Re: Debian Etch Stable.

2007-02-19 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: Debian Etch Stable.

2007-01-29 Thread MJ Ray
Kalle Kivimaa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] the Finnish Red Cross, which has a staff of a two hundred or so paid workers in addition to the thousands of volunteers. There are very few conflicts between the volunteers and the paid staff [...] Did the Finnish Red Cross change from just

Re: Debian Etch Stable.

2007-01-29 Thread Kalle Kivimaa
MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Did the Finnish Red Cross change from just volunteers to volunteers and paid staff? If so, how? I don't know the history of the FRC that well. I do know that there have been paid staff for at least 50 years. Unsurprisingly, I don't think FRC publish that info

Re: Debian Etch Stable.

2007-01-29 Thread MJ Ray
Kalle Kivimaa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Did the Finnish Red Cross change from just volunteers to volunteers and paid staff? If so, how? I don't know the history of the FRC that well. I do know that there have been paid staff for at least 50 years. It seems

Re: Debian Etch Stable.

2006-12-24 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Dec 24, 2006 at 03:20:07AM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote: IMO the real question is how we as the Debian community cope with the social system called Debian, especially with the issue of organziational change. -- And from my POV it would be helpful if either those techies who have

Re: Debian Etch Stable.

2006-12-24 Thread Kalle Kivimaa
gregor herrmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why? Because not only my personal experience in NPOs but also the scientific literature on this subject show that a mix of paid staff and volunteers in an organization/project leads to disagreement/conflicts; and that introducing organzational changes

Re: Debian Etch Stable.

2006-12-24 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, 24 Dec 2006 11:29:21 +0200, Kalle Kivimaa wrote: Why? Because not only my personal experience in NPOs but also the scientific literature on this subject show that a mix of paid staff and volunteers in an organization/project leads to disagreement/conflicts; This is not a certain

Re: Debian Etch Stable.

2006-12-23 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 02:10:32 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: Thanks for presenting your thoughts. I'm going to make a few remarks on a meta level: - Debian shouldn't do funding of Debian work for various reasons, that add up to it not having the support of the developer body [..]

Re: Debian Etch Stable.

2006-12-19 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 03:32:16PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 01:24:32PM +, MJ Ray wrote: Actually, I believe you'll find that that wasn't even put forward as a metric for the experiment. In your own words, the experiment was to allocate sufficient funds so

Re: Debian Etch Stable.

2006-12-18 Thread kloro
whatever. you're all amazing. a grateful debian newcomer -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Debian-Etch-Stable.-tf2774484.html#a7934520 Sent from the Debian Project mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Debian Etch Stable.

2006-12-14 Thread Julien BLACHE
Mike Hommey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Given this isn't a DPL funding initiative, I think you're way off base. It's not only because you subtly outsourced it. subtly ? HAHAHAHAHAHA. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian GNU/Linux Developer - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Public key available on

Re: Debian Etch Stable.

2006-12-14 Thread MJ Ray
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au wrote: On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 01:24:32PM +, MJ Ray wrote: Actually, I believe you'll find that that wasn't even put forward as a metric for the experiment. I didn't write that. In your own words, the experiment was to allocate sufficient funds

Re: Debian Etch Stable.

2006-12-14 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 08:40:41AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: I would further expect that you didn't try to pollute the experiment result with stuff like the mail starting this thread. From the tone of that mail, it indicated clearly that for you the experiment was over, and that you called for

Re: Debian Etch Stable.

2006-12-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 12:48:16AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 08:40:41AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: I would further expect that you didn't try to pollute the experiment result with stuff like the mail starting this thread. From the tone of that mail, it indicated

Re: Debian Etch Stable.

2006-12-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 05:37:23PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 07:58:50PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: Which is why we release with gnome 2.14. I don't understand. Do you consider this to be a good thing or a bad thing? As current gnome is 2.16, probably

Re: Debian Etch Stable.

2006-12-13 Thread Loïc Minier
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006, Mike Hommey wrote: Which is why we release with gnome 2.14. Actually, we cherry-picked some good 2.16 modules as well; nothing like the full desktop, but still worth mentioning. -- Loïc Minier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Forget your stupid theme park! I'm gonna make my own! With

Re: Debian Etch Stable.

2006-12-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 12:11:19PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 11:59:24AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: One thing you could do is to end *NOW* the experiment, Can you please roughly outline what is going to happen when the experiment is continued until its scheduled end,

Re: Debian Etch Stable.

2006-12-13 Thread Riku Voipio
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 08:38:05AM +0100, Alexis Sukrieh wrote: 1. Paying Debian Developers seems to make (some of) them completely humorless, everything is taken a hundred percent seriously, as if the dollars in their pockets droped their fun hability. That's a pitty. Ah, the It's just

Re: Debian Etch Stable.

2006-12-13 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 12:30:16PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 12:11:19PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 11:59:24AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: One thing you could do is to end *NOW* the experiment, Can you please roughly outline what is going to

Re: Debian Etch Stable.

2006-12-13 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 01:00:38PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: As far as I remember, the experiment has two steps, paying Steve for a month and paying Andi for a month. Steve's month is already over, and Andi is like in his third week. So - again - as far as I remember there is only one week of

Re: Debian Etch Stable.

2006-12-13 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 01:21:35PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: Like said, the experiment will finish once it is officially finished, and once the analysis has been done, and the final report result is published. Given the impact of long-term demotivation, you can thus not expect the experiment

Re: Debian Etch Stable.

2006-12-13 Thread Roland Mas
I would be interested in the difference of the two action lists. Well, the experiment is flawed [...] Let me ask again: What is going to happen when the experiment is continued? [...] Sven Luther, 2006-12-13 13:21:35 +0100 : How are you going to measure the long-term demotivation

Re: Debian Etch Stable.

2006-12-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 10:40:25PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 01:00:38PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: As far as I remember, the experiment has two steps, paying Steve for a month and paying Andi for a month. Steve's month is already over, and Andi is like in his third

Re: Debian Etch Stable.

2006-12-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 01:48:45PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 01:21:35PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: Like said, the experiment will finish once it is officially finished, and once the analysis has been done, and the final report result is published. Given the impact

Re: Debian Etch Stable.

2006-12-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 02:09:54PM +0100, Roland Mas wrote: I would be interested in the difference of the two action lists. Well, the experiment is flawed [...] Let me ask again: What is going to happen when the experiment is continued? [...] Sven Luther, 2006-12-13 13:21:35

Re: Debian Etch Stable.

2006-12-13 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Sven Luther dijo [Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 11:53:52AM +0100]: Which is why we release with gnome 2.14. I don't understand. Do you consider this to be a good thing or a bad thing? As current gnome is 2.16, probably 2.18 before etch is released, i guess he means we are already shiping

Re: Debian Etch Stable.

2006-12-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 10:47:26AM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: Sven Luther dijo [Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 11:53:52AM +0100]: Which is why we release with gnome 2.14. I don't understand. Do you consider this to be a good thing or a bad thing? As current gnome is 2.16, probably 2.18

Re: Debian Etch Stable.

2006-12-13 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Sven Luther dijo [Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 01:21:35PM +0100]: How are you going to measure the long-term demotivation which results from the experiment ? How are you going to measure the already happened demotivation ? How are you going to guarantee that the previously demotivated folk who

Re: Debian Etch Stable.

2006-12-13 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 04:02:53PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: Personally, I'd say that now would be the time for any anti-payment people to say we can do this better, and look, we'll prove it, and make up their own target date for etch, and demonstrate how much energy and effort can be

Re: Debian Etch Stable.

2006-12-13 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Wed, Dec 13, 2006, Riku Voipio wrote: On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 08:38:05AM +0100, Alexis Sukrieh wrote: 1. Paying Debian Developers seems to make (some of) them completely humorless, everything is taken a hundred percent seriously, as if the dollars in their pockets droped their fun

Re: Debian Etch Stable.

2006-12-13 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 12:04:04PM +0100, Amaya wrote: Marc Haber wrote: Otoh, I see a truckload of unpaid DDs vituperating and spreading bad mood around the project. _That's_ the real harm that was caused - very indirectly - by dunctank. I tend to agree with you. Real experiments

Re: Debian Etch Stable.

2006-12-13 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 01:24:32PM +, MJ Ray wrote: Actually, I believe you'll find that that wasn't even put forward as a metric for the experiment. In your own words, the experiment was to allocate sufficient funds so that Steve Langasek and Andreas Barth can dedicate a month each to

Re: Debian Etch Stable.

2006-12-13 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 02:17:35PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: [...] Personally, I don't consider the experiment over 'til all those loose ends are tied up; and it could easily turn out that the logistical issues alone are enough of a problem to make this sort of endeavour not worth the

Re: Debian Etch Stable.

2006-12-13 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 03:32:16PM +1000, Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au wrote: Given this isn't a DPL funding initiative, I think you're way off base. It's not only because you subtly outsourced it. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: Debian Etch Stable.

2006-12-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 03:33:49PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 02:17:35PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: [...] Personally, I don't consider the experiment over 'til all those loose ends are tied up; and it could easily turn out that the logistical issues alone are

Re: Debian Etch Stable.

2006-12-12 Thread Julien BLACHE
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au wrote: Personally, I'd say that now would be the time for any anti-payment people to say we can do this better, and look, we'll prove it, and make up their own target date for etch, and demonstrate how much energy and Now if only you could understand that

Re: Debian Etch Stable.

2006-12-12 Thread Julien BLACHE
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au wrote: Now if only you could understand that we don't give a shit about the release date, that would be a great step forward. Only quality matters. Quality is not, and has never been, the question. Given how one of the two release managers treated some

Re: Debian Etch Stable.

2006-12-12 Thread Martin Schulze
Anthony Towns wrote: Personally, I'd say that now would be the time for any anti-payment people to say we can do this better, and look, we'll prove it, and make up their own target date for etch, and demonstrate how much energy and I hereby set December 6th 2007 as release date. With help of

Re: Debian Etch Stable.

2006-12-12 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 09:11:31AM +0100, Julien BLACHE wrote: Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au wrote: Personally, I'd say that now would be the time for any anti-payment people to say we can do this better, and look, we'll prove it, and make up their own target date for etch, and

Re: Debian Etch Stable.

2006-12-12 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 05:47:53PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 08:38:05AM +0100, Alexis Sukrieh wrote: Anthony Towns a ?crit : Personally, I'd say that now would be the time for any anti-payment people to say we can do this better, and look, we'll prove it, and make

Re: Debian Etch Stable.

2006-12-12 Thread Alexis Sukrieh
Marc Haber a écrit : Otoh, I see a truckload of unpaid DDs vituperating and spreading bad mood around the project. _That's_ the real harm that was caused - very indirectly - by dunctank. Ok, so you want to count bad-mood seeds? Telling what is an appropriate behaviour or not - just as if

Re: Debian Etch Stable.

2006-12-12 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 06:15:03PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 09:11:31AM +0100, Julien BLACHE wrote: Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au wrote: Personally, I'd say that now would be the time for any anti-payment people to say we can do this better, and look,

Re: Debian Etch Stable.

2006-12-12 Thread MJ Ray
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au wrote: [...] It might be that many of the anti-payment people are actually also just not that interested in getting the release out (or are even opposed to it), though. And I've been told they're probably too cynical to try something like the above anyway,

Re: Debian Etch Stable.

2006-12-12 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006, Anthony Towns wrote: Personally, I'd say that now would be the time for any anti-payment people to say we can do this better, and look, we'll prove it, and make up their own target date for etch, and demonstrate how much energy and effort can be mustered just by having a

Re: Debian Etch Stable.

2006-12-12 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 09:56:33AM +, MJ Ray wrote: In the context of an experiment to find out whether paying people to do Debian work can be useful, it'd certainly provide some useful information as to whether there are better alternatives for encouraging contributions and getting

Re: Debian Etch Stable.

2006-12-12 Thread Julien BLACHE
Marc Haber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now if only you could understand that we don't give a shit about the release date, that would be a great step forward. Only quality matters. Kindly speak for yourself. I happen to give a shit about the release I speak for (most of) the so-called

Re: Debian Etch Stable.

2006-12-12 Thread Paul Cager
Anthony Towns wrote Personally, I'd say that now would be the time for any anti-payment people to say we can do this better, and look, we'll prove it I've been told they're probably too cynical to try... Well, one of the main criticisms against the experiment was that it might

Re: Debian Etch Stable.

2006-12-12 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 12:11:07PM +0100, Sam Hocevar wrote: It looks to me that you are now asking others to set up the experimental protocol you failed to deliver when the experiment was being discussed. As of now, anything that might happen can be reused for a Dunc-Tank PR explaining how

Re: Re: Debian Etch Stable.

2006-12-12 Thread Josselin Mouette
Anthony Towns wrote: As far as any hypothetical PR is concerned, vocal critics of the Dunc-Tank procedure declined to contribute any effort to getting the release out sooner, even to demonstrate how effective Debian can be in the absence of paid work seems like it would be entirely sufficient.

Re: Debian Etch Stable.

2006-12-12 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 06:15:03PM +1000, Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au wrote: On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 09:11:31AM +0100, Julien BLACHE wrote: Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au wrote: Personally, I'd say that now would be the time for any anti-payment people to say we can do

Re: Debian Etch Stable.

2006-12-12 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 07:58:50PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: Which is why we release with gnome 2.14. I don't understand. Do you consider this to be a good thing or a bad thing? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com

Re: Debian Etch Stable.

2006-12-11 Thread Alexis Sukrieh
Russ Allbery a écrit : Hi, would like to know which day of December will be launched and version of the Debian Etch Stable. So would we. :) The only answer we can give you is when it's ready, which may or may not be in December. If I were a troll-feeder, I would say that you can wait

Re: Debian Etch Stable.

2006-12-11 Thread Mohammed Adnène Trojette
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006, Anthony Towns wrote: Personally, I'd say that now would be the time for any anti-payment people to say we can do this better, and look, we'll prove it, and make up their own target date for etch, and demonstrate how much energy and effort can be mustered just by having a

Re: Debian Etch Stable.

2006-12-11 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 08:38:05AM +0100, Alexis Sukrieh wrote: Anthony Towns a ?crit : Personally, I'd say that now would be the time for any anti-payment people to say we can do this better, and look, we'll prove it, and make up their own target date for etch, and demonstrate how much energy

Re: Debian Etch Stable.

2006-12-07 Thread Russ Allbery
João Henrique Furtado [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, would like to know which day of December will be launched and version of the Debian Etch Stable. So would we. :) The only answer we can give you is when it's ready, which may or may not be in December. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED])