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

2021-03-23 Thread Gard Spreemann
Louis-Philippe Véronneau writes: > On 2021-03-22 16 h 43, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: >> 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 >>>

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

2021-03-23 Thread Gard Spreemann
Jonas Smedegaard writes: > Quoting Gard Spreemann (2021-03-23 16:18:10) >> >> Louis-Philippe Véronneau writes: >> >> > On 2021-03-22 16 h 43, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: >> >> Le vendredi, 19 mars 2021, 17.49:54 h CET Louis-Philippe Vér

Re: diversity

2021-03-25 Thread Gard Spreemann
Hello, and thanks for your answers! Sruthi Chandran writes: > On 23/03/21 2:41 pm, Bart Martens wrote: >> 1/ One way of addressing this, is actively BENEFIT the underrepresented >> profiles. Positive discriminiation is needed, at least to get over an initial >> resistance. Put diversity in the s

Re: Willingness to share a position statement?

2021-03-25 Thread Gard Spreemann
Margarita Manterola writes: > On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 6:59 PM Roberto C. Sánchez > wrote: > >> Essentially, voting in this GR is implicitly >> compulsory and there is only one correct way to vote. > > > Also not true. The GR is to vote whether Debian issues a statement about > this or not. If y

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

2021-03-25 Thread Gard Spreemann
Jonas Smedegaard writes: > Quoting Sruthi Chandran (2021-03-25 18:29:32) >> >> >> On March 25, 2021 2:24:16 AM GMT+05:30, 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. >> > >> >h

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

2021-03-25 Thread Gard Spreemann
Sruthi Chandran writes: > On March 25, 2021 2:24:16 AM GMT+05:30, 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. >> >>https://github.com/rms-open-letter/rms-open-letter.github.io/blob/m

Re: Amendment to rms-open-letter GR

2021-03-26 Thread Gard Spreemann
Sean Whitton writes: > Hello, > > Seeking seconds: > > ===BEGIN > > Replace the entire text with: > > Under section 4.1.5 of the constitution, the Developers make the > following statement: > > The Debian Project echoes and supports recent calls to remove Richard > M. Stallman from positions of

Re: Amendment to GR on RMS rejoining FSF

2021-03-26 Thread Gard Spreemann
Sruthi Chandran writes: > On 26/03/21 10:45 pm, Sruthi Chandran wrote: > > Re-sending with fixed signature and replacing twitter link with > gnusocial link. > > >> Begin text >> >> Under section 4.1.5 of the constitution, the Developers make the >> following statement: >> >> *Debian’s

Re: Cancel "culture" is a threat to Debian

2021-03-30 Thread Gard Spreemann
Sergey B Kirpichev writes: > The simple (not just one) problem is: I did (now, in past) some work for > the Debian - but I can't vote. Yet, the project do political decisions > on my behalf. Is it a problem when someone goes and works and pays taxes in a country where they're not a citizen? Do

Re: Cancel "culture" is a threat to Debian

2021-03-30 Thread Gard Spreemann
Sergey B Kirpichev writes: >> Is it a problem when someone goes and works and pays taxes in a country >> where they're not a citizen? > > Oh, package maintainers are not Debian's citizens... Great idea, just > put this on the top of debian.org to attract new contributors. This > is not transfo

Re: Amendment to RMS/FSF GR: Option 4, assert the need to learn and grow from recent events

2021-03-31 Thread Gard Spreemann
Jonathan Wiltshire writes: > CHOICE TEXT FOLLOWS: > > This is a position statement of the Debian Developers in accordance with > our constitution, section 4.1.5. > > The Developers firmly believe that leaders in any prominent organisation > are, and should be, held to the highest standards of ac

Re: Cancel "culture" is a threat to Debian

2021-03-31 Thread Gard Spreemann
Sergey B Kirpichev writes: > Obviously, you want to turn the Debian into something "more than > that". But have you fixed all bugs in the packages you do support?) Is this how you behave when discussing political matters in general too? "This one important problem isn't fully resolved, therefo

Re: Draft proposal for resolution process changes

2021-09-28 Thread Gard Spreemann
Hello, and thank you for this effort. Russ Allbery writes: > A.2. Withdrawing ballot options: > > […] > > 4. The default option cannot be withdrawn. This is the most minor of near-useless pedantic comments on my part, but A.2.4 seems redundant: If only the proposer of a ballot option may withdr

Re: Renaming the FTP Masters

2021-11-05 Thread Gard Spreemann
Felix Lechner writes: >> I'm a native German speaker and "Führer" is widely and >> completely uncontroversially used in German in lots of contexts > > That is, as you noted, somewhat true for the word "master" as well, > but your portrayal of a wide and unequivocal acceptance of the word > "Führ

Re: Renaming the FTP Masters

2021-11-11 Thread Gard Spreemann
Daniel Kahn Gillmor writes: > 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 the term "master" that you would fight >to keep the project we all work on using t

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

2022-02-16 Thread Gard Spreemann
Ansgar writes: > On Mon, 2022-02-14 at 18:47 -0700, Sam Hartman wrote: >> I think there are problematic uses of votes well beyond harassment >> though. >> >> * After this, I think the next vote is going to be about firmware. >> Do we want companies like Nvidia who may have opinions about how >

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

2022-02-16 Thread Gard Spreemann
Ansgar writes: > On Wed, 2022-02-16 at 13:27 +0100, Gard Spreemann wrote: >> Ansgar writes: >> >> > On Mon, 2022-02-14 at 18:47 -0700, Sam Hartman wrote: >> > > I think there are problematic uses of votes well beyond >> > > harassment >>

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

2022-02-16 Thread Gard Spreemann
Sorry for replying twice, I accidentally left out one reply. Ansgar writes: > On Wed, 2022-02-16 at 13:27 +0100, Gard Spreemann wrote: >> Ansgar writes: >> >> > On Mon, 2022-02-14 at 18:47 -0700, Sam Hartman wrote: >> > > I think there are p

Re: Question to all candidates: registering Debian as an organization

2022-03-21 Thread Gard Spreemann
Bill Allombert writes: > On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 09:41:49AM +0100, Christian Kastner wrote: >> Currently, the Project has no legal standing of its >> own, meaning that within any legal context, there is no Project. > > Indeed, it is a great feature of Debian that it is not bound to any > particu

Re: General resolution: Condemn Russian invasion of the Ukraine

2022-04-11 Thread Gard Spreemann
Holger Levsen writes: > On Fri, Apr 08, 2022 at 01:35:14PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: >> Debian does not exist, legally :-) > > and that's a feature, not a bug. Could you elaborate on this? We've heard arguments for why it might be a bug – and we can have a discussion about whether that's true o

Re: Changing how we handle non-free firmware

2022-08-23 Thread Gard Spreemann
On August 23, 2022 5:38:52 PM GMT+02:00, Simon Josefsson wrote: > I have no problem >with builtin non-upgradeable firmware -- see >https://ryf.fsf.org/about/criteria for rationale. Hi! I've always had a really hard time understanding that rationale, despite not doubting the FSF's good intentio

Re: On community and conflicts

2023-03-16 Thread Gard Spreemann
Roberto C. Sánchez writes: > On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 12:29:12PM +, Holger Levsen wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 07:53:22AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: >> > Can we have a clear statement of what "directly affects people"? >> >> for those having lost people due to covid, hearing so

Re: [RFC] General Resolution to deploy tag2upload

2024-06-12 Thread Gard Spreemann
Russ Allbery writes: > Ansgar 🙀 writes: > >> In addition it reintroduces trust in weak cryptographic hashes which >> effort was spent to remove. > > I think this concern is significantly overblown and attempted to explain > precisely why I believe that in my security review. I'll also point ou