Re: GR option text on ballots

2014-10-21 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le lundi, 20 octobre 2014, 12.17:14 Neil McGovern a écrit : Ian's: make each package support all alternative init systems This is actively misleading in a least four ways: Yup, I wouldn't count that as neutral either. How about: Your two proposals don't seem to match Ian's to which

Re: Alternative proposal: support for alternative init systems is desirable but not mandatory

2014-10-21 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Nikolaus Rath (2014-10-21 02:41:12) Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes: Nikolaus Rath writes (Re: Alternative proposal: support for alternative init systems is desirable but not mandatory): I just don't understand why you consider uselessd a trick that I came up with

Re: Alternative proposal: reaffirm maintainers technical competence over the software they maintain

2014-10-21 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 11:55:30PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: On 20/10/14 at 22:26 +0200, Arno T?ll wrote: That's - I think - a good default and affirms Debian's point of view that the respective maintainers can judge best what's a good requirement for their packages. Finally I encourage

Re: GR option text on ballots

2014-10-21 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 08:14:44AM +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: Le lundi, 20 octobre 2014, 12.17:14 Neil McGovern a écrit : Ian's: make each package support all alternative init systems This is actively misleading in a least four ways: Yup, I wouldn't count that as neutral

Re: [Call for seconds] The ???no GR, please??? amendement.

2014-10-21 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 08:06:28AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 05:01:02PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum a ??crit : I think that it would be very helpful to describe how the question has already been resolved. My understanding is that the various proposals add policy on

Re: Alternative proposal: reaffirm maintainers technical competence over the software they maintain

2014-10-21 Thread Ian Jackson
Matthias Urlichs writes (Re: Alternative proposal: reaffirm maintainers technical competence over the software they maintain): Really? To me, For the record, the TC expects does not introduce a ruling. Precisely. It seems to be, rather, a strongly-worded but informal declaration how the TC

Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-10-21 Thread Ian Jackson
Joey Hess writes (Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems): Ian Jackson wrote: The technical committee decided not to decide about the question of coupling i.e. whether other packages in Debian may depend on a particular init system. What, then was #746715? It was

Re: GR option text on ballots

2014-10-21 Thread Ian Jackson
Neil McGovern writes (Re: GR option text on ballots): On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 03:18:52PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: I would be very displeased if the Secretary chooses to use a text for my proposal which was suggested by my opponent, and which I think contains coded criticisms of my

Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-10-21 Thread Sergey Vlasov
Hi, On 16.10.2014 17:05, Ian Jackson wrote: I wish to propose the following general resolution, and hereby call for seconds. [...] ** Begin Proposal ** 0. Rationale Debian has decided (via the technical committee) to change its default init system for the next release. The

Maximum term for tech ctte members

2014-10-21 Thread Anthony Towns
Hey, Moving from -project. Reference: https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2014/05/threads.html#00054 Like I said, I'd rather provide a second than make a proposal, but at debconf Stefano [0] said he'd appreciate some sample wording, so here's what I came up with, based on where I was

Re: [Call for seconds] The ???no GR, please??? amendement.

2014-10-21 Thread Charles Plessy
Thanks Anthony and Lucas for your suggestions. Even if it can be improved, I am reluctant to change the wording of the amendement, given that the whole point is a) to say that a GR is unwelcome, and b) to reduce as much as possible the “attack surface” on the voted text in case some people want

Re: Maximum term for tech ctte members

2014-10-21 Thread Sam Hartman
I support this proposal, and if that was intented as a formal proposal I'd probably second. I'd also support: * making this something the TC decides for themselves with your wording as an initial condition I do think rotation in bodies like the TC is really good both for the members' personal

Re: Maximum term for tech ctte members

2014-10-21 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 12:08:33AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: Moving from -project. Reference: https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2014/05/threads.html#00054 Like I said, I'd rather provide a second than make a proposal, but at debconf Stefano [0] said he'd appreciate some sample

Re: Maximum term for tech ctte members

2014-10-21 Thread Don Armstrong
I think rotation is a good idea. My main minor concern is that it doesn't allow reappointing members to the CTTE if there are no nominees whom the DPL and CTTE finds acceptable (or even if there are no nominees at all). Not allowing people to be reappointed if there are nominees and they're just

Re: Maximum term for tech ctte members

2014-10-21 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 12:08:33AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: +At this time, any member of the +Technical Committee who was most recently appointed 54 or more months +prior will ordinarily have their term automatically expire. About this, I wonder if the text should specify in

Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-10-21 Thread Francisco Gonzalez Flores
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Re: [Call for seconds] The “no GR, please“ amendement.

2014-10-21 Thread Philipp Kern
On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 11:29:21PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: --- The Debian project asks its members to be considerate when proposing General Resolutions, as the GR process may be disruptive regardless of the outcome

Re: Maximum term for tech ctte members

2014-10-21 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 05:21:04PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: FWIW, I found the original wording about this part from https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2014/06/msg00026.html much easier to follow, but it might be a non-native speaker failure on my part. Hmm, aren't a majority of

Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-10-21 Thread Tobias Frost
On Thu, 2014-10-16 at 16:05 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: I wish to propose the following general resolution, and hereby call for seconds. This GR resolution proposal is identical to that proposed by Matthew Vernon in March: https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2014/03/msg0.html and the

Re: [Call for seconds] The ???no GR, please??? amendement.

2014-10-21 Thread Sam Hartman
Charles == Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes: Charles Thanks Anthony and Lucas for your suggestions. Even if it Charles can be improved, I am reluctant to change the wording of Charles the amendement, given that the whole point is a) to say Charles that a GR is unwelcome,

Re: Maximum term for tech ctte members

2014-10-21 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 08:34:28AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: I think rotation is a good idea. My main minor concern is that it doesn't allow reappointing members to the CTTE if there are no nominees whom the DPL and CTTE finds acceptable (or even if there are no nominees at all). In that

Re: [Call for seconds] The ???no GR, please??? amendement.

2014-10-21 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Dienstag, 21. Oktober 2014, Sam Hartman wrote: my response is so what? People are doing their jobs, let's not get in their way. I'd rather this amendment not push people away simply because they disagree over whether all the questions have been answered. I agree. I've also been

Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-10-21 Thread ss-composer
Andy, Thank you for the email. You can currently use Debian without systemd as long as no package you use depends on systemd. That depends on systemd hook is a primary objection for those of us who know better. Why should a non-init package depend on a particular init system? Only systemd

Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-10-21 Thread Andy Smith
Hi debian-vote, The below poster redirected their response to my off-list mail back to the list. I explicitly mailed them off-list and with a reply-to of only myself set in order to avoid further list noise, and because they seemed like they were genuinely confused. I now see that they had an

[Sorry Neil] Wording modification of the The ???no GR, please??? amendement.

2014-10-21 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 08:13:52PM +0200, Holger Levsen a écrit : On Dienstag, 21. Oktober 2014, Sam Hartman wrote: my response is so what? People are doing their jobs, let's not get in their way. I'd rather this amendment not push people away simply because they disagree over whether

Re: Maximum term for tech ctte members

2014-10-21 Thread Bdale Garbee
Anthony Towns a...@erisian.com.au writes: On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 08:34:28AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: I think rotation is a good idea. My main minor concern is that it doesn't allow reappointing members to the CTTE if there are no nominees whom the DPL and CTTE finds acceptable (or even if

Re: [Sorry Neil] Wording modification of the The ???no GR, please??? amendement.

2014-10-21 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Charles, On Mittwoch, 22. Oktober 2014, Charles Plessy wrote: I propose the following replacement as per article A.1.5 of our Contitution. The Debian project asks its members to be considerate when proposing

Re: [Sorry Neil] Wording modification of the The ???no GR, please??? amendement.

2014-10-21 Thread Sam Hartman
I propose the following replacement as per article A.1.5 of our Contitution. The Debian project asks its members to be considerate when proposing General Resolutions, as the GR process may be disruptive

Re: Tentative summary of the amendments

2014-10-21 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Lucas Nussbaum lu...@debian.org writes: Q2: support for alternative init systems as PID 1 = A2.1: packages MUST work with one alternative init system (in [iwj]) (if you are confused with “one” here, it’s basically fine to read it as “sysvinit”

Re: [Sorry Neil] Wording modification of the The ???no GR, please??? amendement.

2014-10-21 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Charles Plessy: I propose the following replacement as per article A.1.5 of our Contitution. The Debian project asks its members to be considerate when proposing General Resolutions, as the GR process may be