Re: A Software Populist Who Doesn't Do Windows

2009-01-16 Thread Florian Weimer
* Ean Schuessler: > http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/business/11ubuntu.html > I do like how the article mentions Debian's 1000+ volunteers in > place of a count of Ubuntu's. I also like Mark's lead quote: > > “It feels pretty clear to me that the open process produces better stuff,” In that s

Re: Voting on messages: a way to resolve the mailing list problems

2009-01-16 Thread MJ Ray
Jurij Smakov wrote: > The 'mailvoting' alioth project [0] has been created. There are also > two mailing lists, 'mailvoting-discuss' and 'mailvoting-devel', for > general discussion and implementation discussion, respectively. Please > subscribe [1] to them, if you are interested in contributin

Re: Voting on messages: a way to resolve the mailing list problems

2009-01-16 Thread Adeodato Simó
* MJ Ray [Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:40:24 +]: > What's a rant about zionism got to do with this? Is it spam? > If so, why didn't the list admin block it? It took me a bit to figure out that you meant [1]. [1]: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/mailvoting-devel/2009-January/00.html

Re: Voting on messages: a way to resolve the mailing list problems

2009-01-16 Thread Russ Allbery
MJ Ray writes: > So this means ignoring any concerns and pressing on regardless? Disagreeing with you is not the same thing as ignoring concerns. Making that accusation is a cheap debate tactic. Without mind-reading, you have no idea whether someone is ignoring your concerns or just continuing

Re: Voting on messages: a way to resolve the mailing list problems

2009-01-16 Thread MJ Ray
Russ Allbery wrote: > MJ Ray writes: > > So this means ignoring any concerns and pressing on regardless? > > Disagreeing with you is not the same thing as ignoring concerns. Making > that accusation is a cheap debate tactic. Without mind-reading, you have > no idea whether someone is ignoring y

Re: Voting on messages: a way to resolve the mailing list problems

2009-01-16 Thread Jurij Smakov
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:40:24PM +, MJ Ray wrote: > Jurij Smakov wrote: > > The 'mailvoting' alioth project [0] has been created. There are also > > two mailing lists, 'mailvoting-discuss' and 'mailvoting-devel', for > > general discussion and implementation discussion, respectively. Pleas

Re: Voting on messages: a way to resolve the mailing list problems

2009-01-16 Thread Russ Allbery
MJ Ray writes: > Russ Allbery wrote: >> MJ Ray writes: >>> So this means ignoring any concerns and pressing on regardless? >> Disagreeing with you is not the same thing as ignoring concerns. >> Making that accusation is a cheap debate tactic. Without mind-reading, >> you have no idea whether