Re: Questions for all candidates: decentralization of power

2010-03-20 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 05:59:35PM +0100, Jan Hauke Rahm a écrit : > > I'm not sure I understand you correctly here. Are you saying that you will > -- if elected DPL -- suggest the current members of the technical comittee > to step back just for the sake of having new people in their seats? Le S

Re: Q for all candidates: license and copyright requirements

2010-03-20 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 07:45:30PM +0100, Bernd Zeimetz a écrit : > Hi all, > > with <20100124144741.gd13...@kunpuu.plessy.org> Charles Plessy came up with a > draft GR "Simplification of license and copyright requirements for the Debian > packages.". > > I'd like to know from Charles Plessy if t

Re: Questions for all candidates: decentralization of power

2010-03-20 Thread Frans Pop
Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > [ Disclaimer: I don't know the technical setup of www.d.o, so I don't > know if there is a different between commit time and publish time. > Until I fix this ignorance of mine, that would surely block me from > committing, for instance :-) ] No, there is not. The websit

Re: Questions for all candidates: decentralization of power

2010-03-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Charles Plessy writes: > Lastly, I think that we need some referees for our technical > disagreements, and the technical comittee fits well that role. If I am > elected DPL, I will ping its members and ask them if they would like to > leave their seat to fresh persons. I'm a little bit confused

Q for all candidates: license and copyright requirements

2010-03-20 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Hi all, with <20100124144741.gd13...@kunpuu.plessy.org> Charles Plessy came up with a draft GR "Simplification of license and copyright requirements for the Debian packages.". I'd like to know from Charles Plessy if the draft from January still reflect his current opinion or if his mind changed.

Re: Questions for all candidates: decentralization of power

2010-03-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 06:44:23PM +, Clint Adams wrote: > I had meant to send three sets of questions on Thursday morning, but > things kept coming up, so I will send an unfinished one now. Well, thanks anyhow, this is a heck of a question! I start answering by exposing what I think should b

Re: Questions for all candidates: decentralization of power

2010-03-20 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
Hi Charles, Am Sa, 20.03.2010, 16:46, schrieb Charles Plessy: > Lastly, I think that we need some referees for our technical > disagreements, and the technical comittee fits well that role. If I am > elected DPL, I will ping its members and ask them if they would like to > leave their seat to fres

Re: Questions for all candidates: decentralization of power

2010-03-20 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 06:44:23PM +, Clint Adams a écrit : > I had meant to send three sets of questions on Thursday morning, > but things kept coming up, so I will send an unfinished one now. > > 1) 114 people have commit access to webwml. > 2) wanna-build access is restricted > 3) An ftpmas

Re: Questions for all candidates: decentralization of power

2010-03-20 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 20 March 2010, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > It is of course reasonable to require that people familiarize themselves > with how things are set up before being given access. But beyond that, > if they are Debian Developers, getting access to the webwml repository > is a no-brainer, AIUI. > >

Re: Questions for all candidates: decentralization of power

2010-03-20 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 11:29:30PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > Wouter Verhelst wrote: > >> 1) 114 people have commit access to webwml. Given that version > >> control makes it easy to undo changes, minimizing risk and > >> impact, are there any legitimate reasons why this repository > >> should be r