Re: Question for candidate Towns [Was, Re: DPL election IRC Debate - Call for questions]

2005-03-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 11:33:43PM -0800, Anthony Towns wrote: Sven Luther wrote: On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 09:27:36AM -0800, Anthony Towns wrote: Steve Langasek wrote: As someone who is both an ftpmaster and a DPL candidate, could you also tell us what resources you (or the ftpmasters as a

DPL debate 2005: 19 March 2005, 23:00 UTC

2005-03-04 Thread martin f krafft
Hello, world. This year's DPL debate will take place on Saturday, 19 March 2005, at 23:00 UTC[0]. It will last for two hours. The meeting will take place over IRC, using two channels: #debian-dpl-debate: on this channel, the candidates answer questions and debate. The channel is moderated

Re: Question for candidate Towns [Was, Re: DPL election IRC Debate - Call for questions]

2005-03-04 Thread Anthony Towns
Sven Luther wrote: Well, i guess people get rather irritated if sending email to ftp-master email address for things that are mostly reasonable could as well go to /dev/null, Sure, of course they are, and so they should be. I can fairly readily find 52k more reasons for people to be irritated

Re: Red-tops, was: Clarification about krooger's platform

2005-03-04 Thread MJ Ray
Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scripsit MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Neither feels that the groups it reports on are their main audience. As far as I can see, the main audience of DWN is Debian developers, package maintainers, and other members of the community. This audience is

Re: Question for candidate Towns

2005-03-04 Thread Kalle Kivimaa
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes: resolves the complaints about NEW and hence I don't think that the NEW issue is an example of a communication problem at all. This is getting slightly too detailed discussion for a DPL, but anyway: what do you think the NEW issue is an example of?

Re: Question for A. Towns - NM

2005-03-04 Thread Anthony Towns
Hi David, I'm going to cheat and treat this as two questions. David N. Welton wrote: A. Towns writes, in his platform: I think it's important that the project accept contributions from as large and diverse a group of technically skilled people as we can manage. I think the best way to achieve

Re: Question for candidate Towns [Was, Re: DPL election IRC Debate - Call for questions]

2005-03-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 03:29:58AM -0800, Anthony Towns wrote: Sven Luther wrote: Well, i guess people get rather irritated if sending email to ftp-master email address for things that are mostly reasonable could as well go to /dev/null, Sure, of course they are, and so they should be. I

Re: Question for candidate Towns [Was, Re: DPL election IRC Debate - Call for questions]

2005-03-04 Thread Matthew Garrett
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au wrote: As a concrete example, I don't think http://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html resolves the complaints about NEW and hence I don't think that the NEW issue is an example of a communication problem at all. http://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html

Summarising the discussions (was: Re: Call for brevity and on-topicness of discussion)

2005-03-04 Thread David Schmitt
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 20:08, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: In order to try to keep the size of the discussion still consumeable by as much people as possible, Do you think it'd be feasible[1] to put essential questions and answers (like two or three paragraphs per candidate on a website

Topics resembling the DPL election, was: Clarification about krooger's platform

2005-03-04 Thread MJ Ray
Ben Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah, in which case I salute the innovative way in which you boldly post to -vote on topics bearing increasingly little resemblance to the DPL election. Sorry if I'm communicating it badly, but I think the debian-women problem includes all the hot topics of

Re: Exclusion, was: Clarification about krooger's platform

2005-03-04 Thread MJ Ray
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nope, it doesn't work that way. The translators come to the d-i and translation team and ask what they can do to help get it translated. I think this is tied up with the change of installer. It makes it a bit tricky to figure out who could have done

Aliases for /dev/null: Clarification about krooger's platform

2005-03-04 Thread MJ Ray
MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark, [...] That reminds me of one thing that has annoyed me during tbm's leadership (sorry tbm! You have done most things well): it has been very difficult to correct the bastard form of my name listed on db.d.o that was

DPL debate on freenode.org (was: DPL debate 2005 ...)

2005-03-04 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.03.04.1158 +0100]: #debian-dpl-debate: #debian-dpl-discuss: ... on the Freenode network (accessible via irc.debian.org:6667). Sorry for the noise, and my failure to mention that in my first post. As before: details to follow at the end

Re: Question for A. Towns - NM

2005-03-04 Thread Ean Schuessler
On Friday 04 March 2005 06:21 am, Anthony Towns wrote: I can think of a few ways to try to resolve this. The most important is killing noise, by which I primarily mean off-topic threads, but also mails generally that don't add anything to the discussion because they're, eg, just rehashing old

Re: Clarification about krooger's platform

2005-03-04 Thread Matthew Garrett
MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Given the relatively short period of time that debian-women has existed, it's unsurprising that most of their work is still located on their own site rather than integrated into the main suite of pages. It's hardly a

Re: DPL election IRC Debate - Call for questions

2005-03-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 01:33:15PM +0100, David Schmitt wrote: On Thursday 03 March 2005 04:41, Anthony Towns wrote: Sven Luther wrote: I would like to know from the DPL candidates what is their opinion on way the ftp-masters handle the NEW queue, I think this is the wrong question.

Re: Exclusion, was: Clarification about krooger's platform

2005-03-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 12:48:26PM +, MJ Ray wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, it is not that people think esperanto is not significant enough, but rather than nobody interested in esperanto cared enough early enough in the process to get it supported. I don't think

debian-women obscurity, was: Clarification about krooger's platform

2005-03-04 Thread MJ Ray
Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I didn't find the new mentoring programme either. I remember being told some time ago that a mentor course would be announced, but now you mention it, I don't recall ever seeing it. Oh my god, MJ Ray missed an announcement! Everyone, stop what you're

Re: Red-tops, was: Clarification about krooger's platform

2005-03-04 Thread Joel Aelwyn
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 01:26:20AM +, MJ Ray wrote: * They have friends who get puffed regularly, but good news stories about groups on the blacklist can get ignored and/or stuffed at the bottom of the issue. Oooh! So the fact that I've shown up in it a few times means I'm part of

Re: debian-women obscurity, was: Clarification about krooger's platform

2005-03-04 Thread Matthew Garrett
MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been labelled because I fit a similar description to others, so why not label debian nazi if there is a nazi DD? I think that shows the absurdity of some debian-women contributors. Could you please provide a pointer to this labelling? -- Matthew Garrett

Re: Summarising the discussions (was: Re: Call for brevity and on-topicness of discussion)

2005-03-04 Thread David Schmitt
On Friday 04 March 2005 14:22, MJ Ray wrote: David Schmitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If there is interest I would give it a try and collect them onto the Debian wiki or something. Debian wiki is both editable by many and not editable by all. I think it would be safer to put it on people.d.o

OT: Re: debian-women obscurity, was: Clarification about krooger's platform

2005-03-04 Thread Helen Faulkner
Sorry, this is definitely OT for -vote. But I wanted to clarify the follwing comment, which has been made repeatedly on this thread, incase anyone is actually wondering about it. MJ Ray wrote: I think it's a problem that most of the points under how to avoid being sexist haven't actually been

Re: Summarising the discussions (was: Re: Call for brevity and on-topicness of discussion)

2005-03-04 Thread Andreas Schuldei
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 06:33:12PM +0100, David Schmitt wrote: Sounds reasonable. I put it up on my webpage (since I am no DD): http://debian.edv-bus.at/vote-2005/ I've tried my best to avoid any bias and mostly only pasted relevant paragraphs. There should be links to the original mails

ftpmasters' job and the DPL (was: Question for candidate Towns)

2005-03-04 Thread Frank Küster
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au wrote: Kalle Kivimaa wrote: anyway: what do you think the NEW issue is an example of? Not having enough time in the day. The resolutions to that are: (a) reprioritising things (b) making more time available (c) making things take less time

Re: Question for candidate Towns [Was, Re: DPL election IRC Debate - Call for questions]

2005-03-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 11:28:16AM -0800, Anthony Towns wrote: Sven Luther wrote: And again to my purely technical question. Is it really necessary for kernel-source-2.6.11 to go through NEW once it is uploaded for example ? It's not a technical issue it's a legal one -- our approach to

Re: Question for candidate Towns [Was, Re: DPL election IRC Debate - Call for questions]

2005-03-04 Thread Anthony Towns
Matthew Garrett wrote: Erm, ftpmaster hat, I guess. Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au wrote: As a concrete example, I don't think http://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html resolves the complaints about NEW and hence I don't think that the NEW issue is an example of a communication problem at

Re: Question for candidate Towns

2005-03-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 11:07:06AM -0800, Anthony Towns wrote: Kalle Kivimaa wrote: Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes: resolves the complaints about NEW and hence I don't think that the NEW issue is an example of a communication problem at all. This is getting slightly too detailed

Re: Question for A. Towns - NM

2005-03-04 Thread Anthony Towns
Ean Schuessler wrote: On Friday 04 March 2005 06:21 am, Anthony Towns wrote: I can think of a few ways to try to resolve this. The most important is killing noise, by which I primarily mean off-topic threads, but also mails generally that don't add anything to the discussion because they're, eg,

Re: Question for candidate Towns [Was, Re: DPL election IRC Debate - Call for questions]

2005-03-04 Thread Anthony Towns
Sven Luther wrote: I have some real trouble with the fact that all the work i do for debian is reported to the US secret services or whatever by the ftp-masters and our archive handling services, and i certainly did *NOT* agree to this being the case. Everyone subscribed to debian-devel-changes

Re: Question for candidate Towns [Was, Re: DPL election IRC Debate - Call for questions]

2005-03-04 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have some real trouble with the fact that all the work i do for debian is reported to the US secret services or whatever by the ftp-masters and our archive handling services, and i certainly did *NOT* agree to this being the case. What are you talking

Re: Question for candidate Towns

2005-03-04 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 09:09:50PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 11:07:06AM -0800, Anthony Towns wrote: Kalle Kivimaa wrote: Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes: resolves the complaints about NEW and hence I don't think that the NEW issue is an example of a

Questions to the scud team

2005-03-04 Thread Andreas Barth
Hi, do you consider the way the scud team way formed the preferred way in future? What do you think are the special strength of that way? Is this way transparent enough? And, do you consider that nobody of DSA is part of the scud team as a feature or as a bug? Cheers, Andi --

Re: debian-women obscurity, was: Clarification about krooger's platform

2005-03-04 Thread MJ Ray
Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been labelled because I fit a similar description to others, so why not label debian nazi if there is a nazi DD? I think that shows the absurdity of some debian-women contributors. Could you please provide a

Re: OT: Re: debian-women obscurity, was: Clarification about krooger's platform

2005-03-04 Thread MJ Ray
Helen Faulkner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are four points. Of those, three are being done already, namely ^^ the first [1],[2] third [3][4][5] and fourth [6]. There are many other such references on the Debian Women webpages and

Re: debian-women obscurity, was: Clarification about krooger's platform

2005-03-04 Thread MJ Ray
Erinn Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005:03:04 14:07 +]:=20 If debian-women are so good at communicating, why don't I see it?=20 Because you refuse to subscribe to our list or read DWN for ideological reasons. I think you'll find many DDs aren't subscribed to

Re: debian-women obscurity, was: Clarification about krooger's platform

2005-03-04 Thread MJ Ray
Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can list all the mailing lists and fora you read, but the point is that unless you watch the entire world's open communications, you will miss announcements. It's a fact of life. The choices for senders are, basically, to either have a single

Re: Red-tops, was: Clarification about krooger's platform

2005-03-04 Thread MJ Ray
Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, if someone thinks something should be in DWN, sending a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] really helps. It helps to get a reply a month later with inaccurate inflated rewrites. At least it helped for me everytime I wanted to have something covered.

Re: Aliases for /dev/null: Clarification about krooger's platform

2005-03-04 Thread MJ Ray
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au wrote: I think it's far more important for people working on Debian to focus their attention on improving our operating system; if Mark J Ray is a correct variant of your name, no matter how bastardised, I don't think it's worth worrying about changing

Re: communication obscurity [was: debian-women obscurity]

2005-03-04 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 02:25:49AM +, MJ Ray wrote: Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can list all the mailing lists and fora you read, but the point is that unless you watch the entire world's open communications, you will miss announcements. It's a fact of life. The

Re: debian-women obscurity, was: Clarification about krooger's platform

2005-03-04 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sadly not directly. The public stuff is too vague and limited to the level of Who cares? about someone linking krooger's message to him being a white christian male. All the debian-women mail is public. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a