Proposal and amendment | Friday, 24 Oct 2008 | Friday, 14 Nov 2008 |
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Discussion Period: | Friday, 14 Nov 2008 | Wednesday, 10 Dec 2008 |
Voting Period | 00:00:01 UTC on Sunday, 14 Dec 2008 | 23:59:59 UTC on Saturday, 27 Dec 2008 |
Robert Millan [rmh@debian.org]
Choice 1.
The actual text of the resolution is as follows. Please note
that this does not include preludes, prologues, any preambles to
the resolution, post-ambles to the resolution, abstracts,
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We affirm that our Priorities are our users and the free software community (Social Contract #4);
We acknowledge that we promised to deliver a 100% free operating system (Social Contract #1);
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).
Robert Millan [rmh@debian.org]
Choice 2.
The actual text of the resolution is as follows. Please note
that this does not include preludes, prologues, any preambles to
the resolution, post-ambles to the resolution, abstracts,
fore-words, after-words, rationales, supporting documents,
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We affirm that our Priorities are our users and the free software community (Social Contract #4);
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;
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);
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.
Robert Millan [rmh@debian.org]
Choice 3.
The actual text of the resolution is as follows. Please note
that this does not include preludes, prologues, any preambles to
the resolution, post-ambles to the resolution, abstracts,
fore-words, after-words, rationales, supporting documents,
opinion polls, arguments for and against, and any of the other
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archives. Please read the debian-vote mailing list archives for
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We affirm that our Priorities are our users and the free software community (Social Contract #4);
We acknowledge that there is a lot of progress in the kernel firmware issue; however, they are not yet finally sorted out;
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);
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.
Andreas Barth [aba@debian.org]
Choice 4.
The actual text of the resolution is as follows. Please note
that this does not include preludes, prologues, any preambles to
the resolution, post-ambles to the resolution, abstracts,
fore-words, after-words, rationales, supporting documents,
opinion polls, arguments for and against, and any of the other
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Debian's priorities are our users and free software. We don't trade them against each other. However, while getting a release out of the door, decisions need to be made about 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 on.
We as Developers at large continue to trust our release team to follow all these goals, and therefore encourage them to continue making case-by-case decisions as they consider fit, and if necessary we authorize these decisions.
Manoj Srivastava [srivasta@debian.org]
Choice 5.
The actual text of the resolution is as follows. Please note
that this does not include preludes, prologues, any preambles to
the resolution, post-ambles to the resolution, abstracts,
fore-words, after-words, rationales, supporting documents,
opinion polls, arguments for and against, and any of the other
important material you will find on the mailing list
archives. Please read the debian-vote mailing list archives for
details.
We affirm that our Priorities are our users and the free software community (Social Contract #4);
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;
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);
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.
Peter Palfrader [weasel@debian.org]
Choice 6.
The actual text of the resolution is as follows. Please note
that this does not include preludes, prologues, any preambles to
the resolution, post-ambles to the resolution, abstracts,
fore-words, after-words, rationales, supporting documents,
opinion polls, arguments for and against, and any of the other
important material you will find on the mailing list
archives. Please read the debian-vote mailing list archives for
details.
Firmware is data such as microcode or lookup tables that is loaded into hardware components in order to make the component function properly. It is not code that is run on the host CPU.
Unfortunately such firmware often is distributed as so-called blobs, with no source or further documentation that lets us learn how it works or interacts with the hardware in question. By excluding such firmware from Debian we exclude users that require such devices from installing our operating system, or make it unnecessarily hard for them.
firmware in Debian does not have to come with source. While we do prefer firmware that comes with source and documentation we will not require it,
we however do require all other freedoms that the DFSG mandate from components of our operating system, and
such firmware can and should be part of our official installation media.
As per the request from the Debian Project Leader, the voting and minimum discussion periods are one week long.
With the current list of voting developers, we have:
#include 'vote_003_quorum.txt'#include 'vote_003_quorum.src'
For this GR, as always statistics shall be gathered about ballots received and acknowledgements sent periodically during the voting period. Additionally, the list of voters would be made publicly available. Also, the tally sheet may also be viewed after to voting is done (Note that while the vote is in progress it is a dummy tally sheet). Until these are published, live stats are available.
Amendments A (choice 2), B (choice 3), C (choice 4), and E (choice 6) supersede foundation documents, temporarily or permanently, and thus need a 3:1 majority. The Proposal (choice 1) and Amendment D (choice 5) require a simple majority to pass.
#include 'vote_003_majority.src'