This is for all candidates. Releasing is regularly the hardest thing that Debian does, not just technically but also socially. Apart from the standard issues of setting deadlines, RC bug counts being high, and similar difficult technical issues, the process seems to eat volunteers. There's usually always at least some frustration, anger, and upsetness, and there seems to usually be at least one resignation over the course of a release, often in a way that hurts other activities in Debian for a time.
Do you have any ideas how, as DPL, you would (or even could) address this? I'm personally the most concerned with the social issues. A delayed release can be frustrating but doesn't have that much negative impact, but volunteers with enough knowledge of Debian to be able to serve as release managers or helpers are rare. And usually the arguments not only hurt their contributions to Debian but usually hurt the contributions to Debian of the people on the other side of the argument as well, who are often also valuable and difficult-to-replace volunteers. Do you have any thoughts about how to resolve release issues with less hurt and negative impact to the project all around? -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/878w9ushn4....@windlord.stanford.edu
