On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 3:09 AM, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl <
toli...@debian.org> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Am 31.08.2010 19:45, schrieb Patty Langasek:
> [..]
> > Am I reading this right?
> [..]
> > 2) If you are unable to make the change, find someone who can and /do/
> it.
>
> I can't believe what I read.  If the intention of this whole thread was,
> to demotivate me from forwarding debconf press announcement to the
> regular debian channels:  Congrats, you nearly reached your goal.
>
>
> Just for the record:  There was a report, I explained, why I didn't
> considered it a bug.  Several people misunderstood me / only saw a part
> of the communication, and I corrected them.  And in the end the "bug"
> was fixed, quite some time before you send your mail.
>
>
> Best regards,
>  Alexander, who still wonders, why everything press related is always a
> PITA, when debconf is involved
>

I can't speak for always, but I can say that for almost the year leading up
to approximately one or two weeks prior to DebConf, unbeknownst to most,
including myself, there was no active DebConf press team lead. While there
are certainly lessons to be learned here, this situation has, at least for
now, been addressed.

I do see DebConf press and Debian press teams as definitely a great starting
point for collaboration. I'd even be willing to go as far as saying that as
acting DebConf press team lead, I would be willing to relinquish that role
to my Debian press counterpart, now that there is one, if everyone thought
that was for the best. (How does the saying go? "Tag you're it!") :) In all
seriousness, I do think that in instances were there are role overlaps
between Debian and DebConf, we should take into consideration the feelings
and wishes of the people doing the work, and privately reach out to them to
see what they want, before arbitrarily pushing a new reporting structure on
them. (Trust me we don't want to demotivate anyone, as the work is hard
enough as it is, and we are short of workers).

Alexander, I'd be willing to help you start capturing the information I've
learned and I have been handed down, in my two years with the org. (mostly
as a very junior member of the team). Maybe in a press-team wiki? Maybe you
can add what you have learned and we can also work to document some of the
pain points where we can strive for improvement.

-Brian

P.S. - I also want to apologize and take full responsibility for the 10th vs
11th error. I can't even claim ignorance of the facts, as I had been
explained the issue ages ago, but for some reason when proofreading it
didn't notice it, nor did the various other people on the mailing list and
irc that reviewed it.



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