Re: Problems with NM Front Desk

2010-07-07 Thread Richard Hecker
Don Armstrong wrote: On Tue, 06 Jul 2010, Frans Pop wrote: Is it actually OK for FD to demand that candidates go through DM before applying for DD, or as part of the NM process? If the FD isn't fairly confident that someone has enough experience in Debian to make occupying an AM's

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-08-05 Thread Richard Hecker
Mark Shuttleworth wrote: ...snip... Instead of saying there's a bug that was badly handled, so we should never collaborate better on anything, let's look for opportunities to make things better. We have a good opportunity to make a profound change in the way upstreams and distributions

Re: [OT] aggressiveness on our mailing lists.

2009-07-24 Thread Richard Hecker
Luk Claes wrote: Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Fri, Jul 24 2009, Luk Claes wrote: Manoj Srivastava wrote: ...snip... This is hilarious. Two posts attacking the man -- ad hominem -- and these are the folks talking about being less aggressive. Twisting again are you? Only

Re: so ... let's merge DAM and FD?

2009-07-02 Thread Richard Hecker
Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: Richard Hecker wrote: While consensus might exist that eliminating bureaucracy is good, division of labor can be a good thing too. I do not think you have established the need to combine the FD and DAM tasks. Are you claiming the DAMs are too bureaucratic

Re: so ... let's merge DAM and FD?

2009-07-02 Thread Richard Hecker
Lucas Nussbaum wrote: Don't you think that there's some sense in listening to what Emilio says, whithout immediately minimizing his arguments, since he has already been at least 4 times more useful to Debian than you were during the last 8 years? - Lucas I did listen. That is why it was

Re: DAM and NEW queues processing

2009-06-26 Thread Richard Hecker
Bernd Zeimetz wrote: Kęstutis Biliūnas wrote: Say the truth to each loser would be more honestly, I think. One such unfortunate, So you think you are a loser? I don't think so. What I know from your AM is that your progress towards becoming DD and knowing all the things a DD needs to

Re: DEP1: Clarifying policies and workflows for Non Maintainer Uploads (NMUs)

2008-05-31 Thread Richard Hecker
Lucas Nussbaum wrote: Please, everybody, let's try to discuss patches to the DEP, rather than general stuff about communication. (unless you want to reject the whole DEP, but only Richard Hecker seems to want that) In spite of my intention to not comment any further, I just cannot let

Re: DEP1: Clarifying policies and workflows for Non Maintainer Uploads (NMUs)

2008-05-30 Thread Richard Hecker
Lucas Nussbaum wrote: On 30/05/08 at 01:44 -0700, Richard Hecker wrote: ...snip... You failed to find consensus in the thread I referenced in the previous message. ... which led me to thinking of what we could do to improve the current situation while staying consensual. Because I

Re: DEP1: Clarifying policies and workflows for Non Maintainer Uploads (NMUs)

2008-05-29 Thread Richard Hecker
Lucas Nussbaum wrote: On 26/05/08 at 09:55 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: ...snip... I miss one thing in these guidelines: they sort of give you the idea you can NMU someone's packages off as long as you go by the book, and that you have the RIGHT to do it no matter what.

Re: why privacy is mandatory

2008-01-31 Thread Richard Hecker
Eeric Evans wrote: Martin Schulze wrote: [...] On several IRC channels it is a requirement to reveal the realname. [...] If one does not like such rules, they are free to not join such meetings. ...snip... But lets have a look at http://pastebin.ca/885288 again and see

Re: soc-ctte discussion at DebConf7

2007-06-30 Thread Richard Hecker
Manoj Srivastava wrote: ...snip... I have seen no discussion on how the soc ctte is going to go about ensuring that such cultural differences are noticed, or taken into account in the resolution process; or that any thought has been taken to address cultural diversity in the dispute

Re: Another level of agression ?

2007-05-28 Thread Richard Hecker
Sven Luther wrote: On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 01:03:29PM +0200, Joey Schulze wrote: Sven Luther wrote: After some more pressure on IRC, your commit access has been restored. It is not enough, i want the suspension revoked, since it was a stupid decision, which has achieved

Re: Please expulse Frans Pop from debian

2007-04-04 Thread Richard Hecker
On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 22:56 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: ...snip... When will Debian realise that there should be a way to solve social problems, and actually try to solve it, instead of trying to censor or silence the most annoying party ? This is a real question, and once Debian has an answer

Re: Expulsion process: Sven Luther - Decision

2007-03-29 Thread Richard Hecker
On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 07:07 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: ...snip... I would have gladly accepted any decision, provided it was a fair one, but this one-sidedness is what caused all of this. One big problem here is the way you define fair in this context. There are many other DDs unwilling to

Re: Expulsion process: Sven Luther - Decision

2007-03-29 Thread Richard Hecker
On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 19:27 +, Sune Vuorela wrote: On 2007-03-29, Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you deny that rejection is an act of hate ? I do. Obviously, I do too! Rejection is many things that in many cases is not hate. It might be dislikement, it might be lack of