As a developer, how do you embody the spirit and culture that has made
Debian a great operating system?
If elected DPL, how will you inspire the same in others?
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Debian Developer to set it on, and I ca
Le Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 06:49:51PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst a écrit :
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> Charles:
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> In your platform, in the "Program" section, you mention four ideas that
> could reasonable be described as being about the things that,
> respectively, the DAM and NM frontdesk, the ftp-masters, and the Release
>
Dmitrijs Ledkovs writes:
> 2. If tarball is not redistributable
> It belongs in non-free, or must be repackaged to become redistributable
I think people are missing the degree of complexity in this. For
instance, files included the source tarball that aren't used by the Debian
build but are un
Very interesting thread.
== In short ==
tarballs must be redistributable, unpacked debian source package
should be DFSG-free, debian binary package must be DFSG-free.
== Long ==
1. Upstream tarball is not debian source
Cause you cannot build/run/understand anything if you just have a
bunch of t
Le Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 12:03:32PM -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit :
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> For whatever it's worth, I believe the second option changes the
> foundation documents and would require a 3:1 majority. The person who's
> canonical on that is the Secretary.
Dear Russ, Stefano, Wouter and Margarita.
I would
Le Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 12:04:01PM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor a écrit :
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> "Our users" includes not only an individual with a single computer who
> never sees the source, but also derivative distributions, private
> organizations, system administrators, etc, all of whom may need to
> modify the s
I think that one of issues we have is that there is alot of work
to be done by some teams, some of them even regularaly mail that
they need more members, but they seem to have a hard time keeping
the numbers up, burning the other team members out.
What are your ideas to make sure those teams keep
> The second option aims at clarifying what is the source of the Debian
> operating
> system. It is controversial.
It is a lot but not controversial, actually its pretty clear.
For that statement alone *I* hope NOTA will have a big win over you,
sorry. It shows you are way off with actual projec
Charles Plessy writes:
> The second option aims at clarifying what is the source of the Debian
> operating system. It is controversial. Despite it does not change our
> fundation documents, I think that a GR would be needed to make sure that
> there is a general agreement.
For whatever it's wort
Hi Wouter--
You probably didn't mean to have this to come out this way, but:
On 03/23/2010 01:49 PM, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> Charles:
>
> In your platform, in the "Program" section, you mention four ideas that
> could reasonable be described as being about the things that,
> respectively, the D
So, since part of the reason that I joined the race was to make sure it
wouldn't get too boring, I was hoping there'd be a bit more life on this
list. Since there isn't, allow me to ask a few questions myself.
Oh, and before anyone asks: hey, I can vote too, and we have a Condorcet
voting system.
On 03/23/2010 11:03 AM, Charles Plessy wrote:
> The second option aims at clarifying what is the source of the Debian
> operating
> system. It is controversial.
To some of us, "the Debian operating system" is at least as much about
the packaged source as it is about the packaged binaries.
If y
Hi Charles,
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 12:03:00AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> The second option aims at clarifying what is the source of the Debian
> operating system. It is controversial.
I would like to say, for the record, that I believe you've lost track of
what lives in Debian if you claim t
Le Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 01:01:40PM -0700, Manoj Srivastava a écrit :
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> If we want to change our foundation documents, and remove the
> awoval to the concept of being 100% free, or to say that Debian, and
> thus the parts of Debian covered by the DFSG, are just the binary bits,
> then
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