Re: General Resolution: Statement about the EU Legislation "Cyber Resilience Act and Product Liability Directive"

2023-11-19 Thread Charles Plessy
Hello everybody, thank you for preparing this! Quick comments form somebody who does not have the time to follow debian-vote: "make the best system we can": Maybe this is a good opportunity to point at our social contract, to show to the readers who have no idea what Debian is how important that

Re: Question to all candidates: rotation on positions of power

2022-03-23 Thread Charles Plessy
deas accepted. In brief, everything good (and everything bad) that "more turnover" is expected to bring in most of social structures where we evolve outside Debian. Cheers, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Debian Med packaging team

Question to all candidates: rotation on positions of power

2022-03-16 Thread Charles Plessy
a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Debian Med packaging team http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tooting from work, https://mastodon.technology/@charles_plessy Tooting from home, https

Re: FYI, Secret Ballots Proposal is Likely to Die for Lack of Support

2022-02-18 Thread Charles Plessy
On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 03:34:09PM -0700, Sam Hartman wrote: > > My take is there's not currently enough support on debian-vote to bring > it to a vote. > I'd want to see several additional people express support on debian-vote > before I'd feel comfortable proposing a GR. Hi Sam, thank you ver

Re: Draft GR for resolution process changes

2021-11-18 Thread Charles Plessy
ink that such mixes can be problemating and does your proposal address that ? Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Debian Med packaging team http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tooting from work, https://mastodon.technology/@charles_plessy Tooting from home, https://framapiaf.org/@charles_plessy

Re: Draft GR for resolution process changes

2021-11-12 Thread Charles Plessy
bates on debian-vote, and with too many options, possibly all written in different styles, there is an increased risk of voting for the contrary of what we want. Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Debian Med packaging team

Re: Draft GR for resolution process changes

2021-11-08 Thread Charles Plessy
sense to limit the total number of sponsors, and to only allow developers to sponsor one option ? Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Debian Med packaging team http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tooting from work

Re: Making the RMS resolution a Secret Ballot

2021-04-10 Thread Charles Plessy
I agree for the GR vote to be secret. I understand others came to a different conclusion. I trust Kurt for making the right decision. I will not complain about it. -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Debian Med packaging team http

Question to the DPL candiates: secret ballots

2021-04-02 Thread Charles Plessy
for being simplistic. This said, I think it is time to vote anonymously. I am looking forward reading your anwers ! Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Tooting from work, https://mastodon.technology/@charles_plessy Tooting from home

Re: New General Resolutions.

2016-07-12 Thread Charles Plessy
ot; at the URL above. Is there an explanation somehere why the supermajority is needed for this GR ? Or is that a cut-paste-accident while also working on the constitutional change ? Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Re: More women in key positions ?

2015-03-30 Thread Charles Plessy
not asking the DPL to "force" anything. But if the DPL could put a little bit of formal involvement into helping the TC to have women members, I think that it would be a great signal. Have a nice day, (PS: Please CC me, I am not subscribed) -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Re: More women in key positions ?

2015-03-28 Thread Charles Plessy
ility of direct action, but one of them would be to not seek for re-appointment if there are women running for the election with a good platform. Have a nice week-end. -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subje

More women in key positions ?

2015-03-20 Thread Charles Plessy
in Debian ? If yes, what do you plan to ameliorate the situation as a DPL ? Have a nice week-end, PS: please CC me for your replies, I am not subscribed. -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubs

Unsubscribing - let's use mailing list bans more frequently.

2014-11-09 Thread Charles Plessy
to re-subscribe on debian-vote again do some of the work. PS: CC me if you need further input on my side. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: Maximum term for tech ctte members

2014-11-09 Thread Charles Plessy
(I am not suggesting to change the current proposal to ensure more rotations by pairs). Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a su

Re: How about always sending a copy of proposals, amendements, secondes etc. to the Secretary ?

2014-11-05 Thread Charles Plessy
s://www.debian.org/vote/howto_proposal) in order to transfer some of the procedural burden to the people proposing and amending general resolutions. Have a nice day -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a su

How about always sending a copy of proposals, amendements, secondes etc. to the Secretary ? (Re: Call for Votes: General Resolution: Init system coupling)

2014-11-04 Thread Charles Plessy
etary ? It seems unfair to request the Secretary to read each and every email on debian-vote... I understand that changing the Consitituion is hard, but since there are other general changes under discussion, maybe there is an opportunity to bundle the most consensual ones... Have a nice day, --

Re: Reducing the discussion and the voting period to 1 week

2014-10-22 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 05:22:39PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum a écrit : > > Charles, Luca, can you confirm that you are also fine with shortening > the discussion period to one week? I am fine with shortening it. Cheers, Charles -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.d

[Sorry Neil] Wording modification of the The ???no GR, please??? amendement.

2014-10-21 Thread Charles Plessy
y writing skills in English (an again: a GR that requires near-native fluency in English because the consequence of the vote will strongly depend on how the text is interpreted is anti-democratic in Debian). Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [Call for seconds] The ???no GR, please??? amendement.

2014-10-21 Thread Charles Plessy
can not beleive I spent an hour writing this short text; I hope it is my last email related to this GR.] Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: [Call for seconds] The “no GR, please“ amendement.

2014-10-20 Thread Charles Plessy
voting it, nothing changes except that people stop complaining, then I would like to introduce a ballot option that focuses on that point: telling people who do not have a clear and realistic action plan (that is, no wishful thinking) to stop complaining. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanaga

[Call for seconds] The “no GR, please“ amendement.

2014-10-19 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 05:31:28PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs a écrit : > > Charles Plessy: > > This is why I am proposing this amendement, to say: “this GR was a bad idea, > > please do not do it again”. > > > I would not regard it as an amendment, but as a separate

Re: Proposed amendement: be more careful when proposing a GR.

2014-10-18 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 12:37:19PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs a écrit : > > Charles Plessy: > > --- > > The Debian project asks its members to be more considerate when proposing > > General Resolutions, a

Proposed amendement: be more careful when proposing a GR.

2014-10-16 Thread Charles Plessy
rocess regardless the outcome of the vote. --- Enhancements of the wording are welcome. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: ``Disclaimer'' field to document non-free-ness reasons [ Was: non-free? ]

2014-03-27 Thread Charles Plessy
ts that packages are not part of the Debian distribution. In any case, a quick inspection of the Debian copyright files in the “packages-metadata” repository show that the field is also being used for other purposes. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRI

Question on DPL delegations.

2014-03-25 Thread Charles Plessy
the > DPL, which could be a good thing. Hi Lucas and Neil, without DPL, there would be no DPL delegations. I have a question for you related to delegations. When a delegate is completely inactive as a delegate, do you think that his delegation should be renewed ? Have a nice day, -- Ch

Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-03-05 Thread Charles Plessy
Hello everybody, since it does not seem like we are going to vote, could you find another place for that discussion ? (Of course, please avoid debian-devel and debian-project; thanks in advance) Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: [Proposal] GR: Selecting the default init system for Debian

2014-01-27 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 08:39:52PM +0100, Guillem Jover a écrit : > > This is the revised draft GR proposal (please see below); I'm looking > for sponsors now. Hi Guillem, if the result of the current TC vote is « further discussion », then I will second your GR. In the meantime, it is probably

Re: GR: Selecting the default init system for Debian

2014-01-25 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 04:14:41AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst a écrit : > On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 09:58:14AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > In that case, I think that the project should decide via using this or that > > system (“vote with the feet”). For the packages where ini

Re: GR: Selecting the default init system for Debian

2014-01-22 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 04:26:16PM -0800, Steve Langasek a écrit : > On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 08:58:08AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > We have a default init system that has the Essential flag, and it is > > impossible to switch to alternatives without going through a very

Re: GR: Selecting the default init system for Debian

2014-01-22 Thread Charles Plessy
stop supporting it. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20140122235808.gc12...@falafel.plessy.net

[all candidates] What to do with debian-private ?

2013-03-29 Thread Charles Plessy
didates: are you subscribed to debian-private ?) Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130330013408.ge23...@falafel.plessy.net

Re: [all candidates] delegation

2013-03-28 Thread Charles Plessy
uld not mind serving again from October 2104. All of this without reducing my contribution in terms of patches, but only rotating who is responsible for committing them. So can you clarify how proactive you intend to be in terms of promoting rotation for the existing delegations ? Cheers, -- C

Re: To all candidates: which way out of the project ?

2013-03-22 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 10:15:32AM +0100, Gergely Nagy a écrit : > > Do you see a particular problem, or shortcoming, perhaps, that you'd > like to see solved? Hi all, the problem I was trying to solve was to find more differences between the candidates :) For instance, one of you might have an

Re: [all candidates] Return to the desert island (cont.)

2013-03-20 Thread Charles Plessy
Hi all, I propose that either the discussion is reshaped to be more interactive with the candidates, or it is moved to another channel where a broader participation is expected. Cheers, -- Charles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

To all candidates: which way out of the project ?

2013-03-19 Thread Charles Plessy
changes, have for the project as a whole. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201303200

Re: Your opinion on Debian Maintainer status

2013-03-18 Thread Charles Plessy
ian-devel/2012/07/msg00716.html (On my side I am probably guiltly of not insisting for deleting these pages if nobody claims responsibility for what is written in). Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subj

Re: to Moray: encourage teams to take interns

2013-03-11 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 08:07:40PM +0300, Moray Allan a écrit : > > Nevertheless, I think it would be useful for us to have some wider > kind of internship scheme, for the huge proportion of Debian > activity that definitely will not fit under the current GSoC rules. Hi Moray, I have a question:

Re: General Resolution: Diversity statement

2012-05-08 Thread Charles Plessy
the updated version is the one voted in 2012. Perhaps native speakers, experienced members, or our Secretary can clarify what "position statements about issues of the day" means, and what is the consequence of having "issues of the day" limiting "position statements"

Question to all candidates: In eight years...

2012-03-20 Thread Charles Plessy
, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120320102755.ga12...@falafel.plessy.net

Debian's trademarks and logos, and their terms of use.

2012-03-13 Thread Charles Plessy
iring that all the software we distribute can be used for profit. I would like to know your position or vision on our trademarks and logos, and, if you indend to work on that question as a DPL, what would be the key points of your action. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa,

Understaffed teams.

2011-03-22 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear Stefano, I read in your platform that you would like to have core teams of “at least three members plus assistants”. However this does not take activity into account. How will you manage with inactive core team members ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Re: Naming of non-uploading DDs (Was: GR: welcome non-packaging contributors as Debian project members)

2010-09-16 Thread Charles Plessy
I think that we need to compromise and move on, and I propose to do so by avoiding a wording that would make it difficult to change our choice on this subject later. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subje

Re: Naming of non-uploading DDs (Was: GR: welcome non-packaging contributors as Debian project members)

2010-09-15 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 10:02:34PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz a écrit : > On 09/15/2010 02:16 PM, Charles Plessy wrote: > > Le Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 09:00:32PM +0900, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit : > >> > >> The Debian project therefore invites the Debian Account Managers to: &

Re: Naming of non-uploading DDs (Was: GR: welcome non-packaging contributors as Debian project members)

2010-09-15 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 10:01:47PM +0900, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit : > On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 09:16:00PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > It seems to me that, if “albeit without upload access to the Debian > > archive” were removed, it would not close the possibility for th

Re: Naming of non-uploading DDs (Was: GR: welcome non-packaging contributors as Debian project members)

2010-09-15 Thread Charles Plessy
(do-o-cracy), while at the same time it would make the GR more neutral, focusing it on acceptance of new members, without suggesting restriction and therefore difference of status. Would such a change be a happy end for everybody ? Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To

Re: GR: welcome non-packaging contributors as Debian project members

2010-09-15 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Sep 14, 2010 mat 06:29:24PM -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit : > Charles Plessy writes: > > > after seeing the torrent of seconds, I am still puzzled if this GR is a > > progress or a regression: is the take home message that Debian should be > > more open, or that so

Re: GR: welcome non-packaging contributors as Debian project members

2010-09-14 Thread Charles Plessy
ting if you need. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100915011705.gb29...@merveille.plessy.net

Re: GR: welcome non-packaging contributors as Debian project members

2010-09-14 Thread Charles Plessy
t the long term contributors as DDs, even if they to not maintain packages? Would an amendement be welcome? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...

Re: DPL2010 results

2010-04-15 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 02:09:31AM +0200, Kurt Roeckx a écrit : > The unofficial results are at: > http://master.debian.org/~secretary/leader2010/ > > The winner is Stefano Zacchiroli. Dear all, I would like of course to congratulate Stefano, and wish him a lot of fun. Stefano has obviously a l

Thanks to everybody for this campaign.

2010-04-01 Thread Charles Plessy
that would be good every year. But I think that for next year, action about membership and delegations, and strategical discussions about how we distribute our work would be very useful. I invite you to vote for me if you share this feeling. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa

Re: Question for the other candidates: supermajority.

2010-04-01 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 05:38:09PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit : > > I don't like the underlying intuition that this entails, namely that the > GR proposer is somehow "different" from the other people which > contribute to the ballot preparation (e.g. seconders and proposers of > the initial

Re: Question to all Candidates: we want more, aren't we?

2010-04-01 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 09:57:38AM +0200, Frank Lin PIAT a écrit : > > Debian project raise it's expectation every year: higher quality, more > package, more architectures, more Desktops, etc... (cool). > > How do we face the challenge to do more every year? > What would you do about it, as a DPL

Re: Questions for all candidates: decentralization of power

2010-04-01 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 11:53:47AM -0400, Mike O'Connor a écrit : > > It doesn't take long processing NEW to realize that many DDs cannot be > trusted to make sure that all of the code they are uploading is legally > redistributable. I also think that we need to review the NEW uploads. But this i

Re: Question to all candidates: DPL's role in important package maintenance

2010-03-31 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 06:47:53AM +0200, Frans Pop a écrit : > Also, it has been claimed "we cannot provide any information because > discussions are in private" [1]. Do candidates agree to that, or do they > think that a DPL should make clear to parties in advance that the project > will be ke

Re: Questions for all candidates: decentralization of power

2010-03-31 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 11:24:50PM -0400, Mike O'Connor a écrit : > > The issue I was talking about had nothing to do with software crossing > state lines. It had to do with violating license agreements. I'm not > familiar with any procedures we must do before exporting software that > you are a

Re: Questions for all candidates: decentralization of power

2010-03-31 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 12:00:05PM -0400, Mike O'Connor a écrit : > > You do get to choose the priority and section which your packages belong > to, though the ftp team can override your choice. When we do override > your choice, you get an email inviting discussion about it. I can't > think of

Re: Question to all candidates: DPL's role in important package maintenance

2010-03-31 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 06:27:00PM -0500, Kumar Appaiah a écrit : > > My question to you is, do you envision a role for the DPL in fixing > such inadequate maintenance of important packages. Hello Kumar, for the moment, you have taken the way of the Technical Comitee, and this does not require t

Re: Question to the candidates

2010-03-31 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 11:49:53PM -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit : > As a developer, how do you embody the spirit and culture that has made > Debian a great operating system? > > If elected DPL, how will you inspire the same in others? Hi Steve, we have to inspire each other and the DPL does not

Re: Question for DD candidates: The race against NOTA

2010-03-31 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 10:32:22PM -0600, Gunnar Wolf a écrit : > > What would be different if there was no leader? Where would the > project lose more? Would it gain in some aspect? Hello Gunnar, Biology shows that complex systems often evolved “leaders”, even when they are selected or take th

Re: Question to all Candidates: Who would you vote for?

2010-03-30 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 09:09:43AM +0100, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl a écrit : > > Suppose that you would not run for DPL: Who would you vote and why? Hi Alexander, I would vote for Stefano, because the impressive determination he puts in his "RC-bug of the day" marathon suggest that he would do a

Re: Question for all candidates: Care of Core infrastructure

2010-03-30 Thread Charles Plessy
Hi all, the question of the core infrastructures is difficult and very important. Le Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 11:30:39AM +0100, Marc Haber a écrit : > > Do you see the diminishing care for our Core infrastructure as a > problem? Do you have any idea how do sensibilize our new blood for the > fact th

Re: Question for all candidates: Release process

2010-03-29 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 11:03:00AM +0800, Paul Wise a écrit : > > I find that attitude problematic. When electing a DPL we get a package > deal. Some of each candidates ideas are liked by some/many, others > disliked by some/many. It would be a shame to throw out good ideas > with bad ones. Le Mo

Re: Question for all candidates: Release process

2010-03-28 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 12:51:31PM +0200, Bernhard R. Link a écrit : > > So is this "let" supposed to mean "allow" or to mean "force"? Hi Bernd, it means, the one who wants the package is responsible for it. If upstream and the maintainer are not interested in supporting a package on an architec

Re: Question for all candidates: Release process

2010-03-28 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 01:15:47PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit : > > I don't understand what "cloud computing" has to do with your idea of > using package priorities to release differently different sub-systems > within Debian. I'm well aware that we are currently lagging behind in > the rac

Re: Question about membership.

2010-03-27 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 05:42:24PM -0300, Margarita Manterola a écrit : > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Charles Plessy wrote: > > >> * Do you need to come up with a GR to change membership procedures, or is > >> there > >> a different way? > > >

Re: Question for all candidates: Release process

2010-03-27 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 04:13:11PM +0800, Paul Wise a écrit : > > Does popcon not already provide a way to order packages based on > importance? rc-alert has both options for sorting bugs by both local & > global popcon score. Hi Paul, Popcon is definitely a potent indicator, but has its flaws a

Re: Question for all candidates: Release process

2010-03-26 Thread Charles Plessy
Hello Bernhard and everybody, I think that the ‘RPM hell’ that you used to comment my propositions is more related to a situation when independant distributions are using the same package format, than when a distribution offers multiple repositories that obey to a policy that keeps the whole syste

Re: Question about membership.

2010-03-26 Thread Charles Plessy
> * Did you or do you plan to talk to DAM/Frontdesk about membership changes? Discussion must be public from the start. DAM/Frontdesk is contribution essential. Your position will be first in the discussion's summary. > * Do you need to come up with a GR to change membership procedures, or is >

Re: Question about membership.

2010-03-26 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 02:06:44PM +0100, Bernd Zeimetz a écrit : > Charles Plessy wrote: > > > If I am elected DPL, I will re-open the discussion and lead them in a way > > that > > maximises everybody's contribution, for instance by making pauses if > > ne

Re: Q for the Candidates: How many users?

2010-03-25 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear Anthony, sorry for not keeping up with the answers, this campaign is very intensive ! It is interesting that your question was a kind of mini-experiment. As a molecular biologist, I like experiments a lot. Below is the draft that I never sent because I did not find time to add some flesh to

Re: Question to all candidates: How would you enforce Debian Community Guidelines?

2010-03-25 Thread Charles Plessy
ding interdependant works. When I started to involve myself in Debian, I wanted to create a ‘Debian-Biology’ effort but Andreas Tille convinced me to join Debian Med instead. I never regreted it. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-re

Re: Standardization, large scale changes, innovations

2010-03-25 Thread Charles Plessy
role of the maintainers of core tools like apt and dpkg by a DPL delegation. But this particular point is not listed in my platform, and I would not make it a priority. Of course, if maintainers sponaneously request to become delegates, I will consider their proposition very seriously :) Have

Re: To all candidates: personal mentoring

2010-03-24 Thread Charles Plessy
cant investment of time on possible new members. Even if the procedures for membership are changed, the concept could be kept as a mentoring system like the one you propose. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy, Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.

Question about membership.

2010-03-24 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear all, Following the ‘Membership procedures’ GR, discussion on membership were started after the Lenny release, but eventually stopped. In this thread it was proposed to trust DDs to nominate other members and I found the idea very interesting. In order to make it more consensual, there is prob

Re: Question for Charles Plessy (was: No answer for insulting and accusatory emails.)

2010-03-24 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 08:12:17PM +, Neil McGovern a écrit : > > The position of DPL attracts rather a lot of press attention. This at > times will be accusatory, inflamatory and downright rude. Welcome to the > world of journalism. > > Do you intend to ignore these, or just ones from develo

Re: Question for Charles Plessy (was: No answer for insulting and accusatory emails.)

2010-03-24 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 11:46:22AM +0100, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl a écrit : > > That opens up for an interesting question: What ways to settle a > conflict with fellow Debian Developers seem proper to you? Do we have > to expect further unspecified ignores from your side should you be > el

Re: Question to Candidates: Disappearing DPLs?

2010-03-24 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 08:30:03AM +0100, Gerfried Fuchs a écrit : > Hi! > > I have a question to the candidates: History has shown that DPLs more > or less disappear not too long after their period or at least reduce > their visible efforts immensly. I wonder where you see the reasons for

No answer for insulting and accusatory emails.

2010-03-24 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear all, just for the record, I will not answer to insulting or accusatory emails. Some of them may contain interesting questions or comments, though. Please feel free to repeat them in a separate message if you also found them interesting. Cheers, -- Charles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to de

Re: Question to all (other) candidates

2010-03-23 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 06:49:51PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst a écrit : > > Charles: > > In your platform, in the "Program" section, you mention four ideas that > could reasonable be described as being about the things that, > respectively, the DAM and NM frontdesk, the ftp-masters, and the Release >

Question for the other candidates: supermajority.

2010-03-23 Thread Charles Plessy
is. This said, I have not mentionned supermajority issues in my platform, since I think that the main points I propose would keep me busy enough if I am elected. I would be pleased however if somebody would self-appoint and lead this debate, if there is the impression that it is needed. Have a nice day,

Re: Q for all candidates: license and copyright requirements

2010-03-23 Thread Charles Plessy
ree files can be ignored, what else can't we trust ? Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100323232743.ga5...@kunpuu.plessy.org

Re: Q for all candidates: license and copyright requirements

2010-03-23 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 01:01:40PM -0700, Manoj Srivastava a écrit : > > If we want to change our foundation documents, and remove the > awoval to the concept of being 100% free, or to say that Debian, and > thus the parts of Debian covered by the DFSG, are just the binary bits, > then

Re: Q for all candidates: license and copyright requirements

2010-03-21 Thread Charles Plessy
t of the source of the Debian operating system? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100322004708.ga8...@kunpuu.plessy.org

Re: Q for all candidates: license and copyright requirements

2010-03-21 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 01:49:28PM +0100, Bernd Zeimetz a écrit : > Charles Plessy wrote: > > 2) I think that the Debian operating system is defined by the interaction > > of > > its binary version and the source files necessary to use, study, > > modifiy and &

Re: Questions for all candidates: decentralization of power

2010-03-20 Thread Charles Plessy
free to pass the baton if they wish. I will not propose to the chairman of the technical comittee to rotate a member who has answered to the ping. Have a nice Sunday, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subjec

Re: Q for all candidates: license and copyright requirements

2010-03-20 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 07:45:30PM +0100, Bernd Zeimetz a écrit : > Hi all, > > with <20100124144741.gd13...@kunpuu.plessy.org> Charles Plessy came up with a > draft GR "Simplification of license and copyright requirements for the Debian > packages.". > > I&

Re: Questions for all candidates: decentralization of power

2010-03-20 Thread Charles Plessy
o leave their seat to fresh persons. I do not think that it is a bad thing that the comittee is not elected. Its role is not to proportionaly represent currents of opinion within Debian, but in contrary to make decisions that reflect the Project's consensus. Have a nice week-end, -- Charles

Re: Question for all candidates: Release process

2010-03-18 Thread Charles Plessy
are we very close to freeze our core toolchains anyway ? Frans Pop wrote an insightful email on how the release is also a lot of communication work. If I am elected DPL, I will emphasise this role in the delegation given to the release managers. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kan

Re: Will you withdraw delegations of DD not behaving correctly?

2010-03-17 Thread Charles Plessy
would generate too much meta-discussion. I think that it it enough to remind newcomers that when we do not know personnaly the recipient of our messages, there is a high risk that anything too causal will be misinterpreted. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSU

Re: Q for all candidates: (Old) Architecture Support

2010-03-17 Thread Charles Plessy
re important, more rewarding, and in the end more fun things to do, and that we should trust their judgement by changing our release strategy instead of maintaining an institution that opposes people. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-re

Re: Question to all the candidates: communication

2010-03-17 Thread Charles Plessy
a couple of days if they post a completely useless and aggressive message. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.o

Re: Question for all candidates: Release process

2010-03-16 Thread Charles Plessy
olve its release and membership process through my constitutional roles: leadership in discussions, GRs, and delegations. I expect as a result that the release work will become much more social than technical, with all participants doing their part of the housekeeping work. Have a nice day, -- Ch

Re: Question to all Candidates: Heated discussions

2010-03-15 Thread Charles Plessy
acceptable. This said I think that everybody loses control sometimes in their life, and we should welcome sincere excuses. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&

Re: Question to all Candidate: In ten years...

2010-03-14 Thread Charles Plessy
mean that Debian is powering both ends of the software chain they use, that they chose it because the software is free, because they trust our Project, and because we provided easy ways to set up application servers in local communities. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japa

Re: Question to all candidates: financing of development

2010-03-13 Thread Charles Plessy
is usually very regulated, and that we can not do the legal homework for them, nor be libable if they forget to pay their taxes, etc… Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Question to all candidates: financing of development

2010-03-13 Thread Charles Plessy
lt problem to solve, as one hour of development has radically different costs around the world… Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@list

Re: Question to all the candidates: time

2010-03-12 Thread Charles Plessy
fragmented. In particular, making sure that the delegation system is working (no MIA, …), and leading long-overdue discussion on subjects such as membership. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "u

Re: Question to all Candidates: Project Funds and donations

2010-03-12 Thread Charles Plessy
ates and help them to attract manpower. Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100313035746.ga11...@kunpuu.plessy.org

Re: Question to all Candidates: 2IC

2010-03-12 Thread Charles Plessy
Project to keep cohesion and avoid inertia, and I am not sure that a team will be more efficient in this than a single person: if we stimulate Debian in many different directions, the opposite effect can be reached! Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIB

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