Re: The General Public Licence (GPL) as the basic governance tool

2020-02-24 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> From: Ludovic Courtès > Cc: m...@klomp.org, gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org > Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2020 22:34:32 +0100 > > > That's just the tip of a very large iceberg. I know it, you know it, > > and every GNU maintainer knows it. When we get appointed, we receive > > a 1000-word message from RMS

Re: The General Public Licence (GPL) as the basic governance tool

2020-02-24 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le lundi 24 février 2020, 11:12:09 CET Dmitry Gutov a écrit : > On 23.02.2020 23:34, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > I do see that some people do not judge the document for what it > > actually says, and I think it’s a pity. > > > > Over the last decade I have, again, not been silent about a desire to

Re: ru...@mrbrklyn.com: Please remove me from your hang...@nylxs.com or vill...@mrbrklyn.com mailing lists

2020-02-24 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le lundi 24 février 2020, 06:28:07 CET J.B. Nicholson a écrit : > Taylan Kammer wrote: > > I've had the same problem. No idea what he's trying to achieve... > > What I see is indistinguishable from spam but with more annoying > intention (I get into this in detail below) amounting to harassment.

Re: State of the GNUnion 2020

2020-02-24 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
> Regarding punishing repeat offenders anyway, as we've seen just > recently, you can't censor a determined individual on a public mailing > list anyway. Limit their audience, sure, but banning them outright seems > impossible. And I can hardly see the whole GNU project migrating off > mailing

Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] Harrassment on this list

2020-02-24 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le lundi 24 février 2020, 15:57:39 CET Ludovic Courtès a écrit : > Ian Lance Taylor skribis: > > nipponm...@firemail.cc writes: > >> I'm not on this list to see a do-nothing guy foment all day and night > >> filling up my inbox. Ruben: If you want to sue, sue. You're a Jew, > >> you > >> know

Re: feeling intimidated for endorsing the GNU social contract

2020-02-24 Thread Mike Gerwitz
On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 21:13:48 +0100, Andy Wingo wrote: >> We've had a few people in particular that have been especially >> problematic, and one person in particular that has many different >> aliases and has even gone so far as to create a separate list that the >> person has forcefully

Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] Harrassment on this list

2020-02-24 Thread Mike Gerwitz
On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 07:07:11 +, nipponm...@firemail.cc wrote: > I'm not on this list to see a do-nothing guy foment all day and night > filling up my inbox. Ruben: If you want to sue, sue. You're a Jew, you know > lots of lawyers. Stop fomenting and keveching and just file your suit. This

Re: State of the GNUnion 2020

2020-02-24 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le mardi 25 février 2020, 00:55:09 CET Samuel Thibault a écrit : > As I mentioned in another mail, I am not talking about the software > running the platform, but the community around the platform. It's the > contact they get from the community living on a given platform, which > makes the

Re: State of the GNUnion 2020

2020-02-24 Thread Dmitry Gutov
On 20.02.2020 15:45, Samuel Thibault wrote: The activity by itself, yes, but the choice of where to start a new project, or starting contributing an existing project, leadership does have a lot of importance. What kind of choice? Contributors come and go, largely depending on their own needs

Re: State of the GNUnion 2020

2020-02-24 Thread Samuel Thibault
Dmitry Gutov, le mar. 25 févr. 2020 01:44:02 +0200, a ecrit: > On 20.02.2020 15:45, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > > > The activity by itself, yes, but the choice of where to start a new > > > > project, or starting contributing an existing project, leadership does > > > > have a lot of importance.

Re: Why the "social contract" should not be endorsed

2020-02-24 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le samedi 22 février 2020, 20:48:43 CET Andreas Enge a écrit : > If anything, this message shows how much a code of conduct is needed. I’ve just read https://wiki.gnu.tools/wiki:code-of-conduct Beside the usage of the binary *-free english phrasing which is unfortunate when applied to human

Re: State of the GNUnion 2020

2020-02-24 Thread Samuel Thibault
Alexandre François Garreau, le mar. 25 févr. 2020 03:10:35 +0100, a ecrit: > Le mardi 25 février 2020, 00:55:09 CET Samuel Thibault a écrit : > > Did you really read what was actually written on > > https://wiki.gnu.tools/gnu:social-contract ? > > It does not talk about the values that

Re: feeling intimidated for endorsing the GNU social contract

2020-02-24 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
The best solution to the problem is a public mailing list whose subscribers are limited to GNU stakeholders. This would go a long way towards discourse civility, and is what was asked for in the beginning; you have the power to do such a thing. This list is exactly for that, for

Re: Moderation

2020-02-24 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
Your message is hostile, and unkind. Mike's message was explaining the situation, but you attack him and accuse him. I think you made Mike's point. Just like we do not accept obvious garbage language, we also do not accept hostility towards other members of this list. Please try to use a

Re: ru...@mrbrklyn.com: Please remove me from your hang...@nylxs.com or vill...@mrbrklyn.com mailing lists

2020-02-24 Thread J.B. Nicholson
Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: It isn't tolerated, but it is also something that those administrating gnu-misc-discuss@ (or any GNU list) can do little about. You've been forcefully subscribed to another list, the GNU project is not in control of it. We cannot filter who sends what to you

Re: ru...@mrbrklyn.com: Please remove me from your hang...@nylxs.com or vill...@mrbrklyn.com mailing lists

2020-02-24 Thread J.B. Nicholson
Alexandre François Garreau wrote: It was, and it is not “tolerated”, this is bad faith: it is simply impossible to do anything about that. gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org list owners could remove ru...@mrbrklyn.com from the list and make it clear that he won't be allowed back until he has stopped

Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] Harrassment on this list

2020-02-24 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
nipponm...@firemail.cc writes: > I'm not on this list to see a do-nothing guy foment all day and night > filling up my inbox. Ruben: If you want to sue, sue. You're a Jew, you > know lots of lawyers. Stop fomenting and keveching and just file your > suit. As far as I can tell, I received this on

Re: Why the "social contract" should not be endorsed

2020-02-24 Thread Leo Famulari
On Sat, Feb 22, 2020 at 07:29:45AM +, Alex Taylor wrote: > Finally "endorsing" the text would give the rebel group a legitimacy which > they neither have, nor deserve. It's instructive to look at the track > record of these renegades. The Guile and Guix projects have both excluded > and/or

Re: ru...@mrbrklyn.com: Please remove me from your hang...@nylxs.com or vill...@mrbrklyn.com mailing lists

2020-02-24 Thread Marcel
On 2/24/20 12:28 PM, J.B. Nicholson wrote: Taylan Kammer wrote: I've had the same problem.  No idea what he's trying to achieve... What I see is indistinguishable from spam but with more annoying intention (I get into this in detail below) amounting to harassment. I'm surprised that this

Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] feeling intimidated for endorsing the GNU social contract

2020-02-24 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le lundi 24 février 2020, 12:31:45 CET Ruben Safir a écrit : > On Sun, Feb 23, 2020 at 10:58:28PM -0500, Mike Gerwitz wrote: > > Firstly: I'm sorry that you are receiving those messages. People > > should not feel harassed in that way when communicating on GNU lists. > > WRONG > > When people

praising our moderators

2020-02-24 Thread Mark Galassi
Mike> [...] One again, I ask that people please assume that Mike> moderators are acting in good faith. I would like to say that Mike and others who have moderated have done a very generous and good job. Mike, I hope that you realize that most people feel that way (I'm a physicist, so

Re: ru...@mrbrklyn.com: Please remove me from your hang...@nylxs.com or vill...@mrbrklyn.com mailing lists

2020-02-24 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
The impossibility is in that you might not get unsubscribed even if baning someone from this list. And what use would that be? To make a pointless stance on top of a mountain of authority? Apparently gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org owners have chosen to do nothing about it and therefore it is

Re: The General Public Licence (GPL) as the basic governance tool

2020-02-24 Thread Dmitry Gutov
On 23.02.2020 23:34, Ludovic Courtès wrote: I do see that some people do not judge the document for what it actually says, and I think it’s a pity. Over the last decade I have, again, not been silent about a desire to work towards a collectively-run GNU. But I’ve also done a lot for GNU in

Re: The General Public Licence (GPL) as the basic governance tool

2020-02-24 Thread Andreas R.
Hi Dmitri, On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 12:12:09PM +0200, Dmitry Gutov wrote: > On 23.02.2020 23:34, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > I do see that some people do not judge the document for what it actually > > says, and I think it’s a pity. > > > > Over the last decade I have, again, not been silent about

Re: The General Public Licence (GPL) as the basic governance tool

2020-02-24 Thread Dmitry Gutov
On 24.02.2020 12:34, Andreas R. wrote: It is not without reason motivations are considered ouf of scope for the discussion. In order to facilitate any constructive dialogue, we were asked to assume good faith, which in this case means that whatever reasons people have to participate in drafting

Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] Harrassment on this list

2020-02-24 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Ian Lance Taylor skribis: > nipponm...@firemail.cc writes: > >> I'm not on this list to see a do-nothing guy foment all day and night >> filling up my inbox. Ruben: If you want to sue, sue. You're a Jew, you >> know lots of lawyers. Stop fomenting and keveching and just file your >> suit. > > As

Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] Harrassment on this list

2020-02-24 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
I feel the same, it’s terrible that such messages are tolerated. They aren't, and please stop implying that they are. You ask us to moderate the list, which we do, but we cannot moderate every single message that is sent here. But then quickly complain when your messages are not sent

Re: ru...@mrbrklyn.com: Please remove me from your hang...@nylxs.com or vill...@mrbrklyn.com mailing lists

2020-02-24 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
> I've had the same problem.  No idea what he's trying to achieve... What I see is indistinguishable from spam but with more annoying intention (I get into this in detail below) amounting to harassment. I'm surprised that this behavior is tolerated and not identified as a source

Re: ru...@mrbrklyn.com: Please remove me from your hang...@nylxs.com or vill...@mrbrklyn.com mailing lists

2020-02-24 Thread J.B. Nicholson
Taylan Kammer wrote: I've had the same problem.  No idea what he's trying to achieve... What I see is indistinguishable from spam but with more annoying intention (I get into this in detail below) amounting to harassment. I'm surprised that this behavior is tolerated and not identified as a

Re: feeling intimidated for endorsing the GNU social contract

2020-02-24 Thread Andy Wingo
Hello Mike, On Mon 24 Feb 2020 04:58, Mike Gerwitz writes: > We've had a few people in particular that have been especially > problematic, and one person in particular that has many different > aliases and has even gone so far as to create a separate list that the > person has forcefully

Re: ru...@mrbrklyn.com: Please remove me from your hang...@nylxs.com or vill...@mrbrklyn.com mailing lists

2020-02-24 Thread orbulon--- via General GNU project and free software discussions
Unfortunately the only real solution here is to block all of his emails and domains. I tried unsubscribing too but it didn’t seem to do anything Feb 23, 2020, 21:28 by j...@forestfield.org: > Taylan Kammer wrote: > >> I've had the same problem.  No idea what he's trying to achieve... >> > >

Re: Moderation

2020-02-24 Thread Nathan Sidwell
On 2/18/20 12:07 AM, Mike Gerwitz wrote: On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 17:25:38 +0100, Nathan Sidwell wrote: Indeed, given the toxicity on this list, I had presumed there was no moderation (any more). If it is that modereration is being applied, it is either sorely deficient, or an indication of the

Re: ru...@mrbrklyn.com: Please remove me from your hang...@nylxs.com or vill...@mrbrklyn.com mailing lists

2020-02-24 Thread Mike Gerwitz
On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 19:34:07 -0600, J.B. Nicholson wrote: > Alexandre François Garreau wrote: >> It was, and it is not “tolerated”, this is bad faith: it is simply >> impossible to do anything about that. > > gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org list owners could remove ru...@mrbrklyn.com from > the list

Re: ru...@mrbrklyn.com: Please remove me from your hang...@nylxs.com or vill...@mrbrklyn.com mailing lists

2020-02-24 Thread Taylan Kammer
On 24.02.2020 06:28, J.B. Nicholson wrote: Taylan Kammer wrote: I've had the same problem.  No idea what he's trying to achieve... What I see is indistinguishable from spam but with more annoying intention (I get into this in detail below) amounting to harassment. I'm surprised that this