Re: unauthorized upload of xfree86 4.3.0-1 to unstable

2004-02-04 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 01:40:09PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: That said, and although I's say that I don't agree with Branden in all areas, my impression is that it should possible to work together with him, and if the question isn't Should XFree86 4.3.0 enter unstable now? but instead What's

Re: unauthorized upload of xfree86 4.3.0-1 to unstable

2004-02-03 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 02:21:31PM -0500, David B Harris wrote: On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 13:04:30 -0500 Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This upload was done without advance notice to, or consultation with the rest of the X Strike Force (XSF) team I asked Branden for clarification on

Re: unauthorized upload of xfree86 4.3.0-1 to unstable

2004-02-03 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 06:22:24PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 01:08:19PM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: [...] I did, however, state that I felt that 4.3.0-1 was by far the superior base to work from in sid, for a number of

Re: unauthorized upload of xfree86 4.3.0-1 to unstable

2004-02-03 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 11:38:16AM +1300, Mike Beattie wrote: On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 11:11:12AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: I have felt consistently under pressure to do 2 things: 1) release xfree86 4.3.0-1 to sid ASAP 2) delegate responsibility ASAP Very few actions serve both

Re: unauthorized upload of xfree86 4.3.0-1 to unstable

2004-01-29 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 09:48:55PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote: [...] p.s. I've addressed this to you privately so as not to cause any troubles in public. If you want, you're welcome to forward this to debian-x, or wherever else you like. David, I was unable to reply privately; your ISP has

Re: unauthorized upload of xfree86 4.3.0-1 to unstable

2004-01-29 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 01:08:19PM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: [Forgive the crosspost, but I think each paragraph touches on different issues, and that all 3 is the best. Please Cc me if you don't reply to -x, as that's the only one of these lists I'm on.] I disagree that your message was

Re: unauthorized upload of xfree86 4.3.0-1 to unstable

2004-01-29 Thread Andreas Metzler
Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 01:08:19PM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: [...] I did, however, state that I felt that 4.3.0-1 was by far the superior base to work from in sid, for a number of reasons (not least that propagation to sarge would put the XSF in the

Re: unauthorized upload of xfree86 4.3.0-1 to unstable

2004-01-29 Thread Mike Beattie
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 11:11:12AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: I have felt consistently under pressure to do 2 things: 1) release xfree86 4.3.0-1 to sid ASAP 2) delegate responsibility ASAP Very few actions serve both goals at once, so time spent on one is, obviously, time not spent on

Re: unauthorized upload of xfree86 4.3.0-1 to unstable

2004-01-29 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Mike Beattie wrote: On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 11:11:12AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: I have felt consistently under pressure to do 2 things: 1) release xfree86 4.3.0-1 to sid ASAP 2) delegate responsibility ASAP Very few actions serve both goals at once, so time spent on one is,

unauthorized upload of xfree86 4.3.0-1 to unstable

2004-01-28 Thread Branden Robinson
[Sorry for crossposting; this mail touches on subjects of concern to a few lists, and I have included my suggestions for followup to individual lists in this message.] FYI, for those who didn't know already, an upload identifying itself as xfree86 4.3.0-1, not authorized by me, was made by Daniel

Re: unauthorized upload of xfree86 4.3.0-1 to unstable

2004-01-28 Thread Peter Constantinidis
Hi Branden, In your posting about the 4.3 upload you said you welcomed feedback so I thought I'd drop in my 2 cents from the perspective of an outsider that is contemplating installing Debian in the near future. It was my understanding that the way Sid-Testing-Stable can work, is to visualize it

Re: unauthorized upload of xfree86 4.3.0-1 to unstable

2004-01-28 Thread Daniel Stone
[Forgive the crosspost, but I think each paragraph touches on different issues, and that all 3 is the best. Please Cc me if you don't reply to -x, as that's the only one of these lists I'm on.] On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 01:04:30PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: FYI, for those who didn't know