Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl writes: On Wednesday 29 July 2009, Meike Reichle wrote: The Debian project has decided to adopt a new policy of time-based development freezes for future releases, on a two-year cycle. Disappointing to see such an announcement without any prior discussion on

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 08:59, Goswin von Brederlowgoswin-...@web.de wrote: No, we freeze on time, we release when ready. Big difference. and this means a shorter freeze period (as stated in the original announce) because? -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website:

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Kartik Mistry
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Goswin von Brederlowgoswin-...@web.de wrote: It was discussed at debconf. Lots of explanation given there seems to have been left out of the announcement. BOF? Talk? Where I can find explanation(s)? -- Cheers, Kartik Mistry | 0xD1028C8D | IRC: kart_ Debian

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Martin Wuertele
* Sandro Tosi mo...@debian.org [2009-07-29 07:39]: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes No, the project DID NOT decide it, the release team did, and the project has to accept it; there's a lot of difference. No see 4.1.3 of the constitution Make or override any decision

Re: What is preventing Debian from being fully free at this moment?

2009-07-29 Thread Martin Wuertele
* Fred frederiqu...@gmail.com [2009-07-29 06:12]: I'd love to see Debian comply to real GNU/FSF freedom. When I visit the website it boasts about how it is free. However, it is far from free while it is offering proprietary software as well as having binary blobs in the kernel. The kernel

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Sandro Tosi mo...@debian.org writes: On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 08:59, Goswin von Brederlowgoswin-...@web.de wrote: No, we freeze on time, we release when ready. Big difference. and this means a shorter freeze period (as stated in the original announce) because? From what I understand because

Re: What is preventing Debian from being fully free at this moment?

2009-07-29 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Martin Wuertele m...@debian.org writes: * Fred frederiqu...@gmail.com [2009-07-29 06:12]: I'd love to see Debian comply to real GNU/FSF freedom. When I visit the website it boasts about how it is free. However, it is far from free while it is offering proprietary software as well as

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 09:36, Goswin von Brederlowgoswin-...@web.de wrote: Sandro Tosi mo...@debian.org writes: On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 08:59, Goswin von Brederlowgoswin-...@web.de wrote: No, we freeze on time, we release when ready. Big difference. and this means a shorter freeze period

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Marc Haber
Hi, On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 03:08:02AM +0200, Meike Reichle wrote: The Debian project has decided to adopt a new policy of time-based development freezes for future releases, on a two-year cycle. I find it deeply disturbing that DDs not attending Debconf learn about this decision via

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 09:14, Martin Wuertelem...@debian.org wrote: * Sandro Tosi mo...@debian.org [2009-07-29 07:39]: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes No, the project DID NOT decide it, the release team did, and the project has to accept it; there's a lot of difference.

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Mittwoch, 29. Juli 2009, Frans Pop wrote: The Debian project has decided to adopt a new policy of time-based development freezes for future releases, on a two-year cycle. Disappointing to see such an announcement without any prior discussion on d-project, d-devel or d-vote. I was

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Steffen Moeller
Holger Levsen wrote: On Mittwoch, 29. Juli 2009, Frans Pop wrote: The Debian project has decided to adopt a new policy of time-based development freezes for future releases, on a two-year cycle. Disappointing to see such an announcement without any prior discussion on d-project, d-devel or

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Hi! Ben Pfaff schrieb: The URL in the announcement is 404. Possibly a prank. Sorry, no prank just a delay since we missed the website rebuild and where to lazy to wait four hours for the announcement to be send out after the next website build. Best regards, Alexander -- To

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Luk Claes
Frans Pop wrote: On Wednesday 29 July 2009, Meike Reichle wrote: The Debian project has decided to adopt a new policy of time-based development freezes for future releases, on a two-year cycle. Disappointing to see such an announcement without any prior discussion on d-project, d-devel or

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Hi! Steffen Moeller schrieb: Same here. The release team, or the individual that pressed the button for the announcement, I suggest to apologize for disturbing our community. The text was coordinated within the entire press team, our release masters, the head of the technical commitee and the

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Wed Jul 29 09:59, Sandro Tosi wrote: of course, if we have to take formal steps for everything, we'll do a predictability of time based releases with its well established policy of feature based releases. The new freeze policy will provide better predictability of releases for users

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 09:59:46AM +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote: 1. what about the developers that couldn't come to DC? don't we deserve to be asked for our opinion? are we of a lower class? is this a decision only made by a team and then you want to us to pretend the whole project decided it?

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Luk Claes
Sune Vuorela wrote: On 2009-07-29, Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl wrote: On Wednesday 29 July 2009, Meike Reichle wrote: The Debian project has decided to adopt a new policy of time-based development freezes for future releases, on a two-year cycle. Disappointing to see such an announcement

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Mario Fux
Am Mittwoch, 29. Juli 2009 schrieb Sune Vuorela: On 2009-07-29, Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl wrote: Good morning [snip] The timing: If we are going to do a yearly release, we need to announce it to the developers more than 5 months before freeze. Too many people have too many plans. We

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Ben Finney
Marc Haber mh+debian-proj...@zugschlus.de writes: I find it deeply disturbing that DDs not attending Debconf learn about this decision via debian-announce. I would have expected at the very least to announce, if not discuss, on a developer list before. Ditto. Conferences are a great way to

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 29 Jul 2009, Sandro Tosi wrote: bullshit! we are trading quality for what? Please don't be so aggressive and leave some time to RM to respond to your comments before posting more mails Or there's something else behind the curtains that it's not being said (consciously), like

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:40:30AM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: Who would you like to propose a release cycle to the project if not the Release Team? To be clear the Release Team cannot just decide what the release cycle will be, though we proposed a plan in the team's keynote at DebConf and

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:40:30 +0200, Luk Claes wrote: Who would you like to propose a release cycle to the project if not the Release Team? Nobody proposed anything, you announced a decision to debian-announce. Without, as far as I can tell, any prior discussion with the developers (as had

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:25:01AM +0200, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: Steffen Moeller schrieb: Same here. The release team, or the individual that pressed the button for the announcement, I suggest to apologize for disturbing our community. The text was coordinated within the

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 09:59:46AM +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote: of course, if we have to take formal steps for everything, we'll do a GR. I hoped that in this project we can discuss ideas instead of fight. I think the way this decision was announced showed clearly that is was not intended to have

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2009-07-29, Luk Claes l...@debian.org wrote: Who would you like to propose a release cycle to the project if not the Release Team? What I have seen so far, both from the press announcement and from the video, it is not a proposal. it is a decision. To be clear the Release Team cannot

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Luk Claes
Sandro Tosi wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes No, the project DID NOT decide it, the release team did, and the project has to accept it; there's a lot of difference. No, the Release Team proposed a plan. The project is

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:40, Luk Claesl...@debian.org wrote: Why doing a 12 months release to get into the new schedule instead of just adopting a 24 months schedule based on the lenny release? [1] The main reason is that the Release Team hopes to now have the momentum to make a time based

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread MJ Ray
Marc Haber mh+debian-proj...@zugschlus.de wrote: I do sincerely hope that there will be a GR to overrule this decision. Hoping doesn't make it happen. I'm upset by the horribly botched process, but I'm not willing to reverse this decision for that alone. I doubt I'm unusual in that, so anyone

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Otavio Salvador
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 6:21 AM, Luk Claesl...@debian.org wrote: Frans Pop wrote: On Wednesday 29 July 2009, Meike Reichle wrote: The Debian project has decided to adopt a new policy of time-based development freezes for future releases, on a two-year cycle. Disappointing to see such an

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Disappointing to see such an announcement without any prior discussion on=20 I'm disappointed by the decision, the timing and the process. I'm especially dissapointed about the we freeze after less than a year of open unstable. I agree. For myself it would mean i can stop nearly any project

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:22:48PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: Sandro Tosi wrote: No, the project DID NOT decide it, the release team did, and the project has to accept it; there's a lot of difference. No, the Release Team proposed a plan. The project is free to accept or refuse the plan. Of

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2009-07-29, Joerg Jaspert jo...@debian.org wrote: I'm considering how we can get this decision undone. Anyone up for helping with that? I object, but feel free to if you really must. As I already said the Release Team *does* have the power to take such decisions. If you go on with a GR

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:40, Luk Claesl...@debian.org wrote: Why doing a 12 months release to get into the new schedule instead of just adopting a 24 months schedule based on the lenny release? [1] The main reason is that the Release Team hopes to now have the

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Daniel Baumann
Luk Claes wrote: The project is free to accept or refuse the plan. Of course refusing the plan will have its consequences within the Release Team as well as within the project. and by announcing this plan that *bold* to the whole world, you also made perfectly sure that it is as unconvenient

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Joerg Jaspert wrote: Please reconsider this and move the freeze a year later. A freeze this december *does* block about aall interesting things that we would want to happen in squeeze. Squeeze wouldnt be more than a lenny+0.8 release then. And thats really nothing *I* would love to attach my

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Armin Berres
On Wed, 29 Jul 09 11:40, Luk Claes wrote: Sune Vuorela wrote: I guess you are talking about freezing this December and not in general? Lets discuss the issues regarding KDE and see if we can come to a solution. Good. So let me propose something. Are you confident that KDE will be better at

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Sandro Tosi wrote: On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 06:45, Sune Vuorelanos...@vuorela.dk wrote: I'm considering how we can get this decision undone. Anyone up for helping with that? count me in. me too. Obviously we need to force the release team to talk with the important teams in Debian. If i'd

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, * Sune Vuorela nos...@vuorela.dk [2009-07-29 12:07]: On 2009-07-29, Luk Claes l...@debian.org wrote: Who would you like to propose a release cycle to the project if not the Release Team? What I have seen so far, both from the press announcement and from the video, it is not a

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Otavio Salvador
Hello, On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Nico Golden...@ngolde.de wrote: The only thing that really bugs me a bit that the security team hasn't been contacted about this beforehand as well and as we need to support the releases this sucks a bit. But well, let's see what happens and LART them

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Hi! Marc Haber schrieb: Same here. The release team, or the individual that pressed the button for the announcement, I suggest to apologize for disturbing our community. The text was coordinated within the entire press team, our release masters, the head of the technical commitee and the

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Wed, July 29, 2009 14:24, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: If you don't like that, don't shoot the messenger, because they might get sick of being shooten at at every occasion; thanks. I think an important critic in this thread is the way the message was brought: DD's like myself are

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Stephen Frost
* Sune Vuorela (nos...@vuorela.dk) wrote: I'm hoping that we can convince the release team to change their mind. I doubt you can, and I hope you don't. It could have been announced better, but in general I think it's a good thing for Debian. Please get over how it was announced.

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Stephen Frost
* Sandro Tosi (mo...@debian.org) wrote: From what I understand because the long freeze period we had last time is making problems all around for users (of unstable/testing) and developers as well as the release itself. This is a fact (lenny release was too long) but doesn't address how a

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Joerg Jaspert
No, the project DID NOT decide it, the release team did, and the project has to accept it; there's a lot of difference. No, the Release Team proposed a plan. The project is free to accept or refuse the plan. Of course refusing the plan will have its consequences within the Release Team as

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 01:36:16PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: count me in. me too. Obviously we need to force the release team to talk with the important teams in Debian. If i'd have to come up with a GR it would probably sound like While we appreciate the plan of fixed freeze cycles, the

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Hi! Thijs Kinkhorst schrieb: If you don't like that, don't shoot the messenger, because they might get sick of being shooten at at every occasion; thanks. I think an important critic in this thread is the way the message was brought: DD's like myself are learning of this decision from a

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Steve Langasek wrote: On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 01:36:16PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: count me in. me too. Obviously we need to force the release team to talk with the important teams in Debian. If i'd have to come up with a GR it would probably sound like While we appreciate the plan of

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Luk Claes wrote: The main reason is that the Release Team hopes to now have the momentum to make a time based freeze work. If we would delay, it will very probably mean that many developers 'forget' about what the time based freeze is about. Is it so important this momentum? Is it grave, for

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 03:17:27PM +0200, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: If you don't like that, don't shoot the messenger, because they might get sick of being shooten at at every occasion; thanks. I think an important critic in this thread is the way the message was brought: DD's like

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:41:40PM +0530, Kartik Mistry wrote: On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Goswin von Brederlowgoswin-...@web.de wrote: It was discussed at debconf. Lots of explanation given there seems to have been left out of the announcement. BOF? Talk? Where I can find

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:21:09AM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: The Release Team proposed a plan in the keynote at DebConf. There were some important considerations, but in general the audience welcomed the plan. I am sorry Luk, but keeping in silent does not mean agreing with what has been

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 10:49:40AM +, Sune Vuorela wrote: Do we as developers have other ways to say This is really bad, please don't other than doing a GR. Well, if you *really* want to do that, I've a technical device to offer. In the past days, by coincidence, I've worked to setup a

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:40:30AM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: Sune Vuorela wrote: We also need to coordinate such things with the larger packaging teams to see wether it fits their schedules and their upstream schedules. For example from a KDE point of view, it is around teh worst time. I

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Hi! Steve Langasek schrieb: Please try to put yourself in our (the press teams) place: * In the release teams keynote a major change is announced * It is clear, that the topic will be picked up by journalists I wonder why this is clear, exactly - I didn't notice journalists in the room

Debian redesign

2009-07-29 Thread Ana Guerrero
Hi, Agnieszka Czajkowska has presented this morning at DebConf a very nice redesign proposal off the Debian logo and the Debian website. She has been working on this all the last year as part of her master thesis in Design. You can take a look at her presentation at:

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Luk Claes] Who would you like to propose a release cycle to the project if not the Release Team? So this is a proposal? The Vancouver proposal should have taught us a lesson: when you announce a big change, if you truly intend for it to be a proposal to be discussed, you have to state this

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On Wednesday 29 July 2009, Meike Reichle wrote: The Debian project has decided to adopt a new policy of time-based development freezes for future releases, on a two-year cycle. I am fine with that, at least I think we should give a chance to this method. They are some concerns about bad

Re: Debian redesign

2009-07-29 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 04:51:22PM +0200, Ana Guerrero wrote: Agnieszka Czajkowska has presented this morning at DebConf a very nice redesign proposal off the Debian logo and the Debian website. She has been working on this all the last year as part of her master thesis in Design. You can

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:25:01AM +0200, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: Steffen Moeller schrieb: Same here. The release team, or the individual that pressed the button for the announcement, I suggest to apologize for disturbing our community. The text was coordinated within the entire

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, Jul 29 2009, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: Hi! Steffen Moeller schrieb: Same here. The release team, or the individual that pressed the button for the announcement, I suggest to apologize for disturbing our community. The text was coordinated within the entire press team, our

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, Jul 29 2009, Luk Claes wrote: Who would you like to propose a release cycle to the project if not the Release Team? A proposal would have been absolutely appropriate, with discussions by various teams as to the best time to freeze. To be clear the Release Team cannot just

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, Jul 29 2009, Nico Golde wrote: Hi, * Sune Vuorela nos...@vuorela.dk [2009-07-29 12:07]: On 2009-07-29, Luk Claes l...@debian.org wrote: Who would you like to propose a release cycle to the project if not the Release Team? What I have seen so far, both from the press

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, Jul 29 2009, Steve Langasek wrote: On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 01:36:16PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: count me in. me too. Obviously we need to force the release team to talk with the important teams in Debian. If i'd have to come up with a GR it would probably sound like While we

Re: Debian redesign

2009-07-29 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Patrick Schoenfeldschoenf...@debian.org wrote: Nice. Now we have two approaches on redesigning parts of Debian. I do like the design as proposed by Kalle somewhat better. I don't think the designs are mutually exclusive. The new logo and the general style

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, Jul 29 2009, Joerg Jaspert wrote: The Debian project did empower the Release Team to manage our releases. We did not tell them Manage the release by exactly following whatever we did in the past. So they are entirely free to chose the way a release is done. §2.1. General

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, Jul 29 2009, Stephen Frost wrote: * Sune Vuorela (nos...@vuorela.dk) wrote: I'm hoping that we can convince the release team to change their mind. I doubt you can, and I hope you don't. It could have been announced better, but in general I think it's a good thing for Debian. Please

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, Jul 29 2009, Steve Langasek wrote: (Which is still an important and necessary process, even if some people currently feel the release team is shoving this decision down their throats - if there are problems with the proposed plan, we can only fix those and make the next Debian

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 04:13:17PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 10:49:40AM +, Sune Vuorela wrote: Do we as developers have other ways to say This is really bad, please don't other than doing a GR. Well, if you *really* want to do that, I've a technical

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 04:11:39PM +0200, Ana Guerrero wrote: On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:40:30AM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: Sune Vuorela wrote: We also need to coordinate such things with the larger packaging teams to see wether it fits their schedules and their upstream schedules. For

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 10:38:45AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Well, yes and no. I think a freeze every two years is a good idea. I just do not think that we should freeze in 5 months or so. +1 -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 07:42:17PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: Ditto. Conferences are a great way to get a bunch of people together and kick ideas around, but they are *not* the Annual General Meeting of the project. Issues this sweeping should only be decided via clear, open discussion using

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Martin Wuertele
* Stefano Zacchiroli z...@debian.org [2009-07-29 18:22]: Please, everybody, stop this kind of you evil DebConf attendees have decided for us all arguments. The time-based freeze has been announced/proposed during a talk at DebConf; it was fresh news for the attendees as it was fresh news for

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 10:23:55AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: me too. Obviously we need to force the release team to talk with the important teams in Debian. If i'd have to come up with a GR it would probably sound like While we appreciate the plan of fixed freeze cycles, the plan to

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Stefano Zacchiroli z...@debian.org [090729 18:22]: Please, everybody, stop this kind of you evil DebConf attendees have decided for us all arguments. The time-based freeze has been announced/proposed during a talk at DebConf; it was fresh news for the attendees as it was fresh news for

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 06:32:03PM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: * Stefano Zacchiroli z...@debian.org [090729 18:22]: Please, everybody, stop this kind of you evil DebConf attendees have decided for us all arguments. The time-based freeze has been announced/proposed during a talk at

Freeze! Some lateral thinking here. ( was: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes )

2009-07-29 Thread Steffen Moeller
Hello, should we possibly think of alternatives to the current way to present releases? I was thinking about the possibility to adopt some principles from version management that we got accustomed to in programming ... My hunch is that everyone has a few tools that he/she wants to work on in

Re: Debian redesign

2009-07-29 Thread Lars Wirzenius
ke, 2009-07-29 kello 12:46 -0300, Margarita Manterola kirjoitti: Discussing about this on irc, some people seemed to agree with my view that the female images are too sexual, and that the image of the notebook on the pillow is disturbing. I agree with Marga in that I don't think these images

Re: Debian redesign

2009-07-29 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 08:12:48PM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: I agree with Marga in that I don't think these images are appropriate for marketing Debian. This doesn't detract at all their artistic and other qualities, but I don't think we as a project should use sexuality, eroticism, or nude

Re: Debian redesign

2009-07-29 Thread Fathi Boudra
Hi, On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Ana Guerreroa...@debian.org wrote: What do you think? :D I don't like much the illustration and prefer Kalle's design. About the logo, I like current logo and don't see why we need a new one. cheers, Fathi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Debian redesign

2009-07-29 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Hi! Fathi Boudra schrieb: What do you think? :D I don't like much the illustration and prefer Kalle's design. About the logo, I like current logo and don't see why we need a new one. I agree, especially about the logo. While our current logo is quite well known and associated to us -- just

Re: Debian redesign

2009-07-29 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 05:23:41PM +0200, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: Nice. Now we have two approaches on redesigning parts of Debian. I do like the design as proposed by Kalle somewhat better. Cool, Care to give a link? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Debian redesign

2009-07-29 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:46:04PM -0300, Margarita Manterola wrote: Discussing about this on irc, some people seemed to agree with my view that the female images are too sexual, and that the image of the notebook on the pillow is disturbing. Some other people seemed to think that I was

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 04:50:41PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: team being the most important, IMHO), but I don't think there is a historical precedence (or even clear desire) of the release team contacting lots of teams beforehand on release timeline decisions. For the record, mailKDE plans

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Fathi Boudra
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Michael Banckmba...@debian.org wrote: Well, you have to draw the line somewhere - we skipped KDE4 with lenny and will apparently skip GNOME3 with squeeze. This way, we still continue to lose desktop users and the same apply to stable/server users (Debian stable

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Otavio Salvador
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Bernhard R. Linkbrl...@debian.org wrote: * Stefano Zacchiroli z...@debian.org [090729 18:22]: Please, everybody, stop this kind of you evil DebConf attendees have decided for us all arguments. The time-based freeze has been announced/proposed during a talk at

Re: Debian redesign

2009-07-29 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 07:56:31PM +0200, Fathi Boudra wrote: About the logo, I like current logo and don't see why we need a new one. I do not buy the argument that several companies changed their logo. These might have their reasons over a certain *timespan* and they might have experts to

Re: What is preventing Debian from being fully free at this moment?

2009-07-29 Thread Marco d'Itri
frederiqu...@gmail.com wrote: I'd love to see Debian comply to real GNU/FSF freedom. When I visit the This will never happen, since Debian and the FSF have different ideas about what is free. -- ciao, Marco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Gustavo Franco
Otavio, let me make it clear for all readers that you're talking on behalf of debian installer team. I'm sure d-i team is very important to RM team. Communication is far from being a strong quality of this project, with that in mind could you please try to dissociate a little from the whole thing

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Teemu Likonen
On 2009-07-29 10:11 (-0500), Peter Samuelson wrote: I believe freezing four months before an Ubuntu LTS release would not benefit Debian at all. Freezing _after_ an LTS release, or at least after an LTS freeze, would help Debian quite a lot more. I believe the same. Mark Shuttleworth said

Re: Debian redesign

2009-07-29 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Andreas Tille andr...@an3as.eu writes: I do not think that we could risk as a small non-commercial project (compared to the given examples) that our logo we advertised for a not so long timespan becomes outdated and our users might become unhappy about outdated T-Shirts etc. Gives one a good

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 03:08:02AM +0200, Meike Reichle a écrit : the Debian project commits to provide the possibility to skip the upcoming release and do a skip-upgrade straight from Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (Lenny) to Debian GNU/Linux 7.0 (not yet codenamed). Dear release team, I would like

Re: Debian redesign

2009-07-29 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:46:04PM -0300, Margarita Manterola wrote: Discussing about this on irc, some people seemed to agree with my view that the female images are too sexual, and that the image of the notebook on the pillow is disturbing. I disagree. The images for the males are just as

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Otavio Salvador
Hello Gustavo, On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Gustavo Francostra...@debian.org wrote: Hi Otavio, Thanks for the heads up. In other words, it seems you're fine with the overall idea but is skeptical about the timing, right? I hope that this big mess will turns to be a way to people to