Re: If Debian support OS certification?

2017-05-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, 2017-05-02 at 23:29 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > As members, we should come up with a "Certification Policy" guide. Which > should > define what constitutes a particular machine being marked certified. Then a > testsuite could be built accordingly. Sounds good to me, would you mind

Debian Linux VPAT

2017-05-03 Thread Alexander III, Paul R. (BAH)
Good Morning, The Department of Veteran Affairs Section 508 Office, is currently reviewing COTS products that they are currently using (or a request internally for purchase/use has been made) to ensure that the products are Section 508 conformant. Your product, Debian Linux, has been identifie

Re: Debian Linux VPAT

2017-05-03 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 10:17:10AM -0400, Alexander III, Paul R. (BAH) wrote: >Good Morning, > > >The Department of Veteran Affairs Section 508 Office, is currently >reviewing COTS products that they are currently using (or a request >internally for purchase/use has been made) to

Re: If Debian support OS certification?

2017-05-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2017-05-03 at 16:55 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Tue, 2017-05-02 at 23:29 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: [...] > > Like most other Enterprise Linux Distributions, Debian too picks a > > particular kernel (stable- lts) and to some extent also backports > > fixes into it. That makes it a com

Re: producing, distributing, storing Debian t-shirts

2017-05-03 Thread Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana
Hi, Here in Brazil we are selling some products and using the money to organize free software events in Curitiba like MiniDebConf, FLISOL, Software Freedom Day, because it's very hard get sponsors. http://loja.curitibalivre.org.br There is too a big demand to buy products with Debian logo, and

Re: If Debian support OS certification?

2017-05-03 Thread Andre Felipe Machado
Hello, We developed a very detailed sequence of compatibility and disk and storage stress tests , including nfsv4, to homologate disk and storage systems for government profile and scale IMAP loads on Debian systems. Fio tests carefully modeled Cyrus IMAP real world behaviour at such scale, c

Re: producing, distributing, storing Debian t-shirts

2017-05-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 12:38 AM, Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana wrote: > Here in Brazil we are selling some products and using the money to organize > free software events in Curitiba like MiniDebConf, FLISOL, Software Freedom > Day, because it's very hard get sponsors. > http://loja.curitibaliv

Re: If Debian support OS certification?

2017-05-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 12:17 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > No, they should not, otherwise this certification becomes meaningless. I see these certifications primarily as a service to Debian users and not as endorsements of vendors, but as statements of fact. The consequences to users should stated a

Re: If Debian support OS certification?

2017-05-03 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, May 04, 2017 at 07:56:45AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: >On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 12:17 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > >> No, they should not, otherwise this certification becomes meaningless. > >I see these certifications primarily as a service to Debian users and >not as endorsements of vendors, but

Re: If Debian support OS certification?

2017-05-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2017-05-04 at 07:56 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 12:17 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > No, they should not, otherwise this certification becomes meaningless. > > I see these certifications primarily as a service to Debian users and > not as endorsements of vendors, but

Re: If Debian support OS certification?

2017-05-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 8:03 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Are you really claiming that systems already shipped with *firmware > included* can't be installed using d-i? That's rather bogus, if so. > Please explain? That was the result of writing mail too early in the morning. -- bye, pabs https:/

Re: If Debian support OS certification?

2017-05-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 8:23 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Well I already acknowledged that, didn't I? Yes, I felt like re-stating it. > My concern was that the bar you were setting was so low as to be > useless for distinguishing systems that are well supported by Debian > from those that are not.

Bug#861781: www.debian.org: updating Debian memberships in other organisations information

2017-05-03 Thread Paul Wise
Package: www.debian.org Severity: wishlist The list of Debian memberships on our website is outdated. https://www.debian.org/misc/memberships We might want to: Replace the representatives that are retired* from Debian: GNOME Foundation (representative: Matthew Garrett*) Linux Standards Base (r