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

2008-03-12 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 11/03/08 at 16:22 +, MJ Ray wrote: > 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 th

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

2008-03-12 Thread MJ Ray
Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/03/08 at 16:22 +, MJ Ray wrote: > > There seemed to be broad consensus on BSD-style as default with other > > DFSG licences like GPLv2 being allowed, didn't there? > > I don't think so. Some people want a BSD license, some want the GPL, > some w

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

2008-03-12 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 12/03/08 at 09:57 +, MJ Ray wrote: > > > > Questions about that issue: > > > > 1) You seem to think that delegating someone now would be useful. Why? > > > > > > I think we should ask a debian-tied lawyer before doing a lot of unfun > > > work which may turn out to be useless if we get it w

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

2008-03-12 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Fabian Fagerholm wrote: > If you were elected DPL for the next term, what would you do about this > GR and when? How would you ensure that the declassification can happen > in a timely manner and fulfil all the requirements? What would your > declassification team look lik

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

2008-03-12 Thread MJ Ray
Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/03/08 at 09:57 +, MJ Ray wrote: [...] > > Secondly, delegation should make X's task clear to both this project > > and SPI in a robust way and seemed the most obvious to me. How does > > the constitution give the DPL a power to tell SPI that X

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

2008-03-12 Thread Charles Plessy
Hi Moritz, hi Marc. I started to wonder about modularity in the use of the Debian infrastructure in 2006, because of a problem with the clustalw package. As you can see on the graph, its popcon score started to decrease around july. (http://people.debian.org/~igloo/popcon-graphs/index.php?package

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

2008-03-12 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 12/03/08 at 14:08 +, MJ Ray wrote: > Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 12/03/08 at 09:57 +, MJ Ray wrote: [...] > > > Secondly, delegation should make X's task clear to both this project > > > and SPI in a robust way and seemed the most obvious to me. How does > > > the c

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

2008-03-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 07:44:46PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: >Dear Candidates, Hi Marc, >in the last few years, it has unfortunately become kind of custom that >the DPL kind of vanishes from the Earth after the wave of inauguration >and taking over powers has ebbed. Anthony has been kind of an >ex

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

2008-03-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 03:07:20AM +, MJ Ray wrote: >Hi DPL candidates! Hi MJ, >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, de

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

2008-03-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 12:46 AM, Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (building non-free on official autobuilders is not allowed). Untrue, you just need to get your package whitelisted since non-free packages may not be legal to autobuild. You need to contact aba IIRC. Not sure why you d

Q: Marc Brockschmidt: "tight-knitted groups of friends"

2008-03-12 Thread Clint Adams
Marc, Your platform contains the following claim: > This can hardly be solved from the outside - but a start would be to > not defame these groups as "evil cabals" hindering the rest of the > project out of spite. Why can "this" not be solved from the outside? How can it be solved? How will no

Q: Raphaë l Hertzog: dpkg / collab-maint

2008-03-12 Thread Clint Adams
Raphaël, Why isn't dpkg in collab-maint on Alioth? Why should it be or not be? As DPL, how would you react to the recent events concerning dpkg development? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Q: Steve McIntyre: 2IC vs. DPL

2008-03-12 Thread Clint Adams
Steve, You served a term as "Assistant Project Leader". What are the differences between the job you did then and the job you would do as DPL? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2008-03-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 01:20:35PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: >Hi, Hi Charles, >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

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

2008-03-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 03:21:23PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >Hi, > >On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Fabian Fagerholm wrote: >> If you were elected DPL for the next term, what would you do about this >> GR and when? How would you ensure that the declassification can happen >> in a timely manner and fulfil

Re: Technical committee resolution

2008-03-12 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 06:54:50PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > And, just to make things personal, I submit that one of the problems > is AJ. Because, of course, making things personal is definitely what the technical committee is all about, and just generally a brilliant approach to solving proble

Re: Technical committee resolution

2008-03-12 Thread Russ Allbery
Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't think the committee would be worse off without you; and I find > it fundamentally disturbing that any of the founding members are still > members ten years later. I think this sentence strikes at the core of my reservations about this proposal.

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

2008-03-12 Thread Cyril Brulebois
On 13/03/2008, Paul Wise wrote: > Untrue, you just need to get your package whitelisted since non-free > packages may not be legal to autobuild. You need to contact aba IIRC. > Not sure why you don't know about this, nor where the best place to > store this information is, perhaps the NM templates

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

2008-03-12 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 10:07:30AM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : > Le Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 09:50:27AM +0900, Paul Wise a écrit : > > On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 12:46 AM, Charles Plessy > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > (building non-free on official autobuilders is not allowed). > > > > Un