Re: "Re: Old times"

2007-03-17 Thread SAWN_2005
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Re: Question for Gustavo and Sam: bringing back the fun

2007-03-17 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 15:59 +0100, Julien BLACHE wrote: > Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Flamewars are actually fun, when done properly. > > > "Having fun in a flamewar" is not the kind of fun we need to seek. > > Because there's no reward for the project, only some self-satisf

Re: Q 2 all candidates: Usage of [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2007-03-17 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > IMHO things like this could have been avoided by having a proper team > behind [EMAIL PROTECTED] and those both mailing lists which is at least 4 > persons. > > How do you plan help the press team out here? Do you think a delegation > of one perso

Re: Question to all the candidates: what mistakes have you made and what did you learn of it

2007-03-17 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007, Sven Luther wrote: > 1) Can you tell us a few of the most important mistakes you have made during > these past two years with regard to debian ? I am aware of no technical mistake that had important consequences and was not quickly fixed. My obvious social mistake

Re: Question for all candidates, was: Google SoC 2007 - we're in, sign up quickly!

2007-03-17 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007, MJ Ray wrote: > but after that, I didn't find another search result until he mentioned > the 2007 marketing campaign. Is this the sort of "fire and forget" > reporting that we would expect if Steve McIntyre were elected DPL? > > How would other candidates avoid dropping top

Re: DPL Debate in #debian-dpl-debate on irc.debian.org in ~12 hours (21:30 UTC)

2007-03-17 Thread Anthony Towns
From the debate: 09:32 Anthony: What was your biggest triumph over the past 12 months? Your biggest mistake? 09:34 the thing that pleased me the most was all the things getting freed -- the new GFDL drafts, the new creative commons

Re: Q 2 all candidates: Usage of [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2007-03-17 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 11:11:47AM +, MJ Ray wrote: > Anthony Towns > > [...] there are plenty of journos interested in Debian who are > > happy to talk to developers directly if they've got something newsworthy, > > and we've all got the ability to start our own website or mailing list > > wi

Re: kFreeBSD is "fantastic"

2007-03-17 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 12:11:06PM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 05:40:21PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > As of kFreeBSD: > > a. kfreebsd -- easy! > > i. add it to the archive! > > - straight after etch rel

Re: Getting patches applied. emulated buildd's are good (was: kFreeBSD is "fantastic")

2007-03-17 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 08:41:43PM -0600, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: > Should porters be required to NMU? I would hope not in this quantity as > someone who NMU's should consider themselves a virtual maintainer until > the next upload (or at least I've read this a few times from people such > as aj?

Re: Question for the candidates

2007-03-17 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 03:04:47AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > Which release-critical bug will each of you fix in order to convince me to > vote for you? :) #411953 Cheers, aj signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Q 2 all candidates: Usage of [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2007-03-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 08:37:17PM +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > >IMHO things like this could have been avoided by having a proper team >behind [EMAIL PROTECTED] and those both mailing lists which is at least 4 >persons. > >How do you plan help the press team out here? Do you think a delegatio

Re: Question to the candidates: RC bugs fixe

2007-03-17 Thread Thaddeus H. Black
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 12:47:00PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > As I'm sure you're aware, there is no cabal; there's only a bunch of > people who put in massive amounts of time and get the blame when > important stuff is delayed. And as any sysadmin will tell you, *every* > request is important.

Re: Question for all candidates: pushing people

2007-03-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 03:03:05PM +0100, Andreas Schuldei wrote: > >that sounds to me like you wanted to continue with "but you cant >do that???as they are all volunteers and you cant push them" or so. >could you elaborate? were you in the position to push people to >do something in debian, and ho

Re: Question for all candidates, was: Google SoC 2007 - we're in, sign up quickly!

2007-03-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 09:22:40AM +, MJ Ray wrote: > > "The Google Summer of Code[0] is over, and final reports have been > submitted. Most of our students worked well right up to (and in some > cases beyond) the end of the summer, and hopefully we'll see some > useful results from their p

Re: Question to all the candidates: please explain GR-2006-001

2007-03-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 11:48:43PM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: >Hi all, >IANADD, so I don't have vote right, but I'd like to ask a question >anyway. > >To all candidates who wish to respond: > > How did you vote for the GR on the GFDL[1] (GR-2006-001) and why? > In case you didn't vote, could yo

Re: Question to the candidates: RC bugs fixed

2007-03-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 07:17:59PM +, Thaddeus H. Black wrote: > >Please brag about RC bugs you have fixed since sarge's >release, excluding bugs in your own packages. Of >interest are both the quantity and intractability of the >bugs. If you have not fixed RC bugs but have made >another note

Re: To all candidates: distribution of your actions over the term

2007-03-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 12:59:23AM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: >Hi, > >We all know from experience (and this is not specific to Debian) that >the persons that get elected do not distribute their actions over the >term of office regularly. They are usually active just after they get >elected, then

Re: Question for Gustavo and Sam: bringing back the fun

2007-03-17 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 16 mars 2007 à 10:27 +, MJ Ray a écrit : > It's sort of disappointing how much less trouble I've had since adding such > disclaimers to the end of emails containing jokes. There seem to be far too > many starched attitudes around. Ah, thanks. I was looking for a translation of the

Re: Q 2 all candidates: Usage of [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2007-03-17 Thread MJ Ray
Anthony Towns > [...] there are plenty of journos interested in Debian who are > happy to talk to developers directly if they've got something newsworthy, > and we've all got the ability to start our own website or mailing list > with global reach -- the only thing we need to do is build a reputat

Re: Q 2 all candidates: Usage of [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2007-03-17 Thread Frank Küster
Anthony Towns wrote: > In general, if someone else is in charge of something -- like Joey > and press stuff -- and you don't want to work with them, I think > it's better to do things independently rather than fight over the > infrastructure. I think this attitude is exactly what causes the inf