Position statements short of a GR - DPL statements
There are often topics about where it would be useful to have a statement of position, or some recommendations for project participants (or for users or citizens). I'm speaking here primarily of nontechnical matters. Often these are in the remit of individual maintainers or maintainership teams. So for example, the boundaries of what counts as a release-critical bug, or decisions about licence acceptability. But there are also topics which aren't covered by an existing team or delegation. There are a couple of these that are on the DPL's plate right now: - Dealing with "inbound" trademarks. Ie, how best to deal with possible trademark risks in the software we deal with; - A requests from Debian as a whole to its downstreams including particularly a specific request to eg Ubuntu; Up to this point in the project we have normally published only: - GRs - Formal policy documents issued by teams (of which the Dev Ref is an example); - Press releases - Informal statements by individuals I think it would be useful to add a new category to this list: - Formal policy document from the DPL Of course like any other DPL decision these would be published by the DPL after discussion and consensus-seeking. And if the matter turns out to be too controversial, or the DPL wants to make sure the document has a good mandate, the GR process is available (either via the route of a DPL-initiated GR, or an overruling GR). But I think on many topics it ought to be possible to get consensus within the project on a position which clearly reflects the views of most of the DDs. (And implicitly where those who disagree with the DPL's statement can feel that their views have been taken into account but can also see that ultimately those views are not widely shared.) Do we think it would be proper, for example, to write up as a DPL-issued document the best practice for dealing with inbound trademarks ? The alternative for this issue would seem to be to run it as a GR. I think that's too heavyweight a process; we should be using it where important matters of principle are at stake, or where we haven't been able to see where consensus lies or indeed get a good enough rough consensus on a particular approach. Another example of a possible document of this kind would have been the diversity statement. I think it would have been proper, if there had been enough agreement, for the DPL to issue that statement themselves. But as it turned out, the level of consensus wasn't sufficient particularly given that the diversity statement needed a solid mandate - so a GR was required. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20622.48956.195581.813...@chiark.greenend.org.uk
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Hola, Es posible que nuestra empresa use el logotipo de Debian, en la lista de partners, ya que es nuestro SO oficial para nuestras aplicaciones en Cloud y desarrollos internos. Saludos, Javier Ramírez -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/91d65c72-841e-48f0-84ce-42a2e797e...@xlanube.com
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I'm replying in spanish for Javier to know. On Mon 29 Oct 2012 15:42:50 Javier Ramírez escribió: > Hola, > > Es posible que nuestra empresa use el logotipo de Debian, en la lista de > partners, ya que es nuestro SO oficial para nuestras aplicaciones en Cloud > y desarrollos internos. ¡Hola Javier! Te cuento que la lista debian-project es en inglés ¿te animás a mandar un mail en éste idioma? Saludos, Lisandro. -- Los chicos tienen un mayor dominio de la tecnología (y las habilidades y lenguaje que eso implica) que los adultos con los que se relacionan. Por lo general saben más que sus propios padres, sus docentes, sus pediatras, psicólogos, que los políticos y funcionarios de sus comunidades. Eso afectó la autoridad que tenía un adulto para habilitar al mundo. Luis Pescetti http://www.luispescetti.com/regale-su-obra/ Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer http://perezmeyer.com.ar/ http://perezmeyer.blogspot.com/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
mjg59's blog on planet.d.o
AFAIK Matthew Garrett hasn't been "active and directly involved participant in the Debian development community" for years. What is the reason for keeping his blog on planet.d.o? -- Jakub Wilk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121029231912.ga2...@jwilk.net
Re: mjg59's blog on planet.d.o
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 12:19:12AM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: > AFAIK Matthew Garrett hasn't been "active and directly involved > participant in the Debian development community" for years. What is > the reason for keeping his blog on planet.d.o? What's the problem? I enjoy it, and most of the posts effect Debian in some way. I'm sure there are "worse" blogs to pick on Cheers, Paul signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: mjg59's blog on planet.d.o
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 12:19:12AM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: > AFAIK Matthew Garrett hasn't been "active and directly involved > participant in the Debian development community" for years. What is > the reason for keeping his blog on planet.d.o? Are you asking us to remove it? -- Jordi Mallach Pérez -- Debian developer http://www.debian.org/ jo...@sindominio.net jo...@debian.org http://www.sindominio.net/ GnuPG public key information available at http://oskuro.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121029233150.ga24...@aigua.oskuro.net
