Re: Call for seconds - DC concept (was: Possible amendment for Debian Contributors concept)

2008-11-03 Thread Andreas Barth
* Peter Palfrader ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [081029 20:58]: On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Peter Palfrader wrote: I really dislike the negative tone of the original proposed resolution, so I am thinking of proposing this as an alternative option. I hereby propose this alternate option/amendment and am

Re: Call for seconds - DC concept (was: Possible amendment for Debian Contributors concept)

2008-11-03 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 09:28:17AM +0100, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: Hi Peter, On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 09:01:51PM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote: On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Peter Palfrader wrote: I really dislike the negative tone of the original proposed resolution, so I am thinking of

Re: Call for seconds - DC concept (was: Possible amendment for Debian Contributors concept)

2008-11-03 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 05:09:14PM +, Neil McGovern wrote: On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 09:28:17AM +0100, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: Hi Peter, On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 09:01:51PM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote: On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Peter Palfrader wrote: I really dislike the negative

Re: Call for seconds - DC concept (was: Possible amendment for Debian Contributors concept)

2008-10-31 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Peter Palfrader [EMAIL PROTECTED] (29/10/2008): I hereby propose this alternate option/amendment and am asking for seconds. | The Debian Project recognizes that many contributors to the project are not | working withing established frameworks of Debian and thus are not provided by |

Re: Call for seconds - DC concept (was: Possible amendment for Debian Contributors concept)

2008-10-31 Thread Philipp Kern
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 09:01:51PM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote: | The Debian Project recognizes that many contributors to the project are not | working withing established frameworks of Debian and thus are not provided by | the project with as much help as might be possible, useful

Re: Call for seconds - DC concept (was: Possible amendment for Debian Contributors concept)

2008-10-31 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
* Peter Palfrader [EMAIL PROTECTED] [081029 21:01]: I hereby propose this alternate option/amendment and am asking for seconds. | The Debian Project recognizes that many contributors to the project are not | working withing established frameworks of Debian and thus are not provided by

Re: Call for seconds - DC concept (was: Possible amendment for Debian Contributors concept)

2008-10-31 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, * Peter Palfrader [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-10-29 21:06]: On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Peter Palfrader wrote: I really dislike the negative tone of the original proposed resolution, so I am thinking of proposing this as an alternative option. I hereby propose this alternate option/amendment

Re: Call for seconds - DC concept (was: Possible amendment for Debian Contributors concept)

2008-10-30 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 30/10/08 at 09:18 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:45:31PM +0100, Frans Pop a écrit : I hereby second the proposal quoted below and have no objection to Charles Plessy's earlier proposal being dropped (or retracted) Thanks Frans for the explanation, and thanks

Re: Call for seconds - DC concept (was: Possible amendment for Debian Contributors concept)

2008-10-30 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi Peter, On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 09:01:51PM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote: On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Peter Palfrader wrote: I really dislike the negative tone of the original proposed resolution, so I am thinking of proposing this as an alternative option. I hereby propose this alternate

Re: Call for seconds - DC concept (was: Possible amendment for Debian Contributors concept)

2008-10-30 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Peter Palfrader wrote: On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Peter Palfrader wrote: I really dislike the negative tone of the original proposed resolution, so I am thinking of proposing this as an alternative option. I hereby propose this alternate option/amendment and am asking for

Re: Call for seconds - DC concept (was: Possible amendment for Debian Contributors concept)

2008-10-30 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi, On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 09:01:51PM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote: On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Peter Palfrader wrote: I really dislike the negative tone of the original proposed resolution, so I am thinking of proposing this as an alternative option. I hereby propose this alternate

Call for seconds - DC concept (was: Possible amendment for Debian Contributors concept)

2008-10-29 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Peter Palfrader wrote: I really dislike the negative tone of the original proposed resolution, so I am thinking of proposing this as an alternative option. I hereby propose this alternate option/amendment and am asking for seconds. | The Debian Project recognizes that

Re: Call for seconds - DC concept (was: Possible amendment for Debian Contributors concept)

2008-10-29 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 09:01:51PM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote: I hereby propose this alternate option/amendment and am asking for seconds. | The Debian Project recognizes that many contributors to the project are not | working withing established frameworks of Debian and thus are

Re: Call for seconds - DC concept (was: Possible amendment for Debian Contributors concept)

2008-10-29 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 08:01:51PM +, Peter Palfrader wrote: On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Peter Palfrader wrote: I really dislike the negative tone of the original proposed resolution, so I am thinking of proposing this as an alternative option. I hereby propose this alternate

Re: Call for seconds - DC concept (was: Possible amendment for Debian Contributors concept)

2008-10-29 Thread Luca Filipozzi
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 09:01:51PM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote: On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Peter Palfrader wrote: I really dislike the negative tone of the original proposed resolution, so I am thinking of proposing this as an alternative option. I hereby propose this alternate

Re: Call for seconds - DC concept (was: Possible amendment for Debian Contributors concept)

2008-10-29 Thread Frans Pop
Although I take exception to some of the name calling that has been done against Charles and Lucas, I am fine with switching to this alternative proposal as its ultimate intend is identical: to safeguard that no changes are made to something as fundamental to the project as its membership

Re: Call for seconds - DC concept (was: Possible amendment for Debian Contributors concept)

2008-10-29 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:45:31PM +0100, Frans Pop a écrit : I hereby second the proposal quoted below and have no objection to Charles Plessy's earlier proposal being dropped (or retracted) Thanks Frans for the explanation, and thanks again to Peter who showed us a way to an exit of the

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

2008-10-28 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi, I really dislike the negative tone of the original proposed resolution, so I am thinking of proposing this as an alternative option. The text I'm thinking about is currently this: | The Debian Project recognizes that many contributors to the project are | not working withing established

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 martin f krafft
also sprach Peter Palfrader [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008.10.28.0921 +0100]: | We thank Joerg Jaspert for exploring ideas on how to involve | contributors more closely with the project so that they can get both | recognition and the necessary tools to do their work. The problem I have with this is

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 Holger Levsen
Hi, On Tuesday 28 October 2008 09:21, Peter Palfrader wrote: I really dislike the negative tone of the original proposed resolution, so I am thinking of proposing this as an alternative option. Good call. The text I'm thinking about is currently this: [..] This is not a call for seconds

Re: Possible amendment for Debian Contributors concept

2008-10-28 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I really dislike the negative tone of the original proposed resolution, Me too. Unfortunately this tone seems to be normal in Debian these days, which is a shame. so I am thinking of proposing this as an alternative option. The text I'm

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 Lucas Nussbaum
I have a problem with this part: | We invite the DAM to further develop his ideas | in close coordination with other members of the project, and to present | a new and improved proposal on the project's mailinglists in the future, | at least two weeks prior to any planned implementation.

Re: Possible amendment for Debian Contributors concept

2008-10-28 Thread Joerg Jaspert
As long as Joerg doesn't agree with that, I don't see why we should drop the immediate vote or the GR itself. Then please explain what the immediate vote will gain, besides *NEEDLESS* work for the secretary (running it), needless work for everyone (to vote)? There is 0 need for the immediate

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 Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 09:21:57AM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote: Hi, I really dislike the negative tone of the original proposed resolution, so I am thinking of proposing this as an alternative option. Thank you for proposing this option. I really like it's constructive tone. The

Re: Possible amendment for Debian Contributors concept

2008-10-28 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi Joerg, On 28/10/08 at 12:17 +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: As long as Joerg doesn't agree with that, I don't see why we should drop the immediate vote or the GR itself. Then please explain what the immediate vote will gain, besides *NEEDLESS* work for the secretary (running it),

Re: Possible amendment for Debian Contributors concept

2008-10-28 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: Do you propose to drop the immediate vote, but keep the fact the decision is put on hold according to 4.2.2.2, until the final vote on this GR ? That is exactly what he proposed in a different email in this thread. [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: Possible amendment for Debian Contributors concept

2008-10-28 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 28/10/08 at 13:07 +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote: On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: Do you propose to drop the immediate vote, but keep the fact the decision is put on hold according to 4.2.2.2, until the final vote on this GR ? That is exactly what he proposed in a different

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 Gaudenz Steinlin
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 01:12:11PM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote: On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: | We realize that the proposal posted to the debian-devel-announce | mailinglist is not yet finalized and may not have the support of a large | part of our community. We

Re: Possible amendment for Debian Contributors concept

2008-10-28 Thread Martin Wuertele
* Lucas Nussbaum [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-10-28 14:03]: This is very different from saying that nothing will happen because the decision is on hold under 4.2.2.2. If Joerg suddenly got a lot of free time, he could implement all the changes quickly and start giving DME/DC statuses to people.

Re: Possible amendment for Debian Contributors concept

2008-10-28 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 28/10/08 at 14:12 +0100, Martin Wuertele wrote: * Lucas Nussbaum [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-10-28 14:03]: This is very different from saying that nothing will happen because the decision is on hold under 4.2.2.2. If Joerg suddenly got a lot of free time, he could implement all the changes

Re: Possible amendment for Debian Contributors concept

2008-10-28 Thread Martin Wuertele
* Lucas Nussbaum [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-10-28 15:01]: What does it change? Are we going to rely on people being busy to block a decision that we disagree with? That's ... interesting. It's interesting that someone get's no stoned for suggesting changes while in the past it would've been

Re: Possible amendment for Debian Contributors concept

2008-10-28 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 28/10/08 at 15:30 +0100, Martin Wuertele wrote: And if you really belief that Ganneff would implement something that gets such a disagreement from the community I smell a witch hunt rather than dislike of a proposal. Initially, I just thought OK, let's convince Ganneff to simply drop those

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 Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 09:21:57AM +0100, Peter Palfrader a écrit : I really dislike the negative tone of the original proposed resolution, so I am thinking of proposing this as an alternative option. The text I'm thinking about is currently this: | The Debian Project recognizes that

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