Re: -EXT-Re: DFARS Compliance Question

2020-02-20 Thread Ximin Luo
It's most likely fine. Tor Project has to abide by DFARS (and I too when I was a Tor contractor) due to its DARPA funding and we all used Debian. DFARS is literally 600+ pages of regulations, not really feasible for a small org to crawl over in detail. X Kunowski, Betty: > WARNING: This

Re: farewell

2019-07-22 Thread Ximin Luo
Mo Zhou: >> [..] >> >> Oh, Gnome.   > > It's a pity that the "software stores" started to think they know > "what the user want" [..] Just use XFCE. I ditched GNOME years ago and am much happier for it. The GNOME design philosophy is clearly chasing after Apple and other mass-market

Re: Realizing Good Ideas with Debian Money

2019-05-31 Thread Ximin Luo
Russ Allbery: > [..] > I respect the desire to try social experiments and be bold, but my counter > question is whether Debian as a project has the right training and the > right people to conduct a proper social experiment *here*, on *this* > particular topic. Do we have economists?

Re: Realizing Good Ideas with Debian Money

2019-05-31 Thread Ximin Luo
Russ Allbery: > [..] The failure mode here is that we lose contributors > because of hard feelings over who gets paid and who doesn't get paid and > how much they get paid and how they get paid, and the project ends up > weaker and more fragile. [..] > > For example, you say "democratic mandate,"

Re: Realizing Good Ideas with Debian Money

2019-05-31 Thread Ximin Luo
Russ Allbery: > Adrian Bunk writes: > >> My biggest high level concern is the income side, since this is the most >> difficult part and will likely also be the most controversial one. > > I could well be entirely wrong, but the part that I would expect to be the > most controversial is that,

Re: Apology and DAM decisions

2019-03-23 Thread Ximin Luo
Good to hear! I am glad we didn't need it in this specific instance, but I'd also like to take this chance to express support for the expulsion appeals procedure (plus the couple of tweaks I suggested in debian-private@) and hope that it will be finalised and formalised soon. All the best,

Re: Binary compatibility policy for security updates and point releases

2019-03-17 Thread Ximin Luo
Sam Hartman: >>>>>> "Ximin" == Ximin Luo writes: > > Ximin> Jakob Leben: > >> I have a system for updating my own software which is also > >> deployed > > Ximin> If you Depends: libfoo8, this will prevent dpkg from

Re: Binary compatibility policy for security updates and point releases

2019-03-17 Thread Ximin Luo
Jakob Leben: > I have a system for updating my own software which is also deployed on that > machine, but not the rest of the Debian system. Now, if ABI might change > between 9.2, then I have no guarantee that if I test my software update with > 9.2, it will be work as expected on the client's

Re: Binary compatibility policy for security updates and point releases

2019-03-17 Thread Ximin Luo
Jakob Leben: > Hello, > > I have not been able to find clear information about Debian policies for ABI > compatibility across point releases and security updates. I would assume that > no ABI changes at all (backwards compatible or not) are allowed in point > releases and security updates.

Re: Debian Project Leader Elections 2019: Call for nominations

2019-03-10 Thread Ximin Luo
/usr/bin/dpl \ --mode supervised-learning \ --training-input debian-de...@lists.debian.org \ --training-input debian-project@lists.debian.org \ --training-input debian-v...@lists.debian.org \ --authorized-peers /usr/share/keyrings/debian-keyring.gpg \ --authorized-peers

Re: Naming of teams on salsa.debian.org

2018-01-08 Thread Ximin Luo
Joerg Jaspert: > On 14907 March 1977, Ximin Luo wrote: > >> The current team names are a bit of a mess [1], and forcing everyone >> to use a suffix "-team" isn't helping because everyone is picking >> inconsistent prefixes instead. > >> Glancing t

Re: Naming of teams on salsa.debian.org

2018-01-05 Thread Ximin Luo
Alexander Wirt: > On Fri, 05 Jan 2018, Philipp Huebner wrote: > >> Hi >> >> Am 04.01.2018 um 16:57 schrieb Ximin Luo: >>> I think it's preferable not to look at this from the point-of-view of >>> individual teams, but from the perspective of the proj

Re: Naming of teams on salsa.debian.org

2018-01-04 Thread Ximin Luo
Holger Levsen: > On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 02:33:00PM +0000, Ximin Luo wrote: >> It's better to standardise on a set of prefixes and ditch the suffix >> completely. Prefixes will look better and be easier to navigate, when lists >> of group names are sorted. >&g

Re: Naming of teams on salsa.debian.org

2018-01-04 Thread Ximin Luo
Bas Couwenberg: > On 2018-01-04 15:33, Ximin Luo wrote: >> debian-* - for Debian infrastructure and admin stuff >> pkg-* - for group maintenance of related packages >> l10n-* - for localisation efforts >> >> If nobody disagrees, I'll be happy to implement the fol

Naming of teams on salsa.debian.org

2018-01-04 Thread Ximin Luo
!! Please keep me on CC, I am not subscribed to this list. (Content effectively duplicated at https://salsa.debian.org/salsa/support/issues/30) Alexander Wirt: > Hi, > > Since summer we have worked on our git.debian.org replacement based > on GitLab. I am really happy to say that we are

Re: Judging consensus at in-person meetings

2017-08-21 Thread Ximin Luo
Sean Whitton: > [moving to -project; please drop CCs on follow-ups] > > Hello Ximin, > > Thank you for writing this. > > On Mon, Aug 21 2017, Ximin Luo wrote: > >> I don't think using the opportunity of in-person meetings to judge >> consensus is such a

DMUP out-of-date practises

2013-12-21 Thread Ximin Luo
Hey, DMUP[1] still mentions rsh/telnet: Please use ssh/scp if at all possible rather than less secure alternatives (rsh, telnet or FTP). It should be stronger than if at all possible, or even better just remove all mention of rsh or telnet. [1] http://www.debian.org/devel/dmup -- GPG: