Re: Question to all candidates: Monthly "Bits from the DPL"
Hi Hideki, On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 12:28 AM Hideki Yamane wrote: > > And for that, I want **YOU** (contributors) to tell current situations. > I want to know, I want to hear, I want to talk with YOU (for the project > and me :) Your desire to engage with your future constituents embodies the highest virtues of representative government. I would be proud to have you as my project leader. Thank you so much for writing that! (The list was copied.) Kind regards, Felix Lechner
Re: Question to all candidates: Monthly "Bits from the DPL"
Hi, > I would like to know what is the stance of the 3 candidates on producing > monthly "Bits from the DPL" reports on their activities. > > I like them very much and I think they are a great way to keep us all > informed of what the DPL has been doing. Yes indeed. It's important for the Project, and gives some fun for us :) Without the map, we walk hard (and tired) but cannot get any progress. Sure I can write it, as evidence, I've written monthly Debian articles for Japanese magazine for 8 years (hear, hear! :) However, as I wrote, I'm not good at English so need some assistants with it, I guess (as I wrote in my platform, you would be bit busy to help). And for that, I want **YOU** (contributors) to tell current situations. I want to know, I want to hear, I want to talk with YOU (for the project and me :) Hope this reply help. -- Hideki Yamane
Re: Question to all candidates: Monthly "Bits from the DPL"
Hi Louis-Philippe On 2022/03/16 20:12, Louis-Philippe Véronneau wrote: I would like to know what is the stance of the 3 candidates on producing monthly "Bits from the DPL" reports on their activities. I like them very much and I think they are a great way to keep us all informed of what the DPL has been doing. They do take time to produce though and some DPLs have preferred to write less frequently. I like them a lot too, and especially enjoyed the concise and punchy reports that zack and lamby wrote. And I guess this question might also be aimed at my total lack of releasing those. That's not a lack from wanting to, and in my last campaign I even committed to try harder on that front. The reality is that this is really difficult for me, I'm myself constantly information overloaded and the amount of incoming stuff just doesn't end. For smaller items this isn't so hard. Issueing a DD certificate here and there, approving some expense requests, updating a delegation, welcoming new DDs, attending meetings for various teams (like treasurer, DAM, CT, etc) or for external meetings, outreach administration, etc isn't too hard, but often not all that exciting on it's own (I have split out the welcoming of new DDs to mails to -project, at least). Also, things like approving sprints and upcoming DPL talks has just really been stunted by the pandemic. These used to make up quite a bit of the bits from the DPL, but... urgh. But the biggest problem by far is that the most time consuming stuff is the hardest to write about. Dealing with all the many inter-personal issues that occur takes a lot of patience and listening, and progress is really slow, and on top of that it's difficult to write about or summarize. I probably *could* just add a line every month "Deal with inter-personal issues" but it would be pretty boring. The same goes for the legal stuff we're working on. It's tedious and boring and lots of work but at the same time, not a lot I can really say publicly. So, yes, I really like Bits from the DPL, I'd probably do better if someone could help or give me a regular poke to put together some updates for it, but after having a very real and sincere goal to improve this last round and failing, I really can't give a hard commitment for this. Sadly though, I've often given long updates to people on IRC and thought "this would actually be great for a bits from a DPL post" and then quickly get distracted... so, if I do get elected for another term, feel free to remind me every now again and I will give it another shot. -Jonathan
Re: Question to all candidates: Monthly "Bits from the DPL"
Hi Louis-Philippe, On Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 11:12 AM Louis-Philippe Véronneau wrote: > > I would like to know what is the stance of the 3 candidates on producing > monthly "Bits from the DPL" reports on their activities. > > I like them very much and I think they are a great way to keep us all > informed of what the DPL has been doing. I totally agree with you. I also like reading them, monthly or however often they come out. > They do take time to produce though and some DPLs have preferred to > write less frequently. Speaking for myself, twelve letters a year are probably an acceptable burden for your sole elected representative. Feel free to ping my inbox starting on the fifth of each month if you have not received anything. At the same time, talented writers are encouraged to apply to help chronicle our progress as a project! Kind regards, Felix Lechner P.S. Everyone, please join #meetfelix on OFTC. I hope to get to know you better!
Question to all candidates: Monthly "Bits from the DPL"
Hi, I would like to know what is the stance of the 3 candidates on producing monthly "Bits from the DPL" reports on their activities. I like them very much and I think they are a great way to keep us all informed of what the DPL has been doing. They do take time to produce though and some DPLs have preferred to write less frequently. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Louis-Philippe Véronneau ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋ po...@debian.org / veronneau.org ⠈⠳⣄ OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature
