Re: Debian money

2009-09-17 Thread Leszek Dubiel
Hello! The main target of Debian Project is to produce the free and most reliable linux distribution in the world. Developers donate their free time to project, while users donate money. I think you should use that money to assure that developers don't have to spent their private money for

Re: Debian money

2009-09-17 Thread Miguel Figueiredo
The main target of Debian Project is to produce the free and most reliable linux distribution in the world. Debian it's our 'product' and we are (very) proud of it. And we also believe it's good to share it. -- media to share it: Debian releases are media images full of free software.

Re: Debian money

2009-09-17 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: Some months ago Debian asked for sponsored hardware: http://www.debian.org/News/2009/20090208 I did not read any news about his, so maybe we could use some money for such infrastructure hardware. We were and are

News: l'immigration au Canada

2009-09-17 Thread news
L’immigration et la citoyenneté canadienne La population immigrée du Québec Le Recensement de 2006 a montré que 11,5 % de la population totale du Québec est immigrante, la proportion la plus forte jamais constatée dans l’histoire de la province. Cette proportion est de presque 20% pour le

Re: Debian money

2009-09-17 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: No need for SAN, direct-attached SAS or a SAS enclosure would be sufficient for both snapshot.d.o and data.d.o (with a proper hardware-raid controller Remember, both services might start to grow pretty fast. A direct-attached enclosure does not grow... (yeah,

Re: Distributing software written by hostile upstream developers

2009-09-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 06:42:15PM +0100, Matthew Johnson wrote: On Thu Sep 10 12:53, Steve McIntyre wrote: Well, what happens if somebody wants to maintain software where there is a strong set of opinion that we don't want it? In this case, I'd like to delegate the power to the ftpmasters to

Re: Distributing software written by hostile upstream developers

2009-09-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:11:54AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:42:45PM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: In my opinion, the current recommendation in the developer references is enough for now: I concur. Different thing. This encourages the maintainer to think if

Re: Distributing software written by hostile upstream developers

2009-09-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 01:16:38PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 00:12:18 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: Thoughts? I'm very much in favour of something like this. Debian is better off without schilyware imo. That's an obvious example, but (as others have pointed out)

Re: Distributing software written by hostile upstream developers

2009-09-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 09:47:10AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Thu, Sep 10 2009, Steve McIntyre wrote: Well, what happens if somebody wants to maintain software where there is a strong set of opinion that we don't want it? In this case, I'd like to delegate the power to the ftpmasters to