Saurav Sarkar wrote:
> I was using purchased Debian 8.1.0
[snip]
> So now i bought Debian 12.1.0
[snip]
> My money gone to HELL.
Hello,
since you mentioned paying for Debian, let me point out that Debian
has always been free of charge. You can download it from here:
https://www.debian.org/distrib/
Roberto A. Foglietta wrote:
> cloud technologies posed a challenge to the GPLv2 because under that
license everyone has the right to change the code but do not share it
as long as s/he uses it internally which is exactly how the SaaS
works. To fulfil this lack of freedom, the GPLv3 was proposed.
W
Roberto A. Foglietta wrote:
> Mullvad, a well-known VPN service provider, focuses attention on one
of the most unfortunate consequences of the proposed law that aims to
force messaging apps to scan users' personal messages: open source
software repositories and archives could become illegal.
>
> In
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> A serious suggestion: it is not necessary for Debian to package fortune files
at all.
I absolutely disagree with that.
The fortune package is completely nonfunctional without any fortune files.
True, I could download fortune files from anywhere on the internet,
and even
Didier Raboud wrote:
> What most respondents have gotten across as the bulk of my proposal seems to
be: "we could limit upload rights to certain packages"
>
> ... where what I was trying to get across was: "we could team-maintain the
core of Debian (and by extension, other subsets)"
Frankly, readi
Didier Raboud wrote:
> The last aspect would also be to completely remove the source-package-level
realms; within a subset, there would be no package-specific maintainers or
vetoes; disputes would move "out" from source-package-level to subset-level.
Uhm. This makes me wonder what the real goal of
Chuck Zmudzinski wrote:
> I have read much of the documentation online about how Debian understands
itself, but I have never heard the term "do-ocracy" before.
As I understand, it is an informal term, as such I don't expect to
find it in formal documents. I read it as meaning "those who do the
wor
start an argument,
so I'll just state it and leave it as that.
Gerardo
Il giorno mer 23 mar 2022 alle ore 14:46 Wouter Verhelst
ha scritto:
>
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 09:35:18AM +0100, Gerardo Ballabio wrote:
> > I actually believe it would be quite problematic if any single
Thomas Goirand wrote:
> Can we delete him from planet?
Why does this need to be brought to -project? There is a team
responsible for managing planet.d.o. If you have issues with Norbert's
posts, write to pla...@debian.org .
Jonathan Carter wrote:
> Any DD can do that... oh wait that includes me..
or Steam, KDE, Gnome, stuff like that.
> But that's not really up to Debian.
> Devin Prater
> r.d.t.pra...@gmail.com
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 3:12 PM Gerardo Ballabio
> wrote:
>>
>> Sam Hartman wrote:
>> > I agree that Debian
Sam Hartman wrote:
> I agree that Debian has committed to being open and inclusive. However, for
> me that means something different than you say in your second sentence. To
> me that means we've committed to being open to as large a cross section of
> people--as diverse a cross section of peop
Sam Hartman wrote:
> I think phrasing this in terms of justice and rights for keeping
governments accountable is likely to get a knee-jerk reaction from a
number of people who do not want to think of things that.
> It's fairly clear to a number of us that maintaining standards of a
private comm
Russ Allbery wrote:
> We need a careful and slow process for kicking someone out of the project
because that's a big deal. Having a careful and slow process for issuing
a warning is faintly absurd,
I see your point and to some extent I agree -- but if repeated
warnings then become grounds for bei
Diederik de Haas wrote:
> But then the question becomes: what is the authoritative version?
Was the Social Contract approved by a General Resolution?
If so, then the authoritative version is the text that appeared in the
GR ballot.
Gerardo
Johannes Schauer wrote:
> So in my opinion (and please correct my assumptions if they are wrong), an
> acceptable key signing policy would also be one, where a prospective DM has
> shown over several months to produce work that is always signed with the same
> key and maybe even communicated (fo
Dato Simó wrote:
>> If it turns out that […] what I think […] is unacceptable
>> rather than the way I express it, I will not post any more.
>
> Well, that’s the crux of the problem, isn’t it?
Yes, exactly.
And I read the rest of your message as saying "what you think is
indeed unacceptable". And
Enrico Zini wrote:
> If one focuses on Tina instead of looking at Gerardo's history of behaviour
> on Debian list
Enrico,
I now fully understand how my message of last Thursday was not
acceptable, and I regret sending it.
And I didn't really want to follow up on that any more. But since you
poin
(I see that because of my mistake, this thread continued on both
-project and -vote. If you think it's better to restrict it to either
list, please say so.)
Hello Sam and others,
I did not want to derail the discussion. As I wrote, I made those
examples because I believed that they would help mak
Sorry, I just realized I sent this to the wrong list. It was for
-vote actually.
Gerardo
Il giorno gio 12 dic 2019 alle ore 11:22 Gerardo Ballabio
ha scritto:
>
> Sam, thank you very much for raising this issue and for recognizing
> that there's more than one angle to it.
>
Sam, thank you very much for raising this issue and for recognizing
that there's more than one angle to it.
I tend to agree with Scott. It is well known, at least since George
Orwell wrote his books, that controlling how people speak means
controlling how they think. So I believe that this issue i
Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> If what you mean by "interpreting" is "eventually come up with a long
list of things not to do", then that would definitely be against the
spirit of the current Code of Conduct
Hi Wouter,
as far as my understanding goes (which may be completely wrong), the
intention of the
I wrote:
> That isn't really different from the Community Team claiming ownership of
> interpreting the CoC simply because they were the first who started working
> on that.
Thinking again about it, maybe they should have filed an ITP bug?!?
Gerardo
Enrico Zini wrote:
>> * Remove blogs from community forums like Planet Debian
>
>This I think is something the team could actually do, just as any Debian
>Developer could do it, having commit access to the planet config.
While technically they have the ability to do that, they are not
allowed to
Steve McIntyre wrote:
> Within the team, we've brainstormed about this and come up with the following
> to describe our role and responsibilities. We'd like to discuss it now with
> the rest of the project. Feedback welcome please!
Hi Steve,
that looks good (I especially like the "Examples of th
Sam Hartman wrote:
> I strongly believe that Debian should be about free software. Every
time we mix in some other issue, we reduce our contributor base and
dilute our mission.
+1
Just as a side note, not wanting to reopen that discussion -- I guess
this would also apply to the issue that I rais
Bas Wijnen wrote:
> note that the proposal is not to say "our users must not be allowed to use
> github". It's "our developers must not be allowed to force contributors to
> use github".
Scott Kitterman wrote:
> No one is forced to use any VCS to maintain Debian packages. If you don't
> want t
(sorry for breaking the thread, I still haven't sorted that out)
> ##
> I do not consider a flat tarball to be a preferred form for modification.
> Thus, like any non-source form, it must be accompanied by a way to obtain the
> actual form for modification. There are many such w
age programmatically).
As this is off-topic here, I'll seek help in some more appropriate place.
Gerardo
Il giorno mer 10 lug 2019 alle ore 17:59 Eldon Koyle
ha scritto:
>
> On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 3:02 AM Gerardo Ballabio
> wrote:
>
> >
> > Gerardo
> >
>
Russ Allbery wrote:
> I think the goal should be to stop the behavior in violation of the Code of
> Conduct.
I see here an implicit assumption that whenever an alleged violation
is reported, the allegation is actually true. I suspect that this is
exactly the problem: many people are concerned tha
I'm sorry Sam. I sent my last message before reading yours.
I will now abstain from further posting.
Gerardo
Il giorno lun 1 lug 2019 alle ore 18:24 Russ Allbery
ha scritto:
> That said, how *do* you want to handle this, assuming that other people in
> the project do want to acknowledge important events for our community
> members? For example, Debian has made note of Diwali in the past in
> various way
(Sorry to break the thread, but I wasn't Cc:d this message)
Russ Allbery wrote:
> So, we should look to our LGBTQ project members to decide what Debian should
> do for Pride, to our Hispanic members to decide what Debian should do for
> Hispanic Heritage Month, and so forth, since they're the ex
Il giorno ven 28 giu 2019 alle ore 12:45 G. Branden Robinson
ha scritto:
> Can you please articulate:
> 1. what the definite political connotation of Pride Month is (feel free
> to cite a representative source);
> 2. how it is in conflict with the position statement at the official
> project URL y
Thanks for answering that specific question. I did indeed miss that.
Replying separately to the other posters.
Gerardo
Il giorno ven 28 giu 2019 alle ore 14:56 Sam Hartman
ha scritto:
>
> Hi.
> Responding only to one thing at this time, and apologies if it has
> already been covered.
>
> This
Hello all,
I've just seen this on https://micronews.debian.org/ :
"In support of #pridemonth, Debian changes its website logo. The
Debian Project welcomes and encourages participation by everyone
https://www.debian.org/intro/diversity "
May I please ask who decided that and where was it discussed
Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 11:31:22AM +0100, Gerardo Ballabio wrote:
> > Hello, may I please ask a question:
> >
> > Does the Anti-Harassment (AH) Team have a delegation from the DPL?
> No AFAIK.
Thanks for your answer.
> Hence "recom
Hello, may I please ask a question:
Does the Anti-Harassment (AH) Team have a delegation from the DPL?
I had been actually assuming that it had, but when I searched, I was
unable to find it:
- I couldn't find any delegation mail in the d-d-a archives (please
direct me to it if it's there and I mi
On 06/10/05 01:10:22, Chris Waters wrote:
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 02:34:14PM +0200, Gerardo Ballabio wrote:
> I was complaining that a screensaver, that is, a program that
isn't expected to have anything to do with web surfing, could
download *anything* without asking me. Of cou
On 06/09/05 13:46:38, Philip Hands wrote:
I believe you've missed the point.
It's not that "random" goes of hunting for porn and slapping it on
your screen, it's that certain "offensive" images may end up being
downloaded, and then displayed to people who would prefer not to
see them.
I
Hi all,
I'd like to add my two cents to the discussion.
I don't think that "random screensaver" should download *anything*
from the Web. Not everybody has fast Internet connections, and I
don't want my computer to waste bandwidth unless *I* tell it to.
"You enabled random screensaver, you g
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