Re: question precise

2016-05-24 Thread steve
tats://www.debian.org/devel/website/stats/ Best, Steve

[no subject]

2003-06-14 Thread steve
I give. You win. Can't startx or get info on error. Startx says cant load screens, even though it finds them. Going back to Mandrake. Thanks anyway. Big waste of time if system doesn't even want to start.

Distrowatch

2022-06-17 Thread steve
Distrowatch has broken links to download Debian. Hope this is the right way to report it. Thanks. Steve

Re: Updating the DebConf Chairs delegation

2014-08-16 Thread Steve Langasek
you've done here. I would hope to have a constructive discussion about DebConf governance while we are all together in a week at DebConf14. But I am dismayed by this delegation right beforehand, which I think reflects a misunderstanding of the actual problems that face the DebConf team. -- Steve L

Mini-DebConf in Cambridge, UK - November 6-9 2014

2014-08-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
debconf.org/wiki/Miniconf-UK/2014 -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "I can't ever sleep on planes ... call it irrational if you like, but I'm afraid I'll miss my stop" -- Vivek Dasmohapatra signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Can I donate in bitcoin?

2014-08-25 Thread Steve Kowalik
5000. Martin does mean $5,000. Different locales use different characters for the thousands separator -- and I'm sure it's a tough habit to break when writing in English. Cheers, -- Steve Oh, in case you got covered in that Repulsion Gel, here&#

Mini-DebConf in Cambridge, UK - November 6-9 2014

2014-08-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
attend, please visit the wiki page at https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/Miniconf-UK/2014 -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "I can't ever sleep on planes ... call it irrational if you like, but I'm afraid I'll miss my stop"

Re: Code of Conduct violations handling process

2014-09-03 Thread Steve Langasek
de. This thread is not about whether we care about people being offensive (which, btw, is terribly subjective). This thread is about whether the CoC should be used to enforce people *not* being offensive. And that is a very slippery slope with no bottom in sight. -- Steve Langasek

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Code of Conduct violations handling process

2014-09-03 Thread Steve Langasek
iour). To what end? The stated purpose of the CoC is to ensure that our conference is a safe space for all members of the Debian community. In what way would a change in approach to dealing with a violation after the fact, where the offender is no longer at the conference, further that goal? -- St

Re: CoC / procedural abuse

2014-09-05 Thread Steve Langasek
ve explaining how this policy was arrived at: https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2013/10/msg00090.html -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Re: On a policy for non-debian foss content in a mini debconf

2014-09-07 Thread Steve Langasek
g focused on Debian, then we can't prevent them from doing so. But I don't understand why anyone would want to misleadingly describe something as a "DebConf" if it's not about Debian -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free O

Re: Prospective Trusted Organization - Debian.ch

2014-10-05 Thread Steve Langasek
blished in a well-known location? Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com

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

2014-10-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
ne for travel >reimbursements. So that's a stupidly tight setup on their part, so what...? What actual *problem* are you trying to solve in Debian by arbitrarily reducing the limit for us? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Google-bait: h

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

2014-10-06 Thread Steve Langasek
gt; time than I would like on financial stuff. Assuming this is an open request for help and not directed at Sledge specifically, I volunteer to join the auditor team. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I ca

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

2014-10-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 11:26:25PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: >On 06/10/14 at 20:38 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 12:38:31PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: >> >On 06/10/14 at 12:07 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: >> >> >> >> Both

Legitimate exercise of our constitutional decision-making processes [Was, Re: Tentative summary of the amendments]

2014-10-27 Thread Steve Langasek
under our constitution. There are some times when letting every DD do their own thing is not the right way to build a shared operating system. This may or may not be one of those times; and I'm sure that some DDs will object to any compulsion by the project, whether it's constitutional

Re: Mini-DebConf in Cambridge, UK - November 6-9 2014

2014-10-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 06:05:56PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >As last year's event went so well, I've decided to organise another >mini-DebConf in Cambridge this year. Again, my employer ARM is going >to host the conference for 4 days in November: > > * 2 days for

Re: Alternative proposal (+call for seconds): Expire 2-R members every year

2014-12-06 Thread Steve Langasek
ues to serve as long as they are comfortable doing so. Did you consider this corner case in your analysis? If you think this corner case is less important than the risk of high turnover in the TC, could you elaborate why you think this? Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me

Re: About the recent DD retirements

2015-01-24 Thread Steve Langasek
r Java, I'm afraid I've taken to embedding the ABI version in the > filename. AKA: ELF shared library semantics, reinvented 20 years behind schedule. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

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

2015-02-12 Thread Steve Langasek
but it seems to be the best we've come up with so far. People who complain about the value of ID checks never seem to offer anything *better*, they only propose eliminating them and weakening our standards. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS D

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

2015-02-13 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 09:19:29AM +1000, Russell Stuart wrote: > On Thu, 2015-02-12 at 10:57 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > I'm surprised no one else has brought up this point yet: part of the reason > > for using cryptographic PKI (web of trust; SSL CAs; etc) is to elim

Re: What do you expect from the DPL?

2015-02-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
that it'll often be happening in hours that don't suit at all - people pop on irc at the worst times... :-) -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com The two hard things in computing: * naming things * cache invalidation * off-by-one errors

Re: Wiki

2015-05-25 Thread Steve Langasek
o access, but https://wiki.debian.org is up and running. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ s

Re: Installation DVD - jigdo

2015-07-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
? You may now delete all those files if you have all the ISO images. They're just the jigdo working files that have been left behind. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "This dress doesn't reverse." -- Alden Spiess -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

cdimage?? What should we call it?

2015-08-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
it's also likely to confuse people into looking there for pictures... :-) Please reply and let's see if we can come up with a better name. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "I can't ever sleep on planes ... call it irrational if you

Re: cdimage?? What should we call it?

2015-08-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 05:09:19PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Hey folks, > We called our main installer images distribution site > cdimage.debian.org a long time ago, when that was all it published and > most people downloaded images of CDs. Ummm. Things have moved on in >

Re: cdimage?? What should we call it?

2015-08-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 01:04:17PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: >On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 09:19:07AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Steve McIntyre writes: >> >> > We called our main installer images distribution site >> > cdimage.debian.org a long time ago, w

Re: cdimage?? What should we call it?

2015-08-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 08:34:56PM +0200, Hideki Yamane wrote: >On Tue, 18 Aug 2015 18:15:46 +0200 >Steve Langasek wrote: >> - get.debian.org > > I prefer this since easy to understand and type :) I think it's a cool name, and my clear favourite thus far. :-) -- Steve

Future release roadmap

2015-08-21 Thread Vogel, Steve
general how frequently do these releases come out? Many thanks for any planning guidance you can provide. Steve Vogel Program Manager, Data Center Group Intel Corporation 780 Fifth Avenue, Suite 140 King of Prussia, PA 19406 steve.vo...@intel.com<mailto:steve.vo...@intel.com> Office: 609-95

Re: cdimage?? What should we call it?

2015-08-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 05:09:19PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >Hey folks, > >We called our main installer images distribution site >cdimage.debian.org a long time ago, when that was all it published and >most people downloaded images of CDs. Ummm. Things have moved on in >the

Mini-DebConf in Cambridge, UK - November 5-8 2015

2015-09-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
ps://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/gb/2015/MiniDebConfCambridge -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "We're the technical experts. We were hired so that management could ignore our recommendations and tell us how to do our jobs." -- Mike

Re: [Debian-uk] Mini-DebConf in Cambridge, UK - November 5-8 2015

2015-10-07 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 03:24:03PM +0100, Paul Waring wrote: >On 14/09/15 15:08, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> I'm also hoping to find sponsors again to cover some other costs for >> the conference for things like food - please contact me if you can >> help! > >I pr

Re: vmdebootstrap sprint report

2015-11-10 Thread Steve McIntyre
for other clouds too). As far as I >> know, this plan to also provide official Debian VM images was not >> discussed with those parties. >> >> It's a bit a pity to see the existing efforts just discarded. > >I *really* hope that there is some kind of misunderstand

Re: Namespace question - data.debian.org

2015-12-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
other names to use. Examples of URLs >that would appear under this domain would be: To me, they sound more like *metadata* maybe: metadata.debian.{net,org} maybe? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Who needs computer imagery when you've got Brian Blessed?

Re: Renaming the Debian Project

2015-12-30 Thread Steve Langasek
no cause for accusing Ian of "white supremacy" when all the evidence suggests he desired to see civil rights abuses corrected for the good of all. His memory deserves better than this. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Re: Frustrated

2016-02-01 Thread Steve Langasek
nal > poster has a whole bunch of misinformation (and I'm sorry that they had a > bad experience with jessie), but I have no idea what this specific point > could even mean. My guess was that this was a reference to the availability of Debian images for Microsoft Azure. -- Steve Lang

Re: another bulk order of kilts for debconf17? Was: New Debian kilts

2016-09-01 Thread Steve McIntyre
e sensible to >see placing an order for a few quilts with Burnett & Struth's ? Could do, maybe. I was also up in Edinburgh a couple of weekends back with Andy, and we spoke to one of the companies up there too. He's got the details and I'll let him post more info... :-) -- Steve M

Re: If Debian support OS certification?

2017-05-03 Thread Steve McIntyre
d non-free firmware for some part of the >system. We would basically only be able to certify RYF devices and may >as well just require FSF RYF certification up-front before a system >can be certified for Debian use. Are you really claiming that systems already shipped with *firmware included* can&#x

Re: Debian contributor Register of Interests

2017-05-11 Thread Steve McIntyre
the wiki page history. > >Well, it's a bit awkward. And it just shows you the last edit, not >the last time the user themselves thought it was up to date. We can check for the last edit by the person in question, which should cover that I hope! -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Re: should debian comment about the recent 'ransomware' malware.

2017-05-16 Thread Steve Langasek
kporting. > > Ian. > > [1] The NHS has been seriously underfunded and can't afford to hire > enough good IT people (or indeed enough medics); and there has been a > drive to replace IT systems with massive centralised IT disaster > projects, which has starved existing syste

Re: Request for official help

2017-07-31 Thread Steve McIntyre
lack of EANs for those products. > >6. This is without predjudice, of course, to our right to enforce our >trademarks against anyone found violating our trademark policy. We >are simply saying that lack of an EAN is, in itself, completely fine. > >Signed > >for the Debian P

Re: wiki.debian.org upgrade Saturday 28th October

2017-10-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
or an hour or two while the upgrade is in progress. - -- Steve McIntyre93...@debian.org Debian wiki admin - wiki.debian.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEzrtSMB1hfpEDkP4WWHl5VzRCaE4FAlnx9U8ACgkQWHl5VzRC aE4gWBAAuzUnBgsm2Kq44qDLEZGYeKTGfcdevU

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

2017-11-03 Thread Steve Langasek
nting on the process. Removing the opportunity to comment and the expectation of being listened to would make for a much less frustrating process. This doesn't address the question of Debian Developers feeling they haven't been heard. I'm hopeful that the other subthrea

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

2017-11-03 Thread Steve Langasek
er, the Technical Committee exists as a decision-making body of last resort, when consensus is not possible (because two parties have incompatible goals, or because discussion is not converging on agreement fast enough to matter). Do you believe that Debian should not have such a d

Re: UEFI Secure Boot sprint report

2018-05-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
ment. >> >> Is there any issue to apply such policy to grub2 package, or just not >> discussed yet? > >Either nobody's tried to discuss it with me yet or I missed the email. >Feel free to (preferably in the form of a patch I can review :-) ). At / shortly after th

Re: Censorship in Debian

2018-12-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
. Have you actually epoken to the anti-harassment team to enquire about their actions and supporting evidence before calling their methods and motivations into doubt here? Also: not wishing to pile on, but I also believe that you linking assassinations to the actions of the a-h team is downright tox

Re: Censorship in Debian

2018-12-28 Thread Steve Langasek
f anything else, this is not unconstitutional. The constitution gives the DPL the power to delegate decisions about approving and expelling developers; the DPL delegates this power to the DAM; thus any exercise of this power is constitutional. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever l

Re: Planet Debian revisions

2019-01-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
it's not >appropriate to use the planet to republish personal arguments or smear >campaigns. Sure, that would also be against the CoC, but it will make it >much more easier to remove posts that do things like that rather than >having to rely on an interpretation of the CoC every

On having and using a Code of Conduct

2019-01-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
us, nobody is perfect. Accept it, learn from it and move on. A mistake doesn't make you a *bad person*. What *does* cause problems is repeated digressions and a refusal to improve behaviour. There's a world of difference there. [1] https://www.debian.org/code_of_conduct -- Steve McI

Re: Compassion For Those Worried Whether They are Welcome

2019-01-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Jan 02, 2019 at 07:45:55AM -0500, Sam Hartman wrote: >>>>>> "Steve" == Steve McIntyre writes: > >Steve> For those trying to undermine it with statements like "I'm >Steve> worried I'll be thrown out of Debian if I make a

Re: Planet Debian revisions

2019-01-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
lf. > >"before" or "instead" ? "instead" is better, I think. >> """ > >It all sounds good. Yup! >> On #6 I was tempted to add "When a blog is removed, the committer should >> add a comment listing the posts t

Re: Censorship in Debian

2019-01-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
y >> with Government censorship, > >This action was not performed by the community, but by an Official >acting Debian's behalf. Consequently, it _was_ government censorship. Rubbish. A refusal by Debian to publish on somebody's behalf is not at all the same as gover

Re: Censorship in Debian

2019-01-05 Thread Steve Langasek
e will also be unjustly persecuted for doing something that he didn't know was wrong. But just as with the #HimToo movement, this isn't supported by the actual data. Over two decades of Debian history and hundreds of white men, and only one has found himself expelled by the project for th

Re: Expulsions Policy

2019-01-05 Thread Steve Langasek
't the change I was asking for as they > mostly do it now. I was asking for something entirely different - > transparency. Should we also require a detailed opinion from the DAM for each person who is admitted to the project, or only for those that were once admitted bu

Re: Censorship in Debian

2019-01-05 Thread Steve Langasek
ks on developers' character, integrity, or technical competence There is no expectation that everyone agree with every technical decision in Debian. The only expectation is that they engage constructively in spite of any disagreements. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long en

Re: Censorship in Debian

2019-01-07 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 01:47:41PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: > On 1/7/19 10:57 AM, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Miles Fidelman writes ("Re: Censorship in Debian"): > > > On 1/6/19 1:38 AM, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > > [systemd stuff] > > > [sys

Re: Censorship in Debian

2019-01-10 Thread Steve Langasek
sidual decency to not open their fat mouths and argue in public that people don't *deserve* to have access to food and clean water, whereas there is a quite high number of assholes who feel no shame at treating someone as less-than on the basis of irrelevant intrinsic characteristics. So, you know,

Re: enforcement first, ask questions later?

2019-02-03 Thread Steve Langasek
is necessary in order to limit any ongoing damage. If you don't understand this, then it is unsurprising to me if enforcement escalates. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, an

Re: kindly link to my website www.market99.com

2019-05-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
gt;help us build a strong foundation to ensure our website reaches the right >audience and ranks highly on search results. > >Feel free to reach out to me in case of any further questions. > >Looking forward to your cooperation. > >Regards, >Vineet >[] -- Steve McIntyr

Re: Realizing Good Ideas with Debian Money

2019-06-01 Thread Steve McIntyre
d money that shouldn't affect us so much. The areas in question are those where we struggle to find any/sufficient volunteer effort to do what we need - bureaucracy etc. Volunteer book-keepers are few and far between, IME. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "When C++ is your hammer, everything looks like a thumb." -- Steven M. Haflich

Sprint report from the AH/DAM/DPL Sprint, 22/23 June 2019

2019-07-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
, and maybe warn people that some things cannot always be kept confidential. We discussed some more about keeping / sharing contact lists with other FLOSS/colunteer organisations. There clearly isn't a central list here - could we work with others to make one for FLOSS orgs at least? Should we add communi

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

2019-07-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
as part of the upstream git repo(s) somewhere else, for example. It's a good thing to encourage salsa usage (and I agree 100% with that for most things), but let's not argue about making things mandatory please. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@

Re: Using Debian funds to support a gcc development task

2019-09-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
to >Debian, that contribute in other areas as well, I might be persuaded >otherwise. Agreed on all of this. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Is there anybody out there?

Re: coccia.debian.org maintenance (moving the VM from BM to UBC)

2019-10-07 Thread Steve Robbins
There seems to be a lot of such migrations. Is there a wholesale move to UBC? Or away from Bytemark? On October 7, 2019 3:52:47 a.m. CDT, Julien Cristau wrote: >Hi folks, > >We will move the coccia.d.o VM (aka api.ftp-master.d.o, >mirror.ftp-master.d.o) from Bytemark to UBC soon. Expect a few

Community Team - where we want to go

2019-10-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
e expressing the views of the Community Team. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "When C++ is your hammer, everything looks like a thumb." -- Steven M. Haflich

Re: Community Team - where we want to go

2019-10-11 Thread Steve McIntyre
ther respond to grouped things together than spam the list N times here. I hope I've responded to people's points reasonably in this summary; If you think otherwise then please point it out. On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 10:08:55AM +0200, Mathias Behrle wrote: >* Steve McIntyre: " C

Re: debian.org mail handling updates

2019-10-22 Thread Steve McIntyre
..] > >> Adam >> wrangling exim on behalf of DSA > >Thank you! +1 - many thanks! Running a large mail system is not any easy thing to do - it's really appreciated. :-) -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "... the premise

Re: Some thoughts about Diversity and the CoC

2019-12-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
at right. Why does your chosen "world view" need defending inside Debian? Why does your opinion trump somebody else's sense of identity? You have the right to *think* whatever you like, but we ask that you respect other people when you're trying to work with them or eng

Re: Some thoughts about Diversity and the CoC

2019-12-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
you're ever unsure about how you're expressing something or whether something crosses a line, or to be reassured that you are a valuable, welcome member of the community, please drop us a line at commun...@debian.org and we'll do what we can to assist. [1]: https://www.debian.org/code_of

Re: Some thoughts about Diversity and the CoC

2019-12-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
just reading about the same ruling on the BBC - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-50858919) -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "This dress doesn't reverse." -- Alden Spiess

Re: Some thoughts about Diversity and the CoC

2019-12-21 Thread Steve Langasek
T people. If > that's in conflict with Debian's code of conduct, so be it. Seconded. There is not room in the Debian Project for both me and transphobes, and I would rather see the Debian Project end than be a safe haven for transphobia. -- Steve Langasek G

Re: Merry Christmas more debian private leaks

2019-12-25 Thread Steve Langasek
7;s private correspondence from 20 years ago. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer https://www.debian

Re: are Debian mentors nuts? the DebConf scandal

2019-12-28 Thread Steve Langasek
these questions seriously and would not remain silent if we were aware something like what you describe was going on. The parsimonious explanation is that the ex-DD who has now been engaged in a campaign of harassment against members of the project for over a year is materially misrepr

Re: Announcing miniDebConf Montreal 2020 -- August 6th to August 9th 2020

2020-02-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
unnecessary negativity, in my opinion. It's easy enough to simply announce an event *without* this. It's another Debian event, we have lots of them every year. There's no need for further complaint. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, Tongue-tied & twisted, Just an earth-bound misfit, I...

Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian

2020-04-08 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Apr 08, 2020 at 08:50:00PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > >(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.) Agreed! (as a wiki

Re: Testing Discourse for Debian

2020-04-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
that doesn't mean it's guaranteed to be the best possible way to communicate *ever*. Hell, there's a strong confirmation bias here too - how many potentially great future developers have we lost at a very early stage because our email-centric workflow didn't appeal to them initially? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com You raise the blade, you make the change... You re-arrange me 'til I'm sane...

Re: Draft Delegation for the Community Team

2020-04-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
ng with individuals to help > them. > >I need an ack from at least one member of the CT, a NACK from any member >of the CT will be blocking, and of course comments from the larger >community are welcome. > >If I get an ACK and no other blocking issues come up, my next ste

Re: Draft Delegation for the Community Team

2020-04-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
ortly, and we have another new volunteer who is going through the onboarding process with us right now. >In conclusion, I do not think this delegation is going to be effective >in helping the CT become a sustainable and useful vehicle to better >our community. Thanks for your feedback. -- S

Re: ThinkPad laptops preinstalled Linux

2020-06-03 Thread Steve McIntyre
possible, but the biggest challenge is probably to >get the right contact to talk with. Do we have such a contact ? We do, yes. There's a Lenovo engineer working with a few people and getting more involved in Debian atm. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Welcome my son, welcome to the machine.

Re: [External] Re: ThinkPad laptops preinstalled Linux

2020-06-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
use the install disk as an all around rescue disk. You can - there's a "rescue mode" if you look in the boot menus... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "I suspect most samba developers are already technically insane... Of course, since many of them are Australians, you can't tell." -- Linus Torvalds

Re: jigdo debian live-cd

2020-07-27 Thread Steve McIntyre
hfs where packages are already installed directly. The two are incompatible. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "When C++ is your hammer, everything looks like a thumb." -- Steven M. Haflich

Re: Potential Summary: Keysigning in times of COVID-19

2020-08-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
uld also be elsewhere. You might struggle to get police to pick up the *case*, but... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com < liw> everything I know about UK hotels I learned from "Fawlty Towers"

Re: Debian artwork Bullseye - not allowed ?

2020-08-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
I use this >service, and it happens just after I tried to create an account. > >I will wait a reply from www team. Please mail w...@debian.org with details of your IP address and we can help. (You may want to drop the CCs elsewhere if you care about privacy). -- Steve McIntyre

Re: Debian artwork Bullseye - not allowed ?

2020-08-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
reate an account and I was >blocked directly after account creation trying. > >Many thanks to the whole team. > >See you. > >JC > >On 14/08/2020 12:46, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >Hi! > >On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 10:58:54AM +0200, JCZ wrote: > >Hello

Re: Results of the salsa sprint

2020-11-29 Thread Steve McIntyre
Nod. The -team suffix works really well for me, similarly. I'll be honest, it also gives me a warm fuzzy feeling about namespace. :-) For me these days, lots of Debian work is concentrated into teams so the -team suffix for groups helps to organise and demonstrate that team structure.

forums.debian.net - who's in charge?

2021-03-29 Thread Steve McIntyre
he wiki at https://wiki.debian.org/DebianNetDomains but LDAP suggests that Ganneff might have once touched it. Is anybody still in charge of the service? If not, maybe we should shut it down or remove the DNS records for it rather than pretend it's a good/safe place for our users. --

Re: forums.debian.net - who's in charge?

2021-03-29 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 07:58:33AM -0700, Felix Lechner wrote: >Hi, > >On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 7:34 AM Steve McIntyre <93...@debian.org> wrote: >> >> It's better to do something about >> that up-front (ideally by provoking people to step up) than wait for &g

Re: forums.debian.net - who's in charge?

2021-03-29 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 07:17:30AM -0700, Felix Lechner wrote: >Hi, > >On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 6:33 AM Steve McIntyre <93...@debian.org> wrote: >> >> If not, maybe we should >> shut it down or remove the DNS records for it rather than pretend it's >> a

Re: Cancel "culture" is a threat to Debian

2021-03-30 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 06:56:49PM +1100, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: > Cancel "culture" arrived in Debian and it threatens the project: https://davidblixtauthor.medium.com/cancel-culture-and-responsibility-b5b8065c3cbd -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough

Re: forums.debian.net - who's in charge?

2021-03-30 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hey Donald, On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 01:32:32PM -0400, Donald Norwood wrote: >On 3/29/21 11:03 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 07:58:33AM -0700, Felix Lechner wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 7:34 AM Steve McIntyre <93...@d

Re: forums.debian.net - who's in charge?

2021-03-30 Thread Steve McIntyre
about toxic behaviour and attitudes on the forums. Simply put, bad behaviour there is hurting users and giving Debian a bad name. Neither of those are acceptable for a service that many of our users believe is part of (and run by) Debian. If anybody has contact details for the existing admins,

Re: forums.debian.net - who's in charge?

2021-03-30 Thread Steve McIntyre
ting to expose anyone's >contact details who may or may not want them so) so that the current admins can >be involved, if they wish. Thanks Martin, that's very helpful! -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com There's no sensation to compare with this Suspended animation, A state of bliss

Re: Tone policing by a member of the community team [Was, Re: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board]

2021-04-06 Thread Steve Langasek
ignore, I am sure it will not change your daily life in your > > > team or in the project. Or wait some hours before doing it. But again, > > > such > > > wordings are unacceptable, regardless the topic itself and the ideas. Keep > > > in mind you speak publicl

Re: Diversity in an international project

2021-04-07 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 07:44:01PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: >On Tue, Apr 06, 2021 at 01:23:11PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: >>... >> Debian's diversity statement commits us to be welcoming to all people >> regardless of who they *are*. >> >> It does *not

Re: Debian should not engage in politics and stay neutral [was: This is not the direction that will lead to hearing each other]

2021-04-09 Thread Steve Langasek
Internet, the Free Software movement would not have taken off. Should we therefore put Bill Gates on a pedestal due to his historic contributions to the rise of Free Software, ignoring all negatives? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Fr

Re: Tone policing by a member of the community team [Was, Re: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board]

2021-04-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
are surely not going to fit those standards. Do you somehow think they're compatible? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com You lock the door And throw away the key There's someone in my head but it's not me

Re: Tone policing by a member of the community team [Was, Re: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board]

2021-04-13 Thread Steve Langasek
ened outside the context of Debian work, or that this individual had no opportunity to assault people inside of Debian. The same applies to other, "lesser" behaviors that invalidate the innate dignity of other members of the project. A committment to keep one's mouth shut in a Debian c

Re: My first spam on lastname-firstn...@debian.org address.

2021-06-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
lled first and last name information also has this >alias. > >This is not so important on my side but made me curious, so feel free to >take plenty of time before answering. It's using a fairly standard suffix rule, based on your username. You can add + or -

Re: Debian and GitLab Open Source Partnership

2021-07-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
stem that requires use of non-free >components. > >Obviously packages in non-free don't need to comply with the DFSG, no >matter whether including in the archive or on BluRay images. Can we please stop exploring this rabbit hole until after the bullseye release? -- Steve McIntyre,

Re: Regarding Debian-RC release

2021-08-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
ny further package updates needed. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Welcome my son, welcome to the machine.

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