Re: How is the original tarball obtained in tag2upload

2024-06-17 Thread Antonio Terceiro
On Fri, Jun 14, 2024 at 02:35:24PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Phil Morrell writes: > > > It's been my impression [citation needed] that pristine-tar/lfs still > > exists mainly out of inertia and simple tooling around it that makes it > > more of a why not. If we're gaining a mostly git-native

Re: Changing how we handle non-free firmware

2022-08-23 Thread Antonio Terceiro
On Tue, Aug 23, 2022 at 10:53:46AM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: > "Andrew M.A. Cater" writes: > > > In practice, the free installer is useless on its own. > > That is not my experience -- I'm using Debian through its installer on a > number of laptops, desktops and servers, and for my purposes

Re: General Resolution: Liquidate donated assets as soon as possible

2022-06-20 Thread Antonio Terceiro
On Sun, Jun 19, 2022 at 10:37:44AM -0400, Milan Kupcevic wrote: > On 6/18/22 19:43, Louis-Philippe Véronneau wrote: > > Under 4.1.5 of the Constitution, the developers by way of GR are the > > body who has the power to issue nontechnical statements. > > > > This is a proposal for Debian to create

Re: GR Ballot Option: Allow, but do not require, secret voting

2022-03-03 Thread Antonio Terceiro
On Wed, Mar 02, 2022 at 09:54:40PM -0500, Tiago Bortoletto Vaz wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Mar 02, 2022 at 07:46:16PM -0300, Antonio Terceiro wrote: > [...] > > > I have argued against this notion that private votes in some way > > contradicts our principles of tra

Re: GR Ballot Option: Allow, but do not require, secret voting

2022-03-02 Thread Antonio Terceiro
On Tue, Mar 01, 2022 at 11:13:03PM -0500, Harlan Lieberman-Berg wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I propose the following ballot option for the current GR: > > Rationale > > While I agree that there are some votes which, due to their nature, > may be so controversial that the potential for a

Re: Informal Discussion: Identities of Voters Casting a Particular Ballot are No Longer Public

2022-02-18 Thread Antonio Terceiro
On Fri, Feb 18, 2022 at 01:13:50PM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Sun, 2022-02-13 at 14:28:44 -0700, Sam Hartman wrote: > > This starts informal discussion of a proposed general resolution to > > amend the constitution. I am not seeking sponsors at this time. > > Comments including support or al

Re: Informal Discussion: Identities of Voters Casting a Particular Ballot are No Longer Public

2022-02-17 Thread Antonio Terceiro
On Sun, Feb 13, 2022 at 02:28:44PM -0700, Sam Hartman wrote: > Rationale > = > > During the vote for GR_2021_002o, several developers said they were > uncomfortable voting because under the process at that time, their name > and ballot ranking would be public. > A number of participants in

Re: Informal Discussion: Identities of Voters Casting a Particular Ballot are No Longer Public

2022-02-14 Thread Antonio Terceiro
On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 02:55:45PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > Antonio Terceiro writes: > > > On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 12:01:43PM +0100, Thomas Goirand wrote: > >> On 2/14/22 10:36, Philip Hands wrote: > >> > I don't actually care if our votes are readable

Re: Informal Discussion: Identities of Voters Casting a Particular Ballot are No Longer Public

2022-02-14 Thread Antonio Terceiro
On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 12:01:43PM +0100, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 2/14/22 10:36, Philip Hands wrote: > > I don't actually care if our votes are readable by the general public, > > so would one way of addressing the concerns of attracting abuse would be > > to make the tally sheet only available

Re: [draft] Cancel this year's in-person Debian Developers Conference DebConf20

2020-05-22 Thread Antonio Terceiro
On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 02:40:55PM +0200, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > This is a draft for a GR I would like to propose. > > Cancel this year's in-person Debian Developers Conference DebConf20 > -- As said in the DebConf website, the decision of holding DebConf20 in-person is yet to be mad

My analysis of the proposals

2019-12-01 Thread Antonio Terceiro
First of all, I would like to thank those who took the time to make proposals. This is a very draining issue, and I thought more than twice about saying something about it publicly at all. I hope that this is useful. My position --- I think systemd is better than anything that came befor

Re: Alternative proposal: reaffirm maintainers technical competence over the software they maintain

2014-10-18 Thread Antonio Terceiro
triggering the General Resolution override clause > in the TC's resolution of the 11th of February. > > The TC's decision on the default init system for Linux in jessie stands > undisturbed. > > However, the TC resolution is altered to add the additional text above > in sections #1, #2 and #3. > > ** End Proposal ** Seconded. -- Antonio Terceiro signature.asc Description: Digital signature