Q to all candidates: what is the long-term role of traditional Linux distributions?

2019-04-02 Thread Matthew Garrett
onsume software from other sources? -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org

Re: On the "Debian Maintainers" GR

2007-07-28 Thread Matthew Garrett
Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le samedi 28 juillet 2007 =E0 19:55 +0100, Matthew Garrett a =E9crit : >> Sure, "Don't quit Debian then" is a valid response (though I'm perhaps=20 >> old-fashioned in terms of thinking that as a full member

Re: On the "Debian Maintainers" GR

2007-07-28 Thread Matthew Garrett
means I tend to upload less often). So DM status would make life easier for me and arguably improve the quality of Debian to a certain extent. On the other hand, I can understand a reluctance to add yet another catagory of contributors to Debian just to make me happy. -- Matthew Garrett |

Re: Question for Sam Hocevar "xxx xxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxx xx xxxxxxx"

2007-05-04 Thread Matthew Garrett
et that you've worked for them at some point. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Question for Sam Hocevar "Gay Nigger Association of America"

2007-04-29 Thread Matthew Garrett
annel. How are you actually defining "member"? (Just to be clear, I'm not in any way trying to imply that you've engaged in any sort of illegal activity or anything) -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Question for Sam Hocevar "Gay Nigger Association of America"

2007-04-29 Thread Matthew Garrett
Remi Vanicat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> While I appreciate that "member" is almost certainly something without >> any especially well defined meaning, you seem to have had a @gnaa.us >> email address

Re: Question for Sam Hocevar "Gay Nigger Association of America"

2007-04-29 Thread Matthew Garrett
Isaac Clerencia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday, 29 April 2007, Matthew Garrett wrote: >> While I appreciate that "member" is almost certainly something without >> any especially well defined meaning, you seem to have had a @gnaa.us >> email address an

Re: Question for Sam Hocevar "Gay Nigger Association of America"

2007-04-28 Thread Matthew Garrett
there's evidence of you having been an operator on #gnaa at some point. What distinction do you make between membership and association? -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Question to all candidates: Perceived hostility within the community

2007-03-05 Thread Matthew Garrett
LOSSPOLS-D16-Gender_Integrated_Report_of_Findings.htm , for instance [2] I appreciate that I have not always provided any sort of good example in this respect. I've been making various changes in my life in an attempt to avoid that. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Proposal: Recall the Project Leader

2006-09-21 Thread Matthew Garrett
Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Second, because the DPL is trying to use this GR as a means to > legitimate his own project, and this would be the worst result. "I'm withdrawing my support because the developers might agree with AJ rather than me"? Co

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

2006-08-24 Thread Matthew Garrett
e binary-only pieces of software that execute > *in kernel space*, *on the central processing unit*. Linux contains > a few blobs. Where? -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2006-08-23 Thread Matthew Garrett
rmware-type material (I think I even proposed doing this some time ago), and I think there'd be an argument for including it on the CDs by default. At the very least, it'd make it possible for people to make a choice that they feel non-free firmware is acceptable without going so far

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

2006-08-23 Thread Matthew Garrett
Bernhard R. Link <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060823 17:31]: >> If you can find a single hard drive on the market that doesn't contain >> some sort of firmware, I'll be greatly impressed. Or, for that matter, a &

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

2006-08-23 Thread Matthew Garrett
ble > interface and the kernel had a bochs included by default to run them? No. There's plenty of hardware with free drivers, and I think that us refusing to provide the non-free ones does make a difference. I run no non-free drivers on any of my hardware. At the point where it'

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

2006-08-23 Thread Matthew Garrett
vide an incentive to implement a free version. But right now, I don't see any evidence that refusing to ship non-free firmware will do anything other than cost us users without providing any extra freedom. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2006-08-23 Thread Matthew Garrett
;s shipped by Debian", but we could also define it as "A system consisting of a computer and a Debian installation" or "Whatever is provided by Debian and run on the host processor". -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2006-08-23 Thread Matthew Garrett
mware, madwifi is clearly non-free. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Question to all candidates: What to change?

2006-03-18 Thread Matthew Garrett
believing you're trying to do damaging things? -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Candidate questions: expulsions process

2006-03-12 Thread Matthew Garrett
Mac Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matthew Garrett, to support your claim, will you make public any > objection(s) you posted to that August 2005 thread, as an example, > or state that you posted none? No need - Mark Ray did so earlier in the week. > Well, I'm fai

Re: Candidate questions: expulsions process

2006-03-11 Thread Matthew Garrett
an contributor into a several hundred message flamewar. > Replies to final paragraph to -project, please, else direct. Clearing up misleading claims should be done in the same forum as the misleading claims. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] My preferred name is "you"

Re: To all candidates: delegation process

2006-03-11 Thread Matthew Garrett
ing a motion to forcibly delegate various people within the project? -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: question for all candidates

2006-03-10 Thread Matthew Garrett
Andreas Schuldei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I did not ask Joeren for obvious reasons. What were those obvious reasons? You and Branden stood against each other despite agreeing to be on each other's team, so I'm curious as to why the same isn't true this year. --

Re: question for all candidates

2006-03-10 Thread Matthew Garrett
Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Matthew Garrett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060310 16:58]: >> Ok. Based on what we've discussed on IRC, you'll admit that Andreas >> attempted to get at least one person to agree to take responsibility for >> elmo's

Re: question for all candidates

2006-03-10 Thread Matthew Garrett
Andreas Schuldei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-03-10 15:58:15]: >> Ok. Based on what we've discussed on IRC, you'll admit that Andreas >> attempted to get at least one person to agree to take responsibility for >

Re: question for all candidates

2006-03-10 Thread Matthew Garrett
Andreas Schuldei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-03-10 13:41:29]: >> No, that doesn't make sense. Phrasing it like that makes it sound like >> the GR was intended to have no effect, but at the time you were willing >&

Re: question for all candidates

2006-03-10 Thread Matthew Garrett
Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Last November, you and the DPL team wanted to propose a GR that would > have forcibly made everyone in a position of authority a formal > delegate, and stated that you had replacements ready if they were > unwilling to comply. It&

Re: question for all candidates

2006-03-10 Thread Matthew Garrett
Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Matthew Garrett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060310 16:25]: >> No. I reiterate things where Andreas has given misleading answers to >> direct questions (he repeatedly denies wanting to replace people, but >> attempted to get at le

Re: question for all candidates

2006-03-10 Thread Matthew Garrett
Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > * Matthew Garrett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060310 14:42]: >> [...] > > You reiterate things where Andreas clearly stated that you have > over-interpreted him. No. I reiterate things where Andreas has given misleadin

Re: Candidate questions: expulsions process

2006-03-10 Thread Matthew Garrett
Morio Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Do you believe that anyone in Debian has ever been discriminated against >> for socio-religious views that had no impact on their ability to work in >> the project? > > Given t

Re: question for all candidates

2006-03-10 Thread Matthew Garrett
Andreas Schuldei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-03-09 20:39:20]: >> 1) You now appear less willing to do so. What has changed? > > The GR was intendet to clarify that point. > However, in a small oppinion poll I found that

Re: question for all candidates

2006-03-09 Thread Matthew Garrett
Andreas Schuldei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-03-07 20:09:11]: >> If you were DPL right now, which teams would you consider making formal >> delegates regardless of their wishes? > > It would depend on weather I had go

Re: Candidate questions: expulsions process

2006-03-09 Thread Matthew Garrett
views that had no impact on their ability to work in the project? -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Code of conduct, question to all candidates

2006-03-08 Thread Matthew Garrett
towards each other. Allowing people to behave as they wish to has a direct cost to the project) -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Questions for Jeroen van Wolffelaar and Andreas Schuldei

2006-03-08 Thread Matthew Garrett
DPL team members > to pick up things they want to pick up as far as they can do so without > special privileges, as they see fit. But surely the point of a team is for people to be able to pick up the slack if someone can't cope? If you believe that the DPL should still be a singl

Re: Questions for Jeroen van Wolffelaar and Andreas Schuldei

2006-03-07 Thread Matthew Garrett
Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Matthew Garrett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060307 20:33]: >> Thanks for the answers. However, to a large extent they seem to be "We >> didn't fulfil many of our aims last year, but we will this year" and >> just

Re: question for all candidates

2006-03-07 Thread Matthew Garrett
I worked with the team to help it overcome it's > issues itself, however. If you were DPL right now, which teams would you consider making formal delegates regardless of their wishes? -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Questions for Jeroen van Wolffelaar and Andreas Schuldei

2006-03-07 Thread Matthew Garrett
p to provide leadership within the team when it became clear that Branden wasn't providing what you considered to be insufficient leadership? -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Questions about Ubuntu

2006-02-28 Thread Matthew Garrett
os/ubuntu/+specs has the list of current specifications. (I reply for information rather than because I think a discussion of the Ubuntu development process is especially topical or interesting) -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: R

2006-02-23 Thread Matthew Garrett
No, I have no idea what was up with that subject. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Questions for Jeroen van Wolffelaar and Andreas Schuldei

2006-02-23 Thread Matthew Garrett
some time ago before anybody on the team publically admitted this? -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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2006-02-23 Thread Matthew Garrett
whereas most of what you've been doing hasn't been publically visible. The DPL team has failed to live up to several of its claims. Why do you believe that you stand a chance of winning this year? -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-03 Thread Matthew Garrett
Anton Zinoviev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 01:07:46PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: >> Where does this "have to" come from? > >>From DFSG: Please point at a license that has this property. The QPL doesn't appear to. -- Matth

Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-03 Thread Matthew Garrett
at forbid me from distributing a patch that contains elements of work A and work B when both are released under the QPL? -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-03 Thread Matthew Garrett
consider it free. If you actually have a single real license that has the requirement that you're hypothesising, then please point at it. Otherwise, it seems entirely practical to produce works that are derived from two separate patch-clause licensed works. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL P

Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-03 Thread Matthew Garrett
. Where does this "have to" come from? -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-03 Thread Matthew Garrett
separate from the Software, such as patches." So a patch that contains elements of work 1 and work 2 is perfectly permissable - the only thing the clause requires is that you distribute unmodified source code and apply modifications to that. It doesn't state what form the modifications must

Re: {SPAM} Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-03 Thread Matthew Garrett
that either the GPL or BSD were licenses that should be considered non-free. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-03 Thread Matthew Garrett
ork A. That's not realistically a derived work of B. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-03 Thread Matthew Garrett
Pain? Yes. Possible? Yes. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-01 Thread Matthew Garrett
ted > by the license. While there's no requirement that copyright notices be present in Berne convention countries, the universal copyright convention allows countries to require copyright notices in order to benefit from copyright protection. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To

Re: Amendment: invariant-less in main (Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement)

2006-01-13 Thread Matthew Garrett
stating that each binary package must include a transparent copy. This isn't terribly difficult, it's just irritating. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] My preferred name is "you" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GR Proposal 2: Declassification of -private

2005-11-18 Thread Matthew Garrett
author(s). Please add: Any post to -private is made with the knowledge that anyone in the world could, at some later point, become a developer and read that email. I don't see how this would actually change the situation. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] My preferred name is &qu

Re: Vote for the Debian Project Leader Election 2005

2005-04-04 Thread Matthew Garrett
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 04:15:22 +, Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> - I'm not sure if it insists that the order of signing is consistent >> with the order of receipt. > > Umm, I am not sure I

Re: Vote for the Debian Project Leader Election 2005

2005-03-24 Thread Matthew Garrett
ose you originally chose. I /believe/ that there's a replay cache to prevent a naive replay attack - I'm not sure if it insists that the order of signing is consistent with the order of receipt. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: Vote for the Debian Project Leader Election 2005

2005-03-24 Thread Matthew Garrett
one will count. As a result, you're free to change your mind up until the deadline. Possibly this should be more widely publicised? -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: my thoughts on the Vancouver Prospectus

2005-03-20 Thread Matthew Garrett
m before making up his mind. This way the decition is > taken by an elected person, based on the available input from the > relevant teams. Constitutionally, I think it makes more sense to devolve it to the technical committee. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: my thoughts on the Vancouver Prospectus

2005-03-18 Thread Matthew Garrett
e number drops below 12 again. If this is the case, I think that needs to be made clearer to avoid situations where people work to meet the criteria but are vetoed by the release team because there are already too many architectures. I'm not massively keen on this - it ends up sounding a bi

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

2005-03-16 Thread Matthew Garrett
I think everyone's clear about any shortcomings in the way it was reached by now. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: question for the candidates

2005-03-16 Thread Matthew Garrett
being DPL? If not elected, I intend to work on everything in my platform anyway. I would expect this to be harder without the authority that being DPL lends, but I'd like to try anyway. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: DPL election IRC Debate - Call for questions

2005-03-15 Thread Matthew Garrett
ce that these organizations must meet. Linux Australia has a significantly better track record in financial management than SPI has ever had - if the Australian dollar was worth a little more, I'd consider suggesting we should hand all our cash over to them... -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Questions for the DPL candidates

2005-03-15 Thread Matthew Garrett
Anthony Towns wrote: > Matthew Garrett wrote: >> You've said that the discussion of a new strategy for etch was something >> that had been on your mind for a while. > > Err, afaik I didn't say that, and whether or not I did, it certainly > wasn't the cas

Re: Why vote for DPL only?

2005-03-15 Thread Matthew Garrett
project and I think this applies to everyone. On > the other hand, I don't care if someone if the best developer ever, > if he cannot get along with anyone in the project, imho, he does not > belong here. If their inability to get along with anyone in the project doesn't impa

Re: Questions for the DPL candidates

2005-03-15 Thread Matthew Garrett
Anthony Towns wrote: > Matthew Garrett wrote: >> I think this is interesting from a social point of view. Would >> increasing the number of teams inside the project increase the number of >> incidents like this? If so, would people become more or less tolerant of >> t

Re: Why vote for DPL only?

2005-03-15 Thread Matthew Garrett
le being able to remain in tasks when they're unfit to do so, then elect a DPL who's willing to remove them. But remember that Debian isn't a popularity contest - people shouldn't be fired just because people don't like them. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Question for Matthew Garrett (was Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-15 Thread Matthew Garrett
le with their employer). The same thing > goes for the invitation, which should have been more public. > Both decisions were influenced mostly by empathy with individual's > circumstance. This (need for individual confidentiality vs project > openness) is a hard thing to do right and is where we need to pay > even more attention next time. If you had the opportunity to go back two months and organise this meeting again, what concrete differences would you make? -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Questions for the DPL candidates

2005-03-14 Thread Matthew Garrett
/ solid technical discussion going on. We do have problems, and this is (so far) the best proposal we've had for dealing with them. I just wish it had been reached somewhat differently. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Questions for the DPL candidates (was: Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-14 Thread Matthew Garrett
he ensuing fallout) arising in future? -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Question for Matthew Garrett (was Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-14 Thread Matthew Garrett
ver, I wasn't sent a copy of the updated one. [2] The text I was asked to agree to contained "the crafting of a release plan for etch", not "the crafting of a prospective release plan for etch", so the degree to which they've been presented as conclusions has be

Re: other candidates opinion about project scud

2005-03-13 Thread Matthew Garrett
ple that can do something about it. In the NEW queue case, that would be the ftp-masters. Having a pre-chosen DPL team doesn't reduce the number of people that you have to talk to. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Concerns about the idea of "Project Scud"

2005-03-13 Thread Matthew Garrett
d by having a pre-selected team of people rather than appointing delegates on an as-needed basis? -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Question to all candidates

2005-03-13 Thread Matthew Garrett
changes to the current make-up of the committee. There doesn't seem to be any obvious reason to change the current committee. If people feel that they make bad decisions, then that might change. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Re: Questions to all DPL candidates

2005-03-13 Thread Matthew Garrett
contract. But yes, I know what you mean - most users do view Debian as being main, non-free and contrib. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Question for the Debate/Candidates

2005-03-13 Thread Matthew Garrett
me out as more of a Gonzo. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Question for Andreas Schuldei and Branden Robinson

2005-03-13 Thread Matthew Garrett
this. How can anyone be required to sign such a document, and what would the consequences of them failing to sign it be? Is this constitutionally mandated? -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Question: proposals for users' participation

2005-03-13 Thread Matthew Garrett
ber of non-developers, so I'd be very interested to hear what they've learned in this respect and encourage these lessons to be adopted more widely throughout the project. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: other candidates opinion about project scud

2005-03-13 Thread Matthew Garrett
ransparency? Why would their meetings be private? What real benefits does having this team bring to the project? -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: a question for all the candidates, but particularly Anthony Towns

2005-03-13 Thread Matthew Garrett
ss for dealing with this problem, then I'd probably wholeheartedly endorse it. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The role of the DPL in technical decisions

2005-03-09 Thread Matthew Garrett
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > also sprach Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.03.02.1= > 448 +0100]: >> Debian is run by its developers - the DPL exists in order to >> ensure that the developers are able to make appropriate decisions, >>

Re: Questions for candidate Walther

2005-03-08 Thread Matthew Garrett
d to occur about every 18 months, and are supported for 5 years afterwards. We can't be expected to offer that level of coverage, but unless we're offering more than a year people aren't going to be that interested. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: Questions for candidate Walther

2005-03-08 Thread Matthew Garrett
e that's longer than that. Ubuntu supports each release for 18 months, even though they release every 6 months. Do we have the resources to do that? -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Questions for candidate Walther

2005-03-08 Thread Matthew Garrett
sion. And that is something I am good at. A 6 month release cycle would not go down well with many users unless we have a much longer support cycle. How have you ensured that the security team will be able to support 3 or 4 releases simultaneously? -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To

Re: Question for candidate Towns [Was, Re: DPL election IRC Debate - Call for questions]

2005-03-07 Thread Matthew Garrett
sion 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 > discussions affect ftpmaster, I'm pretty reluctant to want to inflict > them on anyone else. I&#

Re: Questions for candidates: as spokesperson of Debian Project

2005-03-07 Thread Matthew Garrett
er ID license is the only one that I can think of recently, though I may well have missed some. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Project scud (for Andreas Schuldei and Branden Robinson)

2005-03-07 Thread Matthew Garrett
e each team member will have. Would we be electing a team with a DPL as a sort of figurehead, or will no decision pass unless the DPL agrees with it? -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Questions for all candidates re: interpersonal behavior

2005-03-06 Thread Matthew Garrett
er a package. I think the social change is more important, and I think that's something that can happen without needing to produce new rules. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Questions to candidates: what is source?

2005-03-06 Thread Matthew Garrett
into a case-by-case discussion, because I don't believe it to be interesting or relevant. The DPL's opinion in this matter should carry no more weight than any other developer's. The DPL's involvement should be to note that there is a lack of consensus over the issue and work

Re: Question for candidate Towns [Was, Re: DPL election IRC Debate - Call for questions]

2005-03-06 Thread Matthew Garrett
Anthony Towns wrote: > Matthew Garrett wrote: >> Complaints about NEW can roughly be split into three catagories: >> 1) It takes too long >> 2) It isn't happening > > These are the same issue: it's a queue, packages uploaded now will be > processed whe

Re: debian-women obscurity, was: Clarification about krooger's platform

2005-03-04 Thread Matthew Garrett
MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been labelled because I fit a similar description to others, > so why not label debian nazi if there is a nazi DD? I think that > shows the absurdity of some debian-women contributors. Could you please provide a pointer to this lab

Re: Aliases for /dev/null: Clarification about krooger's platform

2005-03-04 Thread Matthew Garrett
o the role to deal with communication. That's not something that could happen overnight, but I think it's the most practical answer. Currently, this role would appear to fall to the DPL. In future, it might be worthwhile delegating the role to someone else. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Clarification about krooger's platform

2005-03-04 Thread Matthew Garrett
MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Given the relatively short period of time that debian-women has existed, >> it's unsurprising that most of their work is still located on their own >> site rather than integra

Re: Question for candidate Towns [Was, Re: DPL election IRC Debate - Call for questions]

2005-03-04 Thread Matthew Garrett
quot;The NEW issue has nothing to do with communication" is difficult unless you clarify what "The NEW issue" is. Communication isn't about providing information - it's about providing the information that people need. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Clarification about krooger's platform

2005-03-03 Thread Matthew Garrett
he entire thing. A group of people have started working on something that they think needs changing. If you don't like their goals or the way that they're going about them, then try voicing those opinions in a somewhat more reasonable way. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian release strategy

2005-03-03 Thread Matthew Garrett
Hm. I meant to send this to -vote - sorry about that. Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Daniel Ruoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> * I had recently post a message to debian-project[1] suggesting that we >> could plan structural changes in Debian, I mea

Re: The role of the DPL in technical decisions

2005-03-02 Thread Matthew Garrett
then it ought to be discussed with them. If they're unwilling to have that discussion, then the DPL's involvement may be justifiable. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The role of the DPL in technical decisions

2005-03-02 Thread Matthew Garrett
David Schmitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 02 March 2005 13:52, Matthew Garrett wrote: >> Put simply, the constitution says that the DPL can't make technical >> decisions that overrule other people. I agree with the constitution. >> However, I will w

Re: The role of the DPL in technical decisions

2005-03-02 Thread Matthew Garrett
do so, then it should be the DPL's responsibility to ensure that that information is passed on. Debian is run by its developers - the DPL exists in order to ensure that the developers are able to make appropriate decisions, not to make those decisions himself. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROT

The role of the DPL in technical decisions

2005-03-02 Thread Matthew Garrett
al decisions - they should be willing to justify them to the rest of the project. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

DPL nomination

2005-02-06 Thread Matthew Garrett
I declare my intention to stand for the post of DPL. K thx bye, love: -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: -= PROPOSAL =- Release sarge with amd64

2004-07-14 Thread Matthew Garrett
e reasonable. That's a desperately impressive non-sequitur. How do you go from "I won't tell you stuff in private if you use it to attack other people" to "Our secret plan was to avoid communicating about adm64 and we'd have gotten away with it to if it hadn't been fo

Re: -= PROPOSAL =- Release sarge with amd64

2004-07-13 Thread Matthew Garrett
Oliver Elphick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 17:33, Matthew Garrett wrote: >> >"3. Override any decision by the Project Leader of a Delegate." >> >> What decision has been made? Has there actually been a rejection of the >> inc

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