Re: tag2upload - request for DPL action

2025-05-12 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2025/05/12 18:23, Ian Jackson wrote: I notice that after the first automated REJECT, we have now got an automated ACCEPT from dak for this upload. Thanks to the FTP Team for fixing the root cause of this issue. Sean and I will need to do some more tests to confirm everything is working prope

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

2025-04-06 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Gianfranco On 2025/04/06 09:10, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: Also,https://wiki.debian.org/Debuginfod sounds nice, but the service is run outside Debian (on a .debian.net domain). Was it discussed making it part of Debian? As the DPL, what do you pushes people to maintain such services outside

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

2025-04-04 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Ian On 2025/04/04 11:08, Ian Jackson wrote: Hi everyone. tl;dr We need to make an exceptional, short term delegation authorising the installation of tag2upload's signing key on ftp-master. We need two volunteers to take on this responsibility; please volunteer in respon

Please keep it on topic (was: Re: Questions for all candidates)

2025-03-29 Thread Jonathan Carter
Dear all We're entering the last week of DPL campaigning, please keep off-topic discussions off of this list. Besides wasting a lot of time, the off-topic conversations are really boring and tedious, especially when they just re-hash views that have already been soap-boxed on other lists.

Question to all candidates: How do you feel about OSI, FSF and LF? (and Debian while we're at it (and AI if you want to))

2025-03-25 Thread Jonathan Carter
Dear DPL candidates (As always, answer as little or much as you want) How do you feel about organisations such as the Open Source Initiative, Free Software Foundation and the Linux Foundation? We have two candidates who have mentioned their intent to collaborate more closely with Ubuntu, but

Questions for all candidates

2025-03-17 Thread Jonathan Carter
Dear candidates! Firstly, thanks for stepping up for running for DPL. Unfortunately, outside of maintaining my own packages I've had little Debian time for the last few months, so I'm not as up to date with all the Debian problems as I'd like to be. But, lucky for you, there's enough difficu

Re: [RFC] General Resolution to deploy tag2upload

2024-06-17 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Ian On 2024/06/17 12:56, Ian Jackson wrote: * We made fairly formal appeals to two sitting DPLs. What we got was, basically, attempts at mediation, or facilitation of discussions. We didn't see that as helpful, since we saw an irreconcilable gap between our position and ftpmas

Re: [RFC] General Resolution to deploy tag2upload

2024-06-15 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Sean On 2024/06/15 02:14, Sean Whitton wrote: My point is that it's not doing any magic. It's less than 500 lines of shell. Where do I find this? I searched for tag2upload on salsa and did an 'apt-cache search tag2upload', but couldn't find anything. thanks, -Jonathan

Re: [RFC] General Resolution to deploy tag2upload

2024-06-12 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Luca On 2024/06/12 10:21, Luca Boccassi wrote: Having a separate namespace with strong ACLs seems exactly what you want, even if it duplicates the individual repositories (the backend git store deduplicates it anyway, so in practice it should be quite cheap). Having an entire separate git for

Re: Question to all candidates: what to do with the Debian money, shall we invest in hardware and cloud?

2024-04-10 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2024/04/10 16:08, Felix Lechner wrote: On Wed, 27 Mar 2024 13:57:55 +0200, Jonathan Carter wrote: every single hardware request over the last 4 years (whether from DSA or from a DD) has been approved. Mine wasn't, although I probably didn't follow the proper procedure. I ju

Re: Question to all candidates: what to do with the Debian money, shall we invest in hardware and cloud?

2024-03-27 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi! On 2024/03/27 12:25, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: Would you be ok spending 100k USD on buying hardware for a new Debian cloud, for example? I've always volunteered to operate it for Debian, but it never went through, because I haven't spent time to find where to host it and so on, but highvol

Re: Question to candidates: How do you plan to manage finances/accounting?

2024-03-25 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Sruthi On 2024/03/22 19:51, Sruthi Chandran wrote: I agree on your point of lack of transparency about the finances. But from what I understood from highvoltage's  platform last year, the problem is more to do with the current delayed, manual and tedious accounting process. The accounting p

Re: Candidates question: politics and Debian

2024-03-24 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2024/03/23 18:48, Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana wrote: Maybe is it time to Debian has its own outreachy program? To have DDs mentoring paid interns to learn how to package, how to contribute for softwares/tools used by Debian, and so on. In the last Debian Outreach Delegation, this is one

Re: This does not have to be a GR

2023-11-27 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2023/11/22 01:37, Kurt Roeckx wrote: I would also like to point out that, in the current state, on Saturday the discussion period is over and a vote is automatically called. Not so sure how automatic that was meant to be, but for what it's worth, I didn't see enough interest in extending th

Re: Call for seconds: Delegate to the DPL

2023-11-26 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2023/11/26 21:24, Bill Allombert wrote: We should not just put out a statement just because others have done so, because we might inadvertently propagate FUD. Yep, it's a minefield. Anything we say can be used by a manipulative politician to make it seem that we support their cause. -Jona

Re: Call for seconds: Delegate to the DPL

2023-11-24 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Bill On 2023/11/24 19:14, Bill Allombert wrote: I offer the following ballot option for your consideration. - GENERAL RESOLUTION STARTS - The Debian developers delegate to the Debian Project Leader the task of issuing a Public Statement about the 'EU Cyber Resilience Act and th

Re: This does not have to be a GR

2023-11-21 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Kurt On 2023/11/22 01:37, Kurt Roeckx wrote: While Debian has stakes in the CRA, and should issue a statement if only to show we exists, I am quite sure that a GR is not necessary for Debian to issue such statement, and I am quite unconvinced the GR process is the best option for the purpose

Debian's 30th Birthday (was: Re: Platform)

2023-03-20 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Paulo On 2023/03/15 16:29, Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana wrote: I believe this year is a special because it's 30 years of Debian. So we need a speciall call for celebration 😄 I agree, last year I was swamped around Debian's birthday nearly even missed it altogether. I was thinking then t

Re: On community and conflicts

2023-03-15 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2023/03/15 19:00, Thomas Koch wrote: Half a year later, would you mind sharing a comment on my exclusion? I'm glad that DAM didn't take too long to take action. Would you be open to have a (public?) call with me and maybe also people from the project (e.g. community team)? There have been

Platform

2023-03-14 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hey everyone I suppose some people might be wondering if I'm writing a platform for this election- and the answer is YES! I meant to have it ready by the end of the weekend, but got hit by some tummy bug that's been going around and just couldn't concentrate on the platform much. I'll work o

Re: Debian Project Leader Elections 2023: Call for nominations

2023-03-09 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Kurt On 2023/03/03 21:39, Debian Project Secretary - Kurt Roeckx wrote: | Period | Start | End | |+-+---| | Nomination | Saturday 2023-03-04 | Friday 2023-03-10 | I gave it consideration, and will run again this

Re: Requesting Extension (was: Re: Changing how we handle non-free firmware)

2022-09-15 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Everyone On 2022/09/07 18:26, Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) wrote: As per the Debian Constitution[1] (4.2¶3), I'm requesting an extension for the discussion period of 7 days. Thank you all for taking the time to polish or add voting options over the last week. I believe that the op

Re: Possible draft non-free firmware option with SC change

2022-09-09 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
On 2022/09/09 18:37, Bdale Garbee wrote: "Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)" writes: I do think some parts are important to include though, how about: I disagree strongly on this. We should work REALLY hard to have the SC capture the commitments we're making to our users

Re: Possible draft non-free firmware option with SC change

2022-09-09 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
On 2022/09/09 18:04, Russ Allbery wrote: We encourage careful review of the licensing of these packages before use or redistribution, since the guarantees of the Debian Free Software Guidelines do not apply to them. Looks good to me. It summarizes the gist of the issue very conci

Re: Possible draft non-free firmware option with SC change

2022-09-08 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
On 2022/09/08 11:27, Phil Morrell wrote: 5. Works that do not meet our free software standards We acknowledge that our users may require the use of works that do not conform to the Debian Free Software Guidelines. Such packages are not part of the Debian system, but we provid

Requesting Extension (was: Re: Changing how we handle non-free firmware)

2022-09-07 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Dear Debian Secretary and Debian Developers As per the Debian Constitution[1] (4.2¶3), I'm requesting an extension for the discussion period of 7 days. Apologies for jumping this on the last minute, I've been off-sick and have been fiercely triaging and catching up with issues the last day or

Re: Changing how we handle non-free firmware

2022-08-25 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
On 2022/08/22 19:32, Gunnar Wolf wrote: = We will include non-free firmware packages from the "non-free-firmware" section of the Debian archive on our official media (installer images and live images). The included firmware binaries will*normally* be enabled by d

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

2022-08-16 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Louis-Philippe On 2022/06/19 01:43, Louis-Philippe Véronneau wrote: This is a proposal for Debian to create a guideline for our TOs when they receive donations of non-fiat assets. It is a result of the constructive debate we had on debian-private, and hopefully it will not be too divisive :)

Re: General resolution: Condemn Russian invasion of the Ukraine

2022-04-08 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Jonathan On 2022/04/08 11:44, Jonathan Dowland wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong, but Debconf is not formally a part of Debian, and so cannot be bound by the outcome of a GR anyway. Due to how DebConf started and how it evolved, and the pace that they had to move on to get things done, they w

Re: Question to all candidates: GDPR compliance review

2022-04-01 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2022/04/01 20:28, Adrian Bunk wrote: Would you commit to something more specific, like that our Data Protection team will reply to debian-project within 3 months discussing all issues mentioned in the discussion at [1] so far, and with their reply having been proof-read by our GDPR lawyer?

Re: Question to all candidates: GDPR compliance review

2022-04-01 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Adrian (I'm including the data-protection team, perhaps they can expand on your question or comment on my feedback) On 2022/03/31 22:08, Adrian Bunk wrote: The discussion starting in [1] is about privacy in Debian with a focus on the GDPR of the European Union. It started with the GDPR,

Re: Question to all candidates: Ongoing/future legal projects

2022-03-30 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2022/03/30 07:33, Paul Wise wrote: On Tue, 2022-03-29 at 20:47 -0700, Felix Lechner wrote: It furthermore seems that I did not follow the proper process when filing my request, as Paul Wise pointed out. My reference to the Hardware/Wanted wiki page was referring to the procedure for after y

Re: Question to all candidates: Ongoing/future legal projects

2022-03-27 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Richard On 2022/03/24 22:17, Richard Laager wrote: The disbursements that I've heard about seem to be relatively "small potatoes" things. Is there some huge wasteful spending occurring that I've missed? Most of it is small potatoes (typically less than $1000, typically for hardware or tra

Re: Question to all candidates: Ongoing/future legal projects

2022-03-27 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Paul On 2022/03/26 01:27, Paul Wise wrote: We have these documents related to that: https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DPL#Money https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DPL/AskingForMoney https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DPL/SponsoringGuidelines These were written by Stefano Zacchiroli in 2010 when he was DP

Re: Questions about Debian derivatives

2022-03-27 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Paul On 2022/03/27 05:53, Paul Wise wrote: Debian's relationship with the various distributions derived from Debian and approach to existing and new derivatives has had a wide range of states. Most derivatives recieve indifference from Debian. When it comes to the indifference, I think for

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

2022-03-25 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Lucas On 2022/03/17 17:54, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: As someone who used to care a lot about Debian, but who hasn't been able to pay much attention to the project lately, I was wondering: I don't think anyone would hold it against you that you've got busy with other stuff, having a life outsid

Re: Question to all candidates: Ongoing/future legal projects

2022-03-25 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2022/03/25 11:41, Jonathan Carter wrote: For example, I requested $217 for a one-time SSD & RAM upgrade to help operate lintian.d.o in November of 2021. My request was not granted. I didn't even receive a response from Jonathan (other than a request for more information, with which I

Re: Question to all candidates: Ongoing/future legal projects

2022-03-25 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Felix On 2022/03/25 02:18, Felix Lechner wrote: For example, I requested $217 for a one-time SSD & RAM upgrade to help operate lintian.d.o in November of 2021. My request was not granted. I didn't even receive a response from Jonathan (other than a request for more information, with which I c

Re: To all candidates: Debian and people with disabilities

2022-03-24 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Sam On 2022/03/23 06:04, Sam Hartman wrote: This has gotten much much better. * You can hold down space bar in orca focus mode, when you release, you know you will be muted. (push to talk key) * The accessibility of the icons is much better. The buttons are "pressed" when muted and th

Re: To all candidates: Debian and people with disabilities

2022-03-21 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Devin On 2022/03/20 19:09, Devin Prater wrote: * Have you heard of the Debian Accessibility group? I have indeed.   * If so, have you worked with them in the past, or are you currently working with them? I haven't directly worked with them directly, but I have been on the receiving en

Re: Question to all candidates: Ongoing/future legal projects

2022-03-19 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2022/03/18 20:08, Felix Lechner wrote: Which would you be prepared to provide as DPL? > Whichever the members perceive as proper. How would you gauge that, Felix? It's impractical to have a vote every time a decision is to be made, which is why voters want to know how a potential DPL wou

Re: Question to all candidates: Ongoing/future legal projects

2022-03-17 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Molly On 2022/03/17 16:57, Molly dB wrote: In November 2021, it was discussed in debian-private that a team from Debian had been working with a lawyer for a while. (Not sharing details: issues remain ongoing.) How would you transition into taking on this particular responsibility and similar

Re: Question to all candidates: rotation on positions of power

2022-03-16 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Charles On 2022/03/16 14:28, Charles Plessy wrote: thank you for running ! I have a question for you (and only you). Yay, thanks for the question! What do you think of the reform of the Technical Committee that introduced a limit to the time people can serve in, and would you consider ap

Re: Question to all candidates: Monthly "Bits from the DPL"

2022-03-16 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Louis-Philippe On 2022/03/16 20:12, Louis-Philippe Véronneau wrote: I would like to know what is the stance of the 3 candidates on producing monthly "Bits from the DPL" reports on their activities. I like them very much and I think they are a great way to keep us all informed of what the DPL

Re: Debian Project Leader Elections 2022: Call for nominations

2022-03-09 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Kurt On 2022/03/05 01:15, Debian Project Secretary - Kurt Roeckx wrote: Please make sure that nominations are sent to (or cc:'d to) debian-vote, and are cryptographically signed. I'll be standing for another term. -Jonathan OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

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

2022-02-16 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2022/02/14 20:42, Felix Lechner wrote: Based on the way people with minority opinions are treated, you would have to expel a lot of people. Which people with minority opinions were mistreated? We're a group with a very, very large spectrum of opinions and so far it's only been in the extre

Re: Diffs for GR: Change the resolution process

2021-11-26 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2021/11/27 03:34, Russ Allbery wrote: Here is a Salsa diff with the current version of the constitution: https://salsa.debian.org/rra/webwml/-/compare/master...gr-2021-003?from_project_id=65952 Thank you! I've been meaning to do this for a while! -Jonathan

Re: Waiting for the voting vote to finish... :-)

2021-11-23 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2021/11/23 17:59, Steve McIntyre wrote: would you be willing to let peb and I propose the secret ballots GR? We were hoping we were in line behind Russ. > Sure, no worries. Ah, I also had one, but can wait my turn. I considered starting a thread in -project in the meantime, but I'm slight

Re: Renaming the FTP Masters

2021-11-11 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2021/11/11 21:48, Bastian Blank wrote: I'm really surprised that ftp master is more important than the weird definition of DD and DM. You left out "non-uploading DD" :) -Jonathan

Re: Renaming the FTP Masters

2021-11-11 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Marc On 2021/11/11 17:29, Marc Haber wrote: On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 05:37:55PM -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: PS For people who are concerned that a retreat from the term "master" is somehow the language police run dangerously amok, it's worth asking why you feel so committed to t

Re: Renaming the FTP Masters

2021-11-05 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Joerg On 2021/11/04 23:14, Joerg Jaspert wrote: I would like to rename the FTP Masters team—ideally via a General Resolution. Ideally? Its the worst possible way to go about. I'm at a loss to actually find polite words to describe how off it is, That might be slightly harsh, Felix only b

Re: General Resolution: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board result

2021-04-19 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2021/04/18 23:36, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > Complaining about the > voting system because you don't like the outcome or because you could > announce the outcome in an awkward way is not helpful. Who complained about the voting system because they didn't like the outcome of this particular vote? I'

Ways forward regarding the RMS GR

2021-04-12 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Debian Developers Over the course of the last few days, I've received many mails regarding the RMS GR, both on this list, on debian-private and in private. These mails contain a wide spectrum of concerns and even ideas on how to improve our situation, each of which come with their own set of up

Re: REPOST, SIGNED: Re: Amendment to RMS/FSF GR: Option 5

2021-04-08 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Tina On 2021/04/08 06:15, Martina Ferrari wrote: > Ah, Adam, sending unsolicited private email? Fuck that, you were in the > first line on my bingo card. Personally, I would've ignored an unsolicited post like that and deleted it. Not that I'm telling you that's what you should've done, but yo

Re: Cancel "culture" is a threat to Debian

2021-04-04 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2021/04/01 17:57, Sergey B Kirpichev wrote: > On Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 04:50:15PM +0200, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: >> The first option is one option, the others are different and less >> strong. Having strong options in a GR doesn't turn the whole GR in a >> blackmail > > I would disagree. Es

Re: New option for the RMS/FSF GR: reaffirm the values of the majority

2021-04-04 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2021/04/04 05:47, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > I did actually read this as satire and was quite amused by it - I > didn't think it could have been read as a serious request until the > first response to it. I would appreciate it if we could keep satire and comedy a bit dialed back for a but. As much

Re: Having a "DPL committee"?

2021-03-26 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi peb On 2021/03/26 20:54, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: > I wonder in that case if such a person sould be either: > > 1. Nominated by the DPL > 2. Co-elected (ie voting for a couple of people) > 3. Elected separately on the same time frame (but that could lead to > issues if the DPL and vice-DPL

Re: concern - proprietary software promotion in Debian

2021-03-26 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Pasha On 2021/03/26 20:29, Pasha wrote: > I saw some people are sending github links to promote their cause. > > github is not a free software. It a proprietary service owned by a > company. > > My question is depending on the side a developer choose he has the > right not to use any propriet

Re: Amendment to rms-open-letter GR

2021-03-25 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Sean On 2021/03/25 22:17, Sean Whitton wrote: > The point of this is not to call for the removal of the entire FSF > board, as the open letter does, while still supporting the main thrust > of the open letter, which is about Stallman himself. > > The vote to restore Stallman to the board was n

Re: How to motivate contributors to work on QA

2021-03-25 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hey Christian On 2021/03/23 11:42, Christian Kastner wrote: > However, looking at this from the other side of the argument, I still > believe that relying on pure volunteer work has significant downsides to > the quality of our distribution, downsides that IMO could or should > easily be avoided b

Re: Question to Jonathan: What did you Mean

2021-03-25 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Sam On 2021/03/25 17:58, Sam Hartman wrote: >>>>>> "Bart" == Bart Martens writes: > > Bart> On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 11:53:23PM +0200, Jonathan Carter wrote: > >> On this particular issue, I feel it's better that individual

Perhaps we should start addressing shortcomings in our eco-system (Was: Re: What changes do you want in Debian?)

2021-03-25 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2021/03/19 11:13, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > 1/ Why have you all given up on the idea to lead Debian? This question still bothers me a bit. Firstly, I don't see my previous term or my upcoming term that way. I believe that considering the climate in recent years in Debian, and considering all the

Re: General resolution: ratify https://github.com/rms-open-letter/rms-open-letter.github.io

2021-03-25 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Dear project secretary On Wed, 24 Mar 2021 13:54:16 -0700 Steve Langasek 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. Due to the timeliness of this GR, please reduce the discussion period for this GR to o

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

2021-03-24 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2021/03/24 23:19, Sam Hartman wrote: > I suspect that the issues surrounding the open letter asking rms to step > down and for the FSF board to resign are fairly well understood at this > point. > It's been an ongoing issue. > > I don't think we're going to get much benefit out of a prolonged >

Re: Willingness to share a position statement?

2021-03-24 Thread Jonathan Carter
Sorry, for some reason I didn't get Gunnar's original mail so going to reply here... On 2021/03/24 02:24, M dB wrote: >> https://opensource.org/OSI_Response >> https://rms-open-letter.github.io/ >> >> Now, as for my question: I thought repeatedly over the last couple of >> days whether to

Re: diversity

2021-03-24 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Bart On 2021/03/23 11:11, Bart Martens wrote: > A question about diversity. We all know that some profiles are > underrepresented: gender, etnic group, disability, age, sexual preference, > education degree, rich/poor, spoken & written languages... > > 1/ One way of addressing this, is activel

Re: How can we make Debian packaging more standardised?

2021-03-22 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi pollo On 2021/03/19 20:05, Louis-Philippe Véronneau wrote: > In becoming a DD, one of the main challenges I faced was the absence of > a standard way to package software in Debian. > > I've since seen first hand how having a very large number of ways to > package things in Debian confuse and u

Re: Having a "DPL committee"?

2021-03-22 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2021/03/19 21:01, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: > The idea was discussed two years ago. Sam chose a range of people to > help him with delegations. It's come up a few times in past platforms and discussions on -vote too! > Being a DPL is a high-energy thing even when one doesn't try to "lead" >

Re: What changes do you want in Debian?

2021-03-19 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Raphaël On 2021/03/19 11:13, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > when I look back at my old platforms[1][2]3] I can already see a trend > where we move from "concrete changes that we want to see in Debian" to > "some vague idea of how we want to run the project" but this trend seems > to have continued an

Re: How to leverage money to accomplish high impact Debian projects

2021-03-19 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2021/03/18 23:33, Philip Hands wrote: > There were enough people keen on that happening that if we'd each had an > earmarked e.g. 1k budget to allocate, we could have just agreed it > amongst ourselves, and done it, without a lot of back and forth on the > lists trying to establish whether there

Re: How to leverage money to accomplish high impact Debian projects

2021-03-18 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2021/03/18 21:44, Philip Hands wrote: > I've been pondering how it might be possible to spend more of Debian's > money, and it occurred to me that we could allocate a budget to each DD > which they could spend on pretty-much anything (as long as, for Debian > funds, the expenditure is allowed un

Re: How to leverage money to accomplish high impact Debian projects

2021-03-18 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Raphaël On 2021/03/18 19:46, Raphael Hertzog wrote:> I announced this on debian-project[1] and on Planet Debian[2] a while ago. > But at this point, we have only funded a single project[3], leaving us > with more than 25 KEUR available for further projects. > > I did not expect this lack of in

Re: Debian Project Leader Elections 2021: Call for nominations

2021-03-11 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Kurt On Sat, 6 Mar 2021 20:39:44 +0100 Debian Project Secretary - Kurt Roeckx wrote: > Please make sure that nominations are sent to (or cc:'d to) > debian-vote, and are cryptographically signed. I hereby self-nominate for the DPL 2021 term. -Jonathan pgpr5E_bf053T.pgp Description: OpenPGP

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

2020-05-22 Thread Jonathan Carter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 2020/05/22 20:08, Jonathan Carter wrote: > (and besides, the India team has already won for next year). If > they get Correction: I mean of course, Kosovo. - -Jonathan - -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁

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

2020-05-22 Thread Jonathan Carter
and start to worry about the situation in India instead. So again, I'd ask you to consider the above at least one more time before posting that GR. - -Jonathan - -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ https://wiki.debian.org/highvoltage ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋ https://debian.org | http

Re: DPL blindsides

2020-04-16 Thread Jonathan Carter
agree that they also have a responsibility to share this information with the DCC in the case of DebConfs, or the DPL or Community Team when it comes to other DebConf events. This would help provide some additional sanity checks and also for posterity. -Jonathan -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Jonathan Carter

Re: DPL blindsides

2020-04-12 Thread Jonathan Carter
nt in DC17 was made purely by the DC17 local team. > In > (<1501234967.2211370.1055405832.1d2d7...@webmail.messagingengine.com> > message not available in public), by a previous DPL to the event > planning team, including Jonathan Carter, the email noted that by > actively not ans

Re: Question to Jonathan & Brian: Diversity in Debian

2020-03-30 Thread Jonathan Carter
ld be squarely the responsibility of the DPL, but the DPL should certainly be there to help enable any initiatives and ideas that our project members have. -Jonathan -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ https://wiki.debian.org/highvoltage ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋ https://debian.org | https://jonathancarter.org ⠈⠳⣄ Be Bold. Be brave. Debian has got your back. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Q to all candidates: NEW queue

2020-03-27 Thread Jonathan Carter
should be too pushy on these issues, the strategy should be removing pressure instead of adding more imho. If the team has more time to address their problems internally then the day to day problems will eventually get better too. -Jonathan [1] https://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀

Re: Response to jcc's rebuttal

2020-03-27 Thread Jonathan Carter
would > have no issue seeking a GR, and working to build consensus to make the necessary > changes. Great! Yes I still stand with the idea that a GR should be used for final votes, not as a polling tool, and the options should be clear enough that people understand what they vote for and

DPL blindsides

2020-03-23 Thread Jonathan Carter
for any answers :) - -Jonathan - -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ https://wiki.debian.org/highvoltage ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋ https://debian.org | https://jonathancarter.org ⠈⠳⣄ Be Bold. Be brave. Debian has got your back. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iQIzBAEBCgA

Re: Question to all: Outreach

2020-03-20 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2020/03/20 02:12, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 3:30 PM Jonathan Carter wrote: >> Non-uploading DD's existed at the time, I just had no interest in >> becoming a non-uploading DD when it was already my intent to become an >> uploading DD. > > I don&

Re: Question to all: Outreach

2020-03-19 Thread Jonathan Carter
et either. I was involved when the DPL and DebConf people talked about it, they simply agreed that it's not an issue and that you don't have to be a DD in order to be on the DebConf committee. TBH I'm having trouble following your line of questioning and exactly what you're

Re: Question to all: Outreach

2020-03-19 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2020/03/19 14:00, Sam Hartman wrote: >>>>>> "Jonathan" == Jonathan Carter writes: > > Jonathan> On 2020/03/19 12:39, Paul Wise wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 9:54 AM Jonathan Carter wrote: > >> > >&g

Re: Question to all: Outreach

2020-03-19 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2020/03/19 12:39, Paul Wise wrote: > On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 9:54 AM Jonathan Carter wrote: > >> My honest answer? Yes, it would be nice if all the delegates could be >> project members, I understand your concern, but often it's best to be >> willing to work with

Re: Question for all candidates: Sam's non-platform: Delegates

2020-03-18 Thread Jonathan Carter
rving some bandwidth for delegations even when other exciting things are happening. Also actively checking in on delegations that are known to need some support, like the DebConf team in the period before Debconf starts and probably also scheduled check-ins with delegations like the treasurers. -Jonathan

Re: What are your thoughts on discourse?

2020-03-18 Thread Jonathan Carter
ianites to ask questions for the DPL elections on here. Both questions and answers could go unnoticed and unread. I think it’s better to choose a future discussion and plan it ahead, rather than test it in production mid-way of a DPL election. """ -Jonathan -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶

Re: What are your thoughts on discourse?

2020-03-18 Thread Jonathan Carter
ions to the DPL candidates on this list, rather than test Discourse for DPL Q&As midway through a DPL election. And I also forgot to mention, nice initiative I do think that it has potential. -Jonathan -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ https://wiki.debian.or

Re: Question to all: Outreach

2020-03-18 Thread Jonathan Carter
t they are at least familiar with those. It doesn't seem reasonable for someone to represent Debian in an official capacity if they don't even know what Debian is. -Jonathan -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ https://wiki.debian.org/highvoltage ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋

Re: Question to all: Outreach

2020-03-18 Thread Jonathan Carter
that didn't keep me from > becoming interested in computers. Several female physicists I know probably > played with dolls as well, yet they are what they are now. I'm sure that you're smart enough to know that you're completely missing the point there. -Jonathan -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶

Re: Question to all: Outreach

2020-03-18 Thread Jonathan Carter
k you're setting an unrealistically high expectation if you want people who have less than that to have to aim as high as being like Linus. -Jonathan -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ https://wiki.debian.org/highvoltage ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋ https://debian.org | https://jonathancarter.org ⠈⠳⣄ Be Bold. Be brave. Debian has got your back.

Re: Question to all: Outreach

2020-03-18 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hey Enrico On 2020/03/18 11:58, Enrico Zini wrote: > On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 11:36:24AM +0200, Jonathan Carter wrote: > >> My honest answer? Yes, it would be nice if all the delegates could be >> project members, I understand your concern, but often it's best to be >>

Re: Question to all: Outreach

2020-03-18 Thread Jonathan Carter
le, but I just can't make promises on this front as a prospective DPL, I think it takes the whole project to make this happen and drive it forward to make it a success and to get the best bang for our buck. In the meantime I'm glad that Outreachy can help take care of some of the work. -J

Re: Question to all: Outreach

2020-03-18 Thread Jonathan Carter
's not relevant to this election. -Jonathan -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ https://wiki.debian.org/highvoltage ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋ https://debian.org | https://jonathancarter.org ⠈⠳⣄ Be Bold. Be brave. Debian has got your back.

Re: Question to Jonathan: how do you intend to prioritise?

2020-03-17 Thread Jonathan Carter
t and give them every possible shot at making it work. I could give you concrete examples of the rest of my platform too if you'd like, although this mail is already long and I think I've shown that the ideas listed there are more than just a bunch of nice words on a platform. -Jonatha

Re: Typically self-nominations are short

2020-03-12 Thread Jonathan Carter
d to stress about it. This was how I chose to self-nominate and it was my choice to make. -Jonathan -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ https://wiki.debian.org/highvoltage ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋ https://debian.org | https://jonathancarter.org ⠈⠳⣄ Be Bold. Be brave. Debian has got your back.

Why I'm running for DPL

2020-03-12 Thread Jonathan Carter
d productive environment, I think in some ways we ended up in survival mode and we need to evolve past that and allow the project to thrive. I'm usually a lot more concise, but if you've made it this far, then a sincere thank you for reading :) -Jonathan -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Jonathan Carte

Re: Last minute cominbations G+D and/or G+E

2019-12-04 Thread Jonathan Carter
uld have been sleeping myself. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian Developer - https://wiki.debian.org/highvoltage ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋ https://debian.org | https://jonathancarter.org ⠈⠳⣄ Be Bold. Be brave. Debian has got your back.

Re: If we're Going to Have Alternate Init Systems, we need to Understand Apt Dependencies

2019-12-04 Thread Jonathan Carter
of those. -Jonathan [1] https://www.debian.org/vote/2019/vote_002 -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian Developer - https://wiki.debian.org/highvoltage ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋ https://debian.org | https://jonathancarter.org ⠈⠳⣄ Be Bold. Be brave. Debian has got your back.

Re: Proposal to overturn init systems premature GR

2019-12-04 Thread Jonathan Carter
7;t know if I like it or not. Let's finish the work > on getting the ballot right and then vote. Absolutely, losing another day to get a proposal right is a very small price to pay in the grand scheme of things, where rushing it creates the risk of having to repeat it all again in the future.

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