Hey Jonas (sorry for breaking threading, I somehow didn't get the original so had to paste from list archives)
> Do you have concrete plans to improve the mutual/two-way communication > between the DPL and the rest of the project? Monthly bits from the DPL > are already helpful, but they're mostly a one-way communication so far. > I don't mean private communication between the DPL and particular > teams/developers, but public discussion. > > I wonder whether the DPL could do more to improve mutual communication > (besides participating in mailinglist threads), maybe even by inventing > new tools? > > My gut feeling is that most Debian members don't have the time to follow > d-devel, d-project and d-private all the time, so I wonder whether we > could make use of additional decision-making tools that lower the > barrier to participate. > > One idea that came into my mind lately: we could do regular polls about > the most pressing problems/projects/changes among all project members > (after they got raised and discussed on the mailinglists) and the DPL > could delegate temporary teams to solve/implement the ones that got the > most votes. (I really like the idea of temporary task forces or "fixer > teams" that Jonathan Carter brought up in > msgid:51b4d63d-1af1-e0ca-6621-a131b7ec3...@debian.org[1].) > > E.g. that could be done bimontly and the bits from the DPL mails could > be used to announce the polls and the resulting delegations. > > What do the candidates think about these ideas? Regular meetings is a core piece of my platform, I want to promote weekly community meetings that will have different forms. They will happen across different time zones and may have different formats (perhaps 3 IRC meetings and one Jitsi video meeting a month, we can see how it goes if it works out). I think it's important to have a platform where important issues can be brought up that are relevant right now and also to some degree addressed right then. And yes, I hope that that will also help attract some of those fixers I talked about earlier :) -Jonathan -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) <jcc> ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian Developer - https://wiki.debian.org/highvoltage ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋ https://debian.org | https://jonathancarter.org ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ Be Bold. Be brave. Debian has got your back.
