Re: Should the project hire one or two persons to help the DPL?

2021-03-22 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le vendredi, 19 mars 2021, 10.38:08 h CET Raphael Hertzog a écrit : > There are quite a few software projects that have hired staff to help > smooth the internal working of organizations, I know at least of Django > with its fellowship program: > https://www.djangoproject.com/fundraising/#fellowshi

Re: How can we make Debian packaging more standardised?

2021-03-22 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le lundi, 22 mars 2021, 21.09:05 h CET Jonas Meurer a écrit : > Why not have an officially delegated Debian Project Board that meets > once a week (or every two weeks) and discusses and tackles painpoints in > the project at large? Or an elected one. -- OdyX signature.asc Description: This

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

2021-03-22 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le vendredi, 19 mars 2021, 17.49:54 h CET Louis-Philippe Véronneau a écrit : > On 2021-03-19 08 h 02, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > >> I've been telling a few people last month that I would really liked to > >> have an Enterprise Edition Online MiniDebConf, unfortunately I don't > >> have any time/energ

Re: Secret ballot and RMS Resolution

2021-04-01 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
1 avril 2021 17:01 "Kurt Roeckx" a écrit: > On Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 04:40:59PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 12:42:01PM +, Jean Duprat (Avignon) wrote: >> Votes in leadership elections are kept secret even after the end of >> the voting period for obvious reasons

Printing from Linux (was: Re: Nuance Regarding RMS)

2021-04-04 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
I'm well aware the discussion period is over, but I can't let that one pass, so bear with me. Le vendredi, 2 avril 2021, 18.19:02 h CEST Barak A. Pearlmutter a écrit : > Fifty years ago a laserprinter didn't work right because of some > software issue and he couldn't fix it because the software i

Re: Making the RMS resolution a Secret Ballot

2021-04-10 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le vendredi, 9 avril 2021, 19.12:26 h CEST Sam Hartman a écrit : > On another list, there was discussion of the DPL encouraging the > secretary to make the vote on the rms GR secret. For what is worth; let me bring a slightly dissonant voice in that discussion. While abundantly aware of the conce

Re: Making the RMS resolution a Secret Ballot

2021-04-11 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le dimanche, 11 avril 2021, 01.02:18 h CEST Eduard Bloch a écrit : > Those who insist on making the personal views on this (non-technical!!!) > GR public should be ashamed of dragging their fellows into denuding > themselves for no good reason. Just clarifying one thing here, to make sure there's

Re: Making the RMS resolution a Secret Ballot

2021-04-11 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le dimanche, 11 avril 2021, 23.10:53 h CEST Jonathan Wiltshire a écrit : > So I suggest the DPL directs under s5.1 something like: > > "The secretary shall delay publication of the the association between > identify and ballot on the tally sheet, for a period of not more than 90 > days, unless dir

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

2022-09-07 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Thanks for that proposal Russ! While we're at updating the Social Contract's article 5, what about a more invasive cleanup, to reflect reality ? Le mercredi, 7 septembre 2022, 19.48:36 h CEST Russ Allbery a écrit : > -- > >

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

2022-09-07 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le jeudi, 8 septembre 2022, 07.14:09 h CEST Russ Allbery a écrit : > Didier 'OdyX' Raboud writes: > > Thanks for that proposal Russ! > > > > While we're at updating the Social Contract's article 5, what about a > > more invasive cleanup, to refl

Re: new proposal: free and and non-free installers with SC change

2022-09-15 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le mercredi, 14 septembre 2022, 17.00:26 h CEST Holger Levsen a écrit : > - > Proposal F > > This ballot option supersedes the Debian Social Contract (a foundation > document) under point 4.1.5 of the constitution and thus requires a 3:1 > majori

Re: Debian Project Leader election 2023: First call for votes

2023-04-01 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le samedi, 1 avril 2023, 16.24:51 h CEST Luna Jernberg a écrit : > Not really any point to vote as highvoltage is the only one to vote on > congrats to being the Debian Project Leader for another year With Q being about 16, and quorum being 3Q, at least 48 developers need to vote highvoltage abov

Re: [RFC] General Resolution to deploy tag2upload

2024-06-13 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le jeudi, 13 juin 2024, 08.23:45 h CEST Thomas Goirand a écrit : > One thing I really dislike, is having a single gpg key to upoload them > all. I very much preferred the design that Didier explained during > Debconf Kosovo, where the .changes signature is uploaded together with > the tagged commit

Re: Summary of the current state of the tag2upload discussion

2024-06-26 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le mardi, 25 juin 2024, 19.14:53 h CEST Russ Allbery a écrit : > tho...@goirand.fr writes: > > Watch the Kosovo lightning talk where Didier shows what he did. It is a > > proven concept. > > If this is the proof of concept where the *.dsc file is encoded in a Git > tag (sorry, there have been seve

Re: Summary of the current state of the tag2upload discussion

2024-06-26 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le mardi, 25 juin 2024, 22.13:53 h CEST Philip Hands a écrit : > Aigars Mahinovs writes: > > Do you actually check that the contents of the source *package* (after all > > operations done by dpkg-source and possibly other tools) actually match > > what you were looking at before in your source wor

Re: General Resolution to deploy tag2upload

2024-06-27 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le jeudi, 27 juin 2024, 09.15:42 h CEST Sean Whitton a écrit : > = > BEGIN FORMAL RESOLUTION TEXT > > tag2upload allows DDs and DMs to upload simply by using the > git-debpush(1) script to push a signed git tag. > > 1. tag2upload, in the form designed and implemented by Sean Whitton and >

Re: [RFC] General Resolution to deploy tag2upload

2024-06-28 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
(dropping all CC, focusing on the content) Le vendredi, 28 juin 2024, 08.32:43 h CEST Ansgar 🙀 a écrit : > I'll expand on the here slightly for your benefit: > > $ git clone https://salsa.debian.org/rra/tf5.git > [...] > $ apt-get source tf5 > [...] > $ rm -rf tf5/.git tf5-5.0beta8/.pc > $ diff -

Re: Standardization, large scale changes, innovations

2010-03-31 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
On Wed, Mar 31 2010, Josselin Mouette wrote: > However a newcomer not aware of your fanatic rejection of any kind of > standard tools would absolutely not understand what this is about. And > the same goes about everything else in the package. Manoj Srivastava wrote: > I just update code i

Re: [all candidates] DPL salary

2013-03-14 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Hi Russ, while I do agree with the rest of your post, there's one part which I'm not sure to understand correctly: Le mercredi, 13 mars 2013 18.03:36, Russ Allbery a écrit : > For example, I live in the SF Bay Area. Fair market compensation here for > the sort of senior IT person that we would

Re: [all candidates] DPL term duration

2013-03-14 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Hi Moray, hi all, Le mardi, 12 mars 2013 21.24:15, Moray Allan a écrit : > In my view, if we want to lengthen the term of office for our > leadership roles, which could have beneficial aspects, we should do that > as part of a wider reform that reduces the concentration of roles/power > in a singl

Re: [all candidates] DPL term duration

2013-03-14 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le jeudi, 14 mars 2013 13.00:09, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud a écrit : > As I see it, one way to do that (which has certainly been proposed already) > would be to have a sort-of "DPL guild"⁰. It would have these properties¹: > (…) Damn, I just realised all candidates alrea

Re: not being elected?

2013-03-18 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Hi Moray, Le dimanche, 17 mars 2013 16.42:34, Moray Allan a écrit : > > Will not being elected de-motivate you? > > In many ways, not being elected would be a relief. I'd have more time > to put into non-Debian parts of my life. > > However, if I am not elected, I would see that as a lack of ag

Re: GR: Selecting the default init system for Debian

2014-01-27 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le dimanche, 19 janvier 2014, 12.39:01 Ian Jackson a écrit : > Russ Allbery writes ("Re: GR: Selecting the default init system for Debian"): > > As a TC member, I dislike the supermajority requirement for the > > project to overturn a TC decision by GR, particularly in this case. > > I think we w

Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-10-17 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le vendredi, 17 octobre 2014, 10.00:59 Ean Schuessler a écrit : > - "Holger Levsen" wrote: > > If you don't like upstreams choices, *you* should write patches. Not > > GRs telling other people to do so. > > Very well stated. Perhaps a sensible response to this GR is for all of > the maintaine

Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-10-17 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le vendredi, 17 octobre 2014, 19.50:22 Jonas Smedegaard a écrit : > We need the GR to ensure situation stays good. No big deal. That's the fundamental crux of the disagreement I think: A GR will _not_ automagically generate upstream attention for non-systemd support. Point. If your "good" situ

Re: [Call for seconds] The “no GR, please“ amendement.

2014-10-20 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le dimanche, 19 octobre 2014, 23.29:21 Charles Plessy a écrit : > -- > > The Debian project asks its members to be considerate when proposing > General Resolutions, as the GR process may be disruptive regardless > of the outcome o

Re: Alternative proposal: reaffirm maintainers technical competence over the software they maintain

2014-10-20 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le lundi, 20 octobre 2014, 14.14:58 Joey Hess a écrit : > The tech committe made a separate ruling on this question, and > decided: > > For the record, the TC expects maintainers to continue to > > support the multiple available init systems in Debian. That > > includes merging reasonable contribu

Re: GR option text on ballots

2014-10-20 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le lundi, 20 octobre 2014, 12.17:14 Neil McGovern a écrit : > > > Ian's: make each package support all alternative init systems > > > > This is actively misleading in a least four ways: > Yup, I wouldn't count that as neutral either. How about: Your two proposals don't seem to match "Ian's" to wh

Re: Tentative summary of the amendments

2014-10-22 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Ian, Le mercredi, 22 octobre 2014, 13.34:27 Ian Jackson a écrit : > Jonas Smedegaard writes ("Re: Tentative summary of the amendments"): > > I too find it wrong to interpret Ian's text as a war between systemd > > and sysvinit - that's anything but "basically fine"! > > It's only a war between sy

Re: Legitimate exercise of our constitutional decision-making processes [Was, Re: Tentative summary of the amendments]

2014-10-29 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
(Dropping -project) Le mardi, 28 octobre 2014, 17.26:32 Ian Jackson a écrit : > Thanks to Steve for his perceptive and well-reasoned article. > > Steve Langasek writes: > > There are also a lot of Debian users who are afraid of what the > > future holds for an OS that they love very much; and the

Re: REISSUED CfV: General Resolution: Init system coupling

2014-11-04 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Hi Neil, (CC'ing secretary@) Le mardi, 4 novembre 2014, 23.53:43 Neil McGovern a écrit : > The responses to a valid vote shall be signed by the vote key created > for this vote. The public key for the vote, signed by the Project > secretary, is appended below. From what I can see [0], the public

Re: [DRAFT] Maximum term for tech ctte members

2014-11-18 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Hi zack@, Thanks for pushing this subject forward, it's a constitutional change I would likely second. Le mardi, 18 novembre 2014, 14.15:25 Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit : > > "provided /they/ were appointed" reads to me like it might mean that > > if only one of them was appointed that long ago, m

Re: increasing maximum ctte size

2014-11-18 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le mercredi, 19 novembre 2014, 00.12:27 Neil McGovern a écrit : > > Even if it were as ready, I wonder if it wouldn't be better to have > > a > > separate GR. Voting once instead of twice is nice for everyone, but > > conflating two separate decisions in a single GR has been proven to > > be unwise

Re: [DRAFT] Maximum term for tech ctte members

2014-11-19 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le mercredi, 19 novembre 2014, 10.13:45 Lucas Nussbaum a écrit : > The '2-R' schema could even result in an internal TC discussion: "OK, > the Project wants us to change two members. Are there people that feel > like resigning now? Or should we just fallback to the default of > expiring the two mos

Re: GR proposal, Call for Seconds - term limit for the tech-ctte

2014-12-01 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le lundi, 1 décembre 2014, 12.20:25 Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit : > I'm hereby formally submitting the GR proposal included below between > dashed double lines, and calling for seconds. With respect to past > discussions on the -vote mailing list, this is the proposal code-named > "2-S"; see [1,2]

Re: Alternative proposal (+call for seconds): Expire 2-R members every year

2014-12-01 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le lundi, 1 décembre 2014, 14.37:30 Lucas Nussbaum a écrit : > I am hereby formally submitting an alternative proposal, between > double-dashed lines below (formally it's an "amendment", but I don't > expect Stefano to accept it, as we discussed it before). I am also > calling for seconds (see belo

Re: Q to all candidates: dropping SC §5

2015-03-17 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le mardi, 17 mars 2015, 14.16:09 Paul Wise a écrit : > Add an extra component that d-i could add to sources.list when > non-free firmware is needed, instead of adding all of non-free. I'd very much welcome a solution along these lines: not every package in non-free is the same kind of evil for me

Re: Q to Neil: PPA

2015-03-21 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le vendredi, 20 mars 2015, 19.15:24 Neil McGovern a écrit : > On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 09:57:28AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > > in your platform, you advocate PPAs and modernising our build and > > infrastructure. > > > > What's the DPL's role in this? Or, put differently, couldn't you > > just

Re: GR: Constitutional Amendment to fix an off-by-one error and duplicate section numbering

2015-08-26 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le mercredi, 26 août 2015, 22.12:41 Andreas Barth a écrit : >- GENERAL RESOLUTION STARTS - > >Constitutional Amendment: TC Supermajority Fix > >Prior to the Clone Proof SSD GR in June 2003, the Technical >Committee could overrule a Developer with a supermajority of 3:1. >

Re: GR: Constitutional Amendment to fix an off-by-one error and duplicate section numbering

2015-08-27 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le jeudi, 27 août 2015, 10.04:50 Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit : > On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 10:12:41PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > > we (as the Technical Committee) have encountered two bugs in the > > constitution which we like to fix. For this reason, I propose the > > following General Resolution

Re: General resolution: Changes to the Standard Resolution Procedure

2015-08-31 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Hi Axel, (CC'ing aba, as GR proposer). Le lundi, 31 août 2015, 10.26:18 Axel Beckert a écrit : > Kurt Roeckx - Debian Project Secretary wrote: > > https://www.debian.org/vote/2015/vote_002 > > Please either do not use the word combination "fencepost bug" at all > or explain its meaning. These w

Re: General resolution: Changes to the Standard Resolution Procedure

2015-08-31 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Andreas: GR amendment proposal below. Le lundi, 31 août 2015, 11.04:59 Axel Beckert a écrit : > I would have preferred if "off-by-one" would have been used instead of > "fencepost" as in the subject of the original GR proposal. That term > is later missing in the announcement by Kurt as well as on

Re: GR: Constitutional Amendment to fix an off-by-one error and duplicate section numbering

2015-09-01 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le mardi, 1 septembre 2015, 12.20:05 Ian Jackson a écrit : > Kurt Roeckx writes ("Re: GR: Constitutional Amendment to fix an off- by-one error and duplicate section numbering"): > > On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 10:12:41PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > > >(i) Delete most of A.6(3) (which implemented

Re: Restated Amendment: We Choose Wording of the Day

2015-09-07 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le vendredi, 4 septembre 2015, 14.28:20 Sam Hartman a écrit : > Specifically, I formally propose to replace the GR text with: > >- GENERAL RESOLUTION STARTS - > > >Constitutional Amendment: TC Supermajority Fix > >Prior to the Clone Proof SSD GR in June 2003, the Technical >

Re: General Resolution: Fix Minor Bugs in Constitution

2015-10-26 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Hi Sam, thanks for this relaunch. Le lundi, 26 octobre 2015, 21.22:46 Sam Hartman a écrit : >- GENERAL RESOLUTION STARTS - > > >Constitutional Amendment: TC Supermajority Fix > >Prior to the Clone Proof SSD GR in June 2003, the Technical >Committee could overru

Re: Results for Update Standard Resolution Procedure

2015-12-17 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Dear Secretary, (CC'ing the TC chair, as per §7.2) Le dimanche, 13 décembre 2015, 00.00:05 devotee a écrit : > This message is an automated, unofficial publication of vote results. > Official results shall follow, sent in by the vote taker, namely > Debian Project Secretary > > This e

Re: Results for Update Standard Resolution Procedure

2016-02-23 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le jeudi, 17 décembre 2015, 09.43:20 Didier 'OdyX' Raboud a écrit : > Dear Secretary, > (CC'ing the TC chair, as per §7.2) > > Le dimanche, 13 décembre 2015, 00.00:05 devotee a écrit : > > This message is an automated, unofficial publication of vote > >

Re: Proposed GR: Acknowledge that the debian-private list will remain private

2016-07-07 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le jeudi, 7 juillet 2016, 15.37:08 Nicolas Dandrimont a écrit : > === BEGIN GR TEXT === > > Title: Acknowledge that the debian-private list will remain private. > > 1. The 2005 General Resolution titled "Declassification of >debian-private list archives" is repealed. > 2. In keeping with para

Re: Proposed GR: Acknowledge that the debian-private list will remain private

2016-07-07 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le jeudi, 7 juillet 2016, 14.39:21 Holger Levsen a écrit : > (should the text be reworded, I'd like to propose s#Debian > Developers#Debian members#g.) Point is; only "Developers" (the term our constitution uses) are supposed to ever have been subscribed to d-private. That said, we could amend t

Re: Proposed GR: Acknowledge that the debian-private list will remain private

2016-07-07 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le jeudi, 7 juillet 2016, 12.31:40 Don Armstrong a écrit : > That puts a whole lot of stop energy in front of anyone who actually > is interested in trying to declassify -private, though; they'd have > to come up with a method, bikeshed the method, and then propose a > vote which still might not su

Re: GR Proposal: replace "Chairman" with "Chair" throughout the Debian Constitution

2016-07-08 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le vendredi, 8 juillet 2016, 15.27:56 Margarita Manterola a écrit : > === BEGIN GR TEXT === > > Title: Replace "Chairman" with "Chair" throughout the Debian > Constitution > > All appearances of the word Chairman shall be replaced with the word > Chair. > > === END GR TEXT === Seconded; thanks!

Re: GR Proposal: replace "Chairman" with "Chair" throughout the Debian Constitution

2016-07-22 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le vendredi, 22 juillet 2016, 12.28:38 h CEST Jakub Wilk a écrit : > Luckily there's an awesome non-gendered and non-furnitured alternative: > > President Point is, the TC is constitutionally only about half-surrogating MIA DPLs and breaking ties. The non-constitutional part of the duty is much

Re: Amendment to Proposed GR: Declassifying parts of -private of historical interest

2016-08-09 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le mardi, 9 août 2016, 00.14:49 h CEST Nick Phillips a écrit : > To be clear - I do not believe that it would be acceptable for any message > to be made public without explicit approval of the author. A mere lack of > objection is not enough - however it does seem to me that this is a road > that s

Re: more GRs to come (Re: Current GRs clarification)

2016-09-01 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Hi Holger, Le lundi, 8 août 2016, 13.34:07 h CEST Holger Levsen a écrit : > So, I hereby announce that I'll propose another GR to "depeal the GR > of 2005 and burry the idea of systematically declassifying debian-private" > if *this* GR turns out to result in "further discussion". Here we are. :)

Re: Proposed GR: Repeal the 2005 vote for declassification of the debian-private mailing list

2016-09-12 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le dimanche, 11 septembre 2016, 11.01:09 h CEST Anthony Towns a écrit : > In that sense, my reading of the original version of the GR that just > failed was pretty much "eh, we don't care that much about transparency > when it comes to ourselves and it's time we admit that". Which is fine, I suppo

Re: Proposed GR: Repeal the 2005 vote for declassification of the debian-private mailing list

2016-09-12 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le jeudi, 1 septembre 2016, 23.15:05 h CEST Gunnar Wolf a écrit : > === BEGIN GR TEXT === > > Title: Acknowledge that the debian-private list will remain private. > > 1. The 2005 General Resolution titled "Declassification of debian-private >list archives" is repealed. > 2. In keeping with pa

Re: Iain Lane's proposal

2016-09-22 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le mercredi, 21 septembre 2016, 21.17:19 h CEST Steve M. Robbins a écrit : > > > Title: debian-private shall remain private > > The text of the GR is replaced with the following. > > 1. The 2005 General Resolution titled

Re: Q: NEW process licence requirements

2018-04-02 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le dimanche, 1 avril 2018, 00.11:58 h CEST Adrian Bunk a écrit : > Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 11:03:00PM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > Like it or not, but there *is* a big difference in the project making > > something available for the big wide world (which a public NEW would > > be), or a user puttin

Re: Discussion on eventual transition away from source packages

2019-04-19 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le vendredi, 22 mars 2019, 09.32:55 h CEST Lucas Nussbaum a écrit : > I'm probably missing something, but it doesn't sound like a lot of work > to me? It's "just" a service that: > - gets notified of the existence of a git repo + tag to upload > - fetches that git repo + tag > - checks signature /