Re: Technical committee resolution

2008-03-11 Thread MJ Ray
Neil McGovern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 01:11:35AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > > I suggest assigning each open issue to a CTTE member in turn who acts > > as the chair for that issue (with skipping if the member should recuse > > themselves because they are directly inv

Re: Technical committee resolution

2008-03-11 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, (just thinking loud as an bystander..) On Tuesday 11 March 2008 18:50, Russ Allbery wrote: > This, however, I find a really interesting argument. I'm not sure it > would actually work, but using the tech-ctte as a final arbitrator of > Policy decisions and actually using that appeal on a reg

Re: Technical committee resolution

2008-03-11 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 20:03:57 -0400, Hubert Chathi wrote: > OK, the rest of your mail sounds somewhat reasonable, to an outsider who > has no experience whatsoever with TC, but ... given that the TC often > deals with contentious issues, and there is no obvious "right" or > "wrong", how would y

Re: Technical committee resolution

2008-03-11 Thread Hubert Chathi
On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:54:50 +, Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: [...] > Or to put it another way, the problem isn't lack of new blood, it is > lack of involvement. We should be removing TC members who are > inactive or often wrong. ^^^ OK, the rest of your mail s

Re: Technical committee resolution

2008-03-11 Thread Ian Jackson
Russ Allbery writes ("Re: Technical committee resolution"): > That would mean expanding the size of the tech-ctte rather than rotating > its membership, correct? Yes. Although we don't have a working removal mechanism either, and that definitely needs to be fixed. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: Technical committee resolution

2008-03-11 Thread Ian Jackson
Russ Allbery writes ("Re: Technical committee resolution"): > So, I could start doing this right now if you'd like. Manoj and I have a > handful of Policy bugs that we've tagged dubious and that I was planning > on closing at some point. I could just go close them all and refer people > to the te

Re: Technical committee resolution

2008-03-11 Thread Russ Allbery
Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Russ Allbery writes ("Re: Technical committee resolution"): >> Have you raised this idea with the tech-ctte? What do the other >> members think of having review of Policy change proposals be part of >> the tech-ctte job? How would the mechanics of this w

Re: Technical committee resolution

2008-03-11 Thread Russ Allbery
Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Russ Allbery writes ("Re: Technical committee resolution"): >> (2) here is again a question of follow-through, and I don't see how >> your proposal addresses that. The problem again is that someone has to >> do work, and you can't, in general, find people

Re: Technical committee resolution

2008-03-11 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 01:11:35AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Anthony Towns wrote: > > And without both those things, even if it improves now, it will > > stagnate again in future. > > Since the problem is stagnation, what about trying to address that > directly? > > I sug

Re: All DPL Candidates: www.debian.org licensing?

2008-03-11 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Will you delegate someone to resolve bugs.debian.org/238245 and > bugs.debian.org/388141 at long last? That is, get www.debian.org > to follow the DFSG and to display better copyright statements. > In particular, delegation seems necessary to avoid bureaucratic

Re: Question for all candidates: inter-dependancy of works the growing Debian project.

2008-03-11 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Debian is growing bigger everyday. I would like to know if you think > that it should adapt to its new size, and if yes, how can you help this > process as a DPL. Debian has steadily grown in the past few years, at least in respect to the number of pack

Re: Question for all candidates: inter-dependancy of works the growing Debian project.

2008-03-11 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Charles Plessy wrote: > Although I am not yet a DD, as it can happen anytime before or after the > elections, I would like to ask a question to the candidates. > > Debian is growing bigger everyday. I would like to know if you think > that it should adapt to its new size, and if yes, how can you he

Question for all candidates: Handling declassification of debian-private (GR 2005-02)

2008-03-11 Thread Fabian Fagerholm
Dear candidates, At the end of 2005, the Debian Project passed a General Resolution [0] to declassify posts made to the debian-private mailing list. The GR specified that posts that are at least three years old will be considered for publishing. It also specified that the DPL will appoint a team t

Re: Technical committee resolution

2008-03-11 Thread Ian Jackson
Russ Allbery writes ("Re: Technical committee resolution"): > This, however, I find a really interesting argument. I'm not sure it > would actually work, but using the tech-ctte as a final arbitrator of > Policy decisions and actually using that appeal on a regular basis is > something that Manoj

Re: Technical committee resolution

2008-03-11 Thread Ian Jackson
Russ Allbery writes ("Re: Technical committee resolution"): > (2) here is again a question of follow-through, and I don't see how your > proposal addresses that. The problem again is that someone has to do > work, and you can't, in general, find people to do work by doing > governance shuffling.

Re: Technical committee resolution

2008-03-11 Thread Ian Jackson
Anthony Towns writes ("Technical committee resolution"): > I've been thinking for a while [0] it'd be good to do a real revamp of > the tech ctte. It's been pretty dysfunctional since forever, there's > not much that can be done internally to improve things, and since it's > almost entirely self-ap

Re: Technical committee resolution

2008-03-11 Thread Russ Allbery
Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 10:45:25PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> I'm not sure that Ian deciding that he doesn't think the tech-ctte is >> functional or fast enough and hence isn't going to even give it an >> opportunity to be functional is particularly p

Re: All DPL Candidates: www.debian.org licensing?

2008-03-11 Thread MJ Ray
Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > It seems to me that, for this issue to be solved, we first need a > clear consensus on debian-www@ about: > - the plan we are going to follow I believe we need legal advice on the validity of the various plans before there will be a clear consensus

Re: All Candidates: Do you plan to be prominently visible during your term?

2008-03-11 Thread MJ Ray
Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 07:44:46PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > > and I really haven't seen much from Sam during his term. > > For example, there's been: [6 dda posts and a blog category] > which is pretty comparable to either my own Steve's communicat

Re: All DPL Candidates: www.debian.org licensing?

2008-03-11 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
(For clarification: writing with Raphael Hertzog's DPL team hat on) On 11/03/08 at 03:07 +, MJ Ray wrote: > Will you delegate someone to resolve bugs.debian.org/238245 and > bugs.debian.org/388141 at long last? That is, get www.debian.org > to follow the DFSG and to display better copyright s

Re: Question for all candidates: inter-dependancy of works the growing Debian project.

2008-03-11 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 04:20:35AM +, Charles Plessy wrote: > Can we imagine a more componentised Debian distribution, in which it > would be the common responsability of the packagers and the service > managers to opt in or opt out the use of each services by Debian > packages (or preferably g

Re: Technical committee resolution

2008-03-11 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 01:11:35AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Anthony Towns wrote: > > And without both those things, even if it improves now, it will > > stagnate again in future. > Since the problem is stagnation, what about trying to address that > directly? Stagnation's

Re: Technical committee resolution

2008-03-11 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Anthony Towns wrote: > And without both those things, even if it improves now, it will > stagnate again in future. Since the problem is stagnation, what about trying to address that directly? I suggest assigning each open issue to a CTTE member in turn who acts as the chair f

Re: Technical committee resolution

2008-03-11 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 10:45:25PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > You don't need to read my mind, you can read Ian's recent post on the > > topic, eg: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2008/03/msg0.html > I'm not sure that Ian deciding that