Re: Picking a new member - process

2013-11-06 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 07 Nov 2013, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Don Armstrong (d...@debian.org) [131106 23:41]: > > I'm OK with voting on the entire slate of nominees who were willing to > > serve, even if that means that some might be ranked below FD, but I > > would accept nominees telling the CTTE to do otherwise

Re: Picking a new member - process

2013-11-06 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 12:32:31AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Don Armstrong (d...@debian.org) [131106 23:41]: > > I'm OK with voting on the entire slate of nominees who were willing to > > serve, even if that means that some might be ranked below FD, but I > > would accept nominees telling the

Re: Picking a new member - process

2013-11-06 Thread Andreas Barth
* Don Armstrong (d...@debian.org) [131106 23:41]: > I'm OK with voting on the entire slate of nominees who were willing to > serve, even if that means that some might be ranked below FD, but I > would accept nominees telling the CTTE to do otherwise. If we vote only on those who are proposed here

Re: Picking a new member - process

2013-11-06 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 06 Nov 2013, Ian Jackson wrote: > Don Armstrong writes ("Re: Picking a new member - process"): > > If the way each member voted were obscured, I wouldn't have a problem > > with a public vote. However, since actually obscuring votes is difficult > > when there are so few voters, I'm not sur

Re: Picking a new member - process

2013-11-06 Thread Ian Jackson
Don Armstrong writes ("Re: Picking a new member - process"): > If the way each member voted were obscured, I wouldn't have a problem > with a public vote. However, since actually obscuring votes is difficult > when there are so few voters, I'm not sure how that would be handled. Constitution 6.3(4

Re: Picking a new member - process

2013-11-06 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 06 Nov 2013, Ian Jackson wrote: > So we should hold a public vote. > > On the other hand I see no reason to list on the ballot candidates > that no existing TC member feels we should be voting on. Doing so > makes the slight to those candidates more formal and obvious. If the way each me

Bug#727708: tech-ctte: Decide which init system to default to in Debian.

2013-11-06 Thread Andreas Barth
* Thijs Kinkhorst (th...@debian.org) [131106 12:51]: > Nonetheless, that's not relevant here. There are several likely candidates > in existence, so the choice will not be to use something existing versus > implementing from scratch; the choice will be between existing projects, > and given that, t

Picking a new member - process

2013-11-06 Thread Ian Jackson
NOTE this is to the public list. So, I think the picking a new member conversation seems to be mostly done, and I think further relevant information isn't likely to be forthcoming. It's not clear whether we have consensus, but in any case rather than try to come up with a consensus on a single na

Bug#727708: tech-ctte: Decide which init system to default to in Debian.

2013-11-06 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Wed, November 6, 2013 09:10, Russ Allbery wrote: > "Thijs Kinkhorst" writes: >> On Wed, November 6, 2013 01:16, Russ Allbery wrote: > >>> We'll want to look at both sides of that question, and try to >>> understand how much work like that is potentially on the horizon with >>> the various choic

Bug#727708: tech-ctte: Decide which init system to default to in Debian.

2013-11-06 Thread Russ Allbery
"Thijs Kinkhorst" writes: > On Wed, November 6, 2013 01:16, Russ Allbery wrote: >> We'll want to look at both sides of that question, and try to >> understand how much work like that is potentially on the horizon with >> the various choices. > Do you? In the past Debian has not shied away from m