Re: Re: Lack of a GR proposal explicitly condemning dunc-tank

2006-10-14 Thread Chris Lawrence
On 10/14/06, Clint Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 04:58:24PM -0500, Chris Lawrence wrote: > do would be "relevant public matters." If I have lunch with someone > who works for HP, and he suggests that something needs to go into > reportbug, is that some sort of undue in

Re: Lack of a GR proposal explicitly condemning dunc-tank

2006-10-14 Thread Clint Adams
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 04:58:24PM -0500, Chris Lawrence wrote: > do would be "relevant public matters." If I have lunch with someone > who works for HP, and he suggests that something needs to go into > reportbug, is that some sort of undue influence on my package? What > if he pays for my meal?

Re: Improving the DAM-queue?

2006-10-14 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 02:37:14PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Rather than kicking out those developers who have added to the bloat of the > archive without taking responsibility for the long-term consequences of the > packages they've added? :) > > You appear to believe that adding people t

Re: Improving the DAM-queue?

2006-10-14 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Bastian Venthur wrote: > Hi, > > Taking the data available on nm.debian.org, I've noticed that in the > last six months only 28 applicants became Debian Developers. This means > roughly every 6.4 days an applicant gets processed by a DAM. > > Further I've noticed that by this time 25 of the 28 appl

Re: Improving the DAM-queue?

2006-10-14 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 11:53:27AM +, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 10:14:39AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > > also sprach Bastian Venthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.10.11.1002 +0200]: > > > This is quite frustrating, since most of the applicants are surely > > > doing alread

Re: Improving the DAM-queue?

2006-10-14 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 09:20:15PM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > Thus, people who don't know me and > > don't know the quality of my work must waste time checking up on my work > > so that they feel safe sponsoring my packages. That time would be > > better spent hel

Re: Improving the DAM-queue?

2006-10-14 Thread Daniel Baumann
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Thus, people who don't know me and > don't know the quality of my work must waste time checking up on my work > so that they feel safe sponsoring my packages. That time would be > better spent helping out someone who is just getting started. I agree with your other poi

Re: Proposal: SPI as international money transfer service

2006-10-14 Thread mmlacak
Neil wrote: On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 08:07:10PM -0400, mmlacak wrote: >So, my question is: can we make SPI ( http://www.spi-inc.org/, > http://www.debian.org/donations ) into monetary service which accepts > from and is able to transfer money to any country in the world? In short no. This is

Re: Improving the DAM-queue?

2006-10-14 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 11:53:27AM +, Bill Allombert wrote: > > Now I am quite concerned that I would never had become a DD if the > process at the time has been the same as now, and it would not be > by lack of patience on my part. I find that ethically difficult to > bear. > I too am tro

Re: Improving the DAM-queue?

2006-10-14 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 10:14:39AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Bastian Venthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.10.11.1002 +0200]: > > This is quite frustrating, since most of the applicants are surely > > doing already the normal work every Developer has to do, but are > > not able to upl

Re: Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-14 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 10:09:06AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [...] Person A gets mad becuase he is afraid that person B will will > > get pay for something that both had originally agreed to do for free. > > Now there's a key part of the problem: thi

Re: Improving the DAM-queue?

2006-10-14 Thread Bastian Venthur
Hi, I'm glad that some discussion about this topic took place, yet my main questions are still unanswered: On 11.10.2006 10:02 schrieb Bastian Venthur: > So my question is: Is this a known problem and are there any short- and > longterm solutions in progress? Shouldn't we have some more DAMs in >