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

2014-10-22 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 22/10/14 at 07:45 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
 I propose the following replacement as per article A.1.5 of our Contitution.
 
 
 
 The Debian project asks its members to be considerate when proposing General
 Resolutions, as the GR process may be disruptive regardless of the outcome of
 the vote.
 
 Regarding the subject of this ballot, the Project affirms that the procedures
 for decision making and conflict resolution are working adequately and thus
 a General Resolution is not required.
 
 

Thanks Charles. I believe this is an improvement over the previous
wording.

Seconded.

- Lucas


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

2014-10-22 Thread Philip Hands
Charles Plessy wrote:
 I propose the following replacement as per article A.1.5 of our
 Contitution.
 
 
 
 The Debian project asks its members to be considerate when proposing
 General Resolutions, as the GR process may be disruptive regardless of the
 outcome of the vote.
 
 Regarding the subject of this ballot, the Project affirms that the
 procedures for decision making and conflict resolution are working
 adequately and thus a General Resolution is not required.
 
 

I don't suppose it's necessary, but since that perfectly fits my
thoughts on this subject:

  Seconded.

Thank you for your efforts on this, and especially for this improved wording.

Cheers, Phil.
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Re: Tentative summary of the amendments

2014-10-22 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Nikolaus Rath (2014-10-22 05:09:18)
 Lucas Nussbaum lu...@debian.org writes:
 Q2: support for alternative init systems as PID 1
 =
 A2.1: packages MUST work with one alternative init system (in [iwj])
 (if you are confused with “one” here, it’s basically fine to read it as
 “sysvinit” instead. See [10]this subthread for a discussion about
 this)

 I believe Ian's intended reading is that a package that depends on 
 uselessd | systemd (but does not work with sysvinit) would be allowed 
 by his proposal.

I too find it wrong to interpret Ian's text as a war between systemd and 
sysvinit - that's anything but basically fine!

@Ian: I would appreciate if you commented on this.


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

2014-10-22 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 07:45:39AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
 Indeed, you are right: by definition, not all questions have been answered.
 The existing wording of the amendement is therefore logically inconsistent.
 
 I propose the following replacement as per article A.1.5 of our Contitution.
 

Received and updated.

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Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-10-22 Thread Sergey Vlasov
Hi Neil,

I realized that myself afterwards, please forgive my ignorance.
Indeed, I'm not a registered Debian developer, so my vote cannot be
accepted.


Sergey

On 22 October 2014 13:39, Neil McGovern n...@halon.org.uk wrote:
 Hi Sergey,

 On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 04:38:49PM +0300, Sergey Vlasov wrote:
 Seconded. I say no to systemd dependency. I want to be able to choose
 myself what init system to use in my Debian setup.


 This mail isn't signed, nor do I seem to be able to find you in
 db.debian.org. Unfortunately, only Debian Developers may sponsor
 resolutions in this way.

 Neil


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Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-10-22 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi Sergey,

On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 04:38:49PM +0300, Sergey Vlasov wrote:
 Seconded. I say no to systemd dependency. I want to be able to choose
 myself what init system to use in my Debian setup.
 

This mail isn't signed, nor do I seem to be able to find you in
db.debian.org. Unfortunately, only Debian Developers may sponsor
resolutions in this way.

Neil


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Re: Tentative summary of the amendments

2014-10-22 Thread Ian Jackson
Jonas Smedegaard writes (Re: Tentative summary of the amendments):
 Quoting Nikolaus Rath (2014-10-22 05:09:18)
  I believe Ian's intended reading is that a package that depends on 
  uselessd | systemd (but does not work with sysvinit) would be allowed 
  by his proposal.

Yes.

In practice such packages are not going to be a big problem because
writing init scripts for them would be straightforward, and then the
dependency could be relaxed.

 I too find it wrong to interpret Ian's text as a war between systemd and 
 sysvinit - that's anything but basically fine!

It's only a war between systemd and sysvinit insofar as some of
systemd's proponents are trying to abolish everything except systemd,
which encompasses abolishing sysvinit.

Ian.


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Re: [Sorry Neil] Wording modification of the The ???no GR, please??? amendement. [and 1 more messages]

2014-10-22 Thread Ian Jackson
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Charles Plessy writes ([Sorry Neil] Wording modification of the The ???no GR, 
please??? amendement.):
 I propose the following replacement as per article A.1.5 of our Contitution.

I'm not entirely convinced this is quite regular.

You are the proposer of an amendment, not of the resolution.  I think
under A.1(5) it would be for me to propose such changes and you to
approve them.

This is probably a bug in the constitution.  For the avoidance of
doubt, I have no objection to amendment-proposers making changes to
their amendment texts.  If it is necessary, I hereby give my consent.
(Or, people you prefer, I preemptively declare that I should be taken
to have `suggested' such changes, according to A.1(5).)

I say this on the understanding that such changes do not reset the
minimum discussion period.

I think the minimum discussion period was reset by my amendment email
at Sun, 19 Oct 2014 14:59:16 +0100 and therefore expires at
Sun, 02 Nov 2014 13:59:16 +.  At that time I will call for a vote.

(I think my email of Sun, 19 Oct 2014 20:06:22 +0100 fixing a
numbering typo falls under A.1(6).)

Ian.
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Re: Tentative summary of the amendments

2014-10-22 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Ian,

Le mercredi, 22 octobre 2014, 13.34:27 Ian Jackson a écrit :
 Jonas Smedegaard writes (Re: Tentative summary of the amendments):
  I too find it wrong to interpret Ian's text as a war between systemd
  and sysvinit - that's anything but basically fine!
 
 It's only a war between systemd and sysvinit insofar as some of
 systemd's proponents are trying to abolish everything except systemd,
 which encompasses abolishing sysvinit.

Can you _please_ point to such attempts or retract your unfounded FUD?

As far as I have read so far, most systemd's proponents only want the 
software they maintain be _allowed_ to use the systemd features in a 
Debian context, something which is totally unrelated to abolishing 
sysvinit. I'll go even further by pointing out that the systemd 
maintainers have pointed [0] their intend to _ensure_ that sysvinit 
would _stay_ at the users' disposal even through upgrades migrating to 
having systemd as pid1.

I will also note that so far only Jonas and you have used the term war 
in the context of this GR discussion period. I thought the discussion 
period was supposed to be rather a democratic exercise than a call to 
arms.

OdyX

[0] https://lists.debian.org/871tq1fihn@xoog.err.no


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

2014-10-22 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org (2014-10-22):
 
 
 The Debian project asks its members to be considerate when proposing General
 Resolutions, as the GR process may be disruptive regardless of the outcome of
 the vote.
 
 Regarding the subject of this ballot, the Project affirms that the procedures
 for decision making and conflict resolution are working adequately and thus
 a General Resolution is not required.
 
 

Seconded.

KiBi.


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Re: Maximum term for tech ctte members

2014-10-22 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 05:41:28PM +, Anthony Towns wrote:
 Text marked as a citation, such as this, is rationale and does not form
 part of the constitution. It may be used only to aid interpretation in
 cases of doubt. -- from appendix B in the constitution.

OK, I didn't remember that (documented) convention. No objection then.

 Take the current members, Ian, Bdale, Steve, Andi, Russ and Don are all
 over five years and are in roughly that order of seniority iirc. On Jan 1st
 2015, assuming no resignations, then:
[...]
 ie, I guess I was thinking that were all considered simultaneously so
 ordering wasn't relevant.

In fact, I don't mind simultaneity, I just wanted to be sure it wasn't
something that had been overlooked. I do observe that simultaneity might
result in more expiries than in scenarios in which you either define a
specific ordering, or members that would have been in the expiration set
voluntarily step down before January 1st.

 Oh, hey, since there's already math in the constitution, maybe it would
 work to say something like:
 
  Membership of the Technical Committee is automatically reviewed on
  the 1st of January of each year. At this time, the terms of the N
  most senior members automatically expire provided they were appointed
  at least 4.5 years ago. N is defined as 2-R (if R  2) or 0 (if R =
  2). R is the number of former members of the Technical Committee who
  have resigned, or been removed or replaced within the previous twelve
  months.
 
  A member of the Technical Committee is said to be more senior than
  another if they were appointed earlier, or were appointed at the same
  time and have been a member of the Debian project longer. In the event
  that a member has been appointed more than once, only the most recent
  appointment is relevant.
 
 ? 
 
 It's getting closer to source code than English at that point, but...

In fact, I found the above mathematical formulation quite nice, and
clearer than the English wording. But it might be just me. Others?

 (I'm not sure the second paragraph there is actually needed; could
 probably just rely on the secretary or the ctte itself to interpret
 seniority and disambiguate appointment sensibly.)

Better safe than sorry, I'd rather keep it in.  Even if it were only to
spare the Project a couple of threads on hey, but what does it
*actually* mean to be ``more senior'', it would be worth it :-)

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Re: Tentative summary of the amendments

2014-10-22 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 21/10/14 at 20:09 -0700, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
 Lucas Nussbaum lu...@debian.org writes:
  Q2: support for alternative init systems as PID 1
  =
  A2.1: packages MUST work with one alternative init system (in [iwj])
  (if you are confused with “one” here, it’s basically fine to read it as
  “sysvinit” instead. See [10]this subthread for a discussion about
  this)
 
 I believe Ian's intended reading is that a package that depends on
 uselessd | systemd (but does not work with sysvinit) would be allowed by
 his proposal.

Thanks for pointing this out.
I clarified this in the blog post: http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/blog/?p=845

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Re: Alternative proposal: support for alternative init systems is desirable but not mandatory

2014-10-22 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi,

On 20/10/14 at 14:47 -0400, Sam Hartman wrote:
  Joey == Joey Hess jo...@debian.org writes:
 
 Joey Why not just make your proposal be something along the lines
 Joey of reaffirming the technical decision-making process as it
 Joey currently stands, from the package maintainers, to the policy,
 Joey to the TC.  It could implicitly or explicitly reaffirm both
 Joey recent TC decisions on init systems.
 
 I'd support very strongly something like this, no more than one or two
 more paragraphs like the above.

I think that this is what Charles' proposal does now.

And my personal hope is that it will be the winning option, preferably
with FD beating all three other options.

However, I don't plan to withdraw my own proposal. Given that we are
going to vote anyway, it will be useful to have a representative set of
options for the general technical directions that Debian could take on
this set of questions, in order to estimate what the project wants.

During the TC discussions in January/February 2014, the TC had a small
legitimacy crisis, that resulted in the GR override clause of the
default init resolution. I hope that the result of this GR will be able
to serve as input in future TC discussions on similar/related topics.

Lucas


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

2014-10-22 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi,

On 17/10/14 at 10:01 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
 But designing and tuning alternative proposals might take time, so I
 would prefer to wait a few days before reducing the discussion period,
 to ensure that we vote with a sensible ballot. I will decide in the
 middle of next week about that.

I think that the current set of options would be a sensible ballot, and
I'm not aware of any discussions to add another option, so I'm inclined
to shorten the discussion period.

I reached out to Ian in private (in an attempt to limit the noise on
this list), but Ian suggested that we have this discussion in public.

However, Ian said that he has no objection to shortening the discussion
period.

Charles, Luca, can you confirm that you are also fine with shortening
the discussion period to one week?

On the other hand, Ian said that he doesn't think that it would be right
to shorten the voting period. Given that I have been heavily involved in
the discussions around this GR proposal, I am not going to reduce the
voting period against the original proposer's will.

Lucas


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

2014-10-22 Thread Luca Falavigna
Hi Lucas,

2014-10-22 17:22 GMT+02:00 Lucas Nussbaum lea...@debian.org:
 Charles, Luca, can you confirm that you are also fine with shortening
 the discussion period to one week?

Fine for me.

Cheers,
Luca


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

2014-10-22 Thread Ian Jackson
Lucas Nussbaum writes (Re: Reducing the discussion and the voting period to 1 
week):
 I think that the current set of options would be a sensible ballot, and
 I'm not aware of any discussions to add another option, so I'm inclined
 to shorten the discussion period.
 
 I reached out to Ian in private (in an attempt to limit the noise on
 this list), but Ian suggested that we have this discussion in public.

Indeed.

 However, Ian said that he has no objection to shortening the discussion
 period.

I have no objection for my own part.

But, as I said in my private email, I am very concerned that we don't
get any accusations of foul play.  Therefore I think it essential
that, at the very least, all of the proponents of alternative versions
agree.

It might be worth posting to debian-devel-announce asking if anyone
objects and thinks we need more discussion time, and inviting them to
say so on -vote if they do.  We have already had some problems with
people not being aware enough of the formal processes.

 On the other hand, Ian said that he doesn't think that it would be right
 to shorten the voting period. Given that I have been heavily involved in
 the discussions around this GR proposal, I am not going to reduce the
 voting period against the original proposer's will.

Thank you.

Ian.


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Re: Alternative proposal: support for alternative init systems is desirable but not mandatory

2014-10-22 Thread Russ Allbery
Lucas Nussbaum lu...@debian.org writes:

 During the TC discussions in January/February 2014, the TC had a small
 legitimacy crisis, that resulted in the GR override clause of the
 default init resolution. I hope that the result of this GR will be able
 to serve as input in future TC discussions on similar/related topics.

As one of the people who thought that clause was a good idea, I don't
think that it's only there due to a legitimacy crisis.  My opinion then,
which continues to be my position now, is that requiring a supermajority
to overrule the TC is a mistake.  The bar for a GR is already high enough,
and we, as a project, already tend to defer to existing decisions.  I
think that's enough protection against unnecessary reversals, and I think
a TC decision opposed by 60% of the project but still enforced is a very
unhealthy place to be.

The clause allowing an override by simple majority was a hack to disable
the constitution's super-majority requirement.  I continue to be in favor
of a constitutional amendment to remove the super-majority requirement for
TC overrides via GR in general, thus eliminating the need for such hacks.

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Re: Tentative summary of the amendments

2014-10-22 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Didier 'OdyX' Raboud o...@debian.org (2014-10-22):
 Le mercredi, 22 octobre 2014, 13.34:27 Ian Jackson a écrit :
  Jonas Smedegaard writes (Re: Tentative summary of the amendments):
   I too find it wrong to interpret Ian's text as a war between
   systemd and sysvinit - that's anything but basically fine!
  
  It's only a war between systemd and sysvinit insofar as some of
  systemd's proponents are trying to abolish everything except
  systemd, which encompasses abolishing sysvinit.
 
 Can you _please_ point to such attempts or retract your unfounded FUD?

What about no?

Whether Ian is conducting a crusade for freedom/against tight coupling,
or is just unhappy about having lost the TC vote, or just acting in
good faith according to his deepest belief… doesn't matter much. Trying
to pin point who said exactly what, whether that's FUD, or just inexact,
or twisted, or whatever… doesn't matter much either.

There were several *thousands* of mails on that topic, it seems far
enough to me.

A GR process has been started, let's let people come up with their
amendments, let's vote and be done with it until the next episode.

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

2014-10-22 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Lucas Nussbaum lea...@debian.org (2014-10-22):
 On 17/10/14 at 10:01 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
  But designing and tuning alternative proposals might take time, so I
  would prefer to wait a few days before reducing the discussion period,
  to ensure that we vote with a sensible ballot. I will decide in the
  middle of next week about that.
 
 I think that the current set of options would be a sensible ballot, and
 I'm not aware of any discussions to add another option, so I'm inclined
 to shorten the discussion period.

For all I know/remember from the mails I read, it seems there was an
agreement that this GR wouldn't affect jessie in any way.

While I can sympathize with trying to reach a conclusion sooner than
later, possibly sparing quite some mails[1], I'm not sure why there
would be any need for any rush. Can't we just let the usual timing
apply?

 1. https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2014/10/msg00319.html

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Re: Tentative summary of the amendments

2014-10-22 Thread Uoti Urpala
Ian Jackson wrote:
 Jonas Smedegaard writes (Re: Tentative summary of the amendments):
  Quoting Nikolaus Rath (2014-10-22 05:09:18)
   I believe Ian's intended reading is that a package that depends on 
   uselessd | systemd (but does not work with sysvinit) would be allowed 
   by his proposal.
 
 Yes.
 
 In practice such packages are not going to be a big problem because
 writing init scripts for them would be straightforward, and then the
 dependency could be relaxed.

So you agree that there is no fundamental problem with packaging
software that requires either systemd or uselessd? Does the GR still
require someone(tm) to package uselessd for Debian before packaging
that other (fundamentally OK even by your standards) software is
allowed? To polish uselessd integration until it's actually a usable
init system in Debian? I assume you are not volunteering for this work?

Consider what happens if the uselessd project is abandoned, and systemd
opponents do not come up with any other viable alternative either.
Upstart dies after Canonical abandons it. At some point in the future
developers decide that sysvinit is hopelessly obsolete, and maintaining
support for such an obsolete system will not be help migration to any
new init system appearing in the future (which would likely support at
least basic systemd features anyway). Does this GR imply that such a
decision may not be made without a new GR to override this one? Sysvinit
support must be kept indefinitely just to fulfill the at least 2 init
systems requirement?

I think the part about degraded operation with some init systems is
unclear. Degraded operation with some init systems is tolerable, so
long as the degradation is no worse than what the Debian project would
consider a tolerable (non-RC) bug even if it were affecting all users.
Is this supposed to apply only to init systems that the package
officially supports in some sense? If a package works great with
systemd, with tolerable problems with Upstart, and is almost completely
unusable with Sysvinit, then a straightforward reading would suggest
that the GR would make it RC-buggy. Is the idea that the package would
declare that it requires either systemd or Upstart, and as long as there
are at least two such systems, the Sysvinit problems don't count?



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Re: Tentative summary of the amendments

2014-10-22 Thread Aigars Mahinovs
On 22 October 2014 20:14, Uoti Urpala uoti.urp...@pp1.inet.fi wrote:
 Ian Jackson wrote:
 Jonas Smedegaard writes (Re: Tentative summary of the amendments):
  Quoting Nikolaus Rath (2014-10-22 05:09:18)
   I believe Ian's intended reading is that a package that depends on
   uselessd | systemd (but does not work with sysvinit) would be allowed
   by his proposal.

 Yes.

 In practice such packages are not going to be a big problem because
 writing init scripts for them would be straightforward, and then the
 dependency could be relaxed.

 So you agree that there is no fundamental problem with packaging
 software that requires either systemd or uselessd?

That would not be a problem, because uselessd is only an init system
and does not include all the extra services that systemd does, for
example - logind is not a part of uselessd. Therefore, even if
uselessd is packaged tomorrow, there would still be just one init
system in Debian implementing this feature. So the Ians proposal makes
it a bug to depend on features that are only implemented in one init
system. Naturally this whole discussion would become moot if all other
init systems decided to die and were excluded from the archive. Also,
in practise, once you assume that a feature might simply not exist, a
single workaround will work just as fine for all other init systems
that don't have the feature.

I think that practical effect would be the same if we mandated
support running with at least one non-default init system at PID 1
or support running with sysvinit at PID 1 or support running with
any init systems in the archive at PID 1 from the point of view of
software being able to start with an alternative init system managing
the installation (not from the point of view of having init scripts
for all init systems).

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Re: Tentative summary of the amendments

2014-10-22 Thread Joey Hess
Uoti Urpala wrote:
 Does this GR imply that such a decision may not be made without a new
 GR to override this one?

I was originally worried about this too, and it's one reason out of many
why I strongly dislike using GRs to decide technical matters.

My understanding though, is that this GR would change a TC decision,
with the blessing of the TC, such that the GR becomes the new TC
decision. So the GR result should be no harder to change than any
other TC decision.

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

2014-10-22 Thread Anthony Towns
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On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 07:45:39AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
 I propose the following replacement as per article A.1.5 of our Contitution.
 

 The Debian project asks its members to be considerate when proposing General
 Resolutions, as the GR process may be disruptive regardless of the outcome of
 the vote.

 Regarding the subject of this ballot, the Project affirms that the procedures
 for decision making and conflict resolution are working adequately and thus
 a General Resolution is not required.

 

Seconded.

Cheers,
aj
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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

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