Re: so long and thanks for all the fish

2014-11-18 Thread Torsten Landschoff
Hi Joey, Am 2014-11-07 22:04, schrieb Joey Hess: It's become abundantly clear that this is no longer the project I originally joined in 1996. We've made some good things, and I wish everyone well, but I'm out. Shocking. Thanks for all the great stuff you did and do, from a Debian user and

Re: so long and thanks for all the fish

2014-11-18 Thread Ondřej Surý
I think all have been said, so I will just join this with +1. Cheers, Ondrej On Sun, Nov 9, 2014, at 02:08, Russ Allbery wrote: zlatan zla...@riseup.net writes: In advance sorry for all spelling mistake that I will write as I am writing from my phone and I am not a native English speaker.

Re: so long and thanks for all the fish

2014-11-12 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Friday 07 November 2014 17:04:10 Joey Hess wrote: It's become abundantly clear that this is no longer the project I originally joined in 1996. We've made some good things, and I wish everyone well, but I'm out. I'm very sorry to read this. We'll miss you. All the best --

Re: so long and thanks for all the fish

2014-11-10 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Faidon, On Sat, Nov 08, 2014 at 11:46:57AM +0200, Faidon Liambotis wrote: Extremely sad to read this, Joey. +1 I personally feel like loosing a friend. If I imagine myself to leave Debian I would leave a major part of my life and I guess its similar for Joey and that the decision was

Re: Please more fish (was: so long and thanks for all the fish)

2014-11-10 Thread Anthony Towns
Hey Joey, On Sun, Nov 09, 2014 at 06:12:13PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Please take that message with a pound of salt. I was upset when I wrote it, it's probably not accurate, and I've left[1] for reasons that are much more broadly structural, and are certianly not the fault of the technical

Re: Please more fish (was: so long and thanks for all the fish)

2014-11-10 Thread Amaya
Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: So you still could (and perhaps should[0]) reconsider not to leave Debian. Guess you've read the lists and saw how many people were emotionally hit and upset about this. Joey, I beg you too. Please reconsider. Still, if it's not fun anymore by all means run

Re: so long and thanks for all the fish

2014-11-09 Thread Jonathan Dowland
Sad news. I wish you all the best for your future endeavours. I hope to cross paths with you from time to time (maybe I should tidy up my half finished ikiwiki patches!) The coincidental timing of Colin leaving the tech-ctte did make me wonder how different things would be if we could have

Re: Please more fish (was: so long and thanks for all the fish)

2014-11-09 Thread The Wanderer
On 11/08/2014 at 10:57 PM, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: In the end it's quite easy: sysvinit has many deficiencies ans missing feature, systemd is superior in all places. On 11/09/2014 at 12:01 AM, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: All of these systems were capable of booting a Linux,...

Re: Please more fish (was: so long and thanks for all the fish)

2014-11-09 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 08 novembre 2014 à 23:30 -0500, Michael Gilbert a écrit : No, the fire is not systemd, it is the politicization of the project via ctte and GR rather than patient evolution of the best technical solution. You are definitely right. However, I think we would all appreciate if you

Re: Please more fish (was: so long and thanks for all the fish)

2014-11-09 Thread Ralf Jung
Hi, On 09/11/14 07:28, Michael Gilbert wrote: On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 12:01 AM, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: On Sat, 2014-11-08 at 23:30 -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: No accusation, just a statement of fact. Four ctte members were complicit in the vote [0] Well maybe I read that ruling

Re: Please more fish (was: so long and thanks for all the fish)

2014-11-09 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 10:10 AM, Ralf Jung wrote: I read Joey's message over and over without getting any more clues. He said the CTTE has Decided it should make a decision, which it seems to me it did not. So I probably misunderstood something more fundamental here. Read all of #762194 very

Re: Please more fish (was: so long and thanks for all the fish)

2014-11-09 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sun, Nov 09, 2014 at 12:54:39PM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 10:10 AM, Ralf Jung wrote: I read Joey's message over and over without getting any more clues. He said the CTTE has Decided it should make a decision, which it seems to me it did not. So I probably

Re: Please more fish (was: so long and thanks for all the fish)

2014-11-09 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On 2014-11-09 18:19, Adam Borowski wrote: And since changing the init system on existing installations is an important _technical_ problem, it is in scope for the CTTE. Where does the constitution make important technical problems in scope for the tech committee? (Not being awkward, but

Re: Please more fish (was: so long and thanks for all the fish)

2014-11-09 Thread Simon Richter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On 09.11.2014 04:57, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: In the end it's quite easy: sysvinit has many deficiencies ans missing feature, systemd is superior in all places. - From your perspective. I can completely understand why we (and that

Re: Please more fish (was: so long and thanks for all the fish)

2014-11-09 Thread Игорь Пашев
2014-11-10 0:38 GMT+03:00 Simon Richter s...@debian.org: automake With autotools one can always use plain shell code in configure.ac and plain make in Makefile.am ;-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Please more fish (was: so long and thanks for all the fish)

2014-11-09 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Sun, 2014-11-09 at 18:12 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: I've left[1] + Almost. So you still could (and perhaps should[0]) reconsider not to leave Debian. Guess you've read the lists and saw how many people were emotionally hit and upset about this. (well I think it's worth a try ^^) Cheers,

Re: so long and thanks for all the fish

2014-11-09 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 10:04 PM, Joey Hess jo...@debian.org wrote: It's become abundantly clear that this is no longer the project I originally joined in 1996. We've made some good things, and I wish everyone well, but I'm out. see shy jo :( Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Please more fish (was: so long and thanks for all the fish)

2014-11-09 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Sun, 2014-11-09 at 22:38 +0100, Simon Richter wrote: I can completely understand why we (and that includes me) want systemd as a default: it gives the best possible integration of desktop components possible. I even think it's best on a server (that means, if it was used as it could be)...

Re: so long and thanks for all the fish

2014-11-08 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Joey, Am Freitag, 7. November 2014, 17:04:10 schrieb Joey Hess: It's become abundantly clear that this is no longer the project I originally joined in 1996. We've made some good things, and I wish everyone well, but I'm out. I am sad from reading this. I do not know you as a person, except

Re: so long and thanks for all the fish

2014-11-08 Thread Norbert Preining
On Fri, 07 Nov 2014, Joey Hess wrote: originally joined in 1996. We've made some good things, and I wish everyone well, but I'm out. So long, and thanks for all the fish. We will miss you. Norbert PREINING, Norbert

Re: so long and thanks for all the fish

2014-11-08 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Joey Hess (2014-11-07 22:04:10) It's become abundantly clear that this is no longer the project I originally joined in 1996. We've made some good things, and I wish everyone well, but I'm out. :-( I am very sad that you leave. But also curious where you will go from here - many

Re: so long and thanks for all the fish

2014-11-08 Thread Faidon Liambotis
On 11/07/14 23:04, Joey Hess wrote: It's become abundantly clear that this is no longer the project I originally joined in 1996. We've made some good things, and I wish everyone well, but I'm out. Extremely sad to read this, Joey. The few times we've crossed paths, I've enjoyed working with

Re: so long and thanks for all the fish

2014-11-08 Thread Roman Czyborra
2014-11-08[Sat]11:38 Roman Czyborra read that 2014-11-08[Sat]10:46 Faidon Liambotis wrote 545de691.2090...@debian.org: Extremely sad to read this, Joey. The few times we've crossed paths, I've enjoyed working with you (and on your ideas) incredibly. And of course I am -as we are all- enjoying

Re: so long and thanks for all the fish

2014-11-08 Thread Michael Hanke
On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 10:04 PM, Joey Hess jo...@debian.org wrote: If I have one regret from my 18 years in Debian, it's that when the Debian constitution was originally proposed, despite seeing it as dubious, I neglected to speak out against it. It's clear to me now that it's a toxic

Re: so long and thanks for all the fish

2014-11-08 Thread David L. Craig
On Fri, 07 Nov 2014, Joey Hess wrote: originally joined in 1996. We've made some good things, and I wish everyone well, but I'm out. So long, and thanks for all the damn hard work and working code. May you live long, prosper, and continue to inspire others to greatness. -- not cent from

Re: so long and thanks for all the fish

2014-11-08 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag, 8. November 2014, 10:19:02 schrieb Martin Steigerwald: Joey, Am Freitag, 7. November 2014, 17:04:10 schrieb Joey Hess: It's become abundantly clear that this is no longer the project I originally joined in 1996. We've made some good things, and I wish everyone well, but I'm

Re: so long and thanks for all the fish

2014-11-08 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
On Sat, 08 Nov 2014, Michael Hanke wrote: If I have one regret from my 18 years in Debian, it's that when the Debian constitution was originally proposed, despite seeing it as dubious, I neglected to speak out against it. It's clear to me now that it's a toxic document,

Re: so long and thanks for all the fish

2014-11-08 Thread Florian Lohoff
Hi, On Fri, Nov 07, 2014 at 05:04:10PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: It's become abundantly clear that this is no longer the project I originally joined in 1996. We've made some good things, and I wish everyone well, but I'm out. I share your feelings. Back in those days you and Joey were the

Re: so long and thanks for all the fish

2014-11-08 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Joey Hess dijo [Fri, Nov 07, 2014 at 05:04:10PM -0400]: It's become abundantly clear that this is no longer the project I originally joined in 1996. We've made some good things, and I wish everyone well, but I'm out. How can the Master Fisherman thank us for all the fish? Yes, pulling the

Re: so long and thanks for all the fish

2014-11-08 Thread Russ Allbery
zlatan zla...@riseup.net writes: In advance sorry for all spelling mistake that I will write as I am writing from my phone and I am not a native English speaker. [...] And yet, I don't see how it could have been said better. Thank you so much for putting this into words. I just want the

Please more fish (was: so long and thanks for all the fish)

2014-11-08 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 8:08 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: zlatan writes: In advance sorry for all spelling mistake that I will write as I am writing from my phone and I am not a native English speaker. [...] And yet, I don't see how it could have been said better. Thank you so much for putting

Re: Please more fish (was: so long and thanks for all the fish)

2014-11-08 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Sat, 2014-11-08 at 22:32 -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: You are one of four complicit in the act that finally pushed Joey over the edge [0]. Don't you think it goes a bit far to personally accusing some people of this? I guess Joey was long enough in the business to have known how to deal

Re: Please more fish (was: so long and thanks for all the fish)

2014-11-08 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 10:57 PM, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: On Sat, 2014-11-08 at 22:32 -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: You are one of four complicit in the act that finally pushed Joey over the edge [0]. Don't you think it goes a bit far to personally accusing some people of this? No

Re: Please more fish (was: so long and thanks for all the fish)

2014-11-08 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Sat, 2014-11-08 at 23:30 -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: No accusation, just a statement of fact. Four ctte members were complicit in the vote [0] Well maybe I read that ruling wrong, but didn't it more or less say we're not deciding anything right now? And even if that decision would be the

Re: Please more fish (was: so long and thanks for all the fish)

2014-11-08 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 12:01 AM, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: On Sat, 2014-11-08 at 23:30 -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: No accusation, just a statement of fact. Four ctte members were complicit in the vote [0] Well maybe I read that ruling wrong, but didn't it more or less say we're not

so long and thanks for all the fish

2014-11-07 Thread Joey Hess
It's become abundantly clear that this is no longer the project I originally joined in 1996. We've made some good things, and I wish everyone well, but I'm out. Note that this also constitutes an orphaning as upstream of debhelper, alien, dpkg-repack, and debmirror. I will be making final

Re: so long and thanks for all the fish

2014-11-07 Thread Bjoern Meier
Hi, 2014-11-07 22:04 GMT+01:00 Joey Hess jo...@debian.org: It's become abundantly clear that this is no longer the project I originally joined in 1996. We've made some good things, and I wish everyone well, but I'm out. Note that this also constitutes an orphaning as upstream of debhelper,

Re: so long and thanks for all the fish

2014-11-07 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Nov 07, Joey Hess jo...@debian.org wrote: It's become abundantly clear that this is no longer the project I originally joined in 1996. We've made some good things, and I wish everyone well, but I'm out. Well, this sucks. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: so long and thanks for all the fish

2014-11-07 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Nov 07, 2014 at 05:04:10PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: It's become abundantly clear that this is no longer the project I originally joined in 1996. We've made some good things, and I wish everyone well, but I'm out. Note that this also constitutes an orphaning as upstream of debhelper,

Re: so long and thanks for all the fish

2014-11-07 Thread Philip Hands
Joey Hess jo...@debian.org writes: It's become abundantly clear that this is no longer the project I originally joined in 1996. We've made some good things, and I wish everyone well, but I'm out. I'm gutted. If I have one regret from my 18 years in Debian, it's that when the Debian

Re: so long and thanks for all the fish

2014-11-07 Thread Josh Triplett
Joey Hess wrote: It's become abundantly clear that this is no longer the project I originally joined in 1996. We've made some good things, and I wish everyone well, but I'm out. (Insert record-scratch sound-effect and sounds of brain rebooting here.) Thank you deeply for your work. It

Re: so long and thanks for all the fish

2014-11-07 Thread Charles Plessy
Hi Joey, among all the Debian developers you have been one of the most inspiring to me. I hope that you will keep your blog syndicated on planet.debian.org ! Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: so long and thanks for all the fish

2014-11-07 Thread zlatan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 In advance sorry for all spelling mistake that I will write as I am writing from my phone and I am not a native English speaker. I am emotionally crushed by this. You are one of two DD's I interviewed for our LUG in Banja Luka, shortly after

Re: so long and thanks for all the fish

2014-11-07 Thread Ben Finney
Joey Hess jo...@debian.org writes: It's become abundantly clear that this is no longer the project I originally joined in 1996. We've made some good things, and I wish everyone well, but I'm out. Thank you. You've been a model Debian member to many of us, and I will miss your inspiration and

Re: so long and thanks for all the fish

2014-11-07 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Fri, 2014-11-07 at 17:04 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: but I'm out. Wow what saddening news :-( It's really a pity to good ones leaving... hope you'd reconsider your decision and come back after some break perhaps! If not, all the best and thanks. Cheers, Chris. smime.p7s Description:

Re: so long and thanks for all the fish

2014-11-07 Thread Samuel Thibault
Ew. I've always thought you have been providing Debian with very sensible thoughts and guiding. Your wisdom will be missed. Wishing you the best. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: so long, and thanks for all the fish

2013-04-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 01:55:24AM +0100, Aneurin Price wrote: On 4 April 2013 18:28, ian_br...@fastmail.net wrote: There is apparently no mode of argument, or style of communications, which is capable of penetrating the Debian bureaucracy. It is impervious, even to patches which have

Re: so long, and thanks for all the fish

2013-04-05 Thread Aneurin Price
On 4 April 2013 18:28, ian_br...@fastmail.net wrote: There is apparently no mode of argument, or style of communications, which is capable of penetrating the Debian bureaucracy. It is impervious, even to patches which have been previously solicited. Silly me, for taking that seriously. You

so long, and thanks for all the fish

2013-04-04 Thread ian_bruce
On Thu, 04 Apr 2013 12:45:55 -0300 Ben Armstrong sy...@debian.org wrote: Just take care in future that the style of communications you used triggered someone's wetware spam filter with a false positive. I initially wrote up a detailed bug report, and then when somebody suggested that the

Re: so long, and thanks for all the fish

2013-04-04 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 04/04/13 02:28 PM, ian_br...@fastmail.net wrote: On Thu, 04 Apr 2013 12:45:55 -0300 Ben Armstrong sy...@debian.org wrote: Just take care in future that the style of communications you used triggered someone's wetware spam filter with a false positive. I initially wrote up a detailed

Re: so long, and thanks for all the fish

2013-04-04 Thread ian_bruce
On Thu, 04 Apr 2013 16:45:26 -0300 Ben Armstrong sy...@debian.org wrote: the long and sordid tale of your bid to get attention for this bug That's right; I wrote it up in detail, provided patches when asked to do so, provided test scripts to demonstrate the correctness of those patches,