Hi to all, I have been following the past discussions on -vote, though I stayed quiet, being busy etc.
Straight to the point: 1. Debian currently supports more than 10 arches (just a quick check in /ports. Obviously, trying to keep in sync all of them is too much. And I hope I'm not the only one who sees that it's increasingly becoming a burden to insist to keep in sync slow arches like arm, mips* and m68k. And IMHO, keeping in sync arches that have a 20y difference in technology is ridiculous. My question: Do you believe that Debian should for ever support all arches in parallel? Or establish some kind of "speed lanes" for fast arches, slow arches, etc. For example if Debian/m68k is used by embedded people, there is little use in building all of KDE/Gnome for m68k. 2. Two of the candidates (Branden and Martin) have talked about the development of processes around Debian, so that things get done right and without unnecessary delays. While the theory is perfect and I wholeheartidly agree, the implementation is what interests me most. How do you plan on implementing processes in Debian and what timeschedules you have for that? It's no good saying that you have a 10-year plan for developing a perfect process-driven Debian. Instead of doing a theoritical analysis on the subject I would appreciate a discussion on some specific part of Debian (pick the one you intend to deal with first, if you get elected). 3. What are your plans about Java in Debian? I understand that Java license is not Debian's decision, but Debian can push -and I gladly witnessed some productive discussion between Martin and Simon Phipps (Sun's CTO) in Malaga. From my own discussion with Mr. Phipps, it seems that a lot of Java's license problems are because of misunderstanding inside Sun wrt to Java turning truly Free. Debian should care for its users and many of its users use Java. My question: What are your plans to try and establish/strengthen the communication link with Sun/whoever to ensure that there is a workable Java implementation in Debian? I know about Kaffe, before someone corrects me, there is (almost) noone in the commercial world that uses it. 4. Transition from non-free. Please give a specific plan that you intend to suggest if removal of non-free is voted. I don't care if non-free is removed but to just remove it one instant is irresponsible, imho. And non-free is an important subject and if a candidate wants to be voted he has to provide a clear position on this. (Note: I know that the candidates are against non-free, I want to hear a strategy on non-free removal). 5. Debian has become quite big, much bigger than the previous years. In fact, I have come to believe that it's too large a project for one person to coordinate. Branded has explicitly talked about delegates for tasks. My stance is that at some point in the future there will have to be some form of senate :-) My question: Do you think that you can handle all of the tasks a DPL is supposed to do? If you have packages to maintain do you plan to keep them as well? If at some point you realize that you cannot take it anymore, what will be your action? a) Drop everything and go to Hawaii b) Work until you die c) Resign d) Other 6. Debian delegate selection How would you choose a delegate for a position? Sorry for the long list of the questions but these are, imho, important and should be asked. Thanks to all the candidates for your contribution to Debian all these years and I wish good luck. Konstantinos PS. Martin, one correction wrt your platform text. I don't work on a Debian based distro in Greece, I work -semi-officially- on adding Greek support _into_ Debian itself, there is no distro :-)
