Re: Proposal: Enhance requirements for General resolutions

2009-03-21 Thread Guilherme de S. Pastore
#x27;s just about taking this into account before ammending the constitution. Cheers, -- Guilherme de S. Pastore gpast...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Proposal: Enhance requirements for General resolutions

2009-03-21 Thread Guilherme de S. Pastore
0 to 400 votes in the most controversial disputes recently. In other words, considering the seconds requirement from the 1000-something DDs we count formally is fiction, when less than half of them actually participate in the decision process. -- Guilherme de S. Pastore gpast...@debian.org

Re: First call for votes for the Lenny release GR

2008-12-19 Thread Guilherme de S. Pastore
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 09:35:23PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 08:15:25PM -0600, Guilherme de S. Pastore wrote: > > Avoiding getting too technical about it, it is still illogical. You > > cannot produce the same effects of an amendment, even though

Re: First call for votes for the Lenny release GR

2008-12-18 Thread Guilherme de S. Pastore
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 03:14:55PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 05:54:13AM -0600, Guilherme de S. Pastore wrote: > > It is in the basics of constitutional law. We cannot explicitly decide > > not to enforce the text of a foundation document, making an excep

Re: First call for votes for the Lenny release GR

2008-12-18 Thread Guilherme de S. Pastore
written on and disregarding what it states. Social anomaly versus institutions. Cheers, -- Guilherme de S. Pastore gpast...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: First call for votes for the Lenny release GR

2008-12-14 Thread Guilherme de S. Pastore
rely on the ability to vote on different proposed texts with one shot. I am not blaming anyone or claiming to be right here; just giving the issue some random thought. -- Guilherme de S. Pastore gpast...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Draft ballot for the Project membership procedures vote

2008-12-03 Thread Guilherme de S. Pastore
On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 05:21:16PM +, Neil McGovern wrote: > [ ] Choice 1: Ask the DAMs to postpone the changes until vote or concensus. > [ ] Choice 2: Invite the DAM to further discuss until vote or concensus, > leading to a new proposal. s/concensus/consensus/ ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal, updated

2007-06-27 Thread Guilherme de S. Pastore
g outside >the archive. Individuals who wish to reuse the keyring for granting >access to services to some or all Debian Maintainers may do so >according to their own judgement, of course. > >In particular, this means that Debian maintainers do not participate >in the general resolution procedure defined in the Debian constitution, >and cannot vote in Debian elections. > > Debian Maintainers Proposal -- Guilherme de S. Pastore [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Esta é uma parte de mensagem assinada digitalmente

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal

2007-06-23 Thread Guilherme de S. Pastore
urden of going through a sponsor need not be able to carefully analyse a thousand lines of broken licenses or understand binary formats and complicated library packaging, which I think this proposal might help address. -- Guilherme de S. Pastore [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Esta é uma parte de mensagem assinada digitalmente

Re: kernel firmwares: GR proposal

2006-08-31 Thread Guilherme de S. Pastore
I second the GR proposal below. Em Qua, 2006-08-30 às 23:06 +0200, Frederik Schueler escreveu: > Overview: > > The Linux kernel source contains device drivers that ship with firmware > files provided by the hardware manufacturer. They are uploaded during > the driver initialization to the corres