Re: Q: Do you believe in Supercow?

2019-04-04 Thread David Kalnischkies
> least favourite and most favourite aspect of APT? Basically yes, but as these are by now mostly answered more seriously than I was asking/hoping for by other threads I am fine. Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Q: Do you believe in Supercow?

2019-04-02 Thread David Kalnischkies
he things which are truely Debian as even their version number indicate that they are only useful in Debian are not (yet) the responsibility of all of Debian but of some people only. Thanks for replying so quickly to mail you were unsure about how to; it isn't a lot to be chewed on, but every bit counts! Moo, David Kalnischkies [0] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/04/msg00013.html signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Q: Do you believe in Supercow?

2019-04-02 Thread David Kalnischkies
ing the time they lost working on that thing which fell out of fashion soon after the DPL was revealed to be a redhat sockpuppet. Some timelines might be more likely than others. In summary, I was kinda expecting a different reply with less dodging, but then again I am not sure what I was really expecting. After all, what are you expecting than you sent out a bunch of questions roughly qualifying as small talk with hints of drama seeking to a bunch of politicians campaining for election. So desperate the apparent lack of actual APT specific content there are still some bits I will give supercow to chew on further. Thanks! Moo, David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Q: top three things you would like to change if that was easy?

2019-04-02 Thread David Kalnischkies
t mail was written yesterday, I feared people would get the idea I would be joking. I am not, well, except the speech part). Moo, David Kalnischkies ¹ with an exception for the 1% of packages which actually really need it and are deploying DPKG_ROOT at least. The rest should really make due with decla

Q: Do you believe in Supercow?

2019-04-01 Thread David Kalnischkies
y prepared you want to share with us but nobody has managed to ask the right question yet (so that the next apt release will be a botnet calculating the question)? [I am of course 100% serious and expect as much in return given that it will show your voters how well you are equipped to deal wit

Re: Proposed GR: Repeal the 2005 vote for declassification of the debian-private mailing list

2016-09-12 Thread David Kalnischkies
sons… Beside: Is that really how it should be done? Debian decides not to touch the past, but any random developer might decide to ignore that and run his own process anyhow with his/her own rules… I don't think so. Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Proposed GR: Repeal the 2005 vote for declassification of the debian-private mailing list

2016-09-10 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 03:40:41PM +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote: > I would be very interested in an explanation [off-list & encrypted if > it is too private] as I can't come up with a reason why that could be > a concious decision to not show the number of mails sent to d-priv

Re: Proposed GR: Repeal the 2005 vote for declassification of the debian-private mailing list

2016-09-09 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 12:48:02PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > David Kalnischkies writes ("Re: Proposed GR: Repeal the 2005 vote for > declassification of the debian-private mailing list"): > > On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 05:07:47PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Basic exam

Re: Proposed GR: Repeal the 2005 vote for declassification of the debian-private mailing list

2016-09-09 Thread David Kalnischkies
it is yes until it is further discussed (and in this proposal it would be cemented as yes). b) tl;dr: "In listmasters we trust" Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Amendment to Proposed GR: Declassifying parts of -private of historical interest

2016-08-09 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Tue, Aug 09, 2016 at 11:46:43PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Mon, Aug 08, 2016 at 07:56:07PM +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote: > > If on the other hand we say: Listmaster can come up with a proposal > > which can be discussed and as ultima ratio vetoed by GR (or by DPL via

Re: Amendment to Proposed GR: Declassifying parts of -private of historical interest

2016-08-09 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Tue, Aug 09, 2016 at 11:08:22PM +, Nick Phillips wrote: > On Tue, 2016-08-09 at 11:40 +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote: > > > In other words: You believe in the serious possibility that > > listmasters > > are evil people who will propose a process violating t

Re: Amendment to Proposed GR: Declassifying parts of -private of historical interest

2016-08-09 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Tue, Aug 09, 2016 at 12:14:49AM +, Nick Phillips wrote: > On Mon, 2016-08-08 at 19:56 +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 07, 2016 at 03:45:12PM +, Bart Martens wrote: > > Or as an "Explain like I'm Five" question: Why is the idea that >

Re: Amendment to Proposed GR: Declassifying parts of -private of historical interest

2016-08-08 Thread David Kalnischkies
come public knowledge is at the very least equally wrong. aka: d-private is Debians archived online version of water-cooler talk. Sometimes, historically significant things happen around the water-cooler, but most of the time… Best regards David Kalnischkies "Three may keep a Secret, if two of them are dead." -- Benjamin Franklin signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: leader2013

2013-04-16 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 8:38 AM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 07:09:50PM +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote: >> > >> > NOTE: The vote must be GPG signed (or PGP signed) with your key that >> > is in the Debian keyring. >> > >> &g

Re: leader2013

2013-04-15 Thread David Kalnischkies
the rest are at most (= in the Levenshtein distance sense) developers… (a mindset of which I am not really a fan, but that is another topic) Best regards David Kalnischkies, who writes this as a break from "deity" debugging, so don't try to read too much sense into it if you don'