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I did not write about a consensus as first one, it has +</I>><i> been written repeatedly by others. +</I> +My opinion does not differ from the "consensus": +- I don't have a strong opinion on this +- I just did not see a clear consensus after carefully re-reading all + the thread (from the beginning of the month) yesterday + +>>><i> Sorry if it is too offending for one or the other if I call this +</I>>>><i> procedure "ridiculous". +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> Where do you see a procedure here? :-) +</I>>><i> Offer one if you think that's needed. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Ah, in case you have missed all those mails in the devel list: +</I>><i> 1. The issue was brought to the attention of the people, including the +</I>><i> developers. +</I>><i> 2. The issue has been discussed at length including mantra-like repetitions. +</I>><i> 3. Several people suggested the same solution (we did not start a poll +</I>><i> but to me it looked like a large part of the participants of the +</I>><i> discussion). If I am wrong here then all others who saw it like me are +</I>><i> wrong as well +</I>><i> 4. All it needed now was action according to that consensus. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> This is what I call a procedure and how issues have been treated many +</I>><i> times. May be your definition is different. +</I> +What I call a procedure is a documented way of doing things before we +actually do them :-) + +><i> After the discussion reached this state everybody waited for action, +</I>><i> which may have ver well have been delayed because of other more +</I>><i> important work. That was the subject/contents of the opening mail and +</I>><i> first answers of this thread. Until somebody started to open the +</I>><i> discussion again. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Another option would have been to bring the issue to the council after +</I>><i> the first discussion ended but I haven't yet read any mail about such +</I>><i> a move during the months since then. +</I>><i> Is that what you were waiting for? +</I> +If things don't move on, yes, we should bring this to the council. + +>><i> It could be up to the council or board to chose the lesser evil between: +</I>>><i> - picking tainted for non-free + tainted packages like faac, and thus +</I>>><i> forbid mirroring tainted packages that are only free-software +</I>>><i> (but maybe that's the hypothetical 'selective mirror admin' from Guillaume) +</I>><i> +</I>><i> yes, you've been calling those existing mirror maintainers +</I>><i> "hypothetical" before. Very good argument. If I don't like something I +</I>><i> just pretend it isn't there. +</I> +This looks like a misunderstanding, again. +The hypothetical selective mirror admin was about an admin selectively +picking sub-trees (free, non-free) of PLF. +Do you know of any admin doing this? + +-- +Olivier Blin - blino +</PRE> + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="019665.html">[Mageia-dev] rehashing the faac issue +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="019630.html">[Mageia-dev] rehashing the faac issue +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#19648">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#19648">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#19648">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#19648">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |