Re: Withdrawal of the General Resolution about IRC

2001-11-17 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Jason Gunthorpe wrote: I seem to recall one of the Joey's was the original creator of the channel. Early inhabitors included igor, che_fox and a few others iirc. Wichert. -- _ /[EMAIL PROTECTED] This space

Re: Withdrawal of the General Resolution about IRC

2001-11-15 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Branden Robinson wrote: So the people who asked me to leave #debian-devel when I wasn't yet a developer somehow had a premonition of how much of a pain in the ass I would become? :) Yes. We failed in stopping you though :) Wichert. --

Re: Withdrawal of the General Resolution about IRC

2001-11-15 Thread Edward C. Lang
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 05:14:23PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: In fact there was one rather controversial regular at the time who'd been rejected as a maintainer. Who was that? Maybe it will help jog my memory. Kysh. Elmo, on the other hand, isn't quite as forgettable. --

Re: Withdrawal of the General Resolution about IRC

2001-11-15 Thread Jules Bean
On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 12:22:15AM +1100, Edward C. Lang wrote: On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 05:14:23PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: In fact there was one rather controversial regular at the time who'd been rejected as a maintainer. Who was that? Maybe it will help jog my memory.

Re: Withdrawal of the General Resolution about IRC

2001-11-15 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 02:00:32PM +, Jules Bean wrote: FWIW, I was not allowed on the #debian-devel channel until I was a developer either. I think it depended whom one spoke to about it. I strongly suspect you're right about that. -- G. Branden Robinson| Suffer

Withdrawal of the General Resolution about IRC

2001-11-14 Thread Raphael Hertzog
[ Please respect the reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Hello, first I'd like to thank the few people who have been constructive and tried to help instead of denigrating and nitpicking on minor points. I've decided to withdraw the general resolution proposed 2 weeks ago about IRC as communication

Re: Withdrawal of the General Resolution about IRC

2001-11-14 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Raphael Hertzog wrote: Because the most concerned people (Wichert as #debian-devel's channel founder and Branden as an operator) didn't want to participate in the discussion, not even respond to simple questions that would have let us continue the work. Fact is that the last 2

Re: Withdrawal of the General Resolution about IRC

2001-11-14 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 02:58:05PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: * #debian-devel has always been a channel for Debian development. It never was a channel restricted to just Debian developers This simply is not true, as I've said over and over again elsewhere. Ask the people who were there

Re: Withdrawal of the General Resolution about IRC

2001-11-14 Thread Chris Waters
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 12:40:07PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: This simply is not true, as I've said over and over again elsewhere. Ask the people who were there years ago, before you went by the nick wiggy. I am one of those people who was there when wiggy was wichert, and I was told at

Re: Withdrawal of the General Resolution about IRC

2001-11-14 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 10:49:02AM -0800, Chris Waters wrote: I am one of those people who was there when wiggy was wichert, and I was told at the time that #dd was *not* restricted to developers. Who told you that? I was told in ~January 1996 that only developers were allowed. When I became

Re: Withdrawal of the General Resolution about IRC

2001-11-14 Thread Manoj Srivastava
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi, Now that the original proposer and 4 of the sponsors of this GR have sent in statements supporting the withdrawal of this proposal, this GR is now defunct. manoj - -- Perhaps the best thing about the future is that it only comes one

Re: Withdrawal of the General Resolution about IRC

2001-11-14 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Branden Robinson wrote: This simply is not true, as I've said over and over again elsewhere. Ask the people who were there years ago, before you went by the nick wiggy. I was there when the channel was created actually (ok, maybe 1 or 2 days later). Wichert. --

Re: Withdrawal of the General Resolution about IRC

2001-11-14 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 09:13:14PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: I also remember it as Wichert describes, and I've been around since #debian was on a non-opn network. So the people who asked me to leave #debian-devel when I wasn't yet a developer somehow had a premonition of how much of a pain