* Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-03-05 08:48]: > I would like to ask what you have done in your past term to find out > overworked core roles, and what happened to ease the work load on > these core roles.
I stay in constant contact with a wide range of people involved in core team. Just to give two examples, I'm in regular contact with Matt Zimmerman (security) and Pascal Hakim (listmaster), but the same goes for other people and groups. By staying in regular contact with those people, I have a very good understanding of their work, of their problems, and know how to help them. In the case of security, I promoted Matt to a fully security member soon after becoming DPL which improved the situation significantly (just look who's doing most security updates these days); however, this is not enough. I've been working with Matt to find more volunteers for the security team, and we have been discussing a security database which will allow more coordination within the security team. As to listmaster, I regularly give Pasc advice on procedural matters, and we also talk about problems with man power. Joe Nahmias has recently been added as a listmaster, and we're discussing whether another addition is required. I worked with the DAM to find out how his job can be made easier, and certain changes led to major improvements. There are also other things that needs to be done with are not directly related to work load. For example, Joey Hess complained that it takes him a long time to test debian-installer, so I talked to a hardware company to get a laptop on loan to him. In the buildd situation, I found out that some MIPS hardware became unavailable, and so arranged for a new MIPS machine (which is currently being built up). > Are you satisfied with the success of the measures you took? Yes, I think good progress has been made, but much remains to be done. As I say in my platform (http://www.debian.org/vote/2004/platforms/tbm), "While progress is being made, much remains to be done." I intend to give special attention to this issue - please see my platform. > From a few of the flamef^wdiscussions about important roles in the > past, I have learnt that the project also has a history of rejecting > people wanting to help. As I argue in my platform and in various mails on -vote, I think this is often because of bad communication. Since I know how the core teams work, I know fairly well what exactly they need and how to get people involved with these teams. See e.g. http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2004/debian-vote-200403/msg00025.html for more information on this. > I am quite disappointed by the project's handling of - for example - > people who would like to contribute additional buildds for > architectures that notoriously lagged behind. There were good reasons for rejecting that offer, even if they were not communicated well (for example, the machine had a slow CPU and not enough disk). Again, I think communication is often a problem, and I can help because I'm in a position to interact with a wide range of people. As a matter of fact, another MIPS machine is in the process if being set up - this shows that offers are accepted, if they are done in the right way (and the machine also fulfils the requirements for a buildd). -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]
