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
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).
Untrue, you just
Steve McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 03:21:23PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
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
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Charles Plessy wrote:
(And since this thread is supposed to be questions for the DPL
candidates, I will add one: some time ago, a DD was sending emails on
-devel whenever the discussion was offtopic, to ask for it to be
transferred or stopped: what do you think of this
Clint Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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?
One
On Thursday 13 March 2008, Clint Adams wrote:
How will not defaming contribute to a solution?
I thought that one obvious:
defaming makes people feel attacked, and thus encourages flaming and
reacting on an emotional basis instead (or in addition to) a rational one.
- it's not so much that
Hi Clint,
On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Clint Adams wrote:
Why isn't dpkg in collab-maint on Alioth? Why should it be or not be?
dpkg has been maintained in various VCS repositories since 1999 (CVS, then
arch, then SVN, and now Git), it's a natural choice for a software
maintained and further developed
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
It's important to have quality and consistency in the work done on such a
package and thus it's good that the maintainers in charge can selectively
grant (and revoke) write rights to the repository.
Following a remark on IRC, it's also important to
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 12:14:22 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
Furthermore the average skillset of the DD includes packaging while it
doesn't necessarily include programming and maintaining a complex piece of
software like dpkg.
Doesn't the average skillset of a DD include knowing not to
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:37:46 +1000, Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
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
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Julien Cristau wrote:
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 12:14:22 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
Furthermore the average skillset of the DD includes packaging while it
doesn't necessarily include programming and maintaining a complex piece of
software like dpkg.
Doesn't the
Hi,
For the record, I have already engaged in this get new blood
into the ctte experiment, conducted two years ag, when I championed
the new inductees into the ctte.
I must say, the track record of new blood has been, in my
opinion, mostly positive, but the overall
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:36:38PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
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
Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There's two fundamental things that persuade me. First, change doesn't
just happen, it takes people to cause it; and different people will
cause different changes. The current crop of people have had their go --
all the current members have been on the
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:01:01 +1000, Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
It takes a _lot_ to remove someone for cause in Debian -- see the DPL
recall vote, or any of the expulsions we've had, or any of the groups
that haven't changed membership for a while in spite of complaints
about the
Julien Cristau writes (Re: Technical committee resolution):
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
Manoj Srivastava writes (Re: Technical committee resolution):
Redoing the new blood thing once again is unlikely to have much
of an effect, really. I think we need to find some of the root causes
of the malaise that affects this institution, and fix that, rather
than rampaging
Anthony Towns writes (Re: Technical committee resolution):
Well, if you assume change isn't going to change anything, then, well,
I guess you've got your conclusion.
That's a completely wrongheaded way of looking at it.
We (Manoj, Russ, I, and perhaps others) are not opposed to change.
It must
Ian Jackson wrote:
Well, I said
We should be removing TC members who are ... often wrong.
I'm sure everyone will agree with that statement put like that.
My opinion comes into it when I ask myself `who is ... often wrong'.
And I don't expect anyone has a very different definition of
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...]
Let me get this straight. The argument is that since it is hard
to remove people for cause in Debian, let us just start removing people
at random, even if they are performing well, and maybe, sometime,
somehow, that change may lead to
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:07:09 +, MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...]
Let me get this straight. The argument is that since it is hard to
remove people for cause in Debian, let us just start removing people
at random, even if they are performing
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 06:32:13PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
An alternative is to throw out the member who is youngest.
No, that would again ensure stagnancy in the group, with the older members
being permanently appointed.
Or use birth month to throw out
Likewise.
-- the
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 09:12:54AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Redoing the new blood thing once again is unlikely to have much
of an effect, really. I think we need to find some of the root causes
of the malaise that affects this institution, and fix that, rather
than rampaging
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 08:25:40AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:37:46 +1000, Anthony Towns said:
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
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