Re: Question to all candidates: financing of development

2010-03-14 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi Julien, On Sat, 13 Mar 2010, Julien Cristau wrote: Compare Random Joe Developer is soliciting funding for his debian work vs Debian is soliciting funding for Random Joe Developer's debian work. The former is fine IMO, has no risk of being seen as a Debian thing, and can be done without

Re: Question to all candidates: financing of development

2010-03-14 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 02:04:37PM +1100, Anthony Towns wrote: On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 05:01, Stefano Zacchiroli z...@debian.org wrote: Some DDs are able to pursue specific Debian projects due to bounties they put on the projects (both AJ and Raphael have similar initiatives on their

Re: Question to all candidates: financing of development

2010-03-14 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 09:39:27AM +1100, Anthony Towns wrote: But all that aside, GSoC still gets some flames on Debian lists; see the thread on -devel from about this time last year, eg: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/04/msg00424.html

Re: Question to all Candidates: Project Funds and donations

2010-03-14 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 12:02:59AM +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: a) What do you think are valid goals to spend this money on? I believe the driving principle should be to use money as much as possible to keep the project running at its best, while keeping an emergency reserve (e.g. to be sure

Re: Question to all Candidates: Project Funds and donations

2010-03-14 Thread Kalle Kivimaa
Stefano Zacchiroli z...@debian.org writes: or not. Note that achieving that is not necessarily easy: it probably involves more work on the shoulders of various treasurers and we should be ready to help out with that, if it is a blocker. It isn't that difficult, the only thing that needs to

Re: Question to all Candidate: In ten years...

2010-03-14 Thread Margarita Manterola
In Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 11:35 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs dmitrij.led...@gmail.com wrote: Please finish In ten years I'd like Debian In ten years I'd like Debian to still be thriving as the Universal OS. Things will obviously have changed. But, if we look back to 1993 when Debian started, a lot

Re: Question to all Candidates: Heated discussions

2010-03-14 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 11:40 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs dmitrij.led...@gmail.com wrote: Do you think current frequency/amount of heated discussions is acceptable for the Debian project? Even though the mailing lists climate is much better than what it was 5 years ago, I think that it still

Re: Question to all the candidates: communication

2010-03-14 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 12:17 AM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: Which project and external Debian-related communications media do you follow? and contribute to? As well as a general list I'm interested in specific lists (for eg #debian, #debian-devel, debian-de...@l.d.o,

Re: Question to all Candidates: Heated discussions

2010-03-14 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 02:40:32AM +, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: Do you think current frequency/amount of heated discussions is acceptable for the Debian project? What would you do to reduce those? Acceptable? No. Normal? To some extent, yes. Debian has a history of inflammable mailing

Re: Question to all candidates: communication with the project [ Was: communication ]

2010-03-14 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 11:16:41AM -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote: How, how often, and when do you intend to communicate with the project? In the past there have been Bits from the DPL emails which have been nice, but during the last couple of years there have also been some press

Re: Question to all the candidates: communication

2010-03-14 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
[ You've just won my prize for the most unexpected -vote question. ] On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 10:17:06AM +0700, Paul Wise wrote: Which project and external Debian-related communications media do you follow? and contribute to? As well as a general list I'm interested in specific lists (for eg

Re: Question to all Candidate: In ten years...

2010-03-14 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 02:35:28AM +, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: Please finish In ten years I'd like Debian I'd like Debian to be *THE* renowned distribution in terms of: - freeness (a distro which is free the bottom up, not only in the software it ships, but also in the infrastructure

Re: Question to all Candidates: Project Funds and donations

2010-03-14 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 01:59:18PM +, Kalle Kivimaa wrote: It isn't that difficult, the only thing that needs to happen is for the Debian Auditor to do his/her job regularily. Of course, if we want eg. quarterly reports, then it might add additional burden on the various treasureres of the

Re: Question to all Candidate: In ten years...

2010-03-14 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 02:35:28AM +, Dmitrijs Ledkovs a écrit : Hello =) Please finish In ten years I'd like Debian Dear Dmitrijs, In ten years I'd like Debian to be mainstream. Our biggest competitor is not the proprietary operating systems anymore, it is all the closed-source

Re: Question to all the candidates: communication

2010-03-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 11:27 PM, Margarita Manterola margamanter...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 12:17 AM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: Please breifly comment on how you see Debian's relationship with some of these media. I'm not sure of what's being asked here. Which of the

Re: Question to all the candidates: communication

2010-03-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 4:56 AM, Stefano Zacchiroli z...@debian.org wrote: [ You've just won my prize for the most unexpected -vote question. ] Thanks, I think :) On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 10:17:06AM +0700, Paul Wise wrote: Please breifly comment on how you see Debian's relationship with some

Re: Question to all Candidates: Project Funds and donations

2010-03-14 Thread Kalle Kivimaa
Stefano Zacchiroli z...@debian.org writes: As I wrote before, one thing is a desiderata, one thing is what you can get given the available work forces. Given that you've just stepped back from the position (which, honestly, I forgot we had), the first obvious step is now finding a new