Hi, On 02/11/2011 11:17, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: > As you might have noticed, I send some mails. Let's first see, if we > can reach a consensus, let's say... by the end of the week. Alexander, you wrote this message two weeks ago, is there any chance you could try and help us find a way out of the current issue? Even if we're not able to address the general case, as a general rule or something like that, maybe addressing the specific case that raised the initial thread could permit us to go back working on the DPN. TL;DR: Jeremiah's remarks on the list makes me think I might have been misunderstood. While discussing off list this issue with other persons, it seems like this request is not completely silly, so let me try to express the reason why I believe that Debian should not promote this initiative. Debian currently does not claim that people should give it money in order to get free stuff. Debian currently doesn't act a la Wikipedia with “give us money” campaigns. If the Debian project wants to take position in favor of such campaign (for itself), I do believe this decision should not be taken lightly, and may deserve a rationale debate about it. If Debian promotes (by mentioning the existence of) a third party initiative claiming that “give us money” campaigns are fine in order to get free stuff, in the name of good for Debian, Debian would de facto claim that such initiative is fine, bypassing the rationale debate it may need. Until an official Debian position emerge in favor of this kind of fund-raising campaigns, I propose that the DPN editors won't relay them without at least an internal consensus. Cheers David
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