Re: Discussing the DMUP

2000-04-26 Thread Peter Makholm
Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/nomic.htm I think we're playing the blind version where new players doesn't see the initial ruleset and nobody got the complete ruleset. -- Peter er ikke sur, han er sær -- og han er ikke DIKUs sureste koder, men måsk

Re: Discussing the DMUP

2000-04-26 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Philippe" == Philippe Troin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Philippe> Of course, we have nothing better to do than playing the Debian Philippe> Democracy Game. This piece of "policy" is so often used that it Philippe> obviously need a rewrite. Loaded words. Philippe> Leave it up to

Re: Discussing the DMUP

2000-04-25 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000 03:12:40 Philippe Troin wrote: > Of course, we have nothing better to do than playing the Debian > Democracy Game. Indeed. For those who wonder, the game is also called Nomic and the rules are available at: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/nomic.htm Marcus

Re: Discussing the DMUP

2000-04-25 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On 24 Apr 2000, Philippe Troin wrote: > Of course, we have nothing better to do than playing the Debian > Democracy Game. This piece of "policy" is so often used that it > obviously need a rewrite. If this is how many people feel then I would like to simply have the language of the policies in t

Re: Discussing the DMUP

2000-04-25 Thread James R. Van Zandt
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >I was looking at the Debian Machine usage policy (to be found > at http://www.debian.org/devel/dmup>), and found a number of > glaring flaws and omissions. More ominously, I think that unlike the > constitution, the DMUP places uncontrolled pow

Re: Discussing the DMUP

2000-04-25 Thread Philippe Troin
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think it needs a rewrite, and one that should go through a > better review process than the current one did. An document that > determines the rulkes and penalties that the developer community has > to live by should noit be decided by a sma

Re: Discussing the DMUP

2000-04-24 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 12:06:03AM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > Why is using a newreader on Debian machines strictly > > forbidden? (Incidentally, on IRC, Jason and AJ insist that the > to a misconfiguration[2]. Thus, you are limited to using news servers > pro

Re: Discussing the DMUP

2000-04-24 Thread Joey Hess
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Why is using a newreader on Debian machines strictly > forbidden? (Incidentally, on IRC, Jason and AJ insist that the > paragraph above explicitly allows access to usenet servers, and they > say the intent was not to forbid access. Not being a teleapth, I took

Discussing the DMUP

2000-04-24 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I was looking at the Debian Machine usage policy (to be found at http://www.debian.org/devel/dmup>), and found a number of glaring flaws and omissions. More ominously, I think that unlike the constitution, the DMUP places uncontrolled power into the hands of the DSA, with no checks