On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 21:04:16 +0100 Sam Geeraerts <[email protected]> wrote:
> Daniel Clark wrote: > > Koh Choon Lin wrote: > >>> I'm not going to try to tell the devs which to choose. However, > >>> I will say that when I was a GNU/Linux newbie, I tried Debian > >>> before Ubuntu with less than successful results. Since then, I > >>> think Debian has become more newbie-friendly, though (e.g. adding > >>> a graphical installer). > >> How would the issue of deciding the starting platform be settled? > >> Debian-way a la by voting? > > > > We probably need to formalize how decisions like this are made - > > I'd be fine with just copying Debian's way of doing it, with > > perhaps veto power for the FSF campaigns team > > (rms/mattl/peterb/johns - not me) so no changes could ever be made > > that would cause gNewSense to become non-FSF approved. > > > Is Debian's way of doing it: every Debian Developer gets a vote? Then > what would the criteria for getting a vote in the gNewSense community > be? The path to becoming a DD is quite long and involved (and formalised). We don't have any of that for gNS. I guess you could say the people who are equivalent can be found with a /who *...@gnewsense/friend/* on freenode (and perhaps 2-3 others that wont catch). kk -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS) Debian user / gNewSense contributor http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
