Re: [to all candidates] Accessible software in Debian

2013-03-18 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 01:55:16PM +0100, Thomas Preud'homme wrote: As just said I don't have any peticuliar disabilities myself right now, but I wholeheartedly agree that accessibility is important and should be important for the project. Thanks a lot for this question to the

Re: to DPL candidates: getting new people to Debian

2013-03-17 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 03:47:57PM +0100, Gergely Nagy wrote: Serafeim Zanikolas s...@debian.org writes: If you refer to university students in some software-related discipline: have you considered assignments for the preparation of patches for wishlist bugs in native and

Re: Debian's relationship with money and the economy

2013-03-16 Thread Toni Mueller
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 01:01:25PM +0300, Moray Allan wrote: Though, for clarity, I wouldn't want DPN to turn into some kind of Slashdot clone that just happens to be run by Debian people -- I We have planet.debian.org for that, right? Cheers, --Toni++ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: to DPL candidates: getting new people to Debian

2013-03-15 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi Lucas, On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 03:43:16PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: First, I don't think that age matters that much. imho, age does matter. See Bulbullle's notice why he doesn't run. I've seen people leaving other projects by eg. way of heart attack or traffic accident, too. Younger

Re: Usage of Debian's Money

2013-03-14 Thread Toni Mueller
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 12:00:48AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: On 12/03/13 at 10:43 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: To other candidates, do you believe that we could benefit from using money for other things than hardware and meeting/travel reimbursment? If yes, what kind of things? [ I

Re: GR: welcome non-packaging contributors as Debian project members

2010-09-18 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, On Tue, 14.09.2010 at 17:53:46 +0900, Stefano Zacchiroli lea...@debian.org wrote: in recent events I've attended as DPL, the topic of welcoming non-packaging contributors as project members has been a recurring one. Since it was also part of my platform and since DPL terms don't last

Re: GR: welcome non-packaging contributors as Debian project members

2010-09-18 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, On Tue, 14.09.2010 at 17:53:46 +0900, Stefano Zacchiroli lea...@debian.org wrote: in recent events I've attended as DPL, the topic of welcoming non-packaging contributors as project members has been a recurring one. Since it was also part of my platform and since DPL terms don't last

Re: Question for DD candidates: The race against NOTA

2010-03-17 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, On Tue, 16.03.2010 at 22:32:22 -0600, Gunnar Wolf gw...@gwolf.org wrote: As per Constitution 5.2.4, the vote should be repeated, as many times as needed. Lets just assume it was different: The project has voted not to have a leader anymore. What would be different if there was no

Re: Question for all candidates: Care of Core infrastructure

2010-03-16 Thread Toni Mueller
On Tue, 16.03.2010 at 01:45:33 +0100, Wouter Verhelst wou...@debian.org wrote: increasing. By definition, that means the ratio of Debian Developers per package has been doing down, and thus also that the core infrastructure has less contributors. Having more packages does not necessarily mean

Re: GR proposal: the AGPL does not meet the DFSG (take 2)

2009-11-12 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, On Wed, 11.11.2009 at 23:46:59 +0100, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, this is one of the awkward things I find in the AGPL. If it's not a webapp, what then? please see this: http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-faq.html#AGPLv3InteractingRemotely It could eg.

Re: Results for General Resolution: Lenny and resolving DFSG violations

2008-12-28 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, On Sun, 28.12.2008 at 21:08:04 +1000, Anthony Towns a...@azure.humbug.org.au wrote: If you consider the same results, without the supermajority requirements for options 2, 3, 4 and 6, you get: Winner: Option 2: Allow Lenny to release with proprietary firmware considering all the

no blanket firmware exception, please (was: Re: Proposed wording for the SC modification)

2008-12-23 Thread Toni Mueller
Hello, On Mon, 17.11.2008 at 09:38:19 -0600, Manoj Srivastava sriva...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, Nov 17 2008, Charles Plessy wrote: Can the Secretary clarify again what will hapen if Peter's option is voted ? That GR clearly refines the DFSG statement that all programs need

dunc-tank, expulsion fests

2007-03-19 Thread Toni Mueller
Hello, these are questions for all candidates. I was unable to distill the answers from your platforms and the last six or seven weeks of -vote (pointers to past unmistakable statements that I've overlooked are fine by me): 1. Would you support/continue/expand this dunc-tank experiment? If so,

Re: Call for votes for GR: : Handling source-less firmware in the Linux kernel

2006-10-09 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, On Sat, 07.10.2006 at 18:52:41 -0500, Debian Project Secretary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The details of the general resolution can be found at: http://www.debian.org/vote/vote_007 the correct link is probably http://www.debian.org/vote/2006/vote_007 (note the '2006' part). I'd prefer to

GPG key problem with new vote keys

2006-10-09 Thread Toni Mueller
Hello, I'm using mutt and gpg 1.4.5, but have severe problems using the vote keys. First, I do something like 'Ctrl-K' to import the key. This sometimes gives me a message like 'processed: 0, imported: 1'. When I then try to use a key like [EMAIL PROTECTED], gpg tells me that it doesn't find

Re: The bigger issue is badly licensed blobs (was Re: Firmware poll

2006-08-30 Thread Toni Mueller
Hello, On Wed, 30.08.2006 at 09:27:21 +0200, Marco d'Itri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 30, Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Debian must decide whether it wants to ship BLOBs with licensing which technically does not permit redistribution. At least 53 blobs have this problem.