Hi,
At this point, the following people have sponsored and seconded
the proposals detailed below. As best I can tell, the final proposal
(4) to get enough sponsors got it at Sun, 9 Nov 2008 14:38:41 UTC.
So, we now have a discussion period of two weeks, though I would
prefer to actually start the vote Sunday 00:00:00 UTC (on November
23th, or, if the DPL desires to shorten the discussion period, november
16th).
(BTW, I am a huge fan of these embedded spreadsheets)
|----------------------------------------------------+---+---+---+---|
| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
|----------------------------------------------------+---+---+---+---|
| Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com> | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| Bas Wijnen <wijnen@debian.org> | 1 | | | |
| Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> | 1 | 1 | | |
| Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Peter Samuelson <peter@p12n.org> | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| Hubert Chathi <uhoreg@debian.org | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> | | | | 1 |
| Alexander Reichle-Schmehl <alexander@schmehl.info> | | | | 1 |
| Reinhard Tartler <siretart@debian.org> | | | | |
| Bernd Zeimetz <bernd@bzed.de> | | | | 1 |
| Neil McGovern <neilm@debian.org> | | | | 1 |
| Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> | | 1 | 1 | |
| vanicat@debian.org (Rémi Vanicat) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
|----------------------------------------------------+---+---+---+---|
| | 7 | 7 | 6 | 6 |
|----------------------------------------------------+---+---+---+---|
#+TBLFM: $2=vsum(@2$2..@14$2)::$3=vsum(@2$3..@14$3)::$4=vsum(@2$4..@14$4)::$5=vsum(@2$5..@14$5)
The ballot and wml for the vote web pages should now be drafted
by the sponsors, to be put into place by the secretary team.
manoj
,----[ Proposal 1: reaffirm the Social Contract ]
| 1. We affirm that our Priorities are our users and the free software
| community (Social Contract #4);
|
| 2. We acknowledge that we promised to deliver a 100% free operating system
| (Social Contract #1);
|
| 3. Given that we have known for two previous releases that we have
| non-free bits in various parts of Debian, and a lot of progress has
| been made, and we are almost to the point where we can provide a
| free version of the Debian operating system, we will delay the
| release of Lenny until such point that the work to free the operating
| system is complete (to the best of our knowledge as of 1 November 2008).
`----
,----[ Proposal 2: allow Lenny to release with proprietary firmware ]
| 1. We affirm that our Priorities are our users and the free software
| community (Social Contract #4);
|
| 2. We acknowledge that there is a lot of progress in the kernel firmware
| issue; most of the issues that were outstanding at the time of the
| last stable release have been sorted out. However, new issues in the
| kernel sources have cropped up fairly recently, and these new issues
| have not yet been addressed;
|
| 3. We assure the community that there will be no regressions in the
| progress made for freedom in the kernel distributed by Debian
| relative to the Etch release in Lenny (to the best of our knowledge
| as of 1 November 2008);
| 4. We give priority to the timely release of Lenny over sorting every
| bit out; for this reason, we will treat removal of sourceless
| firmware as a best-effort process, and deliver firmware as part of
| Debian Lenny as long as we are legally allowed to do so.
|
| (Since this option overrides the SC, I believe it would require 3:1
| majority)
`----
,----[ Proposal 3: (allow Lenny to release with DFSG violations ]
| 1. We affirm that our Priorities are our users and the free software
| community (Social Contract #4);
|
| 2. We acknowledge that there is a lot of progress on DFSG compliance
| issues; however, they are not yet finally sorted out;
|
| 3. We assure the community that there will be no regressions in the
| progress made for freedom in the packages distributed by Debian
| relative to the Etch release in Lenny (to the best of our knowledge
| as of 1 November 2008);
|
| 4. We give priority to the timely release of Lenny over sorting every
| bit out; for this reason, we will treat fixing of DFSG violations as
| a best-effort process.
|
| (Since this option overrides the SC, I believe it would require 3:1
| majority)
`----
,----[ Proposal 4 ]
| Debian's priorities are our users and free software. We don't trade
| them against each other. However during getting an release out of the
| door, decisions need to be done how to get a rock stable release of the
| high quality Debian is known for, release more or less on time, and to
| minimize the usage of problematic software. We acknowledge that there
| is more than just one minefield our core developers and the release
| team are working at.
|
| We as Developers at large continue to trust our release team to follow
| all these goals, and therefor encourage them to continue making
| case-by-case-decisions as they consider fit, and if necessary
| authorize these decisions.
|
| (Since this option overrides the SC, I believe it would require 3:1
| majority)
`----
We need a title for proposal 4, which allows the release team to
override the social contract using case-by-case decisions.
manoj
--
Gauls! We have nothing to fear; except perhaps that the sky may fall on our
heads tomorrow. But as we all know, tomorrow never comes!! -- Adventures of Asterix
Debian Project Secretary <secretary@debian.org>
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