Re: vote

2008-04-08 Thread Nico Golde
: None Of The Above - - -=-=-=-=-=- Don't Delete Anything Between These Lines =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Can you tell me the purpose of your public vote apart from manipulating other people with vote rights who might be unsure yet about what they vote? Kind regards Nico -- Nico Golde - http

vote

2008-04-07 Thread Martin Loschwitz
- - -=-=-=-=-=- Don't Delete Anything Between These Lines =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- d81e16a2-03b6-4340-84f2-51de89b8185e [ 2 ] Choice 1: Steve McIntyre [ 3 ] Choice 2: Raphael Hertzog [ 1 ] Choice 3: Marc Brockschmidt [ 4 ] Choice 4: None Of The Above - - -=-=-=-=-=- Don't Delete Anything Between These

Re: My vote

2008-04-01 Thread Philipp Kern
[ Please Cc me on replies, if any, I am not on -vote. ] On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 03:30:55AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Hi Manoj, I haven't yet got the ack for my vote but I guess I know the reason. Do you use the pristine Debian keyring? If so, could you please either refresh all keys

Draft ballot for the project leader vote

2008-03-28 Thread Debian Project Secretary
Votes must be received by 23:59:59 UTC on Saturday, April 12th, 2008 This vote is being conducted as required by the Debian Constitution. You may see the constitution at http://www.debian.org/devel/constitution. For voting questions contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] The details of the candidate platforms

Second draft ballot for the project leader vote 2008

2008-03-28 Thread Debian Project Secretary
UTC on Saturday, April 12th, 2008 This vote is being conducted as required by the Debian Constitution. You may see the constitution at http://www.debian.org/devel/constitution. For voting questions contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] The details of the candidate platforms can be found at: http

its free for debian-vote@lists.debian.org

2007-10-08 Thread Mae Harrison
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vote/2007/vote_003

2007-07-21 Thread Nicolas Bertolissio
Hi, in the resolution text, at least 1 /ol is missing or there is 1 unessential ol, and I'm not sure but it may also need to be checked agains nested ol, ul and li. Regards -- .~.Nicolas Bertolissio /V\[EMAIL PROTECTED] // \\ /( )\ ^`~'^ Debian GNU-Linux signature.asc

Statistics page for the current GR vote

2007-03-06 Thread Debian Project Secretary
Hi, Vote page: http://www.debian.org/vote/2007/vote_002 Statistics: http://master.debian.org/~srivasta/gr_upload/ manoj -- Nothing is true. Everything is permitted. Hassan I Sabbah Debian Project Secretary [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://vote.debian.org/ 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093

Vote page ISO 8859-1 but contains UTF-8?

2007-02-25 Thread Kalle Kivimaa
(I'm not subscribed to debian-www, so if you trim this to exclude -vote, please cc me) At http://www.debian.org/vote/2007/vote_001 I noticed that Raphaél's name is written with the UTF-8 é, and the page itself defines the charset to be ISO 8859-1. Is this an artefact of the WWW pages or a simple

Re: Vote page ISO 8859-1 but contains UTF-8?

2007-02-25 Thread Jens Seidel
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 04:49:33PM +0200, Kalle Kivimaa wrote: (I'm not subscribed to debian-www, so if you trim this to exclude -vote, please cc me) At http://www.debian.org/vote/2007/vote_001 I noticed that Raphaél's name is written with the UTF-8 é, and the page itself defines

Re: Vote page ISO 8859-1 but contains UTF-8?

2007-02-25 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 16:30:35 +0100, Jens Seidel [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The webpage is encoded in latin1 but this single file was encoded in UTF-8. Sorry about that. I just forgot that the page is not supposed to be in utf-8. Is it going to be very hard to recode the vote pages

Calling for vote for pending GR

2007-02-25 Thread Bill Allombert
uploads should be allowed to perform binary-only packages uploads for the same set of architectures. --- so in accordance with Debian Constitution A.2, I am hereby calling for vote. Cheers, -- Bill. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Imagine a large blue swirl

Re: Calling for vote for pending GR

2007-02-25 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 22:28:30 +0100, Bill Allombert [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: According to the Debian secretary, the following GR has received the requisite seconds on Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Please provide the wording you want for the vote on vote.debian.org, preferably in wml format

Re: First call for vote on immediate vote under section 4.2.2

2006-11-01 Thread MJ Ray
Kalle Kivimaa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Which issues would those be, then? I've posted lists in the past, such as http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2006/09/msg00409.html If I look at the controversial issues aj has rised, I find these three: 1. Sven vs. the rest of the d-i team

Re: First call for vote on immediate vote under section 4.2.2

2006-11-01 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 09:52:59AM +, MJ Ray wrote: Kalle Kivimaa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Which issues would those be, then? I've posted lists in the past, such as http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2006/09/msg00409.html If I look at the controversial issues aj has rised, I

Re: First call for vote on immediate vote under section 4.2.2

2006-11-01 Thread MJ Ray
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] aj's inability to mediate [...] is what left us with this mess. Not really. Messages like http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2006/03/msg01054.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2006/03/msg01075.html and

Re: First call for vote on immediate vote under section 4.2.2

2006-11-01 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 11:39:05AM +, MJ Ray wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] aj's inability to mediate [...] is what left us with this mess. Not really. Messages like http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2006/03/msg01054.html

Re: First call for vote on immediate vote under section 4.2.2

2006-10-31 Thread MJ Ray
consensus on some issues, as far as I've seen. In any event, *this* particular vote and tempest is rapidly on its way to becoming moot through something that I think we can call consensus by any definition. Probably, but I doubt it will be the last if this DPL continues. Regards, -- MJR/slef

Re: First call for vote on immediate vote under section 4.2.2

2006-10-31 Thread Russ Allbery
MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Consensus as used in these sorts of discussions and documents is not synonymous with unanimity. It is consensus in the vein of M-W's 1(b) definition: the judgment arrived at by most of those concerned the consensus was

Re: First call for vote on immediate vote under section 4.2.2

2006-10-31 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.10.31.0533 +0100]: Uh, 80/20 would generally be a consensus. Ah, if this is the misunderstanding: the infamous 80/20 rule (Pareto's principle) in this case meant: 20% of the participants of the discusionss make 80% of the noise.

Re: First call for vote on immediate vote under section 4.2.2

2006-10-31 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.10.30.1107 +0100]: If that impression is accurate, it means the DPL is not making decisions which are consistent with the consensus of the opinions of the Developers as he was elected to do. That is to say: this trouble is partly the DPL's fault.

Re: First call for vote on immediate vote under section 4.2.2

2006-10-31 Thread MJ Ray
martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] also sprach MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.10.30.1107 +0100]: If that impression is accurate, it means the DPL is not making decisions which are consistent with the consensus of the opinions of the Developers as he was elected to do. That is to say: this

Re: First call for vote on immediate vote under section 4.2.2

2006-10-31 Thread MJ Ray
Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We need consensus in the vein of M-W's 1(a) definition general agreement : UNANIMITY and 2 definition group solidarity in sentiment and belief to get the biggest benefit - or maybe

Re: First call for vote on immediate vote under section 4.2.2

2006-10-31 Thread Kalle Kivimaa
MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: outweigh a screaming crowd in the IETF process. We have seen reasoned objections to several DPL decisions, yet the screaming crowd is used to drown out calls for consensus. This DPL hasn't even looked for rough consensus on some issues, as far as I've seen.

Re: First call for vote on immediate vote under section 4.2.2

2006-10-31 Thread Russ Allbery
MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's certainly someting to strive for, but I don't think it's a practical *requirement* in an organization the size of Debian. I do agree that we shouldn't easily give up on trying to reach that form of stronger

Re: First call for vote on immediate vote under section 4.2.2

2006-10-30 Thread MJ Ray
martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: also sprach Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.10.29.1209 +0100]: Frankly the theme on debian-vote lately seems to be vote [1] the opposite of anything proposed by Aj!. Not helpful. This is not my impression. My impression is that there's

Re: First call for vote on immediate vote under section 4.2.2

2006-10-30 Thread Russ Allbery
are part of the rough rather than the consensus. In any event, *this* particular vote and tempest is rapidly on its way to becoming moot through something that I think we can call consensus by any definition. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle

Re: First call for vote on immediate vote under section 4.2.2

2006-10-29 Thread martin f krafft
Given that there's no easy way to get at the arguments for an against this vote, other than wading through hundreds of -vote mails, I cannot cast a vote. I also don't understand why we vote whether to put something on hold or not until we vote about it. Or at least this is what the ballot

Re: First call for vote on immediate vote under section 4.2.2

2006-10-29 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 11:13:06AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: - - -=-=-=-=-=- Don't Delete Anything Between These Lines =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 2808c3bb-6d17-49b6-98c8-c6a0a24bc686 [ 0 ] Choice 1: The DPL's withdrawal of the delegation remains on hold pending a vote [ 0 ] Choice 2

Re: First call for vote on immediate vote under section 4.2.2

2006-10-29 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 11:13:06AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: Finally, I am getting annoyed by all these GRs and the waste of time that comes with them. Maybe I should thus propose a vote to resolve that DDs must now stop wasting time and get back to work. Hey, you should have seconded my

Re: First call for vote on immediate vote under section 4.2.2

2006-10-29 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 11:13:06AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: I also don't understand why we vote whether to put something on hold or not until we vote about it. Or at least this is what the ballot suggests: It's a feature of the constitution: if a vote is held to reverse a DPL decision

Re: First call for vote on immediate vote under section 4.2.2

2006-10-29 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2006-10-29 Ola Lundqvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tried to determine what this vote is all about. I'm not subscribed to either debian-vote or debian-devel so all I can see is that is available from the web archives. I can not find anything about this, so personally I think

Re: First call for vote on immediate vote under section 4.2.2

2006-10-29 Thread Ola Lundqvist
Hi Thanks for pointing me to information about this vote. I obviously missed some parts of the debian-vote list, as I thought that newest was listed first. On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 12:11:10PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: On 2006-10-29 Ola Lundqvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tried

Re: First call for vote on immediate vote under section 4.2.2

2006-10-29 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.10.29.1211 +0100]: Finally, I am getting annoyed by all these GRs and the waste of time that comes with them. Maybe I should thus propose a vote to resolve that DDs must now stop wasting time and get back to work. Hey, you should have

Re: First call for vote on immediate vote under section 4.2.2

2006-10-29 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.10.29.1209 +0100]: I don't actually know whether 0/0 is as invalid as I want it to be, but we'll see. It should be. I voted 9/9 indicating my contempt for this vote, but it wasn't accepted. 0/0 was not accepted. Joey (Hess), was blank

Re: First call for vote on immediate vote under section 4.2.2

2006-10-29 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 11:13:06AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: - - -=-=-=-=-=- Don't Delete Anything Between These Lines =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 2808c3bb-6d17-49b6-98c8-c6a0a24bc686 [ 0 ] Choice 1: The DPL's withdrawal of the delegation remains on hold pending a vote [ 0 ] Choice 2

Re: First call for vote on immediate vote under section 4.2.2

2006-10-29 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Kurt Roeckx [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.10.29.1613 +0100]: But as far as I know, it's just the same as not voting. And I'm not sure what you think an invalid vote would have as effect. In voting systems with a quorum, an invalid vote increases the number of cast votes and thus makes

Re: First call for vote on immediate vote under section 4.2.2

2006-10-29 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 04:57:46PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Kurt Roeckx [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.10.29.1613 +0100]: But as far as I know, it's just the same as not voting. And I'm not sure what you think an invalid vote would have as effect. In voting systems

Re: First call for vote on immediate vote under section 4.2.2

2006-10-29 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Kurt Roeckx [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.10.29.1736 +0100]: In voting systems with a quorum, an invalid vote increases the number of cast votes and thus makes it less likely for an option to reach the quorum (which is expressed as a percentage). Please correct me if I am wrong

Re: First call for vote on immediate vote under section 4.2.2

2006-10-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 16:57:46 +0100, martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: also sprach Kurt Roeckx [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.10.29.1613 +0100]: But as far as I know, it's just the same as not voting. And I'm not sure what you think an invalid vote would have as effect. In voting systems

Re: First call for vote on immediate vote under section 4.2.2

2006-10-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 17:41:26 +0100, martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: So is there a difference between not voting and voting all options equal? Yes, your name is recorded as someone who voted. Has no effect on quorum or the outcome, though. manoj -- QOTD: I haven't

Re: First call for vote on immediate vote under section 4.2.2

2006-10-28 Thread Loïc Minier
Where's the vote.debian.org page? -- Loïc Minier [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: First call for vote on immediate vote under section 4.2.2

2006-10-28 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 10:08:05 +0200, Loïc Minier [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Where's the vote.debian.org page? It shall be put up when someone has time for it. The proposers have not yet provided the wml for the vote page, nor their idea of the ballot; I have a monday deadline

First call for vote on immediate vote under section 4.2.2

2006-10-27 Thread Debian Oroject Secretary
procedural vote to determine if the Debian project Leaders decision to un-delegate policy delegates remain on hold until the full vote is called, in accordance with section 4.2.2.4 of the Debian constitution. The vote is being conducted in accordance with the policy delineated in Section A, Standard

Re: First call for vote on immediate vote under section 4.2.2

2006-10-27 Thread Joey Hess
Debian Oroject Secretary wrote: - - -=-=-=-=-=- Don't Delete Anything Between These Lines =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 2808c3bb-6d17-49b6-98c8-c6a0a24bc686 [ ] Choice 1: The DPL's withdrawal of the delegation remains on hold pending a vote [ ] Choice 2: The DPL's withdrawal of the delegation stands

position statement from the kernel team over the current non-free firmware GR vote (Was: Call for votes for GR: : Handling source-less firmware in the Linux kernel)

2006-10-13 Thread Sven Luther
Hello, The kernel team consider that neither of the two proposals currently under vote [1] are a good solution to the non-free firmware problem. Furthermore, a consensual proposal has now reached enough seconds [2] to be put to vote, and is much preferable, both in clearness of text as in actual

Re: position statement from the kernel team over the current non-free firmware GR vote (Was: Call for votes for GR: : Handling source-less firmware in the Linux kernel)

2006-10-13 Thread Frans Pop
the current ballot, we urge all voters to vote Further Discussion, Why is this needed? Can't the new ballot be voted on anyway even if the current one is already accepted? As the vote is already underway (and the voting period almost finished), it seems that this call for recasting votes *could* have

Re: position statement from the kernel team over the current non-free firmware GR vote (Was: Call for votes for GR: : Handling source-less firmware in the Linux kernel)

2006-10-13 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Le ven 13 octobre 2006 16:13, Sven Luther a écrit : we urge all voters to vote Further Discussion, and allow for the recast of a new ballot containing the better solution, and possible other amendments (like a rewording of Josselin's proposal on top of the consensual proposal for example

Re: position statement from the kernel team over the current non-free firmware GR vote (Was: Call for votes for GR: : Handling source-less firmware in the Linux kernel)

2006-10-13 Thread Sven Luther
solution, and since it is not possible anymore to amend the current ballot, we urge all voters to vote Further Discussion, Why is this needed? Can't the new ballot be voted on anyway even if the current one is already accepted? Not with the current wording, accordying to Manoj. If Choice

Re: position statement from the kernel team over the current non-free firmware GR vote (Was: Call for votes for GR: : Handling source-less firmware in the Linux kernel)

2006-10-13 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 13 October 2006 17:30, Sven Luther wrote: And how much of that is directly correlated to your anti-sven campaign ? The mail is completely neutral and does not contain any negative or personal remark. And still you are able to interpret it as a personal attack? Well, ok, let me make

Firmware vote rationale

2006-10-12 Thread Thaddeus H. Black
This is to record the reason behind my firmware GR vote (not that you are expected to mind what I think, but I wish to go on record at vote time anyway). Debian should in my view treat firmware differently than other software. Although this does not necessarily mean that Debian should distribute

Re: Firmware vote rationale

2006-10-12 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 12 octobre 2006 à 14:23 +, Thaddeus H. Black a écrit : Choice 2 ranks below Further Discussion mostly because I am not yet sure that granting kernel upstream a permanent special privilege the DFSG denies other upstream developers is prudent in the long term. I think you are

Re: Firmware vote rationale

2006-10-12 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 02:23:05PM +, Thaddeus H. Black wrote: This is to record the reason behind my firmware GR vote (not that you are expected to mind what I think, but I wish to go on record at vote time anyway). Debian should in my view treat firmware differently than other software

Re: GPG key problem with new vote keys

2006-10-12 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 12:25:42PM +0200, Toni Mueller wrote: I'm using mutt and gpg 1.4.5, but have severe problems using the vote keys. First, I do something like 'Ctrl-K' to import the key. This sometimes gives me a message like 'processed: 0, imported: 1'. When I then try to use a key

Re: GPG key problem with new vote keys

2006-10-12 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 14:17:25 -0500, Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 12:25:42PM +0200, Toni Mueller wrote: I'm using mutt and gpg 1.4.5, but have severe problems using the vote keys. First, I do something like 'Ctrl-K' to import the key. This sometimes gives me

GPG key problem with new vote keys

2006-10-09 Thread Toni Mueller
Hello, I'm using mutt and gpg 1.4.5, but have severe problems using the vote keys. First, I do something like 'Ctrl-K' to import the key. This sometimes gives me a message like 'processed: 0, imported: 1'. When I then try to use a key like [EMAIL PROTECTED], gpg tells me that it doesn't find

Vote page locations on the recent call for votes

2006-10-09 Thread Manoj Srivastava
to http://vote.debian.org/, or indeed, any pages of previous vote, show a navigation bar that highlights current votes; so this should not have been hard to find. manoj -- A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure. Arthure Bugs Baer Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: draft ballot for the firmware vote

2006-10-06 Thread Don Armstrong
* issue a call for votes unless they are the proposer or sponsor of a resolution which will appear on the ballot. The only thing Manoj can do, which he has not yet done to my knowledge, is alter the ballot from what the person calling for a vote has suggested. During weeks, you have resisted bringing

Re: draft ballot for the firmware vote

2006-10-06 Thread Sven Luther
calling for a vote has suggested. Maybe, but Manoj wearing a double hat on this, is troublesome. During weeks, you have resisted bringing the original proposal from frank to vote, Only the proposer or a sponsor can make a call for votes; if Frank wanted to bring the proposal to a vote, he

Re: Asking for the ban of Frans Pop from debian-vote ... (Was: [AMENDMENT]: Release Etch now, with source-less but legal and freely licensed firmware)

2006-10-06 Thread Andreas Barth
* Bill Allombert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061006 01:21]: On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 06:45:05PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: The reason why you were banned from debian-release was mostly because of turning it in a discussion list which it is not intended for. It was rather because someone has an urge

Re: draft ballot for the firmware vote

2006-10-06 Thread MJ Ray
checking the constitution before posting noise? (We can't recall the secretary, but maybe can reverse the DPL decision part of their appointment, AFAICT.) During weeks, you have resisted bringing the original proposal from frank to vote, and now, because there are new proposals you dislike, you

Re: Call for vote

2006-10-05 Thread Romain Francoise
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The draft ballot for this vote is appended. Please note that this is a draft ballot, voting has not yet started. Will this vote have secret ballots? -- ,''`. : :' :Romain Francoise [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `' http://people.debian.org

Re: Call for vote

2006-10-05 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Romain Francoise said: Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The draft ballot for this vote is appended. Please note that this is a draft ballot, voting has not yet started. Will this vote have secret ballots? The constitution doesn't say it has to, so

Re: Call for a vote: Re-affirm support to the Debian Project Leader

2006-10-05 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, The draft ballot for this vote is appended. Please note that this is a draft ballot, voting has not yet started. For operational reasons, I have decided to start and end the vote in the middle of the weekend (I am not able to guarantee being able to meet a schedule during

Re: Call for vote

2006-10-05 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 09:02:22 +0200, Romain Francoise [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The draft ballot for this vote is appended. Please note that this is a draft ballot, voting has not yet started. Will this vote have secret ballots? No, I

Asking for the ban of Frans Pop from debian-vote ... (Was: [AMENDMENT]: Release Etch now, with source-less but legal and freely licensed firmware)

2006-10-05 Thread Sven Luther
Hi list masters and DPL, Since it seems Frans is not able to leave ad-hominem attacks out of this discussion, and given the precedent of my ban from -release on similar issues, i now officially ask for Frans Pop to be banned from debian-vote, until such a time as he is able to discuss issues

Re: Asking for the ban of Frans Pop from debian-vote ... (Was: [AMENDMENT]: Release Etch now, with source-less but legal and freely licensed firmware)

2006-10-05 Thread Luk Claes
Sven Luther wrote: Hi list masters and DPL, Hi Sven Since it seems Frans is not able to leave ad-hominem attacks out of this discussion, and given the precedent of my ban from -release on similar issues, i now officially ask for Frans Pop to be banned from debian-vote, until such a time

Re: Asking for the ban of Frans Pop from debian-vote ... (Was: [AMENDMENT]: Release Etch now, with source-less but legal and freely licensed firmware)

2006-10-05 Thread Sven Luther
ask for Frans Pop to be banned from debian-vote, until such a time as he is able to discuss issues, without being able to resort to ad-hominem and defaming attacks like he has done here, even if in a slightly disguised form. Mails like his don't help the issue to be solved, bring

NO-OP vote ... Re: FIRST CALL FOR VOTES FOR DFSG #2 applies to all programmatic works

2006-10-05 Thread Sven Luther
- - -=-=-=-=-=- Don't Delete Anything Between These Lines =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Just for information. This is a no-op vote, since we either reafirm the current status quo (already re-afirmed previous to the sarge release), or further discuss the issue, but in all cases, nothing will prevent further discussion

Re: Asking for the ban of Frans Pop from debian-vote ... (Was: [AMENDMENT]: Release Etch now, with source-less but legal and freely licensed firmware)

2006-10-05 Thread Luk Claes
officially ask for Frans Pop to be banned from debian-vote, until such a time as he is able to discuss issues, without being able to resort to ad-hominem and defaming attacks like he has done here, even if in a slightly disguised form. Mails like his don't help the issue to be solved, bring

Re: Asking for the ban of Frans Pop from debian-vote ... (Was: [AMENDMENT]: Release Etch now, with source-less but legal and freely licensed firmware)

2006-10-05 Thread Sven Luther
the precedent of my ban from -release on similar issues, i now officially ask for Frans Pop to be banned from debian-vote, until such a time as he is able to discuss issues, without being able to resort to ad-hominem and defaming attacks like he has done here, even if in a slightly

^^^ here is a no-op mail about: a so-called NO-OP vote ... […]

2006-10-05 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Just for information. This is a no-op vote, since we either reafirm the current status quo (already re-afirmed previous to the sarge release), or further discuss the issue, but in all cases, nothing will prevent further discussion at a later time, and indeed our DPL has already said he

Re: Asking for the ban of Frans Pop from debian-vote ...

2006-10-05 Thread Frank Küster
Err, I didn't want to join this ugly subthread. But I do. Sven has earned quite some points in this list for trying to argue to the point. No matter whether he was wrong (nobody has really shown that?). Now his whining and the post to d-d-a has nearly emptied his account. However... Luk

Re: Call for vote

2006-10-05 Thread Denis Barbier
On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 08:19:16AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Hi, On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 09:02:22 +0200, Romain Francoise [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The draft ballot for this vote is appended. Please note that this is a draft ballot, voting has

Re: ^^^ here is a no-op mail abo ut: a so-called NO-OP vote ... […]

2006-10-05 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 09:24:34PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: Just for information. This is a no-op vote, since we either reafirm the current status quo (already re-afirmed previous to the sarge release), or further discuss the issue, but in all cases, nothing will prevent further

Re: Call for voting period to start on the firmware vote

2006-10-05 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 02:41:40PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 17:04:32 +1000, Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au said: I don't think it's worth further delaying this vote to include this position statement; as per [0] the minimum discussion period for Manoj's

Re: Asking for the ban of Frans Pop from debian-vote ... (Was: [AMENDMENT]: Release Etch now, with source-less but legal and freely licensed firmware)

2006-10-05 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 06:45:05PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: The reason why you were banned from debian-release was mostly because of turning it in a discussion list which it is not intended for. It was rather because someone has an urge to feel power flowing through their body by banning

Re: Asking for the ban of Frans Pop from debian-vote ... (Was: [AMENDMENT]: Release Etch now, with source-less but legal and freely licensed firmware)

2006-10-05 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 06:26:01PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: i now officially ask for Frans Pop to be banned from debian-vote, As per 4.2(5) of the constitution, it's required that any developer may post to the list designated for proposals, sponsors, amendments, calls for votes and other

Re: Call for voting period to start on the firmware vote

2006-10-05 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 05 Oct 2006, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 17:04:32 +1000, Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au said: I don't think it's worth further delaying this vote to include this position statement; as per [0] the minimum discussion period for Manoj's amendment as accepted

draft ballot for the firmware vote

2006-10-05 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, With the vote being called, here is a draft ballot for the firmware vote. The voting period has not yet started. manoj Voting period starts 00:00:01 UTC on Sunday,8th October 2006 Votes must be received by 23:59:59 UTC on Saturday, 14th October 2006

Re: Asking for the ban of Frans Pop from debian-vote ... (Was: [AMENDMENT]: Release Etch now, with source-less but legal and freely licensed firmware)

2006-10-05 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 12:27:04PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 06:26:01PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: i now officially ask for Frans Pop to be banned from debian-vote, As per 4.2(5) of the constitution, it's required that any developer may post to the list designated

Re: draft ballot for the firmware vote

2006-10-05 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 11:28:28PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Hi, With the vote being called, here is a draft ballot for the firmware vote. The voting period has not yet started. Manoj, if you don't stop this manipulation now, i am going to ask for your recall as secretary

Re: A summary of the current firmware GRs (Was: Summary? (Or: my vote is for sale!))

2006-10-04 Thread Adrian von Bidder
(and with a flamewarlet on the editorial GR in it, too, for added fun - see KDE #96997 [*]), with various references to the other threads which have done the same: No, it has not clarified things to me. I guess I will either abstain or vote further discussion for the forseeable future. Has delegating

Call for vote (was Re: Proposal: Recall the Project Leader)

2006-10-04 Thread Denis Barbier
Hi, I am hereby calling for a vote on the recall resolution. As will be confirmed by Loic Minier in a separate mail, we agreed upon shortening the discussion and voting periods to one week, per delegation of the Debian Project Leader[1]. Of course, the voting period in the WML file

Call for a vote: Re-affirm support to the Debian Project Leader

2006-10-04 Thread Loïc Minier
Hi, This is a call for a vote on the General Resolution: Re-affirm support to the Debian Project Leader. The proposed ballot is: [ ] Re-affirm DPL; wish success to unofficial Dunc Tank [ ] Re-affirm DPL; do not endorse nor support his other projects [ ] Further

Re: Call for a vote: Re-affirm support to the Debian Project Leader

2006-10-04 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 04 octobre 2006 à 23:32 +0200, Loïc Minier a écrit : Hi, This is a call for a vote on the General Resolution: Re-affirm support to the Debian Project Leader. The proposed ballot is: [ ] Re-affirm DPL; wish success to unofficial Dunc Tank [ ] Re-affirm DPL

Re: Call for vote (was Re: Proposal: Recall the Project Leader)

2006-10-04 Thread Loïc Minier
On Wed, Oct 04, 2006, Denis Barbier wrote: I am hereby calling for a vote on the recall resolution. As will be confirmed by Loic Minier in a separate mail, we agreed upon shortening the discussion and voting periods to one week, per delegation of the Debian Project Leader[1]. I confirm

Re: Call for vote

2006-10-04 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, The draft ballot for this vote is appended. Please note that this is a draft ballot, voting has not yet started. For operational reasons, I have decided to start and end the vote in the middle of the weekend (I am not able to guarantee being able to meet a schedule during

Re: Summary? (Or: my vote is for sale!)

2006-10-03 Thread Sven Luther
stand, and thus it is rather urgent to send it out to debian-vote or elsewhere, once it is confirmed, and then a GR needs to be coined to reflect our position, since both Frederik's original GR and Manoj's one lack a bit of clarity, which is not the case of your draft. For those interested

Re: Summary? (Or: my vote is for sale!)

2006-10-03 Thread Martin Schulze
Sven Luther wrote: Jurij, i still think your draft is lightyears more clear and to the point than most GRs out there. One comment. As BLOB stands for Binary Large OBject, binary blob is somewhat strange. Regards, Joey -- Given enough thrust pigs will fly, but it's not necessarily a

Re: Summary? (Or: my vote is for sale!)

2006-10-03 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 08:48:19AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: It would serve as summary, if nothing else. But we also had a discussion with the DPL, who suggested a new GR which could be signed by the kernel team, the d-i team and the RMs (signed = seconded here). While we were discussing that,

Re: Summary? (Or: my vote is for sale!)

2006-10-03 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 04:15:10PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: The Editorial amendments to SC GR was not a null operation; it quite clearly changed the social contract to make the DFSG apply to all works distributed in main. This was rather laboriously discussed on -vote at the time, with AJ

Re: Summary? (Or: my vote is for sale!)

2006-10-03 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 06:06:24PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 08:48:19AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: It would serve as summary, if nothing else. But we also had a discussion with the DPL, who suggested a new GR which could be signed by the kernel team, the d-i

Re: Summary? (Or: my vote is for sale!)

2006-10-03 Thread MJ Ray
Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] As I understand what's going on, instead of having a single vote with all the firmware-related options laid out on the ballot, we are apparently going to have a series of votes about related topics (GR 2006/004 being the first) with only

Re: Summary? (Or: my vote is for sale!)

2006-10-03 Thread MJ Ray
Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Editorial amendments to SC GR was not a null operation; it quite clearly changed the social contract to make the DFSG apply to all works distributed in main. Adjective holy misplacement, Batman! Rather, it changed the social contract to make the DFSG

Re: Summary? (Or: my vote is for sale!)

2006-10-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
in main. This was rather laboriously discussed on -vote at the time, with AJ (then the RM) heavily involved.[1] It was a large number of people's understanding that this was what the SC originally intended, but this view was not universally held, which was why the GR was necessary. For the editorial

Re: Summary? (Or: my vote is for sale!)

2006-10-03 Thread Frank Küster
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In that particular GR, the full text of the resolution was included in every ballot and CFV. If you were mislead, that means you did not even bother to read the mail you used to vote with -- sounds like the person doing the misleading

Re: Summary? (Or: my vote is for sale!)

2006-10-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
to vote with -- sounds like the person doing the misleading was just you being lazy. In that particular case, the heading was still editorial changes, Because I believed that to be true, yes. and given the public cries that the results (not the voting results) gave, he was not alone

Re: Summary? (Or: my vote is for sale!)

2006-10-03 Thread Frank Küster
_then_, I have no idea; I just got my account when the editorial changes GR was put to vote, I think, and didn't take part since I didn't feel qualified. rahter than bitching after the fact and implying I misled people by choosing that heading? I guess people did that back then, but I didn't hear

A summary of the current firmware GRs (Was: Summary? (Or: my vote is for sale!))

2006-10-03 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 09:36:09PM +0200, Adrian von Bidder wrote: Yodel! With the first (?) CfV out now about non-free kernel firmwares: I'm not going to vote, sorry. I don't have the time to wade through tons of mailing list archives, of which 1/3 is repetitions of previously made

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