Re: First call for votes for the Lenny release GR

2008-12-18 Thread Teemu Likonen
Manoj Srivastava (2008-12-17 17:02 -0600) wrote: If there is sufficient support, we could also scrap the current vote, change our ballot, add options to it, or something, and restart the vote, but that would need a strong grass roots support (I do not think the secretary has the

Re: Bug#509063: ITP: libproxy -- automatic proxy configuration management library

2008-12-18 Thread Florian Weimer
* Emilio Pozuelo Monfort: Description : automatic proxy configuration management library libproxy is a lightweight library which makes it easy to develop applications proxy-aware with a simple and stable API. WPAD is a broken protocol with security issues inherent to the DNS

Re: First call for votes for the Lenny release GR

2008-12-18 Thread Michal Čihař
Hi Dne Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:45:47 +1100 Brian May br...@microcomaustralia.com.au napsal(a): Margarita Manterola wrote: If we do all this, we would be voting: A) If we trust or not the release team on making the right choices of which bugs to ignore and which not (regardless of this being

Re: Bug#509063: ITP: libproxy -- automatic proxy configuration management library

2008-12-18 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 09:30:21AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: * Emilio Pozuelo Monfort: Description : automatic proxy configuration management library libproxy is a lightweight library which makes it easy to develop applications proxy-aware with a simple and stable API.

Bug#509094: ITP: libxml-rss-libxml-perl -- create and update RSS files using XML::LibXML

2008-12-18 Thread Damyan Ivanov
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Damyan Ivanov d...@debian.org * Package name: libxml-rss-libxml-perl Version : 0.3003 Upstream Author : Daisuke Maki dm...@cpan.org, Tatsuhiko Miyagawa miyag...@bulknews.net * URL :

Bug#509095: ITP: libhtml-strip-perl -- strip HTML markup from text

2008-12-18 Thread Damyan Ivanov
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Damyan Ivanov d...@debian.org * Package name: libhtml-strip-perl Version : 1.06 Upstream Author : Alex Bowley kilin...@cpan.org * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTML-Strip/ * License : same as Perl (Artistic or GPL-1+)

Re: Bug#509063: ITP: libproxy -- automatic proxy configuration management library

2008-12-18 Thread Bjørn Mork
Florian Weimer f...@deneb.enyo.de writes: * Emilio Pozuelo Monfort: Description : automatic proxy configuration management library libproxy is a lightweight library which makes it easy to develop applications proxy-aware with a simple and stable API. WPAD is a broken protocol with

Re: First call for votes for the Lenny release GR

2008-12-18 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Dec 18, 2008, at 8:51 AM, Teemu Likonen wrote: Manoj Srivastava (2008-12-17 17:02 -0600) wrote: If there is sufficient support, we could also scrap the current vote, change our ballot, add options to it, or something, and restart the vote, but that would need a strong grass roots

Re: First call for votes for the Lenny release GR

2008-12-18 Thread Jan Niehusmann
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 04:45:02PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: It seems that the grass-roots support for doing something quite different to the current vote includes me, Brian, and quite a few bloggers on Planet Debian. I don't like the current vote either and wouldn't mind if it was

Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-18 Thread Russell Coker
http://discuss.itwire.com/viewtopic.php?f=29t=7991 From the above news article: # Debian Project Leader Steve McIntyre told iTWire that after Mouette's abuse # of the ability to post to the d-d-a mailing list, I asked our mailing list # administrators to remove that privilege for in future.

Re: Bug#509063: ITP: libproxy -- automatic proxy configuration management library

2008-12-18 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 12:35 PM, Bjørn Mork bm...@dod.no wrote: Florian Weimer f...@deneb.enyo.de writes: I would very much like this library to become the *only* WPAD implementation anywhere. Hopefully eventually with some ability to define local policies, where the default Debian policy

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-18 Thread Simon Huggins
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 11:04:24PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: As the Debian culture is opposed to censorship, I believe that such posts do not belong on Planet Debian - which is for many people the public face of Debian. To be clear, this means that as the Debian culture is opposed to

Re: problems with the concept of unstable - testing

2008-12-18 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Dec 16, 2008, at 9:52 PM, Noah Slater wrote: To be honest, I'd prefer if Bastian applied his skills to helping a project I'm not a member of. I am not going to comment on his behaviour, your comments may very well be justified. But I do think it would do the project some good if we

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-18 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 18 décembre 2008 à 23:04 +1100, Russell Coker a écrit : The above article concerns the damage that Josselin's actions cause to the Debian project. D-d-a is not that different from other parts of Debian, bad behaviour in other forums also hurts the project. What do you want to say,

Let's restart from scratch the gr_lenny vote (in a better form this time)?

2008-12-18 Thread Sandro Tosi
Hello, I've started a new thread because follow 2 very long thread starts being a little tedious. This voice is coming out more and more strong lately: why don't we simply delete the current gr_lenny and start another ballot, only focusing on the *real* lenny release? All other options must go

Re: Let's restart from scratch the gr_lenny vote (in a better form this time)?

2008-12-18 Thread Guus Sliepen
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 01:22:40PM +0100, Sandro Tosi wrote: So, how many are in favor of redo *completely* the vote (in more ballot, the first being the one for lenny ONLY)? how many should we be to let it happen? how many should be in contrary to stop this re-vote? how can we express the

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-18 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 11:04:24PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: As the Debian culture is opposed to censorship, I believe that such posts do not belong on Planet Debian This sounds like an oxymoron to me. FWIW, I'm way more annoyed by _frequent_ OT blog posts totally unrelated to Debian on

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-18 Thread Romain Beauxis
Le Thursday 18 December 2008 13:04:24 Russell Coker, vous avez écrit : The above article concerns the damage that Josselin's actions cause to the Debian project.  D-d-a is not that different from other parts of Debian, bad behaviour in other forums also hurts the project. I have that feeling

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-18 Thread Florian Weimer
* Russell Coker: The above article concerns the damage that Josselin's actions cause to the Debian project. I don't think it's fair to hold Josselin responsible for what that particular author writes, no matter what you think of his actions. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-18 Thread Julien BLACHE
Stefano Zacchiroli z...@debian.org wrote: Hi, them. Your implicit assumption that Planet Debian conveys an official message to our community is totally unsound IMO. We have d-d-a for our official message (yes, Joss abused that, and has been Official announcements to the outside world

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-18 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 02:34:09PM +0100, Julien BLACHE wrote: them. Your implicit assumption that Planet Debian conveys an official message to our community is totally unsound IMO. We have d-d-a for our official message (yes, Joss abused that, and has been Official announcements to the

Re: Let's restart from scratch the gr_lenny vote (in a better form this time)?

2008-12-18 Thread Michael Tautschnig
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 01:22:40PM +0100, Sandro Tosi wrote: So, how many are in favor of redo *completely* the vote (in more ballot, the first being the one for lenny ONLY)? how many should we be to let it happen? how many should be in contrary to stop this re-vote? how can we express

Re: Let's restart from scratch the gr_lenny vote (in a better form this time)?

2008-12-18 Thread Guus Sliepen
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 02:59:52PM +0100, Michael Tautschnig wrote: Do we have any well-defined procedure to stop/cancel a GR (in progress)? If not, is it the DPL to decide, based on what is voiced on this list? Shouldn't people just say Further discussion in their votes to express such

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-18 Thread Julien BLACHE
Stefano Zacchiroli z...@debian.org wrote: Hi, Official announcements to the outside world actually appear in debian-announce; debian-devel-announce is a developer list. You are a bit picky, you know? :-) I don't think so; setting the record straight isn't being picky :) Yes: I know the

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/18/08 06:26, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le jeudi 18 décembre 2008 à 23:04 +1100, Russell Coker a écrit : The above article concerns the damage that Josselin's actions cause to the Debian project. D-d-a is not that different from other parts of Debian, bad behaviour in other forums also

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-18 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 03:15:38PM +0100, Julien BLACHE wrote: Stefano Zacchiroli z...@debian.org wrote: Hi, Official announcements to the outside world actually appear in debian-announce; debian-devel-announce is a developer list. You are a bit picky, you know? :-) I don't think

Re: First call for votes for the Lenny release GR

2008-12-18 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 12:28:12PM +0100, Jan Niehusmann wrote: I don't like the current vote either and wouldn't mind if it was canceled. My suggestion is to do a very simple vote first, with only two choices: a) continue with the release process and don't wait for further GRs

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-18 Thread Romain Beauxis
Le Thursday 18 December 2008 15:45:05 Michael Banck, vous avez écrit : I'd argue about that official thing that people have been using to qualify d-d-a. It's an announce list for developers, by developers. Wrong.  While in /theory/ it might be for developers, in /practise/, d-d-a is

Bug#509110: ITP: devide -- Delft Visualization and Image processing Development Environment

2008-12-18 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mathieu Malaterre mathieu.malate...@gmail.com * Package name: devide Version : 8.5 Upstream Author : Charl P. Botha c.p.bo...@tudelft.nl * URL : http://code.google.com/p/devide/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: Python

I hereby resign as secretary

2008-12-18 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi folks, I am hereby resigning as secretary, effective immediately. I was planning on leaving the office soon, anyway, but I had a rewrite of Devotee underway, which would have made the software more useful for different people (different checks --LDAP.gpg. and others), and allowed

Re: I hereby resign as secretary

2008-12-18 Thread Ean Schuessler
- Manoj Srivastava sriva...@debian.org wrote: I am hereby resigning as secretary, effective immediately. I was planning on leaving the office soon, anyway, but I had a rewrite of Devotee underway, which would have made the software more useful for different people (different

Bug#509113: ITP: opensourcepacs -- OpenSourcePACS is a free, open source image referral, archiving, routing and viewing system

2008-12-18 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mathieu Malaterre mathieu.malate...@gmail.com * Package name: opensourcepacs Version : 1.2.1 Upstream Author : UCLA Medical Imaging Informatics group * URL : http://www.mii.ucla.edu/opensourcepacs/ * License : LGPL

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-18 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 03:53:09PM +0100, Romain Beauxis wrote: Le Thursday 18 December 2008 15:45:05 Michael Banck, vous avez écrit : I'd argue about that official thing that people have been using to qualify d-d-a. It's an announce list for developers, by developers. Wrong.  While

Bug#509115: ITP: halevt -- Generic handler for HAL events

2008-12-18 Thread Mike O'Connor
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mike O'Connor s...@debian.org * Package name: halevt Version : 0.1.3 Upstream Author : Patrice Dumas pertu...@free.fr * URL : http://www.environnement.ens.fr/perso/dumas/halevt.html * License : GPL Programming Lang: C

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-18 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Julien BLACHE wrote: I'd argue about that official thing that people have been using to qualify d-d-a. It's an announce list for developers, by developers. I'm not sure what's official in there. I'd tend to say anything official is project

Re: Bug#509113: ITP: opensourcepacs -- OpenSourcePACS is a free, open source image referral, archiving, routing and viewing system

2008-12-18 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Hi! * Package name: opensourcepacs Version : 1.2.1 Upstream Author : UCLA Medical Imaging Informatics group * URL : http://www.mii.ucla.edu/opensourcepacs/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang: Java Description : OpenSourcePACS is a free, open

Re: I hereby resign as secretary

2008-12-18 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2008-12-18, Manoj Srivastava sriva...@debian.org wrote: As to the people who emailed me that they are putting together a petition for the DAM to have me removed from the project, I hear you too. I don't like this. I am going to spend the next few days evaluating how important

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-18 Thread Mohammed Adnène Trojette
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008, Russell Coker wrote: He has stated that he intends to keep offending people. His aim seems to be the censorship of people who disagree with him by continually offending them until they stop disagreeing. Come on, you're defacing reality and Josselin's statements... What

Re: First call for votes for the Lenny release GR

2008-12-18 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Manoj Srivastava wrote: I was just thinking of postposing the end-of-vote cron job, so no re-voting would be needed. If there is sufficient support, we could also scrap the current vote, change our ballot, add options to it, or something, and restart the vote, but that

Re: I hereby resign as secretary

2008-12-18 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Thu Dec 18 08:44, Manoj Srivastava wrote: I am hereby resigning as secretary, effective immediately Thank you for your hard work in this post. I'm sorry to see that a few zealots can cause so many hard working folks to consider leaving the project. Personally, if we are to do

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-18 Thread Noah Slater
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 04:45:07PM +0100, Mohammed Adnène Trojette wrote: On Thu, Dec 18, 2008, Russell Coker wrote: He has stated that he intends to keep offending people. His aim seems to be the censorship of people who disagree with him by continually offending them until they stop

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-18 Thread Julien BLACHE
Michael Banck mba...@debian.org wrote: Like it or not, messages to d-d-a are frequently forwarded verbatim to LWN and other major IT-centered news sources. This happen much less Pretty much everything and anything ends up there, so that's hardly a criterion for relevance or whatever. JB. --

Re: I hereby resign as secretary

2008-12-18 Thread Michal Čihař
Hi Dne Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:44:11 -0600 Manoj Srivastava sriva...@debian.org napsal(a): I am hereby resigning as secretary, effective immediately. Thanks for your hard work! As to the people who emailed me that they are putting together a petition for the DAM to have me

Re: I hereby resign as secretary

2008-12-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 08:44:11AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Hi folks, I am hereby resigning as secretary, effective immediately. I was planning on leaving the office soon, anyway, but I had a rewrite of Devotee underway, which would have made the software more useful for

Re: I hereby resign as secretary

2008-12-18 Thread Mike Bird
Manoj, This is very unfortunate for Debian. You diligently adhered to the Constitution in the face of rabid criticism from a few loudmouths who were too lazy to resolve their concerns about poorly worded proposals at the appropriate time. Sadly, by this action you have only encouraged the

Re: problems with the concept of unstable - testing

2008-12-18 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Christian Perrier dijo [Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 07:40:12AM +0100]: It could be by promoting experimental a different way we are doing it right now...or by adding an intermediate stage between unstable and experimental. For that latter case, I somewhat fear the (human) resource problem we would

Re: Let's restart from scratch the gr_lenny vote (in a better form this time)?

2008-12-18 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Sandro Tosi dijo [Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 01:22:40PM +0100]: Hello, I've started a new thread because follow 2 very long thread starts being a little tedious. This voice is coming out more and more strong lately: why don't we simply delete the current gr_lenny and start another ballot, only

Re: I hereby resign as secretary

2008-12-18 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Manoj Srivastava sriva...@debian.org [2008.12.18.1544 +0100]: As to the people who emailed me that they are putting together a petition for the DAM to have me removed from the project, I hear you too. I am going to spend the next few days evaluating how important the

Re: First call for votes for the Lenny release GR

2008-12-18 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Brian May dijo [Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 11:45:47AM +1100]: (...) A) If we trust or not the release team on making the right choices of which bugs to ignore and which not (regardless of this being firmware issues or what have you). This is from now on, not just for Lenny. B) If we want to

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-18 Thread Romain Beauxis
Le Thursday 18 December 2008 16:37:38 Johannes Wiedersich, vous avez écrit : Julien BLACHE wrote: I'd argue about that official thing that people have been using to qualify d-d-a. It's an announce list for developers, by developers. I'm not sure what's official in there. I'd tend to say

Re: I hereby resign as secretary

2008-12-18 Thread Kalle Kivimaa
Manoj Srivastava sriva...@debian.org writes: As to the people who emailed me that they are putting together a petition for the DAM to have me removed from the project, WHAT?? Could these people step up please and tell us WHY you consider expelling Manoj from Debian would be a good

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

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-18 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Romain Beauxis wrote: Le Thursday 18 December 2008 16:37:38 Johannes Wiedersich, vous avez écrit : The point is it was an 'announcement' and it was perceived as inappropriate (not only OT) by many. I fully disagree.

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-18 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 18 décembre 2008 à 17:49 +0100, Romain Beauxis a écrit : I eat kittens at breakfast How do you cook them? I like European cats a lot, but I heard the Siamese meat is more tender. Do you have some advice? -- .''`. : :' : We are debian.org. Lower your prices, surrender your code.

Re: Let's restart from scratch the gr_lenny vote (in a better form this time)?

2008-12-18 Thread Sandro Tosi
Hi Gunnar, On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 17:38, Gunnar Wolf gw...@gwolf.org wrote: Sandro Tosi dijo [Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 01:22:40PM +0100]: Hello, I've started a new thread because follow 2 very long thread starts being a little tedious. This voice is coming out more and more strong lately: why

Re: Bug#509063: ITP: libproxy -- automatic proxy configuration management library

2008-12-18 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 12:51:34PM +0100, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 12:35 PM, Bjørn Mork bm...@dod.no wrote: Florian Weimer f...@deneb.enyo.de writes: I would very much like this library to become the *only* WPAD implementation anywhere. Hopefully eventually with

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-18 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, kindergarten and western civilisation indeed would be a good idea. To those thinking about expelling Joss, I'm in favor of this now. Trolling on purpose (repeatetly) for the sake of it is nothing I want to see in Debian nor do I want to see it as accepted behaviour. regards,

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-18 Thread Romain Beauxis
Le Thursday 18 December 2008 18:21:48 Holger Levsen, vous avez écrit : To those thinking about expelling Joss, I'm in favor of this now. Trolling on purpose (repeatetly) for the sake of it is nothing I want to see in Debian nor do I want to see it as accepted behaviour. You can't be serious.

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-18 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Holger Levsen hol...@layer-acht.org (18/12/2008): To those thinking about expelling Joss, I'm in favor of this now. OOH, that's the season, maybe? Trolling on purpose (repeatetly) for the sake of it is nothing I want to see in Debian nor do I want to see it as accepted behaviour. Just for

What is involved in NEW processing?

2008-12-18 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
Since I am not (yet) a DD and the remaining RC bugs for lenny are largely beyond me - I have been keeping an eye on the list - I'm looking for ways to contribute that aren't packaging. It occurs to me that the NEW queue is pretty static for large periods of time (and in the middle of a freeze,

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-18 Thread Romain Beauxis
Le Thursday 18 December 2008 18:08:00 Josselin Mouette, vous avez écrit : Le jeudi 18 décembre 2008 à 17:49 +0100, Romain Beauxis a écrit : I eat kittens at breakfast How do you cook them? I like European cats a lot, but I heard the Siamese meat is more tender. Do you have some advice?

Re: What is involved in NEW processing?

2008-12-18 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 18/12/08 at 17:45 +, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: Since I am not (yet) a DD and the remaining RC bugs for lenny are largely beyond me - I have been keeping an eye on the list - I'm looking for ways to contribute that aren't packaging. It occurs to me that the NEW queue is pretty static

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-18 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: Manners, Josselin, and discretion. There are some places where it's just not appropriate to blurt out whatever you're thinking. +10 from here. Of course, Josselin thinks and jokes differently from others, as it's

Re: I hereby resign as secretary

2008-12-18 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 08:44:11AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: I am hereby resigning as secretary, effective immediately. Thank you for all the good work you've done in that position over the years. As to the people who emailed me that they are putting together a petition

Re: I hereby resign as secretary

2008-12-18 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Manoj Srivastava wrote: I am hereby resigning as secretary, effective immediately. Thank you very much for your work in such a difficult role for so long. Debian is certainly a better project for your efforts. Mistakes happen. Mistakes can be recovered from. What can not,

Re: I hereby resign as secretary

2008-12-18 Thread Bdale Garbee
Manoj, As one of the few people around who has been part of the Debian project as long as you have, please accept my sincere appreciation for your long history of meaningful contributions... and in particular your lengthy and honorable service as our secretary! You have earned and retain my

Re: Bug#509063: ITP: libproxy -- automatic proxy configuration management library

2008-12-18 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 6:13 PM, Michael Banck mba...@debian.org wrote: On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 12:51:34PM +0100, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 12:35 PM, Bjørn Mork bm...@dod.no wrote: Florian Weimer f...@deneb.enyo.de writes: I would very much like this library to become

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-18 Thread Romain Beauxis
Le Thursday 18 December 2008 19:12:29 Martin Langhoff, vous avez écrit : On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: Manners, Josselin, and discretion.  There are some places where it's just not appropriate to blurt out whatever you're thinking. +10 from here.

Re: Let's restart from scratch the gr_lenny vote (in a better form this time)?

2008-12-18 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Sandro Tosi mo...@debian.org [081218 18:11]: But that will delay even further Lenny release; Hey! You suggested to redo something. Thus you are suggesting to delay. I think that a simple vote like the one dato proposed is what is needed to let us move forward a release. Please note that

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-18 Thread Dan
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 08:28:21PM +0100, Romain Beauxis wrote: And if the jokes don't make you laugh, just ignore them. Which of course would be easier to do if the jokes were not told in the first place. There's a time and place for everything, it's a shame that a few seem to think that this

Re: Let's restart from scratch the gr_lenny vote (in a better form this time)?

2008-12-18 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 20:33, Bernhard R. Link brl...@debian.org wrote: * Sandro Tosi mo...@debian.org [081218 18:11]: But that will delay even further Lenny release; Hey! You suggested to redo something. Thus you are suggesting to delay. But maybe with the aim of a better target? I think

Re: I hereby resign as secretary

2008-12-18 Thread Michael Meskes
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 11:44:34AM -0700, Bdale Garbee wrote: As one of the few people around who has been part of the Debian project as long as you have, please accept my sincere appreciation for your long history of meaningful contributions... and in particular your lengthy and honorable

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-18 Thread Russell Coker
On Friday 19 December 2008 06:28, Romain Beauxis to...@rastageeks.org wrote: The initial proposition of this thread was this idea of code of conduct..  I don't like it either. If you believe someone is being too rude, why don't you simply tell it to him, in public or in private ?

Re: Let's restart from scratch the gr_lenny vote (in a better form this time)?

2008-12-18 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Sandro Tosi mo...@debian.org [081218 20:51]: ehm? what? how is it un-democratic to have different votes for different things, targetted exactly to decide where something is allowed or not? Then do different votes for different things. And put together what belongs together. But just having

Re: Gtk1.2/Imlib/gnome-lib packages (Long)

2008-12-18 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Barry deFreese wrote: Just in case anyone cares/is interested, here is some work I have been doing on packages using Gtk1.2, Imlib, gnome-libs, or any combination thereof. Thanks. Could you fold this into a page on wiki.debian.org, so that people can add their specific solution attempts or

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-18 Thread Romain Beauxis
(I answer since there is a question adressed..) Le Thursday 18 December 2008 22:01:17 Russell Coker, vous avez écrit : On Friday 19 December 2008 06:28, Romain Beauxis to...@rastageeks.org wrote: The initial proposition of this thread was this idea of code of conduct..  I don't like it

Re: I hereby resign as secretary

2008-12-18 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 06:27:15PM +, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 08:44:11AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: I am hereby resigning as secretary, effective immediately. Thank you for all the good work you've done in that position over the years.

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-18 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Russell Coker [Thu, Dec 18 2008, 11:04:24PM]: http://discuss.itwire.com/viewtopic.php?f=29t=7991 From the above news article: # Debian Project Leader Steve McIntyre told iTWire that after Mouette's abuse I would like to know what exactly Steve told them. The major tone WRT

Re: I hereby resign as secretary

2008-12-18 Thread Ben Finney
Manoj Srivastava sriva...@debian.org writes: In the years I have spent in this role since Darren left us, I have tried to conduct the votes as I saw the rquirements of the constitution, and the limitations of the voting software. But this not a view shared by very many people.

Re: I hereby resign as secretary

2008-12-18 Thread Russell Coker
On Friday 19 December 2008 01:44, Manoj Srivastava sriva...@debian.org wrote: I am hereby resigning as secretary, effective immediately. I was I'm sad to hear this. I think that you have done a great job as secretary. I concede that I have made mistakes with the current set

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-18 Thread Russell Coker
On Friday 19 December 2008 08:53, Romain Beauxis to...@rastageeks.org wrote: http://np237.livejournal.com/20741.html That method was attempted, the response from Josselin was I will go on shocking these people, along with several references to sodomy with a broomstick and a link to a

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-18 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2008-12-18, Russell Coker russ...@coker.com.au wrote: culture. It is even sometimes used without the intent to make an accusation of homosexuality. Joss was intending to make an insinuation of homosexuality in order to offend. I think you are seeing ghosts or just being prejudistic

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-18 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:28:09PM +, Russell Coker wrote: On Friday 19 December 2008 08:53, Romain Beauxis to...@rastageeks.org wrote: Being french too, I can assure you that pretending that someone has a broomstick in its ass is a very common expression for someone who it too much

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-18 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 19 décembre 2008 à 09:28 +1100, Russell Coker a écrit : The expression broomstick in their arse is also common in Australian culture. It is even sometimes used without the intent to make an accusation of homosexuality. Homosexuality can be an *accusation* ‽ The creation of a

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-18 Thread Romain Beauxis
Le Thursday 18 December 2008 23:46:25 Josselin Mouette, vous avez écrit : So, if I follow you: leather - homosexuality homosexuality - offense And by saying both of these, you dare say that I am offensive ‽ Well, you could also argue that in intend to offend means present

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-18 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008, Russell Coker wrote: The expression broomstick in their arse is also common in Australian culture. It is even sometimes used without the intent to make an accusation of homosexuality. However Josselin made it quite clear that he was not using the term as a

Re: I hereby resign as secretary

2008-12-18 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Kalle Kivimaa [Thu, Dec 18 2008, 05:11:39PM]: Manoj Srivastava sriva...@debian.org writes: As to the people who emailed me that they are putting together a petition for the DAM to have me removed from the project, WHAT?? Could these people step up please and

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-18 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Pierre Habouzit wrote: On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:28:09PM +, Russell Coker wrote: The creation of a fake picture of Manoj wearing leather makes it clear that Joss was intending to make an insinuation of homosexuality in order to offend. I'm really speechless... I mean, even from you

Bug#509159: ITP: libhaml-ruby -- Elegant, easy and powerful template engines for HTML and CSS

2008-12-18 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gunnar Wolf gw...@debian.org * Package name: libhaml-ruby Version : 2.0.6 Upstream Author : Nathan Weizenbaum * URL : http://haml.hamptoncatlin.com * License : MIT/X Programming Lang: Ruby Description : Elegant,

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-18 Thread Norbert Preining
On Do, 18 Dez 2008, Russell Coker wrote: The above article concerns the damage that Josselin's actions cause to the Debian project. D-d-a is not that different from other parts of Debian, bad behaviour in other forums also hurts the project. Oh bummer. Normally I never write something in

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-18 Thread Russell Coker
On Friday 19 December 2008 10:01, Romain Beauxis to...@rastageeks.org wrote: Well, you could also argue that in intend to offend means present things as if it was offensent, much like when calling someone a geek is meant as an insult... Exactly. Also I had a brief off-list discussion with

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-18 Thread Romain Beauxis
Le Friday 19 December 2008 01:04:05 Johannes Wiedersich, vous avez écrit : Joss, it is disappointing that after all that time since your faux pas [1], you still seem to fail to understand that what might be acceptable within one culture (I don't speak or understand 'French') will not

Bug#509164: ITP: libdatetime-format-sqlite-perl -- Parse and format SQLite dates and times

2008-12-18 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jaldhar H. Vyas jald...@debian.org * Package name: libdatetime-format-sqlite-perl Version : 0.10 Upstream Author : Claus Farber cfaer...@cpan.org * URL : http://datetime.perl.org/ * License : GPL+Artistic Programming

Re: Let's restart from scratch the gr_lenny vote (in a better form this time)?

2008-12-18 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 06:07:43PM +0100, Sandro Tosi wrote: Rank Further discussion first. That's our best way to say I think this vote is wrong. But that will delay even further Lenny release; I think that a simple vote like the one dato proposed is what is needed to let us move forward a

Re: Gtk1.2/Imlib/gnome-lib packages (Long)

2008-12-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 5:40 AM, Moritz Muehlenhoff j...@inutil.org wrote: Actually, it would be nice if we had a decicated cleanups/transitions overview page on wiki.debian.org as a central starting point for people who want to help out. This is the old one:

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-18 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 18, Russell Coker russ...@coker.com.au wrote: He has stated that he intends to keep offending people. His aim seems to be the censorship of people who disagree with him by continually offending them until they stop disagreeing. I am quite sure that this is not a new meaning of

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-18 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 18, Stefano Zacchiroli z...@debian.org wrote: FWIW, I'm way more annoyed by _frequent_ OT blog posts totally unrelated to Debian on Planet Debian (even though I enjoy _sporadic_ OTs) than by Joss posts. Me too! I really do not feel the need to learn how much the personal life of other

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-18 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 18, Russell Coker russ...@coker.com.au wrote: The Ubuntu community includes many former and current members of the Debian community. It seems that they don't have a problem with the code of conduct. Why do you think that a code of conduct which works well for Ubuntu would fail for

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-18 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 18, Holger Levsen hol...@layer-acht.org wrote: To those thinking about expelling Joss, I'm in favor of this now. Trolling on purpose (repeatetly) for the sake of it is nothing I want to see in Debian nor do I want to see it as accepted behaviour. Come on... We had a DPL who hosted

Re: I hereby resign as secretary

2008-12-18 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 18, Manoj Srivastava sriva...@debian.org wrote: I am hereby resigning as secretary, effective immediately. I was Good riddance! It's too bad that you did not leave after misleading the other developers about editorial changes. While I must say that the mistake for this

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