Re: Can you all please stop?

2014-10-31 Thread Marco d'Itri
r...@debian.org wrote: >Also, adopting systemd has been far from "easy." Just ask the systemd >maintenance team in Debian, who I am sure are seriously questioning why >they ever wanted to be the default init system right about now given all >the work it entails! Not really, I want that because it

Re: Can you all please stop?

2014-10-31 Thread Russ Allbery
Andrew McGlashan writes: > On 1/11/2014 4:20 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: >> I find this "giving in" language mystifying. Have you bought into this >> idea that there's some sort of marketing campaign? Because as near as >> I can tell that's a conspiracy theory for which I see little support. >> As

Re: Can you all please stop?

2014-10-31 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 1/11/2014 4:20 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: > I find this "giving in" language mystifying. Have you bought into this > idea that there's some sort of marketing campaign? Because as near as I > can tell that's a conspiracy theory for which I see littl

Re: Can you all please stop?

2014-10-31 Thread Russ Allbery
Andrew McGlashan writes: > The trouble is that the "hedgehogs" seem to be going for the /easy/ > option of giving in to systemd, I find this "giving in" language mystifying. Have you bought into this idea that there's some sort of marketing campaign? Because as near as I can tell that's a cons

Re: Can you all please stop?

2014-10-31 Thread Steve Kostecke
Russ Allbery said: >Andrew McGlashan writes: > >> If upstream is the problem, then they need lobbying; just accepting what >> upstream does is a very serious problem > >I think this is an interesting statement. Personally, I would turn it on >its head. > >I believe that the core, beautiful, exci

Re: Can you all please stop?

2014-10-31 Thread Miles Fidelman
Andrew McGlashan wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 31/10/2014 4:20 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: I believe that the core, beautiful, exciting thing that we do inside Debian, and that any other excellent Linux distribution does, is exactly accepting what upstream does. Not acc

Re: ConsoleKit has been forked

2014-10-31 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2014-10-31, Ivan Kharlamov wrote: > Hi! > > Many DD's in their recent posts to debian-vote were assuming that > ConsoleKit development has stopped and the component is deprecated. As > far as I can tell, today it it not the case. > > One of the Xfce developers has forked it and is planning to m

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

2014-10-31 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 06:07:20PM +0900, Tristan Van Berkom wrote: > Is systemd the problem or is the GNOME Desktop Environment[0] ? Could you maybe address this within GNOME first instead of on Debian? Going to Debian because you have a concern within GNOME seems rather counter productive. First

Re: Can you all please stop?

2014-10-31 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 04:06:38PM +1100, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > > I must note that this is a list of "Voting announcements and discussion" > > and not yet another place where people, many of them non-DD and thus not > > entitled to vote or take part in the pre-vote procedures, could endlessly >

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

2014-10-31 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 11:02:22PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > I should not have mentioned any company at` all, sorry :( That would be the first step, yes. -- WBR, wRAR -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas

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

2014-10-31 Thread Tristan Van Berkom
On Fri, 2014-10-31 at 09:37 +0530, Rustom Mody wrote: > On Thu, 30 Oct 2014 16:54:33 +0900 Tristan van Berkom wrote: > > [Disclaimer: I am not a debian developer myself and probably do not have > > the right to vote here, I am however a long time contributor and > > maintainer in GNOME who has be

ConsoleKit has been forked

2014-10-31 Thread Ivan Kharlamov
Hi! Many DD's in their recent posts to debian-vote were assuming that ConsoleKit development has stopped and the component is deprecated. As far as I can tell, today it it not the case. One of the Xfce developers has forked it and is planning to maintain it until systembsd matures. Possibly, even

Re: Can you all please stop?

2014-10-31 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Andrew McGlashan: > The trouble is that the "hedgehogs" seem to be going for the /easy/ > option of giving in to systemd, rather that thinking about what is > actually best in the interests for their works ... perhaps systemd is > the best for them because it is becoming the "tyranny of the de