Re: Summary of the debian-devel BoF at Debconf9

2009-08-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 5:41 AM, Michael Banck wrote: > at Debconf9, there was a BoF about the debian-devel list and how we > could possibly make it more attractive. Was this recorded (I can't find it in the initial video release)? > * Reconsider CCs ... > Regarding CCs, it was hightlighted tha

Re: Summary of the debian-devel BoF at Debconf9

2009-08-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Michael Banck writes: > Another important discussion was about dealing with big and repetetive > threads. Most people seemed to agree that those threads are a problem > and it was suggested to mail the involved people privately and ask them > to reconsider mailing the same arguments multiple tim

Summary of the debian-devel BoF at Debconf9

2009-08-17 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, at Debconf9, there was a BoF about the debian-devel list and how we could possibly make it more attractive. At first some small research was presented on what other projects/distributions (mostly Ubuntu, Gentoo, Fedora, OpenSUSE and GNOME) are doing, the slides are here: https://penta.debcon

Re: On cadence and collaboration

2009-08-17 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Andre Felipe Machado [2009.08.17.1457 +0200]: > Please, forgive my limited english language skill. I hope clarify > the subject a bit more. By no means I intended to discount Debian > contributors, but to ADD more skilled people from the Canonical > team to Debian efforts. I think th

Re: On cadence and collaboration

2009-08-17 Thread Andre Felipe Machado
Hello, Please, forgive my limited english language skill. I hope clarify the subject a bit more. By no means I intended to discount Debian contributors, but to ADD more skilled people from the Canonical team to Debian efforts. There is (still) a limited supply of skilled people around the world on

Re: On cadence and collaboration

2009-08-17 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
2009/8/16 Andre Felipe Machado : > - Given that Debian Project has around 2000 commited devs and last I checked, that number was about 400 DD's who were actually active > [0] ([Off Topic and not deserving answer as it is an unqualified > suggestion]: Maybe, Canonical could be improve margins if U

Re: On cadence and collaboration

2009-08-17 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Andre Felipe Machado [2009.08.16.1915 +0200]: > After this first round trip, the whole process would be evaluated and > adjusted. Maybe cancelled or broadned. But without trying with a small > group of highly user visible packages, we will not know. I agree very much with your propos