Re: [Summary] Discourse for Debian

On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 10:50 AM Neil McGovern wrote: > > Hi Brian, > > On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 10:12:21AM -0400, Brian Gupta wrote: > > Do we have to start by making it a mandatory switch? I don't feel consensus > > to > > move to discourse will be impossib

Re: [Summary] Discourse for Debian

On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 7:48 AM Neil McGovern wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 07:22:53AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > > Would you be willing to list out which points it is from the given > > "cons" category which you see as positives? > > > > I'd really rather not at this stage, as I'm alread

Re: Some thoughts about Diversity and the CoC

Tina, Sorry a little late to this thread, but I wanted you to know that I fully support any individual's choices when it comes to their own gender representation, sexual identification and preferences. I understand and support your recent expressed anger. Baiting and attacking minority groups is

Re: Survey on Bug Tracking Tools

On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 4:26 AM, wrote: > We the students of IIIT Hyderabad (https://iiit.ac.in > ), > as part of our research on improving the features provided by Bug Tracking > tools, we a

Re: Debian clothing

On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 11:11 PM, John Simmons wrote: > Hi, I was thinking about making some hats with the debian logo on them, and > selling them to some friends, and possibly putting them on my website for > sale. I found this page https://www.debian.org/logos/#open-use and the > open-use logo

Re: donations and paypal

On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: > On 17/11/2014 10:15, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: >> On 17/11/14 at 16:09 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: >>> On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: >>> However, this is not a reason to bounce my email from -www@ to -project@ wi

Re: Prospective Trusted Organization - Debian.ch

On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 9:52 AM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: ... > === Tax-exemption status === > * debian.ch did not apply for tax-exempt status, because the additional > bureaucracy and limitations outweigh the advantages at the moment. > * debian.ch is subject to tax on earnings if our yearly earnin

What is the current thinking in the Linux Kernel community on firmware blobs?

Obviously, consensus is that blobs were, and still are, essential for Linux's status as a popular commercially viable OS. I'm wondering at the same time if they are considered a "necessary evil", and wonder if there would be support [1] to try to work together with vendors to free the firmware sou

Re: Updating the list of Debian Trusted Organizations

On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 12:03 AM, Paul Wise wrote: > On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 12:02 AM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: >> >> We are now ready to announce a first official list of Debian Trusted >> Organizations, per the process defined in the Debian Constitution §5.1.11 >> and §9, and after the required publi

Re: Maximum term for tech ctte members

On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 9:16 PM, Anthony Towns wrote: > Hello world, > > Would anyone else be supportive of a proposal to set a term for tech ctte > membership? > > The current tech ctte members were appointed: > > Ian: May/Dec 1998 (15 years, 5 months) [0] > Bdale: Apr 2001 (13 years, 1 month)

Re: A question about patches for upstream

On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Ian Jackson wrote: > Marc Haber writes ("Re: A question about patches for upstream"): >> I understand. Unfortunately, Debian has a number of developers that >> are quite impolite while doing their work. In a real company, such >> people would be confined to their d

Re: Why discussions don't move from debian-private

On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > Jakub Wilk writes: > >> Someone complained about a lengthy off-topic discussion taking place on >> debian-private, and suggested to move it to a public mailing list. > > A follow-up to this. In response to the question of why so many threads

Fwd: Debian fundraising

If you are interested in participating in the below discussion (which I just kicked off) please consider joining: https://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-sponsors-discuss and sharing your thoughts. Thanks, Brian -- Forwarded message -- From: Brian Gupta Date

Re: GR proposal: code of conduct

On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Ian Jackson wrote: > Sune Vuorela writes ("Re: GR proposal: code of conduct"): >> Much of irc are semiprivate chatter and socializing and not really >> something that should be available to the wider public. > > I don't think this is realistic for channels which an

Re: State of the debian keyring

On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Hi, > > On 22/02/14 at 20:57 -0500, Andrew Starr-Bochicchio wrote: >> Has there been any analysis of how active the developers are? I'd >> hazard to guess that a good number should be moved to emeritus status. >> Perhaps we should do a ping

Re: mailing list auto subscriptions

On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > I believe every new DD or DM should be auto subscribed to -devel, -project and > -devel-announce (and -private for DDs), best with the usual "someone > subscribed you for this, please confirm" confirmation mail, not sure how to > make

Re: Debian services and Debian infrastructure

On Jan 7, 2014 3:48 AM, "Wouter Verhelst" wrote: > > Op 05-01-14 14:28, Joerg Jaspert schreef: > > On 13446 March 1977, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > >> I'm worried that this situation is harmful for the project. > > > > Yes, seperate development with different requirements than the > > production envir

Re: working with FSF on Debian Free-ness assessment

On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Michael Banck wrote: > On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 08:13:29PM +0100, Dominik George wrote: >> > > Just out of curiosity: What's their definition of freedom anyway? >> > >> > You don't know what their definition of freedom is, but continue to >> > assess their religious

Re: Google contacting (harassing?) new DDs

On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 7:32 AM, Marc Haber wrote: > On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 06:02:27PM +0100, Enrico Zini wrote: >> it looks like as soon as one becomes DD, an email arrives from Google >> recruiters. > > So they basically take our DD selection process as a filter to weed > out potential candidat

Re: Code of Conduct: picking up

On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 6:19 AM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > On Wed, 27 Nov 2013, Ian Jackson wrote: > >> Inevitably, the CoC will be voted on in a GR. The right time to >> continue this dogpile is in the vote. > > Mh… we’ll see how that turns out. > >> Norbert Preining writes ("Re: Code of Conduct:

Re: Should mailing list bans be published?

On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > Camaleón writes: > >> The mailing list managers/admins have the right to ban whoever they >> decide, but in the aim of "fair play", the user should also have the >> right to defend him/herself from the accusations, expose his/her >> reasoning

Re: Buying hardware with Debian money

On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Hi, > > I received a few requests for hardware purchases, that I think are worth > discussing with the project as a whole in order to progress towards > having clear guidelines for what is acceptable and what isn't in terms > of spending De

Re: Possibly moving Debian services to a CDN

On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 1:36 AM, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] Paul Wise > >> About the archive mirrors, some reworded thoughts from the DPL IRC >> channel when this came up a few days ago: >> >> [...] I think the current state of affairs is fine; > > I don't believe you're one of the person who is

Re: Report from the DSA Team Sprint 2013-06

On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri Jun 21, 2013 at 14:57:09 -0400, Brian Gupta wrote: >> > o) User and Group Management: >> >Last year we estimated the number of active shell accounts to be on >> >the order of 50

Re: Report from the DSA Team Sprint 2013-06

On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Peter Palfrader wrote: > Comrades! > > We just finished a very productive Debian System Administration team > sprint in LinuxHotel, Essen, Germany. All six of the current DSA > members (Faidon, Luca, Martin, Peter, Stephen, Tollef) and our recruit > (Hector) were

Re: PaySwarm-based Debian donations

On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 10:31 PM, Martin Owens wrote: > On Mon, 2013-06-17 at 19:03 -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: >> site requesting user's charity > > You mean user's involvement. You don't want users to be invited to > participate in Debian. Debian isn't elitist and it shouldn't care that > the tool

Answers to questions raised about registering the Debian Logo as our trademark

I finally had a chance to discuss with our legal counsel, and have some answers to the questions raised in the discussion. The summary of the Q&A is (from list and some of my own): 1) Does registering logo require any changes to TM policy? A: No changes required 2) What are the costs to register

Re: 2nd draft (was: Re: Revising the Code of Conduct)

On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 4:52 AM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > So, some updates: > > On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 11:59:06AM -0400, Brian Gupta wrote: >> I'm wondering if there can be a guidelines/advice section also? For >> example, perhaps we want to capture something along th

Re: Revising the Code of Conduct

On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 6:30 AM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On 21-05-13 11:37, Norbert Preining wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> On Di, 21 Mai 2013, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >>> 1. Do not flame, use foul language, or in general be abusive or >>>disrespectful towards other people on the mailinglists or else

Re: [dpl-helpers] next DPL helpers meeting tomorrow (2013-05-14)

On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 3:39 AM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Hi, > > The next DPL helpers meeting is tomorrow on #debian-dpl: > 2013-05-14 Tue 17:00 (date -d @1368550800) > > The agenda is online[1]. If you are listed on one of the pending > actions, it would be great if you could describe its status,

Re: [Debian-sponsors-discuss] Donations to Debian are too difficult

On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 7:31 PM, Michael Shuler wrote: > On 05/05/2013 05:05 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 12:14:36AM +0300, Vladislav Zorov wrote: > If it's possible to accept PayPal, an even better solution would be > to just > use PayPal's donate button, thu

Re: Registering the Debian Logo as our trademark?

On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 04:58:27PM -0400, Brian Gupta wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: >> > On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 04:04:34PM -0400, Brian Gupta wrote: >> >> Hi all, >

Re: Registering the Debian Logo as our trademark?

On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Apr 2013, Brian Gupta wrote: > >> > Just to make sure: you are talking not about swirl alone, but rather >> > about swirl + word Debian. Is that correct? >> Yes, the swirl alone. > &

Re: Registering the Debian Logo as our trademark?

On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 04:04:34PM -0400, Brian Gupta wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I have been helping to field trademark inquiries for Debian since late >> February, and the issue of our Logo has come up a numbe

Re: Registering the Debian Logo as our trademark?

On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > Hi Brian, > > Just to make sure: you are talking not about swirl alone, but rather > about swirl + word Debian. Is that correct? Yes, the swirl alone. > On Mon, 22 Apr 2013, Brian Gupta wrote: > >> Hi all,

Registering the Debian Logo as our trademark?

Hi all, I have been helping to field trademark inquiries for Debian since late February, and the issue of our Logo has come up a number of times. Currently, our logo is not a registered Trademark, but is considered (and treated by our current Trademark policy) as a "common law" trademark, in that

Re: Debian participation into GNOME Outreach Program for Women

On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 7:36 PM, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 04:35:15PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: >> Le Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 09:32:47AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit : >> > >> > If not, we can do mission-specific fund raising, I wouldn't mind that >> > either, as we do

Re: [RFH] answering trademark@d.o inquiries

On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 9:36 AM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > [ Mail-Followup-To: -project ] > > On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 12:57:40PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: >> This policy states that the contact for trademark questions is >> tradem...@debian.org. Where does this address go? I think it's impo

Re: Copyright assignement for Debian tools?

On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 05:23:59PM +0100, Thomas Koch wrote: >> I'm currently hacking on the maven-repo-helper package. The source code >> contains copyright statements from the original author. Now when I add >> classes >> it would be

Re: trademark policy draft

On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > Philip Hands writes: > >> Francesco Poli writes: >> >> ... >>> [...] \item You cannot alter the DEBIAN trademarks in any way. >>> [...] \item Any scaling must retain the original proportions of the logo. \item Logo sh

Re: Call for volunteers to join DebConf Committee

Moray, I am willing to help if you don't have enough folks. A couple caveats: 1) I am moving this week, so will likely not have full time computer access until next Monday. 2) I am currently not planning on attending DC13. (Things could change, if I am really needed onsite, and I can break free f

Re: shapado.debian.net now available [Was: user support]

On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Chris Taylor wrote: > On Sun, 03 Oct 2010 11:41:29 -0500 > "Fernando C. Estrada" wrote: > > > > > Currently the available options are: > > ask.debian.net > > shapado.debian.net (current) > > > +1 to ask... -Brian

Re: user support - Shapado instance for Debian

On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 12:12 AM, Fernando C. Estrada < fcestr...@fcestrada.com> wrote: > El mié, 29-09-2010 a las 10:04 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli escribió: > > On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 10:39:13PM -0500, Fernando C. Estrada wrote: > > > I like the idea, currently I'm in the Shapado instance for Debi