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

2006-01-13 Thread Martin Michlmayr
;overall subject. These parts include: > > > > * Invariant Sections > > * Cover Texts > > * Acknowledgements > > * Dedications > > > > However, modifiability is a fundamental requirement of the Debian Free > > Software Guidelines, which state: > > > > 3. Derived Works > > > > The license must allow modifications and derived works, and > > must allow them to be distributed under the same terms as the > > license of the original software. > > > > As such, we cannot accept works that include "Invariant Sections" and > > similar unmodifiable components into our distribution. > > > > --->8--- > > Regards, > > -- > Esteban Manchado Velázquez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > EuropeSwPatentFree - http://EuropeSwPatentFree.hispalinux.es > Help spread it through the Net in signatures, webpages, whatever! -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: GFDL GR: Amendment: invariant-less in main v2

2006-02-09 Thread Martin Michlmayr
For this reason, we encourage documentation authors to license > their works (or dual-license, together with the GFDL) under the > same terms as the software they refer to, or any of the traditional > free software licenses like the the GPL or the BSD license. > > --->8--- -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Questions for all candidates: role models

2006-03-02 Thread Martin Michlmayr
lose interest in this work and so I added Marc and Brian, trained them, and eventually resigned. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Reflections about the questions for the candidates

2006-03-04 Thread Martin Michlmayr
people had asked for status reports they would've received them) is blatantly wrong. We did ask, and (usually) no good response was given. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Reflections about the questions for the candidates

2006-03-05 Thread Martin Michlmayr
why it was never announced). -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Reflections about the questions for the candidates

2006-03-05 Thread Martin Michlmayr
#x27;s a dedicated backup server and that it's located at the University of Darmstadt (who're hosting the unofficial AMD64 archive). -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Question to all candidates about stable point releases

2006-03-07 Thread Martin Michlmayr
t; Bdale said he would prepare a patch, that would add more documentation > and whitelist some more env vars like DISPLAY or XAUTHORITY. We haven't > heard from him yet. Let's CC him. Bdale, what's the status of this? -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- T

Re: Questions for all candidates: role models

2006-03-07 Thread Martin Michlmayr
s guy. (e.g. when Munich started talking about a deployment of Debian I was told that "they" should announce that rather than us). There are a number of other missed opportunities. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: DPL Debate Extra Questions

2006-03-19 Thread Martin Michlmayr
l of us. Some of these questions are really interesting and I encourage everyone to think about them, but if people wanted specific answers from the candidates they should have asked earlier. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Re: DPL Debate Extra Questions

2006-03-20 Thread Martin Michlmayr
ld be thinking about the answers to them, > not just the candidates. *nod*. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Reflections about the questions for the candidates

2006-03-28 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Enrico Zini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-03-05 14:20]: > On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 02:27:36AM +0000, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > > Actually, in a recent chatting one of the past DPLs told me that he > > > tried at some point, but the feedback he got was roughly "

Re: Getting the ballot for leader2006

2006-03-30 Thread Martin Michlmayr
ing? Just take the one from http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/03/msg00018.html -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- 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

2006-08-22 Thread Martin Michlmayr
ifications practical; and > > 3. supports the decision of the Release Team to require works such as > images, video, and fonts to be licensed in compliance with the DFSG without > requiring source code for these works under DFSG #2; and > > 4. determi

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-02-27 Thread Martin Michlmayr
!= the Project -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Constitutional amendment: reduce the length of DPL election process

2007-08-02 Thread Martin Michlmayr
ot most) that they were more active at the beginning of their term, so making it even longer wouldn't help. I also don't really buy the argument that a year isn't enough to get things done. And there's always the chance of getting re-elected if someone did a good job. -- Martin

Re: Constitutional amendment: reduce the length of DPL election process

2007-08-02 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Julien BLACHE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-07-31 23:04]: > Note that you're still free to step down after one year, so that's > hardly a problem I don't think anyone would do that. It takes quite a bit to convince yourself to step down and then actually go through wi

Re: Ideas about a GR to fix the DAM

2007-11-17 Thread Martin Michlmayr
very subjective and that's about it. Adding more DAMs (or AMs or FD > members etc) is straightforward. Actually, it's not straightforward, simply because "deciding who's allowed to do what" is not straightforward. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ --

Re: on firmware (possible proposal)

2008-11-12 Thread Martin Michlmayr
tually we'll end up telling people "take the unofficial one, you know, the one that actually works". I've been doing that for NSLU2 and there it's not such a big deal because everyone uses netboot images, but it's more of a problem with CDs/DVDs. -- Martin Michlmayr

Re: call for seconds: on firmware (was: on firmware (possible proposal))

2008-11-14 Thread Martin Michlmayr
are that comes with source and documentation we will not > | require it, > | b) we however do require all other freedoms that the DFSG mandate from > | components of our operating system, and > | c) such firmware can and should be part of our official installation media. > > Look

Typo in proposal D

2019-11-28 Thread Martin Michlmayr
"which is not the what the user wanted" "not the what": s/the// The proposal also contains Markdown syntax (**, ``) which imho should be converted to HTML on the web site. -- Martin Michlmayr https://www.cyrius.com/

Typo in proposal B

2019-11-28 Thread Martin Michlmayr
"It is important that the project support the efforts" s/support/supports/? (I know British and American English don't agree whether an organization is singular or plural but it seems to me that "the project" is singular.) -- Martin Michlmayr https://www.cyrius.com/

Re: Typo in proposal D

2019-11-29 Thread Martin Michlmayr
an HTML page. > I don't think I can make any changes related to typos. Ok, I'm not familiar with procedures but seems strange not to fix obvious typos. It's not like I'm proposing editorial changes *cough* :P -- Martin Michlmayr https://www.cyrius.com/

Re: Typo in proposal B

2019-11-29 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Sam Hartman [2019-11-29 07:13]: > Ian> I think this is a subjunctive. > > I agree with Ian. Thanks for the clarification! You learn something new every day. -- Martin Michlmayr https://www.cyrius.com/

Proposal: Focus on systemd

2019-11-29 Thread Martin Michlmayr
The project will work on proposals and coordinate transitions from Debian-specific solutions where appropriate. --- Thanks to Enrico Zini, Michael Biebl and others for help with drafting this proposal. -- Martin Michlmayr https://www.cyrius.com/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Proposal: Focus on systemd

2019-12-01 Thread Martin Michlmayr
ith some of the other proposals. I originally wrote a really bad proposal but after talking to some people developed a better understanding of what I was missing in the current proposals and got good ideas on how to frame things (the cross-distro aspect wasn't my idea). I hope that explains it. -- Martin Michlmayr https://www.cyrius.com/

Re: Proposal: Focus on systemd

2019-12-01 Thread Martin Michlmayr
in terms of why to focus on systemd (like to > collaborate with the 99% of the FLOSS world who settled on systemd) than > C. Yeah, as I just explained in my other email, I found C lacking of sway, vision, passion, or whatever you may call it. -- Martin Michlmayr https://www.cyrius.com/

Re: Withdrawing Proposal C; Option Ordering; CFV Timing

2019-12-01 Thread Martin Michlmayr
ing > long lines. Could you put the short title on the ballot while keeping the long option on the web site? If not, I suppose the short title is fine. As Sam points out, it's less import since C has been withdrawn. -- Martin Michlmayr https://www.cyrius.com/

Re: Reframing

2019-12-03 Thread Martin Michlmayr
it systems* you propose an amendment that basically says "portability at (almost) any cost". -- Martin Michlmayr https://www.cyrius.com/

Costs of running a Debian foundation

2020-03-17 Thread Martin Michlmayr
ly a paid contractor of SPI, so you can argue that I'm biased because of my income depends on SPI. You could also argue that I know better than many what kind of work is involved. * I am not on the SPI board and I do not speak for SPI. * I am part of the Debian treasurer team, but I don't speak for them. -- Martin Michlmayr https://www.cyrius.com/

Re: Please hold your questions...

2020-03-17 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Gunnar Wolf [2020-03-17 11:04]: > We already have <10 mails in the list... Please wait for the Project > Secretary to announce the page for the elections, with the platforms > and all. All platforms are available and it has been announced. https://www.debian.org/vote/2020/vote_001

Re: Costs of running a Debian foundation

2020-03-17 Thread Martin Michlmayr
ral TOs.) So I'm more satisfied with the rationale of creating a Debian foundation, although my concerns about the actual operations still apply (i.e. how are you going to make sure you'll do a better job than the TOs you're not happy with when there have been countless failures of running non-profits in the past). -- Martin Michlmayr https://www.cyrius.com/

Re: Question to all: Outreach

2020-03-18 Thread Martin Michlmayr
(we = not necessarily the Debian project, but the wider Debian ecosystem) -- Martin Michlmayr https://www.cyrius.com/

Re: Question to Brian: why not submit your plan for a Debian Foundation to a GR ?

2020-03-18 Thread Martin Michlmayr
izations and basically put them on ice. I thought this got resolved though in the meantime (years ago). https://blogs.gnome.org/jnelson/2014/06/30/the-new-501c3-and-the-future-of-free-software-in-the-united-states/ https://opensource.org/node/840 -- Martin Michlmayr https://www.cyrius.com/

Re: Question to Brian: Why do you need to be DPL to set up foundations?

2020-03-19 Thread Martin Michlmayr
ne SPI PayPal account for Debian and one SPI PayPal account for all other SPI projects. This kind of special casing for Debian is something SPI would like to resolve in some way; there are no plans of removing PayPal. (I don't speak for SPI, etc) -- Martin Michlmayr https://www.cyrius.com/

Re: "rms-open-letter" choice 3: do not, as the project itself, sign any letter regarding rms

2021-03-26 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Timo Weingärtner [2021-03-26 09:12]: > The Debian Project will issue a public statement on whether Richard Stallman ^^ I think you forgot the word "not" here. -- Martin Michlmayr https://www.cyrius.com/

Re: Ballot option 2 - Merely hide Identities of Developers Casting a Particular Vote and allow verification

2022-02-23 Thread Martin Michlmayr
contains wording like "Also fix" it should have been two separate commits. That's how I feel about your proposal. -- Martin Michlmayr https://www.cyrius.com/

Re: QUESTIONNAIRE: Debian Project Leadership

2003-02-03 Thread Martin Michlmayr
privately and GPG-sign your message. I hope you can post a summary. I found many questions very interesting since you touch the question of the role of the DPL. I think it would be interesting for other candidates (and for the community as a whole) to hear what people expect from the DPL. -- Marti

Re: Debian Project Leader Elections

2003-02-04 Thread Martin Michlmayr
ays that "The election begins nine weeks before the leadership post becomes vacant...". The post becomes vacant on 2003-04-10 (according to 5.2.8), therefore the nomination period should start on February 6 and voting on March 20. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: QUESTIONNAIRE: Debian Project Leadership

2003-02-05 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-02-05 21:20]: > one day an inactive developer will become active again, and they > shouldn't have to go through the whole New Maintainer process They generally don't have to go through NM again, just to submit their GPG keys. -- M

Re: Debian Project Leader Elections

2003-02-10 Thread Martin Michlmayr
th voting early and having the term start a few weeks after voting has finished -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Nomination

2003-02-12 Thread Martin Michlmayr
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Re: Questions for Martin

2003-02-22 Thread Martin Michlmayr
might be a good idea, depending on the actual workload. I cannot say anything about this yet, however, since I haven't been or are a DPL... ;-) However, I'm sure there are quite a few mails sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] which take up much time and which don't really have to be answered by the DPL. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Questions for all candidates

2003-02-22 Thread Martin Michlmayr
uite clear already" are not... it's the legal system. > [ ] too powerful, refusing to add some packages when > the license was ok (example: apt-i18n a few months ago) is a > shame. I agree with the ftpmaster's decision in this case. In general, it _might_ certainly be a problem. However, that's why we trust our ftpmasters (and the security team, debian admin, etc) to do the right thing. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Questions for all candidates

2003-02-22 Thread Martin Michlmayr
ate, eg. when > their software is not supported by ancient versions in Woody... Please see my answer to question 3. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DPL live debate (candidates, read this)

2003-02-24 Thread Martin Michlmayr
one now. So I guess anything between 20 and 14 UTC should be ok. I should have time in the next few days provided that I get enough advance warning. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DPL live debate (candidates, read this)

2003-02-25 Thread Martin Michlmayr
or Sunday morning (about UTC). I think this time should be reasonable for most. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DPL live debate (candidates, read this)

2003-02-26 Thread Martin Michlmayr
Branden. In fact, I think Bdale is even more west... but if 2200 UTC is fine for him, I'd be happy (I'd prefer 2200 to anyway because I'd like to go to the beach after the IRC session :-) ). -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: our users as one of our priorities

2003-02-27 Thread Martin Michlmayr
quot; use Debian, but only about those who actually contribute to it. The SC therefore says that we (that is, the Debian Project as a whole) do care about users (and not only about developers for example). -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A question for all candidates

2003-03-08 Thread Martin Michlmayr
thinks that the tasks I listed in my platform are important, and that the project stands behind what I'm doing. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Questions to all candidates

2003-03-08 Thread Martin Michlmayr
if they might not care). > Do you think DPL needs to place its leadership to steer Debian on this > issue? > > [ ] Yes (It is within DPL's scope of responsibility) > [X] No (It is not within DPL's scope of responsibility) > [ ] I do not know / No comment > Comment: -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Questions for the candidates

2003-03-08 Thread Martin Michlmayr
gate >would be responsible for something like this. Some developers who have left the project have recently been re-invited by the the keyring maintainer and are not back. Inactive developers who re-appear generally don't have to go through NM but can simply send their signed key to the keyring maintainer. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Please announce the IRC debate on debian-devel-announce

2003-03-08 Thread Martin Michlmayr
do to help improve areas in which > developers are not that much willing to contribute to and which are > usually lacking? (for example: documentation) It's quite hard to motivate people to do this, but I'd try. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Platform for DPL election

2003-03-01 Thread Martin Michlmayr
While the platforms have been available on the web (see http://www.debian.org/vote/2003/vote_0001) for some time, I think they should also be posted here; hence, I'm starting with mine. Platform for Martin Michlmayr Background My name is Martin Michlmayr. I

Re: Another Non-Free Proposal

2004-01-04 Thread Martin Michlmayr
gt; Ah... in the context of that point, it's probably worth pointing out > that gnome is an effort many orders of magnitude more complex than what > debian does for "non-free". Mutt uses debbugs, and isn't a project of the magnitude of GNOME. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Nomination

2004-02-14 Thread Martin Michlmayr
With this message, I announce my intention to seek re-election as Debian Project Leader. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Questions for the candidates

2004-03-02 Thread Martin Michlmayr
to -devel, and what sort of > discussions do you think should make up the majority of the traffic? > If reality doesn't match those desires, what, if anything, will you > do to change that? I think that _everyone_ should be subscribed to -devel, and it's sad that a growing number unsubscribe because of flamewars and other discussions which are not productive. I think -devel should be a list for technical discussions, and by improving communication and processes in the project I hope to decrease the amount of flamewars and get people back on -devel. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Questions for the candidates

2004-03-02 Thread Martin Michlmayr
t in communication: Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-02 Thread Martin Michlmayr
Do you know that your jpb as a Debian leader has > the consequence to travel in several countries all over the world > which might lead to the situation that some countries handle you > like a criminal by taking your finger prints? While I don't like these practices, I don't consider them off-putting enough not to visit a country if there's a good reason to go there. However, this has to be decided on a case by case basis. As far as I know, EU citizens also don't have to get their finger prints recorded. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-02 Thread Martin Michlmayr
umentation with non-free licenses to non-free. ;-) My plan is to get the license changed so the documentation is free according to our rules. See my other posting in this thread. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-02 Thread Martin Michlmayr
ut being more proactive with regards to non-free license can be found in http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/debian-legal-200402/msg00117.html (plus follow-ups). -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-02 Thread Martin Michlmayr
r-represented folks involved is a good thing, but it should be done on technical merit. Finally, to answer your question fully, I think that women could help us with communication in the project. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-02 Thread Martin Michlmayr
X sucks" or whatever are not very helpful (Andreas, I'm not accusing you of doing so with your question; I'm talking in general, based on what I see on -devel and other lists, and I think your questioon is based on this as well). I try to identify exactly what the problem is and then to tackle it. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Questions for the candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Martin Michlmayr
in mind and re-read "Internal - Core Teams, Delegates, Communication, Transparency". Many of the points I raise there equally apply to (big) packages and other technical matters. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-03-03 14:16]: > How many role accounts are read exclusively by James and no one else? None. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Questions to candidates - Debian/FSF discussions

2004-03-03 Thread Martin Michlmayr
en, I regularly stay in contact with them, and continually ask Don for the status and ask him to stay in contact with Eben. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Martin Michlmayr
e-mail, there are no role accounts where only James answers e-mails so in this sense stuff is not acted upon exclusively by James. However, there are two (keyring, DAM) where James makes the final decisions about things, so you could see that as exclusive. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Martin Michlmayr
DPL might have to face this situation. As I stated in my platform, one of my advantages is that I know lots of people in the project on a personal basis and get along just fine with them. This makes it much easier to approach them and to put forwards (constructive) criticism. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Martin Michlmayr
software to another machine, while still mirroring it on debian.org mirrors for a year or two) would be a good idea, I'll certainly put more time and energy into pursuing this. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Questions to candidates - Debian/FSF discussions

2004-03-03 Thread Martin Michlmayr
F promised us to make an announcement about this matter, but everything was delayed due to the reasons mentioned in the other mail. Anyway, I just mailed Don and asked him to get a new status report from Eben. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Questions for candidates -- Debian's Organizational Structure

2004-03-03 Thread Martin Michlmayr
e to do something about the situation. Having people on the Technical Committee who don't have a single package in the archive or whose packages have been orphaned because they were not maintained is simply not how it should be! -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Questions for candidates -- Debian's Organizational Structure

2004-03-03 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Bob Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-03-03 17:53]: > However, as far as I recall, no DPL has ever publicly appointed > delegates to positions. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2003/debian-devel-announce-200305/msg5.html -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Questions for the candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-03-03 14:03]: > On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 10:35:18AM +0000, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > Please keep what I said about core teams in mind and re-read > > "Internal - Core Teams, Delegates, Communication, Transparency". >

Re: tb's questions for the candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Martin Michlmayr
ose expulsions were handled. (I don't know myself since I wasn't around or involved with this; as DPL, I would first talk to the people who handled those expulsions, and ideally also talk to the expelled developers to get their opinion on how to handle expulsions in a human way). -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Questions to candidates - Debian/FSF discussions

2004-03-04 Thread Martin Michlmayr
uly working on resolving the issue, I think we can give them _some_ more time. If not, it's time to remove the documents. Again, Don asked Eben for a status report yesterday, and I hope to get an rough answer of where they are. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: tb's questions for the candidates

2004-03-04 Thread Martin Michlmayr
perly. [1] See section "3.7 Retiring" of the Debian Developers' Reference, http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-developer-duties.en.html#s3.7 -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Questions for candidates -- Debian's Organizational Structure

2004-03-04 Thread Martin Michlmayr
you cannot exercise the power of clause 5.1.6 without being DPL, there seem to be other ways to approach this problem. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-04 Thread Martin Michlmayr
ortant role, but many examples show that it is indeed possible. As argued in my platform, I am working with people to help them join important roles, and to add more man power to overworked groups. I can do this because I can interact with many different people and know how they work. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-04 Thread Martin Michlmayr
s question. If you look at -devel archives, you'll see that even a NM applicant who has been rejected said that I always dealt with him in an open and fair way, and that he'd elect me as DPL (a shame that he cannot vote, really ;), but the rejection was for the benefit of the project as a whole)). -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: tb's questions for the candidates

2004-03-05 Thread Martin Michlmayr
ng can easily come back by mailing the keyring maintainer. Those who did not retire properly, on the other hand, will have to go through New Maintainer in order to ensure they understand their duties and procedures in Debian. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-05 Thread Martin Michlmayr
in the right way (and the machine also fulfils the requirements for a buildd). -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: tb's questions for the candidates

2004-03-11 Thread Martin Michlmayr
id in my last mail, I think we should face *concrete* problems rather than asking very general and hypothetical questions. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Questions to the candidates

2004-03-11 Thread Martin Michlmayr
roviding expertise/porting Debian to their hardware). -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-11 Thread Martin Michlmayr
o of the three DPL candidates on this issue ? BTW, please keep in mind that I pointed out in a follow-up message that the answer I gave to the non-free question was my _personal_ opinion. As DPL, I represent the Debian community as a whole. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-11 Thread Martin Michlmayr
mmary, the biggest difference between Martin and me is that he > has had a year to demonstrate his efficacy as DPL. I would go a step further and also ask how much Branden has achieved of what he wrote in his platforms in the last years, and how much of this has been done by others in the meantime (no

Re: tb's questions for the candidates

2004-03-11 Thread Martin Michlmayr
r anything like that. (Anyway, I perform this work with my QA hat and not with my DPL hat, so it's not really relevant to the discussion; I just wanted to clarify how the work is being performed.) -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates, and a blatantly political answer

2004-03-11 Thread Martin Michlmayr
e for running for DPL. Furthermore, I'd like to hear why you think that I am not honest and enthusiastic, and ideally I'd like to see some concrete examples. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: still more questions for the candidates

2004-03-11 Thread Martin Michlmayr
n our platforms, but as he pointed out we have quite a different notion how to go about them. I would first have to see how he approaches them in order to find out how I can get involved and help out. However, since I really want the issues I/we raised in our platforms to be addressed, I'd try to find a way to help. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-11 Thread Martin Michlmayr
bian over the last years. You'll see a high level of commitment and energy. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: still more questions for the candidates

2004-03-11 Thread Martin Michlmayr
well explained in the Constituion. As I said, I think the Technical Committee should be a fall-back rather than a general-purpose solution - most issues should be discussed and resolved on our mailing lists. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: still more questions for the candidates

2004-03-12 Thread Martin Michlmayr
The > other DPL candidates should feel free to jump in) I have not come up with a good solution yet, otherwise I'd have proposed it already. Perhaps some rotating scheme of who is part of the Technical Committee might be a good idea. See my reply to Raul. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: still more questions for the candidates

2004-03-12 Thread Martin Michlmayr
x27;m merely pointing out that there are issues, and that as times goes by it comes more important to address them. Thus, this issue is of more priority to me now than it was in the past, which means I'll devote time to thinking of possible solutions. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates, and a blatantly political answer

2004-03-12 Thread Martin Michlmayr
ple in http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2003/debian-devel-announce-200310/msg00014.html I think they are all very important, and while you may often not notice those changes, they are vital in order to ensure that the project is running smoothly. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: tb's questions for the candidates

2004-03-12 Thread Martin Michlmayr
f inactive people before he performed the MIA ping. I have a question to you. Do you think the MIA ping the DAM performed was a good or bad idea? (i.e. looking for inactive people, asking them if they are still active and if not retiring their accounts in order to minimize stale accounts and maximize security). -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: still more questions for the candidates

2004-03-12 Thread Martin Michlmayr
contact with you and discussed it. This whole discussion started because I was asked about my opinion, and so I shared it with others. I expressed my dissatisfaction with the current situation, but also said I'm not in a position to criticize it because so far I have not approached the issue. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: still more questions for the candidates

2004-03-12 Thread Martin Michlmayr
id. In fact, I explictly said several times as part of this threat that while it is somewhere on my TODO list it never was anywhere near the top. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: still more questions for the candidates

2004-03-12 Thread Martin Michlmayr
; If you think the committee should be different -- even if the only > difference is more active members -- you should propose that to the > committee. Exactly. I'll do that once I've had enough time to think about the issue in detail so I am in a position to make a good suggestion. Thanks. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: More questions to the candidates

2004-03-14 Thread Martin Michlmayr
Distributions" I think this is the way to go. As reference, I wrote this in my platform: | Just imagine the great advances we can make if there are a few paid | people in countries like Brazil, Greece, Norway and Spain (which are | all working on Debian based distributions). I apologize that this was not clear. It should say "(which are all working on Debian based distributions or extending Debian for their needs)". -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: tb's questions for the candidates

2004-03-19 Thread Martin Michlmayr
the same as maintainers who leave the project > properly. I should not have quoted both sentences you said. My "I disagree with this" refers to your first sentence only. I agree with the second sentence. My disagreement was only about re-admission to the project where I think they should not be treated the same, not about thanking them for the work they've done. Sorry for the confusion. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: More questions to the candidates

2004-03-19 Thread Martin Michlmayr
run the project, what kind of admission project (i.e. NM projess) they have, how are they going to assure quality, etc. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: tb's questions for the candidates

2004-03-19 Thread Martin Michlmayr
moving packages is not the best solution, as mentioned previously, because the user's are no longer supported. ] -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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