Re: Changing how we handle non-free firmware

2022-08-18 Thread Cyril Brulebois
stalled systems by default. As a general policy, we still do > not want to see other non-free software in use. Users may still enable > the existing non-free component if they need it. > > We also need to do the work to make this happen: > > * in d-i, live-boot and elsewhere to ma

Re: GR Proposal: replace "Chairman" with "Chair" throughout the Debian Constitution

2016-07-09 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Margarita Manterola (2016-07-08): > The Debian Constitution is very well written, in a way that is almost > completely > ungendered. The only gendered word left is the Chairman of the Technical > Committee. There is no reason for this position to be gendered. Ungendered > alternatives for Chair

Re: Proposed GR: Acknowledge that the debian-private list will remain private

2016-07-07 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Nicolas Dandrimont (2016-07-07): > In 2005, the body of Debian Developers passed a General Resolution[1] > requiring > the creation of a declassification team for the debian-private mailing list. > For the past ten years, the implementation of this GR has never materialized, > despite an explicit

Re: Rebuilding translations when needed (was: translation-check's maxdelta oddities)

2016-01-11 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Holger Wansing (2016-01-11): > Holger Wansing wrote: > > I have just committed this for the german d-i errata: > > > > > > --- errata.wml 28 Oct 2015 20:18:01 - 1.117 > > +++ errata.wml 5 Dec 2015 22:08:26 - > > @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@ > > #use wml::debian::template title="Debian-I

Rebuilding translations when needed (was: translation-check's maxdelta oddities)

2015-11-30 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, [ Initially a debian-boot vs. debian-www topic but I think vote.debian.org might be having a similar issue. ] Holger Wansing (2015-10-31): > Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > Could it be that images.data's being updated doesn't lead to a rebuild > > of the relevant tra

Re: Debian Project Leader Election 2015 Results

2015-05-24 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Enrico Zini (2015-05-24): > I have also implemented audit tracking of all changes to Person records > on nm.debian.org, which in turn allowed me to change the nightly > maintenance scripts to do more aggressive imports of changes from > keyrings and LDAP. > > I have also done quite a bit of manua

Re: GR proposal, Call for Seconds - term limit for the tech-ctte

2014-12-01 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Stefano Zacchiroli (2014-12-01): > === > The Constitution is amended as follows: > > --- > --- constitution.txt.orig 2014-11-17 18:02:53.314945907 +0

Re: GR proposal, Call for Seconds - term limit for the tech-ctte

2014-12-01 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Stefano Zacchiroli (2014-12-01): > === > The Constitution is amended as follows: > > --- > --- constitution.txt.orig 2014-11-17 18:02:53.314945907 +0

Re: Reducing the discussion and the voting period to 1 week

2014-10-22 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Lucas Nussbaum (2014-10-22): > On 17/10/14 at 10:01 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > But designing and tuning alternative proposals might take time, so I > > would prefer to wait a few days before reducing the discussion period, > > to ensure that we vote with a sensible ballot. I will decide in t

Re: Tentative summary of the amendments

2014-10-22 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Didier 'OdyX' Raboud (2014-10-22): > Le mercredi, 22 octobre 2014, 13.34:27 Ian Jackson a écrit : > > Jonas Smedegaard writes ("Re: Tentative summary of the amendments"): > > > I too find it wrong to interpret Ian's text as a war between > > > systemd and sysvinit - that's anything but "basically

Re: [Sorry Neil] Wording modification of the The ???no GR, please??? amendement.

2014-10-22 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Charles Plessy (2014-10-22): > > > The Debian project asks its members to be considerate when proposing General > Resolutions, as the GR process may be disruptive regardless of the outcome of > the vote. > > Regarding the s

Re: [Call for seconds] The “no GR, please“ amendement.

2014-10-20 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Charles Plessy (2014-10-19): > --- > > The Debian project asks its members to be considerate when proposing General > Resolutions, as the GR process may be disruptive regardless of the outcome of > the vote. > > Regarding th

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

2014-10-20 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Luca Falavigna (2014-10-18): > ** Begin Alternative Proposal ** > > 0. Rationale > > Debian has decided (via the Technical Committee) to change its > default init system for the next release. The Technical Committee > decided not to decide about the question of "coupling" i.e. whether >

Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-10-16 Thread Cyril Brulebois
gregor herrmann (2014-10-16): > On Thu, 16 Oct 2014 19:24:52 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > > > As Matthew said, I don't think further lengthy discussion of the > > > issues is likely to be productive, and therefore hope we can bring > > > this swiftly to a vote. This is particularly true

Re: Both DPL candidates: handling social conflict

2014-03-20 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Sorry for the slight hijack but: | Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 19:29:19 +0100 | From: Neil McGovern | To: debian-vote@lists.debian.org | Subject: Re: Both DPL candidates: handling social conflict | X-Mailer: Apple Mai

Re: GR proposal: code of conduct

2014-03-06 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Kurt Roeckx (2014-03-06): > On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 07:09:49PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Hmm. Looking at my original message in my MUA it says > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > which is not right. Perhaps your MUA has done a latin-1 to utf-8 > > encoding, meaning that yo

Re: To all candidates: which way out of the project ?

2013-03-19 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Charles Plessy (20/03/2013): > In Debian, we stay member until we die or quit (or very exceptionally, are > expelled). […] Or spotted as being MIA. This might help: http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/MIA Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [to all candidates] Accessible software in Debian

2013-03-18 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Vincent Cheng (18/03/2013): > Slightly off-topic, but since you bring up GNOME 3 as a specific > example of how Debian has regressed in terms of accessibility...how > exactly has GNOME regressed? It still has AFAIK the same set of > accessibility features [1] as it did previously with GNOME 2, and

Re: Call for vote - Diversity statement for the Debian Project

2012-05-19 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Amaya (19/05/2012): > The Reply-To isn't set. So what email address should my vote be sent > to? > > Thanks, and excuse the silly question. The vote isn't open yet. Wait for a ballot on dda/dv, from the secretary. ;) Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [Call for seconds] GR: diversity statement for the Debian Project

2012-05-07 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Francesca Ciceri (07/05/2012): > TEXT TO BE VOTED STARTS HERE > > The Debian Project welcomes and encourages participation by everyone. > > No matter how you identify yourself or how others perceive you: we > welcome you. We welcome contributions from everyone as long as they > interact

Re: Question to all Candidates: Who would you vote for?

2010-03-24 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi. Margarita Manterola (24/03/2010): > > Suppose that you would not run for DPL: Who would you vote and > > why? > > I would, and will, vote for all of them. I won't disclose the > particular order, but they'll all be above NOTA. That's a very interesting detail, thanks. Mraw, KiBi. signat

Re: Question for all candidates: Care of Core infrastructure

2010-03-15 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Marc Haber (15/03/2010): > Maybe we failed to provide such a "two-liner", which in fact is, > unfortunately, much more complicated than one might think naively. > Additionally, example code for policy-rc.d is (almost?) nonexistent. Maybe running reportbug would be more efficient than talking abou

Re: [Amendment] Reaffirm the GR process

2009-03-23 Thread Cyril Brulebois
(Dropping -devel…) Bill Allombert (23/03/2009): > Hello developers, > > I am hereby proposing the amendement below to the General resolution > entitled "Enhance requirements for General resolutions". > > PROPOSAL START > >

Re: Debian Project Leader Elections 2009: Call for nominations

2009-03-02 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Stefano Zacchiroli (02/03/2009): > PS oh gosh, I didn't realize how embarrassing can be to send the >"nominate myself" post until now :) I can guess, especially when one is the first to do so, showing to the whole world how power-greedy one is! :p Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Dig

Re: Results of the Lenny release GR

2009-01-12 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Robert Millan (12/01/2009): > And I lost count on how many times I repeated that, but will do as > long as necessary. We don't need that kind of behaviour *again*. Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: I hereby resign as secretary

2008-12-18 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Josselin Mouette (18/12/2008): > Le jeudi 18 décembre 2008 à 08:44 -0600, Manoj Srivastava a écrit : > > As to the people who emailed me that they are putting > > together a petition for the DAM to have me removed from the project, > > I hear you too. > > Regardless of what you did as th

Re: The Unofficial (and Very Simple) Lenny GR: call for votes

2008-12-15 Thread Cyril Brulebois
John H. Robinson, IV (15/12/2008): > I support the right or priviledge of a researcher to run a poll on the > topic of their choosing. I further support the right or priviledge of > a Debian Developer to run a poll on a topic associatied with Debian. > > I support this specific poll. > > Keep up

Re: Results for Project membership procedures

2008-12-15 Thread Cyril Brulebois
devo...@vote.debian.org (15/12/2008): > digraph Results { > ranksep=0.25; > "Ask the DAMs to postpone the changes until vote or consensus.\n4.49" [ > style="filled" , fontname="Helvetica", fontsize=10 ]; > "Ask the DAMs to postpone the changes until vote or consensus.\n4.49" -> > "Further D

Re: First call for votes for the Lenny release GR

2008-12-15 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Thomas Weber (15/12/2008): > http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2008/11/msg00046.html Let's quote for people following at home: | >So, we now have a discussion period of two weeks, though I would | > prefer to actually start the vote Sunday 00:00:00 UTC (on November | > 23th, or, if the

Re: First call for votes for the Lenny release GR

2008-12-14 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Debian Project Secretary (13/12/2008): > >FIRST CALL FOR VOTES FOR THE Lenny Release General Resolution >= === = === === = === === == > > Voting period starts 00:00:01 UTC on Sunday, December 14th, 2008 > Votes must be received by 23:59:59 UTC on S

Re: Final call for votes: GR: Project membership procedures

2008-12-14 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Robert Luberda (14/12/2008): > > - - -=-=-=-=-=- Don't Delete Anything Between These Lines =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > 5efca670-0e7b-480e-9899-ecce3446e087 > > [ 3 ] Choice 1: Ask the DAMs to postpone the changes until vote or > > consensus. > > [ 2 ] Choice 2: Invite the DAM to further discuss until vo

Re: Bundled votes and the secretary

2008-12-11 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hello DPL, I'd like to point you to the following mail by Raphaël on -vote. It is also available at [1]. 1. http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2008/12/msg00038.html Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (11/12/2008): > Manoj, I still object to voting all at once and I'm convinced that you > will

Re: Discussion: Are you tal^Wtrolling to me?

2008-11-17 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (17/11/2008): > > > I'm not really pleased with the trolls that arise on the subject > > > prior to every release. > > > > May I ask who are those "trolls" you refer to? > > Maybe Robert Millan? Given his asking “who” rather than “what”, looks like a rather n

Re: call for seconds: on firmware

2008-11-14 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Peter Palfrader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (14/11/2008): > I'm hereby proposing the following general resolution: > > | Firmware is data such as microcode or lookup tables that is loaded into > | hardware components in order to make the component function properly. > | It is not code that is run on the h

Re: Call for seconds - DC concept (was: Possible amendment for Debian Contributors concept)

2008-10-31 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Peter Palfrader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (29/10/2008): > I hereby propose this alternate option/amendment and am asking for seconds. > > | The Debian Project recognizes that many contributors to the project are > not > | working withing established frameworks of Debian and thus are not > provided

Time to create some accounts? (Was: NM Report for Week Ending 06 Apr 2008)

2008-04-07 Thread Cyril Brulebois
hink about creating them, so that people could eventually vote for the DPL election this year (2008 at the time of this writing). Thank you for your commitment to the huge and never-ending task of managing the Debian accounts. -- Cyril Brulebois PS: I hope you don't mind a possible dupli

Re: Q: Small tasks best on the fly? was: Q: All: Account creation latency

2008-03-17 Thread Cyril Brulebois
e of runs each *year*? -- Cyril Brulebois pgp1kNoffFrgL.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: On RC/RG bugs…

2008-03-16 Thread Cyril Brulebois
th [EMAIL PROTECTED], and since you're still wondering about RC/RG bugs, I'm answering these questions. -- Cyril Brulebois pgp8ZZbMd4K90.pgp Description: PGP signature

On RC/RG bugs…

2008-03-16 Thread Cyril Brulebois
correct. > I must have missed the change in the release goals to require GCC 4.3 > when it came out. If the bug had been tagged "serious" I would have > uploaded the fix as soon as possible. You don't read debian-devel-announce, do you? -- Cyril Brulebois pgpPu53fo9L3x.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Question for all candidates: inter-dependancy of works the growing Debian project.

2008-03-12 Thread Cyril Brulebois
the NM templates should cover it. FTR, d-d-a: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. -- Cyril Brulebois pgpkVft0uk8ef.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Raphael Hertzog: When to commit into repositories of teams?

2008-03-09 Thread Cyril Brulebois
commit. Hi, may I ask whether you have examples in mind, and how you would define “is active”? Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois pgpGO2p7JUKKX.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Constitutional amendment: reduce the length of DPL election process

2007-08-02 Thread Cyril Brulebois
7;'? I don't think so. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois pgph0rm5SbdZa.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Getting patches applied. emulated buildd's are good (was: kFreeBSD is "fantastic")

2007-03-08 Thread Cyril Brulebois
for help or peer review, though asking the porter/patch submitter for explanations, and eventually the -bsd list, should be sufficient. But I agree that there might be better semantics (set of) (user)tags. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois pgp9s8Y3hjprZ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Question to the candidates: inclusion of the kFreeBSD-* ports

2007-02-27 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (27/02/2007): > I'd rather have a DPL that can prioritize and spend his time on what > would benefit the project the most [...] Like talking about ponies? -- Cyril Brulebois pgpsMgHYKjhFF.pgp Description: PGP signature