Re: GR: Change the resolution process (2021-11-25 revision)

2021-11-30 Thread The Wanderer
n only be extending this backwards from the end, to cover the preceding 24 hours. If I've got that right, then perhaps something like "Minor changes to ballot options under point A.1.5 may only be made until the point 24 hours before the end of the discussion period, unless" might

Re: Draft proposal for resolution process changes

2021-09-28 Thread The Wanderer
t I'm barely even a contributor, certainly not a DD, so my voice here has significantly less relevance than might be ideal for participation in such a discussion.) -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Nuance Regarding RMS

2021-04-01 Thread The Wanderer
o convey his perspective on the issue to other potential voters, and thus to potentially affect how those others may choose to vote when the time to do so comes. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. There

Re: Reframing (was Re: Proposal: Reaffirm our commitment to support portability and multiple implementations)

2019-12-05 Thread The Wanderer
be less likely to help than to make the situation worse). Unfortunately, as far as I can tell, that doesn't seem to have ever happened. This GR seems to be nearly as close as we've come, and it's still a layer or two of implicitness away from actually making it explicit. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: REISSUED CfV: General Resolution: Init system coupling

2014-11-09 Thread The Wanderer
x27;s part here, I think Ian was trying to describe what he > thought was the likely outcome, and not specifically threaten to > behave in a particular way. Thank you. I've been trying to think of a way to clearly express that for some time now, ever since people first started to indic

Re: Legitimate exercise of our constitutional decision-making processes [Was, Re: Tentative summary of the amendments]

2014-11-02 Thread The Wanderer
(Responding quickly to only the part I think I can address well on short notice, without needing to spend a long time thinking it over.) On 11/02/2014 at 07:58 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > The Wanderer writes: >> systemd-shim 8.2 and 7.1 do not list a dependency on systemd, or >> a

Re: Legitimate exercise of our constitutional decision-making processes [Was, Re: Tentative summary of the amendments]

2014-10-28 Thread The Wanderer
On 10/28/2014 at 12:20 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > The Wanderer writes: > >> What I'm thinking of is cases where upstream has decided to depend >> on functionality that is provided by one init system but not by >> others, without graceful runtime fallback - compile

Re: Legitimate exercise of our constitutional decision-making processes [Was, Re: Tentative summary of the amendments]

2014-10-27 Thread The Wanderer
54 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > The Wanderer writes: > >> Just as a note, one difference here is that there is support in >> the archive and package-distribution mechanisms for having multiple >> versions of a package for different architectures or (I think?) >> kerne

Re: Legitimate exercise of our constitutional decision-making processes [Was, Re: Tentative summary of the amendments]

2014-10-27 Thread The Wanderer
package versions for different init systems, much as we already have for different architectures and in some cases kernels. However, I'm not at all sure that it's clear that the benefit of having such would be worth the trouble of setting it up and maintaining it. -- The Wanderer The rea

Re: Alternative proposal: reaffirm maintainers technical competence over the software they maintain

2014-10-18 Thread The Wanderer
st mildly controversial as well, although probably much less so than either systemd has been or this GR is proving to be. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the un