Re: FSG Packaging Summit in Berlin

2007-01-05 Thread Christian Perrier
> We did not *predict* a release date, we *set* a release *target*. It's true > that etch won't be released until it's ready, but treating "when it's ready" > as the only target is a cop-out; the only way a project as large as Debian > can ever *be* ready is if a sufficiently large fraction of our

Re: FSG Packaging Summit in Berlin

2007-01-05 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 08:28:39PM +0100, Mario Lang wrote: > Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Jonathan Corbet wrote: > >>Debian will get the Etch release out this year. Honest. What > >>could possibly go wrong? Thereafter, the Debian developers will > >>go back to arguing abo

Re: FSG Packaging Summit in Berlin

2007-01-05 Thread Mario Lang
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jonathan Corbet wrote: >> Debian will get the Etch release out this year. Honest. What >> could possibly go wrong? Thereafter, the Debian developers will >> go back to arguing about firmware in the kernel. >> >> Honestly, it was not my intent

Re: FSG Packaging Summit in Berlin

2007-01-05 Thread Andreas Metzler
Jonathan Corbet wrote: > Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm boycotting feeding any useful information to LWN anymore until they >> retract their latest blanket insult of all DD's and stop being so biased. [...] > Honestly, I don't see what the problem is here. The text in question is > (p

Re: FSG Packaging Summit in Berlin

2007-01-05 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jan 05, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As I read it, there's an implication that all I, as a DD, am good for is > failing to get Debian releases out and spending all my time in pointless > discussion. I don't really feel that accurately describes me. But it accurately describes many pro

Re: FSG Packaging Summit in Berlin

2007-01-05 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 04:33:48PM -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm boycotting feeding any useful information to LWN anymore until they > > retract their latest blanket insult of all DD's and stop being so biased. > > Interesting. It's usually the Fe

Re: FSG Packaging Summit in Berlin

2007-01-05 Thread Loïc Minier
On Thu, Jan 04, 2007, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > Debian will get the Etch release out this year. Honest. What > could possibly go wrong? Thereafter, the Debian developers will > go back to arguing about firmware in the kernel. Perhaps avoiding "the Debian developers" would make it

Re: FSG Packaging Summit in Berlin

2007-01-04 Thread Joey Hess
Jonathan Corbet wrote: > Debian will get the Etch release out this year. Honest. What > could possibly go wrong? Thereafter, the Debian developers will > go back to arguing about firmware in the kernel. > > Honestly, it was not my intent to insult anybody. I'm sorry if I did. >

Re: FSG Packaging Summit in Berlin

2007-01-04 Thread Jonathan Corbet
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm boycotting feeding any useful information to LWN anymore until they > retract their latest blanket insult of all DD's and stop being so biased. Interesting. It's usually the Fedora folks who complain about bias at LWN. Honestly, I don't see what the

Re: FSG Packaging Summit in Berlin

2007-01-04 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On to, 2007-01-04 at 15:23 +, Andrew Saunders wrote: > On 1/4/07, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm boycotting feeding any useful information to LWN anymore until they > > retract their latest blanket insult of all DD's and stop being so biased. > > YMMV. > > Could you pretty please

Re: FSG Packaging Summit in Berlin

2007-01-04 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, 4 Jan 2007 05:47:58 -0800 (PST), Ottavio Caruso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Sebastian Feltel wrote: >> If you are aware of currently unmentioned events, news or whatever >> please report [1] them. We (meaning the regular contributors to > DWN) >> cannot read every single Debian/Linux/FOS

Re: FSG Packaging Summit in Berlin

2007-01-04 Thread Andrew Saunders
On 1/4/07, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ottavio Caruso wrote: > There is a wide spread feeling (if you read LWN.net) that a lot that > happens in Debian today isn't made public. I'm boycotting feeding any useful information to LWN anymore until they retract their latest blanket insult of

Re: FSG Packaging Summit in Berlin

2007-01-04 Thread Joey Hess
Ottavio Caruso wrote: > I don't think he had a moral imperative to do it, but I can't see why > he or any others involved shouldn't have done it I was ill during and afterwards, and didn't have energy to mention it, although my presentation, such as it was, is up on my wiki[3]. Anyway, I was not i

Re: FSG Packaging Summit in Berlin

2007-01-04 Thread Ottavio Caruso
Sebastian Feltel wrote: > If you are aware of currently unmentioned events, news or whatever > please report [1] them. We (meaning the regular contributors to DWN) > cannot read every single Debian/Linux/FOSS-related mailing list or > website so we need your support. But _this_ is the point: the e

Re: FSG Packaging Summit in Berlin

2007-01-04 Thread Ottavio Caruso
Kevin Mark wrote: > Hi Ottavio, > are you suggesting that Joey(or any DD) should have announced > his/her > involvment in this type of event on a Debian mailing list? > Maybe the event was not open to the public? > Is there a mailing list where DD's mention events they are > attending on > behal

Re: FSG Packaging Summit in Berlin

2007-01-03 Thread Sebastian Feltel
Hello, Ottavio Caruso schrieb am 03.01.2007 15:35: > http://www.freestandards.org/en/LSB_face-to-face_%28December_2006%29 > > Quote:"The goal of the Summit is to bring together the key people in > the Linux packaging world and ISVs to discuss the future of Linux > packaging. Topics will include R

Re: FSG Packaging Summit in Berlin

2007-01-03 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 06:35:02AM -0800, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > http://www.freestandards.org/en/LSB_face-to-face_%28December_2006%29 > > Quote:"The goal of the Summit is to bring together the key people in > the Linux packaging world and ISVs to discuss the future of Linux > packaging. Topics wi

Re: FSG Packaging Summit in Berlin

2007-01-03 Thread Daniel Baumann
Ottavio Caruso wrote: > Why do we [users] have to learn of these things from external > sources? debian is volunteer project[0]. maybe you [user] should support debian when it does not fulfil your expectations. if you can not contribute[1] personally, also donations[2] are welcome. [0] http://ww