Re: [draft] Cancel this year's in-person Debian Developers Conference DebConf20

2020-06-13 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Jun 03, 2020 at 06:39:53PM +, Stefano Rivera wrote: >... > It's only a couple of months before the conference that contracts have > to be finalized, flights booked, and money paid. June 8 was picked as a > latest possible date for that decision. >... The standard procedure for putting

Re: [draft] Cancel this year's in-person Debian Developers Conference DebConf20

2020-06-03 Thread Stefano Rivera
Hi Steve (2020.06.03_19:19:16_+) > > Would it be totally unrealistic, and unsafe to bring a large number of > > people together? Probably, yes. But if the local authorities are saying > > you can, it's worth considering. > > This is the part that I categorically disagree with. Even assuming b

Re: [draft] Cancel this year's in-person Debian Developers Conference DebConf20

2020-06-03 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Stefano, I appreciate you taking the time to lay out the thought process. Even though this is indeed now academic, since there is no decision we will actually be disputing with a GR, I want to reply to one particular subpoint to make it clear exactly where I'm coming from. On Wed, Jun 03, 202

Re: [draft] Cancel this year's in-person Debian Developers Conference DebConf20

2020-06-03 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Title: Untitled On 02/06/2020 3:55, martin f krafft wrote: Regarding the following, written by "Scott Kitterman" on 2020-06-01 at 20:45 Uhr -0400: It's almost like this discussion

Re: [draft] Cancel this year's in-person Debian Developers Conference DebConf20

2020-06-03 Thread Stefano Rivera
Hi Steve (2020.06.02_21:58:05_+) > The fact that the organizing team's response to the pandemic was anything > other than a categorical decision not to hold a conference that would put > people on planes and increase the overall risk of the community of disease > transmission - and was instead

Re: [draft] Cancel this year's in-person Debian Developers Conference DebConf20

2020-06-02 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jun 02, 2020 at 12:44:23AM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Tuesday, June 2, 2020 12:12:21 AM EDT Bdale Garbee wrote: > > Scott Kitterman writes: > > > It's almost like this discussion about a GR was a premature waste of > > > everyone's time. > > It's also possible that discussion abou

Re: [draft] Cancel this year's in-person Debian Developers Conference DebConf20

2020-06-02 Thread Bdale Garbee
Scott Kitterman writes: > What I would have hoped is that project members would trust the people that > they have (indirectly) delegated the responsibility to run Debconf to to do a > good job and only once there is something that's enough of a problem to > require a project wide decision to c

Re: [draft] Cancel this year's in-person Debian Developers Conference DebConf20

2020-06-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Scott Kitterman writes: > Sure, but doing business by threat of GR is a horrible way to run things. I find this so strange. To me, this is like saying that it's horrible to have the executive branch of a government have to do business under threat of the legislature passing laws. That's litera

Re: [draft] Cancel this year's in-person Debian Developers Conference DebConf20

2020-06-01 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Tuesday, June 2, 2020 12:12:21 AM EDT Bdale Garbee wrote: > Scott Kitterman writes: > > It's almost like this discussion about a GR was a premature waste of > > everyone's time. > > It's also possible that discussion about a possible GR influenced the > ultimate decision in a useful way. > >

Re: [draft] Cancel this year's in-person Debian Developers Conference DebConf20

2020-06-01 Thread Bdale Garbee
Scott Kitterman writes: > It's almost like this discussion about a GR was a premature waste of > everyone's time. It's also possible that discussion about a possible GR influenced the ultimate decision in a useful way. [shrug] Bdale signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [draft] Cancel this year's in-person Debian Developers Conference DebConf20

2020-06-01 Thread martin f krafft
Regarding the following, written by "Scott Kitterman" on 2020-06-01 at 20:45 Uhr -0400: It's almost like this discussion about a GR was a premature waste of everyone's time. You should get this framed and sent to a couple of developers. ;) -- .''`. martin f. krafft @martinkrafft : :' :

Re: [draft] Cancel this year's in-person Debian Developers Conference DebConf20

2020-06-01 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Monday, June 1, 2020 6:12:30 PM EDT Ivo De Decker wrote: > Hi, > > On 5/22/20 2:43 PM, Holger Levsen wrote: > > On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 02:40:55PM +0200, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > >> This is a draft for a GR I would like to propose. > >> > >> Cancel this year's in-person Debian Developers Co

Re: [draft] Cancel this year's in-person Debian Developers Conference DebConf20

2020-06-01 Thread Ivo De Decker
Hi, On 5/22/20 2:43 PM, Holger Levsen wrote: On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 02:40:55PM +0200, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: This is a draft for a GR I would like to propose. Cancel this year's in-person Debian Developers Conference DebConf20 [...] I'd second that, thanks. However, I would prefer if the

Re: [draft] Cancel this year's in-person Debian Developers Conference DebConf20

2020-05-23 Thread Roger Shimizu
On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 9:41 PM Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > > This is a draft for a GR I would like to propose. > > Cancel this year's in-person Debian Developers Conference DebConf20 > -- > > ### Whereas > > 1. the World Health organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 as a global >pandemi

Re: [draft] Cancel this year's in-person Debian Developers Conference DebConf20

2020-05-22 Thread Jonathan Carter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 2020/05/22 20:08, Jonathan Carter wrote: > (and besides, the India team has already won for next year). If > they get Correction: I mean of course, Kosovo. - -Jonathan - -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ https://wiki.debi

Re: [draft] Cancel this year's in-person Debian Developers Conference DebConf20

2020-05-22 Thread Jonathan Carter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi zobel On 2020/05/22 14:40, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > This is a draft for a GR I would like to propose. I can't block you from doing a GR (and I certainly wouldn't want to!), but I'd like you to consider the variables and consequences one las

Re: [draft] Cancel this year's in-person Debian Developers Conference DebConf20

2020-05-22 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Hello Martin, Martin Zobel-Helas dijo [Fri, May 22, 2020 at 02:40:55PM +0200]: > This is a draft for a GR I would like to propose. > > Cancel this year's in-person Debian Developers Conference DebConf20 As a member of the DebConf Committee, as a very-long-time organizer of DebConf, and just as y

Re: [draft] Cancel this year's in-person Debian Developers Conference DebConf20

2020-05-22 Thread Aigars Mahinovs
On Fri, 22 May 2020 at 18:08, Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana < p...@debian.org> wrote: > In my opinion, the best solution would be postpone DC20 in Israel to 2021. > And push Kosovo to 2022 and India to 2023. > I believe this choice should be on the table when DC20 team takes the decision on the

Re: [draft] Cancel this year's in-person Debian Developers Conference DebConf20

2020-05-22 Thread Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana
Hi, In my opinion, the best solution would be postpone DC20 in Israel to 2021. And push Kosovo to 2022 and India to 2023. Best regards, -- Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana (phls) Curitiba - Brasil Debian Developer Diretor do Instituto para Conservação de Tecnologias Livres Site: http://www.phls.

Re: [draft] Cancel this year's in-person Debian Developers Conference DebConf20

2020-05-22 Thread Stefano Rivera
Hi Sam (2020.05.22_14:51:42_+) > The interesting thing is what the WHO says about travel and minimizing > international travel. FWIW: https://www.who.int/publications-detail/key-planning-recommendations-for-mass-gatherings-in-the-context-of-the-current-covid-19-outbreak A couple of months old

Re: [draft] Cancel this year's in-person Debian Developers Conference DebConf20

2020-05-22 Thread Daniel Lenharo de Souza
Why we need this GR? Can't we just wait the DebConf team decided? If they decide to have in-person conference, and you are not able (don't want or can't) to go. Just don't do that. Em 22/05/2020 09:40, Martin Zobel-Helas escreveu: > This is a draft for a GR I would like to propose. > > Cancel

Re: [draft] Cancel this year's in-person Debian Developers Conference DebConf20

2020-05-22 Thread Sam Hartman
Hi. I think there is a lack of precision in the text of your GR that I find highly problematic. I suspect it will be fairly easy for you to correct this and possibly even gain my support, so I'd ask you to look for ways to do so. You say that the WHO has declared Covid-19 to be a pandemic, and ha

Re: [draft] Cancel this year's in-person Debian Developers Conference DebConf20

2020-05-22 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 07:29:39AM -0600, Bdale Garbee wrote: > They have until the GR is ready for a vote to do the right thing. Then why make a GR to override the decision? Everyone is already able to vote with their legs: no one of us can force another to come. So if you're not going to go, w

Re: [draft] Cancel this year's in-person Debian Developers Conference DebConf20

2020-05-22 Thread Bdale Garbee
They have until the GR is ready for a vote to do the right thing. Bdale On May 22, 2020 7:23:08 AM MDT, Antonio Terceiro wrote: >On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 02:40:55PM +0200, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: >> This is a draft for a GR I would like to propose. >> >> Cancel this year's in-person Debian Dev

Re: [draft] Cancel this year's in-person Debian Developers Conference DebConf20

2020-05-22 Thread Antonio Terceiro
On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 02:40:55PM +0200, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > This is a draft for a GR I would like to propose. > > Cancel this year's in-person Debian Developers Conference DebConf20 > -- As said in the DebConf website, the decision of holding DebConf20 in-person is yet to be mad

Re: [draft] Cancel this year's in-person Debian Developers Conference DebConf20

2020-05-22 Thread Holger Levsen
On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 02:40:55PM +0200, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > This is a draft for a GR I would like to propose. > > Cancel this year's in-person Debian Developers Conference DebConf20 [...] I'd second that, thanks. However, I would prefer if the DebConf organizers cancel themselves. (And

[draft] Cancel this year's in-person Debian Developers Conference DebConf20

2020-05-22 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
This is a draft for a GR I would like to propose. Cancel this year's in-person Debian Developers Conference DebConf20 -- ### Whereas 1. the World Health organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 as a global pandemic [1] as of March 11th and has not yet lifted this. 2. the Debian Project ha