Re: Debian Weekly News - November 28th, 2006

2006-12-07 Thread Drew Parsons
Filipus wrote: > Drew Parsons must also have been commenting the point of view which joey > sends > by implying that dunc-tank is unfortunate, as DWN should be NPOV. If you > don't like that people are paid to work on Debian, you can help Debian > anyway...but it's s

Re: Debian Weekly News - November 28th, 2006

2006-11-28 Thread Drew Parsons
On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 21:05 +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > --- > ...Due to unfortunate [1]circumstances the weekly > newsletter stopped being released weekly > > 1. http://www.dunc-tank.org/ Give it a rest alright, won't yo

Re: towards consensus

2006-11-04 Thread Drew Parsons
> > However in the comment this writer pointed out that consensus, on the > > contrary, is when we find a solution that we all agree we can live with, > > even if we don't particularly think it's a great idea. > > I don't particularly like that definition, but you may find this > article interest

towards consensus

2006-11-04 Thread Drew Parsons
In the course of the debates about the value of the funding experiment, someone made a comment about what consensus actually means. I hadn't thought about it that way before (possibly evidence of poor education), so I thought I'd lift it up so the meme can infect everyone else too. I had been c

Re: Position Statement to the Dunc-Tanc "experiment"

2006-10-27 Thread Drew Parsons
Ian wrote: > Drew Parsons writes ("Re: Position Statement to the Dunc-Tanc "experiment""): > > The first group, the minority, believes that any use of money to > > increase the time developers spend on Debian is always intrinsically a > > bad

Re: Position Statement to the Dunc-Tanc "experiment"

2006-10-27 Thread Drew Parsons
First I will state my personal position. I think the original intent and idea of the DPL - to leverage available funds to assist the process of finishing a stable release - is a great one. Money is a tool to be used, there's no sense letting it lie around just gathering interest. The fact that on

Re: GFDL freedoms

2005-04-14 Thread Drew Parsons
On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 22:00 +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > [Note Mail-Followup-To:] Noted, but the problem is not everyone is subscribed to debian-project, which makes continuity of the discussion somewhat awkward... > > The interesting bit is the bit that is explictly omitted: the rationale. > It