On 05/04/24 23:51, santiago wrote:
Dear DPL candidates,
As you may be aware, the EU has adopted a new cybersecurity regulation
[CRA] and other countries are following the example. You may also be
aware that Debian issued a public statement about it (based on a
previous draft version of the
On 26/03/24 00:26, Nilesh Patra wrote:
It is no secret that most (probably all?) teams (delegated and otherwise
packaging/developer teams) in Debian struggle with limited
developer time and almost everything in Debian needs help.
In quite a few teams that I've seen and also been a part of,
On 28/03/24 05:56, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
Greetings candidates,
QUESTION TO THE CANDIDATES: what are your quantitative diversity goals
and metrics, and what are the rationales behind those goals and metrics?
Sorry, I do not wish to put a quantitative value to solve a social issue.
Some
On 03/04/24 01:35, Louis-Philippe Véronneau wrote:
Hello!
Jonathan's latest "Bits from the DPL" entry reminded me of how much I
like those :)
I also like reading them.
What are your thoughts on the format?
I like the format, but sometimes it becomes too long that I end up not
finishing
On 05/04/24 12:26, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
Hi Sruthi,
In your platform and answers to questions here, I feel that you mainly
focus on the "behind the scenes" aspects of Debian for the public, that
is, how the project works.
This is of course extremely important, but to put it bluntly, I believe
On 05/04/24 03:11, Adrian Bunk wrote:
Hi,
this email has two parts:
A short question where I would appreciate a "yes" or "no" answer from
all candidates, and a longer explanation what and why I am asking.
Question:
If elected, will you commit to have a lawyer specialized in that area
review
On 03/04/24 01:42, Marc Haber wrote:
Dear Candidates,
There are many people who see Debian as a technology project, with the
technical goal of producing The Universal Operating System.
I believe that Debian is both a technology project and a community.
What are you planning to do to Debian
On 25/03/24 17:04, Jonathan Carter wrote:
Hi Sruthi
On 2024/03/22 19:51, Sruthi Chandran wrote:
I agree on your point of lack of transparency about the finances. But
from what I understood from highvoltage's platform last year, the
problem is more to do with the current delayed, manual
On 27/03/24 04:54, Thomas Goirand wrote:
Hi,
As you know, there's a large amount of money sleeping in SPI account
for Debian. Do you have ideas on how to spend it?
From Jonathan's mail, I think we do not have too much money unused now.
Would you be ok spending 100k USD on buying hardware
On 3/22/24 21:29, Soren Stoutner wrote:
On Friday, March 22, 2024 3:08:53 AM MST Rhonda D'Vine wrote:
Unfortunately you still are hung up on your discriminatory and downright
disrespectful position that you brought up in 2019 already, haven't learned
from the discussion, and still seem to
On 3/22/24 16:13, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote:
Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote on 22/03/2024 at
09:54:35+0100:
On Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 06:51:48AM +0100, Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote:
PS: I am eagerly awaiting a platform from
Sruthi Chandran . Up to now there still is the old one at
https
On 3/22/24 15:47, Nilesh Patra wrote:
I have worked with both Andreas and Sruthi in some capacity in different teams
so I have some idea about about the turn-around time for both (usually quick).
In Debian, responding to something in around a week is normal (anf good),
however, some
DPL tasks
On 3/22/24 11:21, Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote:
Hi,
There has been discussion of having one new legal entity representing
the Debian project worldwide. What are the candidates opinions on that?
I am interested in the idea of having a legal entity for Debian. Till a
year back, I was not in
On 3/22/24 09:23, Nilesh Patra wrote:
I am interested in knowing about what the current candidates think about
accounting bits in Debian and how they think about spending the money.
I think the money should be spent based on the evaluation of cost to
benefit ratio.
As I have read and from
On 3/20/24 00:31, Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana wrote:
Hi Andreas,
Em 19/03/2024 11:46, Andreas Tille escreveu:
If this question is whether we should target for less power consumption
I consider this topic as perfectly non-controversal and part of our
mission statement. I can't imagine any
On 3/19/24 14:08, Gerardo Ballabio wrote:
Andreas Tille wrote:
How would you as a DPL try to lead a community that focuses on producing a
great distribution without getting divided on controversial topics?
I'm not really sure in how far you consider the first statement relevant
to the
On 3/10/24 21:06, Thomas Koch wrote:
A question to DPL candidates
It seems (to me?) that more and more areas of our lives become political and
controversies on such topics more aggressive. Or people stop talking with each
other.
Personally, I believe that there is politics in every aspect of
On 09/03/24 01:54, Debian Project Secretary - Kurt Roeckx wrote:
Hi,
According to the constitution (5.2. Appointment), project
leader elections should begin "six weeks before the leadership
post becomes vacant, or (if it is too late already) immediately."
The new project leader term starts on
On April 1, 2021 4:21:59 PM GMT+05:30, "Barak A. Pearlmutter"
wrote:
>He makes unwelcome sexual
>overtures to women, but backs off when turned down (with perhaps
>isolated exceptions decades ago). That's totally inappropriate
>behaviour. He seems unable to sense when someone finds him
On April 1, 2021 10:33:02 PM GMT+05:30, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>On Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 07:30:10PM +0300, Sergey B Kirpichev wrote:
>>On Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 05:12:55PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>>> *No* attempt has been made to sign that open letter on behalf of the
>>> project.
>>
On March 27, 2021 7:15:39 PM GMT+05:30, Ulrike Uhlig wrote:
>Hi
>
>On 27.03.21 14:01, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
>> On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 01:56:08PM +0100, Timo Weingärtner wrote:
>>> 27.03.21 13:03 Kurt Roeckx:
I've added this option on the website. I'm still processing emails.
Note
On March 27, 2021 12:28:58 AM GMT+05:30, Jonathan Carter
wrote:
>Hi peb
>
>On 2021/03/26 20:54, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote:
>> I wonder in that case if such a person sould be either:
>>
>> 1. Nominated by the DPL
>> 2. Co-elected (ie voting for a couple of people)
>> 3. Elected separately on
On March 27, 2021 12:25:15 AM GMT+05:30, "Pierre-Elliott Bécue"
wrote:
>Le samedi 20 mars 2021 à 00:44:52+0530, Sruthi Chandran a écrit :
>>
>> On 20/03/21 12:31 am, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote:
>> > The idea was discussed two years ago. Sam chose a
On March 26, 2021 11:11:16 PM GMT+05:30, "Pierre-Elliott Bécue"
wrote:
>Hi Sruthi!
>
>Thanks for this work, it quite fits more what I'd be happy to sponsor!
>
>Here are a few remarks if you have some time to review and address.
>
>Le vendredi 26 mars 2021 à
On 26/03/21 10:45 pm, Sruthi Chandran wrote:
>
> Dear fellow DDs,
>
> Second the amendment text if acceptable to you :)
>
Re-sending with fixed signature and replacing twitter link with
gnusocial link.
> Begin text
>
> Under section 4.1.5 of the constitut
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Dear fellow DDs,
Second the amendment text if acceptable to you :)
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Under section 4.1.5 of the constitution, the Developers make the
following statement:
*Debian’s statement on Richard Stallman rejoining the FSF board*
We
On 26/03/21 2:00 am, Sam Hartman wrote:
>>>>>> "Sruthi" == Sruthi Chandran writes:
> Sruthi> I propose that instead of signing the said letter, Debian
> Sruthi> issue a position statement. The text of the statement is
> Sruthi&g
On 26/03/21 1:46 am, Sean Whitton wrote:
> Hello Martin,
>
> On Thu 25 Mar 2021 at 06:15PM +01, Martin Pitt wrote:
>
>> As this is is a highly political, divisive, and personal topic, not a
>> technical one, I'd really hope that this would be a secret vote, much
>> like the Debian leader voting?
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On 26/03/21 12:47 am, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Sruthi Chandran writes:
>
>> I have an alternate suggestion. Instead of signing the said letter,
>> Debian can issue a position statement similar to the one released by
On March 25, 2021 2:24:16 AM GMT+05:30, Steve Langasek
wrote:
>Under 4.1.5 of the Constitution, the developers by way of GR are the
>body
>who has the power to issue nontechnical statements.
>
>https://github.com/rms-open-letter/rms-open-letter.github.io/blob/main/index.md
>is a statement
On 23/03/21 2:41 pm, Bart Martens wrote:
> Hello DPL candidates,
>
> A question about diversity. We all know that some profiles are
> underrepresented: gender, etnic group, disability, age, sexual preference,
> education degree, rich/poor, spoken & written languages...
>
> 1/ One way of
On 24/03/21 4:26 am, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I hope not to be too inflamatory with this. As you are surely aware,
> last week Richard Stallman was reinstated as part of the Board of
> Directors of the FSF. That is something deeply disturbing and
> confidence-shattering for many of us.
>
>
On 24/03/21 5:52 am, Matthias Klumpp wrote:
> No human can do anything that makes them immune to criticism. This is
> not a matter of hate, I actually doubt anyone who signed the petition
> really "hates" RMS.
> RMS without a doubt did a lot of good with starting the FSF and his
> early work on
On 19/03/21 3:59 pm, Enrico Zini wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 09:16:15PM +0200, Jonathan Carter wrote:
>
>> I don't think that lack of interest is the problem here, but I do think
>> that Debian contributors tend to be already starved for time, and trying
>> to get them to do more is like
On 19/03/21 11:35 pm, Louis-Philippe Véronneau wrote:
> Dear DPL candidates,
>
> In becoming a DD, one of the main challenges I faced was the absence of
> a standard way to package software in Debian.
>
> I've since seen first hand how having a very large number of ways to
> package things in
On 20/03/21 12:31 am, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote:
> The idea was discussed two years ago. Sam chose a range of people to
> help him with delegations.
>
> Being a DPL is a high-energy thing even when one doesn't try to "lead"
> the project /per se/.
>
> Do you think the Project should consider the
On 19/03/21 1:14 am, Philip Hands wrote:
> ...
> Could it be that people are being protective of their motivation?
I agree with this point. Not all want money as their motivation.
> ...
> I've been pondering how it might be possible to spend more of Debian's
> money, and it occurred to me that we
On 19/03/21 3:08 pm, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Hello,
>
> as a followup to my former question that dressed a negative picture
> of the DPL role in the last years, I'd like to make a proposal and
> see what you all think of it.
>
> There are quite a few software projects that have hired staff to
On 19/03/21 2:43 pm, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Dear Debian DPL candidates,
>
> when I look back at my old platforms[1][2]3] I can already see a trend
> where we move from "concrete changes that we want to see in Debian" to
> "some vague idea of how we want to run the project" but this trend seems
>
On 18/03/21 11:16 pm, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Dear DPL candidates,
>
> when I was younger, I dreamed to be paid to do Debian work. But that was
> not possible, and that's the reason why I started my own company Freexian
> 16 years ago. Through those years I always kept this goal in mind (it's
>
On March 13, 2021 10:33:32 AM GMT+05:30, Sruthi Chandran
wrote:
>
>
>On March 7, 2021 1:09:44 AM GMT+05:30, Debian Project Secretary - Kurt
>Roeckx wrote:
>...
>>The new project leader term starts on 2021-04-21. The time line
>>looks like:
>>
>>
On March 7, 2021 1:09:44 AM GMT+05:30, Debian Project Secretary - Kurt Roeckx
wrote:
...
>The new project leader term starts on 2021-04-21. The time line
>looks like:
>
>| Period | Start | End |
>|+---+-|
>|
Hello Jonathan and Brian,
I have a couple of questions for both of you.
- What are your thoughts on diversity in Debian?
- Are we diverse enough?
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On 26/03/20 1:03 pm, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> Hi,
>
> For as long as I can remember, there has been complaints about the
> delays caused by NEW processing (and
> https://ftp-master.debian.org/stat.html shows that we constantly have
> 250-300 packages waiting to be processed).
>
> What is your
On 18/03/20 4:06 pm, Ulrike Uhlig wrote:
> Hi!
>
> @JonathanCarter: thank you very much for encouraging us to continue this
> discussion here :)
> ...
> Agreed.
>
> @Adrian: I think you should read up on the Flosspols study [1] and
> especially about the time women and men can put into free
On 18/03/20 3:05 pm, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * John Paul Adrian Glaubitz [2020-03-18 10:26]:
>>> As a former Outreachy intern myself (2015) I can tell you that it the
>>> stipend has helped me to invest time to find my way around Debian, time
>>> during which otherwise I would have had to earn
On 17/03/20 10:02 pm, Hector Oron wrote:
> Hello,
>
> First of all, thanks for nominating yourselves to Debian project leaders.
>
> Debian Outreach looks like an awesome initiative to bring new blood
> into Debian and also people coming from minority groups, however, on
> the other hand, it
I would like to nominate myself as DPL candidate 2020.
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