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03:02.43Estel_because having separate Board and Council bodies was perfectly fine idea, from the beginning, and trying to wanr about it was considered... trolling?
03:02.50Estel_s/wanr/warn/
03:03.38Estel_more on topic for this channel: I'll be boring again about phone-ui, but why, oh why, is it ignoring portait/landscape locks (no matter if locked to portrait or landscape)?
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03:04.24Estel_this shitty thing deciding to jump from landscape into portrait and/or back again is sole reason for my one and only situations of "missing calls due to phone becoming unresponsive", nothing else
03:04.53Estel_not to mention fun situation when "accept" button become "reject" after landscape->potrait, or opposite
03:05.18Estel_or more fun situations, when reject becomes accept + loudspeaker
03:05.28Estel_that one is unlimited ammount of fun!
03:05.43Estel_amount, even
03:06.00Estel_probably ammo was freud'ish mistake here
03:06.32Estel_is there any freakin way to force phone-ui during incoming calls to be always *either* landscape or portrait?
03:06.44Estel_IDFC which one, just something constant
03:07.12Estel_of course it hapilly ignores blacklist/whitelist on transitions.ini, too
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03:49.08DocScrutinizer05uses phoneui-menu option
03:49.15DocScrutinizer05since 5 years
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07:31.31amiconnSpeaking about unresponsiveness... I wonder what's wrong with fennec
07:31.45amiconnIt's not usable at all
07:33.27amiconnWhen starting, it takes about 30 seconds until the UI appears. But UI appearing doesn't mean it's usable. Starting to type a URL right away does nothing for about another minute or so. Only then it starts processing the input (letters appearing) - at the whopping speed of about one character per two seconds...
07:34.08amiconnThat's with cssu-thumb and fennec 17 (thumb compiled), but all earlier versions I tried behaved the same (except 1.1 - that one was a little faster)
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07:57.10RaimuFennec 1.1 ?
08:03.45amiconnMore than two years ago iirc
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14:09.23Palimerlin1991, I got another build mail
14:10.16merlin1991Pali: yep
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14:10.25merlin1991and this time we have http://repository.maemo.org/community-testing/pool/fremantle/free/r/rtcom-messaging-ui-portrait/
14:10.27merlin1991:)
14:10.42Palimerlin1991, btw why are you trying to push version 1.0? it has version string bug
14:10.57Paliinclude 1.0-1
14:11.04merlin1991Pali: I'm repushing T7
14:11.16merlin1991since the maemo.org repo is stuck at T6
14:11.26merlin1991new stuff after we have a proper repo again
14:12.01Paliso after migration maemo.org lose some packages?
14:13.11merlin1991yes testing is @ T6 and stable is at 4.1
14:13.41Paliok, so you only imported same packages which was already there before migration...
14:13.52merlin1991yes
14:13.55Palidid you used your mirror? (to have same md5sum of packages)?
14:14.16merlin1991I saved the packages locally when uploading
14:14.23merlin1991I'm uploading the very same build :)
14:14.30keriooh, is community-testing built?
14:14.43Paliso md5sum will be different as on your mirror?
14:14.44kerioi didn't know that
14:15.02merlin1991Pali: md5sums will be exactly the same, those are the files I uploaded last time
14:15.20Palithen ok :-)
14:15.24Palimerlin1991: and another quesion it is possible to put CSSU repo to maemo package interface? http://maemo.org/packages/repository/
14:15.39merlin1991possible yes, how todo that though I have nfc
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15:19.25kerioDocScrutinizer05: The result can be read in 0x5f-5e. The result is a signed number with an LSB value of 1.225 μV.
15:19.39keriowhat do you think this means? 16-bit two's complement value?
15:21.15DocScrutinizer05sure, that's a signed int16, with unit "1,225 uV"
15:23.09DocScrutinizer05you can simply cast to int16
15:23.38DocScrutinizer05typecast
15:37.22kerioone does not simply typecast to int16 in python :P
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15:45.31merlin1991kerio: how do you read in the data aka where is it stored?
15:45.51keriomerlin1991: two ints, for high and low byte
15:45.59merlin1991yeah but HOW
15:46.14keriowut
15:46.18keriowhat do you mean how?
15:46.33DocScrutinizer05i2cget(foo, bar)
15:46.43kerioeh, not quite
15:46.51keriothe python-smbus module isn't compiled in i2c-tools :(
15:47.18DocScrutinizer05merlin1991: he reads from a register dump in /sys
15:47.33DocScrutinizer05which is fubar in itself
15:47.41keriohm, can i2cget read a signed value?
15:47.43merlin1991well my main question is in which python datatype the stuff lands initally
15:47.47keriomerlin1991: int
15:47.58merlin1991because depending on that you can use struct.* stuff to "typecast"
15:48.08kerioew :<
15:48.20kerioto be fair, it's probably the most correct thing to do
15:49.07kerioexcept not quite, i'd have to convert the ints into a single string
15:49.51merlin1991struct.unpack('something', struct.pack('ii', int1, int2))
15:50.21keriohm, python-smbus can't read "signed" values anyway
15:50.35keriomerlin1991: mmmmh
15:50.47kerioi have to say, i don't really like it :<
15:51.05kerioreturn ((cres + 0x8000) % 0x10000 - 0x8000) * 1.225
15:51.07merlin1991or just pacth pyhton-smbus :D
15:51.08kerioaww yea
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15:53.45DocScrutinizer05kerio: that "2s-complement" looks rather nifty
15:54.48DocScrutinizer05and - even worse - *correct* ;-P
15:55.42DocScrutinizer05just wondering how sysfs registerdump will provide the 0x5f-5e
15:56.02kerioas separate registers
15:56.14keriobut i made my code completely agnostic
15:56.26keriobecause it just does (high << 8 | low)
15:56.35kerioso if low is actually a word, and high is 0, it still works
15:56.50kerio(obviously you have to make sure that high is set to 0 if it's "missing")
15:59.12DocScrutinizer05that all implies the register dump would actually provide that range
15:59.23kerioit does, i checked :)
15:59.29DocScrutinizer05ugh
16:00.07DocScrutinizer05could you hand me the bus,chip addr please?
16:00.13kerio"uV" is perfectly acceptable as a replacement for "µV", right?
16:00.21DocScrutinizer05right
16:00.23kerio~bq27k-detail
16:00.24infobotit has been said that bq27k-detail is http://maemo.cloud-7.de/maemo5/usr/local/sbin/bq27k-detail2
16:00.32kerio^ there
16:00.34DocScrutinizer05sigh
16:00.35kerio:P
16:00.37DocScrutinizer05thanks
16:00.53DocScrutinizer05meh, then not
16:00.58DocScrutinizer05too lazy
16:01.02kerio2 0x55, apparently
16:01.07DocScrutinizer05yep
16:01.25kerioanyway, even parsing that value is silly
16:01.44keriobecause to do a board offset calibration, you must not use the battery
16:01.54keriobut you must use the battery to talk to bq27k
16:02.33merlin1991when I set up my awesome I thought 2 screens with 4 virtual screens each should be enough, right?
16:02.43merlin1991turns out I'll prob need 6 virtual screens each :D
16:03.51DocScrutinizer05http://privatepaste.com/9059c48d09  FWIW
16:05.54DocScrutinizer05any sysfs register dump should probably provide exactly same output, maybe truncated to significant range
16:06.32DocScrutinizer05http://privatepaste.com/00ee601987
16:09.41kerioDocScrutinizer05: are sysfs nodes supposed to be human-readable?
16:10.14DocScrutinizer05err, on unix every file is supposed to be human-readable, except binaries and device-nodes
16:10.37DocScrutinizer05so: generally yes
16:11.04DocScrutinizer05optimized for parsing by shellscripts etc, but still human-readable
16:11.54DocScrutinizer05AWESOME! ->  watch --differences=cumulative -n 5 i2cdump -y 2 0x55
16:12.04kerioneat
16:13.39kerioDocScrutinizer05: it's a whole new thing! :D http://privatepaste.com/33038b135e
16:16.05kerioinstead of using a Bq27kList i could just make something that calls i2cget when values are requested
16:16.39keriocaching the values, obviously :)
16:18.52DocScrutinizer05as expected: the range 0x30-0x6f has quite some interesting values
16:19.50kerioyeah but they're all internals
16:24.34DocScrutinizer05yes, exactly. That's why they're so interesting ;-)
16:25.09DocScrutinizer05I'm looking for a realtime clock of any kind, that must have a range of days at least
16:26.07DocScrutinizer05also I'm looking for an internal "work copy" of eeprom config values like ILMD
16:28.25kerioit could also be interesting to write there
16:28.29kerioto see what happens
16:32.32DocScrutinizer05write error
16:32.41DocScrutinizer05:-P
16:33.19DocScrutinizer05I just tried to enable EEPROM programming, but I'm too lazy to look up the correct sequence
16:33.49DocScrutinizer05tried writing 1 to 0x6e
16:34.02DocScrutinizer05which worked but didn't exactly change a thing
16:34.24kerioi2cset 2 0x55 0x6e `dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1 count=1`
16:34.31keriorepeat until enabled
16:34.42DocScrutinizer05haha
16:35.20DocScrutinizer05anyway cya l8r
16:36.53DocScrutinizer05IroN900:~# i2cset -y 2 0x55 0x6e 0x01
16:36.55DocScrutinizer05IroN900:~# i2cset -y 2 0x55 0x76 0x2a
16:36.56DocScrutinizer05Error: Write failed
16:38.04kerioDocScrutinizer05: you have to write 0xdd to enable eeprom writing
16:38.16kerioi2cset -y 2 0x55 0x6e 0xdd
16:38.24DocScrutinizer05just in time to keep me from afk
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16:38.52DocScrutinizer05IroN900:~# i2cset -y 2 0x55 0x6e 0xdd
16:38.53DocScrutinizer05IroN900:~# i2cset -y 2 0x55 0x76 0x2a
16:38.55DocScrutinizer05IroN900:~#
16:39.13DocScrutinizer0570: 2d 77 3c 6d 7b bb 2a 77 96 3a 38 89 43 2d 42 7c    -w<m{?*w?:8?C-B|
16:39.21DocScrutinizer05\o/
16:39.30DocScrutinizer05as expected
16:39.43keriodoes bq27k work, in the meantime?
16:39.45DocScrutinizer05probably sticky til next full reset
16:40.22DocScrutinizer05it gone quite quiet
16:40.31kerio:(
16:40.34DocScrutinizer05I.E. not much changes anymore
16:41.00DocScrutinizer05IroN900:~# i2cset -y 2 0x55 0x6e 0x00
16:41.17DocScrutinizer050x76 back to 0x2d
16:41.35DocScrutinizer05F*CK!
16:41.45kerio:(
16:46.14DocScrutinizer05http://privatepaste.com/a95bce7093  (see ILMD, but also note that NUTTIN except 0x 60 61 64 66 is changing anymore in i2cdump)
16:47.05kerioDocScrutinizer05: full reset time?
16:47.38DocScrutinizer05nah, as soon as I disable EEPROM prog it reverts to normal, incl ILMD
16:47.43kerioi see
16:47.50keriohave you tried reading the value?
16:47.55kerio...yes you have
16:48.03DocScrutinizer05dump is reading *all* values
16:48.04keriohm, maybe reading it as a single byte matters?
16:48.16DocScrutinizer05dunno
16:48.35DocScrutinizer05it's sticky as long as prog mode
16:49.01DocScrutinizer05so I don't think reading changes anything except for flashing EEPROM
16:49.21kerioah what? python 2.5 didn't have str.format yet?
16:49.23keriowhat the balls
16:49.51kerioDocScrutinizer05: if i had to guess, reading the value is setting some internal address pointer, to know what to program
16:50.17DocScrutinizer05yep
16:51.03DocScrutinizer05but since no Vpp, no programming at all
16:53.37DocScrutinizer05disbaling prog by writing 0xdf (instead 0xdd) has same effect as writing 00 to same location
16:54.03DocScrutinizer05disabling*
16:54.15DocScrutinizer05waves and vanishes
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19:28.46Estel_in the meantime, kerio, congratulate for sending your candidacy for Council!
19:28.52kerio:D
19:28.59kerioi doubt i'm a valid candidate though
19:29.12Estel_You have my vote, which means that you will hate me, as it's equal to others stopping voting for you :P
19:29.25Estel_seriously though, yes, you're valid candidate
19:29.29keriono karma
19:29.40Estel_have you read annoucement. :P
19:29.44kerionope
19:29.51Estel_if your account is more than 3 months old, you're valid
19:30.07Estel_due to karma being not calculated properly
19:31.00kerioyay
19:31.18Estel_it means half our spambots are egligle too, but, whatever
19:32.09Estel_now we *only*need  voting to make Council members = Board and say goodbye to that ridicolous nonsense which is happening around board<->council contacts
19:32.16Estel_or board<->anyone else
19:32.30kerioboard is a legal entity, though
19:32.48Estel_sure, we need to vote for people that will represent us in legal entity
19:33.19Estel_one guy who isn't sure if we're able to vote him out + one guy who doesn't know what maemo is and want new maemo products to compete with android is enough
19:33.23Estel_for +- eternity
19:34.10Estel_not to mention both being not appointed by voting, actually
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20:39.06fw190merlin1991: if this wasn't reported. I did a small reflash and had today in the mornig latest T installed and reading that you uploaded the T7.2 I started to update but the system is missing hildon desktop and ke-recv
20:39.40merlin1991*missing* had and ke-recv?
20:40.55fw190hildon desktop (>=1:2.2.146-2)
20:41.07fw190that is what it wants
20:41.33fw190and ke-recv (>=3.19-15.7)
20:41.41merlin1991oh I just noticed I have ke-recv and h-d in subfolders inside my T7 folder
20:41.53fw190;)
20:41.54merlin1991and ofc an scp *.deb *tar.gz ... didn#t pick that up
20:42.15fw190don't knwo what you say but good that you know how to fix it ;)
20:42.32fw190anyway will report fi all will go well
20:44.14merlin1991fw190: I basically had all T7 packages in a folder and just uploaded that again, not realizing that ke-recv and hildon-desktop were a layer deeper in their own subfolders, so didn't get uploaded
20:44.30fw190ah ok
20:45.22merlin1991I've uploaded them now, should arrive in the repo within 5 mins
20:46.02merlin1991yup both are imported
20:46.29merlin1991update the catalogues and you should be ready to upgrade
20:53.34fw190merlin1991: nice and shiny T7.2 on my N900. Thank you ;)
21:01.54freemangordon_merlin1991: what? we have CSSU repos? yay :)
21:02.08merlin1991freemangordon_: yep we have them again :)
21:02.28freemangordon_cool
21:48.15Estel_kerio, could you, please, as candidate for Council (and, with high probability, elected Councilor, soon) show support here?:
21:48.16Estel_http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=1336077#post1336077
21:48.58Estel_before anyone ask - no, it's not about karma whore'ing, not to mention that it isn't calculated now. It's just that I got strong feeling that it is *very* needed now, or something good may collapse and be forgotten.
21:49.17Estel_DocScrutinizer05,  you may like to see it and respons, you're tech staff head, yep?
21:49.22kerioi'm not convinced at all that SD69 means well
21:49.48Estel_doesnmt matter, I'm sure you can, for a time being, convince yourself to act like he mean well
21:50.03Estel_I'm equally convinced that he doesn't thing others mean well, it's not important now.
21:50.14Estel_either we unite, or die, that is.
21:51.12Estel_BTW I'm pretty sure, that it would be hard to find someone in community, who actually doesn't mean well for Maemo. Practical results are different thing, but chain of blaming doesn't make it any better
21:51.56Estel_encouraging others by threating their work and time involved with respect (even if results are not saisfying, sometimes) is only way to motivate them in community-driven project
21:52.46Estel_I'm pretty sure that we could get miracolously, positively surprised at collaboration improvement, if we start to obligatory assume that everyone doing something for Maemo (volotuneery) mean well.
21:53.19Estel_...so people could start focusing on achieving set goals, instead of standing at defending position from beginning
21:58.15DocScrutinizer05Estel_: there's one single thing needed: HiFo BoD finally finds time for a meeting. Since 8 weeks or so Woody been pressing and suggesting dates, others (mainly Rob) came like "I'm busy this week", "we don't need this now, we should first do a amicus letter to Google-vs-Oracle case" and whatnot else. And Rob has not a single time uttered he'd support the re-election of BoD that been demanded by community, council, heck even the
21:58.17DocScrutinizer05other two BoD members
21:58.57Estel_ok, ok, I get it, and I'm not saying that you're not right
21:59.07DocScrutinizer05there's no timetable or todo list to write up, all that alreeady happened
21:59.10Estel_but now, please, lets forget whose faul it is, no matter at which side of fence we sit
21:59.30Estel_lets really act like CPU's -> task given, task done by available means, or error reported
21:59.43Estel_+ lets report errors in linux way, i.e. informative ones ;)
22:00.20DocScrutinizer05-E_HiFo_fails_to_have_meeting_since_2_months
22:00.22Estel_I know you've already written what is needed, but it was in between of so much accusations (I'm not talking if they were right or notj, that only most dedicated readers got it
22:01.07Estel_so please, write like I suggested, sparing any side comments why we need it (so even someone who sit under the rock for 4 months) will understand it, and how fast we need it
22:01.15Estel_what they should discuss/do at that meeting
22:01.25DocScrutinizer05rob's answer: http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=1336073&postcount=54
22:01.37Estel_and lets prepare a roadmap for "soon to be urgent" things too, and even those further ahead
22:02.17Estel_do you really thing that it's parseable for anyone else than you, me, and maybe freemangordon and qwazix? this thread is a mess, conrectes could be summed up in 3 posts
22:02.25Estel_thats why I've written about red line
22:02.36DocScrutinizer05that roadmap already exists, maybe not visible for everybody, but woody posted *several* mails to HiFo about urgent things to get done and proposing meeting dates
22:02.57Estel_I understand it may be hard to assume that others mean well, when you're inside this lockout-situation mess, very frustrating. I know something about that
22:03.09Estel_but if we won't hit reset button now, it will become even less manageable
22:03.15Estel_OK
22:03.30Estel_so lets do those roadmaps in public, that thread looks like ok place for it
22:03.37Estel_could be wikidi'zeed too, later
22:03.46Estel_of course without ironic comments and accusations
22:04.06Estel_even single irony spoils whole posts, at this level of frustration involved, it looks like that
22:04.14DocScrutinizer05I think another thread would be more appropriate: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=89280
22:04.19Estel_your "partners" stop reading merit, and jump into bashing that irony
22:04.50Estel_OK, but that thread, even by it's title, mean war, not collaboration
22:05.04Estel_think for a while "infra migration, who kills maemo?"
22:05.28Estel_you can be even right about it, I doesn't care at this point, all I want is to have ALL people involved hit reset button
22:05.48Estel_forget about past faults, and move on to collaboration with said carte blanche
22:06.40Estel_even if you're right at accusations, bringing them NOW is equivalent to showing bad will, same apply for "other side". And we all mean well, don't we?
22:07.29Estel_look, even guy like me deleted all accusing things from TMO signature. I'm sure all of you can do better and reset attitude
22:16.08DocScrutinizer05what fucking accusations?
22:19.06DocScrutinizer05I listed stuff that's pending and not getting done due to HiFo not meeting
22:19.27DocScrutinizer05I quoted one member who already thinks maemo is doomed
22:20.00DocScrutinizer05I asked if HiFo really is wondering where from all that bad feelings come
22:22.27DocScrutinizer05and finally I actually asked if maybe Rob intentionally blocks any HiFo meeting, which indeed you could read as an accusation
22:26.50Estel_oh cmon, you know what I mean, even thread title implies whose fault it is.
22:27.22Estel_The idea is to switch into informative-only collaboration, turning fail/blame/they're doing it wrong factor off
22:27.32DocScrutinizer05see rob's answer, I don't even get what he's after, with "hard reset of MMC rules"
22:28.05Estel_and I don't mean it's your fault either, I just think it become like those motocyclers riding to head crash
22:28.06DocScrutinizer05I don't see any option for any post from my side
22:28.17Estel_I also don't get mmc reset, I suppose it was CC rules reset
22:29.01Estel_frankly, it doesn't matter if you see it or not, and if youmre right about it or not - it's only about *future* posts and communication. No irony, no blaming, no anything, or we won't get anywhere
22:29.23Estel_if you haven't done it before (blaming, irony etcj, the better, you will have easier time restraining yourself from doing so, now.
22:30.10Estel_my request is to skip all (doubtfully) "decorative" things, and work on sole barebone merit, with addition of "everyone else involved means well" assumption.
22:30.32Estel_I don't see other way to have Maemo community infrastructure maintained in *!ong* run
22:31.25Estel_at this point hostility is so huge, that even single irony/implied accusatio/whatever spoils whole meritoric discussion/work
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22:32.52DocScrutinizer05I don't give a shit.
22:36.55DocScrutinizer05Rob posted clearly that he's straying away from anything anybody thought HiFo would be constituted like, by his "open letter2 that he for sure posted without placet by the other BoD members: http://hildonfoundation.org/an-update-on-hildon-foundation-council-and-maemo-community-council/ - read that and you see clearly that Rob is not willing to cooperate with Maemo community (council), is determined to ignore the re-election request,
22:36.57DocScrutinizer05and is (imho) spreading paradox nonsense about "there's no HiFo council yet since there's no rules how to vote that HiFo council" The point is that this paragraph he refers to says that HiFo council is the one to determine those rules for elections, which for a logically thinking human makes it utterly clear that maemo community council is and ever been meant to be HiFo council as well
22:39.01DocScrutinizer05and since other two BoD are in favour of a re-election and would overrule him and initiate the election of BoD and accept MCC as HFC, my idea that he blocks meeting for a reason isn't that farfetched
22:40.54DocScrutinizer05HE is the lawyer, so HE knows how to read the bylaws. Anybody not agreeing on HIS way to read and interpret them is clearly the enemy and he's obviously willing to go damn far and for sure ignoring any good-will-alternatives to make sure HIS view will be the one that rules in the end
22:41.56DocScrutinizer05if he was filled with good will, he might agree on re-elections within 0.2s
22:48.34DocScrutinizer05then read shit like this: >>Although the Bylaws state that the Hildon Foundation Council is to be determined by an election of the Hildon membership, they do not state how the first Hildon Foundation Council is to be determined.<< WTF is "Hildon membership"???
22:53.11DocScrutinizer05and what the F*CK is Rob thinking is the legitimation of BoD when they failed to establish the single "controlling entity" that could keep the HiFo BoD from going mad batshit - the HFC? Failed for err 5 months now? 6 months? and when community calls for a BoD re-election since they are unhappy with the way BoD performs, then the BoD shows community and and the only faintly resembing to HFC entity (MCC) the finger and laughs: "There'
22:53.13DocScrutinizer05s no HFC, and if you're not happy with that and ask for re-election of BoD, TOO BAD since we're the only ones that could establish such HFC and so nobody can call for re-election of BoD"
22:54.49DocScrutinizer05Estel_: please bark up another tree
22:55.08DocScrutinizer05it's not me acting any silly here
22:55.45DocScrutinizer05and the only thing we need from HiFo is that they do their damn job and finally sign a few contracts
22:56.45DocScrutinizer05for the rest, honestly when they/Rob ignore us/council, then why should I bother about them and what they allow or forbid?
22:57.11Estel_I don't think anyone cares at this point, who was acting silly and whoe fault it is, the thing is what we will do now (in future). Even if youmre completely right to the less significant bit, discussions about it are so messed up with bigger or lesser flames, that actually, only close group of ~ 5 people understand whats going on
22:57.53Estel_if we can start talking only about merit, skipping all that "it's his/her/it's fault", assuming others mean well, we can get past this quite quickly.
22:58.28Estel_If NOT, for example, if one party will (again) deny to cooperate, everyone will understand why there is legitimation to peacefully overthrow them
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22:59.03Estel_now it is a lockout, as legally, they're people that signed foundation. If it won't work, OK, lets choose other people to register another foundation, maybe somewhere else.
22:59.13keriowe don't have time
22:59.15Estel_but for now, we must really assume all mean well
22:59.21keriono we musn't
22:59.29keriomustn't
22:59.49Estel_how much time it require to tune brain cells into "others mean well" and start cooperating? if it won't work out in few days, we will have no other choice than re-do creating foundation
23:00.18DocScrutinizer05cooperating on GODDAMN *WHAT*?
23:00.35Estel_*shrug* I think every wasted potential of some volounteer, no matter how youd don't like it, is a pity. I think community could use lawyer at hifo, if he would cooperate
23:00.47Estel_on achieving things neede,d like signing those damn contracts
23:01.24DocScrutinizer05and would you pretty please suggest how me or anybody else in council or community could _cooperate_ with HiFo for that?
23:01.25Estel_I think that at psychological level, that whole hostility is main reason why hifo went so alienated from rest of community.
23:01.29Estel_sure
23:01.32Estel_i did in that post
23:01.51DocScrutinizer05hahaha
23:01.51Estel_write that damn things again, without any blaming/irony/whatever (if yoiu haven't already)
23:01.52DocScrutinizer05ok
23:02.03DocScrutinizer05HiFo went alienated by community
23:02.10Estel_if they won't answer in 48 hours, we can assume we need to skip them
23:02.27DocScrutinizer05been there done that, 3 times now
23:02.27Estel_if they answer stating some merits, we may cooperate
23:02.56Estel_sure, amongst 6456765 worthless posts full with blaming, accusations etc (even if valid)
23:03.06Estel_not necessary yours
23:03.28DocScrutinizer05I'm not going to repeat stuff like a silly parrot
23:03.52DocScrutinizer05Rob is no idiot
23:04.02DocScrutinizer05well, not that kind of idiot
23:04.05Estel_well, whatever, I suggested what I think is most sane (hard reset of attitude, forgetting ,ast faults, startong to cooperate freshly, and if that doesn't work out, forking foundation)
23:04.30DocScrutinizer05bullshit
23:04.33Estel_you don't understand that sometimes repeating same thing in different atmosphere is a hell of difference
23:04.43DocScrutinizer05we're absolutely fine with 2/3 of HiFo
23:04.53Estel_ok, you agree, that we need some people to be legally BoD for foundation, to sign some papers?
23:05.21DocScrutinizer05you go to shit at least 2 times a week?
23:05.30DocScrutinizer05what's that now, jeopardy?
23:05.33Estel_now you realize that failing to estabilish meaningful cooperations in place of current fubar = estabilishing foundation from scratch?
23:05.54DocScrutinizer05stop telling shit
23:06.04Estel_please, keep it civil and on topic, I'm not planning to answer any queries about shitting ;)
23:06.14DocScrutinizer05again
23:06.17DocScrutinizer05you go to shit at least 2 times a week?
23:06.21DocScrutinizer05err
23:06.23Estel_ok, if you have other ideas how to solve situation, present them in community mailing list
23:06.24DocScrutinizer05we're absolutely fine with 2/3 of HiFo
23:06.54Estel_who, legally, estabilished hifo? as person?
23:07.11Estel_who got access to all papers and is legally able to sign contracts etc?
23:07.24DocScrutinizer05there are 2 members in HiFo thinking we should have a re-election and at least 1, I think 2, are thinking that MCC == HFC
23:07.47DocScrutinizer05there's one dude that disagrees and blocks meetings so the other 2 can't get stuff done
23:07.51Estel_I know, but answer my questions from above, they're not rhetorical
23:08.15DocScrutinizer05nope, sorry, I have more important stuff to do
23:08.21Estel_I'm asking who, in most practical practice, can sign those damn papers, and who "keep" founding papers of hifo.
23:08.31Estel_IIRC, it is SD69, correct me if I'm wrong.
23:09.21DocScrutinizer05any of HiFo can sign the papers after a meeting where 2 of 3 vote for a certain individual
23:09.25DocScrutinizer05to sign them
23:09.32Estel_if I'm not wrong, it means either you settle compromise with him, or do damn foundation thing from scratch, in practice. And in such case, I don't necessary care if you (council) were right in that argument with him or not
23:09.39Estel_OK
23:09.47Estel_now we have sd69, rob, and who in hifo?
23:09.50DocScrutinizer05and sorry, nfc what you mean by "keep founding papers"
23:09.53merlin1991hm #maemo hmmm?
23:10.03DocScrutinizer05EHH???
23:10.08DocScrutinizer05SD69 == Rob
23:10.11Estel_who is legally responsible for foundation welfare I mean
23:10.14Estel_by "keeping papers"
23:10.18Estel_currently
23:10.28Estel_merlin1991,  would love soo, but I'm banned there, sorry ;)
23:10.48Estel_DocScrutinizer05,  sorry, I messed it
23:10.48DocScrutinizer05sorry, I have to leave now. please discuss this with e.g. thedead1440 or kerio or freemangordon or...
23:10.58Estel_I meant "we have sd69, jim, and who?"
23:11.01Estel_OK
23:11.07DocScrutinizer05woody
23:11.09Estel_no problem, I understand, real life calling
23:11.10Estel_OK
23:11.17Estel_thedead1440,  ping?
23:11.39DocScrutinizer05a tad too early for him
23:12.08DocScrutinizer05he been awake til 3:00 AM local, now it's ~7:00 local for him
23:12.21Estel_kerio, I have no idea why DocScrutinizer05 "appointed" you as person knowledgeable about current hifo legal status, but I may be not informed well. Do you have any idea how "legit" current members of hifo are, in law (only law) terms?
23:12.22Estel_I see
23:12.38Estel_I'm honestly lost about how woody and jim ended up in hifo
23:12.58DocScrutinizer05Ron appointed them
23:13.02Estel_but I think it's less relevant now, than if by pensylvania law (where hifo is registered) they're legally able
23:13.19DocScrutinizer05and yes, they are
23:13.27DocScrutinizer05or rob isn't as well
23:13.28Estel_so I'm lost how bylaws allow him to appoint someone, instead of triggering election?
23:13.32Estel_OK
23:13.47Estel_now, when last BoD meeting was held?
23:13.58Estel_and how often they're enforced to do meetings? once per 6 months?
23:13.59DocScrutinizer058 weeks ago or so
23:14.06DocScrutinizer05yep
23:14.18DocScrutinizer05sth like that
23:14.34Estel_are there, in bylaws or pensylvania law, any triggers that force them to do another meeting now?
23:14.45DocScrutinizer05no
23:14.49DocScrutinizer05afaik
23:15.02Estel_even such things as contracts to be signed or we're dead?
23:15.08DocScrutinizer05apart from every member can call a meeting
23:15.16DocScrutinizer05with 4 weeks headroom
23:15.24Estel_was it called already?
23:15.33DocScrutinizer05no way for externally triggered meetings afaik
23:15.42Estel_I see, woody called a meeting?
23:15.54DocScrutinizer05yes, but without a date on calendar
23:15.57Estel_and what happens, legally, if they won't meet in 4 weeks from calling a meeting?
23:16.12Estel_so i think we should start counting...
23:16.34Estel_or either we got compromise with sd69, or we're fubared, due to no way of forcing anything.
23:16.36DocScrutinizer05he proposed 4 or 5 dates and timespans and asked if they could PRETTY PLEASE meet, and reaction been "no time, busy"
23:16.45Estel_when he asked
23:17.01Estel_in my limited understanding, this can be used as 4 weeks eggtimer
23:17.03Estel_starter
23:17.12Estel_his date propositions
23:17.16DocScrutinizer05in mine too, woody wasn't sure
23:17.45Estel_so we need to convince him, as having person who called for BoD meeting being sure what he did is goddamn important
23:17.51DocScrutinizer05now I see you start to get my angle on it, I'm out
23:19.04Estel_well, I'm leading to conclusion, that even in worst case, we have some time left 'till 4 weeks egg-timer run off, to try making a compromise, as it won't work out, we can always mourn time wasted, and use legal means (failure to get a meeting in 4 weeks time, etc) to force election
23:19.42Estel_still, it would be better to at least try, again, getting a compromise, and that require fresh start with "people (yes, SD69 too) mean well" attitude
23:20.29DocScrutinizer05[2013-04-14 01:54:28] <DocScrutinizer05> freemangordon: >>...do your best to help that very same community last<< That's a dangerous request. I'm sure he's absolutely totally convinced he's doing exactly that
23:20.31DocScrutinizer05[2013-04-14 01:55:02] <DocScrutinizer05> alas he also seems to think he's the only one who understands what's killing community, and in his world that's for sure not him
23:20.34Estel_because, logically, it doesn't cost anything - without it, we're still tied to waiting - and, can bring positive things, like end of that silly war (doesn't matter whose fault it is)
23:21.17Estel_so? it is still worth to try, as said, we have nothing to lose. If it won't work  out, the same timeline for failed BoD meeting apply.
23:21.29Estel_we can spend time 'till that on arguing, or on trying to fix it.
23:22.03DocScrutinizer05I'm not arguing anymore
23:22.13DocScrutinizer05that's useless
23:23.11DocScrutinizer05~7..9 people explained to Rob in loving verbosity that makes you weep that bylaws menat to define HFC == MCC
23:23.57DocScrutinizer05his answer: "but that's not what's written there. I'll gonna execute what's written there, in the way I understand it"
23:24.17DocScrutinizer05which I actually can't even blame him for, I would probably do the same ;-P
23:24.34DocScrutinizer05just I would not read those bylaws like a lawyer
23:24.44DocScrutinizer05patent lawyer
23:25.07Estel_well, lets assume for a while, that bylaws got fubared there, and from legal point of view, he have a seed of being right about it. So, maybe it's worth to discuss how to fix it and get rid of that dillema, instead of bashing him from not accepting other (obvous, I agree) point of view?
23:25.22DocScrutinizer05I'd understand that those who wrote them were NO lawyers, and I would ask what been the spirit in those bylaws
23:25.47DocScrutinizer05Estel_: I dunno
23:25.50Estel_well, he is lawyer, and bylaw is law text, so it's quite understandable that lawyer is trying to read it to the letter, especially being one to be blamed by law is something goes wrong
23:26.11DocScrutinizer05yes
23:26.32Estel_I'm not sure if pensylvania law allow reffering to "spirit of documentn, in some countries, such argumentation is banned, i.e. reffering to "spirit". In others, it's encouraged
23:26.52Estel_but anyway, even this alone makes meeting and taking steps to fix it very approriate
23:26.56DocScrutinizer05I'm absolutely clueless how to convince him that bylaws need fixing
23:27.12DocScrutinizer05or rather, a less strict interpretation
23:27.16Estel_write about it, and "soon to be urgent" section (or "urgent"?) one ;)
23:27.52Estel_in a way that it wont drow in a sea of flamewars and accusations (not necessary from your side, I mean other's people posts, too)
23:28.04DocScrutinizer05well, for everybody else the bylaws seem to be pretty clear
23:28.16Estel_I'm pretty certain that no one with single brain cell with dare to start flaming under my post, for at least few days
23:28.41DocScrutinizer05so it's hard to argue with the single person that has a different take on it, when that person already is convinced he's doing the right thing
23:28.47Estel_I know, but even if for 1/3 of Board there is problem with bylaws, it is significant thing
23:28.59Estel_so don't argue, discuss about his and yours view on fixing it, then
23:29.31Estel_after all, hpw you would react if he would argue with you about something related to Maemo repos technicals, that you would be perfectly sure you're right about ;)
23:29.33DocScrutinizer05nah
23:29.43DocScrutinizer05I'm suffering Rob-burnout
23:29.49DocScrutinizer05I leave that to Woddy
23:29.55DocScrutinizer05woody even
23:31.10Estel_OK, whatever, just do it all in public, in one place (that jim's introduction thread quite become it), sparing flamewars and irony, and asking TMO moderator to mercilessly move/delete any posts that are blaming/accussing/not on merit
23:51.53DocScrutinizer05Estel_: [[after all, hpw you would react if he would argue with you about something related to Maemo repos technicals, that you would be perfectly sure you're right about ;)]] been there, done that. We explained him in all epic verbosity that there are technical differences between hosting and colocation, or between a regular linux user and a user with root permissions. Sometimes he pretended to understand, just to come up again
23:51.54DocScrutinizer05with same concerns about maintainers or about a hosting contract
23:52.56DocScrutinizer05and we asked him what we can do to cure his concerns, we suggested alternatives - all that we could think of.
23:54.07DocScrutinizer05his final answer been "but i need a hosting contract" - sth that never been an option and nobody mentioned
23:54.31DocScrutinizer05see my post you took off on initially

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