* Peter Samuelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [070512 09:44]:
[Syd Alsobrook]
I have been a Sys Admin for just about ten years now.
[...]
Let me see if I can summarize your post.
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Did I get that about right?
I remember a time when Debian was like a family, maybe it is
* Wouter Verhelst ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [070316 14:35]:
How would other candidates avoid dropping topics like this?
The only way you can do that is by actively asking people to produce a
report when they said they'd do so.
that sounds to me like you wanted to continue with but you cant
do
* Julien BLACHE ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [070304 13:17]:
Or just some people lacking a sense of humor.
It's so easy to dismiss anything you don't like as being either
trolling or a cheap ad hominem attack instead of, you know, just
thinking about it for a minute, asking yourself if, by any
* Julien BLACHE ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [070303 22:21]:
Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If someone is connected with a trolling organization, or being convicted
for e.g. falsification of a balance sheet, this is something I want to
know pre-voting.
Are you seriously comparing being
* Debian Project Secretary ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061013 23:33]:
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[ 1 ] Choice 1: Release Etch even with kernel firmware issues
[ 2 ] Choice 2: Special exception to DFSG2 for firmware
* Neil McGovern [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-03-11 13:20:19]:
If you were elected tomorrow as DPL, and could only pick one thing about
Debian to change, what would it be?
It is really nice to think of a DPL performing miracles. If I
could perform a Debian-miracle I would
make Debian predictable,
* Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-03-18 22:29:34]:
Andreas Schuldei [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It is really nice to think of a DPL performing miracles. If I
could perform a Debian-miracle I would
make Debian predictable, purpose driven and a fun and rewarding
context to work
* James Troup [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-03-11 14:02:49]:
Andreas Schuldei [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Part of the effords to determine what option there were I asked
Anthony Towns if he could take the lead in the ftp-master team.
What you in fact said, amongst other things
Hi,
* Florian Weimer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060311 20:48]:
As you might have noted, the Constitution does not spell out the
process how a new delegation is made. Would you please summarize the
process you intend to follow if you are elected? Thanks.
Well, there are two parts of the answer.
* Adrian von Bidder [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-03-11 22:06:31]:
Again: sorry if I didn't see it on your platforms
Are there possible conflicts of interests between Debian and your real
life ($WORKPLACE, whatever)?
My wife thinks I work too much and my three year old son would
like to play
* Ted Walther [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-03-10 12:39:51]:
Andreas, as the man in charge of organizing Debconf6, I want to know,
will you continue last years policy of allowing attendees to vote for
which talks and presentations should go in the main track?
Participants never voted on what would
* Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-03-10 13:41:29]:
The GR was intendet to clarify that point.
However, in a small oppinion poll I found that this apparently
was already clear to everyone in the project. A GR would not have
added much value but instead created unnecessary unrest and
* Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-03-10 15:58:15]:
Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* Matthew Garrett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060310 16:25]:
No. I reiterate things where Andreas has given misleading answers to
direct questions (he repeatedly denies wanting to replace people,
* Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-03-10 22:27:51]:
(How many of last year's DPL team are willing to serve again with you as
DPL?)
I dont know, really. All that I asked would like to be on my DPL
team next term. Those were Steve and Enrico.
I did not ask Joeren for obvious reasons.
* Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-03-10 23:23:52]:
Andreas Schuldei [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I did not ask Joeren for obvious reasons.
What were those obvious reasons? You and Branden stood against each
other despite agreeing to be on each other's team, so I'm curious
* Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-03-07 20:09:11]:
When important teams seem to be disfunctional or have a hard time to
find a structure that scales into the future I would however use my
powers of delegation to restructure the team from the outside. I would
only do that after I
* Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-03-07 12:34:05]:
[In short, if this is such a problem, what have you all been doing in
your personal capacity as developers to deal with it?]
I was not involved in the NM process actively, just talked to the
respective people to find out what would be
I am happy to announce that both Margarita Manterola
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] would
be willing to work on my DPL Team, should I get elected.
Margarita would be our community contact person.
Thank you very much, Margarita and Raphael, for your commitment
to Debian!
* Bdale Garbee [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-03-07 11:18:31]:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt) writes:
What would you do to make regular point releases possible?
An even more interesting question for all of the candidates is what do you
think should be included in point releases?
* Steve McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-03-06 01:39:52]:
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 11:30:26PM +, Sune Vuorela wrote:
Hi!
Hi Sune!
Just a small question:
Do all of you have many spare hours in your current schedules? Or what
part of your debian work would get lower priorities if you
* Margarita Manterola [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-03-03 10:05:31]:
It is well known that you are the Debconf magician, and that without
your work, Debconfs would either not happen or be a complete fiasco
compared to the Debconfs we are used to by now.
gee, thanks. (c:
So, if you are elected as
* Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-03-04 13:06:37]:
Though there are often threads about problems with it on our mailing
lists, the NM process hasn't changed much in the last three or four
years. What do you think about the most common problems (takes too
long, is asking for too
* Mike Hommey [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-03-02 14:49:37]:
If you had to summarize your platform with 3 keywords, what would they be ?
- purpose-driven
- predictable
- warm and welcoming
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* Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-03-04 14:13:42]:
So, my question: please name any behaviour or act you've observed with
previous DPLs (naming the name of the respective DPL is not required)
that you think was a mistake, and which you will try not to make during
your term?
I will
* Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-03-04 13:02:20]:
Though Martin 'Joey' Schulze as stable release manager presents lists of
packages that are accepted into the next stable point release on a
regular basis, they normally are not released roughly two months after
the last update
* David N. Welton [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-03-05 20:41:55]:
The reason Debian can't compete with Ubuntu for the Desktop/new to Linux
users is that Ubuntu makes choices where Debian won't or can't. They
give you a default system that works well because they picked certain
things instead of
* Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-03-05 06:32:13]:
1. After the utter failure of the DPL team conducted by Branden
Robinson to provide leadership, what makes you think the team
you are proposing would do better?
I would try to avoid some flaws in last year's
* Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-02-27 12:18:55]:
Two years ago, Branden Robinson talked about the issue of some tasks in
the project that are neither delegated by the Project leader nor covered
by the Constitution directly. [1] He referenced his platform from 2004
last year
I had a nice skiing vacation with my family and am happy to let
you know that my platform is by now up at
http://people.debian.org/~andreas
as I was asked about it by several DDs.
I also sent in the platform to the project's secretary and expect
that it will be put online as soon as he gets the
* Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-02-24 13:52:11]:
* martin f krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060223 16:41]:
also sprach Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.02.23.1627 +0100]:
Last year, Anthony Towns beat you quite convincingly. He's been
doing a great deal of visible work
With this mail I nominate myself as a candidate for the office of
Debian Project Leader for the term of 2006-07.
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* martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-02-23 16:40:48]:
also sprach Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.02.23.1627 +0100]:
Last year, Anthony Towns beat you quite convincingly. He's been
doing a great deal of visible work recently, whereas most of what
you've been doing hasn't been
* Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-01-25 09:54:40]:
Anton Zinoviev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 04:55:19PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
It is not difficult to print two sheets - the invariant sections go on
the second sheet and FSF wins more popularity. :-)
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 10:59:13AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
I see many of good ideas for ways to improve the project in several of
your platforms. If you are not elected DPL, which of those ideas do you
still expect to be able to work on? How will you be able to do it
without the power of being
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 03:53:55PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
Did you sign on the assumption it has been reviewed by the security team,
or did you know they had not been consulted ? Did you make some
investigations ?
Joey was invited to the meeting but could not make it. He was on
the list
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 09:16:51AM +, Javier Candeira wrote:
What are the candidates' plans for formulating a clear policy for access to
DD status (with the all-important right to vote in Debian elections) for
other type of contributors (translators, UI/artist types, and even -gasp-
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 11:08:21PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
Bug #112699 illustrates a typical communication problem in debian. Since it
is a social problem and not technical, I think this is an issue that should be
addressed by the DPL (not tech ctte, whatsoever).
I disagree. The DPL is
On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 04:24:39AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
Do we need a procedure to deal with cases like this? Should
the QA team simply go ahead and devise one, as it did with the
MIA problem?
I consulted Jeroen van Wolffelaar about how this works, currently. He
is the person
On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 04:27:47AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
1) Describe the nature of your current Debian commitments and how well
you think you are currently fulfilling them. For packages you
maintain, just a brief statement for each of whether you have been
able to keep up
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 11:12:50AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
Let's be real: Why would anyone, just because he is happy in his
team, start fighting with people on other teams out of the blue?
To make my question more precise:
Why would anyone, just because he is happy in his team, start
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 12:13:27PM +, Henning Makholm wrote:
You are invited to clarify on the small teams section of your
platform. At first I thought it was just saying that infrastructural
work for the project should be done in teams rather than by single
delegates, but a closer reasing
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 04:50:43PM +0100, Andreas Schuldei wrote:
Let me give an example: Right now we have n maintainers having mp3
players in the archive. They decide to form a group to improve the
mp3-player situation in Debian.
Hint: i dont use mp3 players.
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On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 05:48:20PM +0900, Kenshi Muto wrote:
Hi,
As far as I read threads, they are mainly focused Project inside.
Yes, they are important issue, but I think one of DPL's work is
a representation to the world as spokesperson.
This is true and it is an other great application
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 06:33:12PM +0100, David Schmitt wrote:
Sounds reasonable. I put it up on my webpage (since I am no DD):
http://debian.edv-bus.at/vote-2005/
I've tried my best to avoid any bias and mostly only pasted relevant
paragraphs. There should be links to the original mails
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[ 2 ] Choice 1: Postpone changes until September 2004 [needs 3:1]
[ 1 ] Choice 2: Postpone changes until Sarge releases [needs 3:1]
[ 3 ] Choice 3: Add apology to Social Contract [needs 3:1]
[ 7 ] Choice 4:
the number and their power
[ ] Debian distributes too many packages; we should narrow our
focus.
[ ] Branden Robinson is a non-free flame burning bigot.
[ x ] Branden Robinson is prejudiced against the French.
[ x ] Branden Robinson is prejudiced against Andreas
the number and their power
[ ] Debian distributes too many packages; we should narrow our
focus.
[ ] Branden Robinson is a non-free flame burning bigot.
[ x ] Branden Robinson is prejudiced against the French.
[ x ] Branden Robinson is prejudiced against Andreas
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