Re: [kde-community] Proposal: KDE Manifesto wording revision

2013-11-13 Thread Eike Hein
On Wednesday 13 November 2013 20:58:46 you wrote: > Not only the “source materials” need to be accessible without additional > third party account, but everything that is needed for participation. > > Example: Let’s say KDE project KoolApp has a TODO list on a third party > website with invasive p

Re: [kde-community] Proposal: KDE Manifesto wording revision

2013-11-13 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Wednesday, November 13, 2013 21:09:28 Kevin Ottens wrote: > Seeing how the full thread developed I don't think the clause in discussion > fit for that example. It's about the online services used and governance, > not about the product (which is what this clause is about). exactly; while a vali

Re: [kde-community] Proposal: KDE Manifesto wording revision

2013-11-13 Thread Kevin Ottens
On Wednesday 13 November 2013 20:58:46 Olaf Schmidt-Wischhöfer wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 13. November 2013, 18:44:45 schrieb Eike Hein: > > On Tuesday 12 November 2013 23:22:59 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > > > To me, "source materials" means anything that cannot be produced > > > automatically from the oth

Re: [kde-community] Proposal: KDE Manifesto wording revision

2013-11-13 Thread Olaf Schmidt-Wischhöfer
Am Mittwoch, 13. November 2013, 18:44:45 schrieb Eike Hein: > On Tuesday 12 November 2013 23:22:59 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > > To me, "source materials" means anything that cannot be produced > > automatically from the other source materials. > > > > I'd assume that when in doubt whether they shoul

Re: [kde-community] Proposal: KDE Manifesto wording revision

2013-11-13 Thread Kevin Ottens
On Wednesday 13 November 2013 18:44:45 Eike Hein wrote: > On Tuesday 12 November 2013 23:22:59 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > > To me, "source materials" means anything that cannot be produced > > automatically from the other source materials. > > > > I'd assume that when in doubt whether they should put

Re: [kde-community] Proposal: KDE Manifesto wording revision

2013-11-13 Thread Eike Hein
On Tuesday 12 November 2013 23:22:59 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > To me, "source materials" means anything that cannot be produced > automatically from the other source materials. > I'd assume that when in doubt whether they should put something in the repo, > people would just ask. Thanks - if that'

Re: [kde-community] Proposal: KDE Manifesto wording revision

2013-11-12 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
On Tuesday 12 November 2013 23:11:54 Eike Hein wrote: > On Tuesday 12 November 2013 22:53:18 Thomas Zander wrote: > > All these may actually exclude the stuff that is used to create the > > deliverables. If you use gimp to draw, the gimp file is imporant, but the > > "asset" and "deliverable" is ty

Re: [kde-community] Proposal: KDE Manifesto wording revision

2013-11-12 Thread Eike Hein
On Tuesday 12 November 2013 22:53:18 Thomas Zander wrote: > All these may actually exclude the stuff that is used to create the > deliverables. If you use gimp to draw, the gimp file is imporant, but the > "asset" and "deliverable" is typically used for the png you export. > So I'm assuming we wan

Re: [kde-community] Proposal: KDE Manifesto wording revision

2013-11-12 Thread Thomas Zander
On Tuesday 12 November 2013 21.08.21 Kevin Ottens wrote: > On Tuesday 12 November 2013 17:51:36 Eike Hein wrote: > > On Tuesday 12 November 2013 17:33:08 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > > if that is not clear (and apparently it is not .. you aren’t the > > > first to suggest this) then perhaps we need a

Re: [kde-community] Proposal: KDE Manifesto wording revision

2013-11-12 Thread Cornelius Schumacher
On Tuesday 12 November 2013 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > perhaps we’re having a definition problem here. > > to me “project assets” are all the things that make up the end > project/product as released. this is how the word is used in relation to, > for instance, games with all their data and graphic

Re: [kde-community] Proposal: KDE Manifesto wording revision

2013-11-12 Thread Ingo Klöcker
On Tuesday 12 November 2013 21:33:05 Kevin Ottens wrote: > Hello, > > On Sunday 10 November 2013 21:46:41 Ingo Klöcker wrote: > > On Sunday 10 November 2013 18:28:58 Kevin Ottens wrote: > > > That's what this email is about, I'd like to apply the attached > > > patch, it's mostly about small scale

Re: [kde-community] Proposal: KDE Manifesto wording revision

2013-11-12 Thread Kevin Ottens
Hello, On Sunday 10 November 2013 21:46:41 Ingo Klöcker wrote: > On Sunday 10 November 2013 18:28:58 Kevin Ottens wrote: > > That's what this email is about, I'd like to apply the attached patch, > > it's mostly about small scale changes. I don't see anything which > > could be controversial in th

Re: [kde-community] Proposal: KDE Manifesto wording revision, "financial support"

2013-11-12 Thread Kevin Ottens
On Monday 11 November 2013 22:38:21 Albert Astals Cid wrote: > El Diumenge, 10 de novembre de 2013, a les 18:28:58, Kevin Ottens va escriure: > > Hello community, > > > > Any opinions on this? I'd like to collect feedback before proceeding with > > a > > vote of the e.V. membership and then a push.

Re: [kde-community] Proposal: KDE Manifesto wording revision

2013-11-12 Thread Kevin Ottens
Hello, On Monday 11 November 2013 10:21:52 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Sunday, November 10, 2013 18:28:58 Kevin Ottens wrote: > > Any opinions on this? > > second read on a monday morning: > > "Interact with teams that have common values, leadin to the > cross-pollination of ideas and innovations”

Re: [kde-community] Proposal: KDE Manifesto wording revision

2013-11-12 Thread Kevin Ottens
On Tuesday 12 November 2013 17:51:36 Eike Hein wrote: > On Tuesday 12 November 2013 17:33:08 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > if that is not clear (and apparently it is not .. you aren’t the first to > > suggest this) then perhaps we need a phrase other than “project assets” or > > some clarification of i

Re: [kde-community] Proposal: KDE Manifesto wording revision

2013-11-12 Thread Eike Hein
On Tuesday 12 November 2013 18:00:34 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > my concern is that if it says that all KDE contributors can write to it, it > can be interpreted as being enough to simply be able to open an account > there. > > iow, this makes github a valid place to put your code (well, if we ignore

Re: [kde-community] Proposal: KDE Manifesto wording revision

2013-11-12 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Tuesday, November 12, 2013 17:44:26 Eike Hein wrote: > Deciding whether to drop or keep 'accounts' along those lines > is difficult. With previous practice, securely establishing > identity is sufficient, and the wording makes it clear that > this has to be possible for *all* contributors. That'

Re: [kde-community] Proposal: KDE Manifesto wording revision

2013-11-12 Thread Eike Hein
On Tuesday 12 November 2013 17:33:08 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > if that is not clear (and apparently it is not .. you aren’t the first to > suggest this) then perhaps we need a phrase other than “project assets” or > some clarification of it. I was toying with 'deliverables', but it doesn't feel quit

Re: [kde-community] Proposal: KDE Manifesto wording revision

2013-11-12 Thread Eike Hein
On Tuesday 12 November 2013 17:34:41 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > +1 for getting rid of “must”; -1 on getting rid of accounts; and yes, we > probably need to find some better wording for “project assets” since it > trips people up. On the accounts one, after hitting send I was back to pondering, about

Re: [kde-community] Proposal: KDE Manifesto wording revision

2013-11-12 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Tuesday, November 12, 2013 17:06:51 Eike Hein wrote: > - "Must" is gone. It's kinda feels more declarative now! > - "Accounts" is gone. > > Open issues: > - Do we need to do anything about "project assets"? +1 for getting rid of “must”; -1 on getting rid of accounts; and yes, we probably need

Re: [kde-community] Proposal: KDE Manifesto wording revision

2013-11-12 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Tuesday, November 12, 2013 16:43:27 Cornelius Schumacher wrote: > It also sounds like it would rule out using any other tools, which are not > hosted on KDE infrastructure. In the IRC log there were mentioned Google > Docs, Trello, there are certainly more (and not only closed-source ones). I >

Re: [kde-community] Proposal: KDE Manifesto wording revision

2013-11-12 Thread Eike Hein
On Tuesday 12 November 2013 16:43:27 Cornelius Schumacher wrote: > When I read the suggestion and this explanation I wonder why we don't just > say what is meant: "The canonical version of the project is hosted on KDE > infrastructure"? > > This doesn't cover the part that all KDE contributors hav

Re: [kde-community] Proposal: KDE Manifesto wording revision

2013-11-12 Thread Cornelius Schumacher
On Monday 11 November 2013 13:56:32 Eike Hein wrote: > > After the exchanges in this and the other leg of the subthread > there ended up being a follow-up discussion on IRC, with Aaron, > Sune (svuorela), me (Sho_) and others contributing. > > Ultimately, we've together settled on this wording su

Re: [kde-community] Proposal: KDE Manifesto wording revision

2013-11-12 Thread Eike Hein
On Tuesday 12 November 2013 02:43:39 Valorie Zimmerman wrote: > This makes me so happy. I've been through various "by-law fights" in > the past, which sometimes exhaust or even break apart groups. Instead, > I see us really grappling with our shared values, strengths and > weaknesses, and putting t

Re: [kde-community] Proposal: KDE Manifesto wording revision

2013-11-12 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 5:34 AM, Eike Hein wrote: > On Monday 11 November 2013 14:25:32 Kevin Ottens wrote: >> I'd like to note I'm glad that you all took the time to resolve this issue >> by using a better medium than email. Thanks for that, less time spent >> tracking emails and ideas back and f

Re: [kde-community] Proposal: KDE Manifesto wording revision, "financial support"

2013-11-11 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El Diumenge, 10 de novembre de 2013, a les 18:28:58, Kevin Ottens va escriure: > Hello community, > > Any opinions on this? I'd like to collect feedback before proceeding with a > vote of the e.V. membership and then a push. What's the rationale in the "Be considered for financial support" -> "Re

Re: [kde-community] Proposal: KDE Manifesto wording revision

2013-11-11 Thread Eike Hein
On Monday 11 November 2013 14:25:32 Kevin Ottens wrote: > I'd like to note I'm glad that you all took the time to resolve this issue > by using a better medium than email. Thanks for that, less time spent > tracking emails and ideas back and forth for me. Definitely helped; hopefully providing the

Re: [kde-community] Proposal: KDE Manifesto wording revision

2013-11-11 Thread Kevin Ottens
Hello, On Monday 11 November 2013 13:56:32 Eike Hein wrote: > After the exchanges in this and the other leg of the subthread > there ended up being a follow-up discussion on IRC, with Aaron, > Sune (svuorela), me (Sho_) and others contributing. I'd like to note I'm glad that you all took the time

Re: [kde-community] Proposal: KDE Manifesto wording revision

2013-11-11 Thread Eike Hein
Heyo ... After the exchanges in this and the other leg of the subthread there ended up being a follow-up discussion on IRC, with Aaron, Sune (svuorela), me (Sho_) and others contributing. Ultimately, we've together settled on this wording suggestion: "All project assets must be hosted on infras

Re: [kde-community] Proposal: KDE Manifesto wording revision

2013-11-11 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Monday, November 11, 2013 11:46:20 Eike Hein wrote: > * Improves the situation. a) by removing language whose literal wording creates an us/them wall, something that is the opposite of inclusion. b) by replacing it with something that is clearer to understand on first read as has been noted

Re: [kde-community] Proposal: KDE Manifesto wording revision

2013-11-11 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Monday, November 11, 2013 11:18:34 Eike Hein wrote: > By disallowing direct write access for folks without a KDE > contributor account, we're making them get KDE contributor > accounts to gain write access. This ends up happening as a > natural result of the tedium involved with proxying changes

Re: [kde-community] Proposal: KDE Manifesto wording revision

2013-11-11 Thread Eike Hein
On Monday 11 November 2013 11:12:12 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > so if the ONLY clause was somehow intended to address the “second class > citizen” issue, it should be evident how it can not do so in its current > form and also remain consistent with KDE’s current, consensus culture. It's not evident t

Re: [kde-community] Proposal: KDE Manifesto wording revision

2013-11-11 Thread Eike Hein
On Monday 11 November 2013 10:54:52 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > iow, it has solved nothing. No, I believe you're actually overlooking a broader point here. Codifying the access model is a lot less about actual ACL, and more about the implications it has for *people*, both existing contributors, but al

Re: [kde-community] Proposal: KDE Manifesto wording revision

2013-11-11 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Monday, November 11, 2013 10:56:11 Eike Hein wrote: > On Monday 11 November 2013 10:29:07 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > i’ll also point out that we already have a tiered system: maintainers. > > Psychology matters. It's a lot easier to step up to become a right, so not all tiered systems are bad.

Re: [kde-community] Proposal: KDE Manifesto wording revision

2013-11-11 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Monday, November 11, 2013 10:44:46 Eike Hein wrote: > On Monday 11 November 2013 10:14:56 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > the difference is that it does not specify “ONLY”, which in this day and > > age of decentralized revision control systems seems sensible. or are you > > suggesting that we should

Re: [kde-community] Proposal: KDE Manifesto wording revision

2013-11-11 Thread Eike Hein
On Monday 11 November 2013 10:29:07 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > i’ll also point out that we already have a tiered system: maintainers. Psychology matters. It's a lot easier to step up to become a maintainer if the number of process barriers is low, when the access model informs you of your basic righ

Re: [kde-community] Proposal: KDE Manifesto wording revision

2013-11-11 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Monday, November 11, 2013 10:34:09 Eike Hein wrote: > There's two halves to the access model: > > * All KDE contributor accounts must have direct write access. (There we all agree on this point, it is therefore unnecessary to go into this further. it is the ONLY clause: > * Only KDE contrib

Re: [kde-community] Proposal: KDE Manifesto wording revision

2013-11-11 Thread Eike Hein
On Monday 11 November 2013 10:14:56 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > the difference is that it does not specify “ONLY”, which in this day and age > of decentralized revision control systems seems sensible. or are you > suggesting that we should not allow any contributions from the "outside"? You're confusi

Re: [kde-community] Proposal: KDE Manifesto wording revision

2013-11-11 Thread Eike Hein
On Monday 11 November 2013 10:10:56 Thomas Zander wrote: > Could you please explain to those that don't immediately spot it how the > before and after are functionally different? Of course. There's two halves to the access model: * All KDE contributor accounts must have direct write access. (The

Re: [kde-community] Proposal: KDE Manifesto wording revision

2013-11-11 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Monday, November 11, 2013 09:16:24 Sune Vuorela wrote: > On 2013-11-11, Thomas Zander wrote: > > Could you please explain to those that don't immediately spot it how the > > before and after are functionally different? > That it opens up for several groups of contributors, KDE contributors and

Re: [kde-community] Proposal: KDE Manifesto wording revision

2013-11-11 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Sunday, November 10, 2013 18:28:58 Kevin Ottens wrote: > Any opinions on this? second read on a monday morning: "Interact with teams that have common values, leadin to the cross-pollination of ideas and innovations” to “Interaction with ...” since you changed “Stand on” to “To stand on”, th

Re: [kde-community] Proposal: KDE Manifesto wording revision

2013-11-11 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2013-11-11, Thomas Zander wrote: > Could you please explain to those that don't immediately spot it how the > before and after are functionally different? That it opens up for several groups of contributors, KDE contributors and other people. I do also think that it is important that KDE pro

Re: [kde-community] Proposal: KDE Manifesto wording revision

2013-11-11 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Monday, November 11, 2013 07:31:15 Eike Hein wrote: > In my mind - based on experience as contributor, main- > tainer and for a period, sysadmin working on the contri- > butor account system - codifying the two halves that make > up our access model was the single most important accom- > plishme

Re: [kde-community] Proposal: KDE Manifesto wording revision

2013-11-11 Thread Thomas Zander
On Monday 11 November 2013 07.31.15 Eike Hein wrote: > - * Software assets access model > -* Direct write access to the software assets is granted only to KDE > contributor accounts > -* Direct write access to the software assets is granted to all KDE > contributor accounts >

Re: [kde-community] Proposal: KDE Manifesto wording revision

2013-11-10 Thread Eike Hein
> - * Software assets access model > -* Direct write access to the software assets is granted only to KDE contributor accounts > -* Direct write access to the software assets is granted to all KDE contributor accounts > + * All KDE contributor accounts get direct (and universal) write

Re: [kde-community] Proposal: KDE Manifesto wording revision

2013-11-10 Thread Ingo Klöcker
On Sunday 10 November 2013 18:28:58 Kevin Ottens wrote: > That's what this email is about, I'd like to apply the attached patch, > it's mostly about small scale changes. I don't see anything which > could be controversial in there. > > Any opinions on this? I'd like to collect feedback before proc

Re: [kde-community] Proposal: KDE Manifesto wording revision

2013-11-10 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Sunday, November 10, 2013 18:51:06 Kevin Ottens wrote: > On Sunday 10 November 2013 18:45:42 Marta Rybczynska wrote: > > leadin -> leading > > Great, I managed to introduce a typo... Thanks for spotting it. It's fixed you just wanted to see if we were actually reading it ;) other than the typ

Re: [kde-community] Proposal: KDE Manifesto wording revision

2013-11-10 Thread Kevin Ottens
On Sunday 10 November 2013 19:03:45 David Edmundson wrote: > There's a change from > > "_can_ be defended via the FLA" > to > "_will_ be protected defended via the FLA" > > (emphasis added by me) > > As I understand it the FLA is opt in (http://ev.kde.org/rules/fla.php) > and does not automatica

Re: [kde-community] Proposal: KDE Manifesto wording revision

2013-11-10 Thread Carl Symons
On Sunday, November 10, 2013 18:28 Kevin Ottens wrote: > Hello community, > > After the publication of the initial version of the manifesto, I said I'd > act as curator for the time being and that it should be a living document > which would get updated from time to time. > > I didn't really live

Re: [kde-community] Proposal: KDE Manifesto wording revision

2013-11-10 Thread David Edmundson
There's a change from "_can_ be defended via the FLA" to "_will_ be protected defended via the FLA" (emphasis added by me) As I understand it the FLA is opt in (http://ev.kde.org/rules/fla.php) and does not automatically cover all projects. David ___

Re: [kde-community] Proposal: KDE Manifesto wording revision

2013-11-10 Thread Kevin Ottens
On Sunday 10 November 2013 18:45:42 Marta Rybczynska wrote: > leadin -> leading Great, I managed to introduce a typo... Thanks for spotting it. It's fixed on my side. Regards. -- Kévin Ottens, http://ervin.ipsquad.net KDAB - proud supporter of KDE, http://www.kdab.com signature.asc Descrip

Re: [kde-community] Proposal: KDE Manifesto wording revision

2013-11-10 Thread Marta Rybczynska
leadin -> leading Otherwise I like it. Cheers, Marta On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 6:28 PM, Kevin Ottens wrote: > Hello community, > > After the publication of the initial version of the manifesto, I said I'd > act > as curator for the time being and that it should be a living document which > woul

[kde-community] Proposal: KDE Manifesto wording revision

2013-11-10 Thread Kevin Ottens
Hello community, After the publication of the initial version of the manifesto, I said I'd act as curator for the time being and that it should be a living document which would get updated from time to time. I didn't really live up to it so far as no revision has been done. But somehow I found