Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-03-07 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 05:47:45AM +0100, Simon Richter wrote: > The idea itself is not a bad one, however during the entire course of > the experiment it was never questioned by the proponents that we should > go through with it. Declaring it an experiment did not have the desired > effect of m

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-03-06 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 12:32:03PM +, MJ Ray wrote: > QUESTION 2: > Firstly, several candidates have not worn any comparable hat AFAIK, > so how could I decide whether they would use a DPL hat wisely? I'm not sure you can. Personally, I'd rather see us establish a habit of having people assi

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-03-06 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 12:56:10AM +, MJ Ray wrote: > Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:[...] > > None; or, at least, not more than I currently do. Except, perhaps, on > > IRC, but then I don't expect the press to appear there. > > I warn you, there are reporters on IRC during meetings

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-03-06 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Mon, 05 Mar 2007, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 12:32:03PM +, MJ Ray wrote: > > QUESTION 1: > > > > Some DDs expressed those views and some candidates seem to be interpreting > > this as a general debian money-hate or business-hate. What evidence > > is there that

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-03-05 Thread MJ Ray
Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:[...] > [It's not entirely clear whether you want everyone to reply to this, or > just Aigars. [...] ] Sorry. I'm interested in replies from any candidates. I'll leave the questions untrimmed below, just in case. > On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 12:32:03PM +00

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-03-05 Thread Aigars Mahinovs
MJ Ray wrote: > Aigars Mahinovs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> * from the negative side we can see that Debian does not like money. In >> particular two things come to mind - Debian as a project should not pay >> people (any payments must be totally separate from Debian) and Debian >> does not neces

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-03-05 Thread Wouter Verhelst
[It's not entirely clear whether you want everyone to reply to this, or just Aigars. I'm answering anyway, just to be on the safe side :) ] On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 12:32:03PM +, MJ Ray wrote: > QUESTION 1: > > Some DDs expressed those views and some candidates seem to be interpreting > this a

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-03-05 Thread MJ Ray
Aigars Mahinovs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * from the negative side we can see that Debian does not like money. In > particular two things come to mind - Debian as a project should not pay > people (any payments must be totally separate from Debian) and Debian > does not necessary trust the paid

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-03-04 Thread Frank Küster
Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please drop this, you know the history as well as everybody. Anthony > started the discussion with his DPL hat because he wanted to do that > within Debian. > > After discussions, he decided to continue that experience outside of > Debian as DD. One can

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-03-04 Thread Frank Küster
Kalle Kivimaa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I'm confused. In your other mail you wrote > > I think you find that *I* wrote what you quoted after this. Uups, sorry. I was really confused. Just forget about it. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Sin

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-03-04 Thread Clint Adams
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 10:02:29PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > After discussions, he decided to continue that experience outside of > Debian as DD. One can discuss how much he succeeded at that, but the > distinction between the initial idea launch as DPL and the setup as DD > should be pretty

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-03-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sun, 04 Mar 2007, Frank Küster wrote: > > I think that dunc-tank was a very good idea on the part of AJ, a DPL > > looking for new ways in which to help the release process. > > I'm confused. In your other mail you wrote > > , > | My belief is that the DPL hat is something you can take o

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-03-04 Thread Kalle Kivimaa
Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm confused. In your other mail you wrote I think you find that *I* wrote what you quoted after this. -- * Sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology (T.P) * * PGP public key available @ http://www.iki.fi/killer

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-03-04 Thread Frank Küster
Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [ First of all, apologies for the delayed response; I'm catching up > > after several days of FOSDEM-plague :-( ] > > Hi Mike, > > On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 09:50:41AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: >>H

on hats... Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-03-04 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, this is maybe a bit off-topic here, but as the notion of "hats" have become quite popular in Debian in the last two years or so, I want to comment on this. On Sunday 04 March 2007 19:57, Kalle Kivimaa wrote: > My belief is that the DPL hat is something you can take off. Yes. But if the ot

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-03-04 Thread Kalle Kivimaa
Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Finally, I'm curious - where do you stand on these issues? Well, I guess I should send this as a private email to Steve, but considering that most of the candidates have answered these already, here are my personal opinions :) >>What is the role of the

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-03-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
[ First of all, apologies for the delayed response; I'm catching up after several days of FOSDEM-plague :-( ] Hi Ana, On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 12:13:12AM +0100, Ana Guerrero wrote: >Hi, here my questions: > >Why do you think you will be a good DPL? As I've said in

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-03-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
[ First of all, apologies for the delayed response; I'm catching up after several days of FOSDEM-plague :-( ] Hi Mike, On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 09:50:41AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: >Hi, > >These questions may be skipped by AJ, because the

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-03-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
[ First of all, apologies for the delayed response; I'm catching up after several days of FOSDEM-plague :-( ] Hi Kalle, On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 07:57:21AM +0200, Kalle Kivimaa wrote: >Now that we are well into the campaigning period, I'd like to ask each >candidate a couple of questions. Feel f

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-03-04 Thread Aigars Mahinovs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Why do you think you will be a good DPL? Because I have the vision of how Debian can maintain its former (and, to lesser extend, current) importance in the free software movement. I am also good at looking at a problem from multiple points of view a

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-03-04 Thread Aigars Mahinovs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > What do you think of the dunc-tank initiative ? What do you think are > the result of the "experiment" ? I think that result is twofold: * from the positive side we can see that people who are paid to do a specific job, can do that job with a higher

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-03-04 Thread Aigars Mahinovs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > What is the role of the DPL? Is he a strong leader, who uses his > position to Get Things Done His Way, a public figurehead, who just > Speaks For The Project, a mediator, who tries to solve internal > squabbles, or something else? A DPL should be a

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-03-02 Thread Frank Küster
Simon Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Do you feel that the DPL is first and foremost The Debian Project >> Leader, in the sense that anything Debian-related the DPL does, he >> does so as the DPL, not as a DD or a private person? > > Both. Foremost, the position of the DPL is a "hat" that ca

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-03-01 Thread Simon Richter
Hello, Ana Guerrero wrote: Why do you think you will be a good DPL? I see the role of the DPL mostly as a mediator; for that to work it is important to listen and to be able to put one's own opinion aside; both of which I think I can do. What you can for Debian as DPL that you can not do

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-03-01 Thread Simon Richter
Hello, What do you think of the dunc-tank initiative ? What do you think are the result of the "experiment" ? I think we should have been able to see the outcome before trying it. The idea itself is not a bad one, however during the entire course of the experiment it was never questioned by

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-03-01 Thread Simon Richter
I wrote: There is a lot of gray area between those extremes, and we have to decide on a case-by-case basis. I can see Debian spending more money than it used to (e.g. to get some of the developer machines back up), but I want to avoid both setting precedent and starting an internal competitio

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-03-01 Thread Simon Richter
Hello, Kalle Kivimaa wrote: What is the role of the DPL? Is he a strong leader, who uses his position to Get Things Done His Way, a public figurehead, who just Speaks For The Project, a mediator, who tries to solve internal squabbles, or something else? The current role seems to be that the D

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-03-01 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 04:55:58PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > Unfortunately we have big cultural differences when it comes to use of the > > money. Some people [...] feel they are some sort of second class > > developers because they will never h

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-02-28 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 05:16:34PM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 04:55:58PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > Unfortunately we have big cultural differences when it comes to use of the > > money. Some people [...] feel they are some sort of second class > > developers bec

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-02-28 Thread Frank Küster
Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 04:55:58PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >> Unfortunately we have big cultural differences when it comes to use of the >> money. Some people [...] feel they are some sort of second class >> developers because they will never have

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-02-28 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 17:16 +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > Hey, that's not really a cultural difference here. If you really > already know for sure some people won't never ever get paid, how could > they feel otherwise? How about: "I couldn't care less"? I think you illustrated a part of the pro

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-02-28 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 04:55:58PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Unfortunately we have big cultural differences when it comes to use of the > money. Some people [...] feel they are some sort of second class > developers because they will never have that opportunity to earn money > while doing Deb

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-02-28 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Sun, 25 Feb 2007, Mike Hommey wrote: > Hi, > > These questions may be skipped by AJ, because the answers are obvious. > > What do you think of the dunc-tank initiative ? As you know, I've been involved in the dunc-tank board. I accepted the offer of Anthony because I'm really interested

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-02-28 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007, Anthony Towns wrote: > 1) raising money to support Debian activities people care about is > possible in reasonable amounts Ack. > 2) it's difficult to pay people to work on core Debian things if > you do it publically Wow, that's quite a shortcut. I'd have

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-02-28 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007, Kalle Kivimaa wrote: > What is the role of the DPL? Is he a strong leader, who uses his > position to Get Things Done His Way, a public figurehead, who just > Speaks For The Project, a mediator, who tries to solve internal > squabbles, or something else? The DPL is a stro

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-02-28 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007, Mike Hommey wrote: > What do you think of the dunc-tank initiative ? First the good things. I clearly think dunc-tank helped Steve and Andi be more productive, and all things equal otherwise this improved the release. There is no denying that. I see several problems w

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-02-27 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007, Ana Guerrero wrote: > Why do you think you will be a good DPL? I am a reasonable, friendly person. I think most people in the project like me as a person, and there is no one I'd be unwilling to work with or listen to. I am happy to delegate, give power to others, and rea

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-02-27 Thread Clint Adams
> Huh, dunc-tank != the Project Clint, the DD != Clint, the person mocking you right now. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-02-27 Thread Frank Küster
Kalle Kivimaa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I absolutely don't like the implications of that assertion. > > Well, if an entity A feels that they would benefit from paying a DD > for his Debian work, they have two choices: > > 1. They can do it public

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-02-27 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 01:07:24PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-02-27 14:03]: > > In the context of A beeing the DPL, understand my reservations about > > it. Remember that the subject is dunc-tank, not _an_ anynymous foo > > structure, but the Projec

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-02-27 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-02-27 14:03]: > In the context of A beeing the DPL, understand my reservations about > it. Remember that the subject is dunc-tank, not _an_ anynymous foo > structure, but the Project (or some part of it) paying Developers. Huh, dunc-tank != the Project -

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-02-27 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 01:45:50PM +0200, Kalle Kivimaa wrote: > Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I absolutely don't like the implications of that assertion. > > Well, if an entity A feels that they would benefit from paying a DD > for his Debian work, they have two choices: > >

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-02-27 Thread Kalle Kivimaa
Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am *sick* of that assimilation of people against dunc-tank being those > who feel DDs can't be paid. Just stop the FUD. Well, a brief look at the archives produced these exhibits: [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2006/10/msg00100.html [2]

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-02-27 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 27 février 2007 à 13:45 +0200, Kalle Kivimaa a écrit : > Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I absolutely don't like the implications of that assertion. > > Well, if an entity A feels that they would benefit from paying a DD > for his Debian work, they have two choices: > >

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-02-27 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 27 février 2007 à 18:36 +1000, Anthony Towns a écrit : > I'd rather see a Dunc-Tank report (and criticism and > analysis of that) before thinking more about it. Aren't you the one supposed to write it? -- .''`. : :' : We are debian.org. Lower your prices, surrender your code. `. `

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-02-27 Thread Frank Küster
Anthony Towns wrote: > On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 09:50:41AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: >> These questions may be skipped by AJ, because the answers are obvious. > > Hrm, I wonder if what's "obvious" matches what I actually think. > >> What do you think of the dunc-tank initiative ? > > I think peop

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-02-27 Thread Kalle Kivimaa
Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I absolutely don't like the implications of that assertion. Well, if an entity A feels that they would benefit from paying a DD for his Debian work, they have two choices: 1. They can do it publicly, or 2. They can just work the details out with the

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-02-27 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 06:54:35PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 09:50:41AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > > What do you think are the result of the "experiment" ? > Some results are easy though: > > [...] > > 2) it's difficult to pay people to work on core Debian things if

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-02-27 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 07:57:21AM +0200, Kalle Kivimaa wrote: > What is the role of the DPL? Being a visible example of what the project stands for -- that means doing useful things, working with other people, promoting free software, standing up for what they believe, and yes, doing things that

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-02-27 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 09:50:41AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > These questions may be skipped by AJ, because the answers are obvious. Hrm, I wonder if what's "obvious" matches what I actually think. > What do you think of the dunc-tank initiative ? I think people should be able to help Debian i

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-02-27 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 12:13:12AM +0100, Ana Guerrero wrote: > Why do you think you will be a good DPL? I think the DPL needs to be able to make decisions, even if that means making mistakes or getting flamed or making compromises. It's easy for Debian to talk about things forever, but it's more

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-02-26 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 2/26/07, Mohammed Adnène Trojette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Feb 26, 2007, Gustavo Franco wrote: > >- Hard work - the reduced participation made more work hard work IMO; > > Some worked harder to find and solve RC bugs. Take a wall. Take a car going fast towards this wall. Take peop

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-02-26 Thread Mohammed Adnène Trojette
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007, Gustavo Franco wrote: > >- Hard work - the reduced participation made more work hard work IMO; > > Some worked harder to find and solve RC bugs. Take a wall. Take a car going fast towards this wall. Take people working hard to take the wall down so that the car doesn't hit

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-02-26 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 2/25/07, Ana Guerrero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, here my questions: Why do you think you will be a good DPL? I will work for and with the high skilled and motivated people in the project, being sure that one time contributors won't be treated as second class developers, if it will make

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-02-26 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 2/26/07, MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Gustavo Franco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > - Sense of participation > There is no community without a group of individuals participating and > a better community is one where these individuals feel that they're > part of the group. > > - Hard w

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-02-26 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Ana Guerrero wrote: > Why do you think you will be a good DPL? The anwer to this question depends on what you expect from a "good DPL". I think I can do a good job with a DPL board because I have a long experience both as "simple DD" and as members of various internal teams (

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-02-26 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hello, On Sun, 25 Feb 2007, Kalle Kivimaa wrote: > Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > So your question is "What about paying people to have first-class support > > on some of our core infrastructure", is that correct ? > > Exactly, thanks for a better wording. I don't think it's a g

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-02-26 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 12:13:12AM +0100, Ana Guerrero wrote: > Why do you think you will be a good DPL? Two things: first, when discussing matters with other people, I generally try to see their point of view before coming up with a proposal that will work for the both of us, thereby trying to co

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-02-26 Thread MJ Ray
Gustavo Franco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > - Sense of participation > There is no community without a group of individuals participating and > a better community is one where these individuals feel that they're > part of the group. > > - Hard work > There is no doubt that hard work can be d

Questions to the candidates

2007-02-25 Thread Ana Guerrero
Hi, here my questions: Why do you think you will be a good DPL? What you can for Debian as DPL that you can not do as a mere DD? What do you think of the current NM process? Ana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-02-25 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 11:23:53PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 07:57:21AM +0200, Kalle Kivimaa wrote: > > How do you feel about spending Debian monies into buying core > > infrastructure support? > > If that is required and would help the project, then we should do it.

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-02-25 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 09:50:41AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > Hi, > > These questions may be skipped by AJ, because the answers are obvious. > > What do you think of the dunc-tank initiative ? I have always thought there is nothing inherently wrong with paying people to do Debian work. I applau

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-02-25 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi! On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 07:57:21AM +0200, Kalle Kivimaa wrote: > Now that we are well into the campaigning period, I'd like to ask each > candidate a couple of questions. Feel free to say that "this is > answered in my platform", if that is the case. > > What is the role of the DPL? Is he a s

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-02-25 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 2/25/07, Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 04:33:48PM -0200, Gustavo Franco wrote: > On 2/25/07, Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Hi, > > Hi Mike, > > >These questions may be skipped by AJ, because the answers are obvious. > > I would like to read his

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-02-25 Thread Kalle Kivimaa
"Gustavo Franco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I will add your questions and my answers into my campaign page, ok? Yes, all candidates (and others, too) may consider my post as a whole and as individual questions as being licensed under BSD license, without any attribution clauses, or alternativel

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-02-25 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 2/25/07, Kalle Kivimaa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Now that we are well into the campaigning period, I'd like to ask each candidate a couple of questions. Feel free to say that "this is answered in my platform", if that is the case. What is the role of the DPL? Is he a strong leader, who uses

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-02-25 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 04:33:48PM -0200, Gustavo Franco wrote: > On 2/25/07, Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Hi, > > Hi Mike, > > >These questions may be skipped by AJ, because the answers are obvious. > > I would like to read his answers too. > > >What do you think of the dunc-tank

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-02-25 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 2/25/07, Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Hi Mike, These questions may be skipped by AJ, because the answers are obvious. I would like to read his answers too. What do you think of the dunc-tank initiative ? I think that the initiative affected the Debian community as a who

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-02-25 Thread Kalle Kivimaa
Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So your question is "What about paying people to have first-class support > on some of our core infrastructure", is that correct ? Exactly, thanks for a better wording. -- * Sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology (T.P) * *

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-02-25 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sun, 25 Feb 2007, Kalle Kivimaa wrote: > Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Can you give more specific examples of what could be the "core > > infrastructure support" ? > > Feel free to include/exclude any infrastructure you like, but just to > give an example, how about our buildd

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-02-25 Thread Kalle Kivimaa
Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can you give more specific examples of what could be the "core > infrastructure support" ? Feel free to include/exclude any infrastructure you like, but just to give an example, how about our buildd network administration (and no, I'm not saying that o

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-02-25 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Sun, 25 Feb 2007, Kalle Kivimaa wrote: > What is the role of the DPL? > Is he a strong leader, who uses his position to Get Things Done His Way, No, this is not possible unless he's ready to do everything by himself. Even then, it's always better to have some other people backing up one's

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-02-25 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 09:50:41AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > Hi, > > These questions may be skipped by AJ, because the answers are obvious. > > What do you think of the dunc-tank initiative ? What do you think are > the result of the "experiment" ? Well, I'm (for my part) still waiting for a

Questions to the candidates

2007-02-25 Thread Mike Hommey
Hi, These questions may be skipped by AJ, because the answers are obvious. What do you think of the dunc-tank initiative ? What do you think are the result of the "experiment" ? Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECT

Questions to the candidates

2007-02-24 Thread Kalle Kivimaa
Now that we are well into the campaigning period, I'd like to ask each candidate a couple of questions. Feel free to say that "this is answered in my platform", if that is the case. What is the role of the DPL? Is he a strong leader, who uses his position to Get Things Done His Way, a public figur

Re: Questions to the candidates

2006-03-17 Thread Julien BLACHE
Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, >> 4. In light of the well organised presence of Skolelinux and the >>professional presence of Ubuntu at several conferences and exhibitions >>do you believe Debian is represented adequately? > > I know it is a biaised view point, but as far a

Re: Questions to the candidates

2006-03-17 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 08:16:34AM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > 4. In light of the well organised presence of Skolelinux and the >professional presence of Ubuntu at several conferences and exhibitions >do you believe Debian is represented adequately? I know it is a biaised view point, bu

Re: Questions to the candidates

2006-03-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 11:46:00PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > > - I don't know how widely torrents of our CD and DVD images >are used and if we run our own tracker software (or whatever >is needed). I'll respond to this bit, as I'm painfully aware of the issues. We (try to) push torre

Re: Debian Backup Server (was: Questions to the candidates)

2006-03-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Frank Küster wrote: > Moving this to -devel, it's off-topic for -vote; Cc to -admin. > > Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> At some place where it can be found even if you don't want to look up a > >> month-old announcement. What about http://db.debian.org/machines.cgi, > >> and th

Debian Backup Server (was: Questions to the candidates)

2006-03-13 Thread Frank Küster
Moving this to -devel, it's off-topic for -vote; Cc to -admin. Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> At some place where it can be found even if you don't want to look up a >> month-old announcement. What about http://db.debian.org/machines.cgi, >> and the developers reference, in the sec

Re: Questions to the candidates

2006-03-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Frank Küster wrote: > Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Frank Küster wrote: > >> >>5. Do you see any services for our users or developers missing or > >> >> poorly maintained? If so, which and what do you plan to do to > >> >> fix this? > >> > > >> > I'm not directly aware of an

Re: Questions to the candidates

2006-03-13 Thread Frank Küster
Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank Küster wrote: >> >>5. Do you see any services for our users or developers missing or >> >> poorly maintained? If so, which and what do you plan to do to >> >> fix this? >> > >> > I'm not directly aware of anything important missing at the mome

Re: Questions to the candidates

2006-03-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Frank Küster wrote: > >>5. Do you see any services for our users or developers missing or > >> poorly maintained? If so, which and what do you plan to do to > >> fix this? > > > > I'm not directly aware of anything important missing at the moment. I > > know that we struggled to get packages.d

Re: Questions to the candidates

2006-03-13 Thread Frank Küster
Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>5. Do you see any services for our users or developers missing or >> poorly maintained? If so, which and what do you plan to do to >> fix this? > > I'm not directly aware of anything important missing at the moment. I > know that we struggled to get

Re: Questions to the candidates

2006-03-10 Thread Martin Schulze
Steve McIntyre wrote: > I'll turn the question around - what do _you_ think we're missing or > not maintaining correctly? The services that I need are working OK, > but I'm only one person. I don't know of an important missing service, but I may have only a limited view. I'd still like to see a D

Re: Questions to the candidates

2006-03-10 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 08:16:34AM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: >Hi, > >I'd like to ask some questions to the prospecitve project leaders: > >1. Which are Debians top five strengths in your opinion? People - we have lots of developers, all doing their bit Freedom - we are focussed on Free Sof

Re: Questions to the candidates

2006-03-08 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 08:16:34AM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > I'd like to ask some questions to the prospecitve project leaders: > 1. Which are Debians top five strengths in your opinion? In no particular order: Breadth -- we include everything we can, and support whoever we can Freedom -

Re: Questions to the candidates

2006-03-08 Thread Andreas Schuldei
* Andrew Saunders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-03-08 09:40:21]: > Why has this not happened yet? Could we please have an update on this? Because the responsible person at NetApp (one of the VPs) is a busy man. I recently got news on the topic and that the machine is being worked on. I dont have a da

Re: Questions to the candidates

2006-03-08 Thread Andrew Saunders
On 3/8/06, Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 7. What is your opinion about the current situation with the snapshot >archive? Currently it doesn't run on projects assets. On 12/14/05, Andreas Schuldei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote [1]: > actually, NetApp (the storage company) and Intel

Questions to the candidates

2006-03-07 Thread Martin Schulze
Hi, I'd like to ask some questions to the prospecitve project leaders: 1. Which are Debians top five strengths in your opinion? 2. Where do you identify Debians top five problems? 3. Do you plan to do anything to change the public recognition that Debian suffers from severe release problems

Re: More questions to the candidates

2004-03-19 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 10:48:48PM +0200, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > 1. Debian currently supports more than 10 arches (just a quick check > in /ports. Obviously, trying to keep in sync all of them is too much. > And I hope I'm not the only one who sees that it's increasingly > becoming a bu

Re: More questions to the candidates

2004-03-19 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-03-17 11:24]: > You might want to add to that something about a charter for the people > who will be running it. [Something like: will coordinate with Debian > where it makes sense.] Yes, indeed. There are questions about who is going to run the project, w

Re: More questions to the candidates

2004-03-19 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 10:48:48PM +0200, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > 1. Debian currently supports more than 10 arches (just a quick check > in /ports. Obviously, trying to keep in sync all of them is too much. > And I hope I'm not the only one who sees that it's increasingly > becoming a bu

Re: More questions to the candidates

2004-03-19 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-03-17 11:24]: > You might want to add to that something about a charter for the people > who will be running it. [Something like: will coordinate with Debian > where it makes sense.] Yes, indeed. There are questions about who is going to run the project, w

Re: More questions to the candidates

2004-03-17 Thread Raul Miller
On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 10:38:28PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > In my opinion, the transition should look like this: > - a separate archive (e.g. non-free.org) should be set up, along with >other infrastructure, such as a bug tracking system. > - Packages should be moved there, bug report

Re: More questions to the candidates

2004-03-17 Thread Raul Miller
On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 10:38:28PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > In my opinion, the transition should look like this: > - a separate archive (e.g. non-free.org) should be set up, along with >other infrastructure, such as a bug tracking system. > - Packages should be moved there, bug report

Re: More questions to the candidates

2004-03-14 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Konstantinos Margaritis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-03-14 22:48]: > 1. Debian currently supports more than 10 arches (just a quick check > in /ports. Obviously, trying to keep in sync all of them is too > much. And I hope I'm not the only one who sees that it's > increasingly becoming a burden to

More questions to the candidates

2004-03-14 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
Hi to all, I have been following the past discussions on -vote, though I stayed quiet, being busy etc. Straight to the point: 1. Debian currently supports more than 10 arches (just a quick check in /ports. Obviously, trying to keep in sync all of them is too much. And I hope I'm not the only

Re: More questions to the candidates

2004-03-14 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Konstantinos Margaritis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-03-14 22:48]: > 1. Debian currently supports more than 10 arches (just a quick check > in /ports. Obviously, trying to keep in sync all of them is too > much. And I hope I'm not the only one who sees that it's > increasingly becoming a burden to

More questions to the candidates

2004-03-14 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
Hi to all, I have been following the past discussions on -vote, though I stayed quiet, being busy etc. Straight to the point: 1. Debian currently supports more than 10 arches (just a quick check in /ports. Obviously, trying to keep in sync all of them is too much. And I hope I'm not the only

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