Re: retiring from debian until end of february ...

2007-01-02 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete DUTRA
Em Tue, 02 Jan 2007 10:15:56 +0100, Sven Luther escreveu: > i proposed a self-imposed no-post policy. Couldn’t disagree more. You obviously took the right decision, but Debian has a serious leadership problem. How I wish we had a Linus-like benevolent dictator. -- Leandro Gui

Re: retiring from debian until end of february ...

2007-01-02 Thread Michael Schmitz
> On Jan 2, 2007, at 4:41 AM, Dean Hamstead wrote: > > > i don't know the details of the argument, though i am disappointed > > that > > the leadership has not appropriately resolved the situation. but i > > think > > it can be safely said that computer skills != leadership skills. > > Indeed. > Th

Re: retiring from debian until end of february ...

2007-01-02 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 2, 2007, at 4:41 AM, Dean Hamstead wrote: i don't know the details of the argument, though i am disappointed that the leadership has not appropriately resolved the situation. but i think it can be safely said that computer skills != leadership skills. Indeed. This is a terrible fai

Re: retiring from debian until end of february ...

2007-01-02 Thread Dean Hamstead
fwiw, sven does great work on the ppc installer. his absence will not mean the end of debian ppc, but it will slow down and or stop development of the debian installer. so the new gui installer will stay where it is, and any funny bugs quirks etc in the installer will not be tended too as we wou

Re: retiring from debian until end of february ...

2007-01-02 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 11:28:13AM +0200, Justin Hartman wrote: > All I can say, as I have no understanding of the history of this > situation, is that it's disappointing to see the folk at Debian can't > resolve issues. > > I recently move over to Debian from Ubuntu because they decided to can >

Re: retiring from debian until end of february ...

2007-01-02 Thread Justin Hartman
All I can say, as I have no understanding of the history of this situation, is that it's disappointing to see the folk at Debian can't resolve issues. I recently move over to Debian from Ubuntu because they decided to can support for powerpc and I was hoping that the community distro would serve

retiring from debian until end of february ...

2007-01-02 Thread Sven Luther
Hi all fellow powerpc users. Shortly after christmas Fabio, the mediator in the dispute between Frans and me, made a very surprising post, in which he asked that i be banned from the debian mailing lists for 2 months. Given the technical problem in that, and the bad precedent it sets, i proposed a