Re: An ammendment (Re: Formal CFV: General Resolution to Abolish Non-Free)

2000-06-13 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 11:41:27AM -0500, Chris Lawrence écrivait: FWIW they seem to have done a good job of packaging and maintaining the Gnome stuff. It'd be nice to see someone from Helix officially maintaining our Gnome packages (or have them liaise with the current Debian maintainer(s)

Re: [PROPOSED] Michael Bramer must stop spamming or be expelled

2001-10-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 04:26:53PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen écrivait: * Glenn McGrath | By the same argument i should be able to opt out of recieving mail from the | bug tracking system about any future bugs in the package i maintain, Nope, because part of your duties as a maintainer is to

Re: [PROPOSED] Michael Bramer must stop spamming or be expelled

2001-10-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 10:47:14AM -0400, Sam Hartman écrivait: Right. However people seem to have expressed the opinion that they want an opt-in system not an opt-out system. I think this is mostly because of the unsubscription system not working. Do you happen to read the mails before

Re: [PROPOSED] Michael Bramer must stop spamming or be expelled

2001-10-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 10:30:37AM -0500, Scott Dier écrivait: * Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] [011004 10:29]: That's simply because they first tried with the not so nicely way. When someone asks politely something, it gets done usually rapidly. When When someone uses project

Re: [PROPOSED] Michael Bramer must stop spamming or be expelled

2001-10-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 10:53:01AM -0500, Adam Heath écrivait: I don't think anyone here is saying we shouldn't translate everything. However, what Michael has done is not official, and is a hack-end-run around the existing tools. The fact that the current solution is not yet integrated

Proposed General Resolution : IRC as a Debian communication channel

2001-10-31 Thread Raphael Hertzog
[ Please recpect the reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Hello dear developers, I'm proposing this general resolution as a results of recent events that some of you may have followed. I'm looking for 5 sponsors. Please do not discuss this general resolution without a reflexion time. And please read

Re: Proposed General Resolution : IRC as a Debian communication channel

2001-11-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 12:34:36PM +1000, Anthony Towns écrivait: Obviously Debian's the sort of project where there're going to be a bunch of people who won't accept that, for whatever reasons, but it strikes me as a bad idea to go around officially ratifying everything that's common sense

Re: Proposed General Resolution : IRC as a Debian communication channel

2001-11-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 12:15:30AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava écrivait: I am not sure why we need this policy in Debian. After all, the IRC channel in question are not run on Debian resources. The owners of the channel may allow volunteers who happen to also be Debian developers be

Re: Proposed General Resolution : IRC as a Debian communication channel

2001-11-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 06:38:40AM -0500, Branden Robinson écrivait: Great, I'm glad to hear that what I said is only common sense. Now if you can convince the operator in question to respect that common sense, i may have no problem stopping here with the GR. I suggest you try and scare

Re: Proposed General Resolution : IRC as a Debian communication channel

2001-11-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 09:36:00PM +1000, Anthony Towns écrivait: be actually talking about whatever it is that bothers you, like where -private topics can be discussed other than -private, or what other ways I'm really not bothered about that. There's enough self-regulation because when

Re: Proposed General Resolution : IRC as a Debian communication channel

2001-11-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 12:26:44AM +1000, Anthony Towns écrivait: On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 03:03:39PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: I'm only annoyed with the fact that #debian-devel ought to be for person interested in Debian's development and not only for Debian developers. Again

Re: Proposed General Resolution : IRC as a Debian communication channel

2001-11-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 08:23:26PM +, Andrew Suffield écrivait: #debian could also be considered a representative part of Debian in the eyes of the casual visitor, but it is also in no way a Debian resource. Take your personal gripes up with the channel founder, which is currently Wichert

Re: Proposed General Resolution : IRC as a Debian communication channel

2001-11-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 09:39:18PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava écrivait: You are asking the wrong people here. Ask the owners of th4e resource -- the OPN folks. OPN people have replied here. They say that it's up to Wichert (who is technically channel counder) ... So he has the right to

Re: Proposed General Resolution : IRC as a Debian communication channel

2001-11-05 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 09:43:25PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava écrivait: I don't believe this. The only reason you brought this GR forth is because you had problems with a non debian controlled IRC channel operator? You had the gall to have us go through this whole Manoj, I really don't

Re: Proposed General Resolution: IRC as a Debian communication channel

2001-11-06 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 07:49:20AM +0100, Martin Schulze écrivait: Just to make it clear, Manoj probably wrote that, not me. Thank him. No, it's me. It's part of the general resolution that you posted for me on d-d-a (that explains that your name appears on the quotation). Cheers, -- Raphaël

Nomination for DPL

2002-02-06 Thread Raphael Hertzog
I hereby announce my intention to run for the DPL position. More information will come during the campaigning period. Thanks, -- Raphaël Hertzog -+- http://strasbourg.linuxfr.org/~raphael/ Formation Linux et logiciel libre : http://www.logidee.com msg01311/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP

Re: Opinions on crypto-in-main

2002-03-01 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, I'll reply to this question since the nomination period is over now and since you seem to be interested by the opinion of the candidates despite of the other responses you already received. Le Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 12:19:30AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG écrivait: 1) Do you think we have

Re: Opinions on crypto-in-main

2002-03-01 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, I'll reply to this question since the nomination period is over now and since you seem to be interested by the opinion of the candidates despite of the other responses you already received. Le Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 12:19:30AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG écrivait: 1) Do you think we have

Platform for DPL election

2002-03-03 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi everybody, the platforms of the candidates have been published on the web : http://www.debian.org/vote/2002/vote_0001 You'll find mine here : http://www.debian.org/vote/2002/platforms/raphael Here's a lynx -dump transcription for those who don't want to launch their web browser. :-)

Re: Questions for the candidates

2002-03-03 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, Le Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 09:42:55PM +0100, Cord Beermann écrivait: Raphael: You mentioned that you will finish your studies in summer How can you guarantee that you have the time to be DPL after that? Well, I can't guarantee it But AFAIK, all previous leaders were employed and had the

Re: Question to Candidates

2002-03-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 12:08:28PM +0100, Martin Schulze écrivait: 1. How are you going to address public auditors on major events (such as LWE, FOSDEM, DebConf, LinuxTag etc.) with speaches? I read that not all of you were going to many events in the past or giving talks. It's

Re: Questions for Raphael Hertzog.

2002-03-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, Le Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 07:11:34AM -0500, Zephaniah E Hull écrivait: 1: 11 Sourceforge for Debian developers Have you considered other possibile names? For what seem like obvious reasons (to me and a few others) it seems like a bad idea to use the name Well, I used

Re: Questions to Candidates

2002-03-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 07:55:29PM +0100, Jordi Mallach écrivait: - In our Leader Elections of 2001, one of the hot topics in the Debian world was the proposal to remove the non-free archive As most of you know, that proposal never got resolved, and it finally ended dying when everyone

Re: 3 questions

2002-03-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 08:03:40PM +0100, Noel Koethe écrivait: 1 How often should there be a stable release if possible? (every x month) I give a 8 month timeframe in my platform However I'd be happy with anything below 12 monthes 3 Branden wrote in his platform about removing non-free

Re: Question to the candidates about Debian and government

2002-03-05 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 09:46:33AM -0500, Dale E Martin écrivait: Do you have ideas about/interest in these issues? Is it Debian's role to play, or someone else's? I think that we shouldn't be a force that can influence a government or anything like that However I believe that we could

Re: Q to all 3: DPL appointed positions

2002-03-06 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 06:37:51AM +1100, Glenn McGrath écrivait: There are a number of delegates appointed by the debian project leader to perform important tasks within debian. Who do you intend to appoint to these positions ? If you arent prepared to announce names yet, will you do so

Re: Questions for the candidates

2002-03-06 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 08:24:01PM +0100, Marcelo E. Magallon écrivait: outsider, figuring out how Debian works might be possible but it won't be easy: there's too much information hiding in too many places. Insiders have a problem, too. Even if public places is I do agree with

Re: Some questions for the candidates...

2002-03-07 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, Le Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 07:45:02PM +1000, Anthony Towns écrivait: Some questions for the DPL candidates... Dozens of questions ! ;-) Such motivation is arguably my responsibility, so it's arguable that these delays (in getting people to start working on boot-floppies and fixing RC

Re: Sourceforge Site for Debian

2002-03-07 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, Le Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 09:40:12AM +0100, Martin Schulze écrivait: informs us about a generous donation in the UK consisting of some five servers with connectivity. After a moment of embarrasment the idea grew to use them as sourceforge like site for Debian. However, NOTHING but

Re: Comments for Raphal: SF, ping MIAM,

2002-03-07 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, Le Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 04:15:32PM -0600, Aaron Swartz écrivait: I think that having a SourceForge style site is great, but I'm not sure that using the SourceForge code is the best way to go. This wasn't so clear in your platform. (1.1) I'm ready to go with any working code. SF is ready,

Re: Sourceforge Site for Debian

2002-03-07 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 02:49:22PM +0100, Marcelo E. Magallon écrivait: The explanation is that Sourceforge for Debian was of very little interest for me several months ago, it's only once you suggested me the idea (it's due to you this item in my project), that I considered it and

Re: Debate announcement and call for votes

2002-03-09 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 10:10:29AM -0500, Ben Collins écrivait: We have tentatively scheduled an IRC Debate for the DPL candidates around March 23rd 04:00 UTC. The times for the US work out to: Ben, given my timezone it's a bit hard for me. That would be 05:00 am here... I guess anything

Re: Debate announcement and call for votes

2002-03-09 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 11:28:44AM -0500, Ben Collins écrivait: I want to get feedback from the candidates, since the times should prefer their schedule. We as panelists can either work around it, or give our regrets and not show. Sorry to reiterate my request, but I'm an official candidate

Re: Debate announcement and call for votes

2002-03-09 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 06:27:02PM +0100, Ralf Treinen écrivait: I don't believe it. Having a panel discussion at a time which is in the middle of the night for one of the candidates is completely unacceptable. I interpret this as a blatant attempt to put Raphaël at a disadvantage in the

Re: Debian GNU/Hurd and Debian GNU/*BSD

2002-03-10 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, Le Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 03:03:46PM +0100, Robert Millan écrivait: What is your personal opinion on those ports? I'm in favor of those ports, and as such I'm willing to make the required changes. However I'm not sure they can get done for woody+1 considering that we are targetting on a

Re: question for all: Content of packages

2002-03-17 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 10:37:18PM -0600, Scott Dier écrivait: Do you feel the DPL should be involved in these sorts of things? No. Do you feel that 'offensive' package content should be handled by another elected offical of some sort? I have no final opinion on this issue. But until

Re: Q for candidates: the ALS issue

2002-03-21 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, Le Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 04:05:23PM -0600, Chris Lawrence écrivait: A brief discussion is at http://www.spi-inc.org/corporate/minutes/2003 1. What actions (if any) would you take at DPL to ensure that similar problems do not recur in the future? 2. What role do you see Debian

Re: Some questions for the candidates...

2002-03-25 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 05:05:53AM +1000, Anthony Towns écrivait: I just wanted to followup on one issue. I'll start with Raphael's answer 'cause it seemed strangest: I'll try to be more clear then ... can participate of course but he's not more influencial than any other developer). And

Questions for Bdale

2003-02-19 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, so the platform have been published, everyone can make his opinion. :) I'd like to ask some questions to Bdale (other questions for other candidates may follow later). First of all, you give 2 or 3 areas of focus, but what is that exactly ? Your personal TODO list ? A prevision for the

Questions for Martin

2003-02-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hello, this evening I'm going to ask a few questions to Martin. BTW, I'm feeling alone ... does no one else have questions for our candidates or are you alll waiting for the IRC debate ? You explain that too many external projects do not make the effort to integrate their work within Debian and

Questions for Branden

2003-02-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, DPL delegates looks like something important to you (iirc I even told positive things about the delegation in your questionnaire) but you're speaking of those things as impersonal things, you should be more concrete. Would you create new DPL delegates and which one ? Would you officialize

Questions for all candidates

2003-02-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, since I had no specific questions for Moshe, I thought that I could do a common questionnaire so that he also has something to answer. :-) This is a simple questionnaire. You can answer like you want. Cross as many boxes as needed ... but try to keep the answers logical. Feel free to justify

Re: Questions for Branden

2003-02-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 07:36:54PM -0500, Christian T. Steigies écrivait: I thought somebody would collect all questions and they would be aske/answered in one go? Well no, questions are collected and selected for the IRC debate, but direct questions on this list has always been the main way to

Re: Questions for all candidates

2003-02-27 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 12:59:15PM -0700, Bdale Garbee écrivait: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Raphael Hertzog) writes: 1. master.debian.org is still running potato. What do you think about that ? As long as we continue to support security updates for potato, I'm not concerned about

Vote of a former candidate

2003-03-07 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hello, since several people sollicited me to represent myself this year and since I didn't want to run again for DPL, I'd like to make my vote public. That way people who voted for me last year can decide to follow my vote if they don't have any other strong opinion about the candidates. My vote

Re: Vote of a former candidate

2003-03-08 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 12:31:25AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog écrivait: Hello, since several people sollicited me to represent myself this year and since I didn't want to run again for DPL, I'd like to make my vote public. That way people who voted for me last year can decide to follow my vote

Re: Vote of a former candidate

2003-03-09 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 04:06:59PM -0500, Branden Robinson écrivait: While Branden improved much his behavior during the last year, Just FYI, it's difficult to read this as anything but a backhanded compliment, which runs counter to your thesis of not showing any animosity. Heh, I'm not

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-08 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 02:51:36PM -0600, John Goerzen écrivait: I was actually surprised at the popularity of {un}rar. I rarely see RAR files used anywhere. It's commonly used to distribute DivX or other big multimediua files through NTTP (alt.binaries.*). Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -+-

Re: Summary: Proposal - Rescind GR 2004-003

2004-05-10 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Quoting Xavier Roche: On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 01:06:00AM +0200, Osamu Aoki wrote: * Can Craig and people who seconded original proposal [2] to second this as the formal rationale for Craig's proposal [1]? Yes, seconded. Seconded as well (if really needed). Craig Sanders proposed

Re: Proposal - Deferment of Changes from GR 2004-003

2004-04-28 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Quoting Craig Sanders: On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 08:41:35PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: The Debian Project, affirming its committment to principles of freeness for all works it distributes, but recognizing that changing the Social Contract today would have grave consequences for

Re: Proposal - Deferment of Changes from GR 2004-003

2004-04-29 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Quoting Thomas Bushnell, BSG: It's not a question of opposing the previous choice but it's fair to leave a chance to those who have not voted the first time (me included) to express their disagreeement. Hrm, I wonder, where was the part the first time that you didn't have that chance?

Re: Proposal - Deferment of Changes from GR 2004-003

2004-04-29 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, Preferring to reply to you instead of Thomas since he insists to provoke people. Quoting Chad Walstrom: Thus I didn't vote. So, now you feel it is entirely rational to get a Do over? You Why not ? People do mistakes ... a bunch of volunteers can do collective mistakes. weren't

Re: Moving contrib and non-free of master.debian.org

1999-06-22 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Mon, Jun 21, 1999 at 11:30:41PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman - Debian project leader écrivait: Personally I strongly prefer the first option: it makes it much more clear that the Debian distribution contains only DFSG-free software, and that contrib and nonfree are an extra. I am not much in

Re: What I would like to vote for (was: Negative Summary of the Split Proposal)

1999-06-30 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 11:46:06AM +0200, Nils Rennebarth écrivait: On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 01:36:57PM +0900, Ionutz Borcoman wrote: I completely agree with Jason. AOLSo do I/AOL (just to add another voice) Me too. Very good. We could even define keywords or standard reasons why anything

Re: Leadership Debate

2000-02-05 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 05:44:59PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe écrivait: Note the return address on this mail is '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' please deluge that address with suggested questions : Oh, try to keep it off /. - skript kiddies are not invited! I hope I'm not too late because I have some

Re: Leadership Debate

2000-02-16 Thread Raphael Hertzog
[ I'm replying to myself but i'm starting a new thread ] Le Sat, Feb 05, 2000 at 05:45:33PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog écrivait: I hope I'm not too late because I have some questions. It's about QA. So the debate has happened, some questions weren't asked. Thus I'd like that each candidate try

Re: A rebuttal (was: Re: Formal CFV: General Resolution to Abolish Non-Free)

2000-06-11 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 05:12:11PM +1000, Anthony Towns écrivait: The general resolution to abolish non-free is flawed in a number of ways. Great. I completely share your opinion. That's my second mail in this tread. I wish everybody could do like me ... the thread can't be followed unless you

Re: An ammendment (Re: Formal CFV: General Resolution to Abolish Non-Free)

2000-06-14 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 11:41:27AM -0500, Chris Lawrence écrivait: FWIW they seem to have done a good job of packaging and maintaining the Gnome stuff. It'd be nice to see someone from Helix officially maintaining our Gnome packages (or have them liaise with the current Debian maintainer(s)

Re: [PROPOSED] Michael Bramer must stop spamming or be expelled

2001-10-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 04:26:53PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen écrivait: * Glenn McGrath | By the same argument i should be able to opt out of recieving mail from the | bug tracking system about any future bugs in the package i maintain, Nope, because part of your duties as a maintainer is to

Re: [PROPOSED] Michael Bramer must stop spamming or be expelled

2001-10-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 04:21:13PM +0200, Martin Schulze écrivait: People, take a rest, grow up etc. You know how Overfiend behaves, so this is nothing which wasn't anticipated. We should write an HOWTO react to Overfiend's mails for the new developers joining that have not yet faced him. We

Re: [PROPOSED] Michael Bramer must stop spamming or be expelled

2001-10-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 10:02:32AM -0500, Scott Dier écrivait: I'm not badly affected by this but some of the other developers with oggles of packages are, and they have been asking nicely and not so nicely and it hadn't stopped yet. That's simply because they first tried with the not so

Re: [PROPOSED] Michael Bramer must stop spamming or be expelled

2001-10-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 10:30:37AM -0500, Scott Dier écrivait: * Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] [011004 10:29]: That's simply because they first tried with the not so nicely way. When someone asks politely something, it gets done usually rapidly. When When someone uses project resources

Proposed General Resolution : IRC as a Debian communication channel

2001-10-31 Thread Raphael Hertzog
[ Please recpect the reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Hello dear developers, I'm proposing this general resolution as a results of recent events that some of you may have followed. I'm looking for 5 sponsors. Please do not discuss this general resolution without a reflexion time. And please read

Re: Proposed General Resolution : IRC as a Debian communication channel

2001-11-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 12:34:36PM +1000, Anthony Towns écrivait: Obviously Debian's the sort of project where there're going to be a bunch of people who won't accept that, for whatever reasons, but it strikes me as a bad idea to go around officially ratifying everything that's common sense to

Re: Proposed General Resolution : IRC as a Debian communication channel

2001-11-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 12:15:30AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava écrivait: I am not sure why we need this policy in Debian. After all, the IRC channel in question are not run on Debian resources. The owners of the channel may allow volunteers who happen to also be Debian developers be in

Re: Proposed General Resolution : IRC as a Debian communication channel

2001-11-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 06:38:40AM -0500, Branden Robinson écrivait: Great, I'm glad to hear that what I said is only common sense. Now if you can convince the operator in question to respect that common sense, i may have no problem stopping here with the GR. I suggest you try and scare

Re: Proposed General Resolution : IRC as a Debian communication channel

2001-11-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 09:36:00PM +1000, Anthony Towns écrivait: be actually talking about whatever it is that bothers you, like where -private topics can be discussed other than -private, or what other ways I'm really not bothered about that. There's enough self-regulation because when

Re: Proposed General Resolution : IRC as a Debian communication channel

2001-11-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 12:26:44AM +1000, Anthony Towns écrivait: On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 03:03:39PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: I'm only annoyed with the fact that #debian-devel ought to be for person interested in Debian's development and not only for Debian developers. Again, saying

Re: Proposed General Resolution : IRC as a Debian communication channel

2001-11-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 08:23:26PM +, Andrew Suffield écrivait: #debian could also be considered a representative part of Debian in the eyes of the casual visitor, but it is also in no way a Debian resource. Take your personal gripes up with the channel founder, which is currently Wichert

Re: Proposed General Resolution : IRC as a Debian communication channel

2001-11-05 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 09:39:18PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava écrivait: You are asking the wrong people here. Ask the owners of th4e resource -- the OPN folks. OPN people have replied here. They say that it's up to Wichert (who is technically channel counder) ... So he has the right to

Re: Proposed General Resolution : IRC as a Debian communication channel

2001-11-05 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 09:37:23PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava écrivait: I am certain many Bay area restaurants in silicon valley may also qualify. But that does not give Debian the right to determine policy for the restaurant. Strictly speaking, it's not exactly the same. A restaurant

Re: Proposed General Resolution : IRC as a Debian communication channel

2001-11-05 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 09:43:25PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava écrivait: I don't believe this. The only reason you brought this GR forth is because you had problems with a non debian controlled IRC channel operator? You had the gall to have us go through this whole Manoj, I really don't

Re: Proposed General Resolution : IRC as a Debian communication channel

2001-11-05 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 03:10:32PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava écrivait: Raphael You don't think that it's official. I think it SHOULD BE Raphael because this channel has legitimacy for being such a Raphael channel. Umm. We do not own the channel, or control it. All developers can not

Re: Proposed General Resolution : IRC as a Debian communication channel

2001-11-06 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 01:24:59AM +, Andrew Suffield écrivait: Tell me when you last saw over a hundred developers active on the channel in question at once. It's usually more like a dozen or so, with a whole pile of lurkers. That doesn't change anything. (When you meet in restaurant, you

Re: Proposed General Resolution : IRC as a Debian communication channel

2001-11-06 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 06:07:49PM +1000, Anthony Towns écrivait: The burden of proof is always on the person making a positive claim. Prove that he's never read this book, versus Prove that he has read this book, eg. You're making the positive claim : « #debian-devel is out of Debian's scope

Re: will the irc channel be logged and accesible to non irc users ? [was : Re: Proposed General Resolution : IRC as a Debian communication channel]

2001-11-06 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 10:15:14AM +0100, Sven écrivait: Hello, ... Hi, but in the case this resolution pass, does it mean that all developper must be on irc all the time to take part of the discution there ? What happens when someone goes to sleep, or when someone is not an irc user ? will

Re: Proposed General Resolution : IRC as a Debian communication channel

2001-11-06 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 01:28:34AM +1000, Anthony Towns écrivait: Which indicates nothing more than that you didn't understand what I said. Granted. Of course I have : - unofficial means not referenced in any debian documentation If that's exactly what it means, then in the interests of

Re: Proposed General Resolution: IRC as a Debian communication channel

2001-11-07 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 07:49:20AM +0100, Martin Schulze écrivait: Just to make it clear, Manoj probably wrote that, not me. Thank him. No, it's me. It's part of the general resolution that you posted for me on d-d-a (that explains that your name appears on the quotation). Cheers, -- Raphaël

Re: Proposed General Resolution : IRC as a Debian communication channel

2001-11-07 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 10:53:54AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava écrivait: I guess we now control paret of Marriott, eh? Your comparisons are ridiculous. Think of IRC as a communicaion medium and not a place or a room. I'm sure you don't own the telephone infrastructure, but i'm sure that you

Withdrawal of the General Resolution about IRC

2001-11-14 Thread Raphael Hertzog
[ Please respect the reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Hello, first I'd like to thank the few people who have been constructive and tried to help instead of denigrating and nitpicking on minor points. I've decided to withdraw the general resolution proposed 2 weeks ago about IRC as communication

Nomination for DPL

2002-02-06 Thread Raphael Hertzog
I hereby announce my intention to run for the DPL position. More information will come during the campaigning period. Thanks, -- Raphaël Hertzog -+- http://strasbourg.linuxfr.org/~raphael/ Formation Linux et logiciel libre : http://www.logidee.com pgps1EOvPFSsh.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Opinions on crypto-in-main

2002-03-01 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, I'll reply to this question since the nomination period is over now and since you seem to be interested by the opinion of the candidates despite of the other responses you already received. Le Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 12:19:30AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG écrivait: 1) Do you think we have all

Re: debian services and responsibility

2002-03-02 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, I'm responding to this mail after the war but since I'm candidate I have to give my opinion on the complete issue anyway. :-) Le Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 11:25:15AM +0100, David N. Welton écrivait: I would like to know the opinions of the DPL candidates on responsibility for Debian machines

Platform for DPL election

2002-03-03 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi everybody, the platforms of the candidates have been published on the web : http://www.debian.org/vote/2002/vote_0001 You'll find mine here : http://www.debian.org/vote/2002/platforms/raphael Here's a lynx -dump transcription for those who don't want to launch their web browser. :-)

Re: Questions for the candidates

2002-03-03 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, Le Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 09:42:55PM +0100, Cord Beermann écrivait: Raphael: You mentioned that you will finish your studies in summer. How can you guarantee that you have the time to be DPL after that? Well, I can't guarantee it. But AFAIK, all previous leaders were employed and had the

Re: Question to Candidates

2002-03-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 12:08:28PM +0100, Martin Schulze écrivait: 1. How are you going to address public auditors on major events (such as LWE, FOSDEM, DebConf, LinuxTag etc.) with speaches? I read that not all of you were going to many events in the past or giving talks. It's

Re: Questions for Raphael Hertzog.

2002-03-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, Le Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 07:11:34AM -0500, Zephaniah E. Hull écrivait: 1: 1.1 Sourceforge for Debian developers. Have you considered other possibile names? For what seem like obvious reasons (to me and a few others) it seems like a bad idea to use the name. Well, I used

Re: Questions to Candidates

2002-03-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 07:55:29PM +0100, Jordi Mallach écrivait: - In our Leader Elections of 2001, one of the hot topics in the Debian world was the proposal to remove the non-free archive. As most of you know, that proposal never got resolved, and it finally ended dying when everyone

Re: 3 questions

2002-03-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 08:03:40PM +0100, Noel Koethe écrivait: 1. How often should there be a stable release if possible? (every x month) I give a 8 month timeframe in my platform. However I'd be happy with anything below 12 monthes. 3. Branden wrote in his platform about removing non-free

Re: Question to the candidates about Debian and government

2002-03-05 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 09:46:33AM -0500, Dale E Martin écrivait: Do you have ideas about/interest in these issues? Is it Debian's role to play, or someone else's? I think that we shouldn't be a force that can influence a government or anything like that. However I believe that we could

Re: Q to all 3: DPL appointed positions

2002-03-06 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 06:37:51AM +1100, Glenn McGrath écrivait: There are a number of delegates appointed by the debian project leader to perform important tasks within debian. Who do you intend to appoint to these positions ? If you arent prepared to announce names yet, will you do so prior

Re: Questions for the candidates

2002-03-06 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 08:24:01PM +0100, Marcelo E. Magallon écrivait: outsider, figuring out how Debian works might be possible but it won't be easy: there's too much information hiding in too many places. Insiders have a problem, too. Even if public places is I do agree with

Re: Some questions for the candidates...

2002-03-07 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, Le Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 07:45:02PM +1000, Anthony Towns écrivait: Some questions for the DPL candidates... Dozens of questions ! ;-) Such motivation is arguably my responsibility, so it's arguable that these delays (in getting people to start working on boot-floppies and fixing RC

Re: Sourceforge Site for Debian

2002-03-07 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, Le Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 09:40:12AM +0100, Martin Schulze écrivait: informs us about a generous donation in the UK consisting of some five servers with connectivity. After a moment of embarrasment the idea grew to use them as sourceforge like site for Debian. However, NOTHING but

Re: Question regarding Raphael's platform

2002-03-07 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, Le Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 10:59:45PM +, Thom May écrivait: 1) What resources do you feel that debian could provide to its developers to allow them to work more productively on their packages and other debian specific work? Well, this is not at all related to sourceforge ... SF for

Re: Comments for Raphaël : SF, ping MIAM,

2002-03-07 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, Le Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 04:15:32PM -0600, Aaron Swartz écrivait: I think that having a SourceForge style site is great, but I'm not sure that using the SourceForge code is the best way to go. This wasn't so clear in your platform. (1.1) I'm ready to go with any working code. SF is ready,

Re: Sourceforge Site for Debian

2002-03-07 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 02:49:22PM +0100, Marcelo E. Magallon écrivait: The explanation is that Sourceforge for Debian was of very little interest for me several months ago, it's only once you suggested me the idea (it's due to you this item in my project), that I considered it and

Re: Debate announcement and call for votes

2002-03-09 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 10:10:29AM -0500, Ben Collins écrivait: We have tentatively scheduled an IRC Debate for the DPL candidates around March 23rd 04:00 UTC. The times for the US work out to: Ben, given my timezone it's a bit hard for me. That would be 05:00 am here... I guess anything

Re: Debate announcement and call for votes

2002-03-09 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 11:28:44AM -0500, Ben Collins écrivait: I want to get feedback from the candidates, since the times should prefer their schedule. We as panelists can either work around it, or give our regrets and not show. Sorry to reiterate my request, but I'm an official candidate

Re: Debate announcement and call for votes

2002-03-09 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 10:31:54AM -0700, Bdale Garbee écrivait: That time would work for me (I'm in US/Mountain). I have no objection to moving the time to make things easier for Raphael, though. I'm willing to start as much as 4 hours later on the same day, but that would make it very

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