Re: Thoughts/questions for any candidate

2015-03-31 Thread Gergely Nagy
> "Anthony" == Anthony Towns writes: Anthony> Number one is something like "where should the innovation come from?" GN> You may notice that unlike in previous years, I do not have a Grand GN> Vision, not in the same sense at least. MD> Of course, those are not trivial quest

Re: Q to all candidates: Debian in five years?

2015-03-31 Thread Gergely Nagy
> "Lucas" == Lucas Nussbaum writes: Lucas> In five years, what should Debian's position and role be in the Free Lucas> Software ecosystem? Lucas> Are there other positions where we somehow risk ending up? Lucas> What can we rely on to get to that ideal position/role? Lucas

Re: Q to all candidates: dropping SC §5

2015-03-27 Thread Gergely Nagy
> "Bas" == Bas Wijnen writes: Bas> Everyone seems to mention firmware; I don't hear anyone saying we really Bas> need to support games with non-free game data, or shareware programs. Bas> And I agree. Bas> So to the candidates: can you please let us know whether you would be

Re: More women in key positions ?

2015-03-27 Thread Gergely Nagy
> "Charles" == Charles Plessy writes: Charles> You probably noted that no woman was candidate this year, and that no woman was Charles> appointed to the technical committee in the recent replacements. Charles> Do you think that it is a problem that there are no women in key pos

Re: Q to all candidates: SWOT analysis

2015-03-27 Thread Gergely Nagy
> "Lucas" == Lucas Nussbaum writes: Lucas> Hi, Lucas> You are probably familiar with SWOT analysis Lucas> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis). I am not familiar with SWOT analysis, but read through the wiki quickly. Lucas> From your perspective, what are Debian's m

Re: Q to all candidates: the "DPL team"

2015-03-24 Thread Gergely Nagy
>>>>> "Anthony" == Anthony Towns writes: Anthony> On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 09:46:04AM +0100, Gergely Nagy wrote: >> The DPL already has the power to delegate tasks. I do not see how >> electing more than one person would help with sharing the

Re: Q to all DPL candidate: PPA

2015-03-24 Thread Gergely Nagy
> "Thomas" == Thomas Goirand writes: Thomas> On 03/15/2015 09:57 AM, martin f krafft wrote: >> Neil, >> >> in your platform, you advocate PPAs and modernising our build and >> infrastructure. >> >> What's the DPL's role in this? Or, put differently, couldn't you

Re: Q to all candidates: spending money

2015-03-16 Thread Gergely Nagy
> "Lucas" == Lucas Nussbaum writes: Lucas> In his platform, Neil wrote: >> I will spend some money we have horded. Debian currently holds >> approximately $200,000 at SPI alone. Our donators didn't give us money >> for it to be sat around in a bank account, we should spend it

Re: Q to all candidates: spending money

2015-03-16 Thread Gergely Nagy
> "Martin" == Martin Zobel-Helas writes: Martin> Will you revoke <20131008134615.ga19...@xanadu.blop.info> or do you Martin> think this authorization is useful? I have no plans of revoking that authorization. -- |8] signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Q to all candidates: spending money

2015-03-16 Thread Gergely Nagy
> "martin" == martin f krafft writes: martin> also sprach Lucas Nussbaum [2015-03-12 10:16 +0100]: >> All candidates: how will you reconcile that with the fact that the DPL >> currently only has a limited vision of what funds are available, and how >> they evolved over time?

Re: Q to all candidates: fundraising

2015-03-16 Thread Gergely Nagy
> "martin" == martin f krafft writes: martin> What is your perception of fundraising in and around Debian? I think fundraisers can be great, for specific non-recurring tasks, or as an additional source of funding for significantly larger ones, which would be very hard to fund otherwise.

Re: Q to all candidates: spending money

2015-03-16 Thread Gergely Nagy
> "Stefano" == Stefano Zacchiroli writes: Since Stefano asked the other candidates to answer too, my answers are below: Stefano> On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 06:44:45PM +, Neil McGovern wrote: >> * Outreach. Every team complains (quite rightly!) about the lack of >> people to do t

Re: Q to all candidates: dropping SC §5

2015-03-16 Thread Gergely Nagy
>>>>> "Stefano" == Stefano Zacchiroli writes: Stefano> On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 09:31:03AM +0100, Gergely Nagy wrote: >> So, the only way I could see the drop of SC §5 as a worthwhile goal, >> is if we also removed non-free (and possibly co

Re: Q to all candidates: DebConf orga

2015-03-16 Thread Gergely Nagy
> "martin" == martin f krafft writes: martin> Dear candidates, martin> What is your perception of DebConf and its organisation? martin> If any, what changes would you like to implement? Unfortunately, I have no insight into how the DebConf organisation works. My perception, from

Re: Q to all candidates: the "DPL team"

2015-03-16 Thread Gergely Nagy
> "martin" == martin f krafft writes: martin> Have you considered working with a "DPL team" and if so, why have martin> you decided against including such plans in your platform? Working with a DPL team has been at the back of my mind since zack's DPL helpers initiative. However, thi

Re: Q to all candidates: dropping SC §5

2015-03-16 Thread Gergely Nagy
> "Stefano" == Stefano Zacchiroli writes: Stefano> do you think the time is ripe for dropping section §5 of the Debian Stefano> Social Contract [1], namely "Works that do not meet our free software Stefano> standards" or should we wait more? [...] Stefano> - Dropping SC §5

Re: Debian Project Leader Elections 2015: Call for nominations

2015-03-09 Thread Gergely Nagy
I hereby nominate myself for the forthcoming DPL election. -- |8] signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: "done with consensus decisionmaking", "war", "rearguard battles" [was: Re: REISSUED CfV: General Resolution: Init system coupling]

2014-11-10 Thread Gergely Nagy
> "Aigars" == Aigars Mahinovs writes: Aigars> If you do not liek where Ian is coming from with his point of view - Aigars> do not argue with him. Argue with other people. Or, better yet, argue Aigars> with the facts. This sounds awfully similar to "Don't feed the trolls", and we

Re: "done with consensus decisionmaking", "war", "rearguard battles" [was: Re: REISSUED CfV: General Resolution: Init system coupling]

2014-11-09 Thread Gergely Nagy
> "Josh" == Josh Triplett writes: Josh> For the sake of clarity, I'd like to point out that I didn't start this Josh> thread solely because of a single IRC log, but rather because of a Josh> pattern of behavior over the last year that shows no signs of Josh> changing. Regard

Re: [Call for seconds] The “no GR, please“ amendement.

2014-10-20 Thread Gergely Nagy
Charles Plessy writes: > Here is the text: > > --- > > The Debian project asks its members to be considerate when proposing General > Resolutions, as the GR process may be disruptive regardless of the outcome of > the vote. >

Re: Alternative proposal: reaffirm maintainers technical competence over the software they maintain

2014-10-20 Thread Gergely Nagy
Luca Falavigna writes: > I would like to propose the following amendment proposal, > and I hereby call for seconds. > > ** Begin Alternative Proposal ** > > 0. Rationale > > Debian has decided (via the Technical Committee) to change its > default init system for the next release. The Techni

Re: [RFC] Alternative proposal: reaffirm upstream and maintainers technical competence over the software they maintain

2014-10-17 Thread Gergely Nagy
Luca Falavigna writes: > I'd like to draft an alternative proposal to the GR. > Would anybody consider it a nice addition to the proposals we > currently have, and eventually second it if I asked for it? I'd second this proposal. -- |8] pgpd8kf_TBaYa.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: How should we deal with bad maintainers?

2014-03-28 Thread Gergely Nagy
Raphael Hertzog writes: > assume that a package maintainer is active but is doing a bad job > regarding our standards (things like ignoring problems in stable, breaking > backwards compatibility for no good reason, not packaging new upstream > versions in unstable, etc) and is not really cooperat

Withdrawing my nomination

2014-03-12 Thread Gergely Nagy
Due to unexpected events, my plans and life got turned upside down (for the better) in the past few days, and because of that, I have to scale down a number of things. Unfortunately, running for DPL is one such thing. However unlikely my winning would be, it would be dishonest from me to continue r

Re: Debian Project Leader Elections 2014: Call for nominations

2014-03-03 Thread Gergely Nagy
I hereby nominate myself as a candidate for the 2014 DPL election. -- |8] pgpPLYFFD5GpK.pgp Description: PGP signature

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

2013-03-30 Thread Gergely Nagy
gregor herrmann writes: > On Mon, 25 Mar 2013 18:02:08 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > >> On 25/03/13 at 16:22 +, 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 >> > h

Re: [all candidates] What to do with debian-private ?

2013-03-30 Thread Gergely Nagy
Charles Plessy writes: > If this has not changed, is that something that the DPL candidates would > like to tackle ? (Bonus question to the DPL candidates: are you subscribed > to debian-private ?) Private is like it always was (I am subscribed, and have been for every day of my DDship). Fortun

Re: [to all candidates] Free Software challenges and Debian role

2013-03-29 Thread Gergely Nagy
Lucas Nussbaum writes: > (I still hadn't replied to that question -- I'll do that by following-up > on Moray's reply since I agree with most of it) ...and I'll take the easiest route, and follow up on Lucas' mail, since I mostly agree with both of them. Sorry! > On 12/03/13 at 17:11 +0300, Mora

Re: to DPL candidates: getting new people to Debian

2013-03-29 Thread Gergely Nagy
Gunnar Wolf writes: > Gergely Nagy dijo [Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 01:32:32PM +0100]: >> Debian is also not impressively different, so to say. We have a distinct >> culture, we have great technical solutions, but those are hardly enough >> to impress someone who just casually lo

Re: [all candidates] delegation

2013-03-29 Thread Gergely Nagy
Gunnar Wolf writes: > However, this topic does raise a question: Knowledge transfer. I might > be arguing on something marginally related to the vote at hand, but > anyway, when delegations shift (be it due to burnout, retirement, > rotation or whatever), we should make it as easy as possible to

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

Re: [all candidates] lack of women in Debian

2013-03-27 Thread Gergely Nagy
Mònica Ramírez Arceda writes: > I would like to know your opinion about this graph (thanks Francesca!): > http://blog.zouish.org/posts/dw/ > > Note that I'm not asking for a way to recruit women (there are already > efforts on that). I would like to know if you think that this lack of > women af

Re: [all candidates] on distribution-wide changes and scalability

2013-03-26 Thread Gergely Nagy
Stefano Zacchiroli writes: > Folklore goes that performing distribution-wide changes in Debian is > hard and time-consuming, due to a couple of reasons: (1) the time needed > to make a decision that affects the whole archive (this is related to > our flat structure, which has many benefits, but s

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

2013-03-26 Thread Gergely Nagy
Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer writes: > 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 > this is

Re: [all candidates] delegation

2013-03-26 Thread Gergely Nagy
Thomas Goirand writes: > 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 anything? I belie

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

2013-03-26 Thread Gergely Nagy
Steve McIntyre writes: > 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? I do not believe we're strict enough, not in general.

Re: [all candidates] Return to the desert island (cont.)

2013-03-25 Thread Gergely Nagy
Bart Martens writes: > On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 09:27:58AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >> You can use flashplugin-nonfree to download a piece of software that has >> a nonfree license, which is then installed on your system; the result is >> that you now have a system which has some non-DFSG-fre

Re: [all candidates] lack of women in Debian

2013-03-23 Thread Gergely Nagy
Lucas Nussbaum writes: > On 19/03/13 at 21:43 +0100, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: >> * Lucas Nussbaum [2013-03-19 07:44:32 CET]: >> > But it's also about how we see our project. I would like Debian to be >> > a very welcoming project, and I hate the fact that it's harder for some >> > groups to get inv

Re: [all candidates] discussions in -devel

2013-03-23 Thread Gergely Nagy
Serafeim Zanikolas writes: > In the words of Lars [*]: > > We're not very good at dealing with situations where a few individuals > are dominating the discussion by being loud, insistent, and unwilling to > budge > or to give any credence to opposing views. I don't know what to do ab

Re: [all candidates] Advertising testing and security support

2013-03-23 Thread Gergely Nagy
Jérémy Bobbio writes: > Dear candidates, do you think it would be wise to advertise `testing` as > a usable distribution to our users given that state of affairs? Given > that our security support for stable is already not as best as it could > be, do you think we should encourage volunteers to b

Re: [to all candidates] Accessible software in Debian

2013-03-20 Thread Gergely Nagy
Hi! Mario Lang writes: > I'd like to know your opinion on this. Are people with disabilities > something that we want to support, or is it just luck if "they" get a > working system. As a Free Software community, should we make sure that > the digital divide is not going to increase, or is acc

Re: To all candidates: which way out of the project ?

2013-03-20 Thread Gergely Nagy
Charles Plessy writes: > In Debian, we stay member until we die or quit (or very exceptionally, are > expelled). The consequence is that it is hard to evaluate how much active > members we have. It may also create more crispations about giving membership. > > We often discussed about how to bec

Re: [all candidates] how to choose Jessie init system

2013-03-19 Thread Gergely Nagy
Gergely Nagy writes: > Stefano Zacchiroli writes: > >> Some of the longest -devel thread in recent years have been about >> Debian's (default) init system: SysV, SystemD, Upstart, OpenRC, etc. >> Despite folklore, I don't think those thread have been (entirel

Re: Debian's relationship with money and the economy

2013-03-19 Thread Gergely Nagy
Hello, Raphael Hertzog writes: > The Debian ecosystem includes many economical actors, be it companies > or individuals, but we tend to hide those aspects as if they didn't > exist. Well, we have the debian-companies[1] list, we also have a partners page[2], and the debian-sponsors-discuss[3] l

Re: to DPL candidates: How do you plan to represent Debian externally?

2013-03-19 Thread Gergely Nagy
Paul Tagliamonte writes: > I'd ask the DPL candidates to speak a bit about how they intend to > represent Debian externally -- both in terms out downstream outreach, as > well as upstream (or even side-stream) relations. Like I expressed earlier, elsewhere, I believe that representing Debian is

Re: [all candidates] beyond tech: how do you deal with humans?

2013-03-19 Thread Gergely Nagy
anarcat writes: > You all have an impressive technical curriculum. Your deeds in Debian > speak for themselves. However, the role of a project leader is unusually > non-technical. In fact, you will have to abandon significant technical > tasks to tend to more "administrative" or "leadership" task

Re: [all candidates] how to choose Jessie init system

2013-03-19 Thread Gergely Nagy
Stefano Zacchiroli writes: > Some of the longest -devel thread in recent years have been about > Debian's (default) init system: SysV, SystemD, Upstart, OpenRC, etc. > Despite folklore, I don't think those thread have been (entirely) > trollish, they all hint at a concrete problem: (For the reco

Re: Your opinion on Debian Maintainer status

2013-03-18 Thread Gergely Nagy
Jonathan Nieder writes: > Gergely Nagy wrote: >> Wouter Verhelst writes: >>>> Arno Töll writes: > >>>>> In fact, even the wiki says "Becoming a Debian Developer: You should be >>>>> a Debian Maintainer for six months before applying t

Re: Your opinion on Debian Maintainer status

2013-03-17 Thread Gergely Nagy
Wouter Verhelst writes: > On 17-03-13 02:02, Gergely Nagy wrote: >> Arno Töll writes: >>> In fact, even the wiki says "Becoming a Debian Developer: You should be >>> a Debian Maintainer for six months before applying to the Debian New >>> Member Proce

Re: various ideas

2013-03-17 Thread Gergely Nagy
Paul Wise writes: > Would becoming DPL increase the chance that you would work on any of > these ideas? > > Would not becoming DPL increase the chance that you would work on any of > these ideas? Well, not becoming DPL means I'd have less time to spend on Debian things than if elected, so, techn

Re: not being elected?

2013-03-17 Thread Gergely Nagy
are not DPL specific tasks. If not elected, the time I can spend on these tasks will be much less, as I will not be able to use work time for it. But nevertheless, I'll do my best to further the goals I see as important. > Gergely Nagy, was not being elected in 2012 de-motivating? Nope,

Re: Your opinion on Debian Maintainer status

2013-03-16 Thread Gergely Nagy
Arno Töll writes: > On 17.03.2013 00:01, Gergely Nagy wrote: >> We have close to two hundred entries in the debian-maintainers-keyring, >> that's a respectable number, which reaffirms my recentish change of >> heart, that the DM status is a good thing, and while it does

Re: [all candidates] Debian as an FSF Free Software Distribution

2013-03-16 Thread Gergely Nagy
Paul Tagliamonte writes: > What work will you be doing to continue Zach's efforts to negotiate with > the FSF over Debian's status as a Free Software Distribution? I do not plan to be on the front line, but it is an important effort that must be continued. If elected, I'll make sure that the app

Re: Usage of Debian's Money

2013-03-16 Thread Gergely Nagy
Lucas Nussbaum writes: > On 13/03/13 at 00:57 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >> 3/ Buy advertising space on various media to recruit new contributors and >> lead them into our (improved) mentoring infrastructure. > > I think that we have other, better ways, to improve the project's > visibility th

Re: Usage of Debian's Money

2013-03-16 Thread Gergely Nagy
Raphael Hertzog writes: > Since both of you want examples of possible uses of money, here you have > some that I quickly came up with: > > 1/ Grant some amount of money to the release team to offer as bounties on > release blocker issues that are not going forward. While such one-off bounties wo

Re: Usage of Debian's Money

2013-03-16 Thread Gergely Nagy
Raphael Hertzog writes: > On Tue, 12 Mar 2013, Moray Allan wrote: >> If there was general support then we could look at organising a >> funded program, but I would need a lot of persuasion before wanting >> to get into the question of Debian picking specific individuals to >> pay for their work w

Re: to DPL candidates: getting new people to Debian

2013-03-16 Thread Gergely Nagy
Serafeim Zanikolas writes: > On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 11:21:05AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote [edited]: >> But asking students to contribute to Debian during university projects is >> quite >> difficult (I have thought about it numerous times, but never found a >> good-enough idea). it would be i

Re: to DPL candidates: getting new people to Debian

2013-03-16 Thread Gergely Nagy
Hi! Instead of answering Timo's question directly, I'll answer to Gunnar instead, in the hopes that I can answer both of them in a satisfactory manner. Gunnar Wolf writes: > Timo Juhani Lindfors dijo [Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 05:34:58PM +0200]: >> Hi, >> >> I'd like to have each DPL candidate brie

Re: All candidates: Development and technical issues and challenges

2013-03-16 Thread Gergely Nagy
Lars Wirzenius writes: > Gegerly, Moray, and Lucas: > > We're currently in the middle of a freeze for the next release. We've > been in this release since June 30. That's over eight months. That's a > long time, even for a project the size of Debian. Releasing when we're > ready is all well and g

Re: [all candidates] vote time?

2013-03-16 Thread Gergely Nagy
MJ Ray writes: > How much time do you think voters should spend reading these discussions? Enough time to make an informed decision - or throw a dice, whichever they prefer. Noone's required to read all (or any) of -vote@, it is entirely up to them how much time they want to spend on it. Myself

Re: Are there problematic infrastructure or processes in Debian?

2013-03-16 Thread Gergely Nagy
Raphael Hertzog writes: > Debian's infrastructure and processes have grown organically over the > years, with all the strengths and weaknesses that it implies. Sometimes > it's a good idea to step back and look whether some of those need > to be amended/replaced/dropped/etc. > > Based on your own

Re: [all candidates] DPL salary

2013-03-16 Thread Gergely Nagy
Stefano Zacchiroli writes: > Due to time and travel demands, there are blockers in being DPLs. Most > of them are work related. Within that category of blockers, some could > be solved by a salary but many (according to your judgement) could not. > If we agree on this, it means that we are losing

Re: [all candidates] DPL salary

2013-03-13 Thread Gergely Nagy
Stefano Zacchiroli writes: > On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 01:31:08PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> For example, I would question whether one could do the role of DPL with a >> conventional full-time job in IT, at least if you want to keep any other >> hobbies outside of those two jobs. The amount of

Re: All candidates - quotes for the press if you win

2013-03-13 Thread Gergely Nagy
Neil McGovern writes: > Could you provide a couple of sentences (no more) for the below? > > * How do you feel about having won the election? Sad, ready, happy and humbled. Sad, because only one of us could win. Happy, because of the trust the voters showed towards me, humbled for the same reaso

Re: [all candidates] DPL term duration

2013-03-13 Thread Gergely Nagy
Russ Allbery writes: > Moray Allan writes: > >> However, the DPL role for a single year is already a big commitment, >> taking a lot of energy and time (typically including a lot of the time >> that person previously spent in other areas of Debian). Already many >> people who would perform the

Re: [all candidates] DPL term duration

2013-03-13 Thread Gergely Nagy
Gunnar Wolf writes: > One of the difficulties I perceive we have seen over the years is the > time it takes to transfer the know-how and work rhythm from an > outgoing DPL to an incoming one. Several of our DPLs have repeated > their term. In the past, when I was a new DD, there was this strange

Re: [all candidates] Work balance and traveling

2013-03-13 Thread Gergely Nagy
Hi! Arno Töll writes: > Sorry to tell, but you're all compared to zack leaving back some by-now > established patterns as a DPL. So I wonder, will you step back from > maintainer/team activities during your term? Most likely, yes. While the packages I maintain are fairly quiet and take little t

Re: [to all candidates] about a DPL board

2013-03-12 Thread Gergely Nagy
...and I managed to sign it with the key I use for signing my repos, instead of the correct one. *sigh* Sorry about that. -- |8] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.

Re: [to all candidates] using debian funds for Debian's hardware infrastructure

2013-03-12 Thread Gergely Nagy
Martin Zobel-Helas writes: > in the past Debian had some generous donors, who donated a huge amounts > of high quality hardware on regual basis to the Debian project. For some > reasons (not to be discussed here) those sources dont exist any more. One idea - perhaps a naive one, as I do not know

Re: [to all candidates] about a DPL board

2013-03-12 Thread Gergely Nagy
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! Martin Zobel-Helas writes: > in the past i heared several ideas about a Debian Project Leader board > similar to the SPI board. > > So lets imagine the project would have to vote for several members of > this sort of board, with every member bei

Re: Why do you think you are a good candidate for DPL

2013-03-11 Thread Gergely Nagy
Martin Zobel-Helas writes: > Why do you think you are a good candidate for the next DPL term? That's a good question, one that I'm not sure I can provide a useful answer for. Not because I have doubts (I don't), but because why *I* think I am a good candidate has little relevance, and is fairly

Re: trying to do awesome and risking to fail

2013-03-11 Thread Gergely Nagy
Hi! Sune Vuorela writes: > So, over the last years I have seen a Debian where it among the people > is much more important to avoid to fail than trying to do awesome > stuff. While I subscribe to the 'avoid failure whenever you can' school of thought, I do not wish to hold on to that thought at

Re: Debian Project Leader Elections 2013: Call for nominations

2013-03-03 Thread Gergely Nagy
Debian Project Secretary - Kurt Roeckx writes: > Please make sure that nominations are sent to (or cc:'d to) > debian-vote, and are cryptographically signed. *clears throat* I hereby nominate myself as a prospective DPL. -- |8] pgpPpM0m_KBtU.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian's trademarks and logos, and their terms of use.

2012-03-31 Thread Gergely Nagy
Charles Plessy writes: > In contrast with what we require for the software we distribute, we are > forbidding to use some of our logos for profit. While there are some clear > differences between software and carriers of visual identity, I feel that > there > is a strong mismatch between what w

Re: Wouter and Gergely: software monopoly vs diversity

2012-03-31 Thread Gergely Nagy
"Eugene V. Lyubimkin" writes: > What is your vision about how many different software pieces can be > supported by Debian as a project for each part of the software stack, > would it be architectures, kernels, init systems, high-level package > managers, desktop environments or something else? I

Re: Raising money for Debian

2012-03-31 Thread Gergely Nagy
Raphael Hertzog writes: > there's a discussion going on on debian-project about entering an > agreement with DuckDuckGo to get some sort of affiliate commission from > the money that DuckDuckGo would earn from traffic tagged as coming > from Debian. > > 1/ To Wouter and Gergely: this discussion t

Re: About debian-companies

2012-03-31 Thread Gergely Nagy
Raphael Hertzog writes: > you might have read that Stefano is trying to organize > discussions/collaboration between companies that have a strategic interest > in Debian: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-companies/ > > Wouter and Gergely, what do you think of this project ? Would you continue > t

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: 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 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: how informed should a DPL be?

2012-03-13 Thread Gergely Nagy
Paul Wise writes: > Recent threads have made me concerned about how well informed some of > our current DPL nominees are about what is going on within Debian. FWIW, if I say something stupid, or misinformed, please publicly hit me with a cluebat. I'm very interested in my mistakes being pointed

Re: Gergely and Wouter: on the need of becoming a DPL

2012-03-13 Thread Gergely Nagy
Raphael Geissert writes: > Reading zack's platform, it makes me wonder why would you (Gergely and > Wouter) actually need to be elected as a DPL to do what you mention on your > platforms. Because while Zack's regin as DPL for the past two years have been very successful, and there would be a

Re: discouraging discussion styles - any cure?

2012-03-13 Thread Gergely Nagy
Hi! Gerfried Fuchs writes: > it happens every now and then, people assume bad faith in mails from > others and call their action silly and active tries to sabotage, and > there are also people who fight for their right to behave like assholes > and belittle scathingly against people that wish f

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

2012-03-13 Thread Gergely Nagy
Hi! Thomas Goirand writes: > If you see projects like Openstack or oVirt (sorry for the examples > taken from my area of expertise...), they have elections every 6 months > for project leaders in this or that area of the project. > > In Debian, we just elect a DPL, and then we hope that he appoi

Re: Gergely Nagy: enough packaging manpower?

2012-03-13 Thread Gergely Nagy
Ansgar Burchardt writes: > while reading algernon's platform I stumbled over the two sentences > "More packages, more packagers? A solved problem" and "Not raw, > packaging manpower - with hundreds of people, we have that covered". > How do you think about the current state of reviewing uploads

Re: Gergely Nagy: Disappearing?

2012-03-11 Thread Gergely Nagy
Kurt Roeckx writes: > As your platfrom indicates, you have disappeared from the Debian > project before. Some DPLs started with alot of energy, but somewhat > faded during their term and then disappeared. Do you think there > is a chance of this happening to you? No, there is no chance of that

Re: Debian Project Leader Elections 2012: Call for nominations

2012-03-05 Thread Gergely Nagy
Debian Project Secretary - Kurt Roeckx writes: [...] > Please make sure that nominations are sent to (or cc:'d to) > debian-vote, and are cryptographically signed. Lets make this more interesting than the past election has been! I hereby nominate myself as a prospective DPL. This time, there is

Re: Question for the Debate/Candidates

2005-03-13 Thread Gergely Nagy
> What Muppet character do you see yourself as, and why? This is a question Yamm wants to answer (even though I took steps to keep it away from this years election, it is still reading the lists while I don't watch), and it is torturing me so much, I have to allow this mail. Sorry about that. THA

Non-nomination

2005-02-15 Thread Gergely Nagy
ssed my wish to not run. So, once again, to make it clear: I, Gergely Nagy, in perfect mental health, express my own wish, which was not forced upon me, but is my own, that I do not want to participate in the Debian Project Leader elections in 2005. -- Gergely Nagy signature.asc Descrip

Re: A(nother) question to the candidates

2004-03-22 Thread Gergely Nagy
(Being a fun candidate has the advantage of being able to ignore any said and unsaid rules or agreements and whatnot, so I can answer every mail I want to >;) > I have seen lots of discussions about CDD and splitting up Debian > into a core and more-or-less independent topic specific sections rece

Re: A(nother) question to the candidates

2004-03-22 Thread Gergely Nagy
(Being a fun candidate has the advantage of being able to ignore any said and unsaid rules or agreements and whatnot, so I can answer every mail I want to >;) > I have seen lots of discussions about CDD and splitting up Debian > into a core and more-or-less independent topic specific sections rece

Re: Candidate questions/musings

2004-03-22 Thread Gergely Nagy
> Do you think it's possible for Debian to have a leader anymore? Yes, definitely. > Recent "leaders" have all been coordinator type people. And while > that's fine... they've all been nice, intelligent, thoughtful people > who are of course very dedicated to the project... none of them seems >

Re: Candidate questions/musings

2004-03-22 Thread Gergely Nagy
> Do you think it's possible for Debian to have a leader anymore? Yes, definitely. > Recent "leaders" have all been coordinator type people. And while > that's fine... they've all been nice, intelligent, thoughtful people > who are of course very dedicated to the project... none of them seems >

Re: Q: guidelines for post-campaign period?

2004-03-21 Thread Gergely Nagy
> How about you keep it to summaries of mailing list threads and IRC > conversations or similar? Ideally something self-centered, too, as a > summary of another candidate's position will likely result in the other > candidate feeling that they've been (deliberately?) misrepresented, > which would j

Re: Q: guidelines for post-campaign period?

2004-03-21 Thread Gergely Nagy
> How about you keep it to summaries of mailing list threads and IRC > conversations or similar? Ideally something self-centered, too, as a > summary of another candidate's position will likely result in the other > candidate feeling that they've been (deliberately?) misrepresented, > which would j

Re: still more questions for the candidates

2004-03-08 Thread Gergely Nagy
Hi! I resist to allow my tamagotchi to dress in Branden and Martin skins, and answer their questions too... I donot know how longer I can keep him from doing that, though... > I have a tamagotchi too! He's called Foo (I have a limited imagination) Why > is > your tamagotchi more suited to runni

Re: still more questions for the candidates

2004-03-08 Thread Gergely Nagy
Hi! I resist to allow my tamagotchi to dress in Branden and Martin skins, and answer their questions too... I donot know how longer I can keep him from doing that, though... > I have a tamagotchi too! He's called Foo (I have a limited imagination) Why is > your tamagotchi more suited to running

Re: tb's questions for the candidates

2004-03-04 Thread Gergely Nagy
> A. What do you think is the greatest challenge facing Debian in the > coming year? What would you do as Project Leader to try and meet this > challenge? We have quite a few challenges coming ahead. There is this SCO case: we shouldn't laugh too hard at them, because that makes us look bad. Th

Re: tb's questions for the candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Gergely Nagy
> A. What do you think is the greatest challenge facing Debian in the > coming year? What would you do as Project Leader to try and meet this > challenge? We have quite a few challenges coming ahead. There is this SCO case: we shouldn't laugh too hard at them, because that makes us look bad. Th

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Gergely Nagy
> > > As a female hacker/geek/DD I find myself more and more concerned about > > > the gender ratio in the Debian Developer/User comunity. How can we say > > > make a "Universal" OS when it's do scarcely related to half the > > > population of the world... I think we all agree we want to see more >

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