Re: Questions to all candidates: Release importance, release blockers, release quality

2007-03-05 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 10:25:24AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le dimanche 04 mars 2007 à 10:21 +0100, Andreas Barth a écrit : > > I hope you realize that your blog posts were one of the reasons why I > > reduced the time I spend on the release dramatically. It is just > > frustrating if peopl

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-03-05 Thread MJ Ray
Aigars Mahinovs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * from the negative side we can see that Debian does not like money. In > particular two things come to mind - Debian as a project should not pay > people (any payments must be totally separate from Debian) and Debian > does not necessary trust the paid

Re: Questions to all candidates: Release importance, release blockers, release quality

2007-03-05 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 05 mars 2007 à 14:52 +0200, Kalle Kivimaa a écrit : > Criticise, yes. Mock, no. If I understand your opinion, Greg Folkert's way of criticising people is acceptable, while Sam's is not. Is that correct? -- .''`. : :' : We are debian.org. Lower your prices, surrender your code. `.

Re: Question for Sam Hocevar

2007-03-05 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Sam Hocevar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Mar 03, 2007, Stephen Gran wrote: >> Was that a purposeful attempt to dodge the GNAA question, or did you not >> understand the question? >By the way, I hope you are not mistaking me with the individual who [...] OK, now I'm curious... We had D

Re: Questions to all candidates: Release importance, release blockers, release quality

2007-03-05 Thread Michael Banck
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 02:52:32PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le lundi 05 mars 2007 à 14:52 +0200, Kalle Kivimaa a écrit : > > Criticise, yes. Mock, no. > > If I understand your opinion, Greg Folkert's way of criticising people > is acceptable, while Sam's is not. Is that correct? Greg isn'

Re: Questions to all candidates: Release importance, release blockers, release quality

2007-03-05 Thread Kalle Kivimaa
Sam Hocevar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Does your "no compensation" clarification mean that it is not as > unacceptable to mock people for doing things they like if they do get > compensated? Well, if *I* get compensated enough, I'm willing to be mocked :) So yes, I find it somewhat more acce

Re: Question for Sam Hocevar

2007-03-05 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007, Stephen Gran wrote: > Was that a purposeful attempt to dodge the GNAA question, or did you not > understand the question? By the way, I hope you are not mistaking me with the individual who co-founded ButtesNet, is part of or has ties with the ANUS, Bantown and GNAA troll

Re: Questions to all candidates: Release importance, release blockers, release quality

2007-03-05 Thread Kalle Kivimaa
Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm getting pissed off by this attitude of many free software > developers, who think that no one has the right to criticise their work, > because they are volunteers. Criticise, yes. Mock, no. I'll define the terms, just to be clear: Criticise: To

Re: Questions to all candidates: Release importance, release blockers, release quality

2007-03-05 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 05 mars 2007 à 13:58 +0200, Kalle Kivimaa a écrit : > This attitude is the very single one that I absolutely hate in > volunteer organizations. Why should you get mocked for doing things > you like with no compensation? What moral right do the mockers have? I'm getting pissed off by this

Re: Questions to all candidates: Release importance, release blockers, release quality

2007-03-05 Thread Kalle Kivimaa
Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If I understand your opinion, Greg Folkert's way of criticising people > is acceptable, while Sam's is not. Is that correct? I don't have a ready-made opinion on either Greg or Sam, I haven't really read that many opinions by either. I took a quick lo

Re: Questions to all candidates: Release importance, release blockers, release quality

2007-03-05 Thread Kalle Kivimaa
Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When you are in a visible position in a group, you are also in the > position to be mocked, and it's something people should get used to. This attitude is the very single one that I absolutely hate in volunteer organizations. Why should you get mocked

Re: Questions to all candidates: Release importance, release blockers, release quality

2007-03-05 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 05 mars 2007 à 01:16 -0800, Steve Langasek a écrit : > On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 10:25:24AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > I hope you realize Sam's blog posts were one of the reasons why I was > > able to keep up the time I spend on Debian. It is just so much better > > when the work you

Re: Questions to all candidates: Release importance, release blockers, release quality

2007-03-05 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007, Kalle Kivimaa wrote: > Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > When you are in a visible position in a group, you are also in the > > position to be mocked, and it's something people should get used to. > > This attitude is the very single one that I absolutely hate

Re: Question to the candidates: inclusion of the kFreeBSD-* ports

2007-03-05 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 08:29:30AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > > Why did we do SCC for then ? > > So that we could cope with the increasing size of the archive. > The announce mentioned the possibility to add some suites due to that. It > didn't mention the possibility to add new architecture

Re: Question to all candidates: Perceived hostility within the community

2007-03-05 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 05 Mar 2007, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > There is nothing like a moral right to mock people, just like there is > > nothing like a moral right not to be mocked. > > Research[1] has shown that one of the primary factors deterring women > from

Re: Question for the candidates

2007-03-05 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi Steve, On Fri, 02 Mar 2007, Steve Langasek wrote: > Which release-critical bug will each of you fix in order to convince me to > vote for you? :) I just fixed #413506. I used to monitor the RC bugs related to the python transition but there are no more such bugs currently. I just make sure t

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-03-05 Thread Wouter Verhelst
[It's not entirely clear whether you want everyone to reply to this, or just Aigars. I'm answering anyway, just to be on the safe side :) ] On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 12:32:03PM +, MJ Ray wrote: > QUESTION 1: > > Some DDs expressed those views and some candidates seem to be interpreting > this a

Question to all candidates: Perceived hostility within the community

2007-03-05 Thread Matthew Garrett
Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is nothing like a moral right to mock people, just like there is > nothing like a moral right not to be mocked. Research[1] has shown that one of the primary factors deterring women from involvement in free software is the perceived hostility of

Re: Question to the candidates: inclusion of the kFreeBSD-* ports

2007-03-05 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 12:29:58AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 08:29:30AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > > > Why did we do SCC for then ? > > > So that we could cope with the increasing size of the archive. > > The announce mentioned the possibility to add some suites d

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Re: Questions to all candidates: Release importance, release blockers, release quality

2007-03-05 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 05 mars 2007 à 15:05 +0200, Kalle Kivimaa a écrit : > Well, if *I* get compensated enough, I'm willing to be mocked :) So > yes, I find it somewhat more acceptable. > > As a semi-RL example, I've been thinking about a game fee for sports > officials: travel costs plus 20 euros per each in

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-03-05 Thread Aigars Mahinovs
MJ Ray wrote: > Aigars Mahinovs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> * from the negative side we can see that Debian does not like money. In >> particular two things come to mind - Debian as a project should not pay >> people (any payments must be totally separate from Debian) and Debian >> does not neces

Re: Question to all candidates: Perceived hostility within the community

2007-03-05 Thread Aigars Mahinovs
Matthew Garrett wrote: > Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> There is nothing like a moral right to mock people, just like there is >> nothing like a moral right not to be mocked. > > Research[1] has shown that one of the primary factors deterring women > from involvement in free sof

Re: Question to all candidates: Perceived hostility within the community

2007-03-05 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 01:41:09PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There is nothing like a moral right to mock people, just like there is > > nothing like a moral right not to be mocked. > > Research[1] has shown that one of the primary factors deter

Re: Question to all candidates: Perceived hostility within the community

2007-03-05 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 06:52:14PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 01:41:09PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > There is nothing like a moral right to mock people, just like there is > > > nothing like a moral right not to be

Re: Question to the candidates: inclusion of the kFreeBSD-* ports

2007-03-05 Thread Russ Allbery
Anthony Towns writes: > On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 08:29:30AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >> And if you think that some of those goals are not reached, > I would much rather be swept off my feet by how clearly the goals have > been reached, beyond my wildest expectations. Surely if kfreebsd is >

Re: Question to all candidates: Perceived hostility within the community

2007-03-05 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Research[1] has shown that one of the primary factors deterring women > from involvement in free software is the perceived hostility of many of > the communities. Do candidates believe that mocking of other members of > the project is acceptable[2], g

Re: Question to all candiates: DebConf

2007-03-05 Thread Simon Richter
Hello, Holger Levsen wrote: > DebConf, the annual Debian Developers Conference, is currently not officially > affiliated with Debian (or SPI) and its not listed on > http://www.debian.org/intro/organization > Do you think DebConf should have an official endorsement with Debian and how > do yo

Re: Question to all candidates: Perceived hostility within the community

2007-03-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 01:41:09PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: > >Research[1] has shown that one of the primary factors deterring women >from involvement in free software is the perceived hostility of many of >the communities. Do candidates believe that mocking of other members of >the project is

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-03-05 Thread MJ Ray
Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:[...] > [It's not entirely clear whether you want everyone to reply to this, or > just Aigars. [...] ] Sorry. I'm interested in replies from any candidates. I'll leave the questions untrimmed below, just in case. > On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 12:32:03PM +00

Re: Question to the candidates: inclusion of the kFreeBSD-* ports

2007-03-05 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 10:33:40AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > kfreebsd is working at least as well as hurd. I would have said better, currently. Hurd's sat in the archive for almost a decade without without managing a release or, as far as I've seen, being a feasible alternative operating sys

Re: Question to the candidates: inclusion of the kFreeBSD-* ports

2007-03-05 Thread Russ Allbery
Anthony Towns writes: > I'd love to be proved wrong on kfreebsd's value to users and the project. I'm having a hard time figuring out, from this thread, what would constitute proof for you. Are you looking specifically for high popcon numbers? Lots of developers stepping forward and saying the

Re: Questions to all candidates: Release importance, release blockers, release quality

2007-03-05 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 01:41:22PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le lundi 05 mars 2007 à 13:58 +0200, Kalle Kivimaa a écrit : > > This attitude is the very single one that I absolutely hate in > > volunteer organizations. Why should you get mocked for doing things > > you like with no compensati

Re: Question for Sam Hocevar

2007-03-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sam Hocevar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Sat, Mar 03, 2007, Stephen Gran wrote: > >> Was that a purposeful attempt to dodge the GNAA question, or did you > >> not > >> understand the question? > >By the way, I hope you are not mistaking

Re: Questions to all candidates: Release importance, release blockers, release quality

2007-03-05 Thread Clint Adams
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 06:09:24PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > There's a difference between criticizing someone's work, and being an > insufferable prick. Are you referring to Frans or AJ when you say that? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: Question to the candidates: inclusion of the kFreeBSD-* ports

2007-03-05 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 06:18:56PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Anthony Towns writes: > > I'd love to be proved wrong on kfreebsd's value to users and the project. > I'd personally find it frustrating and demoralizing if, after working > really hard on a project for quite some time, I asked for it