Question to all candidates

2005-03-11 Thread Scott James Remnant
The current Technical Committee is inactive; in the past two years they have only made two rulings: * 2004-06-24 Bug #254598: amd64 is a fine name for that architecture. * 2004-06-05 Bug #164591, Bug #164889: md5sum signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Question to all candidates.

2005-03-11 Thread Bill Allombert
Hello DPL candidate, My question is: How do you see the relation between Debian and Ubuntu in the future? Thanks in advance for your answers, -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Question to all candidates: officiousness

2007-03-07 Thread Clint Adams
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 01:58:42PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > Try "please, blow me away". In your opinion, is it ever appropriate for any of the following parties to insist on being "blown away" in exchange for removing an obstacle to other developers' work? If so, when? 1) DPL 2) ftpmaster

Question to all Candidates: 2IC

2010-03-11 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Heyho, a little question to all those up for the next DPL: Do you plan on taking on a "2IC" or a team? If so: Who? And why this/those? Thanks. -- bye, Joerg Well, I’m tired of being a wannabe league bowler. I wanna be a league bowler! pgpc4eVogfX8Q.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Question to all candidates

2005-03-11 Thread Anthony Towns
Scott James Remnant wrote: The current Technical Committee is inactive; in the past two years they have only made two rulings: * 2004-06-24 Bug #254598: amd64 is a fine name for that architecture. * 2004-06-05 Bug #164591, Bug #164889: md5sum Oh, on rereading I guess I should note explicitly that t

Re: Question to all candidates

2005-03-11 Thread Andreas Schuldei
On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 01:41:35PM +, Scott James Remnant wrote: > The current Technical Committee is inactive; in the past two years they > have only made two rulings: > > * 2004-06-24 Bug #254598: amd64 is a fine name for that architecture. > * 2004-06-05 Bug #164591, Bug #164889: md5sum

Re: Question to all candidates.

2005-03-11 Thread Romain Francoise
Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How do you see the relation between Debian and Ubuntu in the future? Note that the LWN article about the DPL election has some quotes from the candidates about Ubuntu and Debian at: http://lwn.net/Articles/127031/> Your question is probably (at leas

Re: Question to all candidates.

2005-03-11 Thread Blu Corater
On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 11:53:51PM +0100, Romain Francoise wrote: > Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > How do you see the relation between Debian and Ubuntu in the future? > > Note that the LWN article about the DPL election has some quotes from > the candidates about Ubuntu and Deb

Re: Question to all candidates.

2005-03-11 Thread Romain Francoise
Blu Corater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Problem is, you need to be subscribed to read it. If you're a Debian Developer, just ask to be added to the group subscription and you'll get free access (sponsored by HP). If you're not, you can't vote anyway... -- ,''`. : :' :Romain Franco

Re: Question to all candidates.

2005-03-11 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 08:27:04PM -0300, Blu Corater wrote: > On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 11:53:51PM +0100, Romain Francoise wrote: > > Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > How do you see the relation between Debian and Ubuntu in the future? > > > > Note that the LWN article about t

Re: Question to all candidates.

2005-03-12 Thread Bdale Garbee
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Blu Corater) writes: > On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 11:53:51PM +0100, Romain Francoise wrote: >> Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > How do you see the relation between Debian and Ubuntu in the future? >> >> Note that the LWN article about the DPL election has some q

Re: Question to all candidates

2005-03-13 Thread Matthew Garrett
Scott James Remnant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you believe that the tech-ctte should be relatively inactive? Or do > you believe that an inactive Technical Committee is a bad thing? I don't think it would be a bad thing for the technical committee to be more active, but I don't think that's

Re: Question to all candidates: DebConf

2007-03-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Sun, 04 Mar 2007, Holger Levsen wrote: > DebConf, the annual Debian Developers Conference, is currently not officially > affiliated with Debian (or SPI) and its not listed on > http://www.debian.org/intro/organization > > Do you think DebConf should have an official endorsement with Deb

Re: Question to all candidates: officiousness

2007-03-07 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 11:03:54AM -0500, Clint Adams wrote: > On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 01:58:42PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > Try "please, blow me away". > > In your opinion, is it ever appropriate for any of the > following parties to insist on being "blown away" in exchange > for removing a

Re: Question to all candidates: officiousness

2007-03-07 Thread Clint Adams
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 05:43:41PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > I'm not sure what you mean by this question, or what the point is. I will clarify. AJ obviously feels that it is his prerogative (under which hat or set of hats, I do not know) to decide which set of architectures in the archive a

Re: Question to all candidates: officiousness

2007-03-07 Thread Luk Claes
Clint Adams wrote: > On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 05:43:41PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >> I'm not sure what you mean by this question, or what the point is. > > I will clarify. AJ obviously feels that it is his prerogative (under > which hat or set of hats, I do not know) to decide which set of >

Re: Question to all candidates: officiousness

2007-03-07 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 12:14:05PM -0500, Clint Adams wrote: > On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 05:43:41PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > I'm not sure what you mean by this question, or what the point is. > > I will clarify. AJ obviously feels that it is his prerogative (under > which hat or set of hat

Re: Question to all candidates: officiousness

2007-03-07 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 07 Mar 2007, Clint Adams wrote: > Now it is unclear which hat AJ is wearing when he implies that he is > authorized to decide which architectures are important, by criteria he > decides unilaterally. I am curious as to what the other candidates > think: is it appropriate for him to do this

Re: Question to all Candidates: 2IC

2010-03-12 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 01:12:57AM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > Do you plan on taking on a "2IC" or a team? I personally don't plan to have neither a DPL board, nor a 2IC. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian

Re: Question to all Candidates: 2IC

2010-03-12 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 03/12/2010 10:55 AM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: I personally don't plan to have neither a DPL board, nor a 2IC. why not? -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: daniel.baum...@panthera-systems.net Internet: http://people.panthera-systems.

Re: Question to all Candidates: 2IC

2010-03-12 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 01:12:57AM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > Heyho, > > a little question to all those up for the next DPL: > > Do you plan on taking on a "2IC" or a team? I don't plan on doing so, no. We've had a few DPLs in the past who did so, but I don't see a significant difference in p

Re: Question to all Candidates: 2IC

2010-03-12 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 12:14:42PM +0100, Daniel Baumann wrote: > >I personally don't plan to have neither a DPL board, nor a 2IC. > why not? First of all because I don't think it is needed, then because we lack evidence that having either a DPL board or a 2IC actually improves the outcome of a DP

Re: Question to all Candidates: 2IC

2010-03-12 Thread Daniel Baumann
thanks for the detailed answer, good summary of what is also my impression (that i have about it, as an unqualified observer). -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: daniel.baum...@panthera-systems.net Internet: http://people.panthera-system

Re: Question to all Candidates: 2IC

2010-03-12 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 01:12:57AM +0100, Joerg Jaspert a écrit : > Heyho, > > a little question to all those up for the next DPL: > > Do you plan on taking on a "2IC" or a team? > If so: Who? And why this/those? Hi Joerg, If I understand correctly, the 2IC is another person that gets the email

Re: Question to all Candidates: 2IC

2010-03-12 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 03:47:53PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > In fact, if you think about it, the proposal of a DPL board / 2IC just > gives a formal status to something that should be normal, > i.e. interaction among DPL and people knowledgeable/competent on > specific topics/tasks. FWIW

Re: Question to all Candidates: 2IC

2010-03-12 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 9:12 PM, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > a little question to all those up for the next DPL: > Do you plan on taking on a "2IC" or a team? > If so: Who? And why this/those? I don't plan to take a 2IC or a DPL team, in the sense of someone else receiving lea...@. I do plan, however

Re: Question to all Candidates: 2IC

2010-03-12 Thread Raphael Geissert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Margarita Manterola wrote: > I do plan, however, to delegate many tasks. Both in the > constitutional and in the everyday use of the word. [...] > So, while not having a particular appointed 2IC, I do plan to ask a > lot of people for help on the many

Re: Question to all Candidates: 2IC

2010-03-12 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 2:11 AM, Raphael Geissert wrote: >> So, while not having a particular appointed 2IC, I do plan to ask a >> lot of people for help on the many things I'd like to accomplish.  And >> I also do plan to mention, thank and appreciate all the help received, >> no matter how smal

Re: Question to all Candidates: 2IC

2010-03-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Margarita Manterola wrote: > On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 2:11 AM, Raphael Geissert wrote: >> What tasks do you have in mind that you plan to delegate? > > There are a bunch listed in my yet-to-be-published platform. I wonder if the questions period of the DPL electi

Re: Question to all Candidates: 2IC

2010-03-12 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sat, 13 Mar 2010, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Margarita Manterola > wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 2:11 AM, Raphael Geissert > > wrote: > >> What tasks do you have in mind that you plan to delegate? > > > > There are a bunch listed in my yet-to-be-published platfo

Re: Question to all Candidates: 2IC

2010-03-13 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 12:55:38PM +0700, Paul Wise wrote: > I wonder if the questions period of the DPL elections would be more > productive if platforms were published beforehand? FWIW, my platform is ready, if someone want to have a look before the official publishing just ask me me, otherwise

Re: Question to all Candidates: 2IC

2010-03-13 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 05:10:25PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > FWIW, I think a 2IC is much more effective for outside-leaning > communication, i.e. filtering and/or answering leader@ mail (which > apparently can be overwhelming) and such, not for communication with > other project members or team

Re: Question to all Candidates: 2IC

2010-03-13 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 05:45:33PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 12:55:38PM +0700, Paul Wise wrote: > > I wonder if the questions period of the DPL elections would be more > > productive if platforms were published beforehand? > > FWIW, my platform is ready, if someone

Re: Question to all Candidates: 2IC

2010-03-13 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sat, 13 Mar 2010, Margarita Manterola wrote: > There are a bunch listed in my yet-to-be-published platform. But > just to give an example from the previous mail, I'd like to have a > page with rankings of people reporting and fixing bugs, in order to > give some nice Debian merchandise to the on

Question to all Candidates: Heated discussions

2010-03-13 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
Hello =) Sometimes technical Debian discussions (mailing lists, bug reports, blog posts, etc.) become personal flame-wars. Do you think current frequency/amount of heated discussions is acceptable for the Debian project? What would you do to reduce those? --Dima. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

LWN (Re: Question to all candidates.)

2005-03-12 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 09:25:32AM -0700, Bdale Garbee wrote: > Since October of 2002, HP has sponsored a subscription to LWN for all > interested Debian developers, so this shouldn't be an issue for anyone > eligible to vote in DPL elections. And thanks for that; it's been a great benefit to De

Question to all candidates: GDPR compliance review

2022-03-31 Thread Adrian Bunk
to all candidates: If elected, will you ask our Data Protection team and our GDPR lawyer to jointly do a review of all handling of personal data in Debian regarding GDPR compliance, and make the results of the review available to all developers? Thanks Adrian [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian

Code of conduct, question to all candidates

2006-03-03 Thread Lars Wirzenius
Many people consider the aggressive, often unconstructive atmosphere on major Debian mailing lists to be a problem. You only need to make a little spark and suddenly you have ignited a huge thread, up to several hundred mails per day, a number of which are personal attacks. Even if they aren't, peo

Question to all candidates: What to change?

2006-03-11 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi there, If you were elected tomorrow as DPL, and could only pick one thing about Debian to change, what would it be? Cheers, Neil -- A. Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion Q. Why is top posting bad? gpg key - http://www.halon.org.uk/pubkey.txt ; the.earth.li B345BDD3 signatu

Question to all candidates: financing of development

2010-03-12 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hello, this is a question to all DPL candidates. Imagine a DD contacts you, she wants to setup an infrastructure to finance Debian related projects (i.e. paying people to enable them to work on the projects that they'd like to do for Debian) but she wants to avoid the main mistakes made during Du

Re: Question to all Candidates: Heated discussions

2010-03-14 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 11:40 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > Do you think current frequency/amount of heated discussions is > acceptable for the Debian project? Even though the mailing lists climate is much better than what it was 5 years ago, I think that it still sometimes gets too aggressive,

Re: Question to all Candidates: Heated discussions

2010-03-14 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 02:40:32AM +, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > Do you think current frequency/amount of heated discussions is > acceptable for the Debian project? What would you do to reduce those? Acceptable? No. Normal? To some extent, yes. Debian has a history of inflammable mailing lis

Re: Question to all Candidates: Heated discussions

2010-03-15 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 02:40:32AM +, Dmitrijs Ledkovs a écrit : > Hello =) Hello again :) > Sometimes technical Debian discussions (mailing lists, bug reports, > blog posts, etc.) become personal flame-wars. > > Do you think current frequency/amount of heated discussions is > acceptable for

Re: Question to all Candidates: Heated discussions

2010-03-15 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 02:40:32AM +, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > Hello =) > > Sometimes technical Debian discussions (mailing lists, bug reports, > blog posts, etc.) become personal flame-wars. Indeed. > Do you think current frequency/amount of heated discussions is > acceptable for the Debia

Re: Question to all Candidates: Heated discussions

2010-03-15 Thread Ben Finney
Wouter Verhelst writes: > On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 02:40:32AM +, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > > Do you think current frequency/amount of heated discussions is > > acceptable for the Debian project? > > I believe no amount of ad-hominem discussion is acceptable. There's a significant difference b

Re: Question to all Candidates: Heated discussions

2010-03-15 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:11:39PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > Wouter Verhelst writes: > > > On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 02:40:32AM +, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > > > Do you think current frequency/amount of heated discussions is > > > acceptable for the Debian project? > > > > I believe no amount o

Question to all candidates: In eight years...

2012-03-20 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear candidates, this is the echo of a question asked two years ago in the 2010 campaign. http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2010/03/msg00057.html In addition, do you see major changes happening in the recent or next years, and how do you think Debian should react to them ? Have a nice day,

Question to all candidates: GDPR compliance review

2024-04-04 Thread Adrian Bunk
Hi, this email has two parts: A short question where I would appreciate a "yes" or "no" answer from all candidates, and a longer explanation what and why I am asking. Question: If elected, will you commit to have a lawyer specialized in that area review policies and practices around handling o

Question to all candidates: Ongoing/future legal projects

2022-03-17 Thread Molly dB
Hi Candidates, I'm excited that you all are running and appreciate your willingness to take on this responsibility. In November 2021, it was discussed in debian-private that a team from Debian had been working with a lawyer for a while. (Not sharing details: issues remain ongoing.) How would you

Question to all candidates: how is Debian doing?

2022-03-17 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, As someone who used to care a lot about Debian, but who hasn't been able to pay much attention to the project lately, I was wondering: How is Debian doing currently? What are the recent successes I might have missed? Where did we fail or under-perform? Which big challenges do you see ahead

Re: Question to all candidates: GDPR compliance review

2022-03-31 Thread Felix Lechner
uirements at least in the EU. > > Even the exact scope of the problem is not clear. > > Question to all candidates: > > If elected, will you ask our Data Protection team and our GDPR lawyer to > jointly do a review of all handling of personal data in Debian regarding > GD

Re: Question to all candidates: GDPR compliance review

2022-04-01 Thread Hideki Yamane
Hi, On Thu, 31 Mar 2022 23:08:41 +0300 Adrian Bunk wrote: > If elected, will you ask our Data Protection team and our GDPR lawyer to > jointly do a review of all handling of personal data in Debian regarding > GDPR compliance, Yes. > and make the results of the review available to all > dev

Re: Question to all candidates: GDPR compliance review

2022-04-01 Thread Jonathan Carter
be great if we exceed the expectations of these legislations around the world. There seems to be a general agreement that privacy in Debian falls short of the legal minimum requirements at least in the EU. Even the exact scope of the problem is not clear. Question to all candidates: If electe

Re: Question to all candidates: GDPR compliance review

2022-04-01 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Jonathan Carter > So, I would appreciate it if the data protection team could look into > all of the issues we know of in Debian, but I'd also like there to be > a process where people can file issues with the data protection > team. I'll admit I had to search a bit to find the data-protection

Re: Question to all candidates: GDPR compliance review

2022-04-01 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Adrian Bunk > Would you commit to something more specific, like that our Data > Protection team will reply to debian-project within 3 months discussing > all issues mentioned in the discussion at [1] so far, and with their > reply having been proof-read by our GDPR lawyer? I don't think th

Re: Question to all candidates: GDPR compliance review

2022-04-01 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Apr 01, 2022 at 07:02:15PM +0200, Jonathan Carter wrote: > Hi Adrian Hi Jonathan, >... > I'm not sure bringing in the lawyer as a first step is optimal, they are > expensive and will probably tell us a lot of things we already know. IMHO > it's better to do some initial groundwork, compil

Re: Question to all candidates: GDPR compliance review

2022-04-01 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Fri, Apr 01, 2022 at 09:28:53PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > Would you commit to something more specific, like that our Data > Protection team will reply to debian-project within 3 months discussing > all issues mentioned in the discussion at [1] so far, and with their > reply having been pro

Re: Question to all candidates: GDPR compliance review

2022-04-01 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Adrian Bunk > Who will fulfill the request within the legal limit of one month if > a person sends an email to data-protect...@debian.org asking whether > Debian is a (joint) controller of any data about this person, and > if yes requests a copy of all data? To make this easier for services a

Re: Question to all candidates: GDPR compliance review

2022-04-01 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Apr 01, 2022 at 07:40:02PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: >... > This isn't the role of the data protection team, though, any more than > owner@bugs is responsible for fixing all the bugs in all the packages. > I'm quite happy to act as a redirector (as per the first part of the > delegation

Re: Question to all candidates: GDPR compliance review

2022-04-01 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Apr 01, 2022 at 08:46:42PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] Adrian Bunk > > > Would you commit to something more specific, like that our Data > > Protection team will reply to debian-project within 3 months discussing > > all issues mentioned in the discussion at [1] so far, and with

Re: Question to all candidates: GDPR compliance review

2022-04-01 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2022/04/01 20:28, Adrian Bunk wrote: Would you commit to something more specific, like that our Data Protection team will reply to debian-project within 3 months discussing all issues mentioned in the discussion at [1] so far, and with their reply having been proof-read by our GDPR lawyer?

Re: Question to all candidates: GDPR compliance review

2022-04-01 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Apr 01, 2022 at 09:18:53PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] Adrian Bunk > > > Who will fulfill the request within the legal limit of one month if > > a person sends an email to data-protect...@debian.org asking whether > > Debian is a (joint) controller of any data about this person, an

Re: Question to all candidates: GDPR compliance review

2022-04-01 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Adrian" == Adrian Bunk writes: Adrian> Your "services" approach does not work for the non-trivial Adrian> cases where Debian might be a (joint) controller of personal Adrian> data. Adrian> The Debian Community Team promises confidentiality regarding Adrian> personal inf

Re: Question to all candidates: GDPR compliance review

2022-04-01 Thread Hideki Yamane
On Fri, 1 Apr 2022 22:16:55 +0300 Adrian Bunk wrote: > One option would be to outsource this work to our paid GDPR lawyer. Is there any option to cooperate with other FLOSS organizations? They would have the same issue and we may be able to share it and costs ;) -- Hideki Yamane

Re: Question to all candidates: GDPR compliance review

2022-04-02 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Apr 01, 2022 at 04:57:38PM -0600, Sam Hartman wrote: > > "Adrian" == Adrian Bunk writes: > Adrian> Your "services" approach does not work for the non-trivial > Adrian> cases where Debian might be a (joint) controller of personal > Adrian> data. > > Adrian> The Debian C

Re: Question to all candidates: GDPR compliance review

2022-04-02 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Apr 01, 2022 at 09:25:46PM +0200, Jonathan Carter wrote: > On 2022/04/01 20:28, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > Would you commit to something more specific, like that our Data > > Protection team will reply to debian-project within 3 months discussing > > all issues mentioned in the discussion at [1

Re: Question to all candidates: GDPR compliance review

2022-04-02 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2022-04-02 10:55, Adrian Bunk wrote: > Where does our Privacy Policy[1] describe personal data where Debian and > the community team are joint controllers? > Where does our Privacy Policy describe personal data where Debian and > DAM are joint controllers? Has it been established yet that Deb

Re: Question to all candidates: GDPR compliance review

2022-04-02 Thread Ansgar
Hi Adrian, On Fri, 2022-04-01 at 23:48 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > Will this handwritten note be available through > contributors.debian.org? > > If the personal information in the handwritten note did not come > directly from the person, who at Debian is responsible to ensure that > the person

Re: Question to all candidates: GDPR compliance review

2022-04-02 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, Apr 02, 2022 at 12:21:24PM +0200, Christian Kastner wrote: > On 2022-04-02 10:55, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > Where does our Privacy Policy[1] describe personal data where Debian and > > the community team are joint controllers? > > > Where does our Privacy Policy describe personal data where

Re: Code of conduct, question to all candidates

2006-03-03 Thread Frank Küster
Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What do you think of a code of conduct? What in your opinion would be a > lower limit on acceptable behavior? Do you think that strict rules would > be better than general guidelines? Who should be the judge if a > particular case follows the code of con

Question to all candidates about stable point releases

2006-03-04 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Heya, 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" (which is the official plan). Do you know why this doesn't wor

Question to all candidates about the NM process

2006-03-04 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Heya, 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 broad knowledge)? Do you think that we need to change the NM ch

Re: Code of conduct, question to all candidates

2006-03-04 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 10:20:59PM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > A code of conduct has often been mentioned as a possible solution to > various communication problems we have. The code would have to specify, > either explicitly or implicitly, some rules for acceptable behavior. > > What do you t

Re: Code of conduct, question to all candidates

2006-03-05 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 05:39:08PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 10:08:15PM +0100, Frank K?ster wrote: > > And, do you think this code of conduct should be enforced? How? > > We already have a code of conduct for the lists that's not enforced; > it says you can't swear, an

Re: Code of conduct, question to all candidates

2006-03-05 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 11:37:48AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Secondly, I believe the "personality problems" thing is about a quote of > mine on -private[1] Actually it wasn't really a quote at all; if anyone cared I was going to point at Ted/Jonathan's platform with remarks like "Most of us

Re: Code of conduct, question to all candidates

2006-03-05 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 01:17:02AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 11:37:48AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > Secondly, I believe the "personality problems" thing is about a quote of > > mine on -private[1] > > Actually it wasn't really a quote at all; if anyone cared I wa

Re: Code of conduct, question to all candidates

2006-03-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 10:20:59PM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > >What do you think of a code of conduct? What in your opinion would be a >lower limit on acceptable behavior? Do you think that strict rules would >be better than general guidelines? Who should be the judge if a >particular case foll

Re: Code of conduct, question to all candidates

2006-03-06 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 10:20:59PM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > Many people consider the aggressive, often unconstructive atmosphere on > major Debian mailing lists to be a problem. You only need to make a > little spark and suddenly you have ignited a huge thread, up to several > hundred mails p

Re: Code of conduct, question to all candidates

2006-03-08 Thread Andreas Schuldei
* Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-03-03 22:20:59]: > A code of conduct has often been mentioned as a possible solution to > various communication problems we have. The code would have to specify, > either explicitly or implicitly, some rules for acceptable behavior. > > What do you think

Re: Code of conduct, question to all candidates

2006-03-08 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 10:20:59PM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > What do you think of a code of conduct? What in your opinion would be a > lower limit on acceptable behavior? Do you think that strict rules would > be better than general guidelines? Who should be the judge if a > particular case fo

Re: Code of conduct, question to all candidates

2006-03-08 Thread Matthew Garrett
Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At this point, I am not in favour of such code. I am in favour of giving > general guidelines and but not to enforce them. People should follow > them because they agree with them but not because they are forced to. > Not the least, that provides a real

Re: Code of conduct, question to all candidates

2006-03-09 Thread MJ Ray
Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > (As a reference point, I am no longer on any significant Debian mailing > lists other than -vote because I am sick of people who behave in an > anti-social manner towards each other. Allowing people to behave as they > wish to has a direct cost to the project

Re: Question to all candidates: What to change?

2006-03-11 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 01:20:19PM +, Neil McGovern wrote: > If you were elected tomorrow as DPL, and could only pick one thing about > Debian to change, what would it be? If I could pick /anything/, it'd be to make Debian suddenly 100% fun for everyone involved. If I can only pick the things

Re: Question to all candidates: What to change?

2006-03-11 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Anthony Towns writes: > If I could pick /anything/, it'd be to make Debian suddenly 100% fun > for everyone involved. Yeah, I'm with you! Can you outline perhaps some of the things you think that keep it from being 100% fun, and what the DPL can do to help them? I'm interested here both in ans

Re: Question to all candidates: What to change?

2006-03-11 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Anthony Towns writes: > If I can only pick the things that're directly achievable, I'll just > go with getting the momentum back -- ie, doing cool things quickly and > regularly, no matter what they are. What are some of the organizational or institutional factors which you think keep us from do

Re: Question to all candidates: What to change?

2006-03-13 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 10:09:55PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Anthony Towns writes: > > If I could pick /anything/, it'd be to make Debian suddenly 100% fun > > for everyone involved. > Yeah, I'm with you! > Can you outline perhaps some of the things you think that keep it from > being 10

Re: Code of conduct, question to all candidates

2006-03-14 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 01:18:39AM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > At this point, I am not in favour of such code. I am in favour of giving > > general guidelines and but not to enforce them. People should follow > > them because they agree with the

Re: Question to all candidates: What to change?

2006-03-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 01:20:19PM +, Neil McGovern wrote: >Hi there, > >If you were elected tomorrow as DPL, and could only pick one thing about >Debian to change, what would it be? I'd love to make Debian a more friendly place for everyone. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Re: Question to all candidates: What to change?

2006-03-18 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 01:20:19PM +, Neil McGovern wrote: > If you were elected tomorrow as DPL, and could only pick one thing about > Debian to change, what would it be? Make our mailinglists an enjoyable place for technical discussions. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Question to all candidates: What to change?

2006-03-18 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 01:20:19PM +, Neil McGovern wrote: >> If you were elected tomorrow as DPL, and could only pick one thing about >> Debian to change, what would it be? > > Make our mailinglists an enjoyable place for technical discussio

Re: Question to all candidates: What to change?

2006-03-18 Thread Andreas Schuldei
* 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 predictabl

Re: Question to all candidates: What to change?

2006-03-18 Thread Matthew Garrett
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 and spend time in." It's clear that this requires good comm

Re: Question to all candidates: What to change?

2006-03-18 Thread Andreas Schuldei
* 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 > >

Question to all Candidates: Project Funds and donations

2010-03-12 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, this question goes to all candidates: The Debian Project receives quite a number of monetary donations as well as contributions in kind via several umbrella organization like SPI, ffis, debian.ch, etc. a) What do you think are valid goals to spend this money on? b) How would you think is a

Re: Question to all candidates: financing of development

2010-03-13 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 08:18:00AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : > > Imagine a DD contacts you, she wants to setup an infrastructure to finance > Debian related projects (i.e. paying people to enable them to work on the > projects that they'd like to do for Debian) but she wants to avoid the >

Re: Question to all candidates: financing of development

2010-03-13 Thread Luk Claes
Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 08:18:00AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : > What I like in your proposal is that the projects will need a donor, as > opposed > to directly use Debian money. I think that showing the capacity of finding a > donor is an important filter before enga

Re: Question to all candidates: financing of development

2010-03-13 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 10:46:23AM +0100, Luk Claes a écrit : > > If the money is used to pay people and the donor is paying for a > specific project where it can know who will get paid, this could be seen > as a work relationship and open a whole other can of worms than we have > dealt with befor

Re: Question to all candidates: financing of development

2010-03-13 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 4:18 AM, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Imagine a DD contacts you, she wants to setup an infrastructure to finance > Debian related projects (i.e. paying people to enable them to work on the > projects that they'd like to do for Debian) but she wants to avoid the > main mistakes

Re: Question to all candidates: financing of development

2010-03-13 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, thanks for your answers! On Sat, 13 Mar 2010, Margarita Manterola wrote: > On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 4:18 AM, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > Imagine a DD contacts you, she wants to setup an infrastructure to finance > > Debian related projects (i.e. paying people to enable them to work on the > >

Re: Question to all candidates: financing of development

2010-03-13 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 08:18:00AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Imagine a DD contacts you, she wants to setup an infrastructure to finance > Debian related projects (i.e. paying people to enable them to work on the > projects that they'd like to do for Debian) but she wants to avoid the > main m

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