Re: Results for General Resolution: Lenny and resolving DFSG violations

2008-12-28 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 15:02 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > For example, having "non-free" in the archive and the BTS (and potentially > buildds and elsewhere) is implied by point (3) (ie, supporting Debian > users who choose to use non-free software to the best of our ability), > and potentially usi

Re: Results for General Resolution: Lenny and resolving DFSG violations

2008-12-28 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 08:45:16PM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 12:48:24AM +, Simon Huggins wrote: > > I wonder how many DDs were ashamed to vote the titled "Reaffirm the > > social contract" lower than the choices that chose to release. > I'm not ashamed at all; I joine

Re: Results for General Resolution: Lenny and resolving DFSG violations

2008-12-28 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
On Sun, 2008-12-28 at 20:45 -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 12:48:24AM +, Simon Huggins wrote: > > > > I wonder how many DDs were ashamed to vote the titled "Reaffirm the > > social contract" lower than the choices that chose to release. > > > > I'm not ashamed at all; I

Re: Results for General Resolution: Lenny and resolving DFSG violations

2008-12-28 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 11:54 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > Some members do not agree that the supermajority-required ballot > options actually required changes to the foundation documents, which > is not a comment on how those people think supermajority requirements > should be assigned. > I can only

Re: Results for General Resolution: Lenny and resolving DFSG violations

2008-12-28 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Anthony Towns wrote: > Anyway, despite something kinda close to advocacy for the FD option in > the second call for votes on d-d-a, FD lost convincingly to most of the > options on offer. So of any conclusions you might draw, the simplest, > safest and most easily justified seems to be "stop discus

Re: Results for General Resolution: Lenny and resolving DFSG violations

2008-12-28 Thread Theodore Tso
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 12:48:24AM +, Simon Huggins wrote: > > I wonder how many DDs were ashamed to vote the titled "Reaffirm the > social contract" lower than the choices that chose to release. > I'm not ashamed at all; I joined before the 1.1 revision to the Debian Social Contract, which

Re: Results for General Resolution: Lenny and resolving DFSG violations

2008-12-28 Thread Simon Huggins
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 01:07:33AM +, Clint Adams wrote: > On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 12:48:24AM +, Simon Huggins wrote: > > I thought FD was also a vote for "release Lenny" given it didn't change > > the status quo and before the GR the release team were quite happy to > > release... > If you

Re: Results for General Resolution: Lenny and resolving DFSG violations

2008-12-28 Thread Clint Adams
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 12:48:24AM +, Simon Huggins wrote: > I thought FD was also a vote for "release Lenny" given it didn't change > the status quo and before the GR the release team were quite happy to > release... If you believe that the release team had the authority to release lenny with

Re: Results for General Resolution: Lenny and resolving DFSG violations

2008-12-28 Thread Ben Finney
Thomas Bushnell BSG writes: > On Sun, 2008-12-28 at 09:05 +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > > What this voting seems to show is that […] the mixing up of the > > other options on this ballot and the way the supermajority > > requirements were set is problematic, and probably supporters of > > any oth

Re: Results for General Resolution: Lenny and resolving DFSG violations

2008-12-28 Thread Simon Huggins
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 02:45:29AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > Anyway, despite something kinda close to advocacy for the FD option in > the second call for votes on d-d-a, FD lost convincingly to most of > the options on offer. So of any conclusions you might draw, the > simplest, safest and most

Re: Results for General Resolution: Lenny and resolving DFSG violations

2008-12-28 Thread Andreas Barth
* Thomas Bushnell BSG (t...@becket.net) [081228 23:56]: > On Sun, 2008-12-28 at 09:05 +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > > What this voting seems to show is that clearly a majority doesn't want to > > stop the release of Lenny. What it also shows however is that the mixing up > > of the other options on

Re: Results for General Resolution: Lenny and resolving DFSG violations

2008-12-28 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
On Sun, 2008-12-28 at 09:05 +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > What this voting seems to show is that clearly a majority doesn't want to > stop the release of Lenny. What it also shows however is that the mixing up > of the other options on this ballot and the way the supermajority > requirements were s

Re: RFC: General resolution: Clarify the status of the social contract

2008-12-28 Thread Frank Küster
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Given that, I suggest we have a series of proposals and > amendments, each in a separate email, sponsored and seconded > independently, that could look something like this below: > > ,[ The Social contract is a binding contract ] > | The developers, via a g

Re: Results for General Resolution: Lenny and resolving DFSG violations

2008-12-28 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 09:08:04PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > Further discussion came sixth, beaten by between 95 votes (option 2), > and 11 votes (option 6), with Reaffirm the social contract last, defeated > by further discussion by 109 votes. Oh, a further thought came to mind. One way to si

Re: Results for General Resolution: Lenny and resolving DFSG violations

2008-12-28 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 02:57:37PM +0100, Toni Mueller wrote: > > Winner: Option 2: Allow Lenny to release with proprietary firmware > > considering all the problems around this particular GR, what's the best > way to just "undo" this GR and go back to square one instead? It seems to me the s

Re: Results for General Resolution: Lenny and resolving DFSG violations

2008-12-28 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, On Sun, 28.12.2008 at 21:08:04 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > If you consider the same results, without the supermajority requirements > for options 2, 3, 4 and 6, you get: > > Winner: Option 2: Allow Lenny to release with proprietary firmware considering all the problems around this p

Re: Results for General Resolution: Lenny and resolving DFSG violations

2008-12-28 Thread Andreas Barth
* Anthony Towns (a...@azure.humbug.org.au) [081228 11:51]: > [ difference between options 2 and 5] > It's possible that has no practical difference, in which case all the > furour over the running of the vote has no practical effect. Actually, if one reads the consitution the way I do (and where n

Re: Results for General Resolution: Lenny and resolving DFSG violations

2008-12-28 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 12:04:43AM +, devo...@vote.debian.org wrote: > In the following table, tally[row x][col y] represents the votes that > option x received over option y. > Option > 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 > === === === ===

Re: Results for General Resolution: Lenny and resolving DFSG violations

2008-12-28 Thread Andreas Barth
* devo...@vote.debian.org (devo...@vote.debian.org) [081228 00:47]: > Dropping Option 1 because of Majority. > (0.5176991150442477876106194690265486725664) 0.518 (117/226) < 1 > Dropping Option 2 because of Majority. > (1.736434108527131782945736434108527131783) 1.736 (224/129) < 3 > Dropping O