Re: Question to all the candidates: time
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 12:56:17PM +0700, Paul Wise wrote: > #include > > How much time do you currently devote to Debian? That's hard to say. It varies. Part of being a self-employed consultant is that you get to choose your own hours (to some extent, of course). There are weeks, that I don't do much for work and just do Debian work instead, while there are also weeks that the reverse is true. > How will that amount of time change for the DPL term? How will you > balance your DPL time and time for other Debian activities. I suspect I will have to spend some more time doing Debian work, some less time watching movies (which I enjoy quite a lot), and /maybe/ have some less billable hours, too. I don't think my business partner will care much about that--he holds a SAS "gold" card (about the highest you can get in their milage saving plan), virtue of him flying around the world for his FreeBSD activities, so he better not :-) -- The biometric identification system at the gates of the CIA headquarters works because there's a guard with a large gun making sure no one is trying to fool the system. http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/01/biometrics.html signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Question to all the candidates: time
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 12:56:17PM +0700, Paul Wise wrote:
> #include
Eh :-)
> How much time do you currently devote to Debian? How will that amount
> of time change for the DPL term? How will you balance your DPL time
> and time for other Debian activities.
In the last few years, I've been able to devote quite some time to
Debian (as I believe it's evident from how much I've bothered planet.d.o
readers with my RCBW posts and the like). I'm not really sure I can
quantify it, but gun-pointed I'd say it is something like from 1 to 2
hours a day + 2 to 4 hours a week-end. Such time is currently scattered
among my various Debian activities (RCBW, OCaml package maintenance,
routine PTS maintenance and other QA tasks, python-debian/devscripts
hacking, ... in decreasing order of relevance +, of course, following
several mailing lists, including -devel).
I'm currently able to devote such (much) time to Debian mainly because
of luck: I work as a researched in a research project on FOSS
distributions [1] and inside the project contributing to Debian is a
respected activity. Soon I'll join a research center specifically
targeted at research on and round FOSS topics [2] and I don't see that
changing. Additionally, my boss is quite FOSS-sensitive and I've
discussed with him the potential scenario of my election. In that case,
I'll be allowed to take extra time for DPL tasks. Again, it is hard to
evaluate, but it can be something like 1 day/week for DPL tasks + trips
to conferences and the like.
Additionally, if elected, I will divert all my current Debian activity
to DPL activities. I've carefully evaluated the impact of my temporary
"departure" from my current Debian tasks, and I'm not worried they will
remain significantly unattended. I won't bother you with details (unless
you really want), but in most cases I'm part of active teams, what
remains out are just a handful of packages which will get orphaned or at
least RFH-ed.
Cheers.
[1] http://www.mancoosi.org
[2] http://www.cirill.org
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Re: Question to all the candidates: time
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 2:56 AM, Paul Wise wrote: > #include > > How much time do you currently devote to Debian? How will that amount > of time change for the DPL term? How will you balance your DPL time > and time for other Debian activities. Currently, I'm devoting only a small portion of my free time to Debian, a daily hour keeping updated with mailing-lists, news, and the like and some bug fixing here and there, also a little mentoring towards local contributors. All in all, it doesn't amount to too many hours. This is because after the organization of DebConf8 I needed to reduce the hours spent on Debian in order to keep sanity, so I haven't been as active or involved as I was before. However, I'm ready now to start devoting much more time towards Debian, regardless of the result of the election. If I'm not elected, I'll be working hard during the next months towards bug finding/fixing for squeeze. If I'm elected I guess that I won't have time for that, since practically all my free time would have to go to being DPL. At least, that's what I hear from former DPLs: just replying to lea...@d.o eats up most of the DPL's time. -- Besos, Marga -- 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/e8bbf0361003130720se9b9a8cu95d139248bd63...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Question to all the candidates: time
Le Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 12:56:17PM +0700, Paul Wise a écrit : > #include > > How much time do you currently devote to Debian? How will that amount > of time change for the DPL term? How will you balance your DPL time > and time for other Debian activities. Hi Paul, most of my involvement in Debian is on my free time. I usually give to Debian a couple of evenings per week, and a couple of week-end days per month. If I am elected DPL, I will reduce the time I spend updating packages in my team (all my packages are team-maintained) and focus on DPL activities. Since there is no synergy between my full-time work (molecular biologist) and the duties of a DPL, I will not be able to give more time in total this year. For instance, I will not travel to distant timezones, and therefore will not attend DebConf. I intend to spend most of my DPL time on tasks that can be fragmented. In particular, making sure that the delegation system is working (no MIA, …), and leading long-overdue discussion on subjects such as membership. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- 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/20100313061938.gd11...@kunpuu.plessy.org
Question to all the candidates: time
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