Re: Requesting Extension (was: Re: Changing how we handle non-free firmware)

2022-09-15 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Everyone On 2022/09/07 18:26, Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) wrote: As per the Debian Constitution[1] (4.2¶3), I'm requesting an extension for the discussion period of 7 days. Thank you all for taking the time to polish or add voting options over the last week. I believe that the options

Re: Possible draft non-free firmware option with SC change

2022-09-09 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
On 2022/09/09 18:37, Bdale Garbee wrote: "Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)" writes: I do think some parts are important to include though, how about: I disagree strongly on this. We should work REALLY hard to have the SC capture the commitments we're making to our users, and

Re: Possible draft non-free firmware option with SC change

2022-09-09 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
On 2022/09/09 18:04, Russ Allbery wrote: We encourage careful review of the licensing of these packages before use or redistribution, since the guarantees of the Debian Free Software Guidelines do not apply to them. Looks good to me. It summarizes the gist of the issue very

Re: Possible draft non-free firmware option with SC change

2022-09-08 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
On 2022/09/08 11:27, Phil Morrell wrote: 5. Works that do not meet our free software standards We acknowledge that our users may require the use of works that do not conform to the Debian Free Software Guidelines. Such packages are not part of the Debian system, but we

Requesting Extension (was: Re: Changing how we handle non-free firmware)

2022-09-07 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Dear Debian Secretary and Debian Developers As per the Debian Constitution[1] (4.2¶3), I'm requesting an extension for the discussion period of 7 days. Apologies for jumping this on the last minute, I've been off-sick and have been fiercely triaging and catching up with issues the last day

Re: Changing how we handle non-free firmware

2022-08-25 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
On 2022/08/22 19:32, Gunnar Wolf wrote: = We will include non-free firmware packages from the "non-free-firmware" section of the Debian archive on our official media (installer images and live images). The included firmware binaries will*normally* be enabled by

Re: General Resolution: Liquidate donated assets as soon as possible

2022-08-16 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Louis-Philippe On 2022/06/19 01:43, Louis-Philippe Véronneau wrote: This is a proposal for Debian to create a guideline for our TOs when they receive donations of non-fiat assets. It is a result of the constructive debate we had on debian-private, and hopefully it will not be too divisive

Re: General resolution: ratify https://github.com/rms-open-letter/rms-open-letter.github.io

2021-03-25 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Dear project secretary On Wed, 24 Mar 2021 13:54:16 -0700 Steve Langasek wrote: > Under 4.1.5 of the Constitution, the developers by way of GR are the > body who has the power to issue nontechnical statements. Due to the timeliness of this GR, please reduce the discussion period for this GR to

Re: Debian Project Leader Elections 2021: Call for nominations

2021-03-11 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Kurt On Sat, 6 Mar 2021 20:39:44 +0100 Debian Project Secretary - Kurt Roeckx wrote: > Please make sure that nominations are sent to (or cc:'d to) > debian-vote, and are cryptographically signed. I hereby self-nominate for the DPL 2021 term. -Jonathan pgpr5E_bf053T.pgp Description: