On Wed, Sep 07, 2022 at 10:48:36AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >Between one thing and another I've not been tracking the timeline of this >vote and I'm worried we may be out of time for new ballot options and >possibly extensions. > >(As promised in the previous vote for changing the timing of GRs, I've >been watching the timing closely and the last couple have felt rushed. >When there's a quiet period, I'm considering proposing a small >constitutional amendment to relax the timelines a bit based on that >experience. But we can discuss that separately.) > >If there is time left, though, I'm considering proposing the following >option based on my earlier message, just so that there's something on the >ballot that explicitly modifies the Social Contract to allow for non-free >firmware, in case people want that for clarity. > >I should stress that I'm not involved in this part of Debian directly and >am not a great choice for a proponent, so I'd be happy if someone else >took that over, but it does feel to me like it would be good to have this >explicitly on the ballot. > >Possible wording, which includes the existing option A verbatim: > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >This ballot option supersedes the Debian Social Contract (a foundation >document) under point 4.1.5 of the constitution and thus requires a 3:1 >majority. > >The Debian Social Contract is replaced with a new version that is >identical to the current version in all respects except that it adds the >following sentence to the end of point 5: > > The Debian official media may include firmware that is otherwise not > part of the Debian system to enable use of Debian with hardware that > requires such firmware. > >The Debian Project also makes the following statement on an issue of the >day: > >We will include non-free firmware packages from the "non-free-firmware" >section of the Debian archive on our official media (installer images and >live images). The included firmware binaries will normally be enabled by >default where the system determines that they are required, but where >possible we will include ways for users to disable this at boot (boot menu >option, kernel command line etc.). > >When the installer/live system is running we will provide information to >the user about what firmware has been loaded (both free and non-free), and >we will also store that information on the target system such that users >will be able to find it later. Where non-free firmware is found to be >necessary, the target system will also be configured to use the >non-free-firmware component by default in the apt sources.list file. Our >users should receive security updates and important fixes to firmware >binaries just like any other installed software. > >We will publish these images as official Debian media, replacing the >current media sets that do not include non-free firmware packages. Thanks Russ! Seconded. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com The two hard things in computing: * naming things * cache invalidation * off-by-one errors -- Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
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