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 iPhone

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. The

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 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 slink

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?

2009-03-28 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 been

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 DPL

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?

Re: What will improve Debian most?

2009-03-23 Thread Russ Allbery
Anthony Towns a...@erisian.com.au 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

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)