Re: [all candidates] delegation

2013-03-28 Thread Moray Allan
I thought I'd answered everything again, but then I made the mistake of mentioning Charles's post to Gunnar Which reminds me: please tell me if I've missed a question on this list during the campaign period that you were hoping for me to answer. On 2013-03-28 22:36, Gunnar Wolf wrote: How

Re: [all candidates] delegation

2013-03-28 Thread Moray Allan
On 2013-03-28 21:54, Charles Plessy wrote: what you wrote here presents the end of a delegation as a final point. However, I was very interested by your use of "rotation", which I was understanding as a faster turnover where the responsibility of the delegation is passed through developers acco

Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?

2013-03-28 Thread Moray Allan
On 2013-03-26 14:58, gregor herrmann wrote: Thanks for this question, which I would like to extend a bit. Im my understanding you are pointing to unconstructive behaviour related to technical work. What we also see (and discuss) every now and then is behaviour that is socially questionable or cle

Re: [all candidates] delegation

2013-03-28 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Charles Plessy dijo [Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 12:54:24PM +0900]: > Hi Moray, > > what you wrote here presents the end of a delegation as a final point. > However, I was very interested by your use of "rotation", which I was > understanding as a faster turnover where the responsibility of the delegatio

Re: [all candidates] delegation

2013-03-28 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 08:46:28PM -0600, Moray Allan a écrit : > > Stepping down should be seen as a sign of accomplishment. It should > not be seen as losing the ability to provide advice. It should be > seen as an opportunity for someone to use their skills in other > aspects of the project,

Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?

2013-03-28 Thread Moray Allan
On 2013-03-25 10:22, Steve McIntyre wrote: Are we strict enough with our existing contributors? When we're trying to work together as best we can to make the Universal Operating System happen, what could/should we do with contributors who hinder our work? Sometimes that hindrance is inadverten

Re: [all candidates] delegation

2013-03-28 Thread Moray Allan
On 2013-03-25 10:24, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: In his platform, Moray writes: | I would also like us to take a more pre-emptive approach to such issues | by encouraging more turnover of members between different teams I think that most teams require quite specific skills, and most team members lik

Re: [all candidates] delegation

2013-03-28 Thread Moray Allan
On 2013-03-25 09:55, Thomas Goirand wrote: One of the key role of the DPL is to delegate. What are your intention in this regard? Do you think that the current teams and roles are well filled? Or would you like to change some of the people currently holding a position? Why (not) changing anyth

Re: Debian for third party (read: propietary) apps/vendors

2013-03-28 Thread Moray Allan
On 2013-03-24 12:47, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: There are third party vendors (read: propietary) that support the installation of their software in Debian, but mostly because selfish reasons: they need to be present everywhere for their business model to work. A clear example of

Re: [all candidates] Advertising testing and security support

2013-03-28 Thread Moray Allan
On 2013-03-19 16:52, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: Even if a dedicated team is supposed to care about security in testing [1], the dedicated mailing-list [2] has not seen an announcement since February 2011. Debian Security Advisories don't only comment on the stable for stable -- looking through rec

Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?

2013-03-28 Thread Chris Knadle
On Tuesday, March 25, 2013 16:22:23, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Hi guys, > > First of all, thanks to all three of you standing in the DPL election > this year. I know it's a daunting task! :-) > > I've already seen some debate about how we could/should attract more > contributors, which is a perennial

Re: [all candidates] delegation

2013-03-28 Thread Gergely Nagy
Thomas Goirand writes: > On 03/26/2013 09:28 PM, Gergely Nagy wrote: >> I see >> Zack's DPL helpers initiative as a step in this direction, and I'd like >> to take it a little further. > > How? Make it formal? Have new "official" positions? Or just push more > people to help and that's it (which