Re: Proposal: mediators

2019-01-08 Thread Thomas Lange
> thanks for wrinting it down, but I still think the better option is > to spend some Debian funds to let a professional mediator handle > this, Great idea! IMO it should be very easy for the AH team or any DD to ask the DPL for getting money for an external mediator if a situation is

Re: Appeal procedure for DAM actions

2019-01-08 Thread Thomas Lange
Thanks for this details analysis and for your suggestions for improvements. I like especially the idea of changing the timeline and to remove the update of the DAM statement (3. Appealer statement). I also was wondering what "turning it into a warning" really means. I think a warning should be

Re: Appeal procedure for DAM actions

2019-01-08 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 11:27:35PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > With this message we define a way to appeal a DAM action, I'm treating this as if it's a first draft and open to comment. > 1. Appealing DAM decisions > -- > Any person who had their Debian membership

Re: Proposal: mediators

2019-01-08 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Hi, I would like to propose a system for mediation that can be used before or during expulsion processes, and for other purposes. [...] thanks for wrinting it down, but I still think the better option is to spend some Debian funds to let a professional mediator handle this, who is not

Re: Appeal procedure for DAM actions

2019-01-08 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 15276 March 1977, Karsten Merker wrote: 4. NM Committee review -- The NMC has 7 days to review the received material and discuss the matter in private. They are expected not to solicit further input, as this is not an inquiry but a peer review of the DAM decision. I'm

Re: [OT] distributions without systemd

2019-01-08 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 1/8/19 1:34 PM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Miles Fidelman - 08.01.19, 18:16: I would have been very surprised if you had told me 6 months ago that I would be writing this, but: Please consider Devuan as an alternative. You have probably seen awful mails from one or two very toxic trolls

RE: Appeal procedure for DAM actions

2019-01-08 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 15276 March 1977, Thomas Lange wrote: Do you plan an official announcement of this new procedure? It will end up on d-d-a in a few days, provided someone doesn't find a big flaw in it. JFTR: Thanks Enrico for pointing me how to see the list of members that will vote. Keep in mind that

Re: Appeal procedure for DAM actions

2019-01-08 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 15276 March 1977, Kurt Roeckx wrote: we waive the time limit defined in §1 for the cases from the last 6 months. Would it make sense to have them 1 week from publishing this instead? Thanks for that. Yeah, that offer is not valid forever, but as we normally say 30 days, lets make it 14

Re: Censorship in Debian

2019-01-08 Thread Ian Jackson
Miles Fidelman writes ("Re: Censorship in Debian"): > Thanks!  It's actually high on my list.  I've been waiting for it to > mature just a bit, and it seems to have.  Any observations on how it > stacks up for a production server?  Anything else that strikes you as a > particularly strong

Re: Censorship in Debian

2019-01-08 Thread Russ Allbery
Miles Fidelman writes: > I was watching the discussion on systemd fairly closely.  I could be > wrong, but very little of the discussions over systemd seemed to reflect > folks who managed production servers, or kernel developers, or developers > of key backend software (Apache, MySQL, Postfix,

[OT] distributions without systemd (was: Re: Censorship in Debian)

2019-01-08 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Miles Fidelman - 08.01.19, 18:16: > > I would have been very surprised if you had told me 6 months ago > > that > > I would be writing this, but: > > > > Please consider Devuan as an alternative. You have probably seen > > awful mails from one or two very toxic trolls pushing Devuan, but > > the

Re: Censorship in Debian

2019-01-08 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Miles Fidelman > Well, first off, the process led to the resignation of the chair of > the Technical Committee - out of a feeling that the process had become > too "personalized." JFTR (since this keeps being brought up, otherwise I'd much rather we just let this lie): Ian was not chair of

Re: Censorship in Debian

2019-01-08 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 1/8/19 8:28 AM, Ian Jackson wrote: Miles Fidelman writes ("Re: Censorship in Debian"): I've basically been nursing a couple of aging systems.  When next I do a major upgrade to our server farm, It will be to something other than Debian.  Until then, the pressure hasn't been there, and I've

Re: Proposal: mediators

2019-01-08 Thread Sam Hartman
I think that rather than writing down a procedure like this it would be better to get some success cases of trying something along these lines. So, for example, I'd recommend that you and people who have similar views volunteer to be available as mediators. Once people use your services, and you

Re: Censorship in Debian

2019-01-08 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Scott" == Scott Kitterman writes: Scott> On Monday, January 07, 2019 07:06:28 PM Russ Allbery wrote: >> Miles Fidelman writes: > On the >> other hand, the IETF seems to do just fine - with a much larger > >> base of participants, and a lot more room for discussion and

Proposal: mediators

2019-01-08 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear all, I would like to propose a system for mediation that can be used before or during expulsion processes, and for other purposes. Please note that while I use the word "mediation", there may be a better one. Thus, it is not needed to reply to me that what I propose is not a real mediation

Re: Appeal procedure for DAM actions

2019-01-08 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 11:27:35PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > we waive the time limit defined in §1 for the cases > from the last 6 months. Would it make sense to have them 1 week from publishing this instead? Kurt

Re: Censorship in Debian

2019-01-08 Thread Ian Jackson
Miles Fidelman writes ("Re: Censorship in Debian"): > I've basically been nursing a couple of aging systems.  When next I do a > major upgrade to our server farm, It will be to something other than > Debian.  Until then, the pressure hasn't been there, and I've been - > I've been waiting and

RE: Appeal procedure for DAM actions

2019-01-08 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Tue, 08 Jan 2019 09:14:53 +0100, Joerg Jaspert > said: > On 15276 March 1977, Thomas Lange wrote: >> I think you should forward this mail to nm-commit...@nm.debian.org. > Noted, but I think it makes more sense to point them at this whenever such an > appeal

Re: Censorship in Debian

2019-01-08 Thread Martín Ferrari
On 05/01/2019 21:24, Scott Kitterman wrote: > I also have a lot of sympathy for people who feel they have been marginalized > and it being worth working on making them feel welcome/not marginalized, but > I > think it has limits (and maybe this is the core of my concern relative to the >

Re: Appeal procedure for DAM actions

2019-01-08 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2019/01/08 13:38, Enrico Zini wrote: >> If that's the case, are you talking about multiple appeals from people >> who have had their membership revoked, or is it that I interpreted it >> wrong and that anyone can appeal? > > I'm clarifying the corner case in which two people have had their >

Re: Appeal procedure for DAM actions

2019-01-08 Thread Enrico Zini
On Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 01:21:20PM +0200, Jonathan Carter wrote: > If I read the original text correctly in item 1 above, it seems that > only the person who's rights got revoked can appeal? Yes, correct. > If that's the case, are you talking about multiple appeals from people > who have had

Re: Appeal procedure for DAM actions

2019-01-08 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2019/01/08 12:43, Enrico Zini wrote: >> 1. Appealing DAM decisions >> -- >> Any person who had their Debian membership suspended or revoked by DAM may >> appeal the decision. They must request the appeal within 30 days, stating >> why they disagree with the decision in a

Re: Censorship in Debian

2019-01-08 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2019-01-08 11:23, Miles Fidelman wrote: > On 1/8/19 4:57 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 04:16:15AM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: >>> What I am asserting is that the Debian Social Contract explicitly states >>> that: >>> >>> "4. Our priorities are our users and free

Re: Debian, debutsav, CoC and Debconf 2016 and different meanings to gender-diversity.

2019-01-08 Thread shirish शिरीष
Reply in-line :- On 08/01/2019, Rhonda D'Vine wrote: >Hey. > Dear Rhonda, > Even while I write at some spots in "we" term (where I am mostly > referring to with my diversity team hat on) this is still primarily my > own reply. Especially in the cases where I use the "I" term explicitly.

Re: Appeal procedure for DAM actions

2019-01-08 Thread Enrico Zini
On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 11:27:35PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > 1. Appealing DAM decisions > -- > Any person who had their Debian membership suspended or revoked by DAM may > appeal the decision. They must request the appeal within 30 days, stating > why they disagree

Re: Censorship in Debian

2019-01-08 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 1/8/19 4:57 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 04:16:15AM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: What I am asserting is that the Debian Social Contract explicitly states that: "4. Our priorities are our users and free software … I DO assert that, as one user, I don't see this

Re: Censorship in Debian

2019-01-08 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 04:16:15AM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: What I am asserting is that the Debian Social Contract explicitly states that: "4. Our priorities are our users and free software … I DO assert that, as one user, I don't see this being honored in the breach, with decisions

Re: Debian, debutsav, CoC and Debconf 2016 and different meanings to gender-diversity.

2019-01-08 Thread Rhonda D'Vine
Hey. Even while I write at some spots in "we" term (where I am mostly referring to with my diversity team hat on) this is still primarily my own reply. Especially in the cases where I use the "I" term explicitly. * shirish शिरीष [2019-01-07 21:09:22 CET]: > I along with others also opined

Re: Censorship in Debian

2019-01-08 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 1/7/19 11:10 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: Miles Fidelman writes: On 1/7/19 10:06 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: Speaking as someone who is a listed author on three published RFCs and chaired one IETF working group, I will take Debian process over IETF process any day, and find your description of the

Re: Censorship in Debian

2019-01-08 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 1/7/19 10:58 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: Miles Fidelman writes: I think you're minimizing the level of investment & commitment it takes to either use Debian, particularly in production, and even more, minimizing the efforts of upstream, and kernel, developers upon whom Debian ultimately