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

2002-03-11 Thread Robert Millan
El dg, 10 mar 2002 14:06:53 Raphael Hertzog ha escrit: 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

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

2002-03-19 Thread Robert Millan
El dv, 15 mar 2002 09:21:08 Branden Robinson ha escrit: On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 03:03:46PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: My questions for the three candidates are: What is your personal opinion on those ports? I'm very enthusiastic about them. I don't have time at present to devote

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

2002-03-19 Thread Robert Millan
guess so is for Joel :) Cheers, -- Robert Millan Debian GNU/* user zeratul2 wanadoo eshttp://getyouriso.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

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

2004-05-23 Thread Robert Millan
. --- This amendment essentially reaffirms that the current text of the social contract is what is meant, and that Debian does not cut corners in order to release sooner. I second Andrew's proposal. -- Robert Millan [..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making

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

2004-05-25 Thread Robert Millan
sooner. Seconded. -- Robert Millan [..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work. -- J.R.R.T., Ainulindale

Discussion - On proposal E (Transition Guide)

2004-05-25 Thread Robert Millan
with the new Social Contract? Seems like the use of the word limited is ambigous. Any amount of time is limited by a greater one. Any comments on this? -- Robert Millan [..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own

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

2004-05-26 Thread Robert Millan
PROTECTED]) Anyway, I state here that I do second this proposal. -- Robert Millan [..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some

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

2004-05-26 Thread Robert Millan
want this for the sake of clarification I don't object. -- Robert Millan [..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new

Re: Discussion - On proposal E (Transition Guide)

2004-05-26 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 10:47:07PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Tue, 25 May 2004 20:07:02 +0200, Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Seems like the use of the word limited is ambigous. Any amount of time is limited by a greater one. I am willing to trust that people

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

2004-05-26 Thread Robert Millan
instead of freedom. Could you propose a formal amendment? I don't know the details to do that. -- Robert Millan [..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he gives and hoards not, and is free from

Re: Discussion - On proposal E (Transition Guide)

2004-05-26 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 11:30:56AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 03:15:10PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: For example, I don't think it is reasonable even for those who support proposal E that the new SC isn't enforced after Sarge, and that not only Sarge but also Sarge+1

Re: Proposal F on the ballot now.

2004-05-31 Thread Robert Millan
of the SC, non-free is part of Debian. This interpretation would make the SC contradict itself, and bring us to the silly situation in which a position statement that merely reaffirms the SC is actualy violating it. -- Robert Millan [..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making

Re: Analysis of the ballot options

2004-06-19 Thread Robert Millan
with that; but in that case, please say summary: you probably want 6 instead of this. Hey everyone. Just in case you have doubts, note that you probably want to vote for 6. [ sorry, couldn't resist ] -- Robert Millan [..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the thing made, and neither

Re: -= PROPOSAL =- Release sarge with amd64

2004-07-13 Thread Robert Millan
| [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Robert Millan [..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery

Re: -= PROPOSAL =- Release sarge with amd64

2004-07-13 Thread Robert Millan
on this issue made its way into /dev/null. -- Robert Millan [..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work

Re: -= PROPOSAL =- Release sarge with amd64

2004-07-13 Thread Robert Millan
you disagree with them? -- Robert Millan [..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work. -- J.R.R.T

Re: -= PROPOSAL =- Release sarge with amd64

2004-07-13 Thread Robert Millan
else must be allowed to do it. If permission is not granted to someone else to do it, not granting it constitues a decision that can be overriden by GR. -- Robert Millan [..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own

Re: -= PROPOSAL =- Release sarge with amd64

2004-07-13 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 08:13:09PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: I remember when I suggested that we should follow clause 1 of the Social Contract, this was pedantic for you too. Do you find adherance with official documents always pedantic or only when you disagree with them? Uhm.. well

Re: DRAFT amendment to Release sarge with amd64: Freeze architecture support for sarge

2004-07-13 Thread Robert Millan
. -- Robert Millan [..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work. -- J.R.R.T., Ainulindale (Silmarillion

Re: DRAFT amendment to Release sarge with amd64: Freeze architecture support for sarge

2004-07-13 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 01:38:47AM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 12:25:26AM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: The following is a draft for an amendment to the latest GR; I'd appreciate ^ Erm, shit. =) Anyway, I'm likely to second the proposal

Re: -= PROPOSAL =- Release sarge with amd64

2004-07-14 Thread Robert Millan
. Well, in Germany there is a word for those kind of people: Wendehals I wonder why the NM queue is not handled in FIFO mode. -- Robert Millan [..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he

Re: DRAFT amendment to Release sarge with amd64: Freeze architecture support for sarge

2004-07-14 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 01:54:53AM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 01:45:56AM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: Anyway, I'm likely to second the proposal that comes out of this draft. Just for the reference, I'm inclined to change it into something like Debian reaffirms

Re: -= PROPOSAL =- Release sarge with amd64

2004-07-14 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 12:54:26AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 12:48:07AM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 10:19:19PM +0200, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: Even a fresh DD, who has been a NM last year, stated that he won't comment publically against

Re: -= PROPOSAL =- Release sarge with amd64

2004-07-15 Thread Robert Millan
that. Now can you tell me what prevents FIFO processing? (Note: if you can't answer my question refrain from attempting to deviate it into an unrelated matter.) -- Robert Millan [..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the thing made, and neither in possession nor

Re: -= PROPOSAL =- Release sarge with amd64

2004-07-28 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 05:27:24PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: It really sucks that we reached this point. But since proper communication has failed horribly to resolve this, I recognise there's no other way. Seconded. I hereby withdraw my second to this proposal. Many developers were

Re: -= PROPOSAL =- Release sarge with amd64

2004-07-28 Thread Robert Millan
Euh. This ought to be signed, IIRC.. On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 06:21:41PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 05:27:24PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: It really sucks that we reached this point. But since proper communication has failed horribly to resolve this, I

PROPOSAL: Communication to solve the dispute. (was: -= PROPOSAL =- Release sarge with amd64)

2004-07-28 Thread Robert Millan
hope this can be discussed quickly so that it doesn't delay the release for too long. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom -- Robert Millan (Debra

Re: PROPOSAL: Communication to solve the dispute. (was: -= PROPOSAL =- Release sarge with amd64)

2004-07-28 Thread Robert Millan
of should instead of must in the resolution. I intended it as an official positioning by the project, not an authoritative statement. Does that address your concern? -- Robert Millan (Debra and Ian) (Gnu's Not (UNiplexed Information and Computing System))/\ (kernel of *(Berkeley Software

Re: PROPOSAL: Communication to solve the dispute. (was: -= PROPOSAL =- Release sarge with amd64)

2004-07-28 Thread Robert Millan
a chance to explain them. -- Robert Millan (Debra and Ian) (Gnu's Not (UNiplexed Information and Computing System))/\ (kernel of *(Berkeley Software Distribution)) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Debian GNU/Hurd and Debian GNU/*BSD

2002-03-09 Thread Robert Millan
attention, please keep the CCs to debian-hurd and debian-bsd Cheers, -- Robert Millan Debian GNU/* user zeratul2 wanadoo eshttp://getyouriso.dyndns.org/

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

2002-03-19 Thread Robert Millan
El dv, 15 mar 2002 09:21:08 Branden Robinson ha escrit: On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 03:03:46PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: My questions for the three candidates are: What is your personal opinion on those ports? I'm very enthusiastic about them. I don't have time at present to devote

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

2002-03-19 Thread Robert Millan
so is for Joel :) Cheers, -- Robert Millan Debian GNU/* user zeratul2 wanadoo eshttp://getyouriso.dyndns.org/

[DRAFT] resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-21 Thread Robert Millan
) -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: [DRAFT] resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-21 Thread Robert Millan
. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: [DRAFT] resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-21 Thread Robert Millan
be faster to move everything to non-free. Neither the SC nor my proposed text enforce moving stuff to contrib, and I don't think anyone would want to do it anyway, so this sounds like a moot point. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you

Re: [DRAFT] resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-21 Thread Robert Millan
2006, and even 2004. See my report in #497823 (second mail). -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all

Re: [DRAFT] resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-21 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 07:07:08PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 04:54:13PM +, Robert Millan wrote: On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 05:50:40PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: The bug being more than 60 days old, does it mean that we have to move glibc to non-free

Re: [DRAFT] resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-21 Thread Robert Millan
, etc. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [DRAFT] resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-21 Thread Robert Millan
similar approach to what Ubuntu did with Gobuntu, but in reverse. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all

Re: [DRAFT] resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-21 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 08:29:01PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 05:40:14PM +, Robert Millan wrote: On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 07:02:36PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: No firmware issue tagged etch-ignore is still present in lenny. IOW the kernel team

Re: [DRAFT] resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-21 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 08:22:18PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 05:42:25PM +, Robert Millan wrote: On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 07:07:08PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 04:54:13PM +, Robert Millan wrote: On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 05:50

Re: [DRAFT] resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-21 Thread Robert Millan
others. The fact that some of them did _not_ ask for it only makes it worse: it means we're liing to our users when we tell them Debian is 100% free. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's

Re: [DRAFT] resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-21 Thread Robert Millan
them in the non-free repository. Which, as per #1, is not part of Debian. What you're arguing is that #4 is supposed to not only contradict #1, but additionally that this contradiction implies that #1 is void. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when

Re: [DRAFT] resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-22 Thread Robert Millan
garantees that they can use the project's resources for this purpose. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all

Re: [DRAFT] resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-22 Thread Robert Millan
you pointed out. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Bug reports of DFSG violations are tagged ???lenny-ignore????

2008-10-23 Thread Robert Millan
of the Technical Committee? The Technical Committee is not empowered to override foundation documents. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you

please comment on the draft (last call)

2008-10-23 Thread Robert Millan
considered a technical bug when main is not self-contained). Does someone think the proposal should be adjusted in either of these ways, or in others? If not, I'll resend it as a proposal and ask for seconds shortly. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We

Re: please comment on the draft (last call)

2008-10-23 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 05:40:57PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: [...] think the proposal should [...] [...] resend it as a proposal [...] Erm, these two sentences sounded a bit silly, but I think what I meant is clear. Please bear with me :-) -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy

Re: Proposal - defer changes to Debian membership procedures to after the release of Lenny.

2008-10-23 Thread Robert Millan
. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Bug reports of DFSG violations are tagged ???lenny-ignore????

2008-10-23 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 05:41:05PM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 03:51:22PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 11:23:50PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Tuesday 21 October 2008, you wrote: But, in fact, fixes are not welcome from the team. They have

Re: Proposal - defer changes to Debian membership procedures to after the release of Lenny.

2008-10-23 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 07:03:21PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 01:34:42AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: 2) After the next stable release, a general resolution will be used to decide on the procedures for becoming a member of the Debian project

Re: please comment on the draft (last call)

2008-10-23 Thread Robert Millan
for stable sounds reasonable; is everyone fine with that? -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all

Call for seconds: Resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-24 Thread Robert Millan
over sorting every bit out; for this reason, we will treat fixing of DFSG violations as a best-effort process. (Since this option ammends the SC, I believe it would require 3:1 majority) -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when

Re: Call for seconds: Suspension of the changes of the Project's membership procedures.

2008-10-24 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 11:49:31PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: takes immediately effect until a procedural vote decides if the supsension Typo ^ -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's

Re: Call for seconds: Resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-24 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 12:22:14PM -0700, Jeff Carr wrote: On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 08:17, Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When ever a package in Debian is found to have been violating the DFSG for By who? There is no standard. I don't think we need a standard to define things like

Re: Call for seconds: Resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-24 Thread Robert Millan
that they would infringe this text as well. Nevertheless I would merge it in my proposal if you still want me to. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow

Re: Call for seconds: Resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-24 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 05:39:31PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008.10.24.1717 +0200]: I hereby propose the following General Resolution to stablish a procedure for resolving DFSG violations: I would generally second this, but I wish we would

Re: Call for seconds: Resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-24 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 09:41:53AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The action of moving it may be performed by any of the developers (however, moving packages in the stable distribution may still require approval by the Release Team for stable). I don't

Re: [DRAFT] resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-25 Thread Robert Millan
be useful too. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Proposed amendment: Resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-25 Thread Robert Millan
of fact, if you want to send chocolate to Ben I second that too. I'd appreciate if you don't use a GR procedure for that, though, it makes us look like a bunch of clowns. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data

Call for seconds: Revised ballot

2008-10-25 Thread Robert Millan
of progress has been made, and we are almost to the point where we can provide a free version of the Debian operating system, we will delay the release of Lenny until such point that the work to free the operating system is complete. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy

Re: Call for seconds: Suspension of the changes of the Project's membership procedures.

2008-10-25 Thread Robert Millan
. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Call for seconds: Revised ballot

2008-10-26 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 10:05:34AM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: Moin, On Saturday 25 October 2008 20:31, Robert Millan wrote: When ever a package in Debian is found to have been violating the DFSG for 60 days or more besides that this proposal still has at least the problem of who

Re: Proposed amendment: Resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-26 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 11:32:52AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le samedi 25 octobre 2008 à 20:26 +0200, Robert Millan a écrit : I'd appreciate if you don't use a GR procedure for that, though, it makes us look like a bunch of clowns. it makes us look like a bunch of clowns. look

Re: Call for seconds: Resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-26 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 02:00:27PM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: [Robert Millan] + p + When ever a package in Debian is found to have been violating the + Debian Free Software Guidelines/cite/q for 60 days or more, and + none of the solutions that have been implemented

Re: [DRAFT] resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-27 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 07:27:24PM -0700, Jeff Carr wrote: On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 11:19, Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a reason why those interested in supporting blob-dependant hardware can't make a release that includes those blobs? As per SC #1 they can't refer

Re: Call for seconds: Suspension of the changes of the Project's membership procedures.

2008-10-27 Thread Robert Millan
have no clue about what they imply, and will most likely not vote or send a no-op ballot. [1] or members, or people with voting rights, whatever.. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening

Re: Call for seconds: Suspension of the changes of the Project's membership procedures.

2008-10-27 Thread Robert Millan
(and in fact I just did). -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Call for seconds: Revised ballot

2008-10-27 Thread Robert Millan
, and will send a new mail with all of them, asking seconders to pick a subset if they want. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data

Re: Call for seconds: Revised ballot

2008-10-27 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 11:07:10AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 10:05:34AM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: Moin, On Saturday 25 October 2008 20:31, Robert Millan wrote: When ever a package in Debian is found to have been violating the DFSG for 60 days or more

Re: Call for seconds: Revised ballot

2008-10-27 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 04:07:41PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 11:07:10AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 10:05:34AM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: Moin, On Saturday 25 October 2008 20:31, Robert Millan wrote: When ever a package in Debian

Call for seconds: DFSG violations in Lenny

2008-10-27 Thread Robert Millan
) -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Call for seconds: post-Lenny enforceability of DFSG violations

2008-10-27 Thread Robert Millan
before the package + can be moved back into Debian. + /p /li listrongWe will give back to the free software community/strong p (Since this option ammends the SC, I believe it would require 3:1 majority) -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data

Re: Call for seconds: DFSG violations in Lenny

2008-10-27 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 10:55:56AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Mon, Oct 27 2008, Robert Millan wrote: Option 2 (allow Lenny to release with propietary firmware) ~~ 1. We affirm that our Priorities are our users

Re: Call for seconds: DFSG violations in Lenny

2008-10-27 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 08:22:57PM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote: On Mon, 27 Oct 2008, Robert Millan wrote: 4. We give priority to the timely release of Lenny over sorting every bit out; for this reason, we will treat removal of sourceless firmware as a best-effort

Re: Call for seconds: DFSG violations in Lenny

2008-10-27 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 08:36:06PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: (Also, isn't we allow sourceless firmware ... as long as the license complies with the DFSG a no-op?) The license for a sourceless blob can be GPL or BSD, which are licenses that comply with the DFSG, or it could be any sort

Re: Call for seconds: DFSG violations in Lenny

2008-10-27 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 09:04:33PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: I propose the following alternatative to Option 2 (removes last sentence): Or rather, I propose the following alternative which incorporates Manoj's rewritten #2 (in addition to removing the last sentence in #4): Option 2 (allow

Re: Call for seconds: post-Lenny enforceability of DFSG violations

2008-10-29 Thread Robert Millan
the NEW queue. Not to say we can't pass the GR, but I would much rather see something that does not step on those toes. Hi Peter, ACK about your concerns (and the ones pointed by others, which are roughly the same). Do you have any suggestion on what would be a better approach? -- Robert

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

2008-10-29 Thread Robert Millan
decided by a general | resolution. Seconded. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all. signature.asc

Re: Call for seconds: DFSG violations in Lenny

2008-10-29 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 10:54:35PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi, On Monday 27 October 2008 20:36, Robert Millan wrote: - We give priority to the timely release of Lenny over sorting every bit out - for this reason, we will - treat removal of sourceless firmware as a best

Re: Call for seconds: post-Lenny enforceability of DFSG violations

2008-10-29 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 05:09:58PM +0200, Kalle Kivimaa wrote: Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ACK about your concerns (and the ones pointed by others, which are roughly the same). Do you have any suggestion on what would be a better approach? How about dropping the GR

Re: Call for seconds: post-Lenny enforceability of DFSG violations

2008-10-29 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 12:35:36PM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: [me] Is this intended to bypass the NEW process currently done by ftpmasters any time something is added to non-free? [Robert Millan] ACK about your concerns (and the ones pointed by others, which are roughly

Re: Consequences for the lenny release, was: Call for seconds: DFSG violations in Lenny

2008-10-30 Thread Robert Millan
until they are fixed. Is my understanding correct? Yes (except that option 2 is not more Robert's than option 3 is). -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still

Re: Call for seconds: DFSG violations in Lenny

2008-10-30 Thread Robert Millan
majority) -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Call for seconds: DFSG violations in Lenny

2008-11-09 Thread Robert Millan
to present me as. Proof is written. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Call for seconds: DFSG violations in Lenny

2008-11-09 Thread Robert Millan
continue mean in this phrase? Are you trying to imply that the release team is _already_ empowered to make decisions that override SC #1? - If you are, why is it not explicit? - If you're not, then please remove the continue from that phrase. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your

Re: Call for seconds: post-Lenny enforceability of DFSG violations

2008-11-09 Thread Robert Millan
, not because a few, chosen ones, decide it unilaterally. Whether the project decides that we need an exception that overrides SC #1 for the Nth time or not, that's a secondary problem as far as I'm concerned. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when

Re: Call for seconds: DFSG violations in Lenny

2008-11-10 Thread Robert Millan
hardware than official builds, since almost nobody uses pure Debian on a NSLU (network requires a USB dongle). Whether it's harder to install or not, it depends on you. We don't have a foundation document saying it must be. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We

Re: Call for seconds: DFSG violations in Lenny

2008-11-09 Thread Robert Millan
, not that of the project. Therefore, it doesn't belong in this GR to assert that Lenny will be delayed indefinitely. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow

Re: DFSG violations in Lenny: new proposal

2008-11-11 Thread Robert Millan
is to remove/replace it) Usually true, but not always so. See #494010. Which is taking surprisingly long to be fixed. Makes me wonder what best effort truly means... -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data

Re: Discussion period: GR: DFSG violations in Lenny

2008-11-11 Thread Robert Millan
to justify more of the same. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Call for seconds: DFSG violations in Lenny

2008-11-12 Thread Robert Millan
. If the project grants them an exception to release Lenny (like we did for Sarge and Etch), I'll support that too. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow

Re: Discussion period: GR: DFSG violations in Lenny

2008-11-12 Thread Robert Millan
with the hope that the project will agree with at least one of the options (remember, I proposed 3 very different options). Of course I don't know for sure. If we could read everyone's minds we wouldn't need a voting process after all. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs

Re: Discussion period: GR: DFSG violations in Lenny

2008-11-12 Thread Robert Millan
. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Discussion period: GR: DFSG violations in Lenny

2008-11-12 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 07:42:47PM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Millan wrote: If the project as a whole determines that the Release Team is empowered to make exceptions to SC #1 as they see fit, I would accept it [1]. Please

Re: on firmware (possible proposal)

2008-11-12 Thread Robert Millan
. And even that can be improved. They could be linked from the main website, and integrated with our infrastructure, much like we do for non-free, as long as we make it clear they're not officially Debian. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how

Re: on firmware (possible proposal)

2008-11-13 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 04:20:33PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-11-12 15:29]: For example, if you want to install Debian on an NSLU, the only difficulty is finding the unofficial D-I images that include non-free firmware. And even that can

Re: For our own good: splitting the vote. Thoughts?

2008-11-13 Thread Robert Millan
: [3]: http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2008/11/msg00086.html -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access

Re: on firmware (possible proposal)

2008-11-13 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 03:49:44PM +0100, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 03:29:30PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: For example, if you want to install Debian on an NSLU, the only difficulty is finding the unofficial D-I images that include non-free firmware. And even

Re: For our own good: splitting the vote. Thoughts?

2008-11-13 Thread Robert Millan
] http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2008/11/msg00086.html -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all

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