Re: Making the RMS resolution a Secret Ballot

2021-04-11 Thread Eduard Bloch
Hallo, * Didier 'OdyX' Raboud [Sun, Apr 11 2021, 06:00:30PM]: > For what I'm concerned, I don't "insist on making the personal views on this > GR public", because it was always clear (to me) that all voters' personal > views on this GR would end up being made public by the secretary on our > websi

Re: Making the RMS resolution a Secret Ballot

2021-04-10 Thread Eduard Bloch
Hallo, * Russ Allbery [Fri, Apr 09 2021, 10:59:16AM]: > Sam Hartman writes: > > > Thanks for doing this. I'm actually very comfortable for us to make the > > decision under 5.1(3). We cleraly cannot hold a GR in time to change > > the constitution prior to the election ending. And our constitut

Re: Asking DPL to shorten Discussion Period for rms-open-letter

2021-03-28 Thread Eduard Bloch
Hallo, * Felix Lechner [Sun, Mar 28 2021, 08:12:58AM]: > On Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 5:05 AM Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > > You (and others, privately) agree that the > > accusations are deliberately harmful > > That's intent to harm—and maybe malice. > > Anyone wishing to harm someone should do so

Re: Call for votes for "GR: Re-affirm support to the Debian Project Leader"

2006-10-09 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Debian Project Secretary [Sat, Oct 07 2006, 06:53:35PM]: > - - -=-=-=-=-=- Don't Delete Anything Between These Lines =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > a65763d3-b1e2-4530-8ff8-aa5915274eb4 > [ 2 ] Choice 1: Re-affirm DPL, wish success to unofficial Dunc Tank > [ 1 ] Choice 2: Re-affirm DPL, do not en

Re: [Amendement firmware GR] - Best effort / no regression

2006-09-23 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Bill Allombert [Fri, Sep 22 2006, 12:33:28AM]: > Dear Debian developers, > > As an amendement to the firmware GR, I hereby propose the following > position statement. > > === > THE DEBIAN PROJECT: > 1. reaffirms its dedication to pro

Re: Proposal: The DFSG do not require source code for data, including firmware

2006-08-26 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Sven Luther [Sat, Aug 26 2006, 06:21:54PM]: > On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 11:24:47AM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > #include > > Thanks for saying those things, which i was thinking myself, but could not > have expressed without being seen as a whiner. You know, it

Re: Proposal: The DFSG do not require source code for data, including firmware

2006-08-26 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Peter Samuelson [Sat, Aug 26 2006, 05:35:00AM]: > > [Eduard Bloch] > > > . Ship a separate non-free CD. > > > > >* Does bad things to our CD/DVD disk space requirements. > > > > How? Basedebs take about 40MB. I think there i

Re: Proposal: The DFSG do not require source code for data, including firmware

2006-08-26 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Joey Hess [Wed, Aug 23 2006, 02:15:59PM]: > Anthony Towns wrote: > > If it makes sense, what are the major difficulties/inconveniences/whatever > > that were found in having this happen for etch, that will need to be > > addressed to achieve an etch+1 release that's both useful and conv

Re: Proposal: The DFSG do not require source code for data, including firmware

2006-08-26 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Frans Pop [Wed, Aug 23 2006, 02:28:30AM]: > Seconded. Also seconded. > > The application of DFSG#2 to firmware and other data > > > > > > The Debian Project recognizes that access to source code for a work of > >

Re: Questions for all candidates about developer behavior and abuse

2006-03-08 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Andres Salomon [Tue, Mar 07 2006, 04:53:40PM]: > The reason for my question? > > jonas: i hope we never again meet in public, because i promise i > will hit you if i do. A-Ha. Let's buy them two boxing sets and popcorn for the rest of us. Eduard. -- anyone from the MIA team aroun

Re: GR Proposal 2: Declassification of -private

2005-11-22 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Thomas Bushnell BSG [Mon, Nov 21 2005, 10:25:26PM]: > > I'm amazed anyone considers otherwise. It's unethical to publish > > things that debian promised to keep private. I think it also leaves > > us wide open to accusations of infringing copyright. > > I think you are wrong on both c

Re: GR Proposal 2: Declassification of -private

2005-11-20 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Matthew Garrett [Fri, Nov 18 2005, 04:13:35PM]: > Monroe Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I don't think we have any moral right and barely any legal standing > > to publish messages which were made to a private mailing list under > > the current regime. The veto option doesn't cove

Re: GR Proposal: Declassification of -private

2005-11-19 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Anthony Towns [Tue, Nov 15 2005, 12:08:15PM]: > Hello world, > > One of the issues Debian often stands for is transparency and openness > -- indeed, the openness of our bug tracking system is codified in the > Social Contract's statement "We will not hide problems". However, one > part

Re: Questions to all DPL candidates

2005-03-13 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Steinar H. Gunderson [Sun, Mar 13 2005, 02:53:38PM]: > On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 02:42:05PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > > Out of curiosity, which "important pieces of software" are hidden > > by not mentioning or including non-free (and contrib)? > - nvidia-glx > - atmel-firmware > -

Questions to all DPL candidates

2005-03-13 Thread Eduard Bloch
Hello, I would like to know your opinion about the discrimination of the contrib and non-free parts of the Debian archive(*). Do you think that hidding important pieces of software does serve our users? (with or without the bug license teaching messages) The best example for the current practice

Re: Question for candidate Towns

2005-03-07 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Anthony Towns [Mon, Mar 07 2005, 12:34:02AM]: > I'm pretty confident I can find someone who's not me to enforce that > policy who doesn't suffer from that level of infamy, and I'm also pretty > confident that given that policy being actually enforced, that I can > encourage a bunch

Re: ftpmasters' job and the DPL

2005-03-06 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Sven Luther [Sat, Mar 05 2005, 08:32:57PM]: > > I think we could do a better job of documenting the best ways of > > packaging things. I don't think anything beyond ignorance of what the > > best way actually is is stopping anyone from implementing really new > > things though. > >

Re: Nomination

2005-02-28 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * MJ Ray [Mon, Feb 28 2005, 12:31:27PM]: > > I second the dead camel and the entire population of Swaziland, not the=20 > > cheddar cheese. Unless 100 developers wish the cheddar cheese to run, of = > > course. > > Won't that happen anyway if they leave it out in the sun? > > I second

Re: PROPOSAL: Communication to solve the dispute. (was: -= PROPOSAL =- Release sarge with amd64)

2004-07-28 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Andrew Suffield [Wed, Jul 28 2004, 07:16:04PM]: > You cannot write a GR to order somebody to do something. That's > fundamental to the project structure, and written into the > constitution. Get used to the idea, and stop proposing GRs that don't > do anything. You can propose what yo

Re: -= PROPOSAL =- Release sarge with amd64

2004-07-13 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Ingo Juergensmann [Tue, Jul 13 2004, 08:12:22PM]: > This issue has been raised many, many times before, because part of > ftp-masters are as well part of DSA as part of wanna-build crew as part of > . > > People in role positions should IMHO be forced to communicate with > *everyone*

Re: Proposal G (was: Proposal - Deferment of Changes from GR 2004-003)

2004-06-01 Thread Eduard Bloch
> I propose the following amendment, replacing the entire text of the > resolution: > > -- > Reaffirmation of the social contract - priorities are our users and > the free software community ... > community, and we don't intend to blow our guidelines up to full legal > texts, becau

Re: drop or keep non-free - from users viewpoint

2004-03-10 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Sven Luther [Wed, Mar 10 2004, 12:28:11PM]: > > > Ok, they add parts of it. Thanks for clarifying my impressise > > > terminology. Still part of non-free remains non-free :) > > > > That does not make it 'semi-official' though, or what was your point? > > Well, semi-official is vague

Re: drop or keep non-free - from users viewpoint

2004-03-10 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Sven Luther [Wed, Mar 10 2004, 12:28:11PM]: > > > Ok, they add parts of it. Thanks for clarifying my impressise > > > terminology. Still part of non-free remains non-free :) > > > > That does not make it 'semi-official' though, or what was your point? > > Well, semi-official is vague

Re: drop or keep non-free - from users viewpoint

2004-03-09 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Martin Schulze [Tue, Mar 09 2004, 08:24:47AM]: > Eduard Bloch wrote: > > > > do you mean the default source.list after installation? Does the sarge > > > > installer also not ask the user if he want to include non-free? > > > > > >

Re: drop or keep non-free - from users viewpoint

2004-03-09 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Martin Schulze [Tue, Mar 09 2004, 08:24:47AM]: > Eduard Bloch wrote: > > > > do you mean the default source.list after installation? Does the sarge > > > > installer also not ask the user if he want to include non-free? > > > > > >

Re: drop or keep non-free - from users viewpoint

2004-03-08 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Michael Banck [Sun, Mar 07 2004, 07:10:13PM]: > On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 06:43:51PM +0100, Markus wrote: > > On Sun, 07 Mar 2004 18:20:17 +0100, Joey Hess wrote: > > > Markus wrote: > > >> Ask in normal Debian or GNU/Linux forums how does a normal Debian OS > > >> source.list looks. The

Re: drop or keep non-free - from users viewpoint

2004-03-08 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Michael Banck [Sun, Mar 07 2004, 07:10:13PM]: > On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 06:43:51PM +0100, Markus wrote: > > On Sun, 07 Mar 2004 18:20:17 +0100, Joey Hess wrote: > > > Markus wrote: > > >> Ask in normal Debian or GNU/Linux forums how does a normal Debian OS > > >> source.list looks. The

Re: Proposal: Keep non-free

2004-03-07 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * MJ Ray [Sun, Mar 07 2004, 11:44:16PM]: > >hardware manufacturers (in the last instance) only. Do you think that > >they produce everything built in their devices? > > Do you really think that hardware manufacturers don't decide what to > build into their devices? Of course they do,

Re: Proposal: Keep non-free

2004-03-07 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * MJ Ray [Sun, Mar 07 2004, 11:44:16PM]: > >hardware manufacturers (in the last instance) only. Do you think that > >they produce everything built in their devices? > > Do you really think that hardware manufacturers don't decide what to > build into their devices? Of course they do,

Re: Proposal: Keep non-free

2004-03-06 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * MJ Ray [Wed, Feb 25 2004, 09:58:55PM]: > Some hardware manufacturers do help to produce free software drivers, > or even publish them themselves. We give them the carrot of letting > their drivers into main. Why should we give the carrot of inclusion on > our ftp archive to those wh

Re: Proposal: Keep non-free

2004-03-06 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * MJ Ray [Wed, Feb 25 2004, 09:58:55PM]: > Some hardware manufacturers do help to produce free software drivers, > or even publish them themselves. We give them the carrot of letting > their drivers into main. Why should we give the carrot of inclusion on > our ftp archive to those wh

Re: GR: Removal of non-free

2003-12-29 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Andrew Suffield [Wed, Dec 24 2003, 08:43:11PM]: > This conflicts with the Social Contract as it currently stands. I am > aware of this and I do not care; we can fix the Social Contract > later. This probably prevents us from *acting* on this resolution > until after the Social Contract

Re: GR: Removal of non-free

2003-12-29 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Andrew Suffield [Wed, Dec 24 2003, 08:43:11PM]: > This conflicts with the Social Contract as it currently stands. I am > aware of this and I do not care; we can fix the Social Contract > later. This probably prevents us from *acting* on this resolution > until after the Social Contract

Re: our users as one of our priorities

2003-03-08 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Branden Robinson [Fri, Mar 07 2003, 03:23:37PM]: > On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 11:37:15AM +1100, Brian May wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 12:24:20PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 04:30:43PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > >

Re: our users as one of our priorities

2003-03-08 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Branden Robinson [Fri, Mar 07 2003, 03:23:37PM]: > On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 11:37:15AM +1100, Brian May wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 12:24:20PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 04:30:43PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > >

Re: Questions for all candidates

2003-02-27 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Raphael Hertzog [Thu, Feb 27 2003, 10:04:08PM]: > I've had debian-admin refusing to create me a CVS repository because > it's too much work for them and I should better wait for > the Debian Sourceforge (codenamed alioth.debian.org). And they have been > refusing to create CVS repositor

Re: Questions for all candidates

2003-02-27 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Raphael Hertzog [Thu, Feb 27 2003, 10:04:08PM]: > I've had debian-admin refusing to create me a CVS repository because > it's too much work for them and I should better wait for > the Debian Sourceforge (codenamed alioth.debian.org). And they have been > refusing to create CVS repositor

Re: our users as one of our priorities

2003-02-27 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Branden Robinson [Thu, Feb 27 2003, 09:09:20AM]: > On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 11:05:21AM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > Funny to hear it from someone still refusing to change few things to > > improve useability on _small_ costs of mental consistency (remember > > x-

Re: our users as one of our priorities

2003-02-27 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Branden Robinson [Thu, Feb 27 2003, 09:09:20AM]: > On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 11:05:21AM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > Funny to hear it from someone still refusing to change few things to > > improve useability on _small_ costs of mental consistency (remember > > x-

Re: our users as one of our priorities

2003-02-27 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Branden Robinson [Thu, Feb 27 2003, 04:25:34AM]: > > can you tell me what "Our Users" in #4 of the social contract means? > > Since Debian is not a market-share-seeking organization, we don't care > > about people who don't use Debian, so it seems a tautology. > > I think it means tha

Re: our users as one of our priorities

2003-02-27 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Branden Robinson [Thu, Feb 27 2003, 04:25:34AM]: > > can you tell me what "Our Users" in #4 of the social contract means? > > Since Debian is not a market-share-seeking organization, we don't care > > about people who don't use Debian, so it seems a tautology. > > I think it means tha

Re: Questions for all candidates

2003-02-21 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Eduard Bloch [Fri, Feb 21 2003, 10:18:12AM]: > their software is not supported by ancient versions in Woody... ...or hardware... Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- Atomkraft, strahlender Glanz ohne Abtrocknen.

Re: Questions for all candidates

2003-02-21 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Raphael Hertzog [Fri, Feb 21 2003, 12:48:11AM]: > Ok, I'm tired, I'm sure I could have find dozen of other questions like > those five ... but I'll let other people continue with questions like > that if they like it. Okay, let me ask some other questions... 6. Many people complaint

Re: Questions for all candidates

2003-02-21 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Eduard Bloch [Fri, Feb 21 2003, 10:18:12AM]: > their software is not supported by ancient versions in Woody... ...or hardware... Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- Atomkraft, strahlender Glanz ohne Abtrocknen. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Questions for all candidates

2003-02-21 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Raphael Hertzog [Fri, Feb 21 2003, 12:48:11AM]: > Ok, I'm tired, I'm sure I could have find dozen of other questions like > those five ... but I'll let other people continue with questions like > that if they like it. Okay, let me ask some other questions... 6. Many people complaint