Re: Debian Project Leader Elections 2020: Candidates

2020-03-16 Thread MJ Ray
Kurt Roeckx - Debian Project Secretary wrote: > We're now into the campaigning period. We have 5 candidates this > year: > - Jonathan Carter > - Sruthi Chandran > - Brian Gupta Dear Debian Project Secretary I seem to be having difficulty counting to 5. I only get as far as 3 when counting the

Re: Proposal to overturn init systems premature GR

2019-12-06 Thread MJ Ray
2019-12-05 1:09:00 PM Sam Hartman : > And as I discussed in the CFV, each successive round of people who > wonder along and joins the discussion makes the cost higher in real > ways. This reads a bit like CFVing early to exclude people which I oppose. I support Ian. I do not second yet because

Re: Proposed GR: Acknowledge that the debian-private list will remain private

2016-07-07 Thread MJ Ray
should be made to reform that process to something we might stand a chance of implementing, rather than abolish it entirely, but I'm currently unable to second Don's excellent amendments. I beg other DDs to consider them favourably. Hope that explains, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.

Re: [all candidates] vote time?

2013-03-19 Thread MJ Ray
ere are a few powers which help tackle big issues, even if they can be tackled without them. Hope that makes sense - I'm in a rush. -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer. In My Opinion O

Re: Your opinion on Debian Maintainer status

2013-03-18 Thread MJ Ray
it, but there's so much else to do first (after all, why run for DPL rather than improve the wiki more? ;-) ) Hope that informs, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer. In

Re: [all candidates] Debian as an FSF Free Software Distribution

2013-03-15 Thread MJ Ray
whether or not we want to fit within them. Until we've got some measurements, which we can't take ourselves because we don't see the walls in the same places as the FSF, we can't and it's rather frustrating to try. Hope that explains, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.softwar

Re: [all candidates] vote time?

2013-03-15 Thread MJ Ray
e Big Questions to DPL Candidates which maybe aren't really much about the DPL vote. I'd welcome a DPL who led work on this aspect of the project management. I suspect that until there are a couple of minor tweaks to the project, it's difficult to reach sufficient consensus if the D

[all candidates] vote time?

2013-03-14 Thread MJ Ray
your attention and I await your reply with interest. Best wishes, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire

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

2010-09-14 Thread MJ Ray
"Giacomo A. Catenazzi" > So you are already free to do it by delegating. A GR would be used > to overrule your decision, but, as you already noted, there is > already a general consensus on the issue. Equally, the DPL is empowered to start a GR to do this. I'm very happy to see a DPL checking th

Re: Debian Project Leader Elections 2010: Call for nominations

2010-03-08 Thread MJ Ray
Colin Tuckley > Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > PS "leather, rinse, repeat", I guess ... > > I think you mean "lather" (it means to wash with soap). Yeah, but leathering (hitting hard with a belt as a punishment) may also be an appropriate action for someone considering standing for DPL! ;-) Sorr

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

2010-01-24 Thread MJ Ray
Charles Plessy > Le Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 10:56:36PM +0000, MJ Ray a écrit : > > Charles Plessy > > > According to our social contract, “We promise that the Debian system and > > > all > > > its components will be free according to [the DFSG].” [...] > >

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

2010-01-24 Thread MJ Ray
Charles Plessy > [...] my personal conclusion that this time could be > better spent for other efforts. I therefore propose to make these > practices optional. Since it is a major change in our traditions, I propose > to make a GR to make sure that there is a consensus. As will become clear, I di

Re: Firmware

2009-05-04 Thread MJ Ray
Joey Schulze wrote: > Luk Claes wrote: > > It's of course possible to load firmware from extra media during > > installation or install the right package (from non-free) when booting > > back to an older kernel (to have network again) to be able to use the > > network with the new kernel...

Re: Amendment: automatic expiry-on-failure, to Proposal: Enhance requirements for General resolutions

2009-03-27 Thread MJ Ray
Frans Pop wrote: > MJ Ray wrote: > > Replace clause c with "c) if a year has passed, starting from the > > proposal of a general resolution, without any proposal receiving the > > required number of seconds, then this resolution expires and the > > require

Re: Amendment: automatic expiry-on-failure, to Proposal: Enhance requirements for General resolutions

2009-03-26 Thread MJ Ray
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 With thanks to suggestions from Wouter Verhelst and Russ Allbery, I present a redrafted amendment. Seeing as none of the proposers have responded, I ask for seconds. The rationale remains the same: almost no evidence has been presented for Q or 2Q or

Re: Amendment: automatic expiry-on-failure, to Proposal: Enhance requirements for General resolutions

2009-03-25 Thread MJ Ray
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 12:37:02PM +0000, MJ Ray wrote: > > AMENDMENT START > > > > Replace "too small" with "tho

Re: Question for DPL Candidates: Debian $$$

2009-03-24 Thread MJ Ray
Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 12:43:06PM +0000, MJ Ray wrote: > > paying grants to other charities to evaluate debian, > > What does this mean? Paying someone to "evaluate" debian? I don't get > this ... As I understand it, charities current

Re: GR proposal: the AGPL does not meet the DFSG

2009-03-23 Thread MJ Ray
Russ Allbery wrote: > MJ Ray writes: > > I hope that others will support this debian and co-op view. > > I continue to object to this GR as currently worded because it is a > stealth delegate override that doesn't clearly state its implications and > effects. I encou

Re: Question for DPL Candidates: Debian $$$

2009-03-23 Thread MJ Ray
Steve McIntyre wrote: > Do you have any further ideas yourself on where we should spend our > money? How about paying grants to other charities to evaluate debian, to adapt it to meet their needs and deploy it, or to hold meetings to do that? I was at a meeting for local voluntary and community

Amendment: automatic expiry-on-failure, to Proposal: Enhance requirements for General resolutions

2009-03-23 Thread MJ Ray
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joerg Jaspert wrote: > While one could go and define another arbitary number, like 10 or 15 or > whatever, I propose to move this to something that is dependent on the > actual number of Developers, as defined by the secretary, and to > increase its v

Re: GR proposal: the AGPL does not meet the DFSG

2009-03-23 Thread MJ Ray
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bill Allombert wrote: > - - - - - - - > General Resolution made in accordance with Debian Constitution 4.1.5: > > The Debian project resolves that softwares licensed under the GNU Affero > Public License are not free according to the Debian Free Softw

Re: Debian Project Leader Election 2009: Final call for nominations.

2009-03-08 Thread MJ Ray
Carsten Hey wrote: > On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 10:53:17AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 02:18:03PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > "To be valid, a Debian Developers can send a signed email in which they > > > nominate themselves, to the debian-vote@lists.debian.org lis

Re: DPL Debates [Re: Debian Project Leader Election 2009]

2009-03-01 Thread MJ Ray
Steve Langasek wrote: [...] > I'd like to raise the question of whether these IRC debates are really > something we should have. I know Don and the panelists put a lot of time > and effort into making the debates happen, which is part of why I ask the > question: is it really worth all this effo

Re: DPL Debates [Re: Debian Project Leader Election 2009]

2009-02-27 Thread MJ Ray
Don Armstrong wrote: > People who'd like to help run the debate and/or collect questions can > also volunteer with a message to -vote. I'd like to do either, as previous years. Regards, -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only: see http://people.debian.org/~mjr/ Please follow http://www.uk.debian.org/Mailin

Re: Discussion: Possible GR: Enhance requirements for General Resolutions

2009-01-07 Thread MJ Ray
t to > actually achieve a real, well considered, consensus in that time. OK, so this proposal means people would spend more time on each GR. I feel that's probably a bad consequence. > MJ Ray wrote: > > [...] also, it's 30 DDs, not 30 people. > > I'm not sure what y

Possible GR: pre-proposal participation by DDs [strawpoll]

2009-01-07 Thread MJ Ray
I believe that most debian developers ignore discussions of possible GRs like the current one, until/unless they look like reaching the required number of seconds to trigger a vote. It's hard to prove that a group is ignoring something, but disproof is simple: please could all DDs who watch pre-pr

Re: Discussion: Possible GR: Enhance requirements for General Resolutions

2009-01-05 Thread MJ Ray
Michael Goetze wrote: > MJ Ray wrote: > > to reduce GRs, having > > another way for developers to ask a question that nearly always gets > > answered might help. > > Such as, say, writing an email to debian-de...@ldo? On inspection, that works more than I thought, but

Re: Discussion: Possible GR: Enhance requirements for General Resolutions

2009-01-05 Thread MJ Ray
Ron wrote: > > On Fri, 02 Jan 2009, MJ Ray wrote: > > In the past, I've seen considerable resistance to vote topics being > > discussed outside -vote, unless they're by one of a few popular DDs. > > Do supporters of nQ expect this situation to change, only those

Re: Discussion: Possible GR: Enhance requirements for General Resolutions

2009-01-02 Thread MJ Ray
Don Armstrong wrote: > On Fri, 02 Jan 2009, MJ Ray wrote: > > Sorry - I'm with Wouter Verhelst on this. Having options on the > > ballot that only a small minority of DDs support can help resolve > > conflicts: it lays them to rest, demonstrating they fail in the >

Re: Discussion: Possible GR: Enhance requirements for General Resolutions

2009-01-02 Thread MJ Ray
Don Armstrong wrote: > On Tue, 30 Dec 2008, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > In general, I believe it is okay to second a ballot option that you > > do not plan to rank first if you feel it is an important matter that > > you want to see resolved. The statement "I second this proposal" > > only means "I

Re: New section for firmware.

2008-12-29 Thread MJ Ray
neral freedom to modify the RFC documents. Hope that explains -- MJ Ray (slef) Webmaster for hire, statistician and online shop builder for a small worker cooperative http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ (Notice http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html) tel:+44-844-4437-237 -- To UNSUB

Re: New section for firmware.

2008-12-29 Thread MJ Ray
Thiemo Seufer wrote: > Kurt Roeckx wrote: [...] > > hardware to make it fully functional. The files in this > > area should not comply with the DFSG #2, #3 and #4, but should > ^ > .. need not to comply ..; as already mentioned by others. Just "need not c

Re: New section for firmware.

2008-12-29 Thread MJ Ray
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: [...] > The suggestion is to add a debconf question to each installation from > that 'firmware section'. This will honestly point out to users that they > are about to install non-free stuff which is not part of debian proper [1]. I like this suggestion. > Now the ques

Re: gr_lenny vs gr_socialcontract

2008-12-20 Thread MJ Ray
Anthony Towns wrote: > On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 09:54:08AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > I did not mean this to be argumentative. A rhetorical flourish, > > yes. The quote is from a US politicial, and the analogy between the > > constitutions and bill of rights was amusing. > > Uh,

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

2008-12-12 Thread MJ Ray
Neil McGovern wrote: > With approximately 60 hours remaining, 142 people have voted, out of a > potential 1018. This is somewhat of an record for low participation. I deferred voting following reports of error bounces. Regards, -- MJ Ray (slef) Webmaster for hire, statistician and onlin

Re: Call for vote (Re: call for seconds: on firmware)

2008-12-12 Thread MJ Ray
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > To cast a vote, it is necessary to send this ballot, with the text form > (which is embedded later in this ballot) filled out, to a dedicated > e-mail address, in a signed message, as described below. Suggest restructuring to simplify:- To cast a vote, complete the text

Re: For our own good: splitting the vote. Thoughts?

2008-11-16 Thread MJ Ray
> Please forward this mail to the list, as i am being censored, No, you are not being censored. -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only: see http://people.debian.org/~mjr/ Please follow http://www.uk.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

Re: call for seconds: on firmware

2008-11-16 Thread MJ Ray
Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > [SC 1] doesn't require the so called source of the work to exist > within Debian explicitly. It asks for any component in Debian to meet > the DFSG. > > In turn however, the DFSG requires that in their §2. The DFSG use a mix > of "component", "soft

Re: Discussion period: GR: DFSG violations in Lenny

2008-11-16 Thread MJ Ray
Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please stop this fud. As everyone knows the 'lenny-ignore' tag is not > used to intentionally ignore bugs (and has nothing to do with DFSG > violations or not apart from bug severities), it's used to mark bugs as > not blocking the release. [...] It seems tha

Re: For our own good: splitting the vote. Thoughts?

2008-11-16 Thread MJ Ray
Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The goal of a vote is the ranking of options; this doesn't necessarily > coincide with a clear assessment of the opinions of the population. > > Furthermore, splitting non-disjoint options into separate votes has a > myriad of other problems that Manoj has

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

2008-10-28 Thread MJ Ray
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > You think it speaks ill of people when they are demotivated by > people saying nasty things about them, or ascribing horrible motives to > them? Amazing. Me, I would be liable to just break out some beer and > watch some movies rather

Re: Secretary? Delegate? [Was: Draft ballot for Proceedural Vote: Suspension of the changes of the Project's membership procedures.]

2008-10-28 Thread MJ Ray
Neil McGovern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/07/msg4.html I've added Neil McGovern under Secretary to webwml/english/intro/organization.data Hope that's OK, -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only: see http://people.debian.org/~mjr/ Please follow http://w

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

2008-10-28 Thread MJ Ray
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] No matter that the GR is a useless, no-op, > anti-ganneff vote, which serves no purpose whatsoever, except to kill > any motivation ganneff might have had to facilitate admission of > non-packagers into Debian. [...] I hope it won't kill tha

Re: Call for seconds: Revised ballot

2008-10-27 Thread MJ Ray
Debian Project Secretary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is an interesting point. It all depends on the definition > of what a resolution is, and whether a resolution can have multiple > options, or not. I consider a resolution to be a formal expression of > the opinion or will of an o

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

2008-10-25 Thread MJ Ray
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - Following the announcement of the 22nd of October on the > debian-devel-announce >mailing list (Message-id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) about "Developer >Status"; > > - Given the importance of defining

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

2008-09-23 Thread MJ Ray
e been named. The Debian project is one of very few groups where ordinary free software developers can issue (draft and decide) such a statement about what's affected their project and users. Hope that explains, -- MJ Ray (slef) Webmaster for hire, statistician and online sh

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

2008-09-23 Thread MJ Ray
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 07:39:43PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > > Debian's people (i.e. debian-legal and so, even equiped with all the > > TINLA and IANAL disclaimers) are a well regarded and quite well > > informed body in this regard. > > Well-regarded b

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

2008-09-22 Thread MJ Ray
(and misdescriptions of) debian's position about using trademarks to bolt down free software. I believe developing an agreed statement on this is a good move. Regards, -- MJ Ray (slef) Webmaster for hire, statistician and online shop builder for a small worker cooperative http://www.ttllp.co.uk/

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

2008-09-22 Thread MJ Ray
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ===Begin resolution text=== > The Debian Project has been watching the case around the Mozilla > Project's EULA requirement for people wishing to use their trademarks > from a distance. This is an issue that

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

2008-09-18 Thread MJ Ray
Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 12:56:28PM +0100, MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I also note that FSF's page at http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/ > > says Mozilla's Firefox build includes non-free software. > >

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

2008-09-18 Thread MJ Ray
oundation > has now turned the trademarked version of their Free Software into > software that is no longer free. > ===End resolution text=== Regards, - -- MJ Ray (slef) Webmaster for hire, statistician and online shop builder for a small worker cooperative http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ http://m

Re: Debian Project Leader Elections 2008: Marc Brockschmidt

2008-03-31 Thread MJ Ray
Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > MJ Ray dijo [Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 04:16:15PM +]: > > Well, for example, Marc Brockschmidt has spent time writing a > > platform, canvassing and campaigning, which he suggested he would not > > have done if an acceptable cand

Re: Technical committee resolution

2008-03-31 Thread MJ Ray
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:57:08 -0400, Clint Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > I would think that in a project with 1000 alleged active members, we > > could easily limit privileged access to one instance per person > > without any serious problems. > >

DPL Debate Logs (first draft)

2008-03-26 Thread MJ Ray
The first go at the DPL Debate Logs have been uploaded to http://people.debian.org/~mjr/irc/dpl-debate-2008/ Please let me know if there are any obvious errors. Thanks, -- MJ Ray (slef) Webmaster for hire, statistician and online shop builder for a small worker cooperative http

Q: All: Society, was: Q: Steve McIntyre: 2IC vs. DPL

2008-03-25 Thread MJ Ray
Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > One thing I will commit to (right now) is to encourage people to > ignore (or even better, castigate) nay-sayers who have nothing more to > contribute to Debian than poisonous tabloid-style rhetoric and > negativity. Can the candidates demonstrate

Re: Q: Small tasks best on the fly? was: Q: All: Account creation latency

2008-03-19 Thread MJ Ray
Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, MJ Ray wrote: > > Are you (or any other candidates) arguing for an NM-portfolio, a > > document that summarises the applicant in a way that most developers > > could understand why the applicant was gi

Re: Q: Steve McIntyre: 2IC vs. DPL

2008-03-19 Thread MJ Ray
Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 08:54:27PM -0400, Clint Adams wrote: > >You served a term as "Assistant Project Leader". What are the > >differences between the job you did then and the job you would > >do as DPL? > > Mainly, I would expect to push some more high

Re: Q: Small tasks best on the fly? was: Q: All: Account creation latency

2008-03-19 Thread MJ Ray
Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, MJ Ray wrote: > > Is creating accounts really now a sub-two-minute task? If so, that's > > great, but I believed there was still often a lot of multi-step > > independent double-checking in that task

Re: Q: Small tasks best on the fly? was: Q: All: Account creation latency

2008-03-17 Thread MJ Ray
Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, MJ Ray wrote: > > Where is this well known? I thought opinion was divided. [...] > > I must admit that I've read some "Getting Things Done" related literature > and that this organization me

Q: Small tasks best on the fly? was: Q: All: Account creation latency

2008-03-17 Thread MJ Ray
Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] It's well known that small > task (when they take less than 5 minutes) are usually best done "on the > fly" instead of accumulating them. [...] Where is this well known? I thought opinion was divided. See Ganging your mosquito tasks http://www.4

Re: Technical committee resolution

2008-03-14 Thread MJ Ray
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Why is no one responding to the fact that the last ingestion of > new blood did not solve the problems? [...] Myself, I have not yet confirmed whether that claim is fact or not, and if it did not solve the problems, whether it eased the

Re: Technical committee resolution

2008-03-13 Thread MJ Ray
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Let me get this straight. The argument is that since it is hard > to remove people for cause in Debian, let us just start removing people > at random, even if they are performing well, and maybe, sometime, > somehow, that change may lea

Re: All DPL Candidates: www.debian.org licensing?

2008-03-12 Thread MJ Ray
Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/03/08 at 09:57 +0000, MJ Ray wrote: [...] > > Secondly, delegation should make X's task clear to both this project > > and SPI in a robust way and seemed the most obvious to me. How does > > the constitution give th

Re: All DPL Candidates: www.debian.org licensing?

2008-03-12 Thread MJ Ray
Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/03/08 at 16:22 +0000, MJ Ray wrote: > > There seemed to be broad consensus on BSD-style as default with other > > DFSG licences like GPLv2 being allowed, didn't there? > > I don't think so. Some people want a B

Re: Technical committee resolution

2008-03-11 Thread MJ Ray
ork is done by sending to a public list, so that part of a secretary's role isn't needed. Regards, -- MJ Ray http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html tel:+44-844-4437-237 - Webmaster-developer, statistician, sysadmin, online shop builder, consumer and workers co-operative member http://www.t

Re: All DPL Candidates: www.debian.org licensing?

2008-03-11 Thread MJ Ray
Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > It seems to me that, for this issue to be solved, we first need a > clear consensus on debian-www@ about: > - the plan we are going to follow I believe we need legal advice on the validity of the various plans before there will be a clear consensus

Re: All Candidates: Do you plan to be prominently visible during your term?

2008-03-11 Thread MJ Ray
Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 07:44:46PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > > and I really haven't seen much from Sam during his term. > > For example, there's been: [6 dda posts and a blog category] > which is pretty comparable to either my own Steve's communicat

All DPL Candidates: www.debian.org licensing?

2008-03-10 Thread MJ Ray
Hi DPL candidates! Will you delegate someone to resolve bugs.debian.org/238245 and bugs.debian.org/388141 at long last? That is, get www.debian.org to follow the DFSG and to display better copyright statements. In particular, delegation seems necessary to avoid bureaucratic blocks to getting impa

Re: Technical committee resolution

2008-03-10 Thread MJ Ray
ems no need to repeat the maximum size and it could make future amendments smaller. Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How about considering ctte members having failed to participate in two > consecutive decisions as having resigned? Maybe three rather than two, but I like that

Re: Raphael Hertzog: When to commit into repositories of teams?

2008-03-10 Thread MJ Ray
aj wrote: [...] > ...so much for non-adversarial campaigning, I guess. Why? So far, this is only adversarial questioning of a candidate. It doesn't necessarily require adversarial campaigning in reply. Or is aba campaigning for one of the other candidates? FWIW, I think each of the candidates ha

Re: Debian Project Leader Elections 2008: Marc Brockschmidt

2008-03-06 Thread MJ Ray
e done if an acceptable candidate had already nominated. If an acceptable candidate is nominated now, we've lost that time. We could try to save that sort of time by rewarding early nominations with more campaigning opportunities, by officially killing the convention against campaigning du

Re: Debian Project Leader Elections 2008: Marc Brockschmidt

2008-03-06 Thread MJ Ray
Bas Wijnen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 09:22:19PM +0000, MJ Ray wrote: > > Campaigning on debian-vote *and* canvassing for help? Is this really > > what aj meant by "summarise their plans for their term"? > > No, this is just answerin

Re: Debian Project Leader Elections 2008: Marc Brockschmidt

2008-03-05 Thread MJ Ray
fear of being left with only one unacceptable late nomination. Propose it and I'll second. Could we start the two votes at once to avoid voter fatigue? Regards, -- MJ Ray http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html tel:+44-844-4437-237 - Webmaster-developer, statistician, sysadmin, online shop buil

Re: DPL Debate [Re: Debian Project Leader Election 2008]

2008-02-20 Thread MJ Ray
Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Additional people to help select questions, prod the discussion > channels, and otherwise actually make things happen are needed too. my biggest flaw is that I'll never be elected DPL [17:02:15] so... I'm happy to try helping with the debate again

Re: Misleading statement in debian-faq s1.5, was: Ideas about a GR to fix the DAM

2007-11-22 Thread MJ Ray
Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 02:26:41PM +0000, MJ Ray wrote: > >This is something where the project isn't managing > >expectations very well. [...] > > You seem to be trying a land-grab on the word "cooperatively"

Misleading statement in debian-faq s1.5, was: Ideas about a GR to fix the DAM

2007-11-22 Thread MJ Ray
e too surprised when people expect project systems to be open and allow autonomous direct action more readily. Cc'ing BTS for the debian-faq [please trim submit from followups]. Please resend to anyone else calling the debian project a cooperative. Regards, -- MJ Ray http://mjr.towers.org

Re: soc-ctte default position, was: electing multiple people

2007-10-19 Thread MJ Ray
Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 01:48:44PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: [...] > > Personally, I expect soc-ctte to do something to support the existing > > situation when they think it's fair overall. We've seen situations > > where do

Re: soc-ctte default position, was: electing multiple people

2007-10-19 Thread MJ Ray
Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 11:02:09AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: [...] > > I assumed that soc-ctte would intervene somehow on any issue referred > > to them, even if it is just to say "let the existing processes stand". > >

soc-ctte default position, was: electing multiple people

2007-10-10 Thread MJ Ray
, so I'd expect soc-ctte to make decisions, even if mostly null, rather than do nothing. If it will mostly do nothing, is it worth creating it? Regards, -- MJ Ray http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html tel:+44-844-4437-237 - Webmaster-developer, statistician, sysadmin, online shop builder, consum

Re: electing multiple people

2007-10-10 Thread MJ Ray
Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, as I have said before, we should use straight per-candidate > approval voting. [...] > and if more people vote `yes' for Alice than vote `no' for Alice then > Alice is appointed - regardless of any votes for or against Bob, > Carol, etc. Isn't that alwa

Re: electing multiple people

2007-10-09 Thread MJ Ray
Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > It's not about opinions. It's about people. The problem most often > materializes when there are heated opinions, but the fundamental problem > is when people can't work together with mutual respect. If you end up > with people who intensely dislik

Re: electing multiple people

2007-10-09 Thread MJ Ray
PI voting system: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.spi.general/482 http://mjr.towers.org.uk/blog/2007/spi#elections Hope that helps, -- MJ Ray http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html tel:+44-844-4437-237 - Webmaster-developer, statistician, sysadmin, online shop builder, consumer and workers co

Re: First CFV for Constitutional amendment: reduce the length of DPL election process

2007-09-23 Thread MJ Ray
; http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2007/08/msg00096.html I feel this amendment would approve current (good IMO) practice, allowing the handover period. Hope that explains, -- MJ Ray http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html tel:+844-4437-237 - Webmaster-developer, statistician, sysadmin, online shop

Re: Amendment to: reduce the length of DPL election process

2007-09-13 Thread MJ Ray
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Since we have been in discussion for so long, would it be OK if > we actually started voting on the weekend of the 23rd? [...] Fine by me. May your trip be enjoyable and less tiring than you expect. -- MJR/slef -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: Amendment to: reduce the length of DPL election process

2007-09-13 Thread MJ Ray
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Re: Constitutional amendment: reduce the length of DPL election process

2007-08-12 Thread MJ Ray
way being suggested. Indeed, such acts are probably against the DPL procedures. If we ever elect a really petty DPL, we've far bigger problems than the handover weeks! This amendment merely normalises the handover. Please support it. Regards, -- MJ Ray - see/vidu http://mjr.towers.org.u

Re: Amendment to: reduce the length of DPL election process

2007-08-12 Thread MJ Ray
Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 10:25:11AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: > > Note that there could still be up to three weeks for discussion after > > the IRC debate but before voting closes. > > No! We have a campaigning period for a reaso

Re: Amendment to: reduce the length of DPL election process

2007-08-09 Thread MJ Ray
Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > MJ Ray wrote: > > Asking before nominations open probably would get a more neutral > > panel than now. [...] > It's not been my practice to discriminate in accepting people for the > panel; so it should be as neutral as p

Re: Amendment to: reduce the length of DPL election process

2007-08-08 Thread MJ Ray
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 16:12:15 +0100, MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Summary: reduce the campaign-only period to one week. [...] > > This would probably mean that organizing the debate might have > to

Sensible combinations, was: Amendment to: reduce the length of DPL election process

2007-08-08 Thread MJ Ray
ince June 2003 have been unifying? Any road up, it's here: will anyone propose a combined amendment? I'm not sure whether I can or whether that would affect either of the others. Regards, -- MJ Ray - see/vidu http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Experienced webmaster-developers for hire ht

Amendment to: reduce the length of DPL election process

2007-08-08 Thread MJ Ray
e. If any candidate wants to campaign for longer, they should nominate as early as possible. This is orthogonal to the amendment "Point 2 remains as before". Regards, - -- MJ Ray - see/vidu http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Experienced webmaster-developers for hire http://www.t

Re: Constitutional amendment: reduce the length of DPL election process

2007-08-06 Thread MJ Ray
Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 11:52:58AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: > >I agree. No reason was given AFAICS, so I propose: > > From AJ's original mail: > ... > >Likewise, all our other votes have only needed two weeks (or less in

Re: Constitutional amendment: reduce the length of DPL election process

2007-08-06 Thread MJ Ray
Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not sure if the formulation proposed by your amendment is totally > clear. [...] It's as clear as it is now: DPL (not DPL-elect). The end of the polling period is not necessarily the election date. Notice polling closed before the DPL's election fo

Re: Constitutional amendment: reduce the length of DPL election process

2007-08-06 Thread MJ Ray
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Anthony Towns wrote: > > 2. The election begins [-nine-] {+six+} weeks before the leadership > >post becomes vacant, or (if it is too late already) immediately. > > Is there an

Re: Constitutional amendment: reduce the length of DPL election process

2007-08-06 Thread MJ Ray
th several overlapping options, IMO. I think we need to be more liberal at putting options on the ballot. One way to do that is more practice. Regards, -- MJ Ray - see/vidu http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Experienced webmaster-developers for hire http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ Also: statistician, sys

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal

2007-07-09 Thread MJ Ray
're one of the people who I don't > want to upload to the Debian archive. Any proposal which will allow > uploads from you automatically gets a NO from me. Would you explain why, please? Is this about Michelle Konzack in particular or a wider class of users? Regards, -- MJ Ray - s

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal, updated

2007-06-27 Thread MJ Ray
Fabian Fagerholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] After that, the applicant could > apply for the ability to upload already-sponsored packages, and leave it > at that. The key would be added to the keyring (a separate keyring if > needed for technical reasons). > > If the applicant wanted, they c

Proposal - obvious wording bugfix amendment to Debian Maintainers GR Proposal

2007-06-27 Thread MJ Ray
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I propose the wording changes in the diff below and request seconds. I have tried to include only wording bugfixes. In particular, this does not remove jetring maintainers from section 1, change section 3's conditions or remove section 4's advice. T

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal

2007-06-27 Thread MJ Ray
Kalle Kivimaa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I second the following proposal (by my count it is still missing at > least two seconds, if anybody is interested in seconding). How can anyone second that in its current state? It's rather buggy. I like the idea, but please withdraw your seconds until t

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal - Use Cases

2007-06-26 Thread MJ Ray
Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > > == N-M Delays > > This one suck, because NM delays are mostly fixeable, and DM will just > make them not painful at all for DD, depriving the system to be fixed. > This is exactly the use case I fear. > > That's why I'd like

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