Re: Reflections about the questions for the candidates

2006-03-28 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Enrico Zini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-03-05 14:20]: > On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 02:27:36AM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > > Actually, in a recent chatting one of the past DPLs told me that he > > > tried at some point, but the feedback he got was roughly "who cares?". > > Since we talked recent

Re: Reflections about the questions for the candidates

2006-03-10 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 02:58:04PM +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > On Sun, 2006-03-05 at 01:16 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Uh, for one thing, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" != "DPL Team". > > Maybe it would have been a good idea then to publicize a point of > contact for your team. You did not, therefo

Re: Reflections about the questions for the candidates

2006-03-06 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 11:16:48AM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > There was no contact address for the DPL-team, or atleast none > that I know off, so it's rather hard to ask them. The only > available address that I know of is [EMAIL PROTECTED] And as > far as I know, there wasn't even an official

Re: Reflections about the questions for the candidates

2006-03-06 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 09:49:29AM +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > Hello Enrico, > > > But there's more than that. In the last year as part of the DPL Team, > > people have been criticising the last year for the lack of reports. But > > I don't remember a single one sending in a mail like "Dear

Re: Reflections about the questions for the candidates

2006-03-06 Thread Andreas Barth
* Thijs Kinkhorst ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060306 14:58]: > On Sun, 2006-03-05 at 01:16 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Uh, for one thing, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" != "DPL Team". > > Maybe it would have been a good idea then to publicize a point of > contact for your team. You did not, therefore I think

Re: Reflections about the questions for the candidates

2006-03-06 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Sun, 2006-03-05 at 01:16 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > Uh, for one thing, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" != "DPL Team". Maybe it would have been a good idea then to publicize a point of contact for your team. You did not, therefore I think Enrico is wrongly annoyed by the lack of input to the team. I d

Re: DPL reports [was: Re: Reflections about the questions for the candidates]

2006-03-06 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 07:59:34PM +0100, Enrico Zini wrote: > On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 11:05:04AM -0500, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > > Hi Kevin. > > > I'm not sure that I understand the reasons why the efforts couldn't be > > reported, at least to debian-private. Are they one or more of the > > fo

Re: Reflections about the questions for the candidates

2006-03-05 Thread Frank Küster
Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The missing announcement is totally my fault, so please don't blame > any DPL for this. I don't think this is the point. If the DPL had cared about the problem and about transparency, he'd asked you how the service is running and why it hasn't been a

Re: Reflections about the questions for the candidates

2006-03-05 Thread Martin Schulze
Frank Küster wrote: > > * Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-03-05 18:48]: > >> I also asked the DPL a question about backups of the development > >> machines (after the CVS corruption last year) and never got any answer. > > > > FWIW, there is a dedicated backup server now. I don't know any >

Re: Reflections about the questions for the candidates

2006-03-05 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-03-05 21:05]: > > FWIW, there is a dedicated backup server now. I don't know any > > details though (nor why it was never announced). > So you also don't know what is backed up, and how often? No, I only know that there's a dedicated backup server and that

Re: Reflections about the questions for the candidates

2006-03-05 Thread Frank Küster
Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-03-05 18:48]: >> I also asked the DPL a question about backups of the development >> machines (after the CVS corruption last year) and never got any answer. > > FWIW, there is a dedicated backup server now. I d

Re: Reflections about the questions for the candidates

2006-03-05 Thread Joey Hess
Enrico Zini wrote: > I just went back to the mail archive of that time and stopped reading > after a while because of anger rising: lots of good efforts have been > done, and the instant reaction to those was in various case absolutely > disappointing. It's all stuff you can't put in a report: you

Re: Reflections about the questions for the candidates

2006-03-05 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-03-05 18:48]: > I also asked the DPL a question about backups of the development > machines (after the CVS corruption last year) and never got any answer. FWIW, there is a dedicated backup server now. I don't know any details though (nor why it was never a

Re: DPL reports [was: Re: Reflections about the questions for the candidates]

2006-03-05 Thread Enrico Zini
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 11:05:04AM -0500, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: Hi Kevin. > I'm not sure that I understand the reasons why the efforts couldn't be > reported, at least to debian-private. Are they one or more of the > following, and if so, which? Among your categories, the ones that most apply

Re: Reflections about the questions for the candidates

2006-03-05 Thread Frank Küster
Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However, what you say in your message (if people had > asked for status reports they would've received them) is blatantly > wrong. We did ask, and (usually) no good response was given. I also asked the DPL a question about backups of the development

DPL reports [was: Re: Reflections about the questions for the candidates]

2006-03-05 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Enrico, I have some questions about what you've written regarding the DPL reports. Perhaps I am just being dense, but some of it seemed purposely obscure. This probably isn't really germane to debian-vote anymore, so please follow up (if you like

Re: Reflections about the questions for the candidates

2006-03-05 Thread Lars Wirzenius
su, 2006-03-05 kello 15:49 +0200, Lars Wirzenius kirjoitti: > su, 2006-03-05 kello 14:20 +0100, Enrico Zini kirjoitti: > > On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 10:44:17AM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > > > > And yes, a couple of times I did ask, although on IRC and not via > > > e-mail. Having to drag out in

Re: Reflections about the questions for the candidates

2006-03-05 Thread Lars Wirzenius
su, 2006-03-05 kello 14:20 +0100, Enrico Zini kirjoitti: > On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 10:44:17AM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > > And yes, a couple of times I did ask, although on IRC and not via > > e-mail. Having to drag out information gets tiresome so I only did it a > > couple of times. > > D

Re: Reflections about the questions for the candidates

2006-03-05 Thread Enrico Zini
Hi, On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 02:27:36AM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > However, what you say in your message (if people had > asked for status reports they would've received them) is blatantly > wrong. We did ask, and (usually) no good response was given. this turns out to be interesting: we h

Re: Reflections about the questions for the candidates

2006-03-05 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 03:11:58AM +0100, Enrico Zini wrote: > > But there's more than that. In the last year as part of the DPL Team, > people have been criticising the last year for the lack of reports. But > I don't remember a single one sending in a mail like "Dear DPL[-Team], > what happene

Re: Reflections about the questions for the candidates

2006-03-05 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 09:49:29AM +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > Hello Enrico, > > But there's more than that. In the last year as part of the DPL Team, > > people have been criticising the last year for the lack of reports. But > > I don't remember a single one sending in a mail like "Dear DP

Re: Reflections about the questions for the candidates

2006-03-05 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Hello Enrico, > But there's more than that. In the last year as part of the DPL Team, > people have been criticising the last year for the lack of reports. But > I don't remember a single one sending in a mail like "Dear DPL[-Team], > what happened last week?". > > It would have been a pleasure

Re: Reflections about the questions for the candidates

2006-03-05 Thread Lars Wirzenius
su, 2006-03-05 kello 03:11 +0100, Enrico Zini kirjoitti: > It would have been pointless to come out with such trivial reports. I disagree. They let the project know that things are going on (or not going on), and the DPL and Team are not just dormant, which was the impression I, at least, had for

Re: Reflections about the questions for the candidates

2006-03-04 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Enrico Zini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-03-05 03:11]: > In the last year as part of the DPL Team, people have been > criticising the last year for the lack of reports. But I don't > remember a single one sending in a mail like "Dear DPL[-Team], what > happened last week?". Such questions were ask