The developers reference now contains a paragraph concerning hostile upstreams:
http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/developer-duties.html#upstream-coordination
http://bugs.debian.org/523985
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There's a german association, Linux user in der Kirche[1] (Linux user in the
church), which plans to organize a booth on the next big meeting of the german
church in 2010.
They aim is to promote the usage of linux in the administrations of church
communities and of course private use of linux.
Thomas Koch wrote:
There's a german association, Linux user in der Kirche[1] (Linux user in
the
church), which plans to organize a booth on the next big meeting of the
german
church in 2010.
They aim is to promote the usage of linux in the administrations of church
communities and of
Thomas Koch wrote:
There's a german association, Linux user in der Kirche[1] (Linux user
in the church), which plans to organize a booth on the next big meeting
of the german church in 2010.
They aim is to promote the usage of linux in the administrations of
church communities and of
Thomas Koch wrote:
Thomas Koch wrote:
There's a german association, Linux user in der Kirche[1] (Linux user
in the church), which plans to organize a booth on the next big meeting
of the german church in 2010.
They aim is to promote the usage of linux in the administrations of
Martin Schulze wrote:
Thomas Koch wrote:
Thomas Koch wrote:
There's a german association, Linux user in der Kirche[1] (Linux user
in the church), which plans to organize a booth on the next big meeting
of the german church in 2010.
They aim is to promote the usage of linux in
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:52:37AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
It seems to me that these consulting businesses would be good
addresses to ask for sponsorship of a Debian/GNU/Linux booth if there
is no way getting a free booth for a charitable association such as
the Debian Project or the
Le jeudi 10 septembre 2009 à 00:57 +0100, Steve McIntyre a écrit :
1 New hardware / equipment
a The DSA team have a wishlist of new hardware they'd like […]
Full ack. Hardware is not that expensive, lack of hardware should not
hold back any of our development.
b Maintainers of big
Steve McIntyre wrote:
1 New hardware / equipment
a The DSA team have a wishlist of new hardware they'd like, along
with a set of donated machines that need configuring and/or
shipping. As far as I'm concerned, so long as the individual
requests here look reasonable then they
2009-09-10, Steve McIntyre:
Hi folks,
Suggestions and comments from others
[...]
6 Fund other related projects
a Debian Edu. Clearly good for us to do - heavily linked with
Debian.
I think that this could be really interesting.
On Thursday 10 September 2009, Steve McIntyre wrote:
5 Pay people to do stuff we don't/can't/won't:
g website redesign and restructuring
This is something we seem unable to make any progress at and that
is very much overdue. Especially the restructuring part would
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 00:12:18 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:
Thoughts?
I'm very much in favour of something like this. Debian is better off
without schilyware imo.
Cheers,
Julien
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Steve McIntyre lea...@debian.org writes:
4 Marketing stuff:
a box(es) of equipment to take to stands at various shows and
expos. Might be useful, but could be expensive. Where do we store
it/them? Who organises shipping?
I think this is something which we should pursue. I
On 2009-09-10, Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl wrote:
On Thursday 10 September 2009, Steve McIntyre wrote:
5 Pay people to do stuff we don't/can't/won't:
g website redesign and restructuring
This is something we seem unable to make any progress at and that
is very much
On Thursday 10 September 2009, Frans Pop wrote:
6 Fund other related projects
b Gnash. Petter is very keen on this, but I'm not so sure. Don't
they have other ways to get funding? Thoughts?
I don't think Debian as a project should sponsor upstream development.
That's up to
Frans Pop wrote:
On Thursday 10 September 2009, Steve McIntyre wrote:
5 Pay people to do stuff we don't/can't/won't:
g website redesign and restructuring
This is something we seem unable to make any progress at and that
is very much overdue. Especially the restructuring
[Frans Pop]
6 Fund other related projects
a Debian Edu. Clearly good for us to do - heavily linked with
Debian.
Not sure about that. IMO it's up to the schools and governmental
institutions that use Debian Edu to sponsor that. However, I have
no problem with Debian sponsoring
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
[Frans Pop]
b Gnash. Petter is very keen on this, but I'm not so sure. Don't
they have other ways to get funding? Thoughts?
I don't think Debian as a project should sponsor upstream
development. That's up to individual DDs.
A working free software
On Thursday 10 September 2009, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote:
It is useful not only for Debian, so IMHO Debian could donate some
money, but only if other big distributions (RedHat, SuSe/Novel, Ubuntu,
etc.) do the same.
Even then not IMO. Those other distributions are commercial, Debian is
not.
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 11:00:53AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
[Steve McIntyre]
There has been some discussion in the last couple of years about
whether or not Debian should distribute software that was written by
developers that we consider to be hostile.
In my opinion, the current
[Giacomo A. Catenazzi]
It is useful not only for Debian, so IMHO Debian could donate some
money, but only if other big distributions (RedHat, SuSe/Novel,
Ubuntu, etc.) do the same.
I find this to be a rather useless requirement to have, unless the
goal is to do nothing. If something is a good
Hi,
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Petter Reinholdtsen p...@hungry.com wrote:
[Giacomo A. Catenazzi]
It is useful not only for Debian, so IMHO Debian could donate some
money, but only if other big distributions (RedHat, SuSe/Novel,
Ubuntu, etc.) do the same.
I find this to be a rather
On Thu, Sep 10 2009, Steve McIntyre wrote:
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 11:00:53AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
If someone really want to maintain such package, we should not
prohibit it, but we should make it clear that it is strongly
recommended to not maintain such package, and that the
Hi,
* Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt h...@ftwca.de [2009-09-10 16:01]:
Steve McIntyre lea...@debian.org writes:
4 Marketing stuff:
a box(es) of equipment to take to stands at various shows and
expos. Might be useful, but could be expensive. Where do we store
it/them? Who organises
Hello,
I have a question about debian trademark. I am trying to find out whether I can
use debian logo when making a shirt and I came across your quotation:
We allow all businesses to make reasonable use of the Debian trademark. For
example, if you make a CD of our Debian GNU/Linux
Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl:
IMO it is not up to us to decide to pass on money donated to us to other
projects. If sponsors and donors feel Gnash is worth sponsoring, they
will do so themselves. Money donated to Debian should be spent on Debian.
I'm not a DD but I already helped runnning
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 06:27:53PM +0200, matouskova.barb...@centrum.cz wrote:
I have a question about debian trademark. I am trying to find out
whether I can use debian logo when making a shirt and I came across
your quotation:
[..]
Yes you can, see : http://www.debian.org/logos/
You can
Hi, Steve:
On Thursday 10 September 2009 01:57:14 Steve McIntyre wrote:
[...]
4 Marketing stuff:
Yes. There's a kindof market point I've been wishing on Debian for
years knowing that it simply could happen: certifications and generally
rising attention to commercial producers, both
Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org writes:
Le jeudi 10 septembre 2009 à 00:57 +0100, Steve McIntyre a écrit :
1 New hardware / equipment
a The DSA team have a wishlist of new hardware they'd like […]
Full ack. Hardware is not that expensive, lack of hardware should not
hold back any of
Hi!
Jesús M. Navarro schrieb:
4 Marketing stuff:
[..]
So, if Debian can be truly so great for companies from IBM to Alfresco, to
Oracle (and the end result can be so great for we, mere users), how is it
that we won't have certified stuff from them? It can't be the platform or
else
There has been some discussion in the last couple of years about
whether or not Debian should distribute software that was written by
developers that we consider to be hostile.
In my opinion, the current recommendation in the developer references
is enough for now:
Different thing. This
Thoughts?
I'm very much in favour of something like this. Debian is better off
without schilyware imo.
This isnt special to that. We had/have other people as upstreams we
might not like. (How about the one that purposely added broken code in a
way that it will run on every users system but
In terms of rationale, I think it's clear that we do *not* have to
package every piece of Free Software that is available to us. If we
can't have a sensible relationship with the upstream developers, then
I believe it would be better not to expose Debian and our users to the
problems that
Hi, Alexander:
On Thursday 10 September 2009 22:11:24 Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote:
Hi!
Jesús M. Navarro schrieb:
4 Marketing stuff:
[..]
So, if Debian can be truly so great for companies from IBM to Alfresco,
to Oracle (and the end result can be so great for we, mere users), how
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