Re: Valuing non-code contributions -- was Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-18 Thread Curt
On 2014-11-18, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 06:32:43AM -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: >> Some people think sex should only be for procreation... > > Are you procreation or against it? > In your case I'm against it. ;-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.

Re: Valuing non-code contributions -- was Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 06:32:43AM -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: > Some people think sex should only be for procreation... Are you procreation or against it? -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppr

Re: Valuing non-code contributions -- was Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-17 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/17/2014 6:10 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: > Excuse me, but some people think anatomy jokes are distasteful. Some people think sex should only be for procreation... PC police get sooo tiring... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: Valuing non-code contributions -- was Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 01:13:05PM -0500, Ric Moore wrote: > On 11/15/2014 08:51 AM, Curt wrote: > >On 2014-11-15, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > >>> > >>>Why can't you wrap your lines while you're at it? > >> > >>Can't you set your mail client to wrap them for you ? > >> > > > >Sure, and I can killfile

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-17 Thread Eduard Bloch
Hallo, * st [Tue, Nov 11 2014, 02:01:46AM]: > Hans wrote: > > >And at the beginning things never work perfect > > That's why they shouldn't make it into Stable as defaults, > now should they? We shouldn't and we are not. Because it's not "the beginning", systemd already has multiple years of his

Re: Valuing non-code contributions -- was Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-15 Thread Ric Moore
On 11/15/2014 08:51 AM, Curt wrote: On 2014-11-15, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: Why can't you wrap your lines while you're at it? Can't you set your mail client to wrap them for you ? Sure, and I can killfile the troll, correct the spelling and grammatical errors of the slothful and the ignorant

Re: Valuing non-code contributions -- was Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-15 Thread Ron
On Sat, 15 Nov 2014 13:51:44 + (UTC) Curt wrote: > >> Why can't you wrap your lines while you're at it? > > Can't you set your mail client to wrap them for you ? > Sure, and I can killfile the troll, correct the spelling and grammatical > errors of the slothful and the ignorant, convert h

Re: Valuing non-code contributions -- was Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-15 Thread Curt
On 2014-11-15, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: >> >> Why can't you wrap your lines while you're at it? > > Can't you set your mail client to wrap them for you ? > Sure, and I can killfile the troll, correct the spelling and grammatical errors of the slothful and the ignorant, convert html to text, ignor

Re: Valuing non-code contributions -- was Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-15 Thread Ron
On Sat, 15 Nov 2014 10:45:11 + (UTC) Curt wrote: > > I don't mean to single out the poster of this comment, because it is > > something I've seen repeated by several Debian developers and some > > non-developers. Other forms of it are "If you want that fixed, please > > submit a patch", o

Re: Valuing non-code contributions -- was Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-15 Thread Curt
On 2014-11-11, Rob Owens wrote: > > I don't mean to single out the poster of this comment, because it is > something I've seen repeated by several Debian developers and some > non-developers. Other forms of it are "If you want that fixed, please submit > a patch", or the response I got to bug

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 12 nov 14, 19:55:08, Laurent Bigonville wrote: > > The TC decisions can be overruled by a GR with a simple majority, see > the point 4.1.4 of the Constitution[0] > > [0] https://www.debian.org/devel/constitution#item-4 Actually it currently requires a 2:1 majority, but the TC took special

Re: Valuing non-code contributions -- was Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 11 nov 14, 20:43:42, Erwan David wrote: > > > Your email makes me me regretting contibuting by translating doc (a long > time ago) otr contibuting bugs... > > This kind opf stance is completely full of contempt agains non coders. > But coders are nothing if nobody uses or test. Might be a

Re: Valuing non-code contributions -- was Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-12 Thread Keith Peter
On 11 November 2014 19:43, Erwan David wrote: > Le 11/11/2014 20:21, Don Armstrong a écrit : >> On Tue, 11 Nov 2014, Erwan David wrote: >>> Le 11/11/2014 18:59, Don Armstrong a écrit : When I (or someone else) asks people to "show us the code", it's really just shorthand for "someone nee

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-12 Thread Laurent Bigonville
Le Wed, 12 Nov 2014 15:29:27 -0200, Andre N Batista a écrit : > On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 06:23:26PM +0100, Laurent Bigonville wrote: > > Le Tue, 11 Nov 2014 11:58:33 -0500, > > Tanstaafl a écrit : > > > > > On 11/11/2014 9:26 AM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud > > > wrote: > > > > Blaming the Debian proj

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-12 Thread Andre N Batista
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 06:23:26PM +0100, Laurent Bigonville wrote: > Le Tue, 11 Nov 2014 11:58:33 -0500, > Tanstaafl a écrit : > > > On 11/11/2014 9:26 AM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > > > Blaming the Debian project for letting the Debian distribution > > > evolve in ways defined by its volunt

Re: Re: Valuing non-code contributions -- was Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-12 Thread berenger . morel
Le 11.11.2014 22:53, Miles Fidelman a écrit : On a broader note, Debian, Linux, *nix in general, and FOSS software are a complex and highly-interdependent ecosystem. Yes some people just take, but an awful lot of us contribute in various ways, in various places, to the overall ecosystem - be it

Re: Re: Valuing non-code contributions -- was Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-11 Thread Miles Fidelman
On Tue, 11 Nov 2014,Don Armstrong mailto:don%40debian.org>> wrote: On Tue, 11 Nov 2014, Erwan David wrote: > Le 11/11/2014 18:59, Don Armstrong a écrit : > > When I (or someone else) asks people to "show us the code", it's > > really just shorthand for "someone needs to do this work, and it >

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 11 nov 14, 11:58:33, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 11/11/2014 9:26 AM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > > Blaming the Debian project for letting the Debian distribution evolve in > > ways defined by its volunteers is unfair. > > Eh? My understanding is that this systemd mess is due to a vote of the

Re: Valuing non-code contributions -- was Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-11 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - > From: "Rob Owens" > > - Original Message - > > From: <_...@debian.org> > > > Debian also was always and will always stay technically defined by those > > volunteering to make it what it is. By extension, it is explicitly not > > defined by those not putting

Re: Valuing non-code contributions -- was Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-11 Thread Miles Fidelman
Erwan David wrote: Le 11/11/2014 18:59, Don Armstrong a écrit : On Tue, 11 Nov 2014, Rob Owens wrote: This type of comment says to me that my contributions to Debian are useless if they are not in the form of code. https://contributors.debian.org/ is everyone who we know has contributed to Deb

Re: Valuing non-code contributions -- was Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-11 Thread Erwan David
Le 11/11/2014 20:21, Don Armstrong a écrit : > On Tue, 11 Nov 2014, Erwan David wrote: >> Le 11/11/2014 18:59, Don Armstrong a écrit : >>> When I (or someone else) asks people to "show us the code", it's >>> really just shorthand for "someone needs to do this work, and it >>> currently isn't import

Re: Valuing non-code contributions -- was Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-11 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 11 Nov 2014, Erwan David wrote: > Le 11/11/2014 18:59, Don Armstrong a écrit : > > When I (or someone else) asks people to "show us the code", it's > > really just shorthand for "someone needs to do this work, and it > > currently isn't important enough for me to do it." > > Asking to prov

Re: Valuing non-code contributions -- was Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-11 Thread Erwan David
Le 11/11/2014 18:59, Don Armstrong a écrit : > On Tue, 11 Nov 2014, Rob Owens wrote: >> This type of comment says to me that my contributions to Debian are >> useless if they are not in the form of code. > https://contributors.debian.org/ is everyone who we know has contributed > to Debian in one o

Re: Valuing non-code contributions -- was Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-11 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 11 Nov 2014, Rob Owens wrote: > This type of comment says to me that my contributions to Debian are > useless if they are not in the form of code. https://contributors.debian.org/ is everyone who we know has contributed to Debian in one of the ways that we currently measure. [Granted, it's

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-11 Thread Miles Fidelman
Tanstaafl wrote: On 11/11/2014 9:26 AM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: Blaming the Debian project for letting the Debian distribution evolve in ways defined by its volunteers is unfair. Eh? My understanding is that this systemd mess is due to a vote of the technical committee, a vote that was in

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-11 Thread Laurent Bigonville
Le Tue, 11 Nov 2014 11:58:33 -0500, Tanstaafl a écrit : > On 11/11/2014 9:26 AM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > > Blaming the Debian project for letting the Debian distribution > > evolve in ways defined by its volunteers is unfair. > > Eh? My understanding is that this systemd mess is due to a

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-11 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/11/2014 9:26 AM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > Blaming the Debian project for letting the Debian distribution evolve in > ways defined by its volunteers is unfair. Eh? My understanding is that this systemd mess is due to a vote of the technical committee, a vote that was in fact tied and t

Valuing non-code contributions -- was Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-11 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - > From: <_...@debian.org> > Debian also was always and will always stay technically defined by those > volunteering to make it what it is. By extension, it is explicitly not > defined by those not putting work (but only words) into it; unmaintained > software and code

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-11 Thread st
Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: Blaming the Debian project for letting the Debian distribution evolve in ways defined by its volunteers is unfair. Blaming? Did I say a word about Stable becoming less and less stable since about Etch? No. Did I mention that I had to get almost all essential desktop

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-11 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le mardi, 11 novembre 2014, 20.08:08 st a écrit : > Hans wrote: > > I just wanted to show ways, where EVERYONE might be happy > > Sure. Sure. Everybody who has invested years into learning > Debian is just jumping of joy now that it is suddenly turned > into a completely different OS _and_ they h

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-11 Thread st
Hans wrote: > I just wanted to show ways, where EVERYONE might be happy Sure. Sure. Everybody who has invested years into learning Debian is just jumping of joy now that it is suddenly turned into a completely different OS _and_ they have to find another Unix _and_ learn it almost from scratch _

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-11 Thread Hans
Am Montag, 10. November 2014, 12:12:10 schrieb Don Armstrong: > On Mon, 10 Nov 2014, Tanstaafl wrote: > > Exactly. I for one am getting sick and tired of being called names on > > this list like 'hater' and 'whiner' Sorry, Don, I did not want to afferon t someone. As I am not native English speak

Re: Re: Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-11 Thread tor...@riseup.net
>On Ma, 11 nov 14, 03:15:12, tor...@riseup.net wrote: >> >>"I don't want to use systemd, what are my options" inside of a debian >> communication channel makes sense to me (assuming one has been a >> Debian user in the past). >https://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser#systemd >Feel free to add

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-11 Thread Joe
On Tue, 11 Nov 2014 10:02:12 +0100 Jean-Marc wrote: > > This kind of discussion made me unsubscribing to Debian lists. > If all these people code only 10 lines everytime they troll, > we can get a brand new init-system in less than a month. > Does this code have to make sense, or can it be ju

Re: Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 11 nov 14, 03:15:12, tor...@riseup.net wrote: > > "I don't want to use systemd, what are my options" inside of a debian > communication channel makes sense to me (assuming one has been a Debian > user in the past). https://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser#systemd Feel free to add anythi

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-11 Thread Jean-Marc
Mon, 10 Nov 2014 18:23:13 +0100 Hans écrivait : > Hi all, hi Hans, > [...] This kind of discussion made me unsubscribing to Debian lists. If all these people code only 10 lines everytime they troll, we can get a brand new init-system in less than a month. > > Happy hacking You too. > > H

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-10 Thread Miles Fidelman
tor...@riseup.net wrote: You know, it is still possible that the installer team will fix bug #668001, systemd-shim will stabilize, and it will remain possible in some future release of Jessie, to build and run a Jessie system without systemd taking over one's system. Or maybe folks will come to t

Re: Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-10 Thread tor...@riseup.net
>You know, it is still possible that the installer team will fix bug >#668001, systemd-shim will stabilize, and it will remain possible in >some future release of Jessie, to build and run a Jessie system >without systemd taking over one's system. Or maybe folks will come to >their senses for Jessie

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-10 Thread Miles Fidelman
tor...@riseup.net wrote: And you really think making another thread about the subject is the right way to "stop" the discussions about systemd? You couldn't have said that in one of the existing threads? You missed the option to invest the energy in distributions which don't use systemd. People

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-10 Thread tor...@riseup.net
And you really think making another thread about the subject is the right way to "stop" the discussions about systemd? You couldn't have said that in one of the existing threads? You missed the option to invest the energy in distributions which don't use systemd. People are angry, disappointed,

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-10 Thread Miles Fidelman
Tanstaafl wrote: On 11/10/2014 2:08 PM, Andrew McGlashan wrote: On 11/11/2014 5:46 AM, Hans wrote: Sorry for that, I hope he will not blame me for that. However, I intended not to tark part on any side! Neither Lennarts nor the systemd-haters. It's not about "haters" ... necessarily, what abo

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-10 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 10 Nov 2014, Tanstaafl wrote: > Exactly. I for one am getting sick and tired of being called names on > this list like 'hater' and 'whiner' Just to underline this, calling people names like hater, whiner, etc. are not conducive to discussions, are not appropriate on Debian mailing lists, a

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/10/2014 2:50 PM, Martin Read wrote: > On 10/11/14 19:26, Tanstaafl wrote: >> Exactly, it should remain in unstable unless/until it can be released >> *perfectly* stable, so if that means it stays in unstable for 5 years, >> so be it. > > If you want *perfectly* stable software, why are you

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-10 Thread Martin Read
On 10/11/14 19:26, Tanstaafl wrote: Exactly, it should remain in unstable unless/until it can be released *perfectly* stable, so if that means it stays in unstable for 5 years, so be it. If you want *perfectly* stable software, why are you using software that isn't formally proven? -- To UN

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/10/2014 2:08 PM, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > On 11/11/2014 5:46 AM, Hans wrote: >> Sorry for that, I hope he will not blame me for that. However, I >> intended not to tark part on any side! Neither Lennarts nor the >> systemd-haters. > It's not about "haters" ... necessarily, what about those

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/10/2014 2:01 PM, st wrote: > Hans wrote: > >> And at the beginning things never work perfect > > That's why they shouldn't make it into Stable as defaults, > now should they? Exactly, it should remain in unstable unless/until it can be released *perfectly* stable, so if that means it stay

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-10 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 11/11/2014 5:46 AM, Hans wrote: > -- >> >> You could at least spell the perp's name correctly if you are >> going to come to his defense. It's LENNART! > > Sorry for that, I hope he will not blame me for that. However, I > i

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-10 Thread st
Hans wrote: And at the beginning things never work perfect That's why they shouldn't make it into Stable as defaults, now should they? -- Best nightdreams. Serge Tiunov, "Do you really think you think http://e-head.net when you do think you

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-10 Thread Hans
-- > > You could at least spell the perp's name correctly if you are going to > come to his defense. It's LENNART! Sorry for that, I hope he will not blame me for that. However, I intended not to tark part on any side! Neither Lennarts nor the systemd-haters. My intention

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-10 Thread golinux
On Mon, 11/10/14, Hans wrote: Subject: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, November 10, 2014, 11:23 AM Hi all, [cut] - If you do not like the behaviour of Leonard Poettering, do not quarrel with him. Hey, I guess,he wants a good

systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-10 Thread Hans
Hi all, I am now watching this systemd quarrel for a long time, and I must say, there is so much energy wasted in this. Please stop it! Really! There are solutions, which all will be happy. Solutions, that will bring debian forward, too. - If you don't want to use systemd, just leave it. You c