Re: Question for all candidates: inter-dependancy of works the growing Debian project.

2008-03-16 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Charles Plessy wrote: > I started to wonder about modularity in the use of the Debian > infrastructure in 2006, because of a problem with the clustalw package. > As you can see on the graph, its popcon score started to decrease around > july. > (http://people.debian.org/~igloo/popcon-graphs/index.

Re: Question for all candidates: inter-dependancy of works the growing Debian project.

2008-03-13 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Charles Plessy wrote: > (And since this thread is supposed to be questions for the DPL > candidates, I will add one: some time ago, a DD was sending emails on > -devel whenever the discussion was offtopic, to ask for it to be > transferred or stopped: what do you think of this

Re: Question for all candidates: inter-dependancy of works the growing Debian project.

2008-03-12 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 10:07:30AM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : > Le Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 09:50:27AM +0900, Paul Wise a écrit : > > On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 12:46 AM, Charles Plessy > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > (building non-free on official autobuilders is not allowed). > > > > Un

Re: Question for all candidates: inter-dependancy of works the growing Debian project.

2008-03-12 Thread Cyril Brulebois
On 13/03/2008, Paul Wise wrote: > Untrue, you just need to get your package whitelisted since non-free > packages may not be legal to autobuild. You need to contact aba IIRC. > Not sure why you don't know about this, nor where the best place to > store this information is, perhaps the NM templates

Re: Question for all candidates: inter-dependancy of works the growing Debian project.

2008-03-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 01:20:35PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: >Hi, Hi Charles, >Although I am not yet a DD, as it can happen anytime before or after the >elections, I would like to ask a question to the candidates. > >Debian is growing bigger everyday. I would like to know if you think >that it

Re: Question for all candidates: inter-dependancy of works the growing Debian project.

2008-03-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 12:46 AM, Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (building non-free on official autobuilders is not allowed). Untrue, you just need to get your package whitelisted since non-free packages may not be legal to autobuild. You need to contact aba IIRC. Not sure why you d

Re: Question for all candidates: inter-dependancy of works the growing Debian project.

2008-03-12 Thread Charles Plessy
Hi Moritz, hi Marc. I started to wonder about modularity in the use of the Debian infrastructure in 2006, because of a problem with the clustalw package. As you can see on the graph, its popcon score started to decrease around july. (http://people.debian.org/~igloo/popcon-graphs/index.php?package

Re: Question for all candidates: inter-dependancy of works the growing Debian project.

2008-03-11 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Debian is growing bigger everyday. I would like to know if you think > that it should adapt to its new size, and if yes, how can you help this > process as a DPL. Debian has steadily grown in the past few years, at least in respect to the number of pack

Re: Question for all candidates: inter-dependancy of works the growing Debian project.

2008-03-11 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Charles Plessy wrote: > Although I am not yet a DD, as it can happen anytime before or after the > elections, I would like to ask a question to the candidates. > > Debian is growing bigger everyday. I would like to know if you think > that it should adapt to its new size, and if yes, how can you he

Re: Question for all candidates: inter-dependancy of works the growing Debian project.

2008-03-11 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 04:20:35AM +, Charles Plessy wrote: > Can we imagine a more componentised Debian distribution, in which it > would be the common responsability of the packagers and the service > managers to opt in or opt out the use of each services by Debian > packages (or preferably g

Question for all candidates: inter-dependancy of works the growing Debian project.

2008-03-10 Thread Charles Plessy
Hi, Although I am not yet a DD, as it can happen anytime before or after the elections, I would like to ask a question to the candidates. Debian is growing bigger everyday. I would like to know if you think that it should adapt to its new size, and if yes, how can you help this process as a DPL.