Re: Question to all candidates: rotation on positions of power
Le Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 04:27:49PM +0900, Hideki Yamane a écrit : > > I'm sorry, but could you explain "what do you want to improve with > a term limit"? Good evening Hideki, I expect a term limit to increase rotation on the positions of power, with the following benefits: - reduce the risk of burn-out of the delegates, - motivate fresh people to have the ambition to serve in these positions, because it becomes predictable when driving seats become available, - motivate the current delegates to put their own replacement as part of their planning, making us more resilient to sudden (or chronic) unavailabilities, - increase the chances that those of us who keep a strong involvement over many years diversify their experience, knitting our different subgroups into a more harmonious society. - increase our chances that challenging ideas accepted. In brief, everything good (and everything bad) that "more turnover" is expected to bring in most of social structures where we evolve outside Debian. Cheers, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Debian Med packaging team http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tooting from work, https://mastodon.technology/@charles_plessy Tooting from home, https://framapiaf.org/@charles_plessy
Re: Question about voting when the key on the debian keyring is expired...
On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 12:22:09AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > Apologies for this administrative question, but we have a couple of > votes active at the moment, and so inquiring minds want to know. > > Due to an oversight, I managed to forget to update my GPG subkey's > expiration date. I've since fixed it, and uploaded it to > keyring.debian.org, but there's the usual month lag before it the > keyring package gets updated. Where does the Debian voting software > get the keyring which it uses for checking GPG keyrings? > > Does it do a gpg --recv-key from keyring.debian.org? (Which has the > updated expiration date for my keys) > > Does it do a finger USERNAME/k...@db.debian.org? (Which has not been > updated) > > Or does it do something else? DSA has a copy of the keyring on /srv/keyring.debian.org/keyrings/, and devotee updates from that using cron. The keyring in /srv/keyring.debian.org/keyrings/ is only updated when the keyring maintainers update the keyring, which as you say happens once a month. As far as I know, it's the keyring maintainers' local copy that gets distributed to the machines, not the uploaded version. The keyring maintainers plan to update it tomorrow. Kurt
