Re: unauthorized upload of xfree86 4.3.0-1 to unstable

2004-02-04 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 01:40:09PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > That said, and although I's say that I don't agree with Branden in all > areas, my impression is that it should possible to work together with > him, and if the question isn't "Should XFree86 4.3.0 enter unstable > now?" but instead "Wh

Re: unauthorized upload of xfree86 4.3.0-1 to unstable

2004-02-03 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 11:38:16AM +1300, Mike Beattie wrote: > On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 11:11:12AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > I have felt consistently under pressure to do 2 things: > > > > 1) release xfree86 4.3.0-1 to sid ASAP > > 2) delegate responsibility ASAP > > > > Very few actions

Re: unauthorized upload of xfree86 4.3.0-1 to unstable

2004-02-03 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 06:22:24PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: > Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 01:08:19PM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: > [...] > >> I did, however, state that I felt that 4.3.0-1 was by far the superior > >> base to work from in sid, for a n

Re: unauthorized upload of xfree86 4.3.0-1 to unstable

2004-02-03 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 02:21:31PM -0500, David B Harris wrote: > On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 13:04:30 -0500 > Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This upload was done without advance notice to, or consultation with the > > rest of the X Strike Force (XSF) team > > I asked Branden for clarific

Re: unauthorized upload of xfree86 4.3.0-1 to unstable

2004-01-29 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Mike Beattie wrote: >On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 11:11:12AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: >> I have felt consistently under pressure to do 2 things: >> >> 1) release xfree86 4.3.0-1 to sid ASAP >> 2) delegate responsibility ASAP >> >> Very few actions serve both goals at once, so time spent on one i

Re: unauthorized upload of xfree86 4.3.0-1 to unstable

2004-01-29 Thread Mike Beattie
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 11:11:12AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > I have felt consistently under pressure to do 2 things: > > 1) release xfree86 4.3.0-1 to sid ASAP > 2) delegate responsibility ASAP > > Very few actions serve both goals at once, so time spent on one is, > obviously, time not sp

Re: unauthorized upload of xfree86 4.3.0-1 to unstable

2004-01-29 Thread Andreas Metzler
Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 01:08:19PM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: [...] >> I did, however, state that I felt that 4.3.0-1 was by far the superior >> base to work from in sid, for a number of reasons (not least that >> propagation to sarge would put the XSF

Re: unauthorized upload of xfree86 4.3.0-1 to unstable

2004-01-29 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 01:08:19PM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: > [Forgive the crosspost, but I think each paragraph touches on different > issues, and that all 3 is the best. Please Cc me if you don't reply to > -x, as that's the only one of these lists I'm on.] I disagree that your message was ger

Re: unauthorized upload of xfree86 4.3.0-1 to unstable

2004-01-29 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 09:48:55PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote: [...] > p.s. I've addressed this to you privately so as not to cause any > troubles in public. If you want, you're welcome to forward this to > debian-x, or wherever else you like. David, I was unable to reply privately; your ISP has

Re: unauthorized upload of xfree86 4.3.0-1 to unstable

2004-01-28 Thread Daniel Stone
[Forgive the crosspost, but I think each paragraph touches on different issues, and that all 3 is the best. Please Cc me if you don't reply to -x, as that's the only one of these lists I'm on.] On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 01:04:30PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > FYI, for those who didn't know alrea

Re: unauthorized upload of xfree86 4.3.0-1 to unstable

2004-01-28 Thread Peter Constantinidis
Hi Branden, In your posting about the 4.3 upload you said you welcomed feedback so I thought I'd drop in my 2 cents from the perspective of an outsider that is contemplating installing Debian in the near future. It was my understanding that the way Sid-Testing-Stable can work, is to visualize it

unauthorized upload of xfree86 4.3.0-1 to unstable

2004-01-28 Thread Branden Robinson
[Sorry for crossposting; this mail touches on subjects of concern to a few lists, and I have included my suggestions for followup to individual lists in this message.] FYI, for those who didn't know already, an upload identifying itself as xfree86 4.3.0-1, not authorized by me, was made by Daniel