Re: Standardization, large scale changes, innovations

2010-03-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, Mar 25 2010, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hello, > > those questions are for all candidates. By standardization I mean that > something should be used as default tool unless reasons exist to use > something else This is great!! perhaps we can get rid of the abomination that is vi an

Re: Questions for all candidates: decentralization of power

2010-03-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Clint Adams writes: > Well, in the paid employment part of my life, I have been put in > positions where I have needed to work with people I disliked, and it is > not considered professional to refuse on those grounds. In Debian I > receive bug reports from people I might dislike, but I treat th

Re: Questions for all candidates: decentralization of power

2010-03-29 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Clint Adams wrote: > Well, in the paid employment part of my life, I have been put in > positions where I have needed to work with people I disliked, and > it is not considered professional to refuse on those grounds. Indeed, I guess most of us have gone through

Re: planet.debian.org is RC buggy (?)

2010-03-29 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > planet.d.o has became one of the most visible media for Debian, if not > the most visible one. Do you think it is a good thing? As has been already said, I'm not sure it's the most visible media. If it is, it's probably because we are fail

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

2010-03-29 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Kumar Appaiah 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 "community" to stop > whining and step up with some act

Re: Question for all candidates: Release process

2010-03-29 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 11:03:00AM +0800, Paul Wise a écrit : > > I find that attitude problematic. When electing a DPL we get a package > deal. Some of each candidates ideas are liked by some/many, others > disliked by some/many. It would be a shame to throw out good ideas > with bad ones. Le Mo

Re: Question for all candidates: Release process

2010-03-29 Thread Joerg Jaspert
> (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, and will save > everybody's > time by not discussing them further in th