Re: [RFC] General Resolution to deploy tag2upload

2024-06-12 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Luca Boccassi (2024-06-12 23:36:53) > On Wed, 12 Jun 2024 at 22:26, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > My point above, reframed to your new context, is that regardless of > > how overwhelmingly large the attack surface of GCC+linux is, the > > attack surface of GCC+linux+

Re: [RFC] General Resolution to deploy tag2upload

2024-06-12 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Luca Boccassi (2024-06-12 22:00:04) > On Wed, 12 Jun 2024 at 15:20, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > > Quoting Luca Boccassi (2024-06-12 15:27:36) > > > On Wed, 12 Jun 2024 at 14:15, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > > You apparently find it equally

Re: [RFC] General Resolution to deploy tag2upload

2024-06-12 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Luca Boccassi (2024-06-12 15:27:36) > On Wed, 12 Jun 2024 at 14:15, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > You apparently find it equally sensible, specifically as a security > > measure, a) apply ACLs on an otherwise massively multi-user-write-access > > host and b) use a separ

Re: [RFC] General Resolution to deploy tag2upload

2024-06-12 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Luca Boccassi (2024-06-12 14:55:13) > On Wed, 12 Jun 2024 at 13:47, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: [...] > > > > Luca Boccassi writes ("Re: [RFC] General Resolution to deploy > > > > tag2upload"): > > > > > As far as I can tell, from what w

Re: [RFC] General Resolution to deploy tag2upload

2024-06-12 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
o a central system that > can be analyzed and iteratively improved." > > So I don't think this is a good argument. One system is better than > two. And we need to secure all of it anyway, as Salsa is a component > of the solution anyway. I read the analysis more that two system

Re: [RFC] General Resolution to deploy tag2upload

2024-06-12 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Luca Boccassi (2024-06-12 13:15:47) > On Wed, 12 Jun 2024 at 12:03, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > > Quoting Luca Boccassi (2024-06-12 12:28:21) > > > On Wed, 12 Jun 2024 at 09:35, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > > > > > > Quoting Luca Boccass

Re: [RFC] General Resolution to deploy tag2upload

2024-06-12 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Luca Boccassi (2024-06-12 12:28:21) > On Wed, 12 Jun 2024 at 09:35, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > > Quoting Luca Boccassi (2024-06-12 10:21:40) > > > On Wed, 12 Jun 2024 at 02:31, Russ Allbery wrote: > > > > > > > > Luca Boccassi wri

Re: [RFC] General Resolution to deploy tag2upload

2024-06-12 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
e real uploads and the real repositories > are on a separate and independent git forge, why have Salsa at all? > Get rid of it and use the other forge exclusively." I don't follow d-private, but sounds to me like that argument goes both ways - i.e. also "if the real uploads and the real

Re: recent changes to the CRA address FLOSS community concerns?

2023-12-09 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Jonas Smedegaard (2023-12-09 09:53:37) > Quoting Paul Wise (2023-12-09 04:07:45) > > On IRC it was mentioned that there are updates to the CRA that may > > address the concerns of the FLOSS community. > > > > These blogs have updates at the top: > > &

Re: recent changes to the CRA address FLOSS community concerns?

2023-12-09 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
about that to appear here: https://edri.org/our-work/the-cyber-resilience-act-how-to-make-europe-more-digitally-resilient/ - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ * Sponsorship: https://ko-fi.com/drjones [x] quote

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

2022-09-08 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
ed to publish non-free installers > under the current DSC/DFSG (which it actually is doing today; just > hidden), but according to the DSC it is not part of the Debian system. > > /Simon FWIW, I fully agree with Simon Josefsson on the above. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - ide

Re: Changing how we handle non-free firmware

2022-09-07 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
al B gives the free installer less visibility than the non-free one. > - Proposal C keeps the free installer and no longer hides the non-free ones. > - Proposal D would be equivalent to NOTA in my understanding. > > Proposal C could use some more seconding. If you find that proposal C is

Re: Changing how we handle non-free firmware

2022-09-06 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Proposal C uses the term > > > "non-free" > > > because that is where all non-free packages are still residing today. > > > > I think the problem is with "non-free section". I think Steve looks at > > that like the non-free-firmware section i

Re: Changing how we handle non-free firmware

2022-09-03 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
considered part of the Debian system - i.e. "a system of installer and installable packages" (which is different from "an operating system resulting from executing an installer"). I worry that the multiple meanings of "system" in ballot texts will lead to confusion/frustration over how to vote and how to interpret the result of the vote. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private signature.asc Description: signature

Re: Changing how we handle non-free firmware

2022-09-01 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
is the reason that I consider debian-installer an important part of our main deliverable. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private signature.asc Description: signature

Re: Changing how we handle non-free firmware

2022-08-31 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
r purity reason even though generally we would promote another unofficial installer (and here the word "official" refers to what is treated as formally our main project deliverable). I expect your elaborating would help me see more possibilities. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - ideali

Re: Changing how we handle non-free firmware

2022-08-27 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Bart Martens (2022-08-26 18:03:30) > On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 04:18:19PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Quoting Bart Martens (2022-08-26 10:02:16) > > > On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 07:06:01AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > > [...] it lacks a detail I fi

Re: Changing how we handle non-free firmware

2022-08-26 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Jonas Smedegaard (2022-08-26 16:18:19) > I still urge you to make explicit what will not change. Perhaps borrow > from Simons text, if you (like me) like that? ...Simon Richter! - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Web

Re: Changing how we handle non-free firmware

2022-08-26 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Bart Martens (2022-08-26 10:02:16) > On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 07:06:01AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > [...] it lacks a detail I find crucial: > > Explicitly spelling out whether or not images containing non-free bits > > are official part of Debian or no

Re: Changing how we handle non-free firmware

2022-08-26 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
me too" posts here but) since I have strongly ben in favor of using "offficial" label to indicate what we as project can support, I agree that this is an approach that abandons such label yet ensures explicitly in the text we vote on that "non-free" will be clearly communi

Re: Changing how we handle non-free firmware

2022-08-25 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
are to do so, which in my opinion goes against a core principle of our community. Let's promote non-free installer more aggressively, but please let's explicitly label it as not part of the product we claim is 100% free. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private signature.asc Description: signature

Re: Changing how we handle non-free firmware

2022-08-25 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Jonas Smedegaard (2022-08-24 19:14:26) > Quoting Bart Martens (2022-08-24 10:12:48) > > = > > > > The Debian project is permitted to make distribution media (installer images > > and live images) containing packages from the non

Re: Changing how we handle non-free firmware

2022-08-24 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Bart Martens (2022-08-24 23:08:12) > On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 07:14:26PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Quoting Bart Martens (2022-08-24 10:12:48) > > > = > > > > > > The Debian project is permitted to make distrib

Re: Changing how we handle non-free firmware

2022-08-24 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
but communicated vastly different - which to me is (unfortunately) a sensible reason to have them both on the ballot. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ]

Re: Changing how we handle non-free firmware

2022-08-23 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
ay-100%-free (as opposed to Debian-the-archive-that-has-had-non-free-bits-for-ages)? - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private signature.asc Description: signature

Re: Changing how we handle non-free firmware

2022-08-23 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Ansgar (2022-08-23 19:44:17) > > On 2022-08-23 18:50, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > (I only see that being possible by treating the install image as not > > > part of Debian, which I consider an unacceptable interpretation). > > For me installation media are

Re: Changing how we handle non-free firmware

2022-08-23 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Holger Levsen (2022-08-23 17:33:27) > On Tue, Aug 23, 2022 at 05:04:49PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > I would find it problematic if the official way to install Debian > > *required* a non-DFSG image. > > would you also find it problematic if there were *t

Re: Changing how we handle non-free firmware

2022-08-23 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Philip Hands (2022-08-23 10:44:55) > Jonas Smedegaard writes: > > > Quoting Tobias Frost (2022-08-22 15:57:01) > >> On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 07:39:21AM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: > >> > Ansgar writes: > >> > > >> >

Re: Changing how we handle non-free firmware

2022-08-23 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
e to add, that I really appreciate the efforts of Steve and think that I understand where he is coming from with his proposal - I just fails to see how those concerns can be addressed within the constraints that we have strongly defined as core scope for our system (because in my understanding "our s

Re: Changing how we handle non-free firmware

2022-08-22 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
non-free bits, as > writen > out in "We will never make the system require the use of a non-free > component." > This GR does not violate this promise. I understand how we will not require non-free bits getting *installed*. The way I see it, with this change we will require

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

2022-06-19 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
terpret this, only to point out that your proposed GR is too vague. If obvious to you what you propose, then perhaps you need to expand with references to the definitions you find obvious - i.e. something more substantial than above quoted text if your intent is for the definition to unambiguously include crypto currencies! That said, you will not have my support for this bill - I agree with others suggesting we leave it to the appointed leader and delegated teams. Kind regards, - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private signature.asc Description: signature

Re: General resolution: Condemn Russian invasion of the Ukraine

2022-04-08 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
at you quoted above seems to indicate to me that Debconf _uses_ Debian, not that it is legally a part of Debian. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private signature.asc Description: signature

Re: General resolution: Condemn Russian invasion of the Ukraine

2022-04-05 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Russ Allbery (2022-04-06 01:44:43) > Jonas Smedegaard writes: > > Quoting Steve Langasek (2022-04-05 22:36:02) > >> On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 02:39:31PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > >>> No we don't - we care about our users, and our users include th

Re: General resolution: Condemn Russian invasion of the Ukraine

2022-04-05 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Steve Langasek (2022-04-05 22:36:02) > On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 02:39:31PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Quoting Julian Andres Klode (2022-03-31 12:31:18) > > > Under 4.1.5 of the Constitution, the developers by way of GR are > > > the body who has the

Re: General resolution: Condemn Russian invasion of the Ukraine

2022-03-31 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
ich includes the Donbas regions of Luhansk, as well as > Crimea, which has already been illegaly annexed by Russia. No we don't - we care about our users, and our users include those who do evil. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: h

Re: Questions about Debian derivatives

2022-03-28 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
e census" you mean the code to compute the delta between Debian and each of its derivatives. I think the census is useful both to Debian itself and to derivatives. Sadly I suspect that too few are aware of it, despite your promotion, Paul. Help getting the census scripts back on track requires Pyt

Re: Waiting for the voting vote to finish... :-)

2021-11-23 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
ion of upcoming votes might help (assuming that's even possible)? Perhaps simply put an ordered list up somewhere at our wiki? - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private signature.asc Description: signature

Re: Renaming the FTP Masters

2021-11-11 Thread Jonas Meurer
an Archive Team" is fine. This is fair amount of work, but it will help make debian not seem quite as archaic as I'm sure it seems to new prospective users or developers. Thus it is valuable work. But a GR does not seem necessary. Thank you dkg for writing this mail. Full acknowledgement. Che

Re: Question Re: Advertising in Packages

2021-08-15 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
for other reasons than it being illegal. ...But you really should ask the proper place where those interested and skilled in those matters are subscribed. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me fre

Re: General Resolution: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board result

2021-04-20 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
surrounding a vote, so such noticemight commonly be missed. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private signature.asc Description: signature

Re: Thanks and Decision making working group (was Re: General Resolution: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board result)

2021-04-20 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Bernd Zeimetz (2021-04-20 15:26:06) > On 2021-04-20 12:50, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > > I genuinely think that more time preparing the ballot would have led > > to fewer more well-written options on the ballot, and consequently a > > higher likelihood tha

Re: Thanks and Decision making working group (was Re: General Resolution: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board result)

2021-04-20 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
is not that the concrete vote by all means should have not been rushed, but that I do believe that taking the current vote as a concrete example the time to prepare the ballot had a real effect on the outcome. > I don't think that one can automatically assume that more discussion > is better. I agree. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private signature.asc Description: signature

Re: General Resolution: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board result

2021-04-20 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
ite different from rejecting all closure options presented on the ballot by voting for the non-closure option. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private signature.asc Description: signature

Re: General Resolution: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board result

2021-04-19 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
;blank", I changed my vote to wade through all those options I did *not* want Debian to make and try rank the severity of their badness - while being worried that my vote is public so I expose my priority of evil thoughts to the World. - Jonas P.S. This is *not* an invitation to

Re: Ways forward regarding the RMS GR

2021-04-12 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
improve our situation, each of which come with their > own set of upsides and downsides. Amazingly unbiased summary of events, and sensible reasoning on how to deal with the current complexities. Thank you very much, Jonathan! - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-ar

Re: REPOST, SIGNED: Re: Amendment to RMS/FSF GR: Option 5

2021-04-03 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
nounces ...", but your version is > good enough. Seconded. I really dislike this communication style, seemingly a direct consequence of the choice to shorten the discussion time. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr

Re: REPOST, SIGNED: Re: Amendment to RMS/FSF GR: Option 5

2021-04-03 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Free Software Foundation. > > > Seconded. I would have preferred more time to discuss wording, but that was not sadly provided. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me fre

Re: REPOST, SIGNED: Re: Amendment to RMS/FSF GR: Option 5

2021-04-03 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
y accepted? If this one is accepted then I can only interpret the old one as missing this option and if this option had been included then it would have won over the other options. Can anyone imagine voting in favor of this one with a different intent? - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idea

Re: REPOST, SIGNED: Re: Amendment to RMS/FSF GR: Option 5

2021-04-03 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
oundation, > and the members of the board of the Free Software Foundation." > > Though even that is a statement. I'd sponsor this if a) neutrally worded and b) initiated before the current GR as completed - i.e. driven by the lack of adequate time for preparing the current GR instead of

Re: Nuance Regarding RMS

2021-04-01 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
s to compose a ballot for a vote: How to transform those observations into a text for the ballot? Or if that is absurd, how else to proceed (other than shrug and let the boting process continue disregarding those observations? - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private signature.asc Description: signature

Re: Amendment to RMS/FSF GR: Option 4, assert the need to learn and grow from recent events

2021-03-31 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
when we meet in person. > > END CHOICE TEXT Seconded. This text adresses the concerns I have raised on this list (as far I I have so far been able to understand it - and due to the shortened processing time I hope that anyone spotting issues in it does so in time...). Thanks, Jonathan!

Re: opinion on Choice 1

2021-03-29 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Hi, Quoting Ulrike Uhlig (2021-03-29 10:58:13) > Sorry for my ignorance, but who are you? I cannot find your name in the > Debian contributor list. Sorry for my ignorance, but who are you to ask that? I cannot your name in the Debian mailinglist inquisitor list. Best Jonas -- *

Re: Amendement to GR Statement regarding Stallman's readmission to the FSF board

2021-03-29 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
ware > movement in order to achieve our joint goal of empowering all users to control > technology. > > [0] https://status.fsf.org/notice/3796703 > > === End text === Seconded. Thanks, Santiago! - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private signature.asc Description: signature

Re: Asking DPL to shorten Discussion Period for rms-open-letter

2021-03-28 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Hi Sam, Quoting Sam Hartman (2021-03-28 23:55:42) > >>>>> "Jonas" == Jonas Smedegaard writes: > There were a lot of messages here, and I may have missed some. Sorry for my part of that: I wish I were able to express my opinions more compactly. > When I las

Re: Asking DPL to shorten Discussion Period for rms-open-letter

2021-03-28 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Pierre-Elliott Bécue (2021-03-28 20:31:01) > Le dimanche 28 mars 2021 � 14:04:48+0200, Jonas Smedegaard a �crit�: > > My involvement in this subthread was when Molly arguing that the > > accusation was not harmful (using other words, yes, and we can > > nitpick tha

Re: Asking DPL to shorten Discussion Period for rms-open-letter

2021-03-28 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Wouter Verhelst (2021-03-28 08:17:32) > On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 11:46:03PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Quoting Wouter Verhelst (2021-03-27 18:19:57) > > > On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 10:41:57AM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > > Thanks for your

Re: Asking DPL to shorten Discussion Period for rms-open-letter

2021-03-27 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Hi Wouter, Quoting Wouter Verhelst (2021-03-27 18:19:57) > On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 10:41:57AM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Thanks for your judgements(!), Luke and Enrico. > > > > For the record, I do not defend actions of RMS. I defend his right > > t

Re: Asking DPL to shorten Discussion Period for rms-open-letter

2021-03-27 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Hi Martin, Quoting Martin Steigerwald (2021-03-27 11:13:52) > On addition: In a sense, Jonas, you said what I wrote below, I think. > You warned about group shaming. And I may have misread your mail. Cause > now I am not sure that you actually called him a monster. You wrote that >

Re: "rms-open-letter" choice 3: do not, as the project itself, sign any letter regarding rms

2021-03-27 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Timo Weingärtner (2021-03-27 11:51:40) > 26.03.21 20:42 Jonas Smedegaard: > > Quoting Calum McConnell (2021-03-26 20:14:50) > > > > Any individual (including Debian members) wishing to (co-)sign > > > > any of the open letters in question is invi

Re: Asking DPL to shorten Discussion Period for rms-open-letter

2021-03-27 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
onster. Only if we want to punish the monster is it relevant to explicitly judge the monster. It is my understanding that it is illegal for organisations to make such explicit judgements, which is a reason for us to avoid explicit judgement, even if that is in fact what we want to do. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private signature.asc Description: signature

Re: Re: "rms-open-letter" choice 3: do not, as the project itself, sign any letter regarding rms

2021-03-26 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
raged to do so" would in my opinion radically change the message from an unbiased "Debian does not recommend if you should personally support a petition or not" to a biased "Debian recommends that you personally support a petition". I would *not* second such change

Re: Amendment to GR on RMS rejoining FSF

2021-03-26 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
n has a leading position. Instead, we will continue to > > work with groups and individuals who foster diversity and equality in > > the Free Software movement in order to achieve our joint goal of > > empowering all users to control technology. > > > [0] https://status.fsf.org

Re: "rms-open-letter" choice 3: do not, as the project itself, sign any letter regarding rms

2021-03-26 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
ot;further discussion", may find this agreeable to vote for. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private signature.asc Description: signature

Re: General Resolution: Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board

2021-03-26 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
I will write one. Please do - I will reconsider my support based on what that turns out to be (and really I hesitate: As already mentioned this text seem overlapping with another smaller proposed text). - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 4084313

Re: General Resolution: Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board

2021-03-26 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Dominik George (2021-03-26 13:26:09) > On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 11:50:31AM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > [replying only to -vote - please avoid cross-posting!] > > OK, but you actually replied only to -devel instead of -vote. Arrgh. > > Quoting Dominik George

Re: Asking DPL to shorten Discussion Period for rms-open-letter

2021-03-26 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Hi Anarcat, Quoting Antoine Beaupré (2021-03-25 20:11:45) > Hey what's up doc, > > On 2021-03-25 00:41:41, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Quoting M dB (2021-03-24 23:55:23) > >> A few thoughts: > >> > >> - I don't like the term "cancel" because I

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

2021-03-26 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Antoine Beaupré (2021-03-25 20:13:42) > On 2021-03-25 19:13:09, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > I dislike the conclusive judgemental framing of the previously > > referenced open letter, and consider it wrong for Debian as an > > organisation to make direct demands on ho

Re: "rms-open-letter" choice 3: do not, as the project itself, sign any letter regarding rms

2021-03-26 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
the > wording restricted to the current document in question. > > Could this be changed to something along the lines: > > """ > Any individual (including Debian members) wishing to (co-)sign the open letter > in question is invited to do this in person. > "&

Re: Amendment to rms-open-letter GR

2021-03-26 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
actions in the initially proposed text, may find this agreeable to vote for. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private signature.asc Description: signature

Re: "rms-open-letter" choice 3: do not, as the project itself, sign any letter regarding rms

2021-03-26 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
hip positions or not. > > Any individual (including Debian members) is free to issue such statements or > (co-)sign any open letter. > ---8<---8<---8<--- Seconded (for the record, I would also second a proposed text in the style of FSF Europe, so please don't take this as discouragemen

Re: Willingness to share a position statement?

2021-03-25 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
in a difficult spot. If you think that an alternative statement should be made instead, then propose that alternative and if enough others support that (the process of "seconding") then it will appear as another option on the voting ballot. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - ideali

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

2021-03-25 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
tead distancing itself and making clear why (without using specific labels as if some court ruling had already taken place, which is not the case). - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private signature.asc Description: signature

Re: Asking DPL to shorten Discussion Period for rms-open-letter

2021-03-24 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
much, and has a bitter taste in my mouth. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private signature.asc Description: signature

Re: Willingness to share a position statement?

2021-03-24 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
management be shamed? Depends on whether I sneezed at work, not if it was public knowledge that I was a sneezer and clueless about how viruses spread - those features have *nothing* to do with my ability to serve food at a restaurant (regardless of my very presence in the restaurant might

Re: How to leverage money to accomplish high impact Debian projects

2021-03-23 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Gard Spreemann (2021-03-23 16:40:32) > > Jonas Smedegaard writes: > > > Quoting Gard Spreemann (2021-03-23 16:18:10) > >> Is there a fundamental difference between paying someone to do > >> "non-fun administrative tasks" like accou

Re: How to leverage money to accomplish high impact Debian projects

2021-03-23 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
t; > Is there a fundamental difference between paying someone to do > "non-fun administrative tasks" like accounting, and paying someone to > help out with orphaned/RFA'd packages (cf. Christian Kastner's recent > "How to motivate contributors to work on QA" question

Re: How can we make Debian packaging more standardised?

2021-03-22 Thread Jonas Meurer
s and tackles painpoints in the project at large? Kind regards jonas OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Q to all candidates: NEW queue

2020-03-27 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Xavier (2020-03-27 09:38:54) > Le 27/03/2020 à 09:22, Ulrike Uhlig a écrit : > > Hi! > > > > On 26.03.20 15:05, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > >> On 26/03/20 at 14:42 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: For the avoidance of doubt, I wrote none of below quoted

Re: Q to all candidates: NEW queue

2020-03-27 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
n this would not just result in an RC bug, I guess? See https://ftp-master.debian.org/REJECT-FAQ.html - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private signature

Re: Q to all candidates: NEW queue

2020-03-26 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
ort when sharing example cases :-) - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private signature.asc Description: signature

Re: Option G update [signed] (was Re: Proposal: Reaffirm our commitment to support portability and multiple implementations)

2019-12-06 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Kurt Roeckx (2019-12-06 23:06:28) > On Fri, Dec 06, 2019 at 10:50:32PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > > > That's 5, I'll update everything. > > The website should be updated very soon. Thanks a lot, Kurt! - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Inter

Re: Option G update (was Re: Proposal: Reaffirm our commitment to support portability and multiple implementations)

2019-12-06 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
uing that we all have different > interests and motivations. That is in our general interest to try to > work things out with others, to compromise, to reach solutions or find > alternatives that might be satisfactory enough for the various parties > involved, to create an environment wh

Re: Last minute cominbations G+D and/or G+E

2019-12-04 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
of >non-systemd systems, are appropriate for Debian communication fora; >likewise references to bugs which are not relevant to the topic at >hand. > >Communications on Debian fora on these matters should all be >encouraging and pleasant, even when discussing technical

Re: Proposal: Reaffirm our commitment to support portability and multiple implementations

2019-11-30 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
ages of our distribution > (some of which might be even unforeseen by us). From servers, to desktops > or deeply embedded; from general purpose to very specifically tailored > usages. Be those projects hardware related or software based, libraries, > daemons, entire desktop environments

Re: Bikeshedding

2019-04-02 Thread Jonas Meurer
y anyone. Gitlab subgroups would solve this problem: Move every Debian package into the 'debian' group, but allow subgroups in there: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/foo-team/libfoo Cheers jonas signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Debian presence on newer platforms

2019-04-01 Thread Jonas Meurer
e with one account. That's very convenient and something I miss on lists.debian.org. Cheers jonas signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Q to all candidates: mutual communcation and decision-making tools

2019-04-01 Thread Jonas Meurer
that could be done bimontly and the bits from the DPL mails could be used to announce the polls and the resulting delegations. What do the candidates think about these ideas? Cheers, jonas [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2019/03/msg00101.html signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Debian presence on newer platforms

2019-03-26 Thread Jonas Meurer
Hi Alex, Alexander Wirt: > On Tue, 26 Mar 2019, Jonas Meurer wrote: >> Alexander Wirt: >>> In my experience as a former mailman admin and listadmin mailman is a >>> no-go. >>> Getting our feature set even nearly into mailman is impossible, takes years >&g

Re: Debian presence on newer platforms

2019-03-25 Thread Jonas Meurer
us an unmaintainable thing. I don't want to ever run a > bigger mailman setup again. Can you give an example, what from "our feature set" is missing in mailman? Also, you probably mean mailman2, right? Have you taken a look at mailman3 recently? Cheers, jonas signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Debian presence on newer platforms

2019-03-25 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
is means constraints like concurrent users and bandwidth load and reliability are same as when using https://meet.jit.si/ - benefit is convenience of all Riot users in a Matrix room being auto-registered for the Jitsi Meet room as well. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist &

Re: cdbs vs dh vs ...

2019-03-21 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
because??) I stated it explicitly? > > I've set "Reply-To" to debian-devel and please if this should be > really discussed lets move it there. > > I'm adding Jonas Smedegaard (as far as I know the only active > developer - Jonas please correct me if I'm wrong but Gi

Re: Q to both candidates: preventing burnout by other contributors

2017-03-29 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
the your intelligent input, Russ - as always! - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private signature.asc Description: signature

Re: Legitimate exercise of our constitutional decision-making processes [Was, Re: Tentative summary of the amendments]

2014-10-30 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
are talking about here: Quoting Aigars Mahinovs (2014-10-30 11:06:47) Have other distros switched to _only_ supporting systemd? Changing the default is not the same. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely

Re: Tentative summary of the amendments

2014-10-25 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Josh Triplett (2014-10-25 11:52:28) [Please CC me on replies; I'm not subscribed to -vote, so for mails not CCed to me, I end up responding via the archives and manually quoting via copy/paste.] Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Quoting Josh Triplett (2014-10-24 16:27:27) Aigars Mahinovs

Re: Tentative summary of the amendments

2014-10-24 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
' is for the minority of cases where a program is not portable or is not useful on some architectures. Where possible, the program should be made portable instead. Notice the should near the end of above. Do you consider init 1 more similar to kernel or more similar to PHP? - Jonas -- * Jonas

Re: Tentative summary of the amendments

2014-10-22 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Ian's text as a war between systemd and sysvinit - that's anything but basically fine! @Ian: I would appreciate if you commented on this. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before

Re: Alternative proposal: support for alternative init systems is desirable but not mandatory

2014-10-21 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
also lack an executive summary of that: The last GR was not which-init-system, but which-system-by-default. This GR is not anti-last-GR but refining -what-else-than-default with -and-more-than-default-must-be-supported. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist Internet-arkitekt * Tlf

Re: Alternative proposal: support for alternative init systems is desirable but not mandatory

2014-10-20 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Nikolaus Rath (2014-10-20 05:19:03) Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk writes: Quoting Nikolaus Rath (2014-10-19 20:16:37) Do you consider uselessd to be the same init system as systemd? To me this looks like a legitimate fork. Or are you saying that at least one is really meant to mean

Re: Alternative proposal: support for alternative init systems is desirable but not mandatory

2014-10-20 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Nikolaus Rath (2014-10-20 05:29:10) Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk writes: Quoting Nikolaus Rath (2014-10-19 20:21:59) Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes: David Weinehall writes (Re: Alternative proposal: support for alternative init systems is desirable

Re: Alternative proposal: support for alternative init systems is desirable but not mandatory

2014-10-19 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
that provides -- most of -- the systemd interfaces) would solve all your worries? There are many ways to twist words, yes. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private

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