On Feb 09, Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Moreover, while I think a majority of the developers are surely
honorable, this is not true of everyone. Now that this is the *third*
time we are being asked to vote on essentially the same question, I
suspect that many of the
Le Mercredi 8 Février 2006 22:14, Daniel Baumann a écrit :
I'm working on the rest of the helix-tools and real-player too. I'm in
contact with Real to fix the helix-player license and to get an
acceptable license for real-player for its inclusion into non-free.
Unfortunately, such things take
Britton Kerin wrote:
I thought I saw some stuff on their web page about helix being GPL now.
Not so?
Yes, but it is (not yet) reflected in the source: Most parts are triple
licensed (GPL and two non-free licenses from real, primary intended for
their commercial customers).
But.. some parts do
On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, Marco d'Itri wrote:
Well, maybe the people who mislabeled the everything is software vote
as an editorial change and deceived many other developers should have
tought about this.
Maybe we could suggest another editorial change and revert to the
previous wording (not
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Le Jeudi 09 Février 2006 10:57, Daniel Schepler a écrit :
(And sorry about the CC instead of an X-Debbugs-CC... my local mail relay
is silently dropping anything I send through exim for some reason, direct
connections to external SMTP ports are blocked, and I couldn't figure out
how to get
At Tue, 7 Feb 2006 14:30:01 +1100,
Anand Kumria wrote:
On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 11:42:31PM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
Hi,
I just realised that the timezone data in glibc is taken from an
upstream database (namely ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/). This data
sometimes changes, more
On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, Marco d'Itri wrote:
Well, maybe the people who mislabeled the everything is software vote
as an editorial change and deceived many other developers should have
tought about this.
There are two different definitions of the word software:
1. something that can be represented
Quoting Marco d'Itri [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Well, maybe the people who mislabeled the everything is software vote
as an editorial change and deceived many other developers should have
tought about this.
The only people it made happy are extremists. See #207932. This is a
very good example of
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On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, Jérôme Marant wrote:
I'd propose to revert this and clearly define what software is.
I fully agree. The Holier than Stallman stuff is really getting
ridiculous. After the firmware madeness, now the documentation madeness.
And after that, the font madeness maybe ? (after all,
On Feb 09, Adam Borowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There are two different definitions of the word software:
1. something that can be represented as a finite stream of bits
2. a computer program
Definition 1. is precise, definition 2. is not (PostScript, pseudocode,
Unfortunately,
On Feb 09, Xavier Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I fully agree. The Holier than Stallman stuff is really getting
ridiculous. After the firmware madeness, now the documentation madeness.
And after that, the font madeness maybe ? (after all, fonts ARE also
software, and they shall be
AT == Anthony Towns [2006-2-8]
AT On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 04:28:19PM +0100, Davide G. M. Salvetti wrote:
If you are willing to help, you can find all needed files on
people:~salve/pub/apt/.
AT I uploaded those files via ftp, and it worked fine. My only guess is
AT the changes you were
Le jeudi 09 février 2006 à 09:59 +0100, Marco d'Itri a écrit :
Well, maybe the people who mislabeled the everything is software vote
as an editorial change and deceived many other developers should have
tought about this.
Hey ! Look ! We've just found a second person to think the change wasn't
Le jeudi 09 février 2006 à 11:12 +0100, Xavier Roche a écrit :
Maybe we could suggest another editorial change and revert to the
previous wording (not everything is software)
This has already been voted. And the answer was no.
--
.''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\
: :' :
Hi,
Xavier Roche wrote:
I fully agree. The Holier than Stallman stuff is really getting
ridiculous. After the firmware madeness, now the documentation madeness.
And after that, the font madeness maybe ? (after all, fonts ARE also
software, and they shall be distributed with their original
On Feb 09, Simon Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The binutils package generates part of its documentation from header
files in order to get the structures and constants right. The headers
are GPLed, the compiled documentation is under the GFDL. For this
relicensing to happen, one must be
Hi,
You make good arguments and I agree with many points. But the following:
2006/2/8, Nick Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Even if for some reason that I am unable to fathom you do fervently
believe that I am wrong in the above paragraph, then there is *still
nothing* to say that we can't
On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, Josselin Mouette wrote:
Le jeudi 09 février 2006 à 11:12 +0100, Xavier Roche a écrit :
Maybe we could suggest another editorial change and revert to the
previous wording (not everything is software)
This has already been voted. And the answer was no.
Well, maybe the
Re: Davide G. M. Salvetti in [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I was trying to upload them from people to ftp-master with ftp, maybe I
forgot to set the binary mode on (though I seem to recall that between
Unix systems it shouldn't matter).
Uhm, use dput? It also does some checks on the .changes to see if
On Thu, 09 Feb 2006, Xavier Roche wrote:
On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, Josselin Mouette wrote:
Le jeudi 09 février 2006 à 11:12 +0100, Xavier Roche a écrit :
Maybe we could suggest another editorial change and revert to the
previous wording (not everything is software)
This has already been
On Thu, 09 Feb 2006, Jérôme Marant wrote:
Quoting Marco d'Itri [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Well, maybe the people who mislabeled the everything is software vote
as an editorial change and deceived many other developers should have
tought about this.
The only people it made happy are extremists.
On Thu, 09 Feb 2006, Josselin Mouette wrote:
Le jeudi 09 février 2006 à 09:59 +0100, Marco d'Itri a écrit :
Well, maybe the people who mislabeled the everything is software vote
as an editorial change and deceived many other developers should have
tought about this.
Hey ! Look ! We've
On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
Well, maybe the wording was not deceptive enough ?
Maybe people should get re-acquinted with GR 2004-04 and its results before
they bring up GR 2004-03, even for jokes.
No, no. The funny joke is to modify the constitution with a deceptive
Xavier Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, J=E9r=F4me Marant wrote:
I'd propose to revert this and clearly define what software is.
I fully agree. The Holier than Stallman stuff is really getting
ridiculous. After the firmware madeness, now the documentation madeness.
[...]
On Wednesday 08 February 2006 23:58, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
It's not about honor; it's about decision-making.
If a majority sincerely believe that their proposal does not run afoul
of the 3:1 requirement, does that mean that it therefore does not?
I think that it is possible for people
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Version : 0.7
Upstream Authors: Jean-Christophe DUBERGA, Laurent DEFERT SIMONNEAU, Lawrence
AZZOUG
Matthieu FERTRÉ, Renaud LOTTIAUX, Victor STINNER
* URL
Am Donnerstag, den 09.02.2006, 12:50 +0100 schrieb Marco d'Itri:
On Feb 09, Adam Borowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There are two different definitions of the word software:
1. something that can be represented as a finite stream of bits
2. a computer program
Definition 1. is precise,
Hello!
On Thu, 09 Feb 2006 15:39:29 +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
Previous versions of Wormux depended on a development version of clanlib,
that's why a previous ITP never made it into a real package and was later
closed due to inactivity.
So, simple question: why not re-open the ancient
Re: Luca Capello in [EMAIL PROTECTED]
So, simple question: why not re-open the ancient ITP, instead of a new
one? ;-)
You cannot reopen archived bugs.
Christoph
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On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 07:56:45PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
Nick Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
documents. It clearly asserts otherwise, and one might assume that
developers voting for it would agree with that. If it won a majority,
it would therefore seem to be the case that
Hi folks
raptor.debian.org, the s390 developer machine, is down because of
disabled storage. I'll try to fix that tomorrow.
Bastian
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It seems the headers Katie included when closing bugs of an uploaded
.changes file have been removed, they used to be:
To clarify, I meant the message the submitter receives.
[1]
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=352047;msg=24;mbox=yes
I can't find any x-debian*
Christopher Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If the developers are (as a whole) too untrustworthy to be able to vote on
such matters without 3:1 training wheels attached by their elders, then who
should be trusted?
So is it your view then that the 3:1 requirement is pointless?
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Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes:
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 08:58:39PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes:
In any event, there is in fact a meaning in that case: the 3:1
suerpmajority would still apply to issues where the majority of
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes:
Docs and firmware in Debian should be DFSG-free [yes/no]
If the above happens it should be post-sarge [yes/no]
Common GFDL docs are free anyway [yes/no]
As it happens, those eight combinations are only some
Christopher Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm getting sick and tired of hearing this over and over again. The last two
votes were not about the GFDL.
Why did we take the second vote?
Hint: because the Release Manager pointed out that the first vote
required the removal of GFDL docs from
On Thursday 09 February 2006 15:26, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
Christopher Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm getting sick and tired of hearing this over and over again. The
last two votes were not about the GFDL.
Why did we take the second vote?
Hint: because the Release Manager
On Thursday 09 February 2006 15:25, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
Christopher Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If the developers are (as a whole) too untrustworthy to be able to vote
on such matters without 3:1 training wheels attached by their elders,
then who should be trusted?
So is it
Le jeudi 09 février 2006 à 12:12 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh a
écrit :
Hey ! Look ! We've just found a second person to think the change wasn't
editorial !
A lot of us thought it was far and beyond editorial, which is why GR
2004-04 was held with options to *entirely revoke* GR
Christopher Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What I do see are a handful of single-minded individuals (only a small
subset of those who wish to have the GFDL removed, I stress) who seem
incapable of grasping the possibility that people might disagree with their
DFSG interpretations without
[Christopher Martin]
If an issue is highly controversial, then I can think of no better
way of settling it in a way that most developers will accept than a
vote. People respect votes much more than decrees, even if they don't
agree with them.
And yet in this very thread we *still* have
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes:
On Feb 09, Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Moreover, while I think a majority of the developers are surely
honorable, this is not true of everyone. Now that this is the *third*
time we are being asked to vote on essentially the same
Hi,
It seems the headers Katie included when closing bugs of an uploaded
.changes file have been removed, they used to be:
X-Debian-PR-Message: they-closed 348721
X-Debian-PR-Package: xen-tools
X-Debian-PR-Keywords:
These messages included a copy of the original report
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 01:49:41PM +0100, Simon Richter wrote:
The binutils package generates part of its documentation from header
files in order to get the structures and constants right. The headers
are GPLed, the compiled documentation is under the GFDL. For this
relicensing to happen,
* Loïc Minier [Thu, 09 Feb 2006 21:02:35 +0100]:
Hi,
Hi,
It seems the headers Katie included when closing bugs of an uploaded
.changes file have been removed, they used to be:
X-Debian-PR-Message: they-closed 348721
X-Debian-PR-Package: xen-tools
On Feb 09, Thomas Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Definition 1. is precise, definition 2. is not (PostScript, pseudocode,
Unfortunately, definition #2 is the one which almost everybody agreed to
How so? Is there any document in Debian, stating that software follows
definition 2?
No, it
On Thu, 09 Feb 2006, Loïc Minier wrote:
It seems the headers Katie included when closing bugs of an uploaded
.changes file have been removed, they used to be:
X-Debian-PR-Message: they-closed 348721
X-Debian-PR-Package: xen-tools
X-Debian-PR-Keywords:
These messages included a
On Thursday 09 February 2006 16:41, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
Christopher Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What I do see are a handful of single-minded individuals (only a small
subset of those who wish to have the GFDL removed, I stress) who seem
incapable of grasping the possibility that
On Feb 09, Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This was necessary only because the release manager believed the changes
to be non-editorial. I cannot even understand an interpretation of the
old wording that can lead us to accept non-free documentation into main.
This may be annoying for
On Feb 09, Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has anyone come forward and said I was deceived by GR 2004-03? I
Yes, multiple people did. HTH.
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Marco
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Peter Samuelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[Christopher Martin]
If an issue is highly controversial, then I can think of no better
way of settling it in a way that most developers will accept than a
vote. People respect votes much more than decrees, even if they don't
agree with them.
And
Christopher Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Please don't be so doggedly literal. The point of my little parody was to
draw out, in a stark manner, the attitudes which seem to underlie the
viewpoint which you hold, whether you're willing to spell them out or not.
Our fellow readers can
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes:
On Feb 09, Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This was necessary only because the release manager believed the changes
to be non-editorial. I cannot even understand an interpretation of the
old wording that can lead us to accept non-free
On 2/9/06, Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au wrote:
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 08:58:39PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
It's not about honor; it's about decision-making.
When you raise the implication that your fellow developers can't be
trusted, you make it about honour; when you think
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes:
On Feb 09, Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has anyone come forward and said I was deceived by GR 2004-03? I
Yes, multiple people did. HTH.
Who? I can't recall any. Can you provide pointers?
What did they say in response to questions
On 2/8/06, Nick Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 11:50:51AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote:
If the GR is adopted by Debian, there is no significant difference
between contradicts the foundation documents and modifies
the foundation documents.
First of all, you're
Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes:
On Feb 09, Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This was necessary only because the release manager believed the changes
to be non-editorial. I cannot even understand an interpretation of the
old
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 09:32:20PM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
As it looks like my laptop is permanently dead, and it was the only system
where I could ever test EVMS properly, it looks like I'll have to orphan
EVMS.
May it an option to integrate evms into the pkg-lvm group which
As it looks like my laptop is permanently dead, and it was the only system
where I could ever test EVMS properly, it looks like I'll have to orphan
EVMS. (I could theoretically maintain it for quite a while still, so this
isn't a formal orphaning, but my testing options are quite limited, and
Le jeudi 09 février 2006 à 23:19 +0100, Marco d'Itri a écrit :
On Feb 09, Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This was necessary only because the release manager believed the changes
to be non-editorial. I cannot even understand an interpretation of the
old wording that can lead us
Le jeudi 09 février 2006 à 23:50 +0100, Jérôme Marant a écrit :
Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes:
On Feb 09, Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This was necessary only because the release manager believed the changes
to be
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, 09 Feb 2006, Jérôme Marant wrote:
Quoting Marco d'Itri [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Well, maybe the people who mislabeled the everything is software vote
as an editorial change and deceived many other developers should have
tought about
Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Sorry, but there's a whole new generation of Debian developers here that
simply won't develop anything in perl, just because perl looks too
complex and cryptic to us. Now, with bash, perl and python, we can deal
with the scripting needs for at least
Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Le samedi 28 janvier 2006 à 21:16 -0600, Manoj Srivastava a écrit :
God. Is this supposed to be rational technical discussion, or
an exercise in jejune mud slinging.
Deliberate use of words a non-native English speaker cannot understand
Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Consistency?
There is nothing like consistency in someone asserting that Debian Will
Remain 100% Free Software means 98% free software and 2% non-free
other things.
Prior to GFDL, GNU Manuals used to have the same kinds of restrictions
like
On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 14:58 -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Le samedi 28 janvier 2006 à 21:16 -0600, Manoj Srivastava a écrit :
God. Is this supposed to be rational technical discussion, or
an exercise in jejune mud slinging.
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 10:02:55PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote:
As it looks like my laptop is permanently dead, and it was the only system
where I could ever test EVMS properly, it looks like I'll have to orphan
EVMS.
May it an option to integrate evms into the pkg-lvm group which
maintains
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 14:58 -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Le samedi 28 janvier 2006 à 21:16 -0600, Manoj Srivastava a écrit :
God. Is this supposed to be rational technical discussion, or
an
Jérôme Marant [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Prior to GFDL, GNU Manuals used to have the same kinds of restrictions
like invariant sections but noone has ever battled for moving them
to non-free. Then came GFDL and people suddenly decided to change
the de facto rules. This is the kind of
Jérôme Marant [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
That was a 3:1 majority out of 200 voters, considering that Debian
counts almost 1000 developers and considering that many pros are
convinced they have been deceived.
Who, please?
On Feb 09, Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Or maybe this is only something that has been invented a posteriori when
A search in the debian-devel@ archive of the past years would be enough
to expose this as a lie, but maybe you were not a developer at the time
and so I suppose you could
On Feb 09, Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This may be annoying for you, but it's a fact that there is an
interpretation of the old wording which has been used for years to
accept non-free documentation into main.
How is this relevant?
It shows that there was a widely accepted
On Feb 09, Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has anyone come forward and said I was deceived by GR 2004-03? I
Yes, multiple people did. HTH.
Who? I can't recall any. Can you provide pointers?
Sure, look at the flame which followed aj's message.
What did they say in response
On Thursday 09 February 2006 17:32, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
I have no idea what you're talking about. Nobody is calling for strict
majoritarianism. What is being called for is that the developers be
allowed to decide issues of interpretation of the DFSG, as is their
prerogative.
Ah,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes:
On Feb 09, Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This may be annoying for you, but it's a fact that there is an
interpretation of the old wording which has been used for years to
accept non-free documentation into main.
How is this
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes:
What did they say in response to questions like did you read the
changes?
I do not remember. I do not think it's relevant either.
Surely it does. People who say I was deceived; and I didn't bother
to take elementary steps to avoid deception have
On Feb 10, Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Surely it does. People who say I was deceived; and I didn't bother
to take elementary steps to avoid deception have chosen to be
deceived.
Well, at least now you agree that the GR title was deceiptful.
Were you deceived by the 2003
Christopher Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
But what you are saying is that the developers don't have that
right.
Quite wrong. I'm saying they *do* have this right, and it is a right
that must be exercised by a 3:1 vote.
Please cite the part of the constitution which grants the Secretary
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes:
On Feb 10, Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Surely it does. People who say I was deceived; and I didn't bother
to take elementary steps to avoid deception have chosen to be
deceived.
Well, at least now you agree that the GR title was
* J?r?me Marant ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, 09 Feb 2006, Jérôme Marant wrote:
Quoting Marco d'Itri [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Well, maybe the people who mislabeled the everything is software vote
as an editorial change and deceived
On Thursday 09 February 2006 18:28, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
Christopher Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
But what you are saying is that the developers don't have that
right.
Quite wrong. I'm saying they *do* have this right, and it is a right
that must be exercised by a 3:1 vote.
But
Thomas,
how does responding to a flamey thread that had already died a week and
a half earlier make anything better? (It doesn't even matter that the
point had already been made.)
Debian has a tendency to have many or most of its mailing list
discussion turn into flame wars, and this is bad,
On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Jérôme Marant wrote:
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, 09 Feb 2006, Jérôme Marant wrote:
Quoting Marco d'Itri [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Well, maybe the people who mislabeled the everything is software vote
as an editorial change and deceived
On Thu, 09 Feb 2006, Eric Dorland wrote:
If only 200 out of 1000 care enough to vote, then those are the people
396 people voted.
--
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them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie.
On Thu, 09 Feb 2006, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
Option D (rescind the 2004-03 GR) didn't even reach the 3:1 quorum.
Sorry, I meat 3:1 majority requirement.
--
One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of
On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 15:12 -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 14:58 -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Le samedi 28 janvier 2006 à 21:16 -0600, Manoj Srivastava a écrit :
Christopher Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thursday 09 February 2006 18:28, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
Christopher Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
But what you are saying is that the developers don't have that
right.
Quite wrong. I'm saying they *do* have this right, and it is a
* Norbert Preining [Wed, 08 Feb 2006 16:57:20 +0100]:
HI all!
Hi,
When I go to
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=info
it tells me
... to the source package texinfo's bug page ...
But when I go to
Eric Dorland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If only 200 out of 1000 care enough to vote, then those are the people
who get to make the decisions. We can't force developers to vote, so
we can't be paralyzed into inaction by saying we can't do something
because not enough people sent in a vote.
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 10:49:48PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Jérôme Marant wrote:
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, 09 Feb 2006, Jérôme Marant wrote:
Quoting Marco d'Itri [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Well, maybe the people who
On 2/9/06, Christopher Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Please cite the part of the constitution which grants the Secretary this
extraordinary power. Despite what Raul Miller repeatedly asserts, a minor
power to decide issues of constitutional interpretation in cases of
deadlock DOES NOT mean
Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
However, it *did* pass a simple majority. It doesn't benefit us as a
project at all to have people making overly-broad claims about the
significance of the previous votes. When I look at the relatively low
turnout of 2004-03, the complaints since
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 15:12 -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 14:58 -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Le samedi 28 janvier 2006 à 21:16 -0600,
On 2/9/06, Christopher Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But why does the Secretary get to decide whether this barrier should be set
or not?
The constitution says:
... the final decision on the form of ballot(s) is the Secretary's -
see 7.1(1),
7.1(3) and A.3(4).
I think that's pretty clear.
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 05:18:18PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote:
On 2/9/06, Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au wrote:
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 08:58:39PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
It's not about honor; it's about decision-making.
When you raise the implication that your fellow
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