On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 03:16:42AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
Hi,
This is a question for all candidates.
Over the years, I've always been very surprised to see that there's very
little money that Debian is able to get.
I don't agree with that assessment. I do think Debian is able to get
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 03:28:53AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
Hi,
If you see projects like Openstack or oVirt (sorry for the examples
taken from my area of expertise...), they have elections every 6 months
for project leaders in this or that area of the project.
In Debian, we just elect
On 03/12/2012 09:00 AM, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
Having said all that, provided we don't overdo it, having more money
isn't necessarily a bad thing. If there are ways to attract more
money from donators, we should do so. I don't think sending letters
to companies is going to accomplish that,
On 12.3.2012, at 10.00, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
Of course, it's unfortunate that the full details are not available.
There's been work on making Debian's monetary details more transparent,
but AFAIK there hasn't been anything made public on that yet. I suppose
this is something that will
Hi,
while reading algernon's platform I stumbled over the two sentences
More packages, more packagers? A solved problem and Not raw,
packaging manpower - with hundreds of people, we have that covered.
How do you think about the current state of reviewing uploads for
maintainers without upload
Hi Zack,
you are 2 years DPL already. In your current platform you state in 1.2
why you want to stand for DPL an other year.
Are there any areas within your current DPL work where you think you
will do completly different to the other two years?
Cheers,
Martin
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On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 05:26:55PM -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote:
Hi,
Reading zack's platform, it makes me wonder why would you (Gergely and
Wouter) actually need to be elected as a DPL to do what you mention on your
platforms. Especially Wouter: you even state that you want to do some
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 09:21:32AM +0100, Mehdi Dogguy wrote:
On 03/12/2012 09:00 AM, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
Having said all that, provided we don't overdo it, having more money
isn't necessarily a bad thing. If there are ways to attract more
money from donators, we should do so. I don't
Hi,
Let me quote your platform for context:
2.3.1 DPL practicing
If elected again, the next term will be my last term as DPL, because I
have different plans for my long term Debian future. Having that in
mind, I will work since the very beginning of the term to ensure a
smooth transition
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 03:16:42AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
Over the years, I've always been very surprised to see that there's very
little money that Debian is able to get. I'm convinced that this
situation could change with a bit of involvement from the DPL, and that
such money could
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 10:09:09AM +0200, Kalle Kivimaa wrote:
Well, most of the Debian monetary assets are held by SPI, and the SPI
reports their assets publicly (the board meeting minutes), so this
isn't a huge problem. It would be nice if the auditors would release a
public yearly summary,
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 03:28:53AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
If you see projects like Openstack or oVirt (sorry for the examples
taken from my area of expertise...), they have elections every 6 months
for project leaders in this or that area of the project.
In Debian, we just elect a DPL,
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Hello,
On 12.03.2012 19:25, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 03:16:42AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
Over the years, I've always been very surprised to see that
there's very little money that Debian is able to get. I'm
convinced
Raphael Geissert geiss...@debian.org writes:
* Why do you think you need to be elected as a DPL to do what you
propose?
Given that one response to this didn't really address the question, let
me try re-stating it:
* What *specific* actions, requiring DPL powers, will you do as DPL? For
Arno Töll wrote:
as somebody who pushed $work to donate money to Debian (i.e. via
FFIS), I always wondered about the financial merits of these
donations. As much as I am involved to work within Debian, I have no
clue what you used our money for. I am probably not literally
interested what for
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 08:05:24AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
Raphael Geissert geiss...@debian.org writes:
* Why do you think you need to be elected as a DPL to do what you
propose?
Given that one response to this didn't really address the question, let
me try re-stating it:
* What
Please don't send me personal copies of messages that are also going to
the mailing list, as I haven't asked for that.
Wouter Verhelst wou...@debian.org writes:
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 08:05:24AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
* What *specific* actions, requiring DPL powers, will you do as DPL?
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 09:55:25PM +0100, Arno Töll wrote:
as somebody who pushed $work to donate money to Debian (i.e. via
FFIS), I always wondered about the financial merits of these
donations. As much as I am involved to work within Debian, I have no
clue what you used our money for. I am
Arno Töll dijo [Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 09:55:25PM +0100]:
as somebody who pushed $work to donate money to Debian (i.e. via
FFIS), I always wondered about the financial merits of these
donations. As much as I am involved to work within Debian, I have no
clue what you used our money for. I am
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Hi,
On 12.03.2012 23:19, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
Actually, $boss asked me the other day how to support Debian
better as he wasn't very convinced about usefulness of money
donations to Debian as he didn't get much feedback about that,
other than a tax
Stefano Zacchiroli z...@debian.org writes:
Voting on technical matters, or to elect technical bodies, works well
for projects that have a more narrow scope than Debian. There are Free
Software *development* projects that use vote among developers as a way
to decide whether to give commit
On 03/13/2012 12:18 AM, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
we could
put a note in the release notes or in the installation manual
Do you *seriously* think that this would help? :)
and/or put something on the website
We have this on our from page already (eg: the Donations link).
Thomas
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To
On 03/13/2012 12:14 AM, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
there
are some things I would like to see the DPL do differently
Could you be a bit more explicit? Which things? Note that I have read
your platform, but I still think it needs some clarifications. For
example, you wrote that you think the DPL
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