[ Please respect the reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Hello,
first I'd like to thank the few people who have been constructive and tried to help instead of denigrating and nitpicking on minor points. I've decided to withdraw the general resolution proposed 2 weeks ago about IRC as communication channel. Why ? Because the most concerned people (Wichert as #debian-devel's channel founder and Branden as an operator) didn't want to participate in the discussion, not even respond to simple questions that would have let us continue the work. That's all. Since they didn't want to discuss it, I didn't see the point of continuing the discussion about IRC. The withdrawal doesn't mean that the expressed problem doesn't exist any more, it's just that I believe that the proposed GR is not good enough to respond to the concerns I raised. It was too much IRC centric. I believe that we should come up with a set of guidelines (approved by Debian) to be used on all (external[1]) communication channels dedicated to Debian (that is probably relatively similar to the list of channels that have Debian in their name). Those guidelines would be split in two parts : - guidelines for channels dedicated to Debian's development - guidelines for channels dedicated to Debian's use/support Of course, Debian would have no way to enforce those guidelines, but at least it would be a good way to check if the people running the corresponding channel share Debian's {goals,concerns,point of view}. Unfortunately I don't have time to work on such a proposition, but I'd like that someone volunteers for it. I would probably even help. Cheers, [1] Just for the people who think that #debian-devel (and the other #debian-* channels) (a channel owned by a debian developer, mentionned in the welcome mail sent by James Troup to new developers, accessible at irc.debian.org, with more than a hundred debian developers in it, and where things like the birth of a new Debian release happen) is neither official nor representative of Debian. -- Raphaël Hertzog -+- http://strasbourg.linuxfr.org/~raphael/ Le bouche à oreille du Net : http://www.beetell.com Naviguer sans se fatiguer à chercher : http://www.deenoo.com Formation Linux et logiciel libre : http://www.logidee.com
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