.
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On Sat, Mar 03, 2007, Stephen Gran wrote:
Was that a purposeful attempt to dodge the GNAA question, or did you not
understand the question?
By the way, I hope you are not mistaking me with the individual who
co-founded ButtesNet, is part of or has ties with the ANUS, Bantown and
GNAA
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007, Kalle Kivimaa wrote:
Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
When you are in a visible position in a group, you are also in the
position to be mocked, and it's something people should get used to.
This attitude is the very single one that I absolutely hate in
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007, Matthew Garrett wrote:
Research[1] has shown that one of the primary factors deterring women
from involvement in free software is the perceived hostility of many of
the communities. Do candidates believe that mocking of other members of
the project is acceptable[2],
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007, Russ Allbery wrote:
You seem to be a frequent contributor to a site associated with GNAA,
which is a trolling organization that has had past run-ins with Wikipedia
and other volunteer projects. Could you clarify, first, whether that's
actually true or whether it's just
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007, Holger Levsen wrote:
On Sunday 04 March 2007 12:49, Sam Hocevar wrote:
juvenile that piece of software may be, I will not accept criticism
about it until Debian stops distributing software that encourages
stoning women and children, cursing homosexuals or enslaving
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote:
How important are unofficial archives[1] for you? What whould you do to
support them, if you consider them important? What could be done to
integrate them into official Debian structure?
As a general rule, I find unofficial archives
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007, Steve Langasek wrote:
To state it plainly: the blocker for the etch release for the past 2 months
or so has been the kernel. This was known, and it was stated.
I don't remember seeing anyone from outside the kernel team step forward to
tackle any of the kernel's RC
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007, Peter Nuttall wrote:
There are 9 people standing, with a wide range of ideas in their
platforms. If you fail to be elected, will you still work on things
from your platform? Which bits and why?
You may prefer to answer this: What part of your platform cannot be
done
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007, Stephen Gran wrote:
I am a little curious at a disjuncture I see between your platform and
some of your actions, and I am hoping you can explain. In your platform,
you speak of the power of working in groups to get things done, and yet
you mock others efforts regularly
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007, Stephen Gran wrote:
On a similar note, I find it a bit jarring that you find the GNAA an
acceptable group to work with. You appear to be directly associated with
http://www.lastmeasure.com/, and many of the svn check ins are from a
person named 'sam', who I
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007, Stephen Gran wrote:
I have been contributing to Debian for about 8 years, and mocking the
delay and the decisions of the release team for about 3 weeks (11/30 to
12/20). You have every right to call this regular, but if you do I
am afraid I don't know how I may
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007, Steve Langasek wrote:
* we announced a bogus release date. I know not everyone agrees on
who is responsible for that announcement,
Who do you believe is responsible for that announcement?
The story as I understand it is that the press team slightly changed
the
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007, Mike Hommey wrote:
What do you think of the dunc-tank initiative ?
First the good things. I clearly think dunc-tank helped Steve and
Andi be more productive, and all things equal otherwise this improved
the release. There is no denying that.
I see several problems
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007, Frank Küster wrote:
I appreciate your support as a maintainer in dealing with release-critical
bugs that affected your packages. But why should anyone who cares about
Debian's stable releases vote for you if that's the sort of support you're
going to show for the
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007, MJ Ray wrote:
I've read a few questions and answers which use the word effective.
I suspect there are different interpretations of effective. In
particular, whether a delegation is still effective - because on the
face of it, that could be a no-op in all cases. So:
-
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007, Kalle Kivimaa wrote:
What is the role of the DPL? Is he a strong leader, who uses his
position to Get Things Done His Way, a public figurehead, who just
Speaks For The Project, a mediator, who tries to solve internal
squabbles, or something else?
The DPL is a strong
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007, Anthony Towns wrote:
1) raising money to support Debian activities people care about is
possible in reasonable amounts
Ack.
2) it's difficult to pay people to work on core Debian things if
you do it publically
Wow, that's quite a shortcut. I'd have a
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007, Curt Larson wrote:
The very hot topic this week is Dell's move to offer open source
alternatives. Buried several clicks away from Dells 'Ideas in Action'
page is a vague reference to Debian pertaining to 8G servers. Would
you as DPL make it a primary goal to attract as
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007, Kalle Kivimaa wrote:
I was unclear again. I meant, how many times will you seek
re-election if you are re-elected?
Zero times.
I think one year is already enough to achieve great things. Two years
is OK if the project believes the DPL did good. After that, fresh
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote:
* How important are regular releases for the project?
Very. Regular releases make our users faithful, prevent them from
getting bored and trying something else. They also give credibility when
approaching hardware vendors (they don't want
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007, Ana Guerrero wrote:
Why do you think you will be a good DPL?
I am a reasonable, friendly person. I think most people in the
project like me as a person, and there is no one I'd be unwilling to
work with or listen to. I am happy to delegate, give power to others,
and
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
No. Delegating oneself could theoretically be used to create loopholes
so that a future DPL has no power anymore. Continuing an
already-existing delegation could not.
Ack.
NACK. Please explain
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007, Sune Vuorela wrote:
Many of the candidates are busy in other parts of debian with doing some
other more or less important work.
Which parts of your current work will you spend less time on when being
a DPL?
My real life duties have priorities that I can change. If
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007, Julien BLACHE wrote:
Hence, what is your position on including those new, non-Linux ports ?
Favourable.
What would the timeframe be like, according to you ?
I see no reason to wait a single day more.
For newer ports not already mentioned, I would like to make
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007, John Lightsey wrote:
1) Do you believe past DPL's have used the power of delegation
effectively?
Hard to tell. I believe additional delegation would have solved the
unresponsiveness issues we have been having for several years now, but
I wouldn't say it was the only
candidate for DPL!.:%'
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With all my love,
Sam.
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On Fri, Feb 09, 2007, Loïc Minier wrote:
I am not sure you got my last two arguments, or you're distorting them
here: I'm not discussing the current or best upload rights, I would
certainly prefer it if everybody could upload arm binaries; what I'm
pointing at is that this GR might
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007, Bill Allombert wrote:
I hereby propose the following General Resolution for sponsoring.
---
The Debian project resolves that Debian developers allowed to perform
combined source and binary packages uploads should be
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007, Loïc Minier wrote:
But since this GR is about revoking some ftpmasters rights which
should be exercized with judgment,
I think you got it backwards, it seems to me to be about reinstating
some developers' rights. Unless unilaterally preventing developers from
doing
issues
=== END OF PROPOSAL ===
Simply to get the option on the ballot, I hereby second the above proposal.
Regardless of the popularity of such a choice, I too would find it
fair to have a we will delay etch option and am therefore seconding
the proposal.
Sam.
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Sam Hocevar [EMAIL
On Sun, Oct 01, 2006, Josselin Mouette wrote:
== Reaffirm support for Anthony Towns as the Project Leader ==
The Debian project reaffirms support to Anthony Towns as the Debian
Project Leader. However, it doesn't endorse nor support any projects Mr
Towns may lead or participate in outside
On Fri, Sep 22, 2006, Erich Schubert wrote:
The principle is simple:
- if people think dunc-tank is a good thing, they'll get money
Hahaha oh wow. Now I understand why people are so enthusiastic.
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Sam.
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On Thu, Sep 21, 2006, Loïc Minier wrote:
The Debian Project reaffirms its support to its DPL.
The Debian Project does not object to the experiment named Duck
Tank
I do not like how this not objecting might be interpreted as
support. I want Debian to neither object nor not object. If it is
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006, Andreas Barth wrote:
What's that for, now? Obviously the majority (and also the secretary)
wasn't the opinion the DFSG needs to be changed. Could you please just
accept the decision being done, and can we go back to work?
Well since obviously the majority was of the
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006, Jacobo Tarrio wrote:
First, I disagree that such a change is necessary (if it were, the GR
itself would already include the needed changes and require 3:1
supermajority).
Second, these amendments would make this example license DFSG-free:
[...]
Indeed. Would
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006, Jacobo Tarrio wrote:
El jueves, 6 de abril de 2006 a las 19:06:50 +0200, Sam Hocevar escribía:
Indeed. Would such a wording be acceptable:
As a special exception, the license may forbid use of
technical measures to restrict access or use of the software
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