Hi, With a new option added to the list, the discussion period is extended again, by a week, starting 10 Nov 2008 21:28:29. The proposals, tentatively, as reproduced below. |----------------------------------------------------+---+---+---+---+---| | | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |----------------------------------------------------+---+---+---+---+---| | Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com> | 1 | 1 | 1 | | | | Bas Wijnen <wijnen@debian.org> | 1 | | | | | | Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> | 1 | 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 | 1 | | Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> | | 1 | 1 | | | | vanicat@debian.org (Rémi Vanicat) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | | | "John H. Robinson, IV" <jaqque@debian.org> | | | | | 1 | | Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi> | | | | | 1 | | Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org> | | | | | 1 | | Colin Tuckley <colin@tuckley.org> | | | | | 1 | |----------------------------------------------------+---+---+---+---+---| | | 7 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 6 | |----------------------------------------------------+---+---+---+---+---| #+TBLFM: $2=vsum(@2$2..@18$2)::$3=vsum(@2$3..@18$3)::$4=vsum(@2$4..@18$4)::$5=vsum(@2$5..@18$5)::$6=vsum(@2$6..@18$6) ,----[ 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: Allow release managers leeway to include non-dfsg bits as needed ] | 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) `---- ,----[ Proposal 5: allow Lenny to release with firmware blobs ] | 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, and the | firmware is distributed upstream under a license that complies | with the DFSG. `---- manoj -- Newlan's Truism: An "acceptable" level of unemployment means that the government economist to whom it is acceptable still has a job. Debian project secretary <secretary@debian.org> 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C
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