Re: I resigned in 2004

2018-11-11 Thread Russ Allbery
Carsten Leonhardt writes: > Russ Allbery writes: >> The general principle that I would advocate for here, though, is that >> if someone says clearly and explicitly "never contact me again," we >> should do what we can to never contact them again. > If the message would be signed I'd agree, but

Re: I resigned in 2004

2018-11-11 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 07:50:55PM +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote: > Then, they should click on the button they are asked to click. This > takes far less time than a long (and discourteous) rant. Yeah... you walk out without a word, and are upset if people still care about you? MW acted like an ass

Re: I resigned in 2004

2018-11-11 Thread Chris Lamb
Dear Mattia, > My reply indeed had quite a grumpy tone, and I realized only after > sending it, of course. I need to get into the habit of asking somebody > else to review my emails when they treat such matters. Thank you for not only pausing for this self-reflection but for subsequently sharing

Re: I resigned in 2004

2018-11-11 Thread Dominik George
> I don't think that you can claim that the act of sending a mail to a > list @lists.debian.org can constitute an implied agreement to accept and > abide by the code of conduct. That is no different than "by reading > this, you are bound by these terms." No reasonable person would > consider eith

Re: I resigned in 2004

2018-11-11 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 11 novembre 2018 19:20 +0100, Wouter Verhelst : > Meanwhile, it makes sense to be courteous to people who were a DD once > but really couldn't care less now and want to get rid of the nagging, > which seems like a far more likely scenario. Then, they should click on the button they are asked t

Re: Documenting copyright holders in debian/copyright

2018-11-11 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 04:30:23AM +, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > > On October 31, 2018 3:59:42 AM UTC, Adrian Bunk wrote: > >On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 09:34:59PM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > >>... > >> 1. Most licenses require copyright statements to be included. In the > >FTP > >> te

Re: I resigned in 2004

2018-11-11 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 06:31:35PM +0100, Carsten Leonhardt wrote: > Russ Allbery writes: > > > The general principle that I would advocate for here, though, is that if > > someone says clearly and explicitly "never contact me again," we should do > > what we can to never contact them again. > >

Re: I resigned in 2004

2018-11-11 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 03:38:32PM +0100, Dominik George wrote: > > > he agreed with the CoC, > > > > He did not, the CoC didn't exist yet 14 years ago. > > He did, if not before, when he sent his mail to a mailing list > @lists.debian.org. > > He might not have realised that, of course. > I do

Re: I resigned in 2004

2018-11-11 Thread Carsten Leonhardt
Russ Allbery writes: > The general principle that I would advocate for here, though, is that if > someone says clearly and explicitly "never contact me again," we should do > what we can to never contact them again. If the message would be signed I'd agree, but for a non-signed message that woul

Re: salsa.debian.org: merge requests and such

2018-11-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 10:36:53AM -0200, Herbert Fortes wrote: > But why the new debian/changelog? It is a honest question. Seems perfectly reasonable to me (and indeed I'd have thought it was best practice): make a change, add a changelog entry to go with it. If the maintainer wants to do somet

Bug#913489: ITP: x2godesktopsharing -- Share X11 desktops with other users via X2Go

2018-11-11 Thread Mike Gabriel
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mike Gabriel * Package name: x2godesktopsharing Version : 3.1.1.4 Upstream Author : X2Go Developers * URL : https://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/doc:usage:desktop-sharing?s[]=x2godesktopsharing * License : GPL-2+ Programmin

Re: I resigned in 2004

2018-11-11 Thread Dominik George
> > he agreed with the CoC, > > He did not, the CoC didn't exist yet 14 years ago. He did, if not before, when he sent his mail to a mailing list @lists.debian.org. He might not have realised that, of course. -nik signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: salsa.debian.org: merge requests and such

2018-11-11 Thread James McCoy
On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 01:51:56PM +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 04:57:51PM +, Matthew Vernon wrote: > > That's what Vcs-Git et al are for, isn't it? > > I'm sorry I don't understand what you're saying. That was in response to the visibility aspect of your email. I

Re: salsa.debian.org: merge requests and such

2018-11-11 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 04:57:51PM +, Matthew Vernon wrote: That's what Vcs-Git et al are for, isn't it? I'm sorry I don't understand what you're saying. Right now, the only way that someone can indicate that a package is collaboratively maintained via the control file is to have their Vcs

Re: salsa.debian.org: merge requests and such

2018-11-11 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 6 Nov 2018 15:43:41 + (UTC), Felipe Sateler wrote: >But for example, about a month ago Ond?ej Nový >changed the Format: url of d/copyright to use https on one of my packages >(and I assume a lot more), and didn't notify me. I don't think it is >reasonable to ask for coordination for

Re: I resigned in 2004

2018-11-11 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 03:49:32PM +0100, Dominik George wrote: > I am thus very happy that this DD is leaving immediately - whether you see > this as bureaucracy or not, he agreed with rules and processes when he > joined, There were *far* fewer of them when he did. In 2000, you didn't need an ad

Re: I resigned in 2004

2018-11-11 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 07:07:36PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Mattia Rizzolo writes: > > > Indeed, I was very bothered. > > > On the other hand, most of my reply to willy's mail was not addressed to > > him, but to debian-devel@ at large, to have everybody else understand > > how silly what he

Re: salsa.debian.org: merge requests and such

2018-11-11 Thread Herbert Fortes
On 10/11/2018 17:18, Phil Morrell wrote: On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 10:36:53AM -0200, Herbert Fortes wrote: On 09/11/2018 20:26, Colin Watson wrote: I guessed that the particular commit was https://salsa.debian.org/debian/pcre2/commit/6c14b51ddfc45604fd805bcadc810d437f09a30f. (The same developer h

Re: Uncoordinated upload of the rustified librsvg

2018-11-11 Thread Chris Lamb
Dear Jonathan, > >Debian's Dictionary is in a weird order; "Thank You" is right next to > >the definition of "Entitlement" > > Sorry this wasn't a helpful message. (I'm a little behind on this thread alas but I just wanted to thank you for following up with this retraction.) Best wishes, --