Re: Reconsidering Debian’s Inclusion of Non-Free Firmware - A Call for Discussion

2025-03-08 Thread Bill Allombert
Le Fri, Mar 07, 2025 at 07:33:53PM +0100, Simon Josefsson a écrit : > pan...@disroot.org writes: > > > I urge Debian to rethink its decision to officially include non-free > > firmware and correct the social contract. Instead of making non-free > > firmware the default, Debian should ensure that u

Re: Support for non-free-firmware in project webpages

2023-01-31 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 02:31:44PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > > OK, great, but I'm not sure precisely now what patch I should send - > ie, what ought to be in the page footer. Since you know the answers, > would you mind arranging that the popcon web pages contain the right > references ? > > I

Re: Support for non-free-firmware in project webpages

2023-01-27 Thread Bill Allombert
against, or a repository for the server > > side to file merge requests against. > > I looked here: > https://popcon.debian.org/ > and then at the page footer. > > It has > [Popularity-contest project] by Avery Pennarun, Bill Allombert and > Petter Reinholdtsen. &

Re: Support for non-free-firmware in project webpages

2023-01-26 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 03:43:38PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hi Bill, > > I might have overlooked better contact information, but couldn't find a > popcon.debian.org to report bugs against, or a repository for the server > side to file merge requests against. > > I'm not sure how that works

Re: Support for non-free-firmware in project webpages

2023-01-22 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 03:43:38PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hi Bill, > > I might have overlooked better contact information, but couldn't find a > popcon.debian.org to report bugs against, or a repository for the server > side to file merge requests against. There are a popularity-contest

Re: Debian Services Census

2014-02-19 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 10:14:13AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 19 Feb 2014, Ingo Jürgensmann wrote: > > Unfortunately I have a problem with the renaming of my pet service > > Buildd.Net on https://wiki.debian.org/Services. I added my service as > > BuilddNet and it got renamed

Re: Copyright arrangements for a web project

2013-12-14 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 12:32:59PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > Nevertheless your opinion is interesting to me [...] > > > > [explanations] > > Thanks for that. If you find clarification of the license that are grounded in the actual text and written by B. Kuhn or the FSF, please forward them

Re: Copyright arrangements for a web project

2013-12-12 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 07:45:14PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Bill Allombert writes ("Re: Copyright arrangements for a web project"): > > I am fine with the stated purpose of the AGPLv3, however I do not think the > > actual implementation is compatible with free softwar

Re: Copyright arrangements for a web project

2013-12-12 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 02:44:19PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > * Personally I'm an AGPLv3 proponent. The system ought to be suitable > for AGPLv3 provided that its submodules are AGPLv3-compatible (and > if they aren't, then we can probably write a licence exception). > (The main program I'm

Re: Who uses @packages.d.o mail?

2009-05-23 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 10:30:03PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: > Hello all, > > So I've looked through a few weeks of mail logs to packages.debian.org, > and it looks like it collects some useful mail from automated scripts > on various debian.org machines (primarily ries), and about 1000 spams a >

Re: Please appoint one new person to the DSA Team

2006-12-21 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 04:01:47PM +0100, Andreas Schuldei wrote: > * Bill Allombert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061221 15:12]: > > As I suggested in my DPL platform, having someone reading debian-admin > > who has no DSA priviledge but handle communication issues could help > > (by

Re: Please appoint one new person to the DSA Team

2006-12-21 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 04:06:56PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > I would greatly appreciate it if people would help the process by > supporting the efforts of the DSA team consistently rather than heaping > praise on them when they fix compromises and scorn on them the rest of > the time. It would

Re: Please appoint one new person to the DSA Team

2006-12-20 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 02:22:43AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 09:06:01PM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > It is known among debian developers that the Debian System > > Administration Team (aka DSA or [EMAIL PROTECTED]) is not > > really responsive. > > So apparently th

Re: Debian Etch Stable.

2006-12-13 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 04:02:53PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > Personally, I'd say that now would be the time for any anti-payment > people to say "we can do this better, and look, we'll prove it", and make > up their own target date for etch, and demonstrate how much energy and > effort can be m

Re: Debian Weekly News - November 28th, 2006

2006-12-08 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 12:21:59AM +, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Steve McIntyre said: > > On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 09:08:54PM +0000, Bill Allombert wrote: > > >On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 01:00:46PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > > >> > > &

Re: Hardware for Debian people

2006-12-08 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 12:57:11AM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > On 10860 March 1977, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > > So, if you want a machine from the following list, send a mail to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and give a rough description what you plan to do with > > it. > > Hihi, Update: Please notice th

Re: Debian Weekly News - November 28th, 2006

2006-12-05 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 01:00:46PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Baz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I prefer to see "etch" released in a timely manner - I prefer to see the > > DWN released weekly in the same excellent degree. An organization such > > as The Debian Project can certainly do both

Re: Sun T2000 available for SPARC development

2006-11-26 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 06:46:43PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 04:49:37PM +0000, Bill Allombert wrote: > > I propose to set up a lintian.debian.org-equivalent for sparc on this > > machine, but this requires 10GB of diskspace and a local mirror. Tell me &

Re: Sun T2000 available for SPARC development

2006-11-26 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 07:03:44PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > - Experimental Linux kernel build server (Bastian Blank) > - GCC 4.2 tests on SPARC (Martin Michlmayr) > > If you would like to have access, please get in contact with Bastian at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > The specification of the

Re: Improving the DAM-queue?

2006-10-15 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 02:37:14PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 11:53:27AM +0000, Bill Allombert wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 10:14:39AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > > > also sprach Bastian Venthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.10.11.1002

Re: Improving the DAM-queue?

2006-10-14 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 10:14:39AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Bastian Venthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.10.11.1002 +0200]: > > This is quite frustrating, since most of the applicants are surely > > doing already the normal work every Developer has to do, but are > > not able to upl

Re: Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-14 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 10:09:06AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [...] Person A gets mad becuase he is afraid that person B will will > > get pay for something that both had originally agreed to do for free. > > Now there's a key part of the problem: thi

Re: Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-08 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 12:34:01PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > The set of projects that can be funded are projects proposed by Debian > developers. I expect Debian developers to propose only projects that are > improving Debian. > > If some of those projects also serve the private interest of

Re: Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-08 Thread Bill Allombert
[mostly reposting what I sent to debian-private] On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 12:34:01PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > I also explained that Dunc-Tank's initial experiment of funding release > manager is not a long term model for us. And as a board member, I said > that I don't intend to fund other pr

Re: Fundamental flaw in bug reporting system

2006-06-29 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 02:54:09PM -0700, Michael Wheatley wrote: > The fundamental problem is that a newbie lacks the understanding of > the system or the patience that is needed to submit a bug > report. I hate to break it to you, but becoming an advanced user does not make you more patient

Re: Debian women: please pass away

2006-06-09 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 10:21:44PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > We have a strong suspicion of who the author is. This mail has been sent to harm Debian. We should not make the task easier by using it as a pretext to harm ourself by throwing random accusations, so please let us exerce some rest

Re: ftp.debian.org cannot be reached

2006-06-07 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 09:24:18AM +0200, Michael Gro?er wrote: > Someone gave me an answer that was rather useless to me: > He gave me a URL that was a dead link. > > But: I found out that (nearly) all other people in this > forum and in my circle of friends could resolve that link, > but I could

Re: Shouldn't we have more ftp masters ?

2006-06-03 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 09:47:18AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > How much longer do you want to continue this idiotic one-up-manship > before you're willing to try a different approach of working with people? Hello Anthony, Please assume the DPL asked you that exact same question. What would you

Re: Issues regarding powerpc and Sven

2006-05-17 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 06:59:40PM -0500, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Mon, 15 May 2006, Sven Luther wrote: > > In a case of real-life situtation, i believe this could be similar to > > harcelement in order to have someone resign, and would probably not stand in > > court. Harcelement is illegal, ev

Re: Debian derivatives and the Maintainer: field (again)

2006-01-17 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 11:44:48AM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > It is important, in particular, to account for the fact that Ubuntu is not > the only Debian derivative, and that proposals like yours would amount to > Debian derivatives being obliged to fork *every source package in Debian* > for

Re: non-free firmware

2006-01-11 Thread Bill Allombert
> I have argued previously (on debian-legal and elsewhere) that for some types > of works, such as icons, fonts, and documentation, "source code" is not > important to the modifiability of a work in the same way that it is to > programs. There are many cases in which the original source form use

Re: non-free firmware

2006-01-10 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 01:45:11AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > You may redistribute the hardware specific firmware binary file > > under the following terms: > > > 1. Redistribution of source code (only if applicable), > >must retain the above copyright notice, this li

Re: Automated testing - design and interfaces

2005-11-18 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 03:35:25PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Bill Allombert writes ("Re: Automated testing - design and interfaces"): > > piuparts is a first answer to that: it allows maintainer to check that > > their package will install, remove and upgrade in a clea

Re: Automated testing - design and interfaces

2005-11-18 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 12:08:25PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > maintainer didn't really test the package after installing it because > it was too much trouble. If it can be standardised and automated, and > if a way can be found for Ubuntu to share tests with Debian, then > everyone wins. piupart

Re: Automated testing - design and interfaces

2005-11-17 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 06:43:32PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > So, what do you think ? Currently Debian packages are tested through a lot of channel: -- At build-time, if the package run a test-suite in debian/rules, which is strongly encouraged. -- By the maintainer before uploading them. -

Re: just a little confused

2005-06-16 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 01:58:16AM -0400, Jason frothingham wrote: > I'm a little confused about the release of Sarge, or rather one of the > support/non-supported architectures. I seem to recall annoucements that > X86-64 support had been officially added to the Debian Architectures, > yet the re

Re: Discussion of bug #311683, default kde install shows porn

2005-06-06 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 06:02:54PM +0200, R. Armiento wrote: > Result: users of KDE with the 'random screensaver' setting > eventually find their screens filled with sexually explicit > content. And even if that should be fixed, users "flipping > through the screensavers" risk being presented with

Re: Consultant entries that will be removed unless there is an email address provided

2005-05-27 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 11:26:05AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 07:15:14PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: > > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > So, uh, our stable release manager and security team lead is being > > > de-listed > > > as a Debian consultant because he h

Re: Google ads on debian.org

2004-12-14 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 05:27:15PM +, Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader wrote: > Michael Banck pointed out on IRC that I should explain what google ads > actually are. The basic idea behind google ads is that you don't > simply show random ads, but ads which fit in very well with the >