Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-28 Thread Sandro Tosi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 06:45, Sune Vuorela wrote: > I'm considering how we can get this decision undone.  Anyone up for > helping with that? count me in. - -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-28 Thread Sandro Tosi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes No, the project DID NOT decide it, the release team did, and the project has to accept it; there's a lot of difference. > The Debian project has decided to adopt a new policy of time-based > develo

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-28 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2009-07-29, Frans Pop wrote: > --nextPart2108813.qE7SciSrbv > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-15" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > Content-Disposition: inline > > On Wednesday 29 July 2009, Meike Reichle wrote: >> The Debian project has decided to adopt a new poli

What is preventing Debian from being fully free at this moment?

2009-07-28 Thread Fred
I'd love to see Debian comply to real GNU/FSF freedom. When I visit the website it boasts about how it is free. However, it is far from free while it is offering proprietary software as well as having binary blobs in the kernel. Debian is magnificent if you ask me, the best GNU/Linux out there th

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-28 Thread Ben Pfaff
Frans Pop writes: > On Wednesday 29 July 2009, Meike Reichle wrote: >> The Debian project has decided to adopt a new policy of time-based >> development freezes for future releases, on a two-year cycle. > > Disappointing to see such an announcement without any prior discussion on > d-project, d-

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-28 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 29 July 2009, Meike Reichle wrote: > The Debian project has decided to adopt a new policy of time-based > development freezes for future releases, on a two-year cycle. Disappointing to see such an announcement without any prior discussion on d-project, d-devel or d-vote. Some explana

Re: debian developers from *any* country ?

2009-07-28 Thread Ralf Treinen
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 06:27:43PM +0200, Martin Wuertele wrote: > * Bernd Zeimetz [2009-07-28 18:19]: > > > I think its not a problem to offer keysigning in the mentioned countries, > > if an > > applicant will be accepted at the end is not decided by the place where his > > key > > was signed

Re: debian developers from *any* country ?

2009-07-28 Thread Martin Wuertele
* Bernd Zeimetz [2009-07-28 18:19]: > I think its not a problem to offer keysigning in the mentioned countries, if > an > applicant will be accepted at the end is not decided by the place where his > key > was signed. Also there are people from foreign countries living in the > mentioned > cou

Re: debian developers from *any* country ?

2009-07-28 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Ralf Treinen wrote: > Hello, > > I was just made aware of the fact that the debian key signing coordination > page does not allow to file for key signing offers in Cuba. When I checked > for myself I realized that this is also true for Iran, Iraq, Syria, and > North Korea. This list of countries d

debian developers from *any* country ?

2009-07-28 Thread Ralf Treinen
Hello, I was just made aware of the fact that the debian key signing coordination page does not allow to file for key signing offers in Cuba. When I checked for myself I realized that this is also true for Iran, Iraq, Syria, and North Korea. This list of countries dates back to before the time whe

Re: Debian on E-Bay (way: selling distributions)

2009-07-28 Thread Joe Smith
"Craig Small" wrote: On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 08:22:37PM +0200, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: On a case by case basis there have been successfully attempts to convince E-Bay that there is nothing wrong a specific auction, however E-Bay seems not to learn from such single incidents. All I ca