Re: [all candidates] Work balance and traveling
On 2013-03-12 20:31, Arno Töll wrote: Moray mostly answered my question already, but if he wants to extend he's surely invited to elaborate. [...] So I wonder, will you step back from maintainer/team activities during your term? For anyone reading who didn't yet memorise my platform, I wrote there: "How would I have time to be DPL? - On previous occasions I'd ruled out running for lack of time, but I am more flexible currently – and I might not have such flexibility any more in another couple of years, so am running now. - I currently spend a large amount of time on DebConf, and would reduce this, while drawing on the experience I have gained there. - I am self-employed, so can be confident that my employer will be flexible when required." Of course, as DPL I would continue to interact with the DebConf team, press/publicity teams, etc., but in a different way from currently. The great majority of my packages are already team maintained. Moreover, I wonder how much time you intend to spend for representative conference/summit work, where zack once again did an impressive job to represent Debian in talks, press and presentations. And for this point, I wrote: "I would be willing, and available, to attend events and to give talks on behalf of Debian. But I don't think that this kind of role of representing Debian should be limited to the DPL, or to people in high-profile technical roles. Where Debian money is used to fund travel purely to give talks, the priority should be to send a good speaker who will present Debian well, taking into account travel costs for possible candidates. Where good speakers feel that they lack an appropriate Debian position from which to represent Debian and gain speaker slots at conferences (including because they previously held such a position but have retired), I would be happy to give them some appropriate title by a delegation." I would expect to do a fair amount of travelling as DPL, but I would try to focus this on the events where it is most useful for the DPL in particular to be present. And I currently travel internationally frequently for work, so if that continues I would hope to add some Debian activities onto those trips. -- Moray -- 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/942252dab584490f15a4896f1af9b...@www.morayallan.com
Re: [all candidates] Work balance and traveling
Hi! Arno Töll writes: > Sorry to tell, but you're all compared to zack leaving back some by-now > established patterns as a DPL. So I wonder, will you step back from > maintainer/team activities during your term? Most likely, yes. While the packages I maintain are fairly quiet and take little time to keep in good shape, the less I have, the more time I can spend elsewhere. I already am in talks with someone who'd take over two of my packages (libmongo-client & ivykis), and I'm open to give up or co-maintain all the rest too (except for dpatch and dh-exec). By the way, I intend to reduce the number of packages I maintain whether elected or not. I'm also looking for someone to take over the unofficial syslog-ng packages I maintain[1], as *that* takes tons of time. Reasonable progress is being made on that front too. [1]: http://asylum.madhouse-project.org/projects/debian/ As for my other activities.. I still owe Ganneff and the ftp-master team a pdiff patch, I intend to see to it before the end of the campaing period (really, this time!). I'd also like to peek at NEW from time to time, and contribute comments, because that is quite often a very soothing experience. On the other hand, if elected, we'll have to find someone to keep an eye on -bugs-dist and misfiled bugs, because that takes a significant amount of time too, and unlike processing NEW, I sadly don't find it all that rewarding. (Noticing said bugs is easy, the research, reassign, comment, etc part is the trouble.) > How do you intend to handle your existing Debian commitment, in case > you're elected for DPL? See above. But in short: keep some, surrender most. > Moreover, I wonder how much time you intend to spend for representative > conference/summit work, where zack once again did an impressive job to > represent Debian in talks, press and presentations. Unfortunately, I don't think I'll be able to match up to Zack in this regard, but nevertheless, I'll do my best. I'm in a fortunate situation where my employer is very supportive, and if elected, I will be allowed to do DPL duties during work hours, among other things (this also includes being able to attend events I otherwise may not be able to). As for conferences/summits, I believe that representing Debian on these events is important, but if the DPL can't make it for one reason or the other, a delegate should. There's a lot of people within Debian who can represent Debian very well, and are far better known than I am, who accomplished a lot more within the project than I did, have a lot more experience speaking, and so on and so forth - it would be great if this part of the DPL duties wouldn't be viewed as being restricted to the project leader alone. -- |8] -- 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/87y5drfglm@galadriel.madhouse-project.org
Re: [all candidates] Work balance and traveling
Hi, On 12/03/13 at 18:31 +0100, Arno Töll wrote: > Hi, > > while reading your platforms I noticed that you're rather vague on your > future Debian commitment for that one of you ending as DPL for real. > Moray mostly answered my question already, but if he wants to extend > he's surely invited to elaborate. Hence, my question primarily addresses > lucas and algernon: > > Sorry to tell, but you're all compared to zack leaving back some by-now > established patterns as a DPL. So I wonder, will you step back from > maintainer/team activities during your term? You are both well known for > your work within Debian, lucas' archive rebuilds come me in mind > immediately, and algernon likewise for his tireless work behind the > curtains (reassigning lost bugs. Does anyone else besides him read > debian-bugs-dist? Helping on the mentors edge and more). > > How do you intend to handle your existing Debian commitment, in case > you're elected for DPL? > > Moreover, I wonder how much time you intend to spend for representative > conference/summit work, where zack once again did an impressive job to > represent Debian in talks, press and presentations. If elected, I will reduce my involvement in other areas of Debian: - I will stop doing Ruby work (I'm getting tired of it and I need to move on anyway). We have two quite new DD in the Ruby team who are very active and doing great work, so it's a perfect time to stop. - Now that I did the work to move the archive rebuilds infrastructure to AWS (see http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/blog/?p=718), someone else can do the whole process without my help. In the worst case, no archive rebuilds during the first year of a release cycle (imagining we will release soon) is bad, but not as bad as during the second half of a cycle. - UDD could stay in maintenance mode for a while. There are also other DDs involved in its maintenance. - Most of the packages I maintain are either low-maintenance, or co-maintained. I will be able to spend more time on Debian than I currently do¹. The last months of my personal life have been rather difficult, and required a lot of time to be dealt with, but this is now over. ¹ well, I'm not talking about since the discussion period started ;) My day job offers me a lot of flexibility in my time management (I have the same position as Stefano). Travelling to conferences to talk about Debian is not a problem. Finally (and the most important), I don't plan to do all the work alone. I will continue the DPL helpers initiative, and really hope to get some help from there. This is important also for the project on the long term. I find it quite sad and worrying that we only had three DPL candidates this year. Having an active group of people willing to contribute to DPL shores will make running for DPL less frightening for potential candidates. Note that even if the above completely fails, this does not mean that I will go MIA. I'm quite an organization freak, and I'm used to prioritizing, so I'm very confident that in the worst case, at least the important stuff will get done. Note that I've been doing archive rebuilds on a quite regular basis since 2007 with only rare interruptions. ;) Lucas -- 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/20130312195401.gf8...@xanadu.blop.info
[all candidates] Work balance and traveling
Hi, while reading your platforms I noticed that you're rather vague on your future Debian commitment for that one of you ending as DPL for real. Moray mostly answered my question already, but if he wants to extend he's surely invited to elaborate. Hence, my question primarily addresses lucas and algernon: Sorry to tell, but you're all compared to zack leaving back some by-now established patterns as a DPL. So I wonder, will you step back from maintainer/team activities during your term? You are both well known for your work within Debian, lucas' archive rebuilds come me in mind immediately, and algernon likewise for his tireless work behind the curtains (reassigning lost bugs. Does anyone else besides him read debian-bugs-dist? Helping on the mentors edge and more). How do you intend to handle your existing Debian commitment, in case you're elected for DPL? Moreover, I wonder how much time you intend to spend for representative conference/summit work, where zack once again did an impressive job to represent Debian in talks, press and presentations. -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
