Re: a Constitutional interpretation question

2025-04-18 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
hem. With luck, the distinction will not become important soon, if ever. No, it's not something the TC has chosen. See https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2016/10/msg00060.html and the reply from the secretary, https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2016/10/msg00067.html . -- Tollef F

Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian

2020-04-13 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Enrico Zini > On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 09:47:39PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > > We quite regularly have upstreams getting access for weird architecture > > failures. There's no particular reason for those people to have salsa > > accounts. > > I unde

Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian

2020-04-12 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Sam Hartman > >>>>> "Tollef" == Tollef Fog Heen writes: > > Tollef> ]] Enrico Zini > >> For guest accounts opened by DSA directly, it can be pretty much > > First, at this point in time I would be very skepticle of someone >

Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian

2020-04-09 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
ch this effectively would. (People requesting guest accounts might also not have salsa accounts.) -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are

Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian

2020-04-08 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
and non-DD salsa accounts? (There's also the wiki account lifecycle, but that's completely separate and doesn't interact with any of the others, so we might want to keep that outside the discussion for now.) -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are

Re: Using Debian funds to support a gcc development task

2019-10-03 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
mething done and might > encourage others. For me, it's not about the amount at all, but rather that we don't spend Debian money on directly paying people or use Debian money as carrots for directing effort. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are

Re: Using Debian funds to support a gcc development task

2019-09-28 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
toolchain maintenance (for a port that's no longer part of Debian proper even!). Not what you or GCC upstream or anybody else does with their own time and money. Cheers, -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are

Re: Using Debian funds to support a gcc development task

2019-09-28 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
lready contributing to GCC. I guess you could try to do it as a GSoC project if it's in that ballpark. (I don't think «minority group» is a useful classifier; depending on how you slice it, we're all from some sort of minority group or another.) -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are

Re: Using Debian funds to support a gcc development task

2019-09-28 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > Hello! > > On 9/28/19 3:26 PM, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > >> Since the lack of modernization would eventually mean that m68k support > >> would > >> get removed from gcc, I'm currently running a campaign to prevent that.

Re: Using Debian funds to support a gcc development task

2019-09-28 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
e they eventually pass away, and that's ok. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are

Re: GR proposal: mandating VcsGit and VcsBrowser for all packages, using the "gbp patches unapplied" layout, and maybe also mandating hosted on Salsa

2019-07-25 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
his would also increase coupling, something we already have a problem with, and which is considered a bad idea in software development. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are

Re: Realizing Good Ideas with Debian Money

2019-06-01 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Steve McIntyre > On Sat, Jun 01, 2019 at 12:29:04PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > >This is a hugely important point: we're already seeing conflicts where > >people conflate the paid-for LTS effort with other team's priorities. > >If we move that funding c

Re: Realizing Good Ideas with Debian Money

2019-06-01 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
hat Debian would end up with *less* resources > than we have now, if other volunteers feel the same way. Well said, and I feel the same way. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are

Re: Censorship in Debian

2019-01-08 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
e): Ian was not chair of the TC at the time. Bdale was (and he did not resign, his term expired on December 31st 2015). -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are

Re: hacking a home with free technology and Debian

2018-10-02 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
t I have the aotec z-wave stick and it works fine with other zigwave equipment. (I'm using home-assistant to drive everything, I don't think that's particularly important, it just uses the python libs.) Cheers, -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are

Re: UEFI Secure Boot sprint report

2018-05-13 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
ows us to both keep the key in a central place, having reproducible builds, having an automated process and not having to execute any code from the template package as part of the build. I hope this explains it well enough, let me know if there's anything unclear, I'm happy to explai

Re: UEFI Secure Boot sprint report

2018-04-30 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
. Not any more than sbuild, buildd and wanna-build is part of the source for buildd-signed packages in the archive, so my initial answer is no. That said, it would be trivial to package, so somebody could easily upload it to the archive. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are

UEFI Secure Boot sprint report

2018-04-29 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Tollef Fog Heen * Helen Koike * Philipp Hahn * Julien Cristau [remote] * Steve McIntyre [remote] We had a long discussion about what requirements we had for the signing process, whether that could happen inline in the regular build process, if a human needed to be involved in the signing and how to

Re: Debian System Administration team sprint report

2018-02-09 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
a when used interactively. I'd be very happy if we > > managed to get a newer version into Debian. > > Yeah, me too. I hope to be able to start working on it soon, but it is > not going to be trivial with the heaps of javascript dependencies it has. I know. :-( -- Tollef Fo

Re: Debian System Administration team sprint report

2018-02-08 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
gt; a shiny front-end. The Prometheus UI is fine for debugging queries and such, but it's far away from Grafana when used interactively. I'd be very happy if we managed to get a newer version into Debian. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are

Re: Let's Stop Getting Torn Apart by Disagreement: Concerns about the Technical Committee

2017-12-28 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
ething else) are free to do so. […] > Also are either not all CTTE´s are announced on debian-devel-announce or is > [CTTE #741573] Debian Menu System from September 2015 really the last > technical decision of the CTTE? https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2017/07/msg6.html

Re: Automatic downloading of non-free software by stuff in main

2017-12-03 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
updates that close remote holes. > > And how do we know they aren't opening new ones due to the same factors > (bad design or bad intent) that led to the originals? This argument can be applied to any bug fix we or an upstream does, but that doesn't mean we avoid shipping updated so

Re: Emeritus status, and email forwarding

2017-11-18 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Ondřej Surý > On Fri, Nov 17, 2017, at 23:01, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > ]] Ian Jackson > > > > > I think that, with some safeguards[1], this would be a good thing to > > > offer people. If nothing else people have often used @d.o addresses > > > i

Re: Emeritus status, and email forwarding

2017-11-17 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
withdrawn if the emeritus > member continued to advertise their @d.o address, or if they did > something sufficiently bad that we would want to disassociate > ourselves from them more completely. I don't think we're in a position where we would be able to effectively police this, and so I

Re: Let's Stop Getting Torn Apart by Disagreement: Concerns about the Technical Committee

2017-10-31 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
nd it's their emotional well-being I want to protect at the same time as making good technical decisions. It's really, really hard, for many of the reasons listed in this thread. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are

Re: Are online services also software for Debian's rules?

2017-08-12 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Christian Seiler > Hi, > > I don't have anything useful to add to your other comments, but: > > On 08/12/2017 02:11 PM, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > ]] Christian Seiler > >>> [free CPU designs] > >>> (although I'm sure there are...) >

Re: Are online services also software for Debian's rules?

2017-08-12 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
uiring non-free software, you don't need > to have a fully free CPU design, just one where the microcode is > free. And I believe that current POWER CPUs fall under that > category. (I may be wrong though.) Doesn't help if it's not packaged in Debian, though. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are

Re: Debian contributor Register of Interests

2017-05-15 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Ian Jackson > Tollef Fog Heen writes ("Re: Debian contributor Register of Interests"): > > Indeed. I also think there's a hang-up about financial conflicts of > > interest in the discussion, but for at least me (and I suspect others), > > money is a pret

Re: Debian contributor Register of Interests

2017-05-13 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
interest at that point. I agree with this, if you do see a possible and reasonable conflict of interest, declare it and discuss it. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are

Re: If Debian support OS certification?

2017-05-06 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
#x27;d need to track a lot of different firmware versions and so on. It's not something we want. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are

Re: Replace the TC power to depose maintainers

2016-12-16 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
n't think that's how the process ought to look. > I still (perhaps, even more so) believe we need to have a better way > of dealing with these kind of disputes. That I agree with. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are

Re: Replace the TC power to depose maintainers

2016-12-05 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Ian Jackson There's no need to Cc me on replies, I'm subscribed already. > Tollef Fog Heen writes ("Re: Replace the TC power to depose maintainers"): > > Because I generally find it's generally the wrong tool for the job. If > > I can come up with a

Re: Replace the TC power to depose maintainers [and 1 more messages]

2016-12-05 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Ian Jackson > Tollef Fog Heen writes ("Re: Replace the TC power to depose maintainers [and > 1 more messages]"): > Lars Wirzenius > > > I suggest a lighter approach than a GR for eroding the strong package > > > ownership further is to start

Re: Replace the TC power to depose maintainers

2016-12-05 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Philip Hands > Tollef Fog Heen writes: > > > ]] Ian Jackson > > > >> That is 6+ weeks' more stop-energy. 6+ weeks' more inaction. 6+ > >> weeks during which members of the TC have been prevaricating. > > > > What are you accusin

Re: Replace the TC power to depose maintainers

2016-12-05 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
's not what meant by "prevaricate". I asked #chiark about the > meaning of the word and they said: They might want to consult a dictionary then, http://www.dictionary.com/browse/prevaricate: verb (used without object), prevaricated, prevaricating. 1. to speak falsely or misl

Re: Replace the TC power to depose maintainers

2016-12-05 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Ian Jackson > That is 6+ weeks' more stop-energy. 6+ weeks' more inaction. 6+ > weeks during which members of the TC have been prevaricating. What are you accusing the TC of lying about? -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are

Re: Replace the TC power to depose maintainers

2016-12-05 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
them and discuss with them, I find we usually end up agreeing. The goal is not to end up with a new maintainer. Deposing a maintainer or overriding them is sometimes a necessary evil, but it's never my first option. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are

Re: Replace the TC power to depose maintainers [and 1 more messages]

2016-12-05 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
-maint on alioth + Maintainer: collect...@debian.org or somesuch?) That'd move closer to a model where individuals don't own that particular package. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are

Re: third-party packages adding apt sources

2016-05-20 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
ne (and it isn't), we should be more clear about that. I haven't seen anybody advocating throwing away our stable release process. So far it's mostly pointing out problems, not yet trying to come up with solutions. (Which is fine, we need to find out what the problems and the pain points are before it's useful to come up with solutions.) -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are

Re: shutting down httpredir.debian.org?

2016-04-25 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
v6.deb.d.o for v6 support. It's not the default since too many users ended up in suboptimal places. Once that's fixed, I'm going to flip the switch back again. Cheers, -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are

Re: shutting down httpredir.debian.org?

2016-04-14 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
ty-and-technology-compliance#cache-data-and-end-user-information-management -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are

Re: shutting down httpredir.debian.org?

2016-04-14 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
e global internet, since you often (relatively) end up with BGP reconvergences leading you to hit a different server, which causes the current problems. For this, just doing anycast for the DNS servers is better (since it's mostly UDP (and the rest is short-lived TCP) and therefore not subject

Re: Namespace question - data.debian.org

2015-12-16 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
ed «Depends»? > It's important that these allocations are permanent as far as > possible, so it's important to get this right. Assuming we use HTTP for this, HTTP redirects are a thing, so we can always move stuff around if we need to. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly,

Re: Announcing GNU ethical criteria for code repositories

2015-11-21 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
wik, as well as using ETags, whose principal usage today is tracking.) -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are

Re: Support YUBICO

2015-03-03 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] > Здравствуйте, Debian-project. > > Support for Debian Yubico key ? Yes, a bunch of the Yubikey software is packaged in Debian. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.deb

Re: Why are in-person meetings required for the debian keyring?

2015-02-13 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
ing access? I don't think we do, and if we did, we'd have no volunteers able to get past the threshold. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &

Re: About the recent DD retirements

2015-01-24 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Keith Packard > Tollef Fog Heen writes: > > > This means that if you use system packages and want to have two > > applications that both want foo.jar installed, but different versions > > (since they need different APIs or different bug compatibility), we > > d

Re: About the recent DD retirements

2015-01-24 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
want to have two applications that both want foo.jar installed, but different versions (since they need different APIs or different bug compatibility), we don't support that well. For C libraries, there are sonames and all, but those largely doesn't exist for other languages and fixing

Re: GR proposal, Call for Seconds - term limit for the tech-ctte

2014-12-02 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Philip Hands > Tollef Fog Heen writes: > > > ]] Stefano Zacchiroli > > > >> I'm hereby formally submitting the GR proposal included below between > >> dashed double lines, and calling for seconds. With respect to past > >> discussions on

Re: GR proposal, Call for Seconds - term limit for the tech-ctte

2014-12-02 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
lowed some of the -vote discussions around this from the web archives). -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listm

Re: Interpreting the init system GR results

2014-11-20 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Matthias Urlichs > Hi, > > Tollef Fog Heen: > > Matthias Urlichs > > > Too true. This GR does not have winners. We all lost. > > > > No, we all won. We won because we said that «we have processes for > > this». > > We do have processes fo

Re: Interpreting the init system GR results

2014-11-20 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
xcepting myself from > that judgement. > > But we should strive to be. I sure hope we are. It won't be easy, but I think we are. If I didn't, I'd not have been here still. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- T

Re: Update to reimbursement procedure (now: max 3 months after expense)

2014-10-06 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
ver take more than three days, then? (It also takes way more than 30 minutes for me at least to mail anything using snail mail, since that means a trip to the post office.) I think you're addressing the wrong problem here. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about

Re: Update to reimbursement procedure (now: max 3 months after expense)

2014-10-06 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
o I don't see any justification for making this change and would like to see it reverted. Has the auditors requested this change? There's nothing in the DPL log about it. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

Re: Maximum term for tech ctte members

2014-05-23 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
#x27;s a member of a team once a year, have them cross off the groups they would still like to be a member of, GPG-sign and return». Currently, we have things like I'm still a member of webwml, even though I haven't done anything there for years, simply because nobody cleans that list. Chee

Re: Maximum term for tech ctte members

2014-05-23 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
think I'd rather second a proposal along these lines than actually > propose it... I'd be happy to propose something if we get something approaching consensus on a proposal. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: keybase.io

2014-04-07 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
amaha.com/products/en/communication/usb_conference_speakerphones/pjp-10ur/?mode=model (The latter is an absolutely excellent little conference mike: shows up as an USB audio device, does in-firmware echo cancellation, only downside is its price tag of ~220 USD.) -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user frien

Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-03-03 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
x27;t work on those platforms. That'd be sad, but it wouldn't make those platforms unusable, nor would it make GNOME generally unusable. It wouldn't be the first or the last time we don't have feature parity between ports. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's j

Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-03-02 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
ian-vote/2014/03/msg00020.html, by Ian: That GR override clause was written by me. I specifically drew it widely precisely so that, amongst other things, a GR could answer questions that the TC has failed to answer. I don't think pointing at Ian for the clause is particularly u

Re: Possibly moving Debian services to a CDN

2014-02-08 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
. > Could the DPL be of some help to you in that process? I talked with James Bromberger at LCA, so contact is already established there. We're also talking with at least one other CDN, so I don't think we need any help in that area right now. We'll let you know. -- Tollef

Re: mailing list auto subscriptions

2014-02-05 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
I'm not sure how useful auto-subscribing people is. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listm

Re: Possibly moving Debian services to a CDN

2014-02-04 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Florian Weimer > * Tollef Fog Heen: > > > There's not really anything to be fixed, since you shouldn't be using > > HTTPS for that host yet. > > Can't they serve it off an IP address that doesn't answer on 443/TCP, > to avoid confusion? It

Re: Possibly moving Debian services to a CDN

2014-01-30 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Craig Small > On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 01:53:55PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > I thought it's time for a small update about this. As of about an hour > > ago, planet and metadata.ftp-master are now served from the Fastly CDN, > > and it all seems to be workin

Re: Possibly moving Debian services to a CDN

2014-01-30 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Tollef Fog Heen Hi all, > - the various bits and bobs that are currently hosted on > static.debian.org I thought it's time for a small update about this. As of about an hour ago, planet and metadata.ftp-master are now served from the Fastly CDN, and it all seems to be wo

Re: Debian services and Debian infrastructure

2014-01-23 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
for a service, it's quite likely it might not get worked on. > I, for one thing, would be interested in something like this. To be > clear, I don't have anything which is currently *waiting* for this. Your interest is noted, thanks! -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it&

Re: Debian services and Debian infrastructure

2014-01-22 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
il. If this thread bothers you, just ignore it. Heck, it's not as if -project generally has that much traffic, so just skimming it shouldn't take that many minutes out of your day. I find it really disappointing to hear that you would rather have discussions with project-wide ramificati

Re: Debian services and Debian infrastructure

2014-01-22 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
x27;t foresee any particular problems. If somebody shows up with a huge service that might change, but as it is now, we're quite ok, resource-wise. > But I don't think that we should wait 1 or 2 years to solve that general > problem. That's why I'm exploring a compromise a

Re: Debian services and Debian infrastructure

2014-01-21 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
he service has a sustainable maintainance model (active team + > instructions on how to contribute, run a local copy, etc. + DFSG-free) > - the service's design does not raise security or scalability concerns Unless the service maintainer takes full-stack responsibility for this (in wh

Re: Debian services and Debian infrastructure

2014-01-21 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
got after having a request to add a member to the DSA team Cc-ed to debian-project, I think you're completely out of bounds when you're informing DSA (and others) that you're working on setting up parallel infrastructure by mailing debian-devel-announce. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX

Re: GR: Selecting the default init system for Debian

2014-01-19 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
you have any particular things in mind, please feel to enumerate them and I'll answer to the best of my ability. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "

Re: Please update the DSA delegation

2013-12-04 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
could just self-manage and not have even more process around routine changes. Debian generally has more than its share of process already and we should not actively work towards adding more formalism and red tape. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its frie

Re: Please update the DSA delegation

2013-12-04 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
[...] > - complete install requests for porter chroots This isn't really done by us any longer, since it's self-service so should probably be dropped. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-proje

Re: Code of Conduct: picking up

2013-12-02 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
ntinued lack of understanding that what you did was wrong worrisome and fear that it shows a lack of good judgement in other areas too. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.o

Re: Code of Conduct: picking up

2013-11-29 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Thorsten Glaser > On Thu, 28 Nov 2013, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > > You mean you were using Debian resources to spread malware, and it seems > > You’re ridiculous. That’s not malware and cannot spread either «Malware, short for malicious software, is software used t

Re: Code of Conduct: picking up

2013-11-28 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
brusquely, so I had to remember to actively switch .sig > for when writing to Debian lists; and there are other cases > that aren’t even that “offensive”). You mean you were using Debian resources to spread malware, and it seems you're not even apologising for it. I think that's p

Re: Possibly moving Debian services to a CDN

2013-11-21 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
e that is simply wrong, take a look at https://github.com/fastly for some of what fastly's done at least. I'm not sure if Amazon has done something similar, but it wouldn't surprise me if they're pushing fixes for components upstream. Why wouldn't they? -- Tollef Fog Hee

Re: Possibly moving Debian services to a CDN

2013-11-21 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] anarcat > On 2013-11-20 16:43:35, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > ]] anarcat > > > >> On 2013-11-14 10:37:21, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > > >> > Yes. If you're just anycasting an IP, you'll get pretty poor > >> > performance. >

Re: Possibly moving Debian services to a CDN

2013-11-20 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] anarcat > On 2013-11-14 10:37:21, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > Yes. If you're just anycasting an IP, you'll get pretty poor > > performance. > > Can you expand on that? BGP anycast will just get you the closest one in term of metrics. This is probably the

Re: Possibly moving Debian services to a CDN

2013-11-14 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] anarcat > On 2013-11-14 05:20:12, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > ]] anarcat > > > >> All the tools currently running the Debian mirror architecture. Some > >> mirrors may run an FTP mirror on a non-free software, but they don't > >> *have* to, and

Re: Possibly moving Debian services to a CDN

2013-11-14 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
rings attached - Gimp > just moved off Sourceforge for that reason... It's not a vote, and it's easy for the people who do not have to do anything but send mails to a mailing list to say «we should spend more effort». -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky

Re: Should mailing list bans be published?

2013-11-05 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Stefano Zacchiroli > On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 02:51:52PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > > So, what would be the beneficial social effects of publishing the ban > > > *duration*? > > > > The ban duration is an indication of how severe we think the violation

Re: Should mailing list bans be published?

2013-11-04 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
ious harassments. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.or

Re: Possibly moving Debian services to a CDN

2013-10-29 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Stefano Zacchiroli > On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 11:19:14AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > You seem to be under the impression that CDN implies non-free software. > > Oh, no, not at all. I'm just saying that we should judge CDN offerings > on the basis of the kind of

Re: Possibly moving Debian services to a CDN

2013-10-29 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
lies non-free software. Fastly uses Varnish (which is free software). Cloudfront uses Apache (which is free software). I'm sure there are CDNs using non-free software too, but that doesn't seem particularly relevant. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about

Re: Aw: Re: Buying hardware with Debian money

2013-10-21 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
so much every student can afford. Current best practice is to build packages locally, not on a remote VM, not even one managed by DSA. We might want to change that, but I think there's a discussion that needs to be had before we do so. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's

Re: Possibly moving Debian services to a CDN

2013-10-15 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Ingo Jürgensmann > Am 14.10.2013 um 07:29 schrieb Tollef Fog Heen : > > > - I would like us to have agreements with any donors that they're not > > allowed to use the information for anything but operational issues. We > > can't tell them not to lo

Re: Possibly moving Debian services to a CDN

2013-10-15 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
l people they're not allowed to turn their paranoia dial all the way up. (Using paranoia here for lack of a better word; no disrespect meant.) -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@

Re: Possibly moving Debian services to a CDN

2013-10-14 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Philip Hands > Tollef Fog Heen writes: > > ... > > Nobody has suggested removing the mirror network. What's being > > discussed is using a CDN for some .d.o services. > > That was certainly not clear from your original post. > > I certainly read you

Re: Possibly moving Debian services to a CDN

2013-10-13 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] "Andrew M.A. Cater" > On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 08:44:56AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > Dear Project, > > > > The System Administration Team (DSA) are considering moving some of the > > static hosting that Debian currently provides from our infrastruc

Re: Possibly moving Debian services to a CDN

2013-10-13 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
do so. > Not all CDNs support IPv6. We will want to use CDNs that do support IPv6. It's one of the technical bits that need to fall into place before we will want to switch. > I would rather expand the mirror network. Does that mean you're volunteering for the task of doing t

Re: Possibly moving Debian services to a CDN

2013-10-13 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
ng from one provider to another isn't hard, and we already have offers from multiple CDNs, so I'm not particularly worried about this. Were it harder to switch, it would be different, but luckily, it's fairly easy. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just pi

Re: Possibly moving Debian services to a CDN

2013-10-13 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
are-only solutions without the peering setup and > data center distribution. We are already running CDNs, multiple of them: The mirror network, the security archive network, the web pages and a few more. What we don't have is the manpower and the infrastructure to run and maintain this as well

Possibly moving Debian services to a CDN

2013-10-12 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
that our experiences are positive, we don't believe it will be interesting to go back, and even if one CDN folds, they are fast becoming a commodity so we think switching to another will be fairly easy. We appreciate feedback while we continue our investigation of CDNs. Thanks for your interes

Re: Can CC BY 2.0 be upgraded to 3.0 ?

2013-09-15 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
eed to clear for something to be copyrightable. I believe this is what Russ is talking about. (Russ, please correct me if I'm wrong here.) -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.de

Re: Authorizing minor expenses by DSA without prior DPL approval

2013-08-28 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
e (pay shipping costs, purchase of cheap hardware such as > cables, replacement disk, etc.). Given we're not buying the cheapest disks we can find (since they have worse warranties, etc), replacement disks quite often ends up at approximately the $300 mark, maybe make the limit $400

Re: PaySwarm-based Debian donations

2013-06-18 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
use they're happy with Debian, that's great and something I think we should make easier and more visible. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a s

Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?

2013-04-02 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
t; submitter something if they use the close command. We did this ages ago. Perhaps it's time to retire the close command entirely? -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian

Re: license of http://udd.debian.org/ data collection?

2012-12-16 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
hich I think is the case for the UDD data. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87txrl9n3a@xoog.err.no

Re: Temporarily disabled Jonas's feed

2012-10-24 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Jonas Smedegaard > Please pretty please someone either purge the Planet cache or tell me > what embarrassing detail I am missing here. I have done it now. At least I think I have. ;-) -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To

Re: DebConf travel sponsorship

2012-07-05 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
would be ok with doing it off my debit card too, since I can afford the liquidity without wanting to bear the cost myself.) And of course, others might have tighter liquidity and so what you say applies. I just don't think it'll apply for everybody. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user frien

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