Re: Proposed amendment: Resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-24 Thread Kalle Kivimaa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas Viehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I propose to amend the Robert's resolution by adding the following choice > --- > The Debian project, recognizing that bugs do not fix themselves, > applauds Ben Hutchings's efforts to remov

Re: [DRAFT] resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-24 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sat, Oct 25 2008, Steve McIntyre wrote: > There's also the argument that the sooner we release Lenny with the > improvements that *have* been made, the sooner the people using stable > will be able to move away from whatever non-free stuff they've been > stuck with in Etch. I think th

Re: [DRAFT] resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-24 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, Oct 24 2008, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 12:23:22PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 23 2008, martin f krafft wrote: > >> > It's all a matter of defining what your priorities are, which brings >> > us back to the Social Contract, which says that these inclu

Re: [DRAFT] resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-24 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 08:19:02PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > >The road we're continuing down is one of incremental *improvement* of >Debian's compliance with the current Social Contract. We waived the >requirement for DFSG-compliant documentation for sarge, and resolved that >for etch; we wai

Re: [DRAFT] resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 12:23:22PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Thu, Oct 23 2008, martin f krafft wrote: > > It's all a matter of defining what your priorities are, which brings > > us back to the Social Contract, which says that these include: > > - 100% freeness > > - cater best to t

Re: [DRAFT] resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-24 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, Oct 24 2008, Steve Langasek wrote: > OTOH, I do understand the desire to put such (diminishing) exceptions > to a referendum instead of leaving them implicit, and am happy to vote > for a GR that makes clear to our users the state of affairs in lenny. Well said. I think we should

Re: Call for seconds: Resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-24 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, Oct 24 2008, Robert Millan wrote: >> ,[ Option 8 ] >> |1. We affirm that our Priorities are our users and the free software >> | community (Social Contract #4); >> | >> |2. Given that we have known for two previous releases that we have >> | non-free bits in kerne

Re: [DRAFT] resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 06:32:51PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > It's all a matter of defining what your priorities are, which brings > us back to the Social Contract, which says that these include: > - 100% freeness > - cater best to the interests of our users > Note that it does not say:

Re: Proposed amendment: Resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-24 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 06:40:14PM +0200, Thomas Viehmann wrote: >Hi, > >I propose to amend the Robert's resolution by adding the following choice >--- >The Debian project, recognizing that bugs do not fix themselves, >applauds Ben Hutchings's efforts to remove non-DFSG-conformant bits from

Re: Call for seconds: Suspension of the changes of the Project's membership procedures.

2008-10-24 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 08:27:40PM +0200, Frans Pop a écrit : > Charles Plessy wrote: > > In accordance to the paragraph 4.2.2 of the constition, this > > suspension takes immediately effect until a procedural vote decides if > > the supsension is lifted until the vote of this general resolut

Re: Call for seconds: Resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-24 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 09:41:53AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: > Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The action of moving it may be performed by any of the developers (however, > > moving packages in the "stable" distribution may still require approval by > > the Release Team for "stable")

Re: Call for seconds: Resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-24 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 05:39:31PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.10.24.1717 +0200]: > > I hereby propose the following General Resolution to stablish a procedure > > for resolving DFSG violations: > > I would generally second this, but I wish w

Re: Call for seconds: Resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-24 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 01:28:09PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > ,[ Option 7 ] > |1. We affirm that our Priorities are our users and the free software > | community (Social Contract #4); > | > |2. We acknowledge that there is a lot of progress in the kernel firmware > |

Re: Bug reports of DFSG violations are tagged ???lenny-ignore????

2008-10-24 Thread Frank Küster
Kalle Kivimaa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Would it be a good compromise between SCs #1, #3 and #4 if we made an > exhaustive list of non-free bits in main, and make it our goal that the > list gets smaller between each release and not to add anything to > that list? The last part of the sentence

Re: Call for seconds: Resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-24 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 12:22:14PM -0700, Jeff Carr wrote: > On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 08:17, Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > When ever a package in Debian is found to have been violating the DFSG for > > By who? There is no standard. I don't think we need a standard to define thing

Re: Call for seconds: Suspension of the changes of the Project's membership procedures.

2008-10-24 Thread Jeff Carr
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 08:43, Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to add that I'm not opposed to changes in our membership > policy. But those changes could fundamentally change our project, and I > believe that it's important that there's a lot of discussion about it, There hav

Re: Call for seconds: Resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-24 Thread Jeff Carr
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 08:17, Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When ever a package in Debian is found to have been violating the DFSG for By who? There is no standard. > The action of moving it may be performed by any of the developers (however, As you know, there are developers with

Re: Proposed amendment: Resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-24 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 06:40:14PM +0200, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > Hi, > > I propose to amend the Robert's resolution by adding the following choice > --- > The Debian project, recognizing that bugs do not fix themselves, > applauds Ben Hutchings's efforts to remove non-DFSG-conformant bit

Re: Call for seconds: Resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-24 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, Oct 24 2008, Robert Millan wrote: > I hereby propose the following General Resolution to stablish a procedure > for resolving DFSG violations: I think that I would like to see an option to just release Lenny with an exception on the ballot, without any changes to the foundation

Re: Call for seconds: Suspension of the changes of the Project's membership procedures.

2008-10-24 Thread Frans Pop
I would second this proposal for basically the same reasons as Lucas, but there is one sentence I think needs to be improved. Charles Plessy wrote: > In accordance to the paragraph 4.2.2 of the constition, this > suspension takes immediately effect until a procedural vote decides if > the s

Re: Proposed amendment: Resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-24 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 24 octobre 2008 à 18:40 +0200, Thomas Viehmann a écrit : > --- > The Debian project, recognizing that bugs do not fix themselves, > applauds Ben Hutchings's efforts to remove non-DFSG-conformant bits from > the linux-2.6 package in a way that is still making users a priority. It

Re: Proposed amendment: Resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-24 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Julien BLACHE wrote: >> I belive that Robert's resolution is a waste of time in that it adds > > Doubly so. AOL. Cheers, Moritz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Proposed amendment: Resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-24 Thread Julien BLACHE
Thomas Viehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, > I propose to amend the Robert's resolution by adding the following choice > --- > The Debian project, recognizing that bugs do not fix themselves, > applauds Ben Hutchings's efforts to remove non-DFSG-conformant bits from > the linux-2.6 pa

Proposed amendment: Resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-24 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Hi, I propose to amend the Robert's resolution by adding the following choice --- The Debian project, recognizing that bugs do not fix themselves, applauds Ben Hutchings's efforts to remove non-DFSG-conformant bits from the linux-2.6 package in a way that is still making users a priority.

Re: Call for seconds: Resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-24 Thread Ben Pfaff
Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The action of moving it may be performed by any of the developers (however, > moving packages in the "stable" distribution may still require approval by > the Release Team for "stable"). I don't understand this part. As a developer, how do I move a pac

Re: Call for seconds: Suspension of the changes of the Project's membership procedures.

2008-10-24 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 24/10/08 at 23:49 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > - Following the announcement of the 22nd of October on the > debian-devel-announce >mailing list (Message-id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) about "Developer >Status"; > > - Given the importan

Re: Call for seconds: Resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-24 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.10.24.1717 +0200]: > I hereby propose the following General Resolution to stablish a procedure > for resolving DFSG violations: I would generally second this, but I wish we would separate the two issues: first establish whether and how we want to

Re: Call for seconds: Suspension of the changes of the Project's membership procedures.

2008-10-24 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 11:49:31PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > takes immediately effect until a procedural vote decides if the supsension Typo ^ -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threa

Call for seconds: Resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-24 Thread Robert Millan
I hereby propose the following General Resolution to stablish a procedure for resolving DFSG violations: Option 1 (set an upper limit) ~ The developers resolve that: When ever a package in Debian is found to have been violating the DFSG for 60 days or more, and none

Re: Call for seconds: Suspension of the changes of the Project's membership procedures.

2008-10-24 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 02:36:22PM +0200, Bastian Blank a écrit : > On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 09:15:43PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > The Debian Project, by the way of a general resolution of its developpers, > > decides: > > > > - The changes announced the 22nd of October on the debian-devel-

Re: Call for seconds: Suspension of the changes of the Project's membership procedures.

2008-10-24 Thread Kalle Kivimaa
Bastian Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, maybe you want. This would make it impossible to change the > membership procedures without an GR. I don't think so. I think that would require (temporarily) amending the constitution, as it would (temporarily) remove the authority defined there.

Re: Call for seconds: Suspension of the changes of the Project's membership procedures.

2008-10-24 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 09:15:43PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > The Debian Project, by the way of a general resolution of its developpers, > decides: > > - The changes announced the 22nd of October on the debian-devel-announce >mailing list (Message-id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) are suspended.

Call for seconds: Suspension of the changes of the Project's membership procedures.

2008-10-24 Thread Charles Plessy
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear all, Joerg Jaspert answered to my questions and some others on his blog, but the informations that I think we need are still not provided. - It is not known whether the Secretary, the Project leader and his delegates for the system administr

Re: [DRAFT] resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-24 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 23 octobre 2008 à 16:08 +0200, Robert Millan a écrit : > On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 08:36:24AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > Your lack of knowledge of Debian processes sucks (that means: you > > annoy us (at least me) with your stance and the fanatic way you defend it > > in public, pleas

Re: [DRAFT] resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-24 Thread Aníbal Monsalve Salazar
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 10:43:47AM -0500, Ean Schuessler wrote: >- "Aníbal Monsalve Salazar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>The Sun employee is the Chief Open Source Officer at Sun Microsystems, >>Simon Phipps. > >I'll be at Apachecon in two weeks and Simon Phipps is scheduled to be >there. I'l