Re: Results for Voting secrecy

2022-03-29 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Mon, Mar 28, 2022 at 12:26:51PM -0600, Sam Hartman wrote: > > "Kurt" == Kurt Roeckx writes: > > > >> It inadvertently weakened the constitutional protection against > >> changes to the constitution. > > Kurt> I currently fail to see how it does. > > I think Felix's point is

Re: To all candidates: Debian and people with disabilities

2022-03-29 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi Samuel, On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 09:23:38AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hello, > > Devin Prater, le lun. 21 mars 2022 22:10:15 -0500, a ecrit: > > As far as backports, my problem is enabling it. Normal desktop users > > probably > > won't even know what that is, and the syntax is rather ug

Re: Questions about Debian derivatives

2022-03-29 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Mar 28, 2022 at 10:27:48AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: [...] > > Not sure if you're familiar with extrepo? > > As I understand it, extrepo is more for things like the Mozilla Firefox > or PostgreSQL repositories than things like Ubuntu? Probably a > discussion for the extrepo maintainer, or po

Re: Results for Voting secrecy

2022-03-29 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 3/28/22 01:30, Felix Lechner wrote: Meanwhile, the uncertainty you and I both suffer would be resolved by a simple redo of the vote with a ballot that carries the appropriate warning. That is all I asked for. IMO we shouldn't have voted for this in the first place (for many reasons, like no

General Resolution: Voting secrecy result

2022-03-29 Thread Debian Project Secretary - Kurt Roeckx
Hi, The result of the General Resolution is: Option 2 "Hide identities of Developers casting a particular vote and allow verification" The details of the results are available at: https://www.debian.org/vote/2022/vote_001 Kurt Roeckx Debian Project Secretary signature.asc Description: PGP si

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

2022-03-29 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 01:57:59PM -0700, Felix Lechner wrote: > Hi Lucas, > > On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 12:52 PM Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > > Interesting. What would be the composition, roles, duties of that > > Strategy Council ? > > Like all committees and boards I envision, the Strategy Counc

Re: Results for Voting secrecy

2022-03-29 Thread Pierre-Elliott Bécue
Felix Lechner wrote on 27/03/2022 at 22:30:53+0200: > Hi Kurt, > > On Sun, Mar 27, 2022 at 11:03 AM Kurt Roeckx wrote: >> >> Clearly people don't think it's identical, otherwise it would not have >> been an option, or people would have voted it equally. > > People were confused. > > Given the s

Re: Results for Voting secrecy

2022-03-29 Thread Philip Hands
Kurt Roeckx writes: > On Mon, Mar 28, 2022 at 12:26:51PM -0600, Sam Hartman wrote: >> > "Kurt" == Kurt Roeckx writes: >> >> >> >> It inadvertently weakened the constitutional protection against >> >> changes to the constitution. >> >> Kurt> I currently fail to see how it does.

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

2022-03-29 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi Ted, On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 1:39 PM Theodore Ts'o wrote: > > I'll note that you spent a lot of time about how the council would > appoint a chair and vice-chair, create bylaws, meet monthly, etc. > > However you didn't really answer the question regarding what the > authorities that the Strat

Re: Results for Voting secrecy

2022-03-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Philip Hands writes: > The blurb that's sent out with the votes says: > To vote "no, no matter what", rank "None of the above" as more > desirable than the unacceptable choices, or you may rank the "None of > the above" choice and leave choices you consider unacceptable blank. > which to

Re: To all candidates: Debian and people with disabilities

2022-03-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Wouter Verhelst, le mar. 29 mars 2022 20:00:19 +0200, a ecrit: > On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 09:23:38AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Devin Prater, le lun. 21 mars 2022 22:10:15 -0500, a ecrit: > > > As far as backports, my problem is enabling it. Normal desktop users > > >

Re: Results for Voting secrecy

2022-03-29 Thread Philip Hands
Russ Allbery writes: > Philip Hands writes: > >> The blurb that's sent out with the votes says: > >> To vote "no, no matter what", rank "None of the above" as more >> desirable than the unacceptable choices, or you may rank the "None of >> the above" choice and leave choices you consider u

Re: Results for Voting secrecy

2022-03-29 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 03:54:28PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > My understanding of the implications of this process (and Kurt is > authoritative here, of course) is that if you rank NOTA equally with an > option, that vote is not part of V(A,D) or V(D,A) since neither option is > preferred over

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

2022-03-29 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi Tiago, On Sun, Mar 27, 2022 at 11:09 AM Tiago Bortoletto Vaz wrote: > > Given that Jonathan, after lots of research as he describes in this > thread, has stated that such request never reached him, can you clarify > how can you have even complied to a request for more information from him? > >

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

2022-03-29 Thread Paul Wise
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 you have bought hardware, no longer ne