Re: Re: piece of mind

2014-10-24 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Josselin Mouette: > Said otherwise, it is not possible to write a reliable service manager > without integrating it to what happens in process #1. > s/is/was/. Today, you have prctl(PR_SET_CHILD_SUBREAPER) to declare yourself as a pseudo-init to the processes you fork off -- that patch is fr

Re: Re: piece of mind

2014-10-24 Thread Cameron Norman
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: > You know, or at least should know, as well as I that one can > centralize the code to do all of those things, and abstract them out > of > daemons into a service manager, without

Re: piece of mind

2014-10-24 Thread Russ Allbery
Josselin Mouette writes: > Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: > You know, or at least should know, as well as I that one can > centralize the code to do all of those things, and abstract them > out of daemons into a service manager, without that service > manager be

Re: piece of mind

2014-10-24 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 24 octobre 2014 16:19 +0100, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard  : > M. Wanderer was talking about process #1 in his message, M. Urlichs, > which xe made synonymous with "the init system". Your changing that > to be the systemd package, in order to then knock that argument down, > is a strawman. You

Re: Re: piece of mind

2014-10-24 Thread Josselin Mouette
Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: You know, or at least should know, as well as I that one can centralize the code to do all of those things, and abstract them out of daemons into a service manager, without that service manager being process #1. I don’t know wh

Re: Re: piece of mind

2014-10-24 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
The Wanderer: This is the problem. The init system should not be providing > "features" which other software might, post-boot and pre-shutdown, > want to make use of. (AFAIK sysvinit never did, and most - possibly > all? - of the other init-system candidates don't either.) Such > features shou

Re: piece of mind

2014-10-22 Thread Axel Wagner
Hi, Thorsten Glaser writes: > This is rich. Especially in the copyleft-oriented GNU/Linux land. > (That being said, the FSF is rather good at vendor lock-in as well.) I'm afraid I don't understand your statement. Best, Axel Wagner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debia

Re: piece of mind

2014-10-22 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Tue, 21 Oct 2014, Axel Wagner wrote: > systemd in debian is: That the systemd-opponents want to take the > freedom from other people (amongst other the gnome upstream and debian ^^^ > maintainers) to use the software they like in the way they like, by > preventing them from depending on s

Re: piece of mind

2014-10-21 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 21 octobre 2014 à 16:23 -0700, Cameron Norman a écrit : > Also, I do not understand the log statement. Once again, Upstart can > hook up a job's stdout/err to a file in /var/log/upstart/, but I am > not exactly sure what was being said so maybe I missed the point. I don’t understand how y

Re: piece of mind

2014-10-21 Thread Russ Allbery
The Wanderer writes: > At a glance at the sysvinit source, it doesn't look to me like > /sbin/init itself does service management, in the "starting, stopping > and monitoring services" form; at most, it seems to handle some subset > of the "monitoring" part, in the form of noticing when something

Re: piece of mind

2014-10-21 Thread The Wanderer
On 10/21/2014 at 11:39 AM, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > 2014-10-21 17:24 GMT+02:00 Robert Lemmen : > >> hi matthias, >> >> On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 04:35:20PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: >>> first place. Having ten processes responsible for bits&pieces of >>> what systemd-as-PID1 does instead of

Re: piece of mind

2014-10-21 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 05:12:56PM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > On Tue, 2014-10-21 at 16:03 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > The Wanderer wrote: > > This is the problem. The init system should not be providing > > "features" > > which other software might, post-boot and pre-s

Re: piece of mind

2014-10-21 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 04:23:39PM -0700, Cameron Norman wrote: > El mar, 21 de oct 2014 a las 7:03 , Josselin Mouette > escribió: > >The Wanderer wrote: > >This is the problem. The init system should not be > >providing "features" > >which other software might, post-boot and pre-

Re: piece of mind

2014-10-21 Thread Cameron Norman
El mar, 21 de oct 2014 a las 7:03 , Josselin Mouette escribió: The Wanderer wrote: This is the problem. The init system should not be providing "features" which other software might, post-boot and pre-shutdown, want to make use of. (AFAIK sysvinit never did, and most -

Re: piece of mind

2014-10-21 Thread Adam Borowski
[Sorry for slow response, testing this on one's main machine requires dropping too much state...] I should have CCed the bug earlier, doing this now. On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 08:37:04PM -0700, Cameron Norman wrote: > > * the Utopia stack (restart, shutdown, suspend, hibernate, mounting USB > > d

Re: piece of mind

2014-10-21 Thread Gunnar Wolf
The Wanderer dijo [Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 11:10:41AM -0400]: > >>> Can you give an example of people doing that in case of systemd? > >>> Because so far, everything I heard was similar to GNOME, where: > >>> • systemd provided a feature. > >> > >> This is the problem. The init system should not be p

Re: piece of mind

2014-10-21 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 10:14:35AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > > These features cannot exist separately. > > If that is the case, then they should not be provided at all. > > That is a core disagreement here; the systemd upstream plainly rank > those as features more valuable than either the pri

Re: piece of mind

2014-10-21 Thread Axel Wagner
Hi, The Wanderer writes: > This is the problem. The init system should not be providing "features" > which other software might, post-boot and pre-shutdown, want to make use > of. (AFAIK sysvinit never did, and most - possibly all? - of the other > init-system candidates don't either.) Such featu

Re: piece of mind

2014-10-21 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, The Wanderer: > None of those things are done exclusively at boot / shutdown time, so > they should not be done by the init system. If they are done at all, > they should be done by something which can run and do them under any > init system. > The whole point of an init system is to start pr

Re: piece of mind

2014-10-21 Thread Robert Lemmen
hi matthias, On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 05:39:49PM +0200, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > Did you play around with systemd already? not as much as would be ideal, but I have been running it on one machine, adapted a few things that I run for starting, and trieid the monitoring/restart. but really, my main

Re: piece of mind

2014-10-21 Thread Matthias Klumpp
2014-10-21 17:24 GMT+02:00 Robert Lemmen : > hi matthias, > > On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 04:35:20PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: >> [...] >> first place. Having ten processes responsible for bits&pieces of what >> systemd-as-PID1 does instead of one isn't a benefit -- not if all you gain >> by that

Re: piece of mind

2014-10-21 Thread Robert Lemmen
hi matthias, On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 04:35:20PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > [...] > first place. Having ten processes responsible for bits&pieces of what > systemd-as-PID1 does instead of one isn't a benefit -- not if all you gain > by that is nine additional processes. > > "It's a big monol

Re: piece of mind

2014-10-21 Thread Svante Signell
On Tue, 2014-10-21 at 16:03 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > The Wanderer wrote: > This is the problem. The init system should not be providing > "features" > which other software might, post-boot and pre-shutdown, want to make > use > of. (AFAIK sysvinit never did, and

Re: piece of mind

2014-10-21 Thread The Wanderer
On 10/21/2014 at 10:35 AM, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, > > The Wanderer: > >>> Can you give an example of people doing that in case of systemd? >>> Because so far, everything I heard was similar to GNOME, where: >>> • systemd provided a feature. >> >> This is the problem. The init system shou

Re: piece of mind

2014-10-21 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Neil Williams: > A relation of a log to a service is mere configuration - a conffile is > all that is needed for that example. > No it's not. You need code which captures all of a daemon's output (and its children -- stdout+stderr+syslog), separately from any other daemon, and log it in a way

Re: piece of mind

2014-10-21 Thread Alessio Treglia
Hi, On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Ondřej Surý wrote: > Norbert, could you please stop your aggressive behaviour against other > people on this list? Sadly, you are not very funny with these remarks. Come on Ondřej, that was just sarcastic to me. The CoC is a good thing, though such attitude t

Re: piece of mind

2014-10-21 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
On 10/21/2014 04:43 PM, Martin Read wrote: > On 21/10/14 15:32, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: >> It did not work, yes. That's why, for example, fail2ban can be used by >> local users to deny access to other users[1]. > > With that said, if that fact *actually matters*, you probably have > other, worse p

Re: piece of mind

2014-10-21 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Ondřej, could you please stop your aggressive behaviour against other people on this list? Sadly, you are not very helpful with these remarks. Repeatedly. Thanks, //mirabilos -- 15:41⎜ Somebody write a testsuite for helloworld :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.or

Re: piece of mind

2014-10-21 Thread Ondřej Surý
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014, at 16:13, Norbert Preining wrote: > On Tue, 21 Oct 2014, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > not possible to split the system cgroups arbitrator from the process > > which starts services and sessions in cgroups. It is not possible to > > ensure the relation of a log to a service if y

Re: piece of mind

2014-10-21 Thread Martin Read
On 21/10/14 15:32, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: It did not work, yes. That's why, for example, fail2ban can be used by local users to deny access to other users[1]. With that said, if that fact *actually matters*, you probably have other, worse problems. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-

Re: piece of mind

2014-10-21 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, The Wanderer: > > Can you give an example of people doing that in case of systemd? > > Because so far, everything I heard was similar to GNOME, where: > > • systemd provided a feature. > > This is the problem. The init system should not be providing "features" > which other software might, po

Re: piece of mind

2014-10-21 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 16:03:10 +0200 Josselin Mouette wrote: > The Wanderer wrote: > This is the problem. The init system should not be providing > "features" which other software might, post-boot and pre-shutdown, > want to make use of. (AFAIK sysvinit never did, and most - possibly > al

Re: piece of mind

2014-10-21 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
On 10/21/2014 04:13 PM, Norbert Preining wrote: > On Tue, 21 Oct 2014, Josselin Mouette wrote: >> not possible to split the system cgroups arbitrator from the process >> which starts services and sessions in cgroups. It is not possible to >> ensure the relation of a log to a service if you do not h

Re: piece of mind

2014-10-21 Thread The Wanderer
On 10/21/2014 at 10:13 AM, Norbert Preining wrote: > On Tue, 21 Oct 2014, Josselin Mouette wrote: > >> not possible to split the system cgroups arbitrator from the >> process which starts services and sessions in cgroups. It is not >> possible to ensure the relation of a log to a service if you d

Re: piece of mind

2014-10-21 Thread Norbert Preining
On Tue, 21 Oct 2014, Josselin Mouette wrote: > not possible to split the system cgroups arbitrator from the process > which starts services and sessions in cgroups. It is not possible to > ensure the relation of a log to a service if you do not have awareness > of how the service was launched. Et c

Re: piece of mind

2014-10-21 Thread The Wanderer
On 10/21/2014 at 10:03 AM, Josselin Mouette wrote: > The Wanderer wrote: > >> This is the problem. The init system should not be providing >> "features" which other software might, post-boot and pre-shutdown, >> want to make use of. (AFAIK sysvinit never did, and most - possibly >> all? - of the

Re: piece of mind

2014-10-21 Thread Josselin Mouette
The Wanderer wrote: This is the problem. The init system should not be providing "features" which other software might, post-boot and pre-shutdown, want to make use of. (AFAIK sysvinit never did, and most - possibly all? - of the other init-system candidates don't

Re: piece of mind

2014-10-21 Thread The Wanderer
On 10/20/2014 at 01:50 PM, Axel Wagner wrote: > Hi Thorsten, > > Thorsten Glaser writes: >> >>> "If you don't want to use my software on general principles, go >>> away and write your own. Do not bother me." >>> >>> This principle is hardly specific to systemd. >> >> Yes, but other upstreams

Re: piece of mind

2014-10-20 Thread Cameron Norman
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 6:43 AM, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 08:35:05AM +0200, Christoph Biedl wrote: >> * consider skipping jessie altogether in the hope jessie+1 will >> provide alternatives or, at least has a systemd where development >> speed went down significantly. > > Tha

Re: piece of mind

2014-10-20 Thread Axel Wagner
Hi Thorsten, Thorsten Glaser writes: >> "If you don't want to use my software on general principles, go away and >> write your own. Do not bother me." >> >> This principle is hardly specific to systemd. > > Yes, but other upstreams at least agree to not step on the > toes of people who wish to

Re: piece of mind

2014-10-20 Thread Alessio Treglia
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 7:35 AM, Christoph Biedl wrote: > * sit and watch the things happen they don't agree with at all, things That's not true, literally ***it can't be true*** It is in clear view that the _majority_ agrees, and every single of us *must* fall under one of the categories listed

Re: piece of mind

2014-10-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 2:35 PM, Christoph Biedl wrote: > Debian installations I have at least three serious issues that prevent > systemd based systems from booting or being usable¹. Are you willing to file bug reports about these issues? https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting -- bye, pabs

Re: piece of mind

2014-10-20 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Mon, 20 Oct 2014, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Christoph Biedl: > > - upstream shows little respect for people who object systemd > > Why should they? Because not doing that is asocial. > "If you don't want to use my software on general principles, go away and > write your own. Do not bother m

Re: piece of mind

2014-10-20 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Christoph Biedl: > - upstream shows little respect for people who object systemd Why should they? "If you don't want to use my software on general principles, go away and write your own. Do not bother me." This principle is hardly specific to systemd. > I have at least three serious iss

Re: piece of mind

2014-10-20 Thread Adam Borowski
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 08:35:05AM +0200, Christoph Biedl wrote: > * consider skipping jessie altogether in the hope jessie+1 will > provide alternatives or, at least has a systemd where development > speed went down significantly. That's backwards -- it's the future that's at risk, jessie is a fi

Re: piece of mind

2014-10-20 Thread Christoph Biedl
Matthias Urlichs wrote... > We don't do a GR among our users. We do that among Debian > members/maintainers/developers/take-your-pick. > > Of those, most … > * are perfectly happy with the TC's decision > * can live with it > * are unhappy, but think that to continue discussing this is way worse

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-16 Thread Cameron Norman
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 3:02 AM, Martin Read wrote: > On 15/10/14 23:01, Adam Borowski wrote: >> >> shim doesn't appear to work, at least for me. To get basic functionality >> like shutdown from GUI, suspend or mounting USB drives, I needed to >> downgrade the whole Utopia stack to their last wor

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-16 Thread Matthias Urlichs
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Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-16 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 10:29:11AM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, > > lee: > > I'm sure we could find quite a few supporters for having a GR amongst > > the users (here). > > We don't do a GR among our users. We do that among Debian > members/maintainers/developers/take-your-pick. > > Of t

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-16 Thread Martin Read
On 15/10/14 23:01, Adam Borowski wrote: shim doesn't appear to work, at least for me. To get basic functionality like shutdown from GUI, suspend or mounting USB drives, I needed to downgrade the whole Utopia stack to their last working versions. Out of interest, what's the bug number? -- To

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-15 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 01:49:43PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Thorsten Glaser wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Oct 2014, Joey Hess wrote: > > > > > Only thing I don't understand is why so few votes for systemd-shim out > > > of the group who has it installed. > > > > Maybe noatime? That’s probably popular on

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-15 Thread Joey Hess
Thorsten Glaser wrote: > On Mon, 13 Oct 2014, Joey Hess wrote: > > > Only thing I don't understand is why so few votes for systemd-shim out > > of the group who has it installed. > > Maybe noatime? That’s probably popular on desktops. “vote” does > not really say much, anyway. I doubt noatime ha

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-15 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Mon, 13 Oct 2014, Joey Hess wrote: > Only thing I don't understand is why so few votes for systemd-shim out > of the group who has it installed. Maybe noatime? That’s probably popular on desktops. “vote” does not really say much, anyway. bye, //mirabilos -- Sometimes they [people] care too m

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-15 Thread The Wanderer
On 10/14/2014 at 04:15 PM, Olav Vitters wrote: > On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 06:18:01PM +0200, lee wrote: > >> Considering that the users are Debians' priority, couldn't this >> issue be a case in which significant concerns from/of the users >> about an issue might initiate a GR? Wouldn't it speak l

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-14 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 06:18:01PM +0200, lee wrote: > Considering that the users are Debians' priority, couldn't this issue be > a case in which significant concerns from/of the users about an issue > might initiate a GR? Wouldn't it speak loudly for Debian and its ways > and for what it stands f

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-14 Thread Axel Wagner
Hi, The Wanderer writes: > Unfortunately, not everyone - or even everyone who would be willing to > provide such feedback, or even actively interested in doing so - is > going to install that. Luckily, popcon is opt-in anyway, so this has no effect whatsoever on it's quality as a data source. B

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-14 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 14 Oct 2014, Ian Jackson wrote: > I think in future we should probably make a habit of posting something > to d-d-a when there is a GR proposal. If the proposer thinks posting to d-d-a is a good idea, then they should just do it. Any DD can, after all. They should ideally point out the is

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-14 Thread The Wanderer
On 10/13/2014 at 01:01 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Mon, 13 Oct 2014, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > >> In any case, users _do_ have a say. They can force their systems to >> remain on sys5 init, or switch to a different distro if that should >> also turn out > > Which, I should add, i

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-14 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 11:11:35AM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > I think in future we should probably make a habit of posting something > to d-d-a when there is a GR proposal. Yep, liw made the same point on -project in response to a thread I started there on this subject. I still feel we don't adeq

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-14 Thread Ian Jackson
Didier 'OdyX' Raboud writes ("Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)"): > Le mardi, 14 octobre 2014, 01.13:48 Wookey a écrit : > > I'm just pointing out that interested people, who are moderately > > well-involved, really did miss that a GR was attempte

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-14 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le mardi, 14 octobre 2014, 01.13:48 Wookey a écrit : > I'm just pointing out that interested people, who are moderately > well-involved, really did miss that a GR was attempted. For the record, I don't disagree; I'm just saying that the GR call was on the right list and that I think that the proj

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Joey Hess
Joey Hess wrote: > A small percentage of server users are avoiding swiching to systemd, > although that group looks to still be shrinking somewhat. Of course, not many people use unstable/testing for servers, so we don't really know much from popcon yet about whether server admins will go for syst

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Ian Jackson
Philip Hands writes ("Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)"): > I'm completely astonished that Ian is willing to suggest that four more > people pledging support for it at this stage would be enough for him to > attempt CPR on its putrid corpse. You put me in an awk

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Wookey
+++ Didier 'OdyX' Raboud [2014-10-13 17:33 +0200]: > I really don't buy the argument that "the GR proposal was too quiet to > be noticed by 6+ people". I mean: the proposition happened to be in the > middle of the post-TC decision wave, on the mailing lists where it > belonged. The people who ca

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Joey Hess writes: > Yes we do: sysvinit-core systemd-sysv systemd-shim > > https://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=sysvinit-core+systemd-sysv+systemd-shim&show_installed=on&show_vote=on&want_legend=on&want_ticks=on&from_date=&to_date=&hlght_date=&date_fmt=%25Y-%25m&beenhere=1 [...] > Only

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Joey Hess
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Right now it is the "defaults" effect, because Debian stable is included in > the report. We don't have a "testing + unstable" report. Yes we do: sysvinit-core systemd-sysv systemd-shim https://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=sysvinit-core+systemd-sys

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Philip Hands
Miles Fidelman writes: > Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: >> I really don't buy the argument that "the GR proposal was too quiet to >> be noticed by 6+ people". I mean: the proposition happened to be in the >> middle of the post-TC decision wave, on the mailing lists where it >> belonged. The people w

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le lundi, 13 octobre 2014, 12.23:00 Miles Fidelman a écrit : > Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > > I really don't buy the argument that "the GR proposal was too quiet > > to be noticed by 6+ people". > > Actually - I'd contest that, for four reasons: > > - as I've previously noted - the major impacts

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Jeroen Dekkers
At Mon, 13 Oct 2014 13:23:16 -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Oct 2014, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > >> In any case, users _do_ have a say. They can force their systems to remain > >> on sys5 init, or switch to a different distro if that should also t

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, [ Please followup on -user@, there is no need to have this on two lists. ] Miles Fidelman writes: > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >> http://popcon.debian.org/ > > which sure seems to reinforce the popularity of sysvinit > > 18sysvinit 697126 583755 44903 6352

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 13 Oct 2014, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > >On Mon, 13 Oct 2014, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > >>In any case, users _do_ have a say. They can force their systems to remain > >>on sys5 init, or switch to a different distro if that should also turn out > >Which, I s

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Miles Fidelman
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Mon, 13 Oct 2014, Matthias Urlichs wrote: In any case, users _do_ have a say. They can force their systems to remain on sys5 init, or switch to a different distro if that should also turn out Which, I should add, is something we measure if the user installs

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 13 Oct 2014, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > In any case, users _do_ have a say. They can force their systems to remain > on sys5 init, or switch to a different distro if that should also turn out Which, I should add, is something we measure if the user installs popularity-contest and opts-in to

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Matthias Klumpp
2014-10-13 18:23 GMT+02:00 Miles Fidelman : > Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: >> >> I really don't buy the argument that "the GR proposal was too quiet to >> be noticed by 6+ people". I mean: the proposition happened to be in the >> middle of the post-TC decision wave, on the mailing lists where it >>

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Miles Fidelman
Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: I really don't buy the argument that "the GR proposal was too quiet to be noticed by 6+ people". I mean: the proposition happened to be in the middle of the post-TC decision wave, on the mailing lists where it belonged. The people who cared about the whole "default ini

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
I really don't buy the argument that "the GR proposal was too quiet to be noticed by 6+ people". I mean: the proposition happened to be in the middle of the post-TC decision wave, on the mailing lists where it belonged. The people who cared about the whole "default init for Debian" question _we

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Ian Jackson
Miles Fidelman writes ("Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)"): > In reading through the archives, I have to say that the GR proposal was > both buried in all the broader discussion of systemd, rather long and > convoluted reading, and not well publicized. If four ot

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Miles Fidelman
Matthias Urlichs wrote: Hi, Miles Fidelman: Judging by the last couple of months, the rest appears to number <6 people. A lot more than that, by my count. Then the question is why almost all of these "lot more" people did not second the GR proposal. Well... as a couple of people have now p

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Miles Fidelman: > >Judging by the last couple of months, the rest appears to number <6 people. > > A lot more than that, by my count. > Then the question is why almost all of these "lot more" people did not second the GR proposal. > Those who are most impacted are sys admins of servers, and

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Mon, 13 Oct 2014, Neil Williams wrote: > > (I did not have the chance to Second the GR proposal > > because I was not even aware that there *was* one.) > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/ > > Same procedure as previous calls for GR: debian-vote mailing list. If Yeah, surprise, I don’t

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 13 Oct 2014 14:21:45 +0200 Thorsten Glaser wrote: > On Mon, 13 Oct 2014, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > > Those who are most impacted are sys admins of servers, and upstream > > developers > > I’m both, and I joined Debian to try to make an impact… > > > - the two communities most impacted,

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 02:21:45PM +0200, Thorsten Glaser a écrit : > > … but even then, am drowned by the masses. No, you are drowning the masses under your emails, that is different. -- Charles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Mon, 13 Oct 2014, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Those who are most impacted are sys admins of servers, and upstream developers I’m both, and I joined Debian to try to make an impact… > - the two communities most impacted, but that seem to have no say in the > matter. … but even then, am drowned by

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Miles Fidelman
Matthias Urlichs wrote: Hi, lee: I'm sure we could find quite a few supporters for having a GR amongst the users (here). We don't do a GR among our users. We do that among Debian members/maintainers/developers/take-your-pick. Which does kind of lead back to the question of what's the point o

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, lee: > I'm sure we could find quite a few supporters for having a GR amongst > the users (here). We don't do a GR among our users. We do that among Debian members/maintainers/developers/take-your-pick. Of those, most … * are perfectly happy with the TC's decision * can live with it * are unh

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-12 Thread Bas Wijnen
least 5 other members (constitution 4.2.1, 4.2.7). This has not happened. > It would be interesting to see what the devs/maintainers would vote for, > and it might give everyone quite a bit a of re-assurance and > piece-of-mind. Given that there have not been 6 members asking for this vo

piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-12 Thread lee
task. Red Hat aren't > doing > that. Fedora aren't doing that. Ubuntu aren't doing that. Why doesn't Debian just do a GR on this issue? It would be interesting to see what the devs/maintainers would vote for, and it might give everyone quite a bit a of re-assurance