Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?

2013-04-06 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
On Wed 03 Apr 2013 23:50:10 Russ Allbery escribió: [snip] > I do think that debian-mentors helps a great deal here, not just in > helping people with their problems but in modeling a social interaction > style for people who are new to the project. It is, by and large, quite > polite and construc

Secrecy of member expulsions (Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?)

2013-04-06 Thread Filipus Klutiero
[Moving this to -project] Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 05:37:18PM -0400, Chris Knadle wrote: > Technically the DAM has the ability to act to remove a DD (per Debian > Constitution 8.1 item 2), but the information I can gather so far seems to > indicate that the DAM won't

Dealing with ITS abuse (Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?)

2013-04-06 Thread Filipus Klutiero
Hi Chris, thanks for being faithful to our project and bringing up this topic :-S Chris Knadle wrote: From the point of view of the bug reporter, the message the DD has sent (whether intended or not) is "I'm not even going to dignify this with a response. *click* " It's not /only/ this rudene

Purpose of tickets (Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?)

2013-04-06 Thread Filipus Klutiero
Hi Ian, Ian Jackson wrote: [...] To reiterate: the purpose of bug reports is to help improve the software. In Debian, the maintainer(s) are in charge of deciding (in the first instance) what counts as an improvement, and which improvements are most important. But they are also in charge of dec

Bug#704874: [bugs.debian.org] Ticket priorities

2013-04-06 Thread Filipus Klutiero
Package: bugs.debian.org Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-project@lists.debian.org The ITS currently assigns each ticket a severity. This is very useful for users, for example by letting them check the worst problems of a package without having to read its entire ticket list. Severity

"Closing due to too many bugs" (Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?)

2013-04-06 Thread Filipus Klutiero
Ian Jackson wrote: [...] Of course we do need bug reports to be able to tell what's wrong so that we know what to fix. But many packages have so many bug reports that there is already not enough time to deal with them all thoroughly. In that case it is better to cherry-pick the ones which seem

"I rid you of some of your bugs; please fix mine?" (Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?)

2013-04-06 Thread Filipus Klutiero
Ian Jackson wrote: If you and your allies have enough time and knowledge to help with the package, then yes, you can certainly help with this. You could write to the maintainers: I notice you closed my bug without comment, so I went to take a look at the rest of the bugs for gnomovision.