Re: More votes in Debian? Any idea for improvement?

2012-03-14 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 09:51:08AM +, Anthony Towns wrote: > I wonder if anyone can name three "big" controversies over the past few > years that have gotten resolved within Debian? To the examples provided by Russ, I'd like to add time-based freezes, which we are doing for Wheezy. I think it

Re: discouraging discussion styles - any cure?

2012-03-14 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 09:40:35AM +0100, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > it happens every now and then, people assume bad faith in mails from > others and call their action silly and active tries to sabotage, and > there are also people who fight for their right to behave like assholes > and belittle sca

Re: Gergely and Wouter: on the need of becoming a DPL

2012-03-14 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 02:50:59AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > Is there any other policies that you disagree with, > > No. > > > and would you be looking to change any of these as DPL? > > Not without first trying to achieve consensus. > I'm slightly confused by my being copied in to you

Re: discouraging discussion styles - any cure?

2012-03-14 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
* Wouter Verhelst [2012-03-13 14:11:30 CET]: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 09:40:35AM +0100, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > > and there are also people who fight for their right to behave like > > assholes and belittle scathingly against people that wish for a better > > communication style. > > This, I agr

Re: how informed should a DPL be?

2012-03-14 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 09:46:30PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > Recent threads have made me concerned about how well informed some of > our current DPL nominees are about what is going on within Debian. > > My question to the candidates is similar to what I asked in 2010[1]: > 1. http://lists.debian.

Re: Gergely and Wouter: on the need of becoming a DPL

2012-03-14 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 09:22:48AM +, Neil McGovern wrote: > On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 02:50:59AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > Is there any other policies that you disagree with, > > > > No. > > > > > and would you be looking to change any of these as DPL? > > > > Not without first tryi

Re: discouraging discussion styles - any cure?

2012-03-14 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 02:15:14PM +0100, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > * Wouter Verhelst [2012-03-13 14:11:30 CET]: > > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 09:40:35AM +0100, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > > > and there are also people who fight for their right to behave like > > > assholes and belittle scathingly against

Re: More votes in Debian? Any idea for improvement?

2012-03-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Stefano Zacchiroli writes: > According to the constitution we can ask the Technical Committee to make > such decisions. But we don't have the habit of doing so and I don't > think the committee would scale if we would start doing so. I believe the Technical Committee can do better, but I don't w

Re: Debian's trademarks and logos, and their terms of use.

2012-03-14 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 09:47:27AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > In contrast with what we require for the software we distribute, we are > forbidding to use some of our logos for profit. While there are some clear > differences between software and carriers of visual identity, I feel that > ther