On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > I think James is an excellent contributor to the project. I know him > personally, and I can assure you that he is not on a power trip. He > ... Well thanks for the clarification. I just want to make sure that this explanation is given to _everyone_ (not only to me) who might have doubt. My question was rather a concern to make sure to outsiders can see that Debian has no hidden secrets but can discuss his problems open.
> something works as expected. You only notice when it suddenly breaks. > So if 95% of communication with James works well, we will never hear > about it. But we hear about the 5% which fails. Damn users ... this is always the same. ;-) > Having said this, I don't think the current non-free removal vote is > being done correctly. If we decide to remove non-free, we have to > provide a good upgrade plan for our users. Thus, I think we should > *first* move non-free to something like non-free.org, encourage people > to use new APT sources list while at the same time supporting the old > APT lines (i.e. still keeping it on Debian mirrors) for a while. Trick question: Do you plan to do this step before or after moving documentation with non-free licenses to non-free. ;-) > While I don't like these practices, I don't consider them off-putting > enough not to visit a country if there's a good reason to go there. > However, this has to be decided on a case by case basis. As far as I > know, EU citizens also don't have to get their finger prints recorded. While this is intended by the law I know that the practice might differ from case to case - but this is very off-topic here. That's why I named it "Meta-Question" and I do not really expected an answer. BTW, Brandon might come into the same trouble when entering Debconf 4 ... Kind regards Andreas.