Re: Discussion on eventual transition away from source packages

2019-03-22 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Fri 22 Mar 2019 at 09:32AM +01, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 21/03/19 at 18:57 +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: >> Also, it will be a drastical change and has many far reaching >> consequences and needs lots of work nefore we are near it. > > I'm probably missing something, but it doesn't soun

Re: Is free software political?

2019-03-22 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Jonathan Carter [2019-03-21 21:23]: > 1. Do you think that free software is inherently political? Do you think > there's place for politics in free software? Maybe you define "politics" in a different way to me (and maybe I mix it up with what would better be describes as "philosophy"), but the

Re: Questions about "Winding down my Debian involvement"

2019-03-22 Thread Michael Stapelberg
On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 2:31 PM Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi Michael, > > On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 10:43:06PM +0100, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > > The rsync discussion happened in private mail, so there’s no paper trail > of > > that, sorry. > > > > I did supply a patch, as described in the article,

Re: Questions about "Winding down my Debian involvement"

2019-03-22 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Michael, On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 10:43:06PM +0100, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > The rsync discussion happened in private mail, so there’s no paper trail of > that, sorry. > > I did supply a patch, as described in the article, and the maintainer > refused it. BTW, this is a good example that it

Re: Questions about "Winding down my Debian involvement"

2019-03-22 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Jonathan, [sorry for frequently breaking the thread - I'm answering to web-archive] On Wed, 20 Mar 2019 Jonathan Dowland wrote: > Imagine you had a team that, > within the team, had standardised on (say) SVN and cdbs. Whenever that > team picked up a new package, they then used SVN and cdbs fo

Re: Discussion on eventual transition away from source packages

2019-03-22 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 15349 March 1977, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: I'm probably missing something, but it doesn't sound like a lot of work to me? It's "just" a service that: Same here: You think about just something that keeps the traditional layout around. If one does that, yes, that service isn't too hard. I was th

Re: Discussion on eventual transition away from source packages

2019-03-22 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi! On 2019/03/22 10:41, Andreas Tille wrote: > So you really insist in hiding this interesting topic on debian-vote > rather to switch to debian-devel? > Reply-To was set again to debian-devel ... I think it's a great topic and even as I'm reading about it I'm tempted to see if I can implement a

Re: Discussion on eventual transition away from source packages

2019-03-22 Thread Andreas Tille
So you really insist in hiding this interesting topic on debian-vote rather to switch to debian-devel? Reply-To was set again to debian-devel ... On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 09:32:55AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 21/03/19 at 18:57 +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > Also, it will be a drastical chan

Re: Discussion on eventual transition away from source packages

2019-03-22 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 21/03/19 at 18:57 +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > Also, it will be a drastical change and has many far reaching > consequences and needs lots of work nefore we are near it. I'm probably missing something, but it doesn't sound like a lot of work to me? It's "just" a service that: - gets notified o

Re: Is free software political?

2019-03-22 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 21/03/19 at 23:04 +0200, Jonathan Carter wrote: > I do think that we should perhaps also be more diligent when > considering non-technical consequences of our decisions. I'm curious: can you give an example here? Lucas