Comments on: Planets and Resignations http://etbe.coker.com.au/2008/04/20/planets-resignations/ Linux, politics, and other interesting things Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:56:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: etbe http://etbe.coker.com.au/2008/04/20/planets-resignations/comment-page-1/#comment-13826 etbe Sat, 10 May 2008 12:39:56 +0000 http://etbe.coker.com.au/?p=574#comment-13826 http://www.itwire.com/content/view/18132/1090/1/0/ Sam Varghese has written an article which cites this post. I had hoped that this issue would have been a bit quieter. But it is news and the reporting seems fair and accurate (according to the best published data and my personal recollection of some unpublished things). http://www.itwire.com/content/view/18132/1090/1/0/

Sam Varghese has written an article which cites this post. I had hoped that this issue would have been a bit quieter. But it is news and the reporting seems fair and accurate (according to the best published data and my personal recollection of some unpublished things).

]]> By: etbe http://etbe.coker.com.au/2008/04/20/planets-resignations/comment-page-1/#comment-13125 etbe Sun, 20 Apr 2008 23:26:38 +0000 http://etbe.coker.com.au/?p=574#comment-13125 There is not much traffic that really needs to be on debian-private. One example is vacation messages (few people want to publicise the fact that a house full of expensive computer gear will be empty for a while). Then of course there are follow-ups to vacation messages (EG if it's for a honeymoon then there are congratulatory messages). Another example is security problems which sometimes get discussed, but unfortunately there have been leaks so such things generally don't get announced there if possible. There is not much traffic that really needs to be on debian-private. One example is vacation messages (few people want to publicise the fact that a house full of expensive computer gear will be empty for a while). Then of course there are follow-ups to vacation messages (EG if it’s for a honeymoon then there are congratulatory messages).

Another example is security problems which sometimes get discussed, but unfortunately there have been leaks so such things generally don’t get announced there if possible.

]]> By: jldugger http://etbe.coker.com.au/2008/04/20/planets-resignations/comment-page-1/#comment-13116 jldugger Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:17:43 +0000 http://etbe.coker.com.au/?p=574#comment-13116 Probably the blog post should be interpreted as announcing intent to resign, rather than the resignation itself. But why does debian-private exist, if an event like intent to resign should be made public? Probably the blog post should be interpreted as announcing intent to resign, rather than the resignation itself. But why does debian-private exist, if an event like intent to resign should be made public?

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