Question to all candidates

2005-03-11 Thread Scott James Remnant
The current Technical Committee is inactive; in the past two years they have only made two rulings: * 2004-06-24 Bug #254598: amd64 is a fine name for that architecture. * 2004-06-05 Bug #164591, Bug #164889: md5sum signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Question for Andreas Schuldei and Branden Robinson

2005-03-07 Thread Scott James Remnant
Most of the current members of Project Scud appear to be employed by companies whose primary business is Debian, or heavily depend on Debian in their line of work: Andreas Schuldei, employed by Skolelinux to work on Debian-edu; a major Debian derivative. Branden Robinson, employed by Progen

Re: General Resolution: Force AMD64 into Sasrge

2004-07-20 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 18:28 +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040720 17:55]: > > I think it is extremely unwise to set a precedent of overriding > > technical decisions for essentially political reasons, and I do not > > think that the release management team should

Re: -= PROPOSAL =- Release sarge with amd64

2004-07-14 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 13:50 -0600, Joel Baker wrote: > Correct. The appropriate GR is "Foo shall be removed for failure to perform > the duties of $position", with the rationale citing "failure to perform > action A, a duty of $position". > I believe anyone proposing, and possibly seconding such

Re: -= PROPOSAL =- Release sarge with amd64

2004-07-13 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 19:12 -0500, Chris Cheney wrote: > On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 12:36:35AM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: > > I really don't see this problem. I have absolutely no problem > > communicating with James, in fact I'm doing so right now. Nothing to do

Re: DRAFT amendment to "Release sarge with amd64": "Freeze architecture support for sarge"

2004-07-13 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 00:25 +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > I hereby propose an amendment to the current GR proposal "Release sarge > with amd64": > > The Debian project hereby resolves, > > That we will not include further architectures for the next Debian release > (codenamed 'sarge

Re: -= PROPOSAL =- Release sarge with amd64

2004-07-13 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 17:46 -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 11:07:04PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > > In my eyes, voting on technical issues is still better than no > > explicit decision at all. Both options are horrible, but explicit > > decisions are still better than impl

Re: -= PROPOSAL =- Release sarge with amd64

2004-07-13 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 17:09 -0500, Chris Cheney wrote: > On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 03:46:06PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 09:40:29PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > > Since in the last thread initiated by me I asked for a similar action > > > (read: an answer) and nothing

Re: -= PROPOSAL =- Release sarge with amd64

2004-07-13 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 21:32 +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 06:50:05PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 18:31 +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 17:33, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > &g

Re: -= PROPOSAL =- Release sarge with amd64

2004-07-13 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 18:31 +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 17:33, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > >"3. Override any decision by the Project Leader of a Delegate." > > > > What decision has been made? Has there actually been a rejection of the > > inclusion? > > Refusal to act i

Re: -= PROPOSAL =- Release sarge with amd64

2004-07-13 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 11:13 -0500, Chris Cheney wrote: > On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 03:05:54PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > > Josselin Mouette wrote: > > > > >1. that the next Debian GNU/Linux release, codenamed "sarge", will=20 > > > include the "amd64" architecture, based on the work cur

Re: -= PROPOSAL =- Release sarge with amd64

2004-07-13 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 14:43 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > The Debian project, *snip* > hereby resolves: > > 1. that the next Debian GNU/Linux release, codenamed "sarge", will >include the "amd64" architecture, based on the work currently hosted >at http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.o

Re: Voting period for DPL - started or not?

2004-03-20 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Sat, 2004-03-20 at 08:49, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > If you follow the dates, the vote has started. I've requested a ballot > and sent it [twice, since the first one didn't provoke any response]. > > Has the DPL vote started? Is it just a case of getting the "non-free > thing" out of the way

Re: Voting period for DPL - started or not?

2004-03-20 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Sat, 2004-03-20 at 08:49, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > If you follow the dates, the vote has started. I've requested a ballot > and sent it [twice, since the first one didn't provoke any response]. > > Has the DPL vote started? Is it just a case of getting the "non-free > thing" out of the way

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 17:31, Gergely Nagy wrote: > > As a female hacker/geek/DD I find myself more and more concerned about > > the gender ratio in the Debian Developer/User comunity. How can we say > > make a "Universal" OS when it's do scarcely related to half the > > population of the world...

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 17:31, Gergely Nagy wrote: > > As a female hacker/geek/DD I find myself more and more concerned about > > the gender ratio in the Debian Developer/User comunity. How can we say > > make a "Universal" OS when it's do scarcely related to half the > > population of the world...

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section

2004-02-25 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 12:25, Andreas Tille wrote: > Does Scott second both?? > Yes. Seconding != Voting. I would like to see this issue voted upon, and seconded what I felt were the two most reasonable options. I'll vote for one of them. Scott -- Have you ever, ever felt like this? Had stran

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section

2004-02-25 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 12:25, Andreas Tille wrote: > Does Scott second both?? > Yes. Seconding != Voting. I would like to see this issue voted upon, and seconded what I felt were the two most reasonable options. I'll vote for one of them. Scott -- Have you ever, ever felt like this? Had stran

Re: Proposal: Keep non-free

2004-02-22 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Sat, 2004-02-21 at 15:48, Anthony Towns wrote: > I propose that the Debian project resolve that: > > == > Acknowledging that some of our users continue to require the use of > programs that don't conform to the Debian Free Sof

Re: Proposal: Keep non-free

2004-02-22 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Sat, 2004-02-21 at 15:48, Anthony Towns wrote: > I propose that the Debian project resolve that: > > == > Acknowledging that some of our users continue to require the use of > programs that don't conform to the Debian Free Sof

Re: resounding nothingness

2004-02-16 Thread Scott James Remnant
. Five would be needed to > introduce an amendment. > Really? I count 6 seconds of Andrew Suffield's proposal of Jan 10 22:01: Scott James Remnant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kyle McMartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Clint Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tore Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Re: resounding nothingness

2004-02-16 Thread Scott James Remnant
. Five would be needed to > introduce an amendment. > Really? I count 6 seconds of Andrew Suffield's proposal of Jan 10 22:01: Scott James Remnant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kyle McMartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Clint Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tore Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Re: Debian Project Leader Elections

2004-02-06 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 23:18, Debian Project Secretary wrote: >In the past, we have conducted DPL debates on a special IRC > channel set up for the purpose. Perhaps we should set up one this > year as well. The time to do so would be after the rebuttals have > been posted by the candida

Re: Debian Project Leader Elections

2004-02-06 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 23:18, Debian Project Secretary wrote: >In the past, we have conducted DPL debates on a special IRC > channel set up for the purpose. Perhaps we should set up one this > year as well. The time to do so would be after the rebuttals have > been posted by the candida

Re: GR: Editorial amendments to the social contract

2004-01-21 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 20:24, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > On Jan 20, 2004, at 16:35, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > > > Nitpick: on-line, not online > > > dictionary.com says both are acceptable. > Since when has dictionary.com been an acceptable source of words? :-) Oxford English Dictionary seems

Re: GR: Editorial amendments to the social contract

2004-01-21 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 20:24, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > On Jan 20, 2004, at 16:35, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > > > Nitpick: on-line, not online > > > dictionary.com says both are acceptable. > Since when has dictionary.com been an acceptable source of words? :-) Oxford English Dictionary seems

Re: GR: Removal of non-free (with explanation)

2004-01-10 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Sat, 2004-01-10 at 22:01, Andrew Suffield wrote: > ---8<--- > The next release of Debian will not be accompanied by a non-free > section; there will be no more stable releases of the non-free > section. The Debian project will c

Re: GR: Removal of non-free (with explanation)

2004-01-10 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Sat, 2004-01-10 at 22:01, Andrew Suffield wrote: > ---8<--- > The next release of Debian will not be accompanied by a non-free > section; there will be no more stable releases of the non-free > section. The Debian project will c

Re: GR: Removal of non-free

2004-01-08 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 19:54, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 03:58:28PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > Acroread can't be distributed - Adobe changed the licence conditions > > under which their Acrobat reader could be distributed. > > I confess I have to wonder how many pe

Re: GR: Removal of non-free

2004-01-08 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 19:54, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 03:58:28PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > Acroread can't be distributed - Adobe changed the licence conditions > > under which their Acrobat reader could be distributed. > > I confess I have to wonder how many pe