Re: Question to candidates: what are your quantitative diversity goals and metrics?

2024-03-30 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 17183 March 1977, Salvo Tomaselli wrote: I am also the original author of packages, and since I am told that salsa is only for debian and upstream projects are not supposed to be there, for me it is easier to keep packaging and development on a single repository. Which of course can't

Re: On community and conflicts

2023-03-16 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 16804 March 1977, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: And yes, if someone manages to go that way with another conspiracy theory that directly affects people like this one did, I do believe the outcome will be the same. The ones you list above are on the comedy side of things. :) You, on the other

Re: On community and conflicts

2023-03-15 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 16803 March 1977, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: Yet, would someone posting about the earth being flat, the moon landings being faked, or aliens being kept in various secret government facilities around the world have been so swiftly removed from the project? Hardly swiftly. And not to a

Re: Changing how we handle non-free firmware

2022-08-18 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 16594 March 1977, Timo Lindfors wrote: 3) Ensure that the filename of the installation media includes "non-free-firmware" or something similar so that it is clear to everyone what they are getting into. Debian has had such a long history of not including non-free bits in the

Re: Changing how we handle non-free firmware

2022-08-18 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 16594 March 1977, Steve McIntyre wrote: = We will include non-free firmware packages from the "non-free-firmware" section of the Debian archive on our official media (installer images and live images). The included firmware binaries will *normally* be enabled

Re: General resolution: Condemn Russian invasion of the Ukraine

2022-03-31 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 16454 March 1977, Joerg Jaspert wrote: While that war is idiotic and entirely stupid - what is the gain for Debian issuing such a statement? What is the goal here? Oh, and why now, not for all of those other wars and the misery coming out of them, all over the world, in the last years

Re: General resolution: Condemn Russian invasion of the Ukraine

2022-03-31 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 16454 March 1977, Julian Andres Klode wrote: The Debian project strongly condemns the invasion of Ukraine by Russia. The Debian projects affirms that Ukrain is a souvereign nation which includes the Donbas regions of Luhansk, as well as Crimea, which has already been illegaly annexed by

Re: Renaming the FTP Masters

2021-11-12 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 16314 March 1977, Thomas Goirand wrote: Wrong wrong wrong ... we're "project members" ... don't you remember? :) Just like AH is now CT. (Gosh, DMT TLA...) This shows that it will take years, if not decades, for the rename to ever be effective (if the person(s) in charge decide(s)

Re: Renaming the FTP Masters

2021-11-05 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 16308 March 1977, Jonathan Carter wrote: I would like to rename the FTP Masters team—ideally via a General Resolution. Ideally? Its the worst possible way to go about. I'm at a loss to actually find polite words to describe how off it is, That might be slightly harsh, Felix only became a

Re: Renaming the FTP Masters

2021-11-04 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 16306 March 1977, Felix Lechner wrote: I would like to rename the FTP Masters team—ideally via a General Resolution. Ideally? Its the worst possible way to go about. I'm at a loss to actually find polite words to describe how off it is, to do this via a GR. Without even ever asking the

Expectation of constructive interaction

2021-04-10 Thread Joerg Jaspert
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Re: General resolution: ratify https://github.com/rms-open-letter/rms-open-letter.github.io

2021-03-24 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 16082 March 1977, Steve Langasek wrote: I accept an amendment to include the word "board" (which was missed on accident by me) and would ask the seconders to confirm their acceptance of this amendment so we can avoid any unnecessary extra variations on the GR ballot. Confirmed. -- bye,

Re: Asking DPL to shorten Discussion Period for rms-open-letter

2021-03-24 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 16082 March 1977, Sam Hartman wrote: I don't think we're going to get much benefit out of a prolonged discussion, and I think that there is significant benefit in acting quickly in this instance. So, I'd like to ask the DPL to consider shortening the discussion period. And for whatever it

Re: General resolution: ratify https://github.com/rms-open-letter/rms-open-letter.github.io

2021-03-24 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 16082 March 1977, Steve Langasek wrote: Under 4.1.5 of the Constitution, the developers by way of GR are the body who has the power to issue nontechnical statements. https://github.com/rms-open-letter/rms-open-letter.github.io/blob/main/index.md is a statement which I believe Debian as a

Re: Should the project hire one or two persons to help the DPL?

2021-03-19 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 16077 March 1977, Raphael Hertzog wrote: There are quite a few software projects that have hired staff to help smooth the internal working of organizations, I know at least of Django with its fellowship program: https://www.djangoproject.com/fundraising/#fellowship-program The current

Re: Some thoughts about Diversity and the CoC

2019-12-12 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 15614 March 1977, Gerardo Ballabio wrote: Anyway, thank you for clarifying that using people's preferred pronouns is a requisite for being welcome in Debian. As I read them, neither the CoC nor the Diversity Statement are explicit on that. Maybe it would be useful to make it explicit? They

Re: Failing GPG key (was: Re: Debian Project Leader election 2019: First call for votes)

2019-04-09 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 15367 March 1977, Mathias Behrle wrote: *Usually* they do not do that during running elections, just short before they start, so you may be out of luck. If so then I think there is a clear gap in the procedures. That may be, though they are like this for a long time now. - What about

Re: Failing GPG key (was: Re: Debian Project Leader election 2019: First call for votes)

2019-04-09 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 15367 March 1977, Mathias Behrle wrote: - originally set to 2019-04-07 - updated on 2019-04-08 to 2021-04-06 and pushed to various keyservers including keyring.debian.org. That was a bit late, but the right place to send to. Do I have to wait for a keyring sync of the DD Keyring? When

End of campaigning

2019-04-06 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Hi three weeks of campaining, nearly over. Soon we have two weeks of voting. It was a nice time with a managable amount of mails. And one that certainly gave me new ideas and also incentive to get some of my thoughts around Debian clearer and more focused. Should I win, the extra time I gain

Re: Bikeshedding

2019-04-03 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 15361 March 1977, Sean Whitton wrote: Yes. The amount of effort that we would need to expend on implementing zack's Statement seems out of proportion to the benefit, given that it mandates no particular git workflow. That's because you are all in way too deep in technical stuff. This is

Re: Q to all candidates: what is the long-term role of traditional Linux distributions?

2019-04-03 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 15361 March 1977, Matthew Garrett wrote: But upstream development is increasingly diverging from our approach. I think that depends a bit in which area you look. Many new software ecosystems are based on external code repositories rather than relying on the distribution, and in several

Re: Q to all candidates: about advancing Debian (as organisation) while not being DPL

2019-04-03 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 15361 March 1977, Chris Lamb wrote: So, in general, I fear that the candidates may be over-estimating how much of the DPL's tasks can be delegated to teams or other individuals. [...] So, reading this back I am not entirely sure what I'm asking here but I would be interested if our

Re: Q: Do you believe in Supercow?

2019-04-02 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 15360 March 1977, David Kalnischkies wrote: Old codebases usually do not attract many new people. Well, yes, but what is that supposed to mean? Not much more than something you probably already knew. APT had at least one (serious) sort of rewrite (cupt) which isn't exactly overrun

Re: Q: Do you believe in Supercow?

2019-04-02 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 15359 March 1977, David Kalnischkies wrote: Mindless sweet talk might be boring through, so let me get some (wordy) questions you can dwell on as much as you like (to improve stats[2]): You know, if thats just some 1st april joke, its a bad one. But there is some stuff in that can actually

Re: Bikeshedding

2019-04-02 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 15360 March 1977, Jonas Meurer wrote: Gitlab subgroups would solve this problem: Move every Debian package into the 'debian' group, but allow subgroups in there: Not in the current way they work, no. Though there is a gitlab upstream bug about it. -- bye, Joerg

Re: Q: top three things you would like to change if that was easy?

2019-04-02 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 15359 March 1977, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: However, I wonder why you picked this ("maintained on salsa + upload rights for all DD") as the first step towards increasing uniformity (thus I assume that you see this as the most important thing to fix). In practice, we already have a version

Re: Q to all candidates: mutual communcation and decision-making tools

2019-04-02 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 15359 March 1977, Jonas Meurer wrote: Do you have concrete plans to improve the mutual/two-way communication between the DPL and the rest of the project? Monthly bits from the DPL are already helpful, but they're mostly a one-way communication so far. I don't mean private communication

Re: Q to all candidates: should we have more ports?

2019-04-01 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 15359 March 1977, Wouter Verhelst wrote: Should we try to catch up with these other systems in terms of ports? Specifically today, should we try to make Debian usable on any of the operating system kernels that I quoted above? While it is nice to have many ports, "We have the most" is not

Re: Bikeshedding

2019-04-01 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 15359 March 1977, Russ Allbery wrote: I agree with what you are saying here. However, I am concerned that the "push == automatic package upload" idea may be a step too far in some cases. I assume this would only happen if you push a signed tag. I wouldn't want every random commit I push

Re: Bikeshedding

2019-03-31 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 15358 March 1977, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: I'm not fundamentally against that being a "must", but we should just be aware that there might be some use cases that we'll end up sacrificing in order to make such a unification of source control hosting possible. I agree with your analysis

Re: Bikeshedding

2019-03-31 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 15358 March 1977, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Statement: every Debian package must be maintained in Git on salsa and > every Debian Developer with upload rights to the archive should have > commit/push right to every packaging repository on salsa. Well, you took it from one of my mails, so

Re: Bikeshedding

2019-03-31 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 15358 March 1977, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: And less "I'm the package maintainer, this is my castle, go away" and more "This is how the majority does it, you follow, the benefit of it being one way, not a dozen different, outweight some personal preferences". Let's cut to the chase of this.

Re: Bikeshedding

2019-03-30 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 15356 March 1977, Anthony Towns wrote: Did anything happen to that? (Or perhaps, that's better phrased as: did anything cause it to stall other than ENOTIME?) I'm guessing not? [1] ENOTIME. And ENOONEELSEINTERESTEDINCODING. Unless the things that caused it to stall were legal concerns or

Re: Q to all candidates: about advancing Debian (as organisation) while not being DPL

2019-03-30 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 15356 March 1977, Laura Arjona Reina wrote: There are some teams in Debian that focus in areas similar to the DPL tasks and allow people to make a difference in the project working on them, without the need - and the burden? or the satisfaction? - of being a DPL. For example: *

Re: Q to all candidates: increase diversity with DDs outside Europe and USA

2019-03-30 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 15357 March 1977, Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana wrote: We have debated on the "debconf-discuss" mailing list about DebConf21 and it was said about the huge number of DD in Europe. So, what the DPL can do to increase the number of DDs in other regions outside Europe and USA? Well. Yes, its

Re: Question to Martin: How are your Grants and Paid DPL Proposals Differnt than Dunc-Tanc

2019-03-27 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 15354 March 1977, Martin Michlmayr wrote: Really? Taking off weekends unless there's something urgent is "problematic"? For a volunteer, unpaid position? No. Taking time off is fine. I do that too, sometimes, or I wouldn't be a DD anymore after all this time. Announcing a set time where

Re: Conflict of Interest Statement for Joerg Jaspert

2019-03-26 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 15353 March 1977, martin f. krafft wrote: I am holding positions of power in Debian What does this mean in the context of you running for DPL? Will you hold on to these roles, or give them up? Thats part of my platform: --8<---cut here---start->8--- 7

Conflict of Interest Statement for Joerg Jaspert

2019-03-26 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Hi * Conflict of interest: I'm happy to see that your and Joerg's employers would support your DPL activities. However, I've no idea who they are or what they want from Debian. Maybe they use Debian and want to give back with no strings attached, but I could definitely see a situation where a

Re: Debian presence on newer platforms

2019-03-25 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 15352 March 1977, ans...@debian.org wrote: Do you think Debian should be more active to establish (official) presence on newer platforms? For those that are free, sure. In particular I also wonder if Debian should look at Matrix[1]: it is a free and decentralized platform, and the UI (of

Re: Discussion on eventual transition away from source packages

2019-03-22 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 15349 March 1977, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: I'm probably missing something, but it doesn't sound like a lot of work to me? It's "just" a service that: Same here: You think about just something that keeps the traditional layout around. If one does that, yes, that service isn't too hard. I was

Re: Is free software political?

2019-03-21 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 15348 March 1977, Jonathan Carter wrote: 1. Do you think that free software is inherently political? Do you think there's place for politics in free software? 2. The same as #1, but for Debian instead of free software. Well, I think that in the case of #1, the Free Software Foundation (and

Re: Is free software political?

2019-03-21 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 15348 March 1977, Jonathan Carter wrote: My question is to the other 4 DPL candidates, and I'm happy to answer it too if anyone is interested in my view. Yes, please go. 1. Do you think that free software is inherently political? Do you think there's place for politics in free software?

Re: Discussion on eventual transition away from source packages

2019-03-21 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 15348 March 1977, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: Couldn't we imagine a schema where a push of an annotated signed tag to the salsa repository triggers a gitlab-ci job that notifies a service on ftp-master that there's a git repo with a suitable signed tag waiting? that service could then fetch the

Re: Questions about "Winding down my Debian involvement"

2019-03-21 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 15348 March 1977, Sean Whitton wrote: I won't write a long reply because it's not that important to the DPL election, but I did want to note that `dgit push-source` has answers for everything you've listed. I'd encourage you to take a(nother) look! Do those answers only apply if you still

Re: Q to all candidates: SWOT analysis

2019-03-21 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 15347 March 1977, Jose Miguel Parrella wrote: One of the questions in my platform hinted at one point: The "package" managers various new languages came up with. Do you (and other candidates) see this as a threat or as an opportunity? Both. It is a threat if we do nothing and ignore it

Re: Questions about "Winding down my Debian involvement"

2019-03-21 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 15347 March 1977, Sean Whitton wrote: I would actually like if we end up with a "git push turns into an upload". Which would need some central $thing for it to make it so. Not sure thats salsa. Or something seperately (but maybe together with it). We already have something that is quite

Re: Question to Martin: How are your Grants and Paid DPL Proposals Differnt than Dunc-Tanc

2019-03-21 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 15347 March 1977, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: As a random factoid related to this: in the Debian contributors survey that we ran a while ago, ~18% of the respondents who declared to be Debian contributors also declared to be paid (at least in part) for their contributions [1]. I think there

Re: Q to all candidates: SWOT analysis

2019-03-20 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 15347 March 1977, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: You are probably familiar with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis Nope. Note that if you prefer not to frame this in the context of SWOT analysis, you can also answer the following four questions, which should result in basically the same

Re: Q to all candidates: Universal Operating System

2019-03-20 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 15347 March 1977, Ian Jackson wrote: I would like to reframe this question: When should we expect a Debian maintainer to put in effort for use cases, software designs, hardware platforms, etc., that they don't personally care about ? I have an answer to this: So long as most of the work is

Re: Q to all candidates: Universal Operating System

2019-03-20 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 15347 March 1977, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: 1) So, if you were asked to write a Social Contract paragraph about our universality, defining/outlining both what we aim for, and also maybe some limits to that quest for universality, what would it be? I wouldn't be the one to write such a

Re: Q to all candidates: Universal Operating System

2019-03-20 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 15347 March 1977, Jose Miguel Parrella wrote: To add to this question: Do candidates think Debian "competes" for "share"/"mindshare" of users and contributors in the "Linux distro" category? Whenever I get asked (especially at events) "I'm a new linux user, do you recommend Debian" or

Re: Questions about "Winding down my Debian involvement"

2019-03-20 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 15347 March 1977, Andreas Tille wrote: Recently I've read the article "Winding down my Debian involvement" from Michael Stapelberg[1]. I consider that article an interesting reading and I would love to hear the opinion of the candidates about it. I read it and it influenced parts of my

Re: A few high level questions for all platforms

2019-03-20 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 15347 March 1977, Michael Meskes wrote: But yes, depending on/with some events/companies, speaking as a DPL will be perceived much more strongly. Any "normal" DD won't be heard. If that is the case, and if its sufficient, a delegation can be good. Are you saying you would delegate the

Re: A few high level questions for all platforms

2019-03-20 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 15347 March 1977, Jose Miguel Parrella wrote: * As a DPL, what steps would you take (if any) towards reducing the workload and breadth of activities the DPL is expected to engage in? Depending on the actual activity and there being any volunteers, it may get delegated. * Would you pursue

Re: Debian Project Leader Elections 2019: Call for nominations

2019-03-14 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 15337 March 1977, Debian Project Secretary wrote: Since there were no candidates during the nomination period, the nomination period has been extended by 1 week. Soo, lets ensure we do not have another week: I hereby nominate myself for the DPL election 2019. -- bye, Joerg

Re: Debian Project Leader Elections 2019: Call for nominations

2019-03-10 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 15337 March 1977, Zlatan Todorić wrote: So, funny, maybe we will live to our long history of community fostering (which is the thing I most enjoy from Debian, besides that we produce kickass OS) and be leaderless as we in all nature of project actually are. While the idea of going

Re: Debian Project Leader Elections 2019: Call for nominations

2019-03-10 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 15337 March 1977, Sam Hartman wrote: In fairness, I'd recommend that the nominations period be extended for some explicit time. I think that we want to have a known window for new nominations rather than say starting the campaigning as soon as someone nominates themselves. §5.2.4 to the

Re: Q: NEW process licence requirements

2018-04-01 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 14994 March 1977, Adrian Bunk wrote: > Since Debian distributing whatever random people upload to salsa > is fine for you, I fail to see the point why you would consider > distributing what is in the DD-only NEW a huge problem. It is not fine. But I've chosen to not go down the road that

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: having public irc logs?

2017-04-06 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 14634 March 1977, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > Debian has a "we don't hide things" wording in his constitution. > However we don't have a public irc log system, and most > of the conversations between us are happening there. > How do you relate to that issue? Do you see it as a problem, >

Re: Proposed GR: State exception for security bugs in Social Contract clause 3

2017-01-11 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 14549 March 1977, Sean Whitton wrote: > No-one who understands how GNU/Linux distributions work thinks that > there is anything problematic about short-term embargos of information > about serious security bugs. However, the SC is not just for those > people: it's also something for newcomers

Re: Proposed GR: Acknowledge that the debian-private list will remain private

2016-07-09 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 14361 March 1977, Nicolas Dandrimont wrote: > === BEGIN GR TEXT === > > Title: Acknowledge that the debian-private list will remain private. > > 1. The 2005 General Resolution titled "Declassification of debian-private >list archives" is repealed. > 2. In keeping with paragraph 3 of the

Re: General Resolution: Fix Minor Bugs in Constitution

2015-11-01 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 14106 March 1977, Sam Hartman wrote: >- GENERAL RESOLUTION STARTS - > > >Constitutional Amendment: TC Supermajority Fix > >Prior to the Clone Proof SSD GR in June 2003, the Technical >Committee could overrule a Developer with a supermajority of 3:1. > >

Re: General Resolution: Fix Minor Bugs in Constitution

2015-10-29 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 14106 March 1977, Sam Hartman wrote: >- GENERAL RESOLUTION STARTS - > > >Constitutional Amendment: TC Supermajority Fix > >Prior to the Clone Proof SSD GR in June 2003, the Technical >Committee could overrule a Developer with a supermajority of 3:1. > >

Re: GR: Selecting the default init system for Debian

2014-01-19 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 13461 March 1977, Guillem Jover wrote: I think that forcing a decision through the TC at this time was very premature and inappropriate Quite the contrary, it was the right thing to do. This issue will not get any easier or more clearcut the longer we let it wait and see if maybe the

Re: Naming of non-uploading DDs

2010-09-20 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 12243 March 1977, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 09:36:50AM -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote: Even better, now with attachments! There is yet another pronoun I have missed. Please find a patch attached. Applied (wording / punctuation fix), thanks! New current text is

Re: Naming of non-uploading DDs

2010-09-15 Thread Joerg Jaspert
I think unlimited upload access should be simply another one of those sets of permissions that some people have and others don't. Those who need that access to do their work can receive it after appropriate vetting of their ability to use that access appropriately, just as someone would

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

2010-09-14 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 12238 March 1977, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: --- The Debian project aims at producing the best free operating system. To that end the project benefits from various types of contributions, including but not limited to:

Re: Questions for all candidates: decentralization of power

2010-04-01 Thread Joerg Jaspert
I also think that we need to review the NEW uploads. But this is not what I discuss here. I propose to let all DDs look what is in the NEW queue. (This would of course help to review the NEW uploads). If there is ever any legal fun around this, it is a *HUGE* difference if you can say Only

Re: Question for all candidates: Release process

2010-03-29 Thread Joerg Jaspert
(And to answer to the comment ‘you do not need to be DPL for doing this’, that is true, but if I make a bad score at this election, I will conclude that there are not many persons interested in what I propose anyway, and will save everybody's time by not discussing them further in the

Re: Q for all candidates: license and copyright requirements

2010-03-24 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Our users includes not only an individual with a single computer who never sees the source, but also derivative distributions, private organizations, system administrators, etc, all of whom may need to modify the source for their own purposes. Our users, if they want to modify, study,

Re: Q for all candidates: license and copyright requirements

2010-03-23 Thread Joerg Jaspert
The second option aims at clarifying what is the source of the Debian operating system. It is controversial. It is a lot but not controversial, actually its pretty clear. For that statement alone *I* hope NOTA will have a big win over you, sorry. It shows you are way off with actual project.

Question to all Candidates: 2IC

2010-03-11 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Heyho, a little question to all those up for the next DPL: Do you plan on taking on a 2IC or a team? If so: Who? And why this/those? Thanks. -- bye, Joerg Well, I’m tired of being a wannabe league bowler. I wanna be a league bowler! pgpc4eVogfX8Q.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: lifting censorship during the DPL campaign ...

2009-03-23 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11696 March 1977, Sven Luther wrote: I come to you again, with the same request as i did last year, that you lift the censorship you are imposing on me for the duration of the DPL campaign on debian-vote. As you obviously do not know the word, lets copy what a dictionary or also Wikipedia

Re: Amendment: Enhance requirements for General resolutions

2009-03-22 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11697 March 1977, Neil McGovern wrote: AMENDMENT START General Resolutions are an important framework within the Debian Project. Yet, in a project the size of Debian, the current requirements to initiate one are too

Proposal: Enhance requirements for General resolutions

2009-03-21 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Hi, I have felt for some time that the low requirement for seconds on General Resolutions is something that should be fixed. Currently it needs 5 supporters to get any idea laid before every Debian Developer to vote on. While this small number was a good thing at the time Debian was smaller, I

Amendment: Enhance requirements for General resolutions

2009-03-21 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Hi, and here is the promised amendment which will require a maximum of floor(Q) developers to second a GR. PROPOSAL START General Resolutions are an important framework within the Debian Project. Yet, in a project the size

Re: Proposal: Enhance requirements for General resolutions

2009-03-21 Thread Joerg Jaspert
There are some that do not take part in the discussions but vote, there are those who do not even follow debian-vote because they do not feel it is worth the effort, and those that are simply not active at all. I do not have the numbers right now, but IIRC we have had an average of 300

Re: GR proposal: the AGPL does not meet the DFSG

2009-03-19 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Of course, had the FTP master rejected packages under the AGPL from the archive, I would not have bothered with a GR. However I would like this GR to be considered independently of the FTP master resolution. They are not the target, the AGPL is. It is not seperate. You do want to override a

Re: DPL Debates [Re: Debian Project Leader Election 2009]

2009-03-09 Thread Joerg Jaspert
If someone can't set up a poll, I'll send another message asking for DDs to privately mail me (or maybe me-too to -vote) if they find the debates useful. http://doodle.com/nmpesn9t5fwv6ewe Having this run for 7 days now, we had 72 participants. The question asked was Are the Debian DPL IRC

Re: DPL Debates [Re: Debian Project Leader Election 2009]

2009-03-02 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Perhaps someone could set up a poll for DDs to indicate whether they find the debates useful or not? [I think Jeroen was doing this last?] If someone can't set up a poll, I'll send another message asking for DDs to privately mail me (or maybe me-too to -vote) if they find the debates useful.

Re: Results of the Lenny release GR

2009-01-11 Thread Joerg Jaspert
So, I think you made a mistake, a very serious one, and when asked about it, your explanation is completely unsatisfactory. How do we solve this? Currently, the only solution I see is that we ask the developers what they think, and hold another vote. Do you have any other idea in mind? How

Re: Results of the Lenny release GR

2009-01-11 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Do you have any other idea in mind? Btw, Joerg, that goes for you too. If you have something constructive to say, this would be a good time. How about you going elsewhere until Lenny is released, then coming back as soon as that happens and start working on what is left to fix then? (Not

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

2008-12-29 Thread Joerg Jaspert
I thought FD was also a vote for release Lenny given it didn't change the status quo and before the GR the release team were quite happy to release... If you believe that the release team had the authority to release lenny with an arbitrary amount of non-free software, then yes, that would

Discussion: Possible GR: Enhance requirements for General Resolutions

2008-12-29 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Hi, I have felt for some time that the low requirement for seconds on General Resolutions is something that should be fixed. We are over 1000 Developers, if you can't find more than 5 people supporting your idea, its most probably not worth it taking time of everyone. Various IRC discussions told

Re: I hereby resign as secretary

2008-12-18 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11603 March 1977, Manoj Srivastava wrote: I am hereby resigning as secretary, effective immediately. :( Sorry to hear that. Whoever is your follower *will* have a hard time. As to the people who emailed me that they are putting together a petition for the DAM to have me

Vote results for vote 002?

2008-12-15 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Hi, just out of curiosity (somehow I'm affected :) ): When do you plan to provide us with the results of the vote that was supposed to end 23:59:59 UTC on Sunday, 14th Dec, 2008? In the past (IIRC) it was always nicely a few minutes after the vote ended, at least a preliminary result /

Re: Draft ballot for Proceedural Vote: Suspension of the changes of the Project's membership procedures.

2008-10-28 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On Tuesday 28 October 2008 00:21, Joerg Jaspert wrote: So, for the sanity (if any is left), could the proposer and all its sponsors, agree to not have an immediate vote on this, as it *WONT* do anything except creating needless work? You could give them an incentive to do so... WTF do you

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

2008-10-27 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11551 March 1977, Charles Plessy wrote: I would be more than happy if a discussion between the different poles of opinions would start, with focus on convergence. This GR effectively blocks any [motivation to have a] discussion. -- bye, Joerg A.D. 1492: Christopher Columbus arrives in

Re: DAM has no competency to make changes to membership structure

2008-10-27 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11551 March 1977, martin f. krafft wrote: The changes announced the 22nd of October on the debian-devel-announce mailing list (Message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) are suspended [§4.1(3)]. This suspension is effective immediately [§4.2(2.2)]. I do not understand why we need to do this at

Re: Draft ballot for Proceedural Vote: Suspension of the changes of the Project's membership procedures.

2008-10-27 Thread Joerg Jaspert
- - -=-=-=-=-=- Don't Delete Anything Between These Lines =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- a1ea0fab-9ff7-4466-a951-99c712df8192 [ ] Choice 1: Decision on membership reform stands until GR decided [ ] Choice 2: Decision on membership reform delayed until GR decided [ ] Choice 3: Further discussion - -

Re: Draft ballot for Proceedural Vote: Suspension of the changes of the Project's membership procedures.

2008-10-27 Thread Joerg Jaspert
- - -=-=-=-=-=- Don't Delete Anything Between These Lines =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- a1ea0fab-9ff7-4466-a951-99c712df8192 [ ] Choice 1: Decision on membership reform stands until GR decided [ ] Choice 2: Decision on membership reform delayed until GR decided [ ] Choice 3: Further discussion

Re: Q: All: Account creation latency

2008-03-17 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11327 March 1977, Pierre Habouzit wrote: We need to break that logic. I would like to talk with James and try to convince him to create accounts as they come. It's well known that small task (when they take less than 5 minutes) are usually best done on the fly instead of accumulating them.

Re: Constitutional amendment: reduce the length of DPL election process

2007-08-02 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11099 March 1977, Holger Levsen wrote: Thank you for the 542th Seconded. on this proposal. We don't even need to vote any more :-) Seriously, could we have this change without voting? Sure, if everyone with a key in the current keyring, ie. including those MIA, sends a seconded (and

Re: Constitutional amendment: reduce the length of DPL election process

2007-08-02 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11099 March 1977, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Seconded. Thank you for the 542th Seconded. on this proposal. We don't even need to vote any more :-) That said, once we reached the 5 DD who seconded (+2/3 more just to be sure in case of bad signatures), it doesn't bring much to send further

Re: Constitutional amendment: reduce the length of DPL election process

2007-07-31 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11097 March 1977, Anthony Towns wrote: = 5.2. Appointment 1. The Project Leader is elected by the Developers. 2. The election begins [-nine-] {+six+} weeks before the leadership post becomes vacant, or (if it is too late already) immediately. 3. For the

Re: The Debian Maintainers GR

2007-07-30 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11096 March 1977, Anthony Towns wrote: And there's the usual spin. Not everything's about who has power over whom, Joerg. At least try to have the courage to stand up in public for what you do in private. I dont have a problem with it being public. I have one with someone just making

The Debian Maintainers GR

2007-07-27 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Hi The following is basically what I wrote in my blog a few minutes ago, but IMO should also be on -vote, as thats the place where vote stuff is handled, and noone can expect people to read blogs or planet... The DM GR = So, let's join the postings about the currently running Debian

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal

2007-06-25 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11057 March 1977, Anthony Towns wrote: [ In case some of the stuff below is already answered in different mails - pointing me at them is enough. I just had no time to read all of them, way too large thread. :) Thanks. ] The Debian Project endorses the concept of Debian Maintainers with

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