Re: chiark -ctte copies

2009-01-12 Thread Andreas Barth
* Ian Jackson (i...@davenant.greenend.org.uk) [090113 01:58]: > Andreas and Raul: are you subscribed some other way ? If you are then > I can discontinue this alias. If you would like to continue to be > subscribed via chiark then that's fine by me. I'm unsubscribeable subscribed to the normal l

Re: Technical committee workflow

2009-01-12 Thread Ian Jackson
Raphael Hertzog writes ("Re: Technical committee workflow"): > On Sat, 10 Jan 2009, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Here's a first draft of the procedural resolution. Sorry it's so long > > but I couldn't see how to make it shorter. > > It looks mostly fine. Two remarks however: > > - the explicit queue

Re: chiark -ctte copies

2009-01-12 Thread Ian Jackson
Anthony Towns writes ("chiark -ctte copies"): > I'm still getting duplicates of the -ctte lists via: Steve Langasek writes ("Re: chiark -ctte copies"): > I think this was something Ian set up to make sure the TC members were never > unsubscribed from the list accidentally? Which has never happene

Re: Confirmation vote for Russ Allbery

2009-01-12 Thread Ian Jackson
Steve Langasek writes ("Confirmation vote for Russ Allbery"): > While both Russ and Don have enjoyed the support of the Technical Committee > in private discussions and I don't see a confirmation vote for them being > anything more than a formality, under 6.3.4 of the constitution it is a > formali

Re: Confirmation vote for Don Armstrong

2009-01-12 Thread Ian Jackson
Steve Langasek writes ("Confirmation vote for Don Armstrong"): > While both Russ and Don have enjoyed the support of the Technical Committee > in private discussions and I don't see a confirmation vote for them being > anything more than a formality, under 6.3.4 of the constitution it is a > formal

Re: New Technical Committee Members

2009-01-12 Thread Andreas Barth
* Kurt Roeckx (k...@roeckx.be) [090112 18:39]: > And Steve organised the vote to add Russ (which got approved), > and propose Don to the DPL. > > Andreas said that with 3 of the 5 votes for proposing Don the vote > is over. But I think it's only 3 of 6 at that point, and the DPL > still needs to

Re: New Technical Committee Members

2009-01-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 06:50:02PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: >On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 11:57:31AM -0700, Bdale Garbee wrote: >> >> It gives me great pleasure to welcome Russ Allbery and Don >> Armstrong as the newest members of the Technical Committee. > >If I understand things right, you can add

Re: New Technical Committee Members

2009-01-12 Thread Bdale Garbee
On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 18:50 +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > If I understand things right, you can add new members until > the number reaches 6 and can then proposed new members to the > DPL. Since my invitations to the new members were issued after unanimous agreement by the existing members of the t

Re: New Technical Committee Members

2009-01-12 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 11:57:31AM -0700, Bdale Garbee wrote: > Anthony Towns recently announced his decision to step down from > the Debian Technical Committee: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2009/01/msg6.html > > I thank him on behalf of the rest of the committee and the > proj

Bug#510415: tech-ctte: Qmail inclusion (or not) in Debian

2009-01-12 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Whoever takes the decision, we still need an agreed upon definition of > > crap, otherwise people will be unhappy to not be able to maintain the > > piece of software they care about. Even if that software is crap. > > Do the definitions of "grave" an

Bug#510415: tech-ctte: Qmail inclusion (or not) in Debian

2009-01-12 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 04:35:59PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > There are three possibilities here: > > 1) The ftp team have a duty to judge whether a NEW package is too buggy to > > be > >allowed into the archive. > > 2) The ftp team may exclude NEW packages from the archive that they b