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Re: [gNewSense-users] Re: Make MIPS gNewSense from Debian packages
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Karl Goetz |
Subject: |
Re: [gNewSense-users] Re: Make MIPS gNewSense from Debian packages |
Date: |
Thu, 1 Jan 2009 21:02:14 +1030 |
On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 21:04:16 +0100
Sam Geeraerts <address@hidden> wrote:
> Daniel Clark wrote:
> > Koh Choon Lin wrote:
> >>> I'm not going to try to tell the devs which to choose. However,
> >>> I will say that when I was a GNU/Linux newbie, I tried Debian
> >>> before Ubuntu with less than successful results. Since then, I
> >>> think Debian has become more newbie-friendly, though (e.g. adding
> >>> a graphical installer).
> >> How would the issue of deciding the starting platform be settled?
> >> Debian-way a la by voting?
> >
> > We probably need to formalize how decisions like this are made -
> > I'd be fine with just copying Debian's way of doing it, with
> > perhaps veto power for the FSF campaigns team
> > (rms/mattl/peterb/johns - not me) so no changes could ever be made
> > that would cause gNewSense to become non-FSF approved.
> >
> Is Debian's way of doing it: every Debian Developer gets a vote? Then
> what would the criteria for getting a vote in the gNewSense community
> be?
The path to becoming a DD is quite long and involved (and formalised).
We don't have any of that for gNS.
I guess you could say the people who are equivalent can be found with
a /who address@hidden/friend/* on freenode (and perhaps 2-3 others that
wont catch).
kk
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Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS)
Debian user / gNewSense contributor
http://www.kgoetz.id.au
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