Re: Reducing the discussion and the voting period to 1 week

2014-10-22 Thread Jonathan Dowland
Dear Lucas, On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 05:22:39PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > I think that the current set of options would be a sensible ballot, and > I'm not aware of any discussions to add another option, so I'm inclined > to shorten the discussion period. I hope you consider the point raised

Re: Reducing the discussion and the voting period to 1 week

2014-10-22 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 05:22:39PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum a écrit : > > Charles, Luca, can you confirm that you are also fine with shortening > the discussion period to one week? I am fine with shortening it. Cheers, Charles -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/de

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

2014-10-22 Thread Moritz Mühlenhoff
> Here is the text: > > --- > > The Debian project asks its members to be considerate when proposing General > Resolutions, as the GR process may be disruptive regardless of the outcome = > of > the vote. > > Regarding the sub

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

2014-10-22 Thread Anthony Towns
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 07:45:39AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > I propose the following replacement as per article A.1.5 of our Contitution. > > > The Debian project asks its

Re: Tentative summary of the amendments

2014-10-22 Thread Joey Hess
Uoti Urpala wrote: > Does this GR imply that such a decision may not be made without a new > GR to override this one? I was originally worried about this too, and it's one reason out of many why I strongly dislike using GRs to decide technical matters. My understanding though, is that this GR wou

Re: Tentative summary of the amendments

2014-10-22 Thread Aigars Mahinovs
On 22 October 2014 20:14, Uoti Urpala wrote: > Ian Jackson wrote: >> Jonas Smedegaard writes ("Re: Tentative summary of the amendments"): >> > Quoting Nikolaus Rath (2014-10-22 05:09:18) >> > > I believe Ian's intended reading is that a package that depends on >> > > uselessd | systemd (but does n

Re: Tentative summary of the amendments

2014-10-22 Thread Uoti Urpala
Ian Jackson wrote: > Jonas Smedegaard writes ("Re: Tentative summary of the amendments"): > > Quoting Nikolaus Rath (2014-10-22 05:09:18) > > > I believe Ian's intended reading is that a package that depends on > > > uselessd | systemd (but does not work with sysvinit) would be allowed > > > by h

Re: Reducing the discussion and the voting period to 1 week

2014-10-22 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Lucas Nussbaum (2014-10-22): > On 17/10/14 at 10:01 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > But designing and tuning alternative proposals might take time, so I > > would prefer to wait a few days before reducing the discussion period, > > to ensure that we vote with a sensible ballot. I will decide in t

Re: Tentative summary of the amendments

2014-10-22 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Didier 'OdyX' Raboud (2014-10-22): > Le mercredi, 22 octobre 2014, 13.34:27 Ian Jackson a écrit : > > Jonas Smedegaard writes ("Re: Tentative summary of the amendments"): > > > I too find it wrong to interpret Ian's text as a war between > > > systemd and sysvinit - that's anything but "basically

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

2014-10-22 Thread Russ Allbery
Lucas Nussbaum writes: > During the TC discussions in January/February 2014, the TC had a small > legitimacy crisis, that resulted in the GR override clause of the > default init resolution. I hope that the result of this GR will be able > to serve as input in future TC discussions on similar/rel

Re: Reducing the discussion and the voting period to 1 week

2014-10-22 Thread Ian Jackson
Lucas Nussbaum writes ("Re: Reducing the discussion and the voting period to 1 week"): > I think that the current set of options would be a sensible ballot, and > I'm not aware of any discussions to add another option, so I'm inclined > to shorten the discussion period. > > I reached out to Ian i

Re: Reducing the discussion and the voting period to 1 week

2014-10-22 Thread Luca Falavigna
Hi Lucas, 2014-10-22 17:22 GMT+02:00 Lucas Nussbaum : > Charles, Luca, can you confirm that you are also fine with shortening > the discussion period to one week? Fine for me. Cheers, Luca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: Reducing the discussion and the voting period to 1 week

2014-10-22 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, On 17/10/14 at 10:01 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > But designing and tuning alternative proposals might take time, so I > would prefer to wait a few days before reducing the discussion period, > to ensure that we vote with a sensible ballot. I will decide in the > middle of next week about th

Re: Tentative summary of the amendments

2014-10-22 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 21/10/14 at 20:09 -0700, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > Lucas Nussbaum 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, i

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

2014-10-22 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, On 20/10/14 at 14:47 -0400, Sam Hartman wrote: > > "Joey" == Joey Hess writes: > > Joey> Why not just make your proposal be something along the lines > Joey> of reaffirming the technical decision-making process as it > Joey> currently stands, from the package maintainers, to

Re: Maximum term for tech ctte members

2014-10-22 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 05:41:28PM +, Anthony Towns wrote: > "Text marked as a citation, such as this, is rationale and does not form > part of the constitution. It may be used only to aid interpretation in > cases of doubt." -- from appendix B in the constitution. OK, I didn't remember that (

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

2014-10-22 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Charles Plessy (2014-10-22): > > > The Debian project asks its members to be considerate when proposing General > Resolutions, as the GR process may be disruptive regardless of the outcome of > the vote. > > Regarding the s

Re: Tentative summary of the amendments

2014-10-22 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Ian, Le mercredi, 22 octobre 2014, 13.34:27 Ian Jackson a écrit : > Jonas Smedegaard writes ("Re: Tentative summary of the amendments"): > > I too find it wrong to interpret Ian's text as a war between systemd > > and sysvinit - that's anything but "basically fine"! > > It's only a war between sy

Re: [Sorry Neil] Wording modification of the The ???no GR, please??? amendement. [and 1 more messages]

2014-10-22 Thread Ian Jackson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Charles Plessy writes ("[Sorry Neil] Wording modification of the The ???no GR, please??? amendement."): > I propose the following replacement as per article A.1.5 of our Contitution. I'm not entirely convinced this is quite regular. You are the pr

Re: Tentative summary of the amendments

2014-10-22 Thread Ian Jackson
Jonas Smedegaard writes ("Re: Tentative summary of the amendments"): > Quoting Nikolaus Rath (2014-10-22 05:09:18) > > I believe Ian's intended reading is that a package that depends on > > uselessd | systemd (but does not work with sysvinit) would be allowed > > by his proposal. Yes. In practi

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

2014-10-22 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi Sergey, On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 04:38:49PM +0300, Sergey Vlasov wrote: > Seconded. I say no to systemd dependency. I want to be able to choose > myself what init system to use in my Debian setup. > This mail isn't signed, nor do I seem to be able to find you in db.debian.org. Unfortunately, o

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

2014-10-22 Thread Sergey Vlasov
Hi Neil, I realized that myself afterwards, please forgive my ignorance. Indeed, I'm not a registered Debian developer, so my vote cannot be accepted. Sergey On 22 October 2014 13:39, Neil McGovern wrote: > Hi Sergey, > > On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 04:38:49PM +0300, Sergey Vlasov wrote: >> Second

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

2014-10-22 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 07:45:39AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Indeed, you are right: by definition, not all questions have been answered. > The existing wording of the amendement is therefore logically inconsistent. > > I propose the following replacement as per article A.1.5 of our Contitutio

Re: Tentative summary of the amendments

2014-10-22 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Nikolaus Rath (2014-10-22 05:09:18) > Lucas Nussbaum 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 basic

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

2014-10-22 Thread Philip Hands
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 > General Resolutions, as the GR process may