Re: Question to the candidates

2010-03-31 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 11:49:53PM -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit : > As a developer, how do you embody the spirit and culture that has made > Debian a great operating system? > > If elected DPL, how will you inspire the same in others? Hi Steve, we have to inspire each other and the DPL does not

Re: Question to the candidates

2010-03-27 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
[ oops, looks like this one has slipped through the cracks of my mutt ] On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 11:49:53PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > As a developer, how do you embody the spirit and culture that has made > Debian a great operating system? I surely don't claim to embody all of the spirit and

Re: Question to the candidates

2010-03-24 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 11:49:53PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > As a developer, how do you embody the spirit and culture that has made > Debian a great operating system? I think I'm a person who's not afraid to try something if I think it will improve the project in some way. I'm also not afraid

Re: Question to the candidates

2010-03-24 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 3:49 AM, Steve Langasek wrote: > As a developer, how do you embody the spirit and culture that has made > Debian a great operating system? This is a very difficult question, because answering it implies that I accept that I do embody such spirit and culture, and I find thi

Question to the candidates

2010-03-23 Thread Steve Langasek
As a developer, how do you embody the spirit and culture that has made Debian a great operating system? If elected DPL, how will you inspire the same in others? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I ca

Re: Question to the candidates: RC bugs fixe

2007-03-17 Thread Thaddeus H. Black
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 12:47:00PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > As I'm sure you're aware, there is no cabal; there's only a bunch of > people who put in massive amounts of time and get the blame when > important stuff is delayed. And as any sysadmin will tell you, *every* > request is important.

Re: Question to the candidates: RC bugs fixed

2007-03-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 07:17:59PM +, Thaddeus H. Black wrote: > >Please brag about RC bugs you have fixed since sarge's >release, excluding bugs in your own packages. Of >interest are both the quantity and intractability of the >bugs. If you have not fixed RC bugs but have made >another note

Re: Question to the candidates: RC bugs fixe

2007-03-16 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 07:17:59PM +, Thaddeus H. Black wrote: > An admittedly modest technical contributor to Debian, I have not > earned the right to complain often, so I don't. Nevertheless, I agree > pretty much completely with the words of Andreas Tille, Clint Adams > and Frans Pop; and I

Re: Question to the candidates: RC bugs fixed

2007-03-15 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007, Thaddeus H. Black wrote: > Please brag about RC bugs you have fixed since sarge's release, excluding > bugs in your own packages. Of interest are both the quantity and > intractability of the bugs. If you have not fixed RC bugs but have made > another noteworthy Project-orien

Re: Question to the candidates: RC bugs fixed

2007-03-15 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 15 mars 2007 à 23:29 +0100, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : > For readers who are interested in a more neutral point of view, I invite > them to read the archives of debian-python during the month of june: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2006/06/threads.html I don't think you make a goo

Re: Question to the candidates: RC bugs fixed

2007-03-15 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le jeudi 15 mars 2007 à 23:04 +0100, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : > > On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > > Uuuh which part do you refer to ? > > > > The part that I did and that nobody else was willing to do. Discuss with > > Josselin and

Re: Question to the candidates: RC bugs fixed

2007-03-15 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 15 mars 2007 à 23:04 +0100, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : > On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > Uuuh which part do you refer to ? > > The part that I did and that nobody else was willing to do. Discuss with > Josselin and Doko so that we actually have gone forward even if it has

Re: Question to the candidates: RC bugs fixed

2007-03-15 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > Uuuh which part do you refer to ? The part that I did and that nobody else was willing to do. Discuss with Josselin and Doko so that we actually have gone forward even if it has been very problematic because both have very strong opinions and refuse

Re: Question to the candidates: RC bugs fixed

2007-03-15 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 10:10:17PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Thaddeus H. Black wrote: > > Please brag about RC bugs you have fixed since sarge's > > release, excluding bugs in your own packages. Of > > interest are both the quantity and intractability of the > > bugs. I

Re: Question to the candidates: RC bugs fixed

2007-03-15 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 15 mars 2007 à 22:10 +0100, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : > My biggest technical contributions over the last year are: > > - the management of the Python transition and the > development/fixing/modifications of the > corresponding dh_{python,pycentral,pysupport} scripts. > http://lists.

Re: Question to the candidates: RC bugs fixed

2007-03-15 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Thaddeus H. Black wrote: > Please brag about RC bugs you have fixed since sarge's > release, excluding bugs in your own packages. Of > interest are both the quantity and intractability of the > bugs. If you have not fixed RC bugs but have made > another noteworthy Project-ori

Question to the candidates: RC bugs fixed

2007-03-15 Thread Thaddeus H. Black
An admittedly modest technical contributor to Debian, I have not earned the right to complain often, so I don't. Nevertheless, I agree pretty much completely with the words of Andreas Tille, Clint Adams and Frans Pop; and I feel strongly that Debian's foremost problems are cabal-oriented and socia

Re: Question to the candidates: inclusion of the kFreeBSD-* ports

2007-03-05 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 06:18:56PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Anthony Towns writes: > > I'd love to be proved wrong on kfreebsd's value to users and the project. > I'd personally find it frustrating and demoralizing if, after working > really hard on a project for quite some time, I asked for it

Re: Question to the candidates: inclusion of the kFreeBSD-* ports

2007-03-05 Thread Russ Allbery
Anthony Towns writes: > I'd love to be proved wrong on kfreebsd's value to users and the project. I'm having a hard time figuring out, from this thread, what would constitute proof for you. Are you looking specifically for high popcon numbers? Lots of developers stepping forward and saying the

Re: Question to the candidates: inclusion of the kFreeBSD-* ports

2007-03-05 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 10:33:40AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > kfreebsd is working at least as well as hurd. I would have said better, currently. Hurd's sat in the archive for almost a decade without without managing a release or, as far as I've seen, being a feasible alternative operating sys

Re: Question to the candidates: inclusion of the kFreeBSD-* ports

2007-03-05 Thread Russ Allbery
Anthony Towns writes: > On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 08:29:30AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >> And if you think that some of those goals are not reached, > I would much rather be swept off my feet by how clearly the goals have > been reached, beyond my wildest expectations. Surely if kfreebsd is >

Re: Question to the candidates: inclusion of the kFreeBSD-* ports

2007-03-05 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 12:29:58AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 08:29:30AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > > > Why did we do SCC for then ? > > > So that we could cope with the increasing size of the archive. > > The announce mentioned the possibility to add some suites d

Re: Question to the candidates: inclusion of the kFreeBSD-* ports

2007-03-05 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 08:29:30AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > > Why did we do SCC for then ? > > So that we could cope with the increasing size of the archive. > The announce mentioned the possibility to add some suites due to that. It > didn't mention the possibility to add new architecture

Re: Question to the candidates: inclusion of the kFreeBSD-* ports

2007-03-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hello, On Mon, 05 Mar 2007, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 02:51:19PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > On Sun, 04 Mar 2007, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > The other side is just making the Debian mirror network available for > > > kfreebsd users. With only a couple of dozen apparent u

Re: Question to the candidates: inclusion of the kFreeBSD-* ports

2007-03-04 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 02:51:19PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Sun, 04 Mar 2007, Anthony Towns wrote: > > The other side is just making the Debian mirror network available for > > kfreebsd users. With only a couple of dozen apparent users, I'm not > > really convinced that's particularly val

Re: Question to the candidates: inclusion of the kFreeBSD-* ports

2007-03-04 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Anthony Towns a écrit : > On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 09:50:24AM +0100, Petr Salinger wrote: >>> seems to list under three DDs actively involved in the port, >> OK, we miss one more current DD listed here. > > Yup, though that shouldn't be much of a challenge. The other problem > is that the list does

Re: Question to the candidates: inclusion of the kFreeBSD-* ports

2007-03-04 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 08:33:44PM +, Mark Brown wrote: > On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 09:58:48AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Le dimanche 04 mars 2007 à 18:13 +1000, Anthony Towns a écrit : > > > > I'm not seeing why you need to be in the archive to do NMUs to improve > > > packages? > > >

Re: Question to the candidates: inclusion of the kFreeBSD-* ports

2007-03-04 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 09:58:48AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le dimanche 04 mars 2007 à 18:13 +1000, Anthony Towns a écrit : > > I'm not seeing why you need to be in the archive to do NMUs to improve > > packages? > Because some maintainers refuse such NMUs for unofficial architectures. T

Re: Question to the candidates: inclusion of the kFreeBSD-* ports

2007-03-04 Thread Julien BLACHE
Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, >>Hence, what is your position on including those new, non-Linux ports ? >>What would the timeframe be like, according to you ? > > I have no problem with including them, but equally I don't see them as > a very high priority *right* now. After Etch i

Re: Question to the candidates: inclusion of the kFreeBSD-* ports

2007-03-04 Thread Frank Küster
Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le dimanche 04 mars 2007 à 18:13 +1000, Anthony Towns a écrit : >> But what I mean is more that maintaining two simple Debian patches (one >> for Linux, one for kFreeBSD) is probably simpler than maintaining one >> complicated Debian patch (with some c

Re: Question to the candidates: inclusion of the kFreeBSD-* ports

2007-03-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 05:17:01PM +0100, Julien BLACHE wrote: >Hi DPL candidates, Hi Julien, >The kFreeBSD ports are now in a good enough shape to be included in >unstable. Aurélien Jarno got ftpmaster's approval for that during an >informal conversation at debconf5 [1] but so far, there's been

Re: One more question to the candidates

2007-03-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 10:31:29AM +0200, Kalle Kivimaa wrote: >Forgot to ask this question: In your opinion, what is a good length of >total term for a DPL? As long as the DDs are convinced the person in question is doing a good job, to be honest. For some people, that may be 1 year; for others i

Re: Question to the candidates: inclusion of the kFreeBSD-* ports

2007-03-04 Thread Aigars Mahinovs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > The kFreeBSD ports are now in a good enough shape to be included in > unstable. Aurélien Jarno got ftpmaster's approval for that during an > informal conversation at debconf5 [1] but so far, there's been no > progress on this front. > > Since then,

Re: One more question to the candidates

2007-03-04 Thread Aigars Mahinovs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Forgot to ask this question: In your opinion, what is a good length of > total term for a DPL? IMHO one year is good enough as it provides a good way to re-evaluate the plans. If a DPL is doing his job good enough, then he should be re-elected to co

Re: Question to the candidates: inclusion of the kFreeBSD-* ports

2007-03-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sun, 04 Mar 2007, Anthony Towns wrote: > The other side is just making the Debian mirror network available for > kfreebsd users. With only a couple of dozen apparent users, I'm not > really convinced that's particularly valuable though. YMMV. Why did we do SCC for then ? I'm certainly uneasy w

Re: Question to the candidates: inclusion of the kFreeBSD-* ports

2007-03-04 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 06:13:28PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > But what I mean is more that maintaining two simple Debian patches (one > for Linux, one for kFreeBSD) is probably simpler than maintaining one > complicated Debian patch (with some conditional make cruft). And probably > more impor

Re: Question to the candidates: inclusion of the kFreeBSD-* ports

2007-03-04 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 04 mars 2007 à 18:13 +1000, Anthony Towns a écrit : > Yup, though that shouldn't be much of a challenge. The other problem > is that the list doesn't seem active, so it's not incredibly clear that > people are actively maintaining the port. The number of patches submitted for this port

Re: Question to the candidates: inclusion of the kFreeBSD-* ports

2007-03-04 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 09:50:24AM +0100, Petr Salinger wrote: > >seems to list under three DDs actively involved in the port, > OK, we miss one more current DD listed here. Yup, though that shouldn't be much of a challenge. The other problem is that the list doesn't seem active, so it's not incre

Re: Question to the candidates: inclusion of the kFreeBSD-* ports

2007-03-02 Thread Petr Salinger
Hi. Anthony Towns wrote: seems to list under three DDs actively involved in the port, OK, we miss one more current DD listed here. I don't really see how it would benefit from being added to the archive, porters NMU, posibility to start negotiation with RM to be included with lenny (aft

Re: Question to the candidates: inclusion of the kFreeBSD-* ports

2007-03-01 Thread Julien BLACHE
Anthony Towns wrote: > Personally, due to things like [0], I tend to think having different > sources for different OSes is likely to make sense; which isn't something > we can manage with the main archive as it stands. I disagree here. Building for different OSes from the same source will impr

Re: Question to the candidates: inclusion of the kFreeBSD-* ports

2007-03-01 Thread Frank Küster
Anthony Towns wrote: > Personally, due to things like [0], I tend to think having different > sources for different OSes is likely to make sense; which isn't something > we can manage with the main archive as it stands. > > Cheers, > aj > > [0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/0

Re: Question to the candidates: inclusion of the kFreeBSD-* ports

2007-03-01 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 05:17:01PM +0100, Julien BLACHE wrote: > The kFreeBSD ports are now in a good enough shape to be included in > unstable. Aur?lien Jarno got ftpmaster's approval for that during an > informal conversation at debconf5 [1] but so far, there's been no > progress on this front.

Re: Question to the candidates: inclusion of the kFreeBSD-* ports

2007-02-27 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 2/27/07, Julien BLACHE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi DPL candidates, The kFreeBSD ports are now in a good enough shape to be included in unstable. Aurélien Jarno got ftpmaster's approval for that during an informal conversation at debconf5 [1] but so far, there's been no progress on this fron

Re: Question to the candidates: inclusion of the kFreeBSD-* ports

2007-02-27 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007, Julien BLACHE wrote: > Hence, what is your position on including those new, non-Linux ports ? Favourable. > What would the timeframe be like, according to you ? I see no reason to wait a single day more. For newer ports not already mentioned, I would like to make

Re: Question to the candidates: inclusion of the kFreeBSD-* ports

2007-02-27 Thread Petr Salinger
Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ah, I expected the candidates to take the 5 minutes it takes to get up to speed wrt the kFreeBSD ports by reading the appropriate status pages. I can't be expected to know everything about Debian; in this particular case, I didn't even know there *wer

Re: Question to the candidates: inclusion of the kFreeBSD-* ports

2007-02-27 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Julien BLACHE a écrit : > Hi DPL candidates, > > The kFreeBSD ports are now in a good enough shape to be included in > unstable. Aurélien Jarno got ftpmaster's approval for that during an > informal conversation at debconf5 [1] but so far, there's been no > progress on this front. > > Since then,

Re: Question to the candidates: inclusion of the kFreeBSD-* ports

2007-02-27 Thread Julien BLACHE
Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Totally agreed. Also, I think it was both courteous and wise to try >> to respond promptly; if you let a question sit, in my experience, it >> becomes harder to answer. > > In particular if one wants to answer the rest of the mail at once. > People start

Re: Question to the candidates: inclusion of the kFreeBSD-* ports

2007-02-27 Thread Frank Küster
Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 07:05:02PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 06:51:24PM +0100, Julien BLACHE wrote: >> > If you're not doing that when answering questions during the campaign, >> > how can I assume that you'll actu

Re: Question to the candidates: inclusion of the kFreeBSD-* ports

2007-02-27 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (27/02/2007): > I'd rather have a DPL that can prioritize and spend his time on what > would benefit the project the most [...] Like talking about ponies? -- Cyril Brulebois pgpsMgHYKjhFF.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Question to the candidates: inclusion of the kFreeBSD-* ports

2007-02-27 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 06:51:24PM +0100, Julien BLACHE wrote: > Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Ah, I expected the candidates to take the 5 minutes it takes to get up > >> to speed wrt the kFreeBSD ports by reading the appropriate status > >> pages. > > > > I can't be expected to k

Re: Question to the candidates: inclusion of the kFreeBSD-* ports

2007-02-27 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 07:05:02PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 06:51:24PM +0100, Julien BLACHE wrote: > > If you're not doing that when answering questions during the campaign, > > how can I assume that you'll actually do when you'll be DPL ? > > The amount of que

Re: Question to the candidates: inclusion of the kFreeBSD-* ports

2007-02-27 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2007-02-27, Julien BLACHE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If an ftpmaster was to charge an amount of money to include the new > architectures (as was the case for amd64), what would, according to Huh? what has been the case for amd64? please enlighten me. /Sune -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: Question to the candidates: inclusion of the kFreeBSD-* ports

2007-02-27 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 06:51:24PM +0100, Julien BLACHE wrote: > If you're not doing that when answering questions during the campaign, > how can I assume that you'll actually do when you'll be DPL ? The amount of questions asked during a typical DPL campaign period is nearly insane. I'd rather h

Re: Question to the candidates: inclusion of the kFreeBSD-* ports

2007-02-27 Thread Julien BLACHE
Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Giving a reasonable time estimate would require me to know a *slight* > bit more about the FreeBSD ports than I do at this point in time; so I > won't try it. Ah, I expected the candidates to take the 5 minutes it takes to get up to speed wrt the kFree

Re: Question to the candidates: inclusion of the kFreeBSD-* ports

2007-02-27 Thread Mohammed Adnène Trojette
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > I would worry much more if ftpmasters refused patches implementing > their projects when at the same time they are seeking funding. It's > unlikely to ever happen IMO. What do you think about them just "refusing patches" or ignoring them (not commenti

Re: Question to the candidates: inclusion of the kFreeBSD-* ports

2007-02-27 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Sune Vuorela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 2007-02-27, Julien BLACHE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> If an ftpmaster was to charge an amount of money to include the new >> architectures (as was the case for amd64), what would, according to > Huh? what has been the case for amd64? please enlighten

Re: Question to the candidates: inclusion of the kFreeBSD-* ports

2007-02-27 Thread Julien BLACHE
Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Ah, I expected the candidates to take the 5 minutes it takes to get up >> to speed wrt the kFreeBSD ports by reading the appropriate status >> pages. > > I can't be expected to know everything about Debian; in this particular > case, I didn't even know

Re: One more question to the candidates

2007-02-27 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007, Kalle Kivimaa wrote: > I was unclear again. I meant, "how many times will you seek > re-election if you are re-elected?" Zero times. I think one year is already enough to achieve great things. Two years is OK if the project believes the DPL did good. After that, fresh

Re: Question to the candidates: inclusion of the kFreeBSD-* ports

2007-02-27 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 05:17:01PM +0100, Julien BLACHE wrote: > Hi DPL candidates, > > The kFreeBSD ports are now in a good enough shape to be included in > unstable. Aurélien Jarno got ftpmaster's approval for that during an > informal conversation at debconf5 [1] but so far, there's been no > p

Re: Question to the candidates: inclusion of the kFreeBSD-* ports

2007-02-27 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi Julien, On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Julien BLACHE wrote: > Since then, the SCC split happened and ftp-master moved to ries, so > adding more architectures to the archive is no longer a problem, AIUI. > > Hence, what is your position on including those new, non-Linux ports ? I have no problem with th

Re: Question to the candidates: inclusion of the kFreeBSD-* ports

2007-02-27 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 06:25:31PM +0100, Julien BLACHE wrote: > Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Giving a reasonable time estimate would require me to know a *slight* > > bit more about the FreeBSD ports than I do at this point in time; so I > > won't try it. > > Ah, I expected t

Re: Question to the candidates: inclusion of the kFreeBSD-* ports

2007-02-27 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Mohammed Adnène Trojette wrote: > On Tue, Feb 27, 2007, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > I would worry much more if ftpmasters refused patches implementing > > their projects when at the same time they are seeking funding. It's > > unlikely to ever happen IMO. > > What do you think

Re: Question to the candidates: inclusion of the kFreeBSD-* ports

2007-02-27 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 06:20:14PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 05:17:01PM +0100, Julien BLACHE wrote: > > If an ftpmaster was to charge an amount of money to include the new > > architectures (as was the case for amd64), what would, according to > > you, be a reasonable

Question to the candidates: inclusion of the kFreeBSD-* ports

2007-02-27 Thread Julien BLACHE
Hi DPL candidates, The kFreeBSD ports are now in a good enough shape to be included in unstable. Aurélien Jarno got ftpmaster's approval for that during an informal conversation at debconf5 [1] but so far, there's been no progress on this front. Since then, the SCC split happened and ftp-master m

Re: One more question to the candidates

2007-02-27 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 10:31:29AM +0200, Kalle Kivimaa wrote: > Forgot to ask this question: In your opinion, what is a good length of > total term for a DPL? AIUI, we've never had a DPL last for three years -- Ian Murdock and Bruce Perens were two-and-a-half each (and didn't have competed electi

Re: One more question to the candidates

2007-02-26 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 2/26/07, Kalle Kivimaa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Forgot to ask this question: In your opinion, what is a good length of total term for a DPL? Hi Kalle, Maybe one year isn't enough to work on key topics to see a release (as a DPL), but i don't plan to be a candidate for a second time, if el

Re: One more question to the candidates

2007-02-26 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Kalle Kivimaa wrote: > Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 10:31:29AM +0200, Kalle Kivimaa wrote: > >> Forgot to ask this question: In your opinion, what is a good length of > >> total term for a DPL? > > > > I have always thought that a one-

Re: One more question to the candidates

2007-02-26 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 04:18:05PM +0200, Kalle Kivimaa wrote: > Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 10:31:29AM +0200, Kalle Kivimaa wrote: > >> Forgot to ask this question: In your opinion, what is a good length of > >> total term for a DPL? > > > > I have alway

Re: One more question to the candidates

2007-02-26 Thread Kalle Kivimaa
Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 10:31:29AM +0200, Kalle Kivimaa wrote: >> Forgot to ask this question: In your opinion, what is a good length of >> total term for a DPL? > > I have always thought that a one-year term might be too short, since it > does not allo

Re: One more question to the candidates

2007-02-26 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 10:31:29AM +0200, Kalle Kivimaa wrote: > Forgot to ask this question: In your opinion, what is a good length of > total term for a DPL? I have always thought that a one-year term might be too short, since it does not allow for too much action by the DPL. However, I never fe

One more question to the candidates

2007-02-26 Thread Kalle Kivimaa
Forgot to ask this question: In your opinion, what is a good length of total term for a DPL? -- * Sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology (T.P) * * PGP public key available @ http://www.iki.fi/killer * -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A(nother) question to the candidates

2004-03-23 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Mario Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-03-22 14:14]: > OK, I admit I am late. I wanted to ask this some days ago, but > apparently forgot about it, and now, the voting period already > started. If you feel for some reason that it is inappropriate to > answer this question after the voting period

Re: A(nother) question to the candidates

2004-03-23 Thread Mario Lang
"Benj. Mako Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 02:14:39PM +0100, Mario Lang wrote: >> I have seen lots of discussions about CDD and splitting up Debian >> into a core and more-or-less independent topic specific sections >> recently. While I can perfectly understand the mot

Re: A(nother) question to the candidates

2004-03-23 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Mario Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-03-22 14:14]: > OK, I admit I am late. I wanted to ask this some days ago, but > apparently forgot about it, and now, the voting period already > started. If you feel for some reason that it is inappropriate to > answer this question after the voting period

Re: A(nother) question to the candidates

2004-03-23 Thread Mario Lang
"Benj. Mako Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 02:14:39PM +0100, Mario Lang wrote: >> I have seen lots of discussions about CDD and splitting up Debian >> into a core and more-or-less independent topic specific sections >> recently. While I can perfectly understand the mot

Re: A(nother) question to the candidates

2004-03-22 Thread Benj. Mako Hill
Yes. I know I'm not a candidate but I thought I'd answer this anyway to clarify what CDDs are doing and advocating. :) On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 02:14:39PM +0100, Mario Lang wrote: > I have seen lots of discussions about CDD and splitting up Debian > into a core and more-or-less independent topic sp

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 Benj. Mako Hill
Yes. I know I'm not a candidate but I thought I'd answer this anyway to clarify what CDDs are doing and advocating. :) On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 02:14:39PM +0100, Mario Lang wrote: > I have seen lots of discussions about CDD and splitting up Debian > into a core and more-or-less independent topic sp

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

A(nother) question to the candidates

2004-03-22 Thread Mario Lang
Hi. OK, I admit I am late. I wanted to ask this some days ago, but apparently forgot about it, and now, the voting period already started. If you feel for some reason that it is inappropriate to answer this question after the voting period has started, I'll have to accept this. Please accept my

A(nother) question to the candidates

2004-03-22 Thread Mario Lang
Hi. OK, I admit I am late. I wanted to ask this some days ago, but apparently forgot about it, and now, the voting period already started. If you feel for some reason that it is inappropriate to answer this question after the voting period has started, I'll have to accept this. Please accept my

Re: Question to the candidates about Debian and government

2002-03-05 Thread Bdale Garbee
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dale E Martin) writes: > Do you have ideas about/interest in these issues? Is it Debian's role to > play, or someone else's? My gut feeling is that this role might be more suited to SPI than Debian. Bdale

Re: Question to the candidates about Debian and government

2002-03-05 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 09:46:33AM -0500, Dale E Martin écrivait: > Do you have ideas about/interest in these issues? Is it Debian's role to > play, or someone else's? I think that we shouldn't be a force that can influence a government or anything like that. However I believe that we could suppo

Question to the candidates about Debian and government

2002-03-05 Thread Dale E Martin
This is from Branden's platform: > As DPL, I would like to take steps to get Debian's voice heard in the > halls of government if and where appropriate, so that our ideals -- and > our means of achieving them -- are not legislated out of existence by > governments hostile to them (or, more likely,

Re: Question to the candidates about Debian and government

2002-03-05 Thread Bdale Garbee
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dale E Martin) writes: > Do you have ideas about/interest in these issues? Is it Debian's role to > play, or someone else's? My gut feeling is that this role might be more suited to SPI than Debian. Bdale -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

Re: Question to the candidates about Debian and government

2002-03-05 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 09:46:33AM -0500, Dale E Martin écrivait: > Do you have ideas about/interest in these issues? Is it Debian's role to > play, or someone else's? I think that we shouldn't be a force that can influence a government or anything like that. However I believe that we could supp

Question to the candidates about Debian and government

2002-03-05 Thread Dale E Martin
This is from Branden's platform: > As DPL, I would like to take steps to get Debian's voice heard in the > halls of government if and where appropriate, so that our ideals -- and > our means of achieving them -- are not legislated out of existence by > governments hostile to them (or, more likely