Re: Question to all candidates: how is Debian doing?

2025-04-08 Thread Sergio Durigan Junior
On Friday, April 04 2025, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 04/04/25 at 11:35 +, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: >> >What are the recent successes I might have missed? >> >> Server adoption, market share, reproducibility efforts, gdb symbols >> handling... > > Regarding gdb symbols handling, could you

Debian's position in the AI Era (Was: Re: Why Debian is dying (Was: Call for volunteers and GR draft: tag2upload key installation)

2025-04-08 Thread M. Zhou
On Sat, 2025-04-05 at 12:41 +0200, Daniel Gröber wrote: > Hi Ian, Hi all, > > We all know Debian is [dying], right? > > [dying]: https://salsa.debian.org/rafael/debian-contrib-years > > Observation 1: >     Young developers don't see Debian as a place where work gets done. > > Observation 2: >

Re: Call for volunteers and GR draft: tag2upload key installation

2025-04-08 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello Micha, Ansgar, After discussion with keyring-maint we're about to upload a new debian-tag2upload-keyring package to NEW and we'll upload it to backports-NEW as soon as it migrates. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Why Debian is dying

2025-04-08 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Tue 08 Apr 2025 at 01:09pm GMT, Holger Levsen wrote: > The Technical Committee may: > > Decide on any matter of technical policy. > Decide any technical matter where Developers' jurisdictions overlap. > Make a decision when asked to do so. > Overrule a Developer (require

Re: Why Debian is dying (Was: Call for volunteers and GR draft: tag2upload key installation)

2025-04-08 Thread Ian Jackson
Someone writes: > [the TC] seems] to be way more collaborative to me, than - once > again - immediatly escalating this to -vote and threatening a GR. Dear Community Team: I am getting very fed up of the repeated accusations, by multiple people, that we "immediately escalated" this to -vote. As w

Re: Why Debian is dying (Was: Call for volunteers and GR draft: tag2upload key installation)

2025-04-08 Thread Matthias Urlichs
On 08.04.25 15:09, Holger Levsen wrote: The Technical Committee may: [ list ] Sure. But exactly which of these items affords the power to fix the "ftpmaster doesn't implement what they said they'd do" problem? There was no technical disagreement, that was resolved last year. There was no de

Re: Why Debian is dying (Was: Call for volunteers and GR draft: tag2upload key installation)

2025-04-08 Thread Andreas Tille
I do not really want to post on this list inside voting period, but: Am Sun, Apr 06, 2025 at 11:24:15AM +0100 schrieb Ian Jackson: > We are waiting because the DPL won't authorise an "NMU", despite What? If you want more contributions from me, please switch to some different mailing list. Thank

Re: Why Debian is dying (Was: Call for volunteers and GR draft: tag2upload key installation)

2025-04-08 Thread Holger Levsen
On Sun, Apr 06, 2025 at 02:10:27PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Frankly, which other recourse does a DD have, in your opinion, if they think > a team is obstructing what they see as a valuable contribution to Debian and > the DPL (who arguably does have the authority to kick the whole FTP team