Re: Q to Mehdi: safe and fun

2017-03-30 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
Martin, On 29/03/2017 07:58, Martín Ferrari wrote: > Mehdi, > > In your platform you list "Ensuring the community remains safe and fun" > as your first priority for the next term. > > I need to ask why you think in this term you will manage to do so, when > I believe you failed to do so in the l

Re: Q to the candidates: GPLv2 system library exception

2017-03-30 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
On 30/03/2017 16:14, Ian Jackson wrote: > Mehdi Dogguy writes ("Re: Q to the candidates: GPLv2 system library > exception"): >> On 29/03/2017 20:38, Florian Weimer wrote: >>> Do you think this situation needs addressing? What do you propose do >>> about it? Do you think the way the ZFS situation

Re: Q to both: facilitating meetups

2017-03-30 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
On 30/03/2017 05:32, Scott Kitterman wrote: > In your platform from last year [1], you discussed this Roadmap (I > mistakenly recalled roadmaps, but you described it singularly). > > How is the Roadmap going? Is it defined? Where can I read about what's > been accomplished? Is helping Debian an

Re: Questions for DPL candidates: Support channels

2017-03-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 11:54 PM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > Do you think a HW Certification Process should be available for Debian ? I note that some hardware vendors are asking for one, one example here: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/7cbc77de593a114587c3d1a3c385eaafb54...@mailbx03.quan

Re: Q to both candidates: preventing burnout by other contributors

2017-03-30 Thread Antoine Beaupre
On 2017-03-30 15:39:00, Chris Lamb wrote: > It seems to be an incredibly difficult skill to master and I cannot claim > to have substantial prior experience. Perhaps it wasn't Zack-as-DPL that > helped move those particular conversations along but rather Zack's mediation > skills…? What do you thin

Re: Questions for DPL candidates: Support channels

2017-03-30 Thread Chris Lamb
Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > Do you think a HW Certification Process should be available for Debian ? […] > Should we have a Certification Test Suite As Project Leader I would not stand in the way of anyone wishing to work on this and can certainly see value to Debian if they existed. However, at t

Re: Questions for DPL candidates: Support channels

2017-03-30 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
hello Chris, Thank you for your response. Please see below some follow-ups. On Thu, 2017-03-30 at 15:56 +0100, Chris Lamb wrote: > Hello Ritesh, > > > Debian as a project is different than others. Most other similar projects, > > have > > a commercial backing and interest. This puts the onus on

Re: Questions for DPL candidates: Support channels

2017-03-30 Thread Chris Lamb
Hello Ritesh, > Debian as a project is different than others. Most other similar projects, > have > a commercial backing and interest. This puts the onus on them (other Linux > distributions) to ensure their support infrastructure is simple, intuitive and > supportable. You raise some interestin

Re: Q to both candidates: preventing burnout by other contributors

2017-03-30 Thread Chris Lamb
Hey Antoine, > One thing I remember seeing Zack do fairly often in his time as a DPL > was to intervene in certain threads to provide a summary and try to find > a way out of difficult situations. I've seen a number of DDs attempt this route. Some succeed but unfortunately many fail or at least d

Re: Q to the candidates: GPLv2 system library exception

2017-03-30 Thread Ian Jackson
Mehdi Dogguy writes ("Re: Q to the candidates: GPLv2 system library exception"): > On 29/03/2017 20:38, Florian Weimer wrote: > > Do you think this situation needs addressing? What do you propose do > > about it? Do you think the way the ZFS situation was resolved could > > be an example? > > I

Re: Q to both candidates: preventing burnout by other contributors

2017-03-30 Thread Ian Jackson
Enrico Zini writes ("Re: Q to both candidates: preventing burnout by other contributors"): > On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 07:19:31PM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote: > > However, I still think that by continually and reliably calling it out > > in general, even in cases where it is unlikely to worsen, means th

Re: Q to both candidates: preventing burnout by other contributors

2017-03-30 Thread Antoine Beaupre
Hi Chris, Thank you for adressing those difficult questions, and thanks for everyone who stepped up to bring them forward. This is probably one of the most important discussions right now in the free software world (if not in STEM overall)... On 2017-03-29 19:19:31, Chris Lamb wrote: >> 2. Do you

Questions for DPL candidates: Support channels

2017-03-30 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Hello DPL Candidates, Thank you for standing for the DPL position. Debian as a project is different than others. Most other similar projects, have a commercial backing and interest. This puts the onus on them (other Linux distributions) to ensure their support infrastructure is simple, intuitive

Re: Q to both candidates: preventing burnout by other contributors

2017-03-30 Thread Ian Jackson
Russ Allbery writes ("Re: Q to both candidates: preventing burnout by other contributors"): > [analysis of structural problem with toxic behaviours] I agree entirely with your analysis. > In Debian, we have very few tools short of outright explusion from the > project, which obviously everyone i