On 14/03/10 at 14:44 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > This is for all candidates. > > Releasing is regularly the hardest thing that Debian does, not just > technically but also socially. Apart from the standard issues of setting > deadlines, RC bug counts being high, and similar difficult technical > issues, the process seems to eat volunteers. There's usually always at > least some frustration, anger, and upsetness, and there seems to usually > be at least one resignation over the course of a release, often in a way > that hurts other activities in Debian for a time. > > Do you have any ideas how, as DPL, you would (or even could) address this? > I'm personally the most concerned with the social issues. A delayed > release can be frustrating but doesn't have that much negative impact, but > volunteers with enough knowledge of Debian to be able to serve as release > managers or helpers are rare. And usually the arguments not only hurt > their contributions to Debian but usually hurt the contributions to Debian > of the people on the other side of the argument as well, who are often > also valuable and difficult-to-replace volunteers. > > Do you have any thoughts about how to resolve release issues with less > hurt and negative impact to the project all around?
Three more release-related questions. During the last debconf, the freeze of squeeze was first announced to take place in December, then this decision was cancelled, and now we are in March. - How do you analyze what happened during last summer? What went wrong? - What is your opinion on the motivations for the proposal to freeze in December? Specifically, in the future, should we try to coordinate our release process with Ubuntu's? - So, we are now in March. What is your opinion with the release process so far? When do you see the release happening? (I'm fully aware that the DPL is not in a position to take many actions regarding the release. However, similar questions are likely to be asked during post-election interviews, so we would better know how you will answer ;) -- | Lucas Nussbaum | lu...@lucas-nussbaum.net http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: lu...@nussbaum.fr GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100315070919.ga26...@xanadu.blop.info