On 3 April 2026 12:43:49 pm IST, Adrian Bunk <[email protected]> wrote:
>Hi Sruthi,
>
>DPL is a powerful position with little oversight or appeal short of a GR.
>Many DDs are earning money in the Debian ecosystem, and there are
>potential conflict of interest issues when a boss or customer asks
>a DD to do something in Debian and the DD happens to be DPL.
>
>There should be transparency about such issues, so that voters can take
>them into account.
>
>Questions:
>
>1. How much of your income during the past 12 months was related to
>Debian, and what kind of work?[1]
>
>[if there was a non-zero income in question 1]
0%
>2. If elected, do you plan to continue this Debian-related paid work
>during your term as DPL?
>
I may or may not take up some paid work this year.
>[if the answer to 2. was yes]
>3. How do you plan to deal with conflict of interest issues between your
>paid work and your powers as DPL?
If I take a paid work, it will be purely freelance packaging work, which I do
not think will anyway pose conflict of interest as a DPL. If anything that
might conflict with my DPL powers comes up, I will definitely not take that.
>
>Thanks
>Adrian
>
>[1] Notes for 1.:
>- This is not asking about income amounts, percentages would be preferable.
> "around 30% of the work for my employer was porting Debian to
> embedded hw for various customers" would be an example of a good answer.
>- This is asking about financial dependency issues, e.g. an invitation
> to a conference with travel costs paid would not be relevant.
>
-- srud
