Re: Proposal: incremental release process (the package pool)

1999-11-01 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 01:20:30PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > Stable and unstable would remain more or less exactly as they are now. There > aren't any changes to dinstall, or how/where you upload to, etc. You see, the package pool idea has some advantage that your proposal doesn't provide.

Re: Proposal: incremental release process (the package pool)

1999-11-01 Thread Philip Hands
"James R. Van Zandt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > >> This makes me think about dropping the symlinks completely. > >> > >> So we can have a real, physical pool of any sort, and all > >> distributions are simply a packages file w

Re: Proposed change to Debian constitution

1999-11-01 Thread Philip Hands
Edward Brocklesby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Please offer sensible, well considered, useful comments. Replies from > rude, abrasive people (you know who you are) will be ignored. How very diplomatic of you ;-) > 3. The Project Leader's Delegate(s) may decide not to admit any new >

Re: Proposed change to Debian constitution

1999-11-01 Thread Ian Jackson
> The attached document details a modification written by Zephaniah E. Hull > and I, which I am proposing as an amendment to the Debian Constitution. > This hopefully solves one or two problems we have identified in Debian, > namely closed teams (new-maintainer, ftp maint etc.), stagnation of these

Re: Proposed change to Debian constitution

1999-11-01 Thread Martin Schulze
Anthony Towns wrote: > This doesn't do anything to address the real issue (getting > new-maintainers back on its feet), and only seems to give people something > to point to when whining about how everyone else isn't doing everything > for them. Agreed. Regards, Joey -- A mathematician

Re: new release process (package pool) being proposed

1999-11-01 Thread Fabien Ninoles
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 11:36:30AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 07:37:55AM -0700, Robert Jones wrote: > > Quoth Anthony Towns on 25 Oct, 1999: > > > All this `I've got a proposal, let's vote on it' stuff isn't quite right. > We didn't vote on debconf, we discussed it, the

Re: Proposed change to Debian constitution

1999-11-01 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Oct 31, 1999 at 03:09:31PM +, Edward Brocklesby wrote: > This hopefully solves one or two problems we have identified in Debian, > namely closed teams (new-maintainer, ftp maint etc.), stagnation of these > teams, and the current issue of new maintainer being closed. A proposal never s