Re: [gNewSense-users] Re: Make MIPS gNewSense from Debian packages

[Paul O'Malley - gnu's not unix -]

Sam Geeraerts 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?

nothing has been decided, however two things to note

First up:

As much as I hate to say this, in Debian - really hard things do not get 
decided one way or the other fudge might be the best word for it see the 
binary firmware issue.
It could be a binary decision (A) do it or (B) don't and make changes to 
dfsg to go with this decision however they choose option (C) do nothing 
and it comes around next time as well.

Second up:
I would only consider that people who actually do code get to contribute 
to that space, and it still needs to be monitored for freedom.
Voting ... not sure I am happy with that, this is a specialist project 
with a very very specific goal, I would not like to give people power to 
possibly dilute that.

P.