Re: FW: Mail forwarding in return for Debian donation

2004-12-01 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 09:15:00PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 01:09:19PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 08:35:51PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 06:19:32PM +0100, Pete van der Spoel wrote: > > > > Or is the wh

Re: A little question

2004-12-18 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 01:58:22PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've been reading the debian site for hours and i'm deeply sensitive to the > debian philosophy of distributing linux. Great! > i've spend a long time to learn on the book bought with my RedHat package, > and now i'm used to the

Re: democracy

2004-12-25 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 05:13:05PM -0800, warren wojcik wrote: > Would you please help me. I would like the open sourse community to take > on the attached project. What do I need to do? For a start, don't send your proposals around as .doc files. Second, know that the Open Source community does

Re: documentation x executable code

2005-01-04 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 04:02:38PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 10:28:29PM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 02:11:03PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > > > [ ... referencing earlier docs ... ] > > > > Sometimes this is a good approach, sometime it isn't

Re: documentation x executable code

2005-01-05 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 05:03:09PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 04:13:25PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 04:02:38PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > > > sorry, but that argument is bogus. convenience is NOT the same as > >

Re: documentation x executable code

2005-01-05 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 01:15:13AM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote: > On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 05:10:18PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > > the format for an RFC is pretty much prescribed by convention if not by > > > explict written rule, and the data is implicit in what you'

Re: documentation x executable code

2005-01-05 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 05:38:31PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > (similarly, you CAN modify an invariant section - but you can only do so by > adding a new section that subverts or refutes or simply adds to the invariant > section. i.e. you can make whatever comments you like about it, but you can

Re: documentation x executable code

2005-01-05 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 06:01:41PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 05:10:18PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 05:03:09PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > > > no, acroread is DFSG non-free for other reasons that have nothing > >

Re: Debian - Configuring a Successful Web Server

2005-09-23 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 07:46:28PM +0100, Leslie Ianson wrote: > I have noticed when browsing the package lists that PHP 5 in not > currently support but on the official Debian site but I have seen > binaries on http://dotdeb.org/ are these likely to be stable? Best to ask the people that supply t

Re: Retailing

2005-11-14 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 05:44:25PM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [Michael Poole] > > For example, GRUB and Linux are both licensed under the GPL. Both > > would be included with these retail systems and would be written to > > locate and call functions within the BIOS; that is, GRUB and Linux

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-14 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 01:57:12PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > I don't disagree. I would much rather every ubuntu change had a > corresponding patch filed in the BTS, Every "relevant" change put into the BTS would be nice, yes. Filing everything in the BTS would result in a lot of "patch,wontfix

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 04:17:32AM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 01:06:51PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > There's "I screwed up because I made a mistake", and there's "I screwed up > > because I don't actually know what I

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 11:57:37AM +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > On 12/15/05, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 01:06:51PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 01:57:12PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > > >

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 10:50:54AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > > OTOH, I've seen a number of ubuntu patches which were blatantly wrong, > > > where the maintainer clearly didn't grok the package the

Re: Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-16 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 08:29:20AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 10:00:22PM +0100, Joachim Breitner wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, den 15.12.2005, 15:39 +0100 schrieb Sven Luther: > > Sounds like a very good idea, and fully in the scope of Utnubu. Some > > questions: > > > > * Is

Re: Your posting: Debian on one dvd?

2005-12-20 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 05:12:18PM -0500, Daniel Tasch wrote: > "One of the problems Linux users in countries like India have is low > bandwidth. They prefer to get their distributions on CD or DVD as far as > possible. Debian is very badly affected by this as we usually stress > updating over t

Re: For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu

2006-01-20 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 12:10:54AM +0100, JanC wrote: > On 1/17/06, Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How about renaming Maintainer to Debian-Maintainer in Ubuntu's binary > > packages, and having a specific Ubuntu-Maintainer? > > This should probably happen in a way that all (or most

Re: For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu

2006-01-20 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 09:20:33AM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 07:08:38PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > I keep hearing this, but I really don't believe it. In Debian, "Maintainer" > > means "An individual or group of people primari

Re: For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu

2006-01-20 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 12:41:49PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 07:13:31AM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 09:20:33AM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > > By way of example, the Debian maintainer is equipped to answer questions

Re: For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu

2006-01-20 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 01:40:11PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 08:31:44AM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > All you'll get is the loud minority having a whinge then, no matter what the > > outcome. > > It will certainly beat the hell out of c

Re: For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu

2006-01-23 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 05:33:33PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sunday 22 January 2006 03:16, David Weinehall wrote: > > > Since all Ubuntu packages are recompiled against a different set of > > libraries, the bug might not even affect the Debian package, even though > > they share the same sou

Re: For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu

2006-01-24 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 06:49:37AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Tuesday 24 January 2006 00:08, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > Le lundi 23 janvier 2006, Paul Johnson a écrit : > > > On Sunday 22 January 2006 03:16, David Weinehall wrote: > > > > Since all Ubuntu packages are recompiled against a diff

Re: Linux Forums

2006-01-25 Thread Matthew Palmer
[uhm, dude, line length?] On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 06:04:25PM -0800, Will L (sent by Nabble.com) wrote: > My view is that commiters will favor mailing list because it requires > commitment, as Adners said, it has a sense of "seriousness". But, is it > reasonable to expect a general user to be commi

Re: Linux Forums

2006-01-26 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 12:32:22PM +0100, Anders Breindahl wrote: > On 2006-01-26 1710, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > I'm doing this for me. Benefits which may flow to others are coincidental. > > I wouldn't expect you to be the person who's answering trivial newbie &g

Re: For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu

2006-01-31 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 01:01:32PM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: > Scripsit Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Which other derivative has made available all of the changes they've made, > > more-or-less as they make them? > > Which other derivative doe

Re: buildd and experimental

2006-02-28 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 02:46:02AM +0100, Gabor Gombas wrote: > On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 01:04:17AM +, Brian M. Carlson wrote: > > However, the code of conduct seems to > > point out that one should not Cc someone unless they specifically ask > > for it (a guideline that you neglected to follow,

Re: The Usenet Cart00ny comes to Debian [was: I am ashamed to be a Debian user.]

2006-06-15 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 09:12:33PM -0400, GNAA Jmax wrote: > This is exactly the sort of hate i expected from the debian community. I > feel ashamed to be a debian user, as though I have betrayed my brothers and > sisters by giving into your hate. I shall not tolerate this, and will be > consider

Re: "Debian Powered" Logo

2006-06-30 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 10:44:41AM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > In particular, Ubuntu has received harsh criticism from Debian developers in > the past for pointing out that they are, in effect, contributors to the > Ubuntu project. That's because "contributor" has different connotations to "ori

Re: Linux Magazin Germany, affecting Debian's image?!

2006-07-18 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 05:04:02PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > If you distribute binary images with a magazine and have something in > that magazine saying "if you want the source write to with a > photocopy of this specific text", everything is okay. No more so than "if you want the source w

Re: Linux Magazin Germany, affecting Debian's image?!

2006-07-19 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 12:15:48PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 07:51:30AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 05:04:02PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > If you distribute binary images with a magazine and have something in &

Re: Linux Magazin Germany, affecting Debian's image?!

2006-07-20 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 12:24:20PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > PS: Is it true that Ubuntu things about supplying a 3 year offer for > source under 3b so derivates of ubuntu can go sourcelss? A nice idea, to be sure, but it doesn't seem particularly helpful, unless the derivative isn't mod

Re: package ownership in Debian

2006-07-28 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 02:49:34AM +, Gustavo Franco wrote: > Hello, i thought Debian project was a big team. If people here don't > want to work in a team, we're going nowhere. Two words for you: Fred Brooks. > I think that force is the wrong term, we should encourage and in some > cases req

Re: package ownership in Debian (was: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?)

2006-07-28 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 07:41:46PM +0200, Fabio Tranchitella wrote: > Hi Pierre, > please don't Cc me, I read this list. :) > > Il giorno ven, 28/07/2006 alle 19.28 +0200, Pierre Habouzit ha scritto: > > and that won't happen because I'm not very keen on leraning yet another > > VCS, and that o

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-07-29 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 12:54:39PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Anthony Towns wrote: > > > What if we introduced the concept of "area" maintenance? Like saying > > "Matthew Garrett is part of our hardware support team, so can thus NMU > > any package that needs changes to support that release

Re: package ownership in Debian

2006-07-29 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 04:16:53PM +, Gustavo Franco wrote: > On 7/29/06, Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 02:49:34AM +, Gustavo Franco wrote: > >> Hello, i thought Debian project was a big team. If people here don't >

Re: package ownership in Debian

2006-07-29 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 07:46:58PM +, Gustavo Franco wrote: > On 7/29/06, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 16:16:53 +, Gustavo Franco > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > >> On 7/29/06, Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PRO

Re: package ownership in Debian

2006-07-29 Thread Matthew Palmer
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Re: NMUs and (auto-)subscription to the PTS

2006-07-30 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 06:35:57AM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: > * Anthony Towns [Mon, 31 Jul 2006 10:29:57 +1000]: > > > subscribe to the PTS > > ISTR a discussion about automatically subscribing NMUers to the PTS for > the package, and dropping the subscription with the next upload of the > pac

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-07-31 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 11:22:15AM -0400, Hubert Chan wrote: > On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 13:56:10 +0200, Adeodato Simó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > * Steve Langasek [Mon, 31 Jul 2006 00:57:38 -0700]: > >> Nor is it actually required. Any DD can delete an upload out of the > >> delayed queue on gluck

Re: NMUs and (auto-)subscription to the PTS

2006-07-31 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 10:28:44AM -0400, Matthias Julius wrote: > Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 06:35:57AM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: > >> > >> ISTR a discussion about automatically subscribing NMUers to the PTS fo

Re: DebianTimes launched

2006-08-03 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 10:38:44PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Frans Pop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060803 22:02]: > > I'd prefer keeping PlanetDebian pure as a aggregator of personal blogs. > > Hm, ok. I can see your point, but I disagree (but of course, I'm biased). > > Anyways, if more DDs feel

Re: Bits from the ftpmasters

2005-02-20 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 12:01:58AM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > Le Dim 20 F?vrier 2005 22:42, Goswin von Brederlow a ?crit : > > Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> It's a little OT, but I think that the upload mechanisms should be > > >> enhanced a little to be able to *certify*

Re: Bits from the ftpmasters

2005-02-20 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 12:24:49AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > NEW would still have to be processed by hand, though -- crypto notifications > > still need to be sent, ... > > I still fail to see any

Re: Bits from the ftpmasters

2005-02-20 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 08:23:52AM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > Le Lun 21 F?vrier 2005 00:16, Matthew Palmer a ?crit : > > NEW would still have to be processed by hand, though -- crypto > > notifications still need to be sent, and the protection provided by > > two crap de

Re: Bits from the ftpmasters

2005-02-21 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 05:16:39PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > Matthew Palmer wrote: > >AFAIK, we don't notify for every new piece of software in the archive, just > >those which would fall foul of the export restrictions. > > That's mistaken -- we automatically

Re: Debian mailing lists fed to googlegroups?

2005-04-08 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 10:03:30AM +0200, Jutta Wrage wrote: > After seeing the googlegroups spam in some of the debian mailing lists, > I had a look into googlegroups and saw the meiling lists beeing fed > into groups there. Is that a known fact and is it accepted? > > I am a bit astonished as

Re: snapshot.debian.net

2005-04-25 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 01:21:04PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 01:12:43PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > > I consider binary packages as extrem useful to check for dependency > > changes etc, > > That can be done by having an archive of packages files alone. > > >

Re: new queue process tweaks

2005-04-27 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 07:02:12PM +1000, Anand Kumria wrote: > One process modification I would suggest is that rather than leaving > packages in 'NEW queue limbo' if you are not able to reject or accept them > after 2 months, you refer the package to the technical committee instead. I think tha

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-19 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 06:32:49PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.06.19.1544 +0200]: > > > For what it's worth: how do you know they don't intercept the > > > mail that your mail spool then sends out? > > > > Eventually you get a bounce with the

Re: question

2003-08-27 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 04:16:13PM -0400, Thompson-Laurin, Harriet wrote: > Specifically, I am to find information regarding Debian regarding: > Cost How much does 7 CD-Rs cost down your way? > Market share Why? You should use something because it fits your needs, not someone elses

Re: offering my help

2003-11-06 Thread Matthew Palmer
[Apologies if you get this twice, I don't know if you're subscribed to debian-project] On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 11:27:14AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi I am living in milwaukee,WI for last 6 years now. And thanks to friend > of mine I got addicted to Linux. First I was using mandrake for la

Re: Migrating to open source

2003-12-26 Thread Matthew Palmer
Gus & Maggie said: > My name is Roy Havens and I own a small business. Currently I run > Windows XP Home but the browser I like to use is Mozilla. I am > interested in migrating all of my computer to open source. The only > thing that is preventing me from doing so is the MANY M$ programs I > curr

Re: Migrating to open source

2003-12-27 Thread Matthew Palmer
Paul E Condon said: [BTW, your comments won't get to the OP as they asked to be copied on any replies] > will work for many things, but probably not all. I use Turbo Tax on a > Mac. I buy a new version each year because the tax laws are always > changing. I don't know who would do the development o

Re: Seahorse Link

2004-01-19 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 09:13:40PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I clicked on a link from seahorse.sourceforge.net ( > packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/seahorse.html ) in hopes of downloading > seahorse for debian. Unfortunatly the link did not work and I was > wondering if the file is still

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-05 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 12:54:23PM +1100, Ben Burton wrote: > > There is a chronic systemic harrassment in Debian, but I have not seen > > women get more of it. > > I know I've said this some number of times already, but I'll say it again > in just four lines so it's that much harder to miss. > >

Re: debian is too big

2004-03-09 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 01:11:32AM +0100, Philippe Strauss wrote: > Dear Mr/Ms. Debian :) Hey, we might have a knighted developer somewhere, and you don't want to exclude them. > Like probably many other users, I'm facing a growing pain to stay > on debian stable due to the fact that things lik

Re: inquiry

2004-06-29 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 04:47:03PM -0500, Warren Duclos wrote: > I really find your website impressive. It would help if you would tell us exactly which website you're referring to. I assume you're talking about http://www.debian.org/, or some site with a debian.org suffix. > Some of our student

Re: question on your architecture

2004-07-26 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 09:34:36AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > After some research we've found in the following packages we need to > continue our planning phase: > > Apache 2.0; > PHP 4.3.x; > MSQL 4.0.2 or higher, because we need foreign keys with cascading UPDATE > and DELETE, and row-l

Re: Debian, lists and discrimination

2004-08-06 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 10:29:40PM +0200, J?r?me Marant wrote: > Evidence. I would like to see evidence that Debian has not been giving > equal rights to males and women over the past years. The fact that our male / female participation ratio is much lower than even the gender split in IT, let alo

Re: Debian, lists and discrimination

2004-08-06 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 01:47:51PM -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, MJ Ray wrote: > > I hope that people won't feed the > > trolls and it results in debian doing something better to tackle > > inequalities. > > What is left unexamined in all these discussions is why Debian (as a

Re: Debian, lists and discrimination

2004-08-07 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 05:46:57PM -0700, Jonathan Walther wrote: > On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 10:29:40AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > >On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 10:29:40PM +0200, J?r?me Marant wrote: > >>Evidence. I would like to see evidence that Debian has not been giving > &g

Re: Debian, lists and discrimination

2004-08-07 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 11:00:08PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Sat, 7 Aug 2004 10:29:40 +1000, Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 10:29:40PM +0200, J?r?me Marant wrote: > >> Evidence. I would like to see evidence that Debi

Re: Debian, lists and discrimination

2004-08-07 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 10:47:45AM +0200, J?r?me Marant wrote: > Selon Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 10:29:40PM +0200, J?r?me Marant wrote: > > > Evidence. I would like to see evidence that Debian has not been giving > > > equal r

Re: Debian, lists and discrimination

2004-08-07 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 05:50:46PM -0700, Jonathan Walther wrote: > On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 10:41:33AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > >>What is left unexamined in all these discussions is why Debian (as a > >>project) should be doing anything to tackle inequalities? > >

Re: Debian, lists and discrimination

2004-08-07 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 10:56:49PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Sat, 7 Aug 2004 10:41:33 +1000, Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 01:47:51PM -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > >> Or is the contention that there is some barrier to i

Re: Debian, lists and discrimination

2004-08-07 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 04:32:06PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Sat, 7 Aug 2004 21:55:27 +1000, Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 05:50:46PM -0700, Jonathan Walther wrote: > >> On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 10:41:33AM +1000, Matthew Palm

Re: Debian, lists and discrimination

2004-08-07 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 02:42:17PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: > On 2004-08-07 13:11:55 +0100 Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >So you think that changing our culture to be less confrontational > >would be > >beneficial to encouraging participation by m

Re: Debian, lists and discrimination

2004-08-07 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 09:38:53AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Sat, 7 Aug 2004 22:11:55 +1000, Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 10:56:49PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >> On Sat, 7 Aug 2004 10:41:33 +1000, Matthew Pa

Re: Debian, lists and discrimination

2004-08-07 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 01:13:31PM -0700, Jonathan Walther wrote: > On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 09:49:35PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > >On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 10:47:45AM +0200, J?r?me Marant wrote: > >>Selon Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >>> On Fri, Aug

Re: Debian, lists and discrimination

2004-08-07 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 01:07:25PM -0700, Jonathan Walther wrote: > On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 09:37:40PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > >>Don't assume there are stairs preventing the wheel-chaired person from > >>getting onto the basketball court; SHOW THEM to us. T

Re: Debian, lists and discrimination

2004-08-07 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 01:16:52PM -0700, Jonathan Walther wrote: > On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 09:55:27PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > >>The burden of evidence is on you. I'd like to see your proofs. > > > >How about statements from the people who have decided not to

Re: Debian, lists and discrimination

2004-08-07 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 12:54:29PM -0400, Christopher M. Hagar wrote: > On Sat, 7 Aug 2004 21:43:06 +1000 > Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The culture of the project may be causing us to drive away Africans and > > Hindus, yes. If so, I think we shou

Re: Debian, lists and discrimination

2004-08-08 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 12:16:37AM -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > On Sat, 7 Aug 2004, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > As to the barriers to involvement in Debian by women, it's pretty obvious > > that our gender participation ratio is decidedly different to that of the IT > >

Re: Debian, lists and discrimination

2004-08-09 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 09:38:53AM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Matthew Palmer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040808 11:10]: > > From the 2004.04.05 version of the keyring, I count 927 unique people or > > unknowns (there are several "might be people, might be 'bots'&quo

Re: Reselling

2004-09-02 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 05:00:26PM -0700, Robert Hoskins wrote: > I would like to know if I could possibly resell your Debian Linux But of course. See http://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/info for information specifically targetted at your situation, and http://www.debian.org/CD for general informati