[OT] Re: Draft GR: Simplification of license and copyright requirements for the Debian packages.

2010-01-24 Thread Charles Plessy
health, or suggest that people who disagree should leave. -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Supermajority first? (was: Re: Firmware)

2009-05-01 Thread Charles Plessy
), http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2009/03/msg3.html Nevertheless, wouldn't it be safer to first resolve this issue, while keeping as a goal to address the firmware question early in the release cycle? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Debian Project Leader Election 2009 Results

2009-04-12 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 01:43:36AM +0200, Kurt Roeckx a écrit : It seems that devotee does not properly handle it. Hi all, at worse, there may be alternatives, like selectricity (.org), which was also made by a DD. Unfortunately, it is not packaged… Have a nice day, -- Charles -- To

Re: [dissenting]: Proposal: Enhance requirements for General resolutions

2009-03-25 Thread Charles Plessy
some propositions along these lines in the constitutional discussion led by Matthew. We could also explore other possibilities such as a DPL veto mechanism. Anyway, the current GR really comes too early. I am not sure it will make it to the supermajority. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi

Re: [Amendment] Reaffirm current requirements for GR sponsoring

2009-03-25 Thread Charles Plessy
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Re: Question for all candidates about http://wiki.debian.org/DiscussionsAfterLenny

2009-03-21 Thread Charles Plessy
. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Amendment: Enhance requirements for General resolutions

2009-03-21 Thread Charles Plessy
the resolution. That makes an interesting race condition with Bill's overriding GR… -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Amendment: Enhance requirements for General resolutions

2009-03-21 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 12:04:31AM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : Le Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 03:49:02PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert a écrit : b) Delaying a decision of a Delegate or the DPL [§4.2(2.2)], as well as resolutions against a shortening of discussion/voting period or to overwrite

Re: Constitutional issues in the wake of Lenny

2009-03-17 Thread Charles Plessy
and all related amendments. But then, what kind of vote can be called by the proposers of amendments in A.2.1 ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Question to Stefano, Steve and Luk about the organisation into packaging teams.

2009-03-17 Thread Charles Plessy
of divergence between the candidates. Then, if there is interest for such a discussion, I would like to encourage you to develop your ideas on this subject, especially on what you can do as a DPL or DPL assistant. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org

Re: RFC: General resolution: Clarify the status of the social contract

2008-12-19 Thread Charles Plessy
mailboxes explode (by the way, please stop cross-posting). I think that starting another GR now will do more harm than good. Maybe the best opportunity to test if the Project is in the mood for formal reforms is the next DPL election. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Re: Why the gr_lenny ballot is the way it is

2008-12-17 Thread Charles Plessy
secretary. Best, -- Charles Plessy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: On the firmwares/Lenny vote

2008-12-14 Thread Charles Plessy
, in order to convey the message that they are unsatisfied ? (And by the way, for the readers of Debian Planet, I think that Christian voted 7452136, as in option 5 first, option four second, …, and option 1 last.) Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Final call for votes: GR: Project membership procedures

2008-12-12 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 11:57:06AM +, Neil McGovern a écrit : With approximately 60 hours remaining, 142 people have voted, out of a potential 1018. This is somewhat of an record for low participation. Hi all, I have nothing against a voting period lasting the standard two weeks. Have a

Re: Final call for votes: GR: Project membership procedures

2008-12-12 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 02:52:01PM +, Steve McIntyre a écrit : On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 09:05:54PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 11:57:06AM +, Neil McGovern a écrit : With approximately 60 hours remaining, 142 people have voted, out of a potential 1018

Re: Draft ballot for the Project membership procedures vote

2008-12-03 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 05:21:16PM +, Neil McGovern a écrit : Hi all, Here's the draft ballot for the GR. Please note the timescale and reply ASAP. Hi Neil The vote page has three mutually exclusive texts, with headers named Choice 1, Choice 2 and Choice 3 that respectively correspond

Re: [vote_002] Preparation of the ballot.

2008-11-30 Thread Charles Plessy
to start the implementation of the changes described on the debian-devel-announce mailing list (Message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) about Developer Status. If there is anything I can do to help to prepare the ballot, please let me know. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

[vote_002] Preparation of the ballot.

2008-11-26 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 09:09:36AM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : Le Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 08:12:10AM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : Hello Neil, Manoj, and everybody. Thanks Neil for preparing the vote page. I think that there is no need for extra explanation. There is a small mistake

Re: Vote pages up

2008-11-23 Thread Charles Plessy
Hello Neil, Manoj, and everybody. Thanks Neil for preparing the vote page. I think that there is no need for extra explanation. There is a small mistake however: I am the proposer of the GR. Can you correct the page ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Re: Vote pages up

2008-11-23 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 08:12:10AM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : Hello Neil, Manoj, and everybody. Thanks Neil for preparing the vote page. I think that there is no need for extra explanation. There is a small mistake however: I am the proposer of the GR. Can you correct the page ? Ah

Re: call for seconds: on firmware

2008-11-18 Thread Charles Plessy
completerly agree. How about allowing the Project to release Lenny without changing the DFSG? Despite forward-looking as strong as I can, I do not see people using the microcontroller of their wireless cards for anything else than controlling their wireless cards. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy

Re: call for seconds: on firmware

2008-11-18 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 06:36:12AM +0200, Lars Wirzenius a écrit : ke, 2008-11-19 kello 07:58 +0900, Charles Plessy kirjoitti: Manoj, I completerly agree. How about allowing the Project to release Lenny without changing the DFSG? That is what Manoj proposed on 2008-11-10 in http

Re: Proposed wording for the SC modification

2008-11-17 Thread Charles Plessy
if Peter's option is voted with less than a 3:1 majority ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Proposed wording for the SC modification

2008-11-17 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 09:38:19AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava a écrit : On Mon, Nov 17 2008, Charles Plessy wrote: the problem is that we were told that voting for your amendment makes it necessary to organise a vote to change the DFSG or the SC… I really understand your position

Further discussion ? None of the above ?

2008-11-16 Thread Charles Plessy
the story short, I can propose yet another option: None of the above. The Project decides nothing. Interpretations of this result are personal opinions and are not binding to anyone. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Defining free, and the DFSG's terminological shortcomings

2008-11-16 Thread Charles Plessy
a nice day, if that is possible after having this thread for breakfast, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: call for seconds: on firmware

2008-11-15 Thread Charles Plessy
ii Do we allow the Release Team to ignore SC violation bugs: As usual iii What do we do for Lenny: Release iV Do we modify foundation documents: No v Do we override foundation documentsNo -- Charles Plessy

Re: call for seconds: on firmware (was: on firmware (possible proposal))

2008-11-14 Thread Charles Plessy
for some developpers, it makes a big difference. I would really prefer hearing their opinion before voting for a supermajority resolution that may not be applied if nobody wants to deal with the work overhead of having a new section outside main. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa

Re: Call for seconds - DAM decisions

2008-11-12 Thread Charles Plessy
mailing list (Message-id: | [EMAIL PROTECTED]) about Developer Status. I hereby second both options. The discussion period is extended of two weeks. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Debian membership GR: intend to call for a vote soon.

2008-11-11 Thread Charles Plessy
therefore invite the people who like it to sponsor it by the end of the week. Past this delay, and unless somebody has a strong opinion against, I will call for a vote so that we can put an end to the story, heal wounds and move on. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Re: Call for seconds - DAM decisions

2008-11-03 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 10:04:05AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit : On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 09:34:47AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: I do not think that the only interpretation of a rejected GR is the contrary of its option(s). For instance, people can vote Further Disucssion because

Re: Call for seconds - DAM decisions

2008-11-02 Thread Charles Plessy
. This said, I still hope that Joerg could send a clarification that what he presented is not yet an official policy, and that he will follow consensus or propose changes through a GR. With this we could avoid the current vote. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Re: Draft ballot for Proceedural Vote: Suspension of the changes of the Project's membership procedures.

2008-11-01 Thread Charles Plessy
. - The second best one is to cool down until the end of the discussion period, and vote this GR as it is. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Call for seconds - DC concept (was: Possible amendment for Debian Contributors concept)

2008-10-29 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:45:31PM +0100, Frans Pop a écrit : I hereby second the proposal quoted below and have no objection to Charles Plessy's earlier proposal being dropped (or retracted) Thanks Frans for the explanation, and thanks again to Peter who showed us a way to an exit of the

Re: Possible amendment for Debian Contributors concept (was: Call for seconds: Suspension of the changes of the Project's membership procedures.)

2008-10-28 Thread Charles Plessy
, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2008-10-27 Thread Charles Plessy
will be a Rubicon that nobody is willing to cross, so I do not feel like tweaking it. I am fine with a status quo while progress is done on the debian-project list. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Draft ballot for Proceedural Vote: Suspension of the changes of the Project's membership procedures.

2008-10-27 Thread Charles Plessy
for taking it. We all have the same goal, making Debian more open, but disagree ont the means. Let's discuss instead of just checking who has the right to impose his opinion on the others. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

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

2008-10-24 Thread Charles Plessy
that will be finished by consensus or a general resolution. - --- Actually, if the GR road is eventually taken, it can be done through amending this proposal. This will save time and energy. Have a nice day, - -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

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-announce

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 resolution

Proposal - defer changes to Debian membership procedures to after the release of Lenny.

2008-10-23 Thread Charles Plessy
are published). Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Proposal - defer changes to Debian membership procedures to after the release of Lenny.

2008-10-23 Thread Charles Plessy
if the suspension stays effective until the results of the GR vote are published). Have a nice day, - -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkkApgwACgkQdYl1krr+x/IBVACfYHQ2OZ1ky6NNm/b24695c5CE 9QMAn0rNEZIAATKtR4ol4NdfoCy1ZG54 =NPw1

Re: Proposal - defer changes to Debian membership procedures to after the release of Lenny.

2008-10-23 Thread Charles Plessy
on which we can construct the instead of just hoping to amend. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Proposed vote on issue of the day: trademarks and free software

2008-09-18 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 10:17:18AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst a écrit : For those of you who're not aware: the Mozilla Foundation is now forcing people who want to use their firefox trademark to display an EULA Hi Wouter, haven't we read on planet.debian.org that they changed their minds? Have a

Re: Proposal - Project infrastructure team procedures

2008-04-30 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 08:15:42PM +0200, Josip Rodin a écrit : * Infrastructure teams are encouraged to adapt their sizes to their workloads, to ensure that they don't block or slow down the work of other Debian contributors. Hi Josip and everybody, I understand that ad-hoc GRs

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

2008-03-13 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). Untrue, you just

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

2008-03-12 Thread Charles Plessy
. Finally, Opt-out is a negative concept that does not describe so well what I wanted to say. If I could summarise in a few words, it would be sharing the responsability between the package maitainer and the Debian infrastructure teams. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org

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

2008-03-10 Thread Charles Plessy
and the service managers to opt in or opt out the use of each services by Debian packages (or preferably groups of them)? If yes, how would you define the role of the DPL in implusing these changes? Have a nice day, and many thanks for your candidacy. -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wakō

Re: On the Debian Maintainers GR

2007-07-26 Thread Charles Plessy
to fulfill this goal. But I do not think that rejecting the GR gives a clear message to the people in charge of this task, since many different reasons of voting no have been explored in this list... Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian-Med packaging team. Wako, Saitama, Japan

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal

2007-06-22 Thread Charles Plessy
the spirit of the fondamental texts, and by never lowering his aims of quality (which does not mean never making mistakes, this is more a funciton of to the quantity of work done). Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: A question to the Debian community ...

2007-05-10 Thread Charles Plessy
, and are clueless monthes later about the reasons for which nothing happened ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Request for GR: clarifying the license text licensing / freeness issue

2007-04-23 Thread Charles Plessy
, on a functionnal point of view, still works as before... Nothing Depends: on the licences. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Request for GR: clarifying the license text licensing / freeness issue

2007-04-17 Thread Charles Plessy
by not relying on laws enforcing fairness in contracts to avoid those situations. If it looks like the license, it is the verbatim or a fake. There is clearly an advantage to this. (Which has to be balanced with others such as restriction of freedom to modify of course). Have a nice day, -- Charles

Question for Anthony Towns

2006-02-28 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear Anthony Towns, When I sent you a private mail complaining about the ad-hominem style of one of your posts on -devel, you published it on your blog. Will you do the same with the private mails sent you as a DPL, if you were elected ? Best regards, -- Charles Plessy Wako, Saitama, Japan

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