Re: Q: NEW process licence requirements

2018-03-31 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 11:03:00PM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > On 14993 March 1977, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > As an example for a rule that does not make sense, recently a member of > > the ftp team stated on debian-devel that the contents of NEW cannot be > > made available to people outside

Re: Q: NEW process licence requirements

2018-03-31 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 14993 March 1977, Adrian Bunk wrote: > As an example for a rule that does not make sense, recently a member of > the ftp team stated on debian-devel that the contents of NEW cannot be > made available to people outside the ftp team since it might not be > distributable, and that this is not

Re: Q: NEW process licence requirements

2018-03-31 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 09:44:45AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Adrian Bunk writes: > > > The ftp team has repeatedly stated that it is working as a team and > > that decisions are not arbitrary decisions by individual team members. > > > This implies that for tasks like NEW

Re: Q: NEW process licence requirements

2018-03-31 Thread Russ Allbery
Adrian Bunk writes: > The ftp team has repeatedly stated that it is working as a team and > that decisions are not arbitrary decisions by individual team members. > This implies that for tasks like NEW handling there exist guidelines > in some form, that might need some

Re: Question: What would you like to see {more,less} of?

2018-03-31 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On Fri, 2018-03-30 at 16:04 +0100, Chris Lamb wrote: > Dear -vote, > > Due to the absense of the usual tête-à-tête on -vote this year, > to stimulate the conversation further I thought I might pose a > question to the electorate myself. > > Therefore, what would you like to see *more* of from a

Re: Q: NEW process licence requirements

2018-03-31 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sat, 2018-03-31 at 15:37 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > The ftp team is granted powers over the work of all people in Debian  > directly from the DPL, To be slightly picky here, and possibly veering a little off the topic, the FTP Masters are delegated. Any powers that the remainder of the team

Re: Q: NEW process licence requirements

2018-03-31 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 10:55:30PM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote: > Hi Adrian, Hi Chris, >... > I have always instinctively felt such things to be antithetical to the > spirit of Debian development so should only be applied in extreme > circumstances. With respect to the frustrations expressed here