Re: We need to define a path for Debian to climate neutrality

Le vendredi, 13 mai 2022, 17.38:13 h CEST Thomas Goirand a écrit : > Most of the time, "green energy" is just "green washing". If you buy > "green energy" in France or Swiss (these are the only places I know for > sure what's going on), you get a higher electricity bill, and a slot in > the green

Re: Keysigning in times of COVID-19

Le jeudi, 6 août 2020, 17.54:21 h CEST Enrico Zini a écrit : > What do you think could be alternative key signing policies, that would > be acceptable to you, that would not require traveling and meeting face > to face? Several others have eloquently described key signing policies close to mine,

Re: distributed moderation of mailinglist

Le dimanche, 23 février 2020, 18.48:44 h CET Didier 'OdyX' Raboud a écrit : > Le dimanche, 23 février 2020, 18.29:32 h CET Felix Lechner a écrit : > > > Do you really expect such a mechanism to be needed? > > > > Moderators have opinions. The mailing lists are our

Re: distributed moderation of mailinglist

Le dimanche, 23 février 2020, 18.29:32 h CET Felix Lechner a écrit : > > Do you really expect such a mechanism to be needed? > > Moderators have opinions. The mailing lists are our primary public > forum. Feelings may run higher, and accusations may abound. It always seemed obvious; but for

Re: Request to Mini DebConf Montreal Organizers: Fight Israel not the DC20 Team

Le jeudi, 20 février 2020, 01.14:19 h CET Anthony DeRobertis a écrit : > On 2/19/20 2:00 PM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > > At the risk of poking a little fun at recent US politics: this _really > > really_ reads as a /quid pro quo/. > > Not really; a quid pro quo

Re: Request to Mini DebConf Montreal Organizers: Fight Israel not the DC20 Team

(Re-reading your statement). Le mercredi, 19 février 2020, 16.17:00 h CET Sam Hartman a écrit : > Debian is Asked to Support a Protest of a Debian Activity > = > > The Montreal organizers could have simply organized an alternative for >

Re: Request to Mini DebConf Montreal Organizers: Fight Israel not the DC20 Team

Le mercredi, 19 février 2020, 20.04:12 h CET Sam Hartman a écrit : > Then we miss an opportunity for the Montreal organizers to clearly and > unambiguously say to the world and Debian their fight is with the > government of Israel not with the DC20 volunteers. They never said otherwise. They

Re: Request to Mini DebConf Montreal Organizers: Fight Israel not the DC20 Team

I have taken my frustration to Sam, and he clarified one thing: Le mercredi, 19 février 2020, 16.17:00 h CET Sam Hartman a écrit : > So, I'm going to approve the budget with one change requested by the > DebConf committee. But see below. I (now) understand this to mean "both the budget and the

Re: Announcing miniDebConf Montreal 2020 -- August 6th to August 9th 2020

Le lundi, 17 février 2020, 19.19:02 h CET Sam Hartman a écrit : > > "Jerome" == Jerome Charaoui writes: > Jerome> Following the announcement of the DebConf20 location, our > Jerome> desire to participate became incompatible with our > Jerome> commitment toward the Boycott,

Re: MiniDebCamp 2021 pre-FOSDEM?

Le vendredi, 31 janvier 2020, 18.57:16 h CET Holger Levsen a écrit : > so it seems to me, the MiniDebCamp 2020 pre-FOSDEM was - in many ways - > a nice and useful event, which people enjoyed and where some stuff got > done. IOW: I hope you liked it! I did, thank you very much for making this

Re: BSP Reimbursements

Le jeudi, 3 octobre 2019, 12.54:53 h CEST Kyle Robbertze a écrit : > On 2019/10/02 22:17, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > > Third: what rules-of-thumb, or guidelines do we want for travel support? > > In the context of relatively _short_ events (2-5 days), I think we ought >

Re: Expense Rules for Mini-DebConfs

Le mercredi, 2 octobre 2019, 23.33:10 h CEST Sam Hartman a écrit : > >>>>> "Didier" == Didier 'OdyX' Raboud writes: > >> TL;DR: Do we want BSP organizers to take on the responsibility of > >> batching together travel reimbursement r

Re: BSP Reimbursements

Hello Sam, (I'm hereby answering out of my experience of helping organizing the miniDebConf Vaumarcus this year, but without coordination with the rest of the team). Le mercredi, 2 octobre 2019, 16.43:37 h CEST Sam Hartman a écrit : > TL;DR: Do we want BSP organizers to take on the

Re: Let's Stop Getting Torn Apart by Disagreement: Concerns about the Technical Committee

Le samedi, 4 novembre 2017, 01.39:31 h CET Scott Kitterman a écrit : > On November 3, 2017 9:09:31 PM EDT, Sam Hartman wrote: > > I think that Debian does need a decision making body of last resort. > > I personally think these communication skills are critical for such a > >

win32-loader (was: Re: Bug#856139: certspotter: long description advertises commercial service)

Le samedi, 12 août 2017, 10.06:40 h EDT Christian Seiler a écrit : > win32-loader probably doesn't run on Wine or ReactOS (though I haven't > tried it, so I may be wrong here) - should that be in contrib if that's > the case? win32-loader runs fine on wine, for what is worth. It's also built

Re: Debian contributor Register of Interests

Le mardi, 9 mai 2017, 09.16:21 h CEST Jonathan Dowland a écrit : > However in the interests of transparency I feel that a voluntary, opt-in > "Register of Interests" is a good idea for the project. I feel that such a > list (populated) would demonstrate the transparency and openness that are >

Re: producing, distributing, storing Debian t-shirts

Le lundi, 1 mai 2017, 19.45:06 h CEST martin f krafft a écrit : > However, at the end of the day, all things considered, if Didier or > Person X would mark those items up, say, 5% to cover the incidentals > (not the time spent), then I wouldn't have a problem with that. Oh, just to make the

Re: producing, distributing, storing Debian t-shirts

Le lundi, 1 mai 2017, 18.28:37 h CEST Daniel Pocock a écrit : > On 01/05/17 18:14, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > > The cost structure for that one-time project made it possible to sell the > > Debian-branded knives for the same non-branded retail price. That's really > >

Re: producing, distributing, storing Debian t-shirts

Le dimanche, 30 avril 2017, 17.42:53 h CEST Andrew M.A. Cater a écrit : > Debian.ch did one very cool piece of merchandise - customised Victorinox > knives with Debian logo. Fantastic, useful - and potentially illegal to > carry but a lovely thing. I think it took a huge time to organise the >

Re: Replace the TC power to depose maintainers

Le mercredi, 7 décembre 2016, 08.49:57 h CET Russell Stuart a écrit : > Why not have a formal rule that says if a package in Debian is out of > date for more than one release cycle any DD can package it under a > different name, after going through the usual ITP procedures coupled > with a bug

Re: Replace the TC power to depose maintainers

Le lundi, 5 décembre 2016, 14.41:01 h CET Ian Jackson a écrit : > The bug was filed on the 19th of October. That was nearly 7 weeks > ago. Sure. I'm not saying the TC couldn't be better. > That is 6+ weeks' more stop-energy. 6+ weeks' more inaction. I agree with that. > 6+ weeks during which

Re: Replace the TC power to depose maintainers

Le vendredi, 2 décembre 2016, 15.42:58 h CET Ian Jackson a écrit : > Hey, I have an idea that maybe you will support, which takes us much > more in that direction and may reinvigorate our existing processes: > > DRAFT GENERAL RESOLUTION STARTS As a general comment, I am in discomfort with GR

Re: Replace the TC power to depose maintainers

Le jeudi, 1 décembre 2016, 15.46:05 h CET Ian Jackson a écrit : > There is a recent case where: > * The maintainer has done nothing to the package for many years, >other than infrequent (and usually short) emails to NAK >contributions from others; > * The package is years out of date

Re: Proposed GR: Acknowledge that the debian-private list will remain private

Le jeudi, 7 juillet 2016, 14.39:21 Holger Levsen a écrit : > (should the text be reworded, I'd like to propose s#Debian > Developers#Debian members#g.) Point is; only "Developers" (the term our constitution uses) are supposed to ever have been subscribed to d-private. That said, we could amend

Re: cdimage?? What should we call it?

Le mardi, 18 août 2015, 17.09:19 Steve McIntyre a écrit : We called our main installer images distribution site cdimage.debian.org a long time ago, when that was all it published and most people downloaded images of CDs. (…) So, I'm looking for suggestions. What should we call it? (…) What

Re: The proper place to announce GRs (was Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?))

Le mardi, 14 octobre 2014, 10.54:19 Lars Wirzenius a écrit : On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 09:17:27AM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: If on -vote the required amount of seconds have been reached, I will announce that the GR process has been sarted on debian-devel-announce. Sure, and that's

Re: The proper place to announce GRs (was Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?))

Le lundi, 13 octobre 2014, 16.11:56 Miles Fidelman a écrit : Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: FWIW, Constitution §4.2.5 says: (…) Ahhh... this is like RFPs and legal announcements - as long as you post it somewhere, you're covered. As opposed to requiring posting in a highly visible place.

Re: Code of Conduct violations handling process

Hi all, Le mercredi, 3 septembre 2014, 18.55:04 Ian Jackson a écrit : I hope that regardless of your opinions about the specific incident, you would support the ideas that: - If we have a CoC it should be enforced. (Snipped a lot of administrativia suggestions.) To enforce is the wrong

Re: Updating the list of Debian Trusted Organizations

Hi all, (answering to debian-project) Le mardi, 8 juillet 2014, 18.02:42 Lucas Nussbaum a écrit : In most jurisdictions around the world, the Debian project is not in a position to directly hold funds or other property. Such assets are therefore owned by a number of so called 'Trusted

Re: GR: Selecting the default init system for Debian

Le dimanche, 19 janvier 2014, 12.39:01 Ian Jackson a écrit : Russ Allbery writes (Re: GR: Selecting the default init system for Debian): As a TC member, I dislike the supermajority requirement for the project to overturn a TC decision by GR, particularly in this case. I think we would all

Re: Updating the Policy Editors delegation

Le lundi, 6 janvier 2014, 16.21:52 Ian Jackson a écrit : I think the constitutional position of the policy team is as follows: They are a package maintainer team. They normally make their decisions themselves under 3.1.1. I think that framing the policy team primarily into a package

Re: Should mailing list bans be published?

Hi Jonathan, Le dimanche, 3 novembre 2013 14.06:33 Jonathan Dowland a écrit : I think bans should be time-limited in almost all cases, with perma-bans being very rare indeed. I don't think that ban durations should be disclosed publically or to the person banned

Re: Should mailing list bans be published?

Le lundi, 4 novembre 2013 15.08:05 Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit : On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 02:51:52PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: So, what would be the beneficial social effects of publishing the ban *duration*? The ban duration is an indication of how severe we think the violation

Re: Should mailing list bans be published?

Le samedi, 26 octobre 2013 10.46:41 Steve Langasek a écrit : This led to a philosophical debate about whether bans should be made public. Alexander expressed concern that having them published could be harmful to a person's reputation, since employers will google your name and see that you've

Alioth is up! (was: alioth is down)

Now that alioth is back up, I feel I owe an apology to those that made that possible. While you guys were facing hard-work to bring our beloved alioth back to life, I was here nitpicking about mailing lists usage. You clearly didn't need that at that time. Retrospectively, that was clearly not

Re: what is the new name for testing

BasaBuru wrote: hello Do you now what is the new code name for the new testing? thanks BasaBuru Current testing is Squeeze; next will be Wheezy. This was announced on debian-devel-announce [0] and could have been found by googling or heading to Wikipedia [1]. Cheers, OdyX [0]

Re: What is annoying in the flattr buttons?

Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 02:44, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: Michael Gilbert michael.s.gilb...@gmail.com writes: Raphael has every right to attempt to pursue his field of endeavor in any tolerant/respectful manner he chooses. ...using his own property. But

Re: What is annoying in the flattr buttons?

Kevin Mark wrote: On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 01:22:54PM +0100, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: For a simple reason, the DMUP [0]; which every user of Debian resources must follow. It says (in its introduction, point 1). * Don't use Debian Facilities for private financial gain (…) Debian

Re: debian-kernel / KVM

kont...@reisemedizin-giessen.de wrote: Hello debians! Everyone is talking about virtualisation. But as far as i know the debian-kernel isn't ready to use KVM. For me as a non-prof-user kernel-debugging isn't a nice every-year-adventure. Maybe it's possible to get a KVM-kernel-version in

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: There's some (many) of us who feel that the great Debian culture is irreplaceable, and therefore won't use Ubuntu as their primary OS. So why worry about losing relevance. Because if you lose relevance, you lose users (might them be individuals on the desktop or

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

Teemu Likonen wrote: On 2009-07-30 13:12 (+0200), Sven Joachim wrote: Probably not, but the release synchronization with Ubuntu may make them feel that they are working for him, which can be a great demotivation. That's why it would be interesting to hear some concrete ideas how useful