Re: GFDL vote... convince me

2006-03-11 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Ivan Kohler] We will be guided by the needs of our users and the free software community. We will place their interests first in our priorities. Currently GFDL is a license acknowledged as free by the great mass of the members of the free software community and as a result it is

Ted Walther's unanswered question: who would you kick out?

2006-03-11 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Ted Walther] Steve, you've had a day or two to answer this. Ted, you've had days or weeks to answer dozens of questions posed to all the candidates on this very mailing list. Including the one that started this thread. I could be wrong, but I don't believe you've answered _any_ of these in

Re: question for all candidates

2006-03-11 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sat, 11 Mar 2006, Anthony Towns wrote: There are a few reasons to dislike the DPL team concept without going it alone; such as the liklihood of formal membership making it difficult for non-members to contribute in the same way members do, or the way that making the team be an issue at

Re: Question for all candidates: handle debian-admin more openly

2006-03-11 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 07:31:49AM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: Bill Allombert wrote: On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 10:56:57PM +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: Now my question: 1.) Do you think it would be a good idea to handle debian-admin more openly? 2.) Would you

Re: Question for all candidates: handle debian-admin more openly

2006-03-11 Thread Martin Schulze
Bill Allombert wrote: Example of non-priviledged services include secondary web services and developers accessible port machines with separate accounts. As an aside, I think there should be more developers-accessible port machines. Why? Having two developers-accessible port

Question to all candidates: What to change?

2006-03-11 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi there, If you were elected tomorrow as DPL, and could only pick one thing about Debian to change, what would it be? Cheers, Neil -- A. Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion Q. Why is top posting bad? gpg key - http://www.halon.org.uk/pubkey.txt ; the.earth.li B345BDD3

Re: Questions for Jeroen van Wolffelaar and Andreas Schuldei

2006-03-11 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 11:41:42AM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think it'd be particularly well-recieved if someone who, after all, was not elected, would assume leadership. Regardless of the constitutional issues, it was clear that

Questions for Andreas Schuldei

2006-03-11 Thread James Troup
Andreas Schuldei [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Part of the effords to determine what option there were I asked Anthony Towns if he could take the lead in the ftp-master team. What you in fact said, amongst other things, was: | stockholm so, in summary, can i conclude that you are not really |

Re: Questions for all candidates: plurality of mandates

2006-03-11 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 11:45:44AM +0100, Mohammed Adnène Trojette wrote: Do you think Debian should *officially* limit the number of delegations for one person? No, there is no useful limit, if anything, it should be case-by-case. Do you consider this multiple hat question a problem? Not on

Re: Questions to candidates Towns and van Wolffelaar: debian-volatile

2006-03-11 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 10:22:54PM +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: 1.) What is your opinion regarding the current status of debian-volatile? [...] Please see the bottom of [1] for my opinion. --Jeroen [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2006/03/msg00211.html -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar

Re: question for all candidates

2006-03-11 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Raphael Hertzog [Sat, 11 Mar 2006 10:06:01 +0100]: (even if I don't think that stockholm would do the best DPL). Is this a statement, or an hypothesis? If a statement, then I feel compelled to ask: who would? -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es

Re: question for all candidates

2006-03-11 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 08:39:20PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: Last November, [Andreas] and the DPL team wanted to propose a GR that would have forcibly made everyone in a position of authority a formal delegate, and stated that you had replacements ready if they were unwilling to comply.

Re: GFDL vote... convince me

2006-03-11 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 11:26:24PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: ... [Few of the people who have applied the GFDL to their work have even done so with a full knowledge of what the licence entails... take for example the surprising number of manuals with every section marked as invariant.] I don't

Re: question for all candidates

2006-03-11 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 01:05:06AM +0100, Andreas Schuldei wrote: * Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-03-10 23:23:52]: Andreas Schuldei [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did not ask Joeren for obvious reasons. What were those obvious reasons? You and Branden stood against each other

Re: question for all candidates

2006-03-11 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sat, 11 Mar 2006, Adeodato Simó wrote: * Raphael Hertzog [Sat, 11 Mar 2006 10:06:01 +0100]: (even if I don't think that stockholm would do the best DPL). Is this a statement, or an hypothesis? If a statement, then I feel compelled to ask: who would? It's a statement that I will

Re: question for all candidates

2006-03-11 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 10:26:47PM +0100, Andreas Schuldei wrote: At that time I emphazised several times that replacing the teams was only the very last, desperate option, which we were trying to avoid but for completeness sake had considered along with a variety of less drastical

Re: Questions for Andreas Schuldei

2006-03-11 Thread Andreas Schuldei
* James Troup [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-03-11 14:02:49]: Andreas Schuldei [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Part of the effords to determine what option there were I asked Anthony Towns if he could take the lead in the ftp-master team. What you in fact said, amongst other things, was: |

Re: GFDL vote... convince me

2006-03-11 Thread Ari Pollak
Brendan O'Dea wrote: I don't think that's limited to the GFDL. I'm sure that a large amount of code is placed under the GPL/LGPL/Artistic/MPL/etc./ad-nauseum without the author necessarily understanding all the details of the chosen license. My favorite is the amap author, who created

To all candidates: delegation process

2006-03-11 Thread Florian Weimer
As you might have noted, the Constitution does not spell out the process how a new delegation is made. Would you please summarize the process you intend to follow if you are elected? Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

QFAC - SPI

2006-03-11 Thread Adrian von Bidder
I admit I haven't read the platforms as thoroughly as I should've, so forgive if it was covered... IIRC nobody talked about SPI in their platform. Is SPI important for Debian? What is Debian's current relationship with SPI, and should it be different? thanks -- vbi -- featured link:

QFAC - interest conflicts

2006-03-11 Thread Adrian von Bidder
Again: sorry if I didn't see it on your platforms Are there possible conflicts of interests between Debian and your real life ($WORKPLACE, whatever)? I would be happy if the candidates would state possibly 'dangerous' allegiance[1] now, upfront, and not only if they come up because some

Re: Questions for Andreas Schuldei

2006-03-11 Thread Martin Schulze
Andreas Schuldei wrote: You were very busy and I knew you and joey had issues and a hard time working together. In the same IRC conversation I first asked Anthony about his working relationship with Joey. He would have been an excellent contact point inside FTP-master to work with him on e.g.

Re: To all candidates: delegation process

2006-03-11 Thread Andreas Schuldei
Hi, * Florian Weimer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060311 20:48]: As you might have noted, the Constitution does not spell out the process how a new delegation is made. Would you please summarize the process you intend to follow if you are elected? Thanks. Well, there are two parts of the answer.

Re: QFAC - interest conflicts

2006-03-11 Thread Andreas Schuldei
* Adrian von Bidder [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-03-11 22:06:31]: Again: sorry if I didn't see it on your platforms Are there possible conflicts of interests between Debian and your real life ($WORKPLACE, whatever)? My wife thinks I work too much and my three year old son would like to play

Results for Debian's Position on the GFDL

2006-03-11 Thread Debian Project Secretary
Hi, At the end of voting, with 428 Ballots resulting in 390 votes from 369 developers, GFDL-licensed works without unmodifiable sections are free has carried the day. Statistics about this vote are at: http://master.debian.org/~srivasta/gr_gfdl/ The list of voters

Re: To all candidates: delegation process

2006-03-11 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 08:47:16PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: As you might have noted, the Constitution does not spell out the process how a new delegation is made. Would you please summarize the process you intend to follow if you are elected? Thanks. See also

Re: To all candidates: delegation process

2006-03-11 Thread Matthew Garrett
Andreas Schuldei [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First of all, I will delegate only people if they are ready for it. As some example, if e.g. the policy team asks me to extend themself by someone, I will (usually) do as requested. If this is the case, why were you supporting a motion to forcibly

Re: Candidate questions: expulsions process

2006-03-11 Thread MJ Ray
Benjamin Seidenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Say (said, saying, says): 2. To express in words: Say what's on your mind. 3. a. To state as one's opinion or judgment; declare: I say let's eat out. b. To state as a determination of fact: It's hard to say who is right in this matter..

Re: Candidate questions: expulsions process

2006-03-11 Thread Matthew Garrett
Murdock Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want to debate grand ideas: What role should socio-religious views play in the Debian project? Would using differences in beliefs about death as a motive to call for expulsion (as threatened in

Who would you expel from Debian? (Was: Re: Candidate questions: expulsions process)

2006-03-11 Thread Ted Walther
On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 03:44:28AM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: Murdock Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want to debate grand ideas: What role should socio-religious views play in the Debian project? Would using differences in beliefs about death as a motive to call for expulsion (as

Question to Candidates

2006-03-11 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
James Troup [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But I never personally replied to Joey's mail about the next point release explicitly saying that fixing sudo was a pre-depends, and I apologise for that. You're not a DPL candidate, and if this question is relevant at all, it's relevant to DPL

Re: Who would you expel from Debian?

2006-03-11 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Ted Walther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think the other DPL candidates, especially Steve McIntyre who has been pussy-footing around this issue, should stand forward and say clearly where they stand on the issue of expelling developers; what is a just case for expulsion? Be really clear and

Re: Question to all candidates: What to change?

2006-03-11 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 01:20:19PM +, Neil McGovern wrote: If you were elected tomorrow as DPL, and could only pick one thing about Debian to change, what would it be? If I could pick /anything/, it'd be to make Debian suddenly 100% fun for everyone involved. If I can only pick the things

Re: Question to all candidates: What to change?

2006-03-11 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes: If I could pick /anything/, it'd be to make Debian suddenly 100% fun for everyone involved. Yeah, I'm with you! Can you outline perhaps some of the things you think that keep it from being 100% fun, and what the DPL can do to help them? I'm

Re: Question to all candidates: What to change?

2006-03-11 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes: If I can only pick the things that're directly achievable, I'll just go with getting the momentum back -- ie, doing cool things quickly and regularly, no matter what they are. What are some of the organizational or institutional factors which you

Re: To all candidates: delegation process

2006-03-11 Thread Lars Wirzenius
su, 2006-03-12 kello 11:21 +1000, Anthony Towns kirjoitti: if a delegation is necessary, make it, by posting the details to -project, or if necessary, -private. Why -project and not -devel-announce? -- Policy is your friend. Trust the Policy. Love the Policy. Obey the Policy. -- To