Re: Criteria for a successful DPL board

2007-02-13 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Kevin Mark wrote: > The important thing is to get things done, not whether its done or > decided by one, two or more people. I'd expect instead for the DPL to > delegate things instead of trying to do it all. History has shown me that delegation is not an effective way to lea

Re: Criteria for a successful DPL board

2007-02-13 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 09:02:29PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > From my perspective this idea is to take the DPL from one or two > > people to more people. Why? To get more done. > > Throwing more people at a problem does not always get more > done. Just read the Mythical man month.

Re: Criteria for a successful DPL board

2007-02-13 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 21:00:00 -0500, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 09:11:00PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >> >> My *main* current problem is that the DPL is not taking enough >> initiatives to lead the project, to improve the project, to prepare >> the project f

Re: Criteria for a successful DPL board

2007-02-13 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 09:11:00PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > My *main* current problem is that the DPL is not taking enough initiatives > to lead the project, to improve the project, to prepare the project for > the future, etc. I don't care much about the administrivia facet of the > role

Re: Social Committee proposal text (diff)

2007-02-13 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 23:46:10 +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > > > Do you think it's likely for it to go on for more than one repetition? > > I've no real idea but it might lead to a dead end. And having > > infinite nominations/elections because there are e.g. "only" 10 and > > not 16 persons seems to

Re: Social Committee proposal text (diff)

2007-02-13 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 07:39:12PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote: > > > > + If there are fewer than S2 candidates > > > > + at the end of the nomination period, then the nomination period is > > > > + extended for two further weeks, repeatedly if necessary. > > > > + If "None Of The Above" wins t

Re: Social Committee proposal text (diff)

2007-02-13 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 09:14:27PM +0100, Alexander Schmehl wrote: > > You are aware that most of our elections are done this way, > > Yes, I know. > > > we only use hashes in the tally sheet for leader elections? > > Or in other words: I 100% of the votes regarding persons, we have a > secret

Re: Social Committee proposal text (diff)

2007-02-13 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 05:17:43PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > Having a record of who voted for whom is a good default. Since we don't > > have any typical real-world election abuses in Debian (e.g. intimidation > > or harming of people who voted for someone you don't like), I see no > > seri

Re: Plain English Please

2007-02-13 Thread Joe Smith
"Michael Banck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 09:53:48AM -0500, Joe Smith wrote: Well this is due to Intel's stupidity. They created IA64 when what was really needed was something like Amd64. Then they realized that amd64 was a better desi

Re: Social Committee proposal text (diff)

2007-02-13 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007, Alexander Schmehl wrote: > > we only use hashes in the tally sheet for leader elections? > > Or in other words: I 100% of the votes regarding persons, we have a > secret vote. Not quite 100%. A DPL recall vote is about a person. Cheers, -- Sam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: Social Committee proposal text (diff)

2007-02-13 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! Sorry, forgot to mention one thing: * Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070213 11:54]: > You are aware that most of our elections are done this way, Yes, I know. > we only use hashes in the tally sheet for leader elections? Or in other words: I 100% of the votes regarding persons, we hav

Re: Criteria for a successful DPL board

2007-02-13 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Gustavo Franco wrote: > >> Which kind of decision? Technical? > > > >The kind of decision that you expect a DPL to take: decide if a new idea > >is worth trying, decide of some guidelines for internal teams, decision of > >new appointments, decide how to spend our money, ... >

Re: Social Committee proposal text (diff)

2007-02-13 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070213 11:54]: > I don't think I want anyone who fears the idea of public disagreement to > sit two years in a committee that arbitrates social conflicts. [..] Neither do I. That's why I want it to be possible to not vote for such a candidate without him k

Re: Social Committee proposal text (diff)

2007-02-13 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 11:42:50 +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > > > + If there are fewer than S2 candidates > > > + at the end of the nomination period, then the nomination period is > > > + extended for two further weeks, repeatedly if necessary. > > > + If "None Of The Above" wins the election, or i

Re: Social Committee proposal text (diff)

2007-02-13 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 11:54:04AM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > I don't think I want anyone who fears the idea of public disagreement to > sit two years in a committee that arbitrates social conflicts. That's turning the problem upside-down. It's not about avoiding fears for people who are running

Re: Criteria for a successful DPL board

2007-02-13 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 2/13/07, Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 12 Feb 2007, Gustavo Franco wrote: > >- more momentum to the leadership: clearly a single leader is swamped with > > administrivia and even the addition of a 2IC didn't let Anthony finish > > his first proposal (about giving single-

Re: Social Committee proposal text (diff)

2007-02-13 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 12:07:34PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > Having a record of who voted for whom is a good default. Since we don't have > any typical real-world election abuses in Debian (e.g. intimidation or > harming of people who voted for someone you don't like), I see no serious > negative

Re: Plain English Please

2007-02-13 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 09:53:48AM -0500, Joe Smith wrote: > Well this is due to Intel's stupidity. They created IA64 when what was > really needed was something like Amd64. Then they realized that amd64 > was a better design. They added it to the IA32 line under the name > EM64T (without marketin

Re: Plain English Please

2007-02-13 Thread Joe Smith
"Michael Banck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you look at the URL the original poster mentioned, I think they have a point - exposing the cdimage.d.o directory layout like this isn't really user friendly, we want possible users to find our distribution without

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Re: Social Committee proposal text (diff)

2007-02-13 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 11:25:09AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > No matter what's my opinion on whether fresh blood is good or bad for > the social ctte, I doubt it would make any difference to state a rule > like that. The committee will be elected and I seriously doubt any > "fresh blood" DD

Re: Social Committee proposal text (diff)

2007-02-13 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 11:17:52AM +0100, Alexander Schmehl wrote: > > > > + The next two weeks are the polling period during which > > > > + Developers may cast their votes. Votes in social committee elections > > > > + are made public after the election is finished. > > > And why shall votes

Re: Social Committee proposal text (diff)

2007-02-13 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 11:14:40AM +0100, Alexander Schmehl wrote: > > >> + The next two weeks are the polling period during which > > >> + Developers may cast their votes. Votes in social committee > > >>elections > > >> + are made public after the election is finished. > > > And why shall vo

Re: Social Committee proposal text (diff)

2007-02-13 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 05:08:09PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote: > > + If there are fewer than S2 candidates > > + at the end of the nomination period, then the nomination period is > > + extended for two further weeks, repeatedly if necessary. > [..] > > + If "None Of The Above" wins the electi

Re: Social Committee proposal text (diff)

2007-02-13 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 12:44:40PM -0500, Joe Smith wrote: > >>and I would think that social problems / discussions should be considered > >>even more private. > > > >I disagree - if a problem is severe enough to get brought before soc-ctte, > >it's out in the open already, and needs to be dealt wi

Re: Social Committee proposal text (diff)

2007-02-13 Thread MJ Ray
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > A social committee needs demosntrated judgement. People new, > and inexperienced in the ways of Debian, might not really be better > fit. [...] Is soc-ctte about preserving the current/recent-past majority view, or correcting the major

Re: Social Committee proposal text (diff)

2007-02-13 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 11:38:12AM +0100, Alexander Schmehl wrote: > > + At least one third of all elected candidates should have been > > + members of the project for at least Y/2 years, where Y is the age > > + of the Project in years. If fewer than one third of candidates meet > > + this req

Re: Social Committee proposal text (diff)

2007-02-13 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070212 12:17]: > > > + The next two weeks are the polling period during which > > > + Developers may cast their votes. Votes in social committee elections > > > + are made public after the election is finished. > > And why shall votes become public? Wha

Re: Social Committee proposal text (diff)

2007-02-13 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070213 04:28]: > >> + The next two weeks are the polling period during which > >> + Developers may cast their votes. Votes in social committee > >>elections > >> + are made public after the election is finished. > > And why shall votes become publi

Re: A propos de : www.fr.debian.org

2007-02-13 Thread Sam Hocevar
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Re: A propos de : www.fr.debian.org

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