Re: Question for all candidates: Release process

2010-03-28 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org [100327 06:17]: I think that the ‘RPM hell’ that you used to comment my propositions is more related to a situation when independant distributions are using the same package format, than when a distribution offers multiple repositories that obey to a policy

Re: Question to all candidates: DPL's role in important package maintenance

2010-03-28 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 06:27:00PM -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote: First of all, I wish you all the very best for the elections! Hi Kumar, thanks a lot! This has led some parts of the community (Debian Python, in this case) to knock the doors of the tech-ctte[1] (recommended reading, unless you

Re: Question to all candidates: DPL's role in important package maintenance

2010-03-28 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 16:51, Stefano Zacchiroli z...@debian.org wrote: ... unfortunately some of the involved parties did not reply to the offer. Not some, just one: the Python maintainer. (as said in the bug log.) Regards, -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website:

Re: Question to all candidates: DPL's role in important package maintenance

2010-03-28 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Dear Zack, Thanks for the response. On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 04:51:52PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: My question to you is, do you envision a role for the DPL in fixing such inadequate maintenance of important packages, or are you of the opinion that is it up to the affected Debian

Re: Question to all candidates: DPL's role in important package maintenance

2010-03-28 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 09:59:08AM -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote: The method adopted for resolution of this conflict has, for better or for worse, happened behind-the-scenes. Now, some in the project feel that this is the best way to avoid a conflagration of sorts, but others feel that this back

Re: Questions for all candidates: decentralization of power

2010-03-28 Thread Clint Adams
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 01:51:45PM -0300, Margarita Manterola wrote: I'd very much like to know how _you_ think that it should be done, because even if I don't like the We have to like you in order for you to work with us clause, I don't think it would be productive if the DPL, or someone in a

Re: Question for all candidates: Release process

2010-03-28 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 01:15:47PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit : I don't understand what cloud computing has to do with your idea of using package priorities to release differently different sub-systems within Debian. I'm well aware that we are currently lagging behind in the race for

Re: Question for all candidates: Release process

2010-03-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org wrote: (And to answer to the comment ‘you do not need to be DPL for doing this’, that is true, but if I make a bad score at this election, I will conclude that there are not many persons interested in what I propose anyway,