Hi David, On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 10:04:29PM -0400, David Prévot wrote: > 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. Did you mean to post this to debian-policy? Debian-policy is the mailing list for discussions of Debian's *technical* policy; you seem to be discussing some other sort of political policy, but I'm not sure what you're referring to because there's no context for your post to this list. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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