Re: On demotions to DM status.

2019-01-07 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 10:03:06PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > Does the project want to say that a DM is less trustworthy than a DD? > > Yes, obviously. Just like a DM is more trustworthy than a non-DM. > > It would be more accurate to say that a DD is more *trusted* than a DM, > and a DM i

Re: Censorship in Debian

2019-01-07 Thread Russ Allbery
Miles Fidelman writes: > On 1/7/19 10:06 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Speaking as someone who is a listed author on three published RFCs and >> chaired one IETF working group, I will take Debian process over IETF >> process any day, and find your description of the IETF pretty >> entertaining. :)

Re: Censorship in Debian

2019-01-07 Thread Russ Allbery
Miles Fidelman writes: > I think you're minimizing the level of investment & commitment it takes > to either use Debian, particularly in production, and even more, > minimizing the efforts of upstream, and kernel, developers upon whom > Debian ultimately depends. I really don't think I am, parti

Re: Censorship in Debian

2019-01-07 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 1/7/19 10:06 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: Miles Fidelman writes: On the other hand, the IETF seems to do just fine - with a much larger base of participants, and a lot more room for discussion and debate on contentious issues.  Global infrastructure, with distributed ownership, lots of stakehol

Re: Censorship in Debian

2019-01-07 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Monday, January 07, 2019 07:06:28 PM Russ Allbery wrote: > Miles Fidelman writes: > > On the other hand, the IETF seems to do just fine - with a much larger > > base of participants, and a lot more room for discussion and debate on > > contentious issues. Global infrastructure, with distribute

Re: Censorship in Debian

2019-01-07 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 1/7/19 9:12 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: Miles Fidelman writes: Well, first off, the process led to the resignation of the chair of the Technical Committee - out of a feeling that the process had become too "personalized." Some decisions are just hard. I think nearly all of us involved in ma

Re: Censorship in Debian

2019-01-07 Thread Russ Allbery
Miles Fidelman writes: > On the other hand, the IETF seems to do just fine - with a much larger > base of participants, and a lot more room for discussion and debate on > contentious issues.  Global infrastructure, with distributed ownership, > lots of stakeholders, all held together by agreement

Re: Censorship in Debian

2019-01-07 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 1/7/19 8:48 PM, Eldon Koyle wrote: On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 6:18 PM Miles Fidelman wrote: On 1/7/19 7:57 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 01:47:41PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: On 1/7/19 10:57 AM, Ian Jackson wrote: Miles Fidelman writes ("Re: Censorship in Debian"): On

Re: Censorship in Debian

2019-01-07 Thread Russ Allbery
Miles Fidelman writes: > Well, first off, the process led to the resignation of the chair of the > Technical Committee - out of a feeling that the process had become too > "personalized." Some decisions are just hard. I think nearly all of us involved in making that decision burned out in vario

Re: Censorship in Debian

2019-01-07 Thread Eldon Koyle
On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 6:18 PM Miles Fidelman wrote: > > On 1/7/19 7:57 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 01:47:41PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: > >> On 1/7/19 10:57 AM, Ian Jackson wrote: > >>> Miles Fidelman writes ("Re: Censorship in Debian"): > On 1/6/19 1:38 AM, St

Interested in Collaborating

2019-01-07 Thread Jess Holmes
Hi there, I'm reaching out to you to see if you would be open to working together. I would like to sponsor a post on your site via link insertion or submit a guest post. For a link insertion, I'd be happy to send more details over if you are interested. As for a post, I could do a write-up and p

Re: Censorship in Debian

2019-01-07 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 1/7/19 7:57 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 01:47:41PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: On 1/7/19 10:57 AM, Ian Jackson wrote: Miles Fidelman writes ("Re: Censorship in Debian"): On 1/6/19 1:38 AM, Steve Langasek wrote: [systemd stuff] [systemd stuff] I appreciate that the

Re: Censorship in Debian

2019-01-07 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 01:47:41PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: > On 1/7/19 10:57 AM, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Miles Fidelman writes ("Re: Censorship in Debian"): > > > On 1/6/19 1:38 AM, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > > [systemd stuff] > > > [systemd stuff] > > I appreciate that the fights over system

Re: Appeal procedure for DAM actions

2019-01-07 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 11:27:35PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > 1. Appealing DAM decisions > -- > Any person who had their Debian membership suspended or revoked by DAM may > appeal the decision. They must request the appeal within 30 days, stating > why they disagree with

Re: Debian, debutsav, CoC and Debconf 2016 and different meanings to gender-diversity.

2019-01-07 Thread shirish शिरीष
Correction :- On 07/01/2019, shirish शिरीष wrote: > Dear all, > > I would request people to read it in full, maybe take some time and > then respond. > > Also please CC me if somebody responds as I'm not subscribed to the > list but did read the archives of this month and the last :) > > Recently

Appeal procedure for DAM actions

2019-01-07 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Hello everyone, One of the things that emerged from the recent discussions around DAM actions is that we are missing a way to review or appeal DAM's decision. Currently the only way to do this is running a full-featured GR, with all the negative side effects such a process has. While a GR i

Re: On demotions to DM status.

2019-01-07 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2019-01-07 at 12:02 +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 12:47:34AM +, Richard Hecker wrote: > > Does the project want to say that a DM is less trustworthy than a DD? > Yes, obviously. Just like a DM is more trustworthy than a non-DM. It would be more accurate to

Debian, debutsav, CoC and Debconf 2016 and different meanings to gender-diversity.

2019-01-07 Thread shirish शिरीष
Dear all, I would request people to read it in full, maybe take some time and then respond. Also please CC me if somebody responds as I'm not subscribed to the list but did read the archives of this month and the last :) Recently, Debutsav was organized in Kerala. You can read about the event at

Re: Censorship in Debian

2019-01-07 Thread Miles Fidelman
Ian, On 1/7/19 10:57 AM, Ian Jackson wrote: Miles Fidelman writes ("Re: Censorship in Debian"): On 1/6/19 1:38 AM, Steve Langasek wrote: [systemd stuff] [systemd stuff] I appreciate that the fights over systemd have been a defining experience for many of us. Many of us are still bitter, me

Re: Censorship in Debian

2019-01-07 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Ian Jackson - 07.01.19, 19:00: > > For me, any code of conduct and its enforcement needs to be based on > > actual behavior, never on assuming intentions or assuming about how > > people are. > > Once again, there is a difference between *assuming* and *inferring*. > > I doubt this will really co

Re: Censorship in Debian

2019-01-07 Thread flackjacket5
Jan 7, 2019, 3:57 PM by ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk: > > The issues are very different. And the toxic emotional and political > baggage from the init system stuff is really bad. So bringing init > system stuff into this conversation about acceptable conduct just > increases the hurt and a

Re: Censorship in Debian

2019-01-07 Thread Ian Jackson
Martin Steigerwald writes ("Re: Censorship in Debian"): > Ian Jackson - 05.01.19, 18:17: > > Very competently toxic people will calculate precisely what they can > > get away with: they will ride roughshod over weak victims or in > > situations with less visibility; when challenged by an authority

Re: Censorship in Debian

2019-01-07 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hello, Ian Jackson - 07.01.19, 16:57: > Miles Fidelman writes ("Re: Censorship in Debian"): > > On 1/6/19 1:38 AM, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > [systemd stuff] > > > > [systemd stuff] > > I appreciate that the fights over systemd have been a defining > experience for many of us. Many of us are s

Re: Censorship in Debian

2019-01-07 Thread Ian Jackson
Miles Fidelman writes ("Re: Censorship in Debian"): > On 1/6/19 1:38 AM, Steve Langasek wrote: > > [systemd stuff] > [systemd stuff] I appreciate that the fights over systemd have been a defining experience for many of us. Many of us are still bitter, me included. I also appreciate that in some r