Greetings!
I'm a planet admin although, as you suggest, I think this is outside
of the area of documented policy.
> Imagine that I get a note from a random developer saying they have
> removed my blog from planet. I understand what they are saying enough
> to believe it is not vandalism; they
> > I've added everyone's suggestions because I think they were good, here's
> > the updated section on a subpage:
> >
> > https://wiki.debian.org/PlanetDebian/ProposedChanges
> >
> > If I get two +1's I'll go ahead and change it.
>
> +1
>
> Cheers, Phil.
>
> P.S. with the caveat that I'd
quote who=Jakub Wilk date=Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 12:19:12AM +0100
AFAIK Matthew Garrett hasn't been active and directly involved
participant in the Debian development community for years. What is
the reason for keeping his blog on planet.d.o?
I remember that this was talked about, with Matthew,
The people who like my blog can add it to their feed readers directly.
I believe I've followed the rules for PD, but there's no point
I believe you've followed the rules as well. As you mentioned on your
blog, planet is for active participants in Debian, not for posts about
Debian only. The
[ I posted a variant of this message onto my blog a few days ago. I
thought I would throw it out here as well. Apologies for people that
see it twice. ]
At DebConf7 in Edinburgh, I'm going to moderate a panel on Debian
derivatives. At DebConf5 I put on a similar sort of panel. Here's the
quote who=Anthony Towns date=Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 08:32:00AM +1000
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 01:14:18PM -0500, Michael Schultheiss wrote:
According to http://www.debian.org/intro/organization, Mako is the
Debian Accountant:
Accountant -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
member Benj. Mako Hill
I'm
quote who=Miguel Gea Milvaques date=Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 08:08:04AM +0200
According to the minutes from the meeting on 2006-09-09 [1], it seems
that the candidate dates for Debconf7 lie in the middle of June. For
some of us, this is a problem, as June is probably one of the most
problematic
quote who=Manoj Srivastava date=Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 10:09:04AM -0500
Due to a loop hole in the constitution, any group of 6 Debian
developers can delay any general resolution indefinitely by putting
up their own amendment, and every 6 days, making substantiative
changes in their
quote who=Andreas Barth date=Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 02:32:28PM +0200
Hi Mako,
can you please define a policy whether non-personal blogs should be on
planet.debian.org or not?
Sure. I'll write something up on wiki.debian.org. I've put a first
very quick bit up already and folks are welcome to
quote who=MJ Ray date=Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 08:38:28PM +0100
I think planet.d.o should include any debian-related blogs onto
it (including their non-debian content, if the author wants),
but exclude people/things that spam it with repeat posts
or over-long material like entire press releases.
quote who=Joey Hess date=Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 11:22:26AM -0400
Daniel Baumann wrote:
Pierre Habouzit wrote:
OH YEAH!
seconded++
Ack, and when there are anyway changes on the way.. joeyh, how about
moving your upstream-planet[0] to something as
upstream.planet.debian.org (and
quote who=Manoj Srivastava date=Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 06:05:38PM -0500
At last count, the following had sconded the previous draft, I hope
there is no problem with the changes made with this version.
I have no problem with these changes.
Regards,
Mako
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Benjamin Mako Hill
[EMAIL
quote who=Ian Jackson date=Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 03:53:19PM +0100
I agree with the sense and letter but have a few factual, grammar and
other minor corrections, which I'd like to formally propose as
amendments. I'd appreciate it if you'd accept them. I propose each
change as a separate
quote who=Don Armstrong date=Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 12:49:08PM -0700
AMs, the DAM and other people in the project are more hesitant to
grant developership to people with non-standard forms of
contributions. Sometimes, it's simply harder to test for these
because there aren't templates or
quote who=Manoj Srivastava date=Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 03:07:41PM -0500
(1) We as a project (and an NM project) are hesitant to give these
people developership since it means they can upload to the
project which introduces a set of potential risks and problems
(one more account to
quote who=Manoj Srivastava date=Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 09:43:52AM -0500
I'd like to see those who have made long-term, sustained, and
significant contributions to Debian enfranchised. That could mean
broadening the category of developer through changes to NM or it
could also mean another
quote who=Don Armstrong date=Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 01:50:50PM -0700
As a final note, the templates are just that, templates. An AM is
relatively free to tailor the process to the job that the applicant is
actually performing. This is a bit more time consuming for the AM, but
it's ideal for
quote who=Erinn Clark date=Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 05:55:09PM -0400
* Benj. Mako Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006:04:06 15:35 -0400]:
quote who=Henning Makholm date=Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 02:32:26PM +0200
Scripsit Benj. Mako Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I think that the fact that the upload
quote who=Henning Makholm date=Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 02:32:26PM +0200
Scripsit Benj. Mako Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I think that the fact that the upload keyring is the same as the
voting keyring is bad. Contributors are told they can't vote until
they learn C compiler flags.
Who tells
quote who=Manoj Srivastava date=Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 09:13:30AM -0500
On 4 Apr 2006, Benj. Mako Hill spake thusly:
quote who=Wouter Verhelst date=Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 08:58:57AM
+0200
The problem is more one of 'how do we identify those people that
aren't a Developer, but that do
quote who=Steve Langasek date=Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 02:30:46AM -0700
And maybe I'm too heavily steeped in Debian culture to take an
objective view, but I don't see any reason why translators,
documentation writers, artists, et al. should look at the term
developer and conclude it's not for
quote who=Henning Makholm date=Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 02:36:58PM +0200
How is making long-term, sustained, and significant contributions to
Debian _not_ engaging in development?
If you think that Debian's long-time pro-bono legal counsel is
engaging in development, I think we're just getting
quote who=Manoj Srivastava date=Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 03:23:35AM -0500
The way I see it, Debian produces an modular OS. the
modularity of the product is, by and large[0], packages.
.. snip ..
[0]. There are people who contribute to Debian other than as
package maintainers, but
quote who=Wouter Verhelst date=Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 08:58:57AM +0200
The problem is more one of 'how do we identify those people that aren't
a Developer, but that do contribute regularly'.
There are a number of ways of doing this although, like NM, it's
ultimately a human process that is
quote who=Steve Langasek date=Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 12:15:15AM -0700
Most developers seem to agree that there are bugs in our process for
integrating new members into the project, but that's not the same as
saying that non-DDs should be allowed to vote
Clearly not.
voting rights are one of
quote who=Jaldhar H. Vyas date=Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 09:59:59AM -0500
I was also informed of pootle (http://translate.sourceforge.net/) which is
another free option.
My sense is that pootle is a bit more advanced in terms of features and
such. I'd love to see something like this set up.
quote who=Branden Robinson / Debian Project Leader date=Thu, Jan 05, 2006
at 02:37:47PM -0500
Don Armstrong and I are going to be at the FSF's GPLv3 launch
conference[1] in Boston, Massachusetts on 16 and 17 January.
I'll be there as well and will be happy to represent and communicate
Debian's
quote who=MJ Ray date=Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 12:56:10AM +0100
So, it looks to me like help is most needed with educating about
the debian trademark, drafting the more general trademark policy
and summarising to SPI's board and members. Corrections welcome.
Yes. Help would be welcome in all of
quote who=Michael Meskes date=Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 01:20:32PM +0200
Are you saying that it is better and easier to create a fork than
work on improving Debian?
The reality of the situation is that there are at least 129
distributions derived form Debian and the number is going to
grow. Some of
quote who=Peter Vandenabeele date=Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 03:07:07PM +0200
On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 02:38:38PM +0200, Peter Vandenabeele wrote:
So a naming in the sense of Debian Commercial Support Association
or something along those lines would seem to make it clearer to me
... or just
quote who=MJ Ray date=Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 09:32:44AM +0100
Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My suggestion would be that the Debian trademark should be restricted to
novel names and not used in descriptive terms. Microsoft Debian ought
to be permitted - Debian T-shirts should not.
quote who=Jonathan Carter date=Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 09:29:05AM +0200
Benj. Mako Hill wrote:
Greg Pomerantz tells me that guys still haven't talked yet about the
DCC and the Debian mark.
What happened about this? I'm not involved in any way, but I'm quite
interested.
AFAIK, Greg Pomerantz
quote who=Bruce Perens date=Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 11:34:41AM -0700
This latest round was provoked by the DCC announcement. I participated
in the DCCA meeting yesterday evening. The organization has agreed to
call themselves the Debian Common Core Association in order to make it
more clear that
quote who=MJ Ray date=Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 12:36:13AM +0100
There is a desirable position more liberal than the current
almost-no- -commercial-use do you agree?
I think we should be as permissive as we can be and as close the
spirit of sharing and reuse in free software while still keeping our
Ian,
Greg Pomerantz tells me that guys still haven't talked yet about the
DCC and the Debian mark. I'll contact you off list with this phone/etc
since I don't have yours. I'd personally really like to get you guys
on the same page (or see what issues remained) before we tear this
apart on the
quote who=MJ Ray date=Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 02:38:17AM +0100
In general, I'm disappointed to see so little how do we harness
this new effort? and so much how do we stop them?
I don't think anyone here is trying to *stop* the effort. In fact, I
don't believe people have said much critical about
quote who=MJ Ray date=Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 02:54:14AM +0100
Benj. Mako Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...] a group of us decided a number of years ago to keep
consumers (and developers) from being confused by ensuring that
Debian referred only to our project and to our products
quote who=Nico Golde date=Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 10:11:54PM +0200
Hello Andrew,
* Andrew Karppinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-07-04 21:47]:
Why are there are no screen shots on the Debian site? I think some screen
shots would help. People can make a visual connection to what it could
look
On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 03:51:29PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 10:52:50PM +0200, Benj. Mako Hill wrote:
I think neither rendition of the site that I saw was likely to make
someone think that they were buying from Debian. It would be nice to
have a clearer
On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 03:24:37AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote:
On 2004-04-17 10:16:22 +0100 Benj. Mako Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 07:16:02PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote:
Anyway, do you really want to persecute businesses who promote
Debian to their customers?
What we want
On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 07:16:02PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote:
Anyway, do you really want to persecute businesses who promote
Debian to their customers?
What we want to avoid is having people use the Debian mark to
capitalize off the goodwill created by the Debian project to sell
their own service,
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 09:18:48PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 02:44:31PM +0100, Amaya wrote:
- On a talk at Madrid, Miguel de Icaza who is a close friend of mine
BTW, used female secretaries as examples of clueless users.
Well, that's probably because that's
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 12:43:59PM -0800, Jonathan Walther wrote:
I'd take a bullet for my wife, my mother, my sisters, but never for
a feminist.
Just in case there is a misunderstanding here, this is what dict-wn
has to say about feminism:
feminist
adj : of or relating to or advocating
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 10:47:10AM +0100, Michael Banck wrote:
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 06:19:55PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote:
Could everbody interested please fill out that small query below and
send the answers to me?
Thanks a lot to everybody who participated. I recieved around a hundred
On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 10:36:09AM +0100, Paz wrote:
just a simple question but I cant find it anywhere, I got debian
installed at home and wanna edit the debian logo for self use but I
would like to know wich font the debian word is in in the official
debian logo.
I believe all the info you
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 11:28:47PM +1100, Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project
Leader wrote:
* Michael Banck [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-11-04 11:54]:
- I talked to Bradley Kuhn to discuss the relationship of Debian
and the FSF.
I'm interested to know what came out of this, if it is not
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 11:48:35AM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote:
Benj. Mako Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 09:35:10PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote:
On 2003-10-06 20:53:56 +0100 Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
trademark law doesn't allow us the same latitude
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 04:58:22PM +, Dylan Thurston wrote:
IANAL, but I believe that according to US law there are limits on who
non-profits can give money to: if the lab is not a non-profit
corporation, SPI could not (in my understanding) give money to the
lab. OTOH, SPI could surely
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 05:15:30PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 03:47:15PM +1000, Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project
Leader wrote:
* Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au [2003-09-20 17:07]:
By contrast, I wouldn't have a problem in principle with, eg, HP
Debian
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 03:43:18PM -0700, Derek Neighbors wrote:
Is the only currently discussed benefit use of the Debian
trademark? If so, do you want to consider other benefits? Some
thoughts that come to mind would be allowing them some greater say
in project issues. However, personally
On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 04:07:51PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 10:58:30PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
Charitable organisations have to fulfill a particular set of rules; like
being educational, helping the homeless, that sort of thing.
True, but generally that
Sorry to be replying to this so late but the part of this thread that
is living on drew me back into this where I realized I had not
answered.
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 05:21:34PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote:
I am curious about why? You state you don't want to see it, but
don't give any supporting
On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 05:07:14PM -0400, Simon Law wrote:
On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 01:25:18PM -0700, Benj. Mako Hill wrote:
Since there are already people working on this, I think that the most
constructive thing will be to follow up on the DPL's announcement in
regards to the trademark
will be fixed during the migration.
The other custom distributions have set up their homes at:
http://www.debian.org/devel/customdistroname
I imagine it will be in a similarly predictable place.
Regards,
Mako
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Benj. Mako Hill
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://mako.yukidoke.org/
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On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 07:20:46PM -0700, Benj. Mako Hill wrote:
What I have done is attached a text version of the resolution that SPI
passed creating the committee.
I totally lied. It's attached here.
Regards,
Mako
--
Benj. Mako Hill
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://mako.yukidoke.org/
WHEREAS
not the person who knows how best to keep our website simple and
streamlined, is the person who knows best know how to keep our
trademark in our hands.
Regards,
Mako
--
Benj. Mako Hill
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://mako.yukidoke.org/
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