Re: To all candidates: which way out of the project ?

2013-03-23 Thread Moray Allan
On 2013-03-23 19:16, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: On 23/03/13 at 12:46 +0300, Moray Allan wrote: Yes. But I would suggest that we should aim to build a really good contributor-tracking system Or improve the existing ones, such as the 'echelon' field in ldap (= last mailing list post), the mia db, ba

Re: To all candidates: which way out of the project ?

2013-03-23 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 23/03/13 at 12:46 +0300, Moray Allan wrote: > On 2013-03-23 05:54, Paul Wise wrote: > >There are definitely people in that position (I can think of at least > >one), it would be interesting to quantify how many Debian members > >make > >no visible contributions, if for no other reason than makin

Re: To all candidates: which way out of the project ?

2013-03-23 Thread Moray Allan
On 2013-03-22 23:23, Moray Allan wrote: As other replies have said, this seems to be much less of a solved problem in recent years Since someone asked: yes, this is an accidental blend from editing "seems to be a solved problem" insufficiently towards "seems to be much less of a problem". I'

Re: To all candidates: which way out of the project ?

2013-03-23 Thread Moray Allan
On 2013-03-23 05:54, Paul Wise wrote: There are definitely people in that position (I can think of at least one), it would be interesting to quantify how many Debian members make no visible contributions, if for no other reason than making their contributions (if any) visible. Yes. But I wou

Re: To all candidates: which way out of the project ?

2013-03-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 4:23 AM, Moray Allan wrote: > retire gracefully. It's still possible for someone to continue as a project > member indefinitely if they want to, without doing any work, if they get rid > of all their responsibilities first, but I don't think that a large enough > number of

Re: To all candidates: which way out of the project ?

2013-03-22 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 10:15:32AM +0100, Gergely Nagy a écrit : > > Do you see a particular problem, or shortcoming, perhaps, that you'd > like to see solved? Hi all, the problem I was trying to solve was to find more differences between the candidates :) For instance, one of you might have an

Re: To all candidates: which way out of the project ?

2013-03-22 Thread Moray Allan
On 2013-03-20 05:22, Charles Plessy wrote: In Debian, we stay member until we die or quit (or very exceptionally, are expelled). The consequence is that it is hard to evaluate how much active members we have. It may also create more crispations about giving membership. As other replies have

Re: To all candidates: which way out of the project ?

2013-03-20 Thread Gergely Nagy
Charles Plessy writes: > In Debian, we stay member until we die or quit (or very exceptionally, are > expelled). The consequence is that it is hard to evaluate how much active > members we have. It may also create more crispations about giving membership. > > We often discussed about how to bec

Re: To all candidates: which way out of the project ?

2013-03-19 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 20/03/13 at 11:22 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Hi, > > I did not manage to formulate a better subject... the question is about what > should be the usual way to end our formal membership in the Debian project. > > In Debian, we stay member until we die or quit (or very exceptionally, are > e

Re: To all candidates: which way out of the project ?

2013-03-19 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Charles Plessy (20/03/2013): > In Debian, we stay member until we die or quit (or very exceptionally, are > expelled). […] Or spotted as being MIA. This might help: http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/MIA Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

To all candidates: which way out of the project ?

2013-03-19 Thread Charles Plessy
Hi, I did not manage to formulate a better subject... the question is about what should be the usual way to end our formal membership in the Debian project. In Debian, we stay member until we die or quit (or very exceptionally, are expelled). The consequence is that it is hard to evaluate how mu