Re: Debian participation into GNOME Outreach Program for Women

2013-04-02 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 12:18:35AM +0100, Mònica Ramírez Arceda wrote: Ok, if anybody is against I take this responsibility, I can do it, but before, let me expose some thoughts doubts: * I understand that GSoC projects are those that are technical and non-GSoc projects are the

Re: Debian participation into GNOME Outreach Program for Women

2013-04-02 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 12:41:17PM +0200, Ana Guerrero wrote: I shared Monica's confusion when first reading this thread, I find the participation in the program was somehow rushed with zack's initial email leaving some things unclear. I should indeed apologize for rushing things a bit; that

Re: Debian participation into GNOME Outreach Program for Women

2013-04-02 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 03:11:42PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: (2) GSoC admins are OK with asking mentors to direct the 500 USD per project to the OPW earmark). Otherwise, I'll be happy to pre-approve covering up what remains on general Debian funds. The money is given to the mentoring

Re: Debian participation into GNOME Outreach Program for Women

2013-04-02 Thread Moray Allan
On 2013-04-02 04:41, Ana Guerrero wrote: Google pays 5500 USD per project, where 5000 USD goes to the student and 500 USD to the mentoring organization. Before 2012, the 500 USD given to the mentoring organization were used for mostly for the mentors (or the students for debconf10) to help

Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?

2013-04-02 Thread Ian Jackson
Chris Knadle writes (Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?): The #1 kind of bug reports that become problems are ones that go like this: - bug reporter: writes polite and detailed bug report - maintainer : *cloeses bug* without discussion (usually within

Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?

2013-04-02 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes (Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?): ... If in this situation there is a possibility of the submitter's experience being turned into an improvement in the software, it could arise if the submitter ... can investigate further themselves (perhaps with the

Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?

2013-04-02 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On 02-04-13 19:53, Ian Jackson wrote: Chris Knadle writes (Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?): The #1 kind of bug reports that become problems are ones that go like this: - bug reporter: writes polite and detailed bug report - maintainer : *cloeses bug* without

Re: Debian participation into GNOME Outreach Program for Women

2013-04-02 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2013-03-26, Stefano Zacchiroli lea...@debian.org wrote: [ mail followup to: -women, please continue discussion there ] No. This is a project discussion. Not a women discussion. TL;DR: we've been invited to participate into GNOME Outreach Program for Women and I'd like to accept the

Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?

2013-04-02 Thread Chris Knadle
I'm on the -project list, so no need to CC me directly. (Fine if you do, though.) On Tuesday, April 02, 2013 13:53:24, Ian Jackson wrote: Chris Knadle writes (Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?): The #1 kind of bug reports that become problems are ones that go like this:

Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?

2013-04-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us writes: Seriously, what I'm trying to do is lower the number of cases which cause frustration and which don't get any traction. Between the *close* problem, the maintainers that are MIA without the package being orphaned, maintainers dropping working

Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?

2013-04-02 Thread Chris Knadle
On Tuesday, April 02, 2013 20:34:28, Russ Allbery wrote: Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us writes: Seriously, what I'm trying to do is lower the number of cases which cause frustration and which don't get any traction. Between the *close* problem, the maintainers that are MIA without