[all candidate] what is your dayjob?

2013-03-15 Thread Thomas Goirand
This one is an easy one to answer, I hope. No trap here... Being the DPS is for sure a very demanding job. So I would like to know what your current activity is (what is your paid job). Please also explain how much your activity may (or may not) allow you to have time for the DPL activity.

Re: [all candidate] what is your dayjob?

2013-03-15 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 15/03/13 at 16:21 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: This one is an easy one to answer, I hope. No trap here... Being the DPS is for sure a very demanding job. So I would like to know what your current activity is (what is your paid job). Please also explain how much your activity may (or may

Re: [all candidate] what is your dayjob?

2013-03-15 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 04:21:22PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: This one is an easy one to answer, I hope. No trap here... Being the DPS is for sure a very demanding job. So I would like to know what your current activity is (what is your paid job). Please also explain how much your activity

Re: [all candidate] what is your dayjob?

2013-03-15 Thread Moray Allan
On 2013-03-15 11:21, Thomas Goirand wrote: Being the DPS is for sure a very demanding job. So I would like to know what your current activity is (what is your paid job). Please also explain how much your activity may (or may not) allow you to have time for the DPL activity. Quoting my

Re: Debian's relationship with money and the economy

2013-03-15 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 08:13:02PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: I think I would generally be fine about an informational message in Debian Project News about an fundraising campaign for something that clearly benefits Debian. Btw, in the specific example of your book, have you considered

Re: Debian's relationship with money and the economy

2013-03-15 Thread Moray Allan
On 2013-03-15 12:32, Neil McGovern wrote: My view as one of the press officers is that I'll issue press releases for newsworthy[0] items that the *project* has done, and DPN should have news items that are informative to people interested in the project. Yes -- now that you've said it, this

Re: [all candidates] vote time?

2013-03-15 Thread MJ Ray
Lucas asked Dear questioners, How much time do you think DPL candidates should spend answering those questions? :) Probably about half of the time it currently takes ;-) More seriously, [...] Maybe we should try to have some of those discussions on a more regular basis, outside DPL

Re: [all candidates] Debian as an FSF Free Software Distribution

2013-03-15 Thread MJ Ray
Lucas Nussbaum lu...@debian.org On 14/03/13 at 12:21 -0400, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: What work will you be doing to continue Zach's efforts to negotiate with the FSF over Debian's status as a Free Software Distribution? Actually, the FSF refers to Free System Distributions not Free Software

Re: [all candidates] vote time?

2013-03-15 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 15/03/13 at 10:24 +, MJ Ray wrote: Lucas asked Dear questioners, How much time do you think DPL candidates should spend answering those questions? :) Probably about half of the time it currently takes ;-) More seriously, [...] Maybe we should try to have some of those

Re: [all candidates] Debian as an FSF Free Software Distribution

2013-03-15 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 14/03/13 at 23:05 -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: What work will you be doing to continue Zach's efforts to negotiate with the FSF over Debian's status as a Free Software Distribution? Will you treat this issue as a priority? Can

Re: Usage of Debian's Money

2013-03-15 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 15/03/13 at 00:39 +0100, Toni Mueller wrote: On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 12:00:48AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: On 12/03/13 at 10:43 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: To other candidates, do you believe that we could benefit from using money for other things than hardware and meeting/travel

Re: Are there problematic infrastructure or processes in Debian?

2013-03-15 Thread Moray Allan
On 2013-03-12 22:17, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Debian's infrastructure and processes have grown organically over the years, with all the strengths and weaknesses that it implies. Sometimes it's a good idea to step back and look whether some of those need to be amended/replaced/dropped/etc. Based

Re: [all candidates] Debian as an FSF Free Software Distribution

2013-03-15 Thread Moray Allan
On 2013-03-14 19:21, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: What work will you be doing to continue Zach's efforts to negotiate with the FSF over Debian's status as a Free Software Distribution? Will you treat this issue as a priority? Can we expect continued open dialogue with the FSF on this issue? Would

Re: [all candidates] on distribution-wide changes and scalability

2013-03-15 Thread Moray Allan
On 2013-03-14 19:55, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: This inertia folklore is surely supported by past history of the time it took us to deploy specific changes in large sets of packages. But on the other hand, in the last 5 to 10 years we have massively improved our ability to decide and deploy

Re: Debian's relationship with money and the economy

2013-03-15 Thread Moray Allan
On 2013-03-14 23:34, Raphael Hertzog wrote: I never use my @freexian.com email even when my contributions are the result of work for my customers. We have many DD working at Credativ, I have never seen Credativ being credited anywhere. HP is recognized for their hardware donations, but I don't

Re: Debian's relationship with money and the economy

2013-03-15 Thread Francesca Ciceri
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 01:01:25PM +0300, Moray Allan wrote: And clearly it's up to the DPN editors to decide whether to include specific story suggestions or not. Thank you Moray for making this point. Francesca, the other press officer -- Non mi uccise la morte, ma due guardie bigotte, mi

Re: to DPL candidates: getting new people to Debian

2013-03-15 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi Lucas, On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 03:43:16PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: First, I don't think that age matters that much. imho, age does matter. See Bulbullle's notice why he doesn't run. I've seen people leaving other projects by eg. way of heart attack or traffic accident, too. Younger