Re: Bikeshedding

2019-04-06 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Stefano Zacchiroli [2019-03-31 09:39]: > Statement: every Debian package must be maintained in Git on salsa and > every Debian Developer with upload rights to the archive should have > commit/push right to every packaging repository on salsa. > > DPL candidates: do you agree with this statement

Re: Q to all candidates: what is the long-term role of traditional Linux distributions?

2019-04-06 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Matthew Garrett [2019-04-02 23:22]: > But upstream development is increasingly diverging from our approach. ... You do a great job of explaining how upstream and the world around us has changed in many ways. While I'm not sure that all changes have been for the best, it's important to recogniz

Re: Q to all candidates: what is the long-term role of traditional Linux distributions?

2019-04-06 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Jose Miguel Parrella [2019-04-02 19:24]: > How do you think motivations and incentives have changed, are > changing or will change for contributors to Debian in a world where > distros no longer mean what they used to? If we can answer questions like those Matthew raised and figure out what the

Re: Bikeshedding

2019-04-06 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Martin Michlmayr [2019-04-06 15:14]: > So I think there's a lot of value in uniformity and I would agree that > Debian has chosen salsa and that packaging should be done there. We > can also investigate mechanism to make salsa more attractive, e.g. > automatic CI of packaging. I forgot to say

Re: Q: top three things you would like to change if that was easy?

2019-04-06 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Lucas Nussbaum [2019-04-01 18:42]: > So, what are the important things that you will fix or create within > Debian with those three magic cards? Why? How? 1) I would have a 6 month release cycle. There's a lot of value in getting releases out regularly and I think a lot of problems in Debian s

Thanks for the questions, any more before voting starts?

2019-04-06 Thread Jonathan Carter
Dear debian-vote Thank you to everyone who has contributed questions over the last few weeks. They have certainly provided me with a lot of food for thought and will play a role in the directions I follow within Debian regardless of the outcome of this election. If there's any particular stance o

Draft ballot

2019-04-06 Thread Kurt Roeckx
This is the draft ballot. Voting period starts 2019-04-07 00:00:00 UTC Votes must be received by 2019-04-20 23:59:59 UTC This vote is being conducted as required by the Debian Constitution. You may see the constitution at https://www.debian.org/devel/constitution. For voting quest

Closing Statement

2019-04-06 Thread Sam Hartman
The last two weeks have been exhilarating. I've had the privilege to participate in a discussion with you all (candidates and voters alike) about the future of Debian and where we'd like to take the project. I'm pleased to see that Debian is the vibrant, live community I've known it to be. For

End of campaigning

2019-04-06 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Hi three weeks of campaining, nearly over. Soon we have two weeks of voting. It was a nice time with a managable amount of mails. And one that certainly gave me new ideas and also incentive to get some of my thoughts around Debian clearer and more focused. Should I win, the extra time I gain fro

Thank you to all of the candidates

2019-04-06 Thread Russ Allbery
It was a little worrying that we passed the first nomination period without anyone volunteering to run for Debian Project Leader, so it has been both relieving and quite exhilarating that such a strong set of candidates came forward and we've had such an excellent discussion here. I think this is

Debian Project Leader election 2019: First call for votes

2019-04-06 Thread Debian Project Secretary - Kurt Roeckx
Hi, This is the first call for votes on the DPL election of 2019. Voting period starts 2019-04-07 00:00:00 UTC Votes must be received by 2019-04-20 23:59:59 UTC This vote is being conducted as required by the Debian Constitution. You may see the constitution at https://www.debian.