Re: GR: welcome non-packaging contributors as Debian project members

2010-09-14 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
On 14.09.10 10:53, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: Of all those topics, one topic *might* have consensus already: accepting as DDs contributors which have contributed a lot to Debian doing non-packaging work, which intend to continue doing so, and which are ready to uphold our Foundation Documents.

Re: Bits from the release team and request for discussion

2009-08-11 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Anthony Towns wrote: On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 05:39:23AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 07:28:58PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: About freeze timing we think that DebConf should definitely not fall into a freeze We noticed that releases in the first quarter of the year worked

Re: Draft vote on constitutional issues

2009-05-14 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 10:53 +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: DFSG is a guideline and a target: we must no go far as the nearest point we reached, but it still a guideline. Consider: - we never had a full DFSG Debian (also when DFSG was written) - we have RC also

Re: Draft vote on constitutional issues

2009-05-13 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 17:06 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: I think this is the core of the disagreement. I do not call it a temporary override of a foundation document; I call it a temporary practical consensus between the needs of our users and the needs of the free

Question: Why do you [not] candidate?

2009-03-27 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Hello, The question seems very simple: Why do you [not] candidate?, but I'm looking more about: - Why only two candidates ? - Is it good for campaign and discussions? - Why so low interest for DPL? ciao cate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Another one?

2008-10-31 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Lucas Nussbaum wrote: Also, I don't think we that are there yet: maybe objections against Joerg's decision^Hproposal were raised but not addressed (not only on the process that Joerg followed, but also on the content of his proposal). Also, we have alternative proposals (Lars' and Raphael's).

Re: DAM has no competency to make changes to membership structure

2008-10-27 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Joerg Jaspert wrote: On 11551 March 1977, martin f. krafft wrote: The changes announced the 22nd of October on the debian-devel-announce mailing list (Message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) are suspended [§4.1(3)]. This suspension is effective immediately [§4.2(2.2)]. I do not understand why

Re: Proposal: Keep non-free

2004-02-26 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Martin Schulze wrote: Andreas Barth wrote: * Martin Schulze ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040226 08:55]: We cannot include it in Debian anyway, since it is non-free. If Debian stops distributing it but people will build ftp.non-free.org, what's the different from the users' perspective? A new

Re: [atlarge-discuss] online voting

2002-05-17 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Steve Langasek wrote: On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 03:01:38PM +0200, Vittorio Bertola wrote: So, to apply this system to ICANN, we would have to build the At Large membership by cooptation, ie each new member would have to be introduced by another one. This could be somewhat interesting, but I guess

Re: [atlarge-discuss] online voting

2002-05-17 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Steve Langasek wrote: On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 03:01:38PM +0200, Vittorio Bertola wrote: So, to apply this system to ICANN, we would have to build the At Large membership by cooptation, ie each new member would have to be introduced by another one. This could be somewhat interesting, but I