Question to all Candidates: Project Funds and donations

2010-03-12 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, this question goes to all candidates: The Debian Project receives quite a number of monetary donations as well as contributions in kind via several umbrella organization like SPI, ffis, debian.ch, etc. a) What do you think are valid goals to spend this money on? b) How would you think

Re: Question to all Candidates: Project Funds and donations

2010-03-12 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 12:02:59AM +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas a écrit : The Debian Project receives quite a number of monetary donations as well as contributions in kind via several umbrella organization like SPI, ffis, debian.ch, etc. a) What do you think are valid goals to spend this

Re: Question to all Candidates: 2IC

2010-03-12 Thread Raphael Geissert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Margarita Manterola wrote: I do plan, however, to delegate many tasks. Both in the constitutional and in the everyday use of the word. [...] So, while not having a particular appointed 2IC, I do plan to ask a lot of people for help on the many

Re: Question to all Candidates: Project Funds and donations

2010-03-12 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 8:02 PM, Martin Zobel-Helas zo...@debian.org wrote: The Debian Project receives quite a number of monetary donations as well as contributions in kind via several umbrella organization like SPI, ffis, debian.ch, etc. a) What do you think are valid goals to spend this

Re: Question to all Candidates: 2IC

2010-03-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Margarita Manterola margamanter...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 2:11 AM, Raphael Geissert geiss...@debian.org wrote: What tasks do you have in mind that you plan to delegate? There are a bunch listed in my yet-to-be-published platform. I wonder if

Re: Question to all Candidates: 2IC

2010-03-12 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sat, 13 Mar 2010, Paul Wise wrote: On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Margarita Manterola margamanter...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 2:11 AM, Raphael Geissert geiss...@debian.org wrote: What tasks do you have in mind that you plan to delegate? There are a bunch listed

Question to all candidates: financing of development

2010-03-12 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hello, this is a question to all DPL candidates. Imagine a DD contacts you, she wants to setup an infrastructure to finance Debian related projects (i.e. paying people to enable them to work on the projects that they'd like to do for Debian) but she wants to avoid the main mistakes made during

Question to all Candidates: 2IC

2010-03-11 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Heyho, a little question to all those up for the next DPL: Do you plan on taking on a 2IC or a team? If so: Who? And why this/those? Thanks. -- bye, Joerg Well, I’m tired of being a wannabe league bowler. I wanna be a league bowler! pgpc4eVogfX8Q.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Question for all candidates about http://wiki.debian.org/DiscussionsAfterLenny

2009-03-21 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:04:59PM +, Steve McIntyre a écrit : I can also see that you have your own menu/desktop topic there too that I expect you'll want to raise. What are your plans for that? [1] http://wiki.debian.org/DiscussionsAfterLenny Hi Steve, First I plan to produce a

Re: Question for all candidates about http://wiki.debian.org/DiscussionsAfterLenny

2009-03-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 11:47:49PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:04:59PM +, Steve McIntyre a écrit : I can also see that you have your own menu/desktop topic there too that I expect you'll want to raise. What are your plans for that? [1]

Re: Question for all candidates about http://wiki.debian.org/DiscussionsAfterLenny

2009-03-14 Thread Luk Claes
Charles Plessy wrote: Dear Steve, Luk and Stefano, Hi Charles thank you very much for the time and efforts you are proposing to dedicate to the Project ! Our Consitution suggests a stronger leadership of the DPL the discussions: 9. Lead discussions amongst Developers. The

Re: Question for all candidates about http://wiki.debian.org/DiscussionsAfterLenny

2009-03-11 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 10:13:30AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: thank you very much for the time and efforts you are proposing to dedicate to the Project ! Hi Charles, thanks for your question. Our Consitution suggests a stronger leadership of the DPL the discussions: snip Given how heated

Re: Question for all candidates: inter-dependancy of works the growing Debian project.

2008-03-16 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Charles Plessy wrote: I started to wonder about modularity in the use of the Debian infrastructure in 2006, because of a problem with the clustalw package. As you can see on the graph, its popcon score started to decrease around july.

Re: Question for all candidates: inter-dependancy of works the growing Debian project.

2008-03-13 Thread Cyril Brulebois
On 13/03/2008, Paul Wise wrote: Untrue, you just need to get your package whitelisted since non-free packages may not be legal to autobuild. You need to contact aba IIRC. Not sure why you don't know about this, nor where the best place to store this information is, perhaps the NM templates

Re: Question for all candidates: inter-dependancy of works the growing Debian project.

2008-03-13 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 10:07:30AM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : Le Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 09:50:27AM +0900, Paul Wise a écrit : On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 12:46 AM, Charles Plessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (building non-free on official autobuilders is not allowed). Untrue, you just

Re: Question for all candidates: Handling declassification of debian-private (GR 2005-02)

2008-03-13 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Steve McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 03:21:23PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Fabian Fagerholm wrote: If you were elected DPL for the next term, what would you do about this GR and when? How would you ensure that the declassification can happen

Re: Question for all candidates: inter-dependancy of works the growing Debian project.

2008-03-13 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Charles Plessy wrote: (And since this thread is supposed to be questions for the DPL candidates, I will add one: some time ago, a DD was sending emails on -devel whenever the discussion was offtopic, to ask for it to be transferred or stopped: what do you think of this

Re: Question for all candidates: Handling declassification of debian-private (GR 2005-02)

2008-03-12 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Fabian Fagerholm wrote: If you were elected DPL for the next term, what would you do about this GR and when? How would you ensure that the declassification can happen in a timely manner and fulfil all the requirements? What would your declassification team look like

Re: Question for all candidates: inter-dependancy of works the growing Debian project.

2008-03-12 Thread Charles Plessy
Hi Moritz, hi Marc. I started to wonder about modularity in the use of the Debian infrastructure in 2006, because of a problem with the clustalw package. As you can see on the graph, its popcon score started to decrease around july.

Re: Question for all candidates: inter-dependancy of works the growing Debian project.

2008-03-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 12:46 AM, Charles Plessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (building non-free on official autobuilders is not allowed). Untrue, you just need to get your package whitelisted since non-free packages may not be legal to autobuild. You need to contact aba IIRC. Not sure why you

Re: Question for all candidates: inter-dependancy of works the growing Debian project.

2008-03-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 01:20:35PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Hi, Hi Charles, Although I am not yet a DD, as it can happen anytime before or after the elections, I would like to ask a question to the candidates. Debian is growing bigger everyday. I would like to know if you think that it

Re: Question for all candidates: Handling declassification of debian-private (GR 2005-02)

2008-03-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 03:21:23PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Hi, On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Fabian Fagerholm wrote: If you were elected DPL for the next term, what would you do about this GR and when? How would you ensure that the declassification can happen in a timely manner and fulfil all the

Re: Question for all candidates: inter-dependancy of works the growing Debian project.

2008-03-11 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 04:20:35AM +, Charles Plessy wrote: Can we imagine a more componentised Debian distribution, in which it would be the common responsability of the packagers and the service managers to opt in or opt out the use of each services by Debian packages (or preferably

Question for all candidates: Handling declassification of debian-private (GR 2005-02)

2008-03-11 Thread Fabian Fagerholm
Dear candidates, At the end of 2005, the Debian Project passed a General Resolution [0] to declassify posts made to the debian-private mailing list. The GR specified that posts that are at least three years old will be considered for publishing. It also specified that the DPL will appoint a team

Re: Question for all candidates: inter-dependancy of works the growing Debian project.

2008-03-11 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Charles Plessy wrote: Although I am not yet a DD, as it can happen anytime before or after the elections, I would like to ask a question to the candidates. Debian is growing bigger everyday. I would like to know if you think that it should adapt to its new size, and if yes, how can you help

Re: Question for all candidates: inter-dependancy of works the growing Debian project.

2008-03-11 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Charles Plessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Debian is growing bigger everyday. I would like to know if you think that it should adapt to its new size, and if yes, how can you help this process as a DPL. Debian has steadily grown in the past few years, at least in respect to the number of

Question for all candidates: inter-dependancy of works the growing Debian project.

2008-03-10 Thread Charles Plessy
Hi, Although I am not yet a DD, as it can happen anytime before or after the elections, I would like to ask a question to the candidates. Debian is growing bigger everyday. I would like to know if you think that it should adapt to its new size, and if yes, how can you help this process as a DPL.

Re: Question for all candidates, was: Google SoC 2007 - we're in, sign up quickly!

2007-03-19 Thread MJ Ray
Steve McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First of all, your arbitrary dislike of Google is well-enough known already; it has no place in this forum. Apparently it's not well-enough known that it's not arbitrary, but actually based on their irritating bugs and misbehaviour! Also, maybe some

Re: Question for all candidates, was: Google SoC 2007 - we're in, sign up quickly!

2007-03-18 Thread Aigars Mahinovs
MJ Ray wrote: Bastian Venthur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks like Google is really everywhere these days. I'm curious about SoC: What where the last year's Debian projects and what was there outcome? Which projects where successful and which failed? I also mentored a I18N related project. The

Re: Question for all candidates, was: Google SoC 2007 - we're in, sign up quickly!

2007-03-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 09:22:40AM +, MJ Ray wrote: The Google Summer of Code[0] is over, and final reports have been submitted. Most of our students worked well right up to (and in some cases beyond) the end of the summer, and hopefully we'll see some useful results from their

Re: Question for all candidates: pushing people

2007-03-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 03:03:05PM +0100, Andreas Schuldei wrote: that sounds to me like you wanted to continue with but you cant do that???as they are all volunteers and you cant push them or so. could you elaborate? were you in the position to push people to do something in debian, and how did

Re: Question for all candidates, was: Google SoC 2007 - we're in, sign up quickly!

2007-03-17 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007, MJ Ray wrote: but after that, I didn't find another search result until he mentioned the 2007 marketing campaign. Is this the sort of fire and forget reporting that we would expect if Steve McIntyre were elected DPL? How would other candidates avoid dropping topics

Re: Question for all candidates, was: Google SoC 2007 - we're in, sign up quickly!

2007-03-16 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, MJ Ray wrote: How would other candidates avoid dropping topics like this? [cc'd to -vote for these questions, please drop -project or -vote on replies] This is not really up to the DPL. That would be useless micro-management. Last year was our first participation and it has

Re: Question for all candidates, was: Google SoC 2007 - we're in, sign up quickly!

2007-03-16 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Raphael Hertzog a écrit : On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, MJ Ray wrote: How would other candidates avoid dropping topics like this? [cc'd to -vote for these questions, please drop -project or -vote on replies] This is not really up to the DPL. That would be useless micro-management.

Re: Question for all candidates, was: Google SoC 2007 - we're in, sign up quickly!

2007-03-16 Thread MJ Ray
Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, MJ Ray wrote: How would other candidates avoid dropping topics like this? [cc'd to -vote for these questions, please drop -project or -vote on replies] This is not really up to the DPL. That would be useless micro-management. [...]

Question for all candidates, was: Google SoC 2007 - we're in, sign up quickly!

2007-03-16 Thread MJ Ray
Bastian Venthur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks like Google is really everywhere these days. I'm curious about SoC: What where the last year's Debian projects and what was there outcome? Which projects where successful and which failed? Excellent questions! Steve McIntyre wrote in Bits from

Re: Question for all candidates, was: Google SoC 2007 - we're in, sign up quickly!

2007-03-16 Thread Emanuele Rocca
* MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED], [2007-03-16 9:22 +]: Bastian Venthur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks like Google is really everywhere these days. I'm curious about SoC: What where the last year's Debian projects and what was there outcome? Which projects where successful and which

Re: Question for all candidates, was: Google SoC 2007 - we're in, sign up quickly!

2007-03-16 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, MJ Ray wrote: So, just to be sure I've understood your reply: if you-as-DPL (or one of your delegates) tells us that we can expect something, that would't mean anything if the task depends on someone else? You'd feel that you need not check whether we get it, or give any

Re: Question for all candidates, was: Google SoC 2007 - we're in, sign up quickly!

2007-03-16 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 09:22:40AM +, MJ Ray wrote: Bastian Venthur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks like Google is really everywhere these days. I'm curious about SoC: What where the last year's Debian projects and what was there outcome? Which projects where successful and which failed?

Question for all candidates: pushing people

2007-03-16 Thread Andreas Schuldei
* Wouter Verhelst ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [070316 14:35]: How would other candidates avoid dropping topics like this? The only way you can do that is by actively asking people to produce a report when they said they'd do so. that sounds to me like you wanted to continue with but you cant do

Re: Question for all candidates, was: Google SoC 2007 - we're in, sign up quickly!

2007-03-16 Thread MJ Ray
Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 09:22:40AM +, MJ Ray wrote: [...] Is this the sort of fire and forget reporting that we would expect if Steve McIntyre were elected DPL? [...] If writing the full report wasn't Steve's responsability, then it's not fair

Re: Question for all candidates: pushing people

2007-03-16 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Andreas Schuldei wrote: * Wouter Verhelst ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [070316 14:35]: How would other candidates avoid dropping topics like this? The only way you can do that is by actively asking people to produce a report when they said they'd do so. that sounds to me

Re: Question for all candidates: pushing people

2007-03-16 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 03:03:05PM +0100, Andreas Schuldei wrote: * Wouter Verhelst ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [070316 14:35]: How would other candidates avoid dropping topics like this? The only way you can do that is by actively asking people to produce a report when they said they'd do so.

Question to all candidates: officiousness

2007-03-07 Thread Clint Adams
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 01:58:42PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: Try please, blow me away. In your opinion, is it ever appropriate for any of the following parties to insist on being blown away in exchange for removing an obstacle to other developers' work? If so, when? 1) DPL 2) ftpmaster 3)

Re: Question to all candidates: officiousness

2007-03-07 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 11:03:54AM -0500, Clint Adams wrote: On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 01:58:42PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: Try please, blow me away. In your opinion, is it ever appropriate for any of the following parties to insist on being blown away in exchange for removing an obstacle

Re: Question to all candidates: officiousness

2007-03-07 Thread Clint Adams
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 05:43:41PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: I'm not sure what you mean by this question, or what the point is. I will clarify. AJ obviously feels that it is his prerogative (under which hat or set of hats, I do not know) to decide which set of architectures in the archive

Re: Question to all candidates: officiousness

2007-03-07 Thread Luk Claes
Clint Adams wrote: On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 05:43:41PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: I'm not sure what you mean by this question, or what the point is. I will clarify. AJ obviously feels that it is his prerogative (under which hat or set of hats, I do not know) to decide which set of

Re: Question to all candidates: officiousness

2007-03-07 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 12:14:05PM -0500, Clint Adams wrote: On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 05:43:41PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: I'm not sure what you mean by this question, or what the point is. I will clarify. AJ obviously feels that it is his prerogative (under which hat or set of hats, I

Re: Question to all candidates: officiousness

2007-03-07 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 07 Mar 2007, Clint Adams wrote: Now it is unclear which hat AJ is wearing when he implies that he is authorized to decide which architectures are important, by criteria he decides unilaterally. I am curious as to what the other candidates think: is it appropriate for him to do this,

Re: Question to all candidates: Perceived hostility within the community

2007-03-05 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 05 Mar 2007, Matthew Garrett wrote: Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is nothing like a moral right to mock people, just like there is nothing like a moral right not to be mocked. Research[1] has shown that one of the primary factors deterring women from

Question to all candidates: Perceived hostility within the community

2007-03-05 Thread Matthew Garrett
Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is nothing like a moral right to mock people, just like there is nothing like a moral right not to be mocked. Research[1] has shown that one of the primary factors deterring women from involvement in free software is the perceived hostility of

Re: Question to all candidates: Perceived hostility within the community

2007-03-05 Thread Aigars Mahinovs
Matthew Garrett wrote: Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is nothing like a moral right to mock people, just like there is nothing like a moral right not to be mocked. Research[1] has shown that one of the primary factors deterring women from involvement in free software is

Re: Question to all candidates: Perceived hostility within the community

2007-03-05 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 01:41:09PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is nothing like a moral right to mock people, just like there is nothing like a moral right not to be mocked. Research[1] has shown that one of the primary factors deterring

Re: Question to all candidates: Perceived hostility within the community

2007-03-05 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007, Matthew Garrett wrote: Research[1] has shown that one of the primary factors deterring women from involvement in free software is the perceived hostility of many of the communities. Do candidates believe that mocking of other members of the project is acceptable[2],

Re: Question to all candidates: Perceived hostility within the community

2007-03-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 01:41:09PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: Research[1] has shown that one of the primary factors deterring women from involvement in free software is the perceived hostility of many of the communities. Do candidates believe that mocking of other members of the project is

Question for all candidates: Importance of unofficial archives

2007-03-04 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, this question is for all candidates: How important are unofficial archives[1] for you? What whould you do to support them, if you consider them important? What could be done to integrate them into official Debian structure? Martin [1] http://www.debian-unofficial.org/ http

Re: Question for all candidates: Importance of unofficial archives

2007-03-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Sun, 04 Mar 2007, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: How important are unofficial archives[1] for you? What whould you do to support them, if you consider them important? What could be done to integrate them into official Debian structure? All unofficial archives serve a purpose, but they are

Re: Question for all candidates: Importance of unofficial archives

2007-03-04 Thread Aigars Mahinovs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 How important are unofficial archives for you? What whould you do to support them, if you consider them important? What could be done to integrate them into official Debian structure? If we would follow along the line of my distribution trunk

Re: Question to all candidates: DebConf

2007-03-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Sun, 04 Mar 2007, Holger Levsen wrote: DebConf, the annual Debian Developers Conference, is currently not officially affiliated with Debian (or SPI) and its not listed on http://www.debian.org/intro/organization Do you think DebConf should have an official endorsement with Debian

Re: Question for all candidates: Importance of unofficial archives

2007-03-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 12:50:22PM +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: Hi, hi Martin, this question is for all candidates: How important are unofficial archives[1] for you? What whould you do to support them, if you consider them important? What could be done to integrate them into official Debian

Re: Question for all candidates: Importance of unofficial archives

2007-03-04 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 12:50:22PM +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: Hi, this question is for all candidates: How important are unofficial archives[1] for you? They are important, as they allow people to do stuff with their Debian installation that isn't necessarily possible with Debian

Re: Question for all candidates: Importance of unofficial archives

2007-03-04 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: How important are unofficial archives[1] for you? What whould you do to support them, if you consider them important? What could be done to integrate them into official Debian structure? As a general rule, I find unofficial archives

Re: Re: Question to all candidates about the NM process

2006-03-19 Thread Micah Anderson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve McIntyre wrote: That's an awkward question to answer, and I've been involved in debates on it several times already over the last couple of years. We need to work this out as a project; this may take quite some time yet... I've seen this come

Re: Question to all candidates: What to change?

2006-03-18 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 01:20:19PM +, Neil McGovern wrote: If you were elected tomorrow as DPL, and could only pick one thing about Debian to change, what would it be? Make our mailinglists an enjoyable place for technical discussions. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Question to all candidates: What to change?

2006-03-18 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 01:20:19PM +, Neil McGovern wrote: If you were elected tomorrow as DPL, and could only pick one thing about Debian to change, what would it be? Make our mailinglists an enjoyable place for technical discussions.

Re: Question to all candidates: What to change?

2006-03-18 Thread Andreas Schuldei
* Neil McGovern [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-03-11 13:20:19]: If you were elected tomorrow as DPL, and could only pick one thing about Debian to change, what would it be? It is really nice to think of a DPL performing miracles. If I could perform a Debian-miracle I would make Debian predictable,

Re: Question to all candidates: What to change?

2006-03-18 Thread Matthew Garrett
Andreas Schuldei [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is really nice to think of a DPL performing miracles. If I could perform a Debian-miracle I would make Debian predictable, purpose driven and a fun and rewarding context to work and spend time in. It's clear that this requires good

Re: Question to all candidates: What to change?

2006-03-18 Thread Andreas Schuldei
* Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-03-18 22:29:34]: Andreas Schuldei [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is really nice to think of a DPL performing miracles. If I could perform a Debian-miracle I would make Debian predictable, purpose driven and a fun and rewarding context to work

Re: Code of conduct, question to all candidates

2006-03-14 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 01:18:39AM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: Bill Allombert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At this point, I am not in favour of such code. I am in favour of giving general guidelines and but not to enforce them. People should follow them because they agree with them but not

Re: Question to all candidates: What to change?

2006-03-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 01:20:19PM +, Neil McGovern wrote: Hi there, If you were elected tomorrow as DPL, and could only pick one thing about Debian to change, what would it be? I'd love to make Debian a more friendly place for everyone. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Re: Question for all candidates: handle debian-admin more openly

2006-03-13 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 11:20:47PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: Such requests and requirements change the situation. However, I have to admit that I first read about this particular requirement here. I noticed some babbling about ppc64, sparc64, mips64 and s390x architectures but nothing

Re: Question for all candidates: handle debian-admin more openly

2006-03-13 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 11:47:25AM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: Why would we need more total CPU time? Not even leisner is overloaded at the moment, and it's probably the slowliest machine. (leisner has a different problem, though). Hence, please explain why we need more total CPU time and

Re: Question for all candidates: handle debian-admin more openly

2006-03-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Bill Allombert wrote: On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 11:47:25AM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: Why would we need more total CPU time? Not even leisner is overloaded at the moment, and it's probably the slowliest machine. (leisner has a different problem, though). Hence, please explain why we

Re: Question for all candidates: handle debian-admin more openly

2006-03-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Steve Langasek wrote: On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 11:20:47PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: Such requests and requirements change the situation. However, I have to admit that I first read about this particular requirement here. I noticed some babbling about ppc64, sparc64, mips64 and s390x

Re: Question to all candidates: What to change?

2006-03-13 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 10:09:55PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes: If I could pick /anything/, it'd be to make Debian suddenly 100% fun for everyone involved. Yeah, I'm with you! Can you outline perhaps some of the things you think that keep it

Re: Question for all candidates: handle debian-admin more openly

2006-03-13 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 10:56:57PM +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: There is no way at the moment to see any progress of the issues in public. Now my question: 1.) Do you think it would be a good idea to handle debian-admin more openly? 2.) Would you encourage debian-admin to do so? If

Re: Question for all candidates: handle debian-admin more openly

2006-03-13 Thread Steve Langasek
[redirecting to -devel where this belongs] On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 12:11:59PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: -- Question to the release and archive people: Is there such a requirement? Will such architectures indeed be

Re: Question to all candidates about stable point releases

2006-03-12 Thread Frank Küster
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au wrote: On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 08:14:21AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: Uh, what the hell? You have four people asking basically the same question, and you wonder about this? Yes, because _all_ of them leap to the conclusion that I'm trying to delay

Re: Question for all candidates: handle debian-admin more openly

2006-03-12 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 11:20:47PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: Are bruckner and voltaire overloaded or do they lack services the developers need? The release team has called for a multi-arch implementation to support powerpc64 userland over the biarch situation. This calls for a

Ted's reply to Martin (Re: Question for all candidates: handle debian-admin more openly)

2006-03-12 Thread Ted Walther
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 10:56:57PM +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: Hi, the past, there were some issues that seem to indicate that the current Debian System Administrator team (DSA team) is overworked, as problems were not adressed in a timely fashion. The following just lists some of these

Re: Ted's reply to Martin (Re: Question for all candidates: handle debian-admin more openly)

2006-03-12 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Ted Walther [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.03.12.2220 +0100]: That is a tough question to answer. So far they have been getting the job done, but appear to be getting overworked lately. Please define lately? For the good of the project, we need some way to let the sysadmin team do

Re: question for all candidates

2006-03-11 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sat, 11 Mar 2006, Anthony Towns wrote: There are a few reasons to dislike the DPL team concept without going it alone; such as the liklihood of formal membership making it difficult for non-members to contribute in the same way members do, or the way that making the team be an issue at

Re: Question for all candidates: handle debian-admin more openly

2006-03-11 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 07:31:49AM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: Bill Allombert wrote: On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 10:56:57PM +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: Now my question: 1.) Do you think it would be a good idea to handle debian-admin more openly? 2.) Would you

Re: Question for all candidates: handle debian-admin more openly

2006-03-11 Thread Martin Schulze
Bill Allombert wrote: Example of non-priviledged services include secondary web services and developers accessible port machines with separate accounts. As an aside, I think there should be more developers-accessible port machines. Why? Having two developers-accessible port

Question to all candidates: What to change?

2006-03-11 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi there, If you were elected tomorrow as DPL, and could only pick one thing about Debian to change, what would it be? Cheers, Neil -- A. Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion Q. Why is top posting bad? gpg key - http://www.halon.org.uk/pubkey.txt ; the.earth.li B345BDD3

Re: question for all candidates

2006-03-11 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Raphael Hertzog [Sat, 11 Mar 2006 10:06:01 +0100]: (even if I don't think that stockholm would do the best DPL). Is this a statement, or an hypothesis? If a statement, then I feel compelled to ask: who would? -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es

Re: question for all candidates

2006-03-11 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 08:39:20PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: Last November, [Andreas] and the DPL team wanted to propose a GR that would have forcibly made everyone in a position of authority a formal delegate, and stated that you had replacements ready if they were unwilling to comply.

Re: question for all candidates

2006-03-11 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 01:05:06AM +0100, Andreas Schuldei wrote: * Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-03-10 23:23:52]: Andreas Schuldei [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did not ask Joeren for obvious reasons. What were those obvious reasons? You and Branden stood against each other

Re: question for all candidates

2006-03-11 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sat, 11 Mar 2006, Adeodato Simó wrote: * Raphael Hertzog [Sat, 11 Mar 2006 10:06:01 +0100]: (even if I don't think that stockholm would do the best DPL). Is this a statement, or an hypothesis? If a statement, then I feel compelled to ask: who would? It's a statement that I will

Re: question for all candidates

2006-03-11 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 10:26:47PM +0100, Andreas Schuldei wrote: At that time I emphazised several times that replacing the teams was only the very last, desperate option, which we were trying to avoid but for completeness sake had considered along with a variety of less drastical

Re: Question to all candidates: What to change?

2006-03-11 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 01:20:19PM +, Neil McGovern wrote: If you were elected tomorrow as DPL, and could only pick one thing about Debian to change, what would it be? If I could pick /anything/, it'd be to make Debian suddenly 100% fun for everyone involved. If I can only pick the things

Re: Question to all candidates: What to change?

2006-03-11 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes: If I could pick /anything/, it'd be to make Debian suddenly 100% fun for everyone involved. Yeah, I'm with you! Can you outline perhaps some of the things you think that keep it from being 100% fun, and what the DPL can do to help them? I'm

Re: Question to all candidates: What to change?

2006-03-11 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes: If I can only pick the things that're directly achievable, I'll just go with getting the momentum back -- ie, doing cool things quickly and regularly, no matter what they are. What are some of the organizational or institutional factors which you

Re: Question for all candidates: handle debian-admin more openly

2006-03-10 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 01:03:47PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: Are bruckner and voltaire overloaded or do they lack services the developers need? The release team has called for a multi-arch implementation to support powerpc64 userland over the biarch situation. This calls for a machine

Re: question for all candidates

2006-03-10 Thread Matthew Garrett
Andreas Schuldei [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-03-09 20:39:20]: 1) You now appear less willing to do so. What has changed? The GR was intendet to clarify that point. However, in a small oppinion poll I found that this apparently was already clear to

Re: question for all candidates

2006-03-10 Thread Andreas Barth
Hi, * Matthew Garrett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060310 14:42]: [...] You reiterate things where Andreas clearly stated that you have over-interpreted him. What is the purpose of this? Do you have some personal issues with Andreas Schuldei? Are you too unhappy that you didn't suceed in last years

Re: question for all candidates

2006-03-10 Thread Matthew Garrett
Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, * Matthew Garrett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060310 14:42]: [...] You reiterate things where Andreas clearly stated that you have over-interpreted him. No. I reiterate things where Andreas has given misleading answers to direct questions (he

Re: question for all candidates

2006-03-10 Thread Andreas Barth
* Matthew Garrett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060310 16:25]: Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Matthew Garrett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060310 14:42]: [...] You reiterate things where Andreas clearly stated that you have over-interpreted him. No. I reiterate things where Andreas has

Re: question for all candidates

2006-03-10 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 05:44:05PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: The first was Chip Salzenburg's request for a key update, subsequent flaming over lack of responsiveness, and eventual resignation. AIUI, Chip happened to make the request when James was particularly busy, including increasingly

Re: question for all candidates

2006-03-10 Thread Matthew Garrett
Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last November, you and the DPL team wanted to propose a GR that would have forcibly made everyone in a position of authority a formal delegate, and stated that you had replacements ready if they were unwilling to comply. It's been pointed out to me

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