Re: What will improve Debian most?

2009-04-10 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 04:04:22PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: > You're also making some implicit assumptions about what is available - > are there really 9855 new projects that should have been added to Debian > last year that weren't? Via twitter [0] here's another point of comparison: the iPho

Re: What will improve Debian most?

2009-03-29 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 04:04:22PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: > > I wouldn't say that's particularly quickly; but given the varying release > > times, it's a bit hard to really tell. Correcting for that: > > release datedays s.p.d p.p.d sg.p.a pg.p.a > > hamm 1998-07-24 > >

Re: What will improve Debian most?

2009-03-29 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Anthony Towns said: > > I wouldn't say that's particularly quickly; but given the varying release > times, it's a bit hard to really tell. Correcting for that: > > release datedays s.p.d p.p.d sg.p.a pg.p.a > hamm 1998-07-24 > slink199

Re: What will improve Debian most?

2009-03-29 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 12:23:43AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: >On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 11:59:43PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >] Campaigning period: Sunday, March 8th 00:00:00 UTC, 2009 >]- Saturday, March 28th 23:59:59 UTC, 2009 > >Hmmm... Cutting it fine... Yup. :-)

Re: What will improve Debian most?

2009-03-29 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 11:59:43PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: ] Campaigning period: Sunday, March 8th 00:00:00 UTC, 2009 ]- Saturday, March 28th 23:59:59 UTC, 2009 Hmmm... Cutting it fine... > Depending on what you're measuring, we are still growing very quickly. > Th

Re: What will improve Debian most?

2009-03-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 09:05:07AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > >One of the most impressive things about Debian in the past was its >exponential growth -- users, developers, packages, architectures, >email volume, etc -- but I wonder if that's still happening, or if >growth is something that's bee

Re: What will improve Debian most?

2009-03-27 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 04:49:21PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Anthony Towns writes: > > Over the next twelve months, what single development/activity/project > > is going to improve Debian's value the most? By how much? How will > > you be involved? > Maybe you meant to ask "what are

Re: What will improve Debian most?

2009-03-25 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 09:05:07AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > So looking through the nominations, platforms and the current -vote > threads, I'm left wondering if any of this actually matters. Only > two candidates running, no IRC debate or rebuttals added to the > platforms, [ Don't worry, you

Re: What will improve Debian most?

2009-03-24 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Anthony Towns wrote: > Over the next twelve months, what single development/activity/project > is going to improve Debian's value the most? By how much? How will > you be involved? Having such a discussion is really interesting, I would not limit it to -vote and DP

Re: What will improve Debian most?

2009-03-23 Thread Russ Allbery
I should probably note here that it looked like Anthony had carefully phrased his question to apply to the entire project, not just the DPL candidates, and I replied in that context. If it was intended as a DPL candidate question, er, never mind. :) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)

Re: What will improve Debian most?

2009-03-23 Thread Russ Allbery
Anthony Towns writes: > So here's the question, and really the only part of this mail that > warrants a response: > > Over the next twelve months, what single development/activity/project > is going to improve Debian's value the most? By how much? How will > you be involved? Maybe yo

What will improve Debian most?

2009-03-23 Thread Anthony Towns
Hi *, So looking through the nominations, platforms and the current -vote threads, I'm left wondering if any of this actually matters. Only two candidates running, no IRC debate or rebuttals added to the platforms, and only a couple of topics people have even raised for the candidates to address?