Hi Thomas,
I overlooked this the first time, but
On 2024-03-29 16:03, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> FYI, if I didn't go forward with the project, that we've been discussing
> with Jonathan over at least 3 years, is because I have no idea where to
> host it. I have clearly stated that having this hosted
On 2022-06-20 20:31, Louis-Philippe Véronneau wrote:
> I don't see GRs as "adversarial" or "a last resort to put a nail in the
> coffin of a divisive debate", but as a great tool we have to take
> collective decisions.
I find it difficult to not see a GR as adversarial when deciding things
on a par
On 2022-04-02 10:55, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> Where does our Privacy Policy[1] describe personal data where Debian and
> the community team are joint controllers?
> Where does our Privacy Policy describe personal data where Debian and
> DAM are joint controllers?
Has it been established yet that Deb
On 2022-03-28 01:22, Christian Kastner wrote:
>
> On 2022-03-27 19:31, felix.lech...@lease-up.com wrote:
>> Would you please explain why Option 2 defeated NOTA by 124 votes but at
>> the same time defeated Option 3, which was identical to NOTA, by only 35
>> votes?
>
On 2022-03-27 19:31, felix.lech...@lease-up.com wrote:
> Would you please explain why Option 2 defeated NOTA by 124 votes but at
> the same time defeated Option 3, which was identical to NOTA, by only 35
> votes?
This seems to be inline with what the proposer intended, though. From
the text of C
On 2022-03-21 12:05, Holger Levsen wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 09:41:49AM +0100, Christian Kastner wrote:
>> A common pattern to address this within the open source world is to
>> create a non-profit legal entity, e.g. the FSF Foundation or the GNOME
>> Foundation.
On 2022-03-21 09:41, Christian Kastner wrote:
> Currently, the Project has no legal standing of its
> own, meaning that within any legal context, there is no Project. You
> can't donate to Debian, you donate to some other organization (SPI). The
> DPL can represent the Project
On 2022-03-20 13:10, Felix Lechner wrote:
> I'm sorry no one has gotten back to you so far. I do not know which
> ideas Jonathan Carter and Brian Gupta (copied as a courtesy) have been
> pursuing.
>
> My own thinking on this point is also evolving, as detailed below. I
> copied Christan Kastner to
Jonathan has already addressed this in his platform, acknowledging Brian
Gupta's 2020 campaign focus on this, so this is mostly a question for
Hideki and Felix:
What is your position on registering Debian as an organization?
I'm curious as to (1) what you think of the idea in general, and (2)
ins
On 2022-03-04 13:15, Holger Levsen wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 04, 2022 at 12:14:56PM +0100, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote:
>> Is init systems GR a political GR?
>
> yet there are people maintaining systemd and sysv in public.
How is that relevant?
I'm neither a systemd nor sysv maintainer, but considerin
On 01.04.21 10:11, Santiago R.R. wrote:
> What happens if Kurt also wants to take part in the discussion? Should
> we decide on who will review the messages and announce the winner of
> that discussion?
I was worried about this, too.
I'm not sure that deciding on another reviewer is feasible. Act
On 26.03.21 01:06, Simon Richter wrote:
>> (2) how deeply Debian gets involved
>
> We are in a prominent position. The OSI's Open Source Definition is
> derived from the Debian Free Software Guidelines, after all, not the
> other way 'round.
>
> There is no way for us to not be involved in some
On 25.03.21 22:32, Simon Richter wrote:
> Pretty much everything Debian does is political
> the "technical" decisions we make based on that also have political
> consequences.
That's taking meaning of the word 'political' in the widest possible
sense, and in that sense, literally any action (or i
On 23.03.21 17:28, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> If Debian paid for working on orphaned packages, then I would probably
> orphan some of the packages I now maintain as a volunteer, to then work
> on those same packages for pay.
First, I think that at least two alternative scenarios have to be taken
On 23.03.21 16:40, Gard Spreemann wrote:
> Jonas Smedegaard writes:
>> Seems backwards to to me to pay for keeping packages alive that we have
>> lost interest in.
>
> That's a good point, I agree. What about packages that we have lost
> interest in, but that our users very much have not? Admit
On 23.03.21 16:04, Louis-Philippe Véronneau wrote:
> On 2021-03-22 16 h 43, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote:
>> Le vendredi, 19 mars 2021, 17.49:54 h CET Louis-Philippe Véronneau a écrit :
>>> I for one would be less motivated to help with videoteam tasks if I knew
>>> someone was paid to organise a min
Dear DPL candidates,
I would like to expand on the following example with a data point:
On 23.03.21 10:42, Christian Kastner wrote:
> Example 2#: Undermaintained packages, especially in stable
> ~~~
>
> This is something that every contributor, including me, can probably
On 24.03.21 15:37, Simon Richter wrote:
> The vast majority of the software we ship works fine with a two-line
> systemd unit and three debhelper control files, and that is exactly what we
> should be using for these cases, but we cannot generalize that to a
> requirement, and people wishing to con
Dear DPL candidates,
the topic of paying developers for Debian work has been raised a few
times in abstract terms, and in your answers, I think you made it more
or less clear where you stand.
However, looking at this from the other side of the argument, I still
believe that relying on pure volunt
On 22.03.21 19:41, Paride Legovini wrote:
> Louis-Philippe Véronneau wrote on 19/03/2021:
> https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2019-03-10-debian-winding-down/
>
> I think that the lack of standardization and the fragmented
> infrastructure is in good part the root of most of the problems he
> out
On 19.03.21 19:47, Sruthi Chandran wrote:
> The complete volunteer nature of Debian is one of the important
> and attractive point that makes Debian different from other distros.
The complete volunteer nature also means that certain tasks/chores get
done slowly, or sometimes not at all.
For examp
On 19.03.21 11:29, Enrico Zini wrote:
>> I don't think that lack of interest is the problem here, but I do think
>> that Debian contributors tend to be already starved for time, and trying
>> to get them to do more is like trying to tap water out of an empty well.
>> For some, a financial incentive
Brian,
I very much support your plan to establish a Debian foundation. Looking
back over even just the last few months, I saw numerous challenges that
would have greatly simplified if there were a legal entity representing
the Debian Project.
Having various Project-wide issues, but representation
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