Re: Third call for votes for the debian project leader election 2005

2005-04-04 Thread Frank ¼ster
Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Debian Project Secretary <[EMAIL PROTECTED] (va, manoj)> wrote: > >> - - -=-=-=-=-=- Don't Delete Anything Between These Lines =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- >> 46348448-74a5-40ae-a651-49704435ae8c Sorry, I didn't mean to send it here. I was quite under stress today,

Re: Third call for votes for the debian project leader election 2005

2005-04-04 Thread Frank ¼ster
Debian Project Secretary <[EMAIL PROTECTED] (va, manoj)> wrote: > - - -=-=-=-=-=- Don't Delete Anything Between These Lines =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > 46348448-74a5-40ae-a651-49704435ae8c > [ 7 ] Choice 1: Jonathan Walther > [ 1 ] Choice 2: Matthew Garrett > [ 2 ] Choice 3: Branden Robinson > [ 4 ] Cho

Re: Branden's time commitments

2005-03-21 Thread Frank ¼ster
Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 05:25:55PM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: >> >> > vendors, et al. But nevermind that. Can you make a case for sticking >> >> > with XFree86? If you can, please do so. [...] > Yes, but my point is that there are no packages availa

Re: Branden's time commitments

2005-03-21 Thread Frank ¼ster
Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 06:33:16PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 05:25:55PM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: >> > vendors, et al. But nevermind that. Can you make a case for sticking >> > with XFree86? If you can, please do so. >>

Re: Denied vote and the definition of a DD

2005-03-20 Thread Frank ¼ster
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED] (va, manoj)> schrieb: > On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 22:21:25 +0100, Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >> Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED] (va, manoj)> wrote: >>> b) show me, in person, two picture ID's issued by a governemt >>> that demonstrate who you are, a

Re: Denied vote and the definition of a DD

2005-03-19 Thread Frank ¼ster
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED] (va, manoj)> wrote: > b) show me, in person, two picture ID's issued by a governemt >that demonstrate who you are, and match the signed the >signed picture in a) Why two ID cards? What if some german guy only has their "Person

Re: Questions for the DPL candidates

2005-03-17 Thread Frank ¼ster
Anthony Towns wrote: > Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > >> What is sad is that there are many decisions in the Project which are >> *not* made this way. I want a DPL that will promise to tell every >> team "you must explain and defend your decisions". > > That's only a reasonable thing to do if you

Re: Questions for the DPL candidates

2005-03-17 Thread Frank ¼ster
Anthony Towns wrote: > Frank Küster wrote: >> Anthony Towns wrote: >>>Matthew Garrett wrote: How about the creation of a checklist for meeting organisation and reporting? Something along the lines of: 5) Does our write-up start with the problems we wish to address and then logica

Re: Questions for the DPL candidates

2005-03-16 Thread Frank ¼ster
Anthony Towns wrote: > Matthew Garrett wrote: > >> How about the creation of a checklist for meeting organisation and >> reporting? Something along the lines of: [...] >> 5) Does our write-up start with the problems we wish to address and >> then logically progress from there to the conclusions w

Re: Question to candidates that signed the Vancouver plan as candidate DPL

2005-03-16 Thread Frank ¼ster
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bill Allombert wrote: >> The Vancouver plan has several mention of the security team which lead >> to believe it was accomodated to address the concern of this team. [...] > Er, let's quote every mention of "security" in Steve's mail: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>

Re: Question for Matthew Garrett

2005-03-15 Thread Frank ¼ster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Schuldei) wrote: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 12:30:02PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: >> What, by the way, are the intentions? Except "release faster", of >> course? > > The initial intention of the release team meeting was to help the > release team to find a way to deal w

Re: Question for Matthew Garrett

2005-03-15 Thread Frank ¼ster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Schuldei) wrote: > Then the proposal is announced and some people get worked up about > it. I hope this to be less of a problem in the future, when people not > only look at the technical merits of a proposal but also at the > intentions and problems people had to overco

Re: Question for candidate Towns

2005-03-11 Thread Frank ¼ster
Joachim Breitner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Hi, > > Am Freitag, den 11.03.2005, 13:14 +0100 schrieb Frank Küster: >> However, we should be careful not to make the problem worse instead of >> better: We don't gain much if anybody who wants to be informed then >> would have to follow -devel *and

Re: Question for candidate Towns

2005-03-11 Thread Frank ¼ster
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > also sprach Anthony Towns [2005.03.11.0158 +0100]: >> There's a trivial way: moderate the lists. I think there are less >> fascist ways that'll be both effective and more efficient. But >> there's no point kidding ourselves that it'll be easy or that >

Re: Question for candidate Towns

2005-03-08 Thread Frank ¼ster
Anthony Towns wrote: > I'd actually say that any approach _other than_ working around > problems while they can't be fixed, and keeping track of them so that > they are fixed when they can be does Debian a great deal of harm. Right, right. The disagreement between us seems to be about which iss

Re: Question for A. Towns - NM

2005-03-08 Thread Frank ¼ster
Anthony Towns wrote: > Newcomers to Debian have a bunch of hurdles to overcome these days. As > part of finding a package and uploading it to the archive through a > sponsor they're expected to: > > (a) find some piece of interesting software > (b) that's not so interesting anyone else ha

Re: Question for candidate Towns

2005-03-08 Thread Frank ¼ster
Anthony Towns schrieb: > Frank Küster wrote: >>>Given I personally worked around the lack of ftpmaster support for >>>pools for a good six to twelve months while developing testing, I >>>think I've got a reasonable basis for thinking this isn't such a big >>>deal. >> This work wasn't targetted at

Re: Question for candidate Robinson

2005-03-08 Thread Frank ¼ster
Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 02:29:09PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: >> Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: >> >> > DFSG-revisionists are the people who in the last year invented things >> > like the "dissident test" >> >> search in debian-legal for "di

Re: Question for candidate Towns

2005-03-08 Thread Frank ¼ster
Anthony Towns wrote: > Well, here's a simple train of thought: > > (1) Hrm, ftpmaster aren't doing things as quickly as normal. > (2) Gosh, that probably means they're really busy. > (3) I wonder what I could do that would help. > > Here's a train of thought that doesn't work so well: > >

Re: Question for candidate Towns

2005-03-08 Thread Frank ¼ster
Anthony Towns wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: >>> It's hard to take this sort of discussion as anything but an attack >>> on ftpmaster, since there are plenty of teams in Debian that're >>> even less transparent and effective than us. But given how these >>> sorts of >> But they are less a hindrance

Re: Question for candidate Robinson

2005-03-08 Thread Frank ¼ster
Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > DFSG-revisionists are the people who in the last year invented things > like the "dissident test" search in debian-legal for "dissident test" in 2003. -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer pgpJGwjMCL2qe.pgp Descript

Re: Question for candidate Towns

2005-03-08 Thread Frank ¼ster
Anthony Towns wrote: > Frank Küster wrote: >> With that hat on, this statement is perfectly acceptable, just as all >> the mails you sent about NEW processing. The problem, to me, is that >> you fail to see the issue from a different side, and you definitely >> *should* as a DPL candidate. As a

Re: Question for candidate Towns

2005-03-07 Thread Frank ¼ster
Anthony Towns wrote: > Eduard Bloch wrote: >> For example, there is no excuse for blocking libs because of obvious >> soname changes in new, for months now. > > They're not blocked, they're just not being done. The answers to your > question are either "NEW is not being processed / because people

Is NEW processing on hold? (was: Question for candidate Towns)

2005-03-05 Thread Frank ¼ster
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There's rumours on debian-devel that NEW processing is actual on hold > (by decision rather than by default) but that wasn't communicated. Of > course it may be false It is false. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-changes/2005/03/msg00019.html

Re: ftpmasters' job and the DPL

2005-03-05 Thread Frank ¼ster
Anthony Towns wrote: > I think most people in Debian are community minded enough to > find it difficult to work if they don't feel that the project -- as > represented by the DPL, by delegates, by fellow developers, by users, > whatever -- supports their activities. I think the problems posed by

ftpmasters' job and the DPL (was: Question for candidate Towns)

2005-03-04 Thread Frank ¼ster
Anthony Towns wrote: > Kalle Kivimaa wrote: >> anyway: what do you think the NEW issue is an example of? > > Not having enough time in the day. > > The resolutions to that are: > > (a) reprioritising things > (b) making more time available > (c) making things take less time > (d) training

Re: DPL election IRC Debate - Call for questions

2005-03-04 Thread Frank ¼ster
Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 01:33:15PM +0100, David Schmitt wrote: >> >> Since the DPL should be a specialist in leadership and social issues: >> >> Please discuss the social differences between debian-release and >> debian-kernel > > I absolutely don't fol

Re: -= PROPOSAL =- Release sarge with amd64

2004-07-13 Thread Frank ¼ster
Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > recognizing that the AMD64-based architectures are likely to become the > most widespread on personal computers and workstations in a near future, This is just a speculation. Probably you make this speculation based on good facts, but I cannot, and pr

Re: Second Call for votes: General resolution: Sarge Release Schedule in view of GR 2004-003

2004-06-29 Thread Frank ¼ster
Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You might also consider in addition setting a reply-to towards > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or whatever is the ballot address of the > current vote), to ease up on voting (how to vote? Hit reply, fill in you > preferences after carefully researching them,

Re: What your ballot should look like if you're in favor of releasing sarge

2004-06-25 Thread Frank ¼ster
Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's just so totally American. Aha. The united states' incarnation of Gassners Law. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie

Re: What your ballot should look like if you're in favor of releasing sarge

2004-06-24 Thread Frank ¼ster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) schrieb: > Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> That was because the voters were 20% of the developers, as you well >> know. I'm also hoping that we've engaged enough of the developers that >> we might get a representative vote this time. > > I s

Re: What your ballot should look like if you're in favor of releasing sarge

2004-06-23 Thread Frank ¼ster
Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 04:43:29PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: >> > >> > This rely on the premices that at least some options will allow to release >> > sarge sooner. Unfortunately discussions on debian-vote involving the >> > release manager and the ctt

Re: What your ballot should look like if you're in favor of releasing sarge

2004-06-22 Thread Frank ¼ster
Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This rely on the premices that at least some options will allow to release > sarge sooner. Unfortunately discussions on debian-vote involving the > release manager and the ctte had made clear to me that none of the > ballot options will have positive eff

Re: Proposal G

2004-06-02 Thread Frank ¼ster
Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > That's a nice thing to say, but in the short term, what exactly does >> > this mean for the various clases of controversial works under >> > discussion here? >> >> See the last part of the proposal. > > The last part of the proposal only indicates tha

Re: Proposal - Statement that Sarge will follow Woody requirement for main.

2004-05-24 Thread Frank ¼ster
Graham Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 04:35:58PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: >> On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 08:27:02PM -0500, Graham Wilson wrote: >> > How about: >> > >> > We, Debian developers, issue the statement: >> > >> > "On the question on what software shou

Re: Proposal - Statement that Sarge will follow Woody requirement for main.

2004-05-22 Thread Frank ¼ster
Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To the question whether the SC allows for Sarge to be released more > or less as it is currently, Anthony has clearly stated he delegates > the decision to the technical commity, which has replied that the > developers could settle the issue by a GR. D

Re: Ready to vote on 2004-003?

2004-05-21 Thread Frank ¼ster
Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 11:48:26AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: >> There is at least one more, and it seems to me this is what many people >> have expressed: >> >> * All data (everything) in main should be DFSG-free, and must be >> post-sar

General Resolution or Technical Committee's decision? (was: Ready to vote on 2004-003?)

2004-05-21 Thread Frank ¼ster
Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 10:30:34PM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: >> Scripsit Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > The decision's delegated to the technical ctte; if you want to know >> > which GRs will ensure they will make the decision you want you'll

Re: Ready to vote on 2004-003?

2004-05-21 Thread Frank ¼ster
Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyway. Language has no effect on release timing. Release policies have > an effect on release timing. The following release policies are possible: > > * All programs in main must be DFSG-free > * All GPLed firmware in main must comply with th

Re: Ready to vote on 2004-003?

2004-05-21 Thread Frank ¼ster
Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 09:53:50AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: >> >> It has been said (repeatedly, over and over) that the effects ought to >> be that the release of sarge can proceed according to the timeline and >> practices that were current befo

Re: Ready to vote on 2004-003?

2004-05-20 Thread Frank ¼ster
Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: >> and I think >> those intentions are quite clear, *then* I would in fact blame you for >> not speaking up before we voted. > > Well, that's an idiotic response on your behalf. You've, presumably, got > a brain. Use it. Now. Make sure that there isn't an

Re: Ready to vote on 2004-003?

2004-05-20 Thread Frank ¼ster
Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If the project doesn't have a clear consensus that a newly reverted SC > should be interpreted differently to the current SC [...], then the > tech ctte will still need to decide the issue on the project's behalf, > presumably. I certainly will not. Uh?

Re: Ready to vote on 2004-003?

2004-05-20 Thread Frank ¼ster
Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frankly, I'm tired of the fucking accusations being levelled at me for > incompetence or insincerity or moral decrepitude or whatever whenever I > participate in these discussions, so you guys are going to have to work > out the answers for yourselves for

Re: Ready to vote on 2004-003?

2004-05-20 Thread Frank ¼ster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) wrote: > Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> If you don't think it should have any effect on the release of sarge, >> then you should make that case to the technical committee. > > And the technical committee said that a GR should settle it, and

Re: Ready to vote on 2004-003?

2004-05-19 Thread Frank ¼ster
Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 08:40:17PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: >> Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > Before you vote, you need to _think about the consequences of your vote_. >> One of the things we would like to know is what *you* th