Re: Gergely and Wouter: the level of independence from other distributions?

2012-03-17 Thread Gergely Nagy
Hi! "Eugene V. Lyubimkin" writes: > Do you think Debian project has enough manpower to differ (if needed) > with other major derivatives and major non-derivatives in the important > non-Debian-specific software choices? Probably, yes. But being different just for the sake of it is not something

Re: Finding sponsors for Debian

2012-03-17 Thread Gergely Nagy
Since my thoughts have been pretty much summed up far better than I could, I'd like to refer to Stefano's answers, as - apart from the experience bits, as I obviously have no DPL experience - are very much like my own would have been. Stefano Zacchiroli writes: > On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 03:16:42

Re: Gergely Nagy: how will you "search for talent and passion"

2012-03-17 Thread Gergely Nagy
Thomas Goirand writes: > "search[ing] for talent and passion" is a great goal, but just writing > "The key to my goal is communication" isn't enough for me. So, how will > you do? I have a couple of ideas, including - but not limited to: * As mentioned in a different thread, I'd love to get a

Re: Wouter and Gergely: software monopoly vs diversity

2012-03-17 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 09:01:55AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > In some cases, of course, that isn't the case, and then things get > > somewhat more complex. A good example on that is the systemd discussion > > on -devel currently: making

Re: Wouter and Gergely: software monopoly vs diversity

2012-03-17 Thread Luk Claes
On 03/17/2012 06:46 PM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 09:01:55AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >> >>> In some cases, of course, that isn't the case, and then things get >>> somewhat more complex. A good example on that is the s

Re: More votes in Debian? Any idea for improvement?

2012-03-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Stefano Zacchiroli writes: > On the paper of the Constitution, the Technical Committee is already all > we need to "cover up" for cases where decision by consensus does not > work (I'm specifically thinking at §6.1.1 "Deciding on any matter of > technical policy" and §6.1.3 "Make a decision when