Re: Please update the DSA delegation

2014-01-04 Thread Andreas Barth
* Lucas Nussbaum (lea...@debian.org) [140104 16:30]: > On 04/01/14 at 14:04 +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > See https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2013/12/msg00049.html thanks. > > (Actually I think we should have our delegations so that if the > > current delegates add someone new, inform the

Re: Please update the DSA delegation

2014-01-04 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, On 04/01/14 at 14:04 +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > Hi Lucas, > > * Martin Zobel-Helas (zo...@debian.org) [131202 22:11]: > > Hi Lucas, > > > > I am pleased to announce that DSA has promoted Héctor Orón Martínez to a > > full member of the team. > > > > Please update the delegation for the D

Re: Please update the DSA delegation

2014-01-04 Thread Andreas Barth
Hi Lucas, * Martin Zobel-Helas (zo...@debian.org) [131202 22:11]: > Hi Lucas, > > I am pleased to announce that DSA has promoted Héctor Orón Martínez to a > full member of the team. > > Please update the delegation for the Debian System Administrators > accordingly. Did I miss the conclusion on

Re: Please update the DSA delegation

2013-12-06 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 06:32:19PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > It absolutely should. The constitution stipulates that authority flows from > the developers, through the DPL, to the delegated teams. To say that the > DPL delegation is nothing than a rubber stamp is to say that the team does > n

Re: Please update the DSA delegation

2013-12-05 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi Martin, On 05/12/13 at 23:03 +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > > Hi Lucas, > > > Hi Lucas, > >  > > I am pleased to announce that DSA has promoted Héctor Orón Martínez to a > > full member of the team. > > I think that this mail must have been misinterpreted.  It was not meant > to be a dem

Re: Please update the DSA delegation

2013-12-05 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi Lucas, > Hi Lucas, >  > I am pleased to announce that DSA has promoted Héctor Orón Martínez to a > full member of the team. I think that this mail must have been misinterpreted.  It was not meant to be a demand.  I was happy to share that we had recruited zumbi.  He's been working with us in

Re: Please update the DSA delegation

2013-12-05 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2013/12/5 Lucas Nussbaum : > At this point, I don't see any reason why I wouldn't eventually delegate > Hector, in an update of the DSA delegation. > At this point, I have no reason to believe that it's controversial. Thanks for making this point clear! 2013/12/4 Tollef Fog Heen : > ]

Re: Please update the DSA delegation

2013-12-05 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 03:53:42PM +0100, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > * Steve Langasek [2013-12-05 03:32:19 CET]: > > In most cases, well-functioning teams will make non-controversial > > nominations, and the DPL will accept them without question. But that's > > *not* the same thing as the delegation

Re: Please update the DSA delegation

2013-12-05 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 05/12/13 at 14:26 +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Lucas Nussbaum writes ("Re: Please update the DSA delegation"): > > On 05/12/13 at 09:35 +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > > > Perhaps it would make sense to first more clearly define problems we want > > > to so

Re: Please update the DSA delegation

2013-12-05 Thread Ian Jackson
Gerfried Fuchs writes ("Re: Please update the DSA delegation"): > Steve Langasek [2013-12-05 03:32:19 CET]: > > In most cases, well-functioning teams will make non-controversial > > nominations, and the DPL will accept them without question. But that's > > *n

Re: Please update the DSA delegation

2013-12-05 Thread Ian Jackson
Tollef Fog Heen writes ("Re: Please update the DSA delegation"): > I would prefer if we could just self-manage and not have even more > process around routine changes. Debian generally has more than its > share of process already and we should not actively work towards adding &

Re: Please update the DSA delegation

2013-12-05 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
* Steve Langasek [2013-12-05 03:32:19 CET]: > In most cases, well-functioning teams will make non-controversial > nominations, and the DPL will accept them without question. But that's > *not* the same thing as the delegation being a "rubber stamp". Maybe I get you wrong - and maybe you got Luc

Re: Please update the DSA delegation

2013-12-05 Thread Ian Jackson
Martin Zobel-Helas writes ("Re: Please update the DSA delegation"): > On Wed Dec 04, 2013 at 17:45:22 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > 3) I was a bit surprised to see Martin's announcement that Hector > > was now a member of DSA, and his request to update th

Re: Please update the DSA delegation

2013-12-05 Thread Ian Jackson
Lucas Nussbaum writes ("Re: Please update the DSA delegation"): > On 05/12/13 at 09:35 +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > > Perhaps it would make sense to first more clearly define problems we want > > to solve with the whole delegation process, [...] ... > T

Re: Please update the DSA delegation

2013-12-05 Thread Clint Adams
On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 01:35:38AM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > But the main point here is that the team should normally be able to > manage its membership directly. I couldn't disagree more. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: Please update the DSA delegation

2013-12-05 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 05/12/13 at 13:46 +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > On Thu, December 5, 2013 11:46, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > This was discussed in > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2013/05/msg00018.html. > > Main points are: > > * it facilitates the monitoring of the team manpower, which helps > > ta

Re: Please update the DSA delegation

2013-12-05 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Thu, December 5, 2013 11:46, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > This was discussed in > https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2013/05/msg00018.html. > Main points are: > * it facilitates the monitoring of the team manpower, which helps > taking proactive actions before things get too difficult. > * it

Re: Please update the DSA delegation

2013-12-05 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, On Thu Dec 05, 2013 at 11:45:22 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 05/12/13 at 10:53 +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Wed Dec 04, 2013 at 17:45:22 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > 3) I was a bit surprised to see Martin's announcement that Hector > > > was now a member of

Re: Please update the DSA delegation

2013-12-05 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 05/12/13 at 10:53 +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed Dec 04, 2013 at 17:45:22 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > 3) I was a bit surprised to see Martin's announcement that Hector > > was now a member of DSA, and his request to update the DSA delegation. > > I don't understand tha

Re: Please update the DSA delegation

2013-12-05 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 05/12/13 at 09:35 +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > On Thu, December 5, 2013 02:15, Ian Jackson wrote: > > I would go further and say that I think it would be better to do > > things differently. For a team which is functioning well, it would be > > helpful if the DPL delegated to the team the au

Re: Please update the DSA delegation

2013-12-05 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, On Wed Dec 04, 2013 at 17:45:22 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > 3) I was a bit surprised to see Martin's announcement that Hector > was now a member of DSA, and his request to update the DSA delegation. I don't understand that. Hector has been doing a good amount of work as part of the DSA te

Re: Please update the DSA delegation

2013-12-05 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Thu, December 5, 2013 02:15, Ian Jackson wrote: > I would go further and say that I think it would be better to do > things differently. For a team which is functioning well, it would be > helpful if the DPL delegated to the team the authority over its own > composition, explicitly reserving th

Re: Please update the DSA delegation

2013-12-04 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Charles Plessy > Le Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 01:35:38AM +, Ian Jackson a écrit : > > > > But the main point here is that the team should normally be able to > > manage its membership directly. That's how these things have often > > been done (sometimes with no explicit DPL rubber stamp, even

Re: Please update the DSA delegation

2013-12-04 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 11:02:50PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > 3) I was a bit surprised to see Martin's announcement that Hector > > was now a member of DSA, and his request to update the DSA delegation. > > The usual process is that the appointement of delegates is usually > > discussed betwee

Re: Please update the DSA delegation

2013-12-04 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 01:35:38AM +, Ian Jackson a écrit : > > But the main point here is that the team should normally be able to > manage its membership directly. That's how these things have often > been done (sometimes with no explicit DPL rubber stamp, even). I think that we need both.

Re: Please update the DSA delegation

2013-12-04 Thread Ian Jackson
Paul Tagliamonte writes ("Re: Please update the DSA delegation"): > I think the only "legal" way to do this would be to delegate a developer > on that team the ability to re-delegate members of a team (e.g. you > can't delegate the team, you'd have to d

Re: Please update the DSA delegation

2013-12-04 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 01:15:58AM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > [...] > For a team which is functioning well, it would be > helpful if the DPL delegated to the team the authority over its own > composition, explicitly reserving the right to intervene. > [...] If I remember my Debian Constitution co

Re: Please update the DSA delegation

2013-12-04 Thread Ian Jackson
Joerg Jaspert writes ("Re: Please update the DSA delegation"): > [Lucas:] > > 3) I was a bit surprised to see Martin's announcement that Hector > > was now a member of DSA, and his request to update the DSA delegation. > > The usual process is that the

Re: Please update the DSA delegation

2013-12-04 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Martin Zobel-Helas Welcome to the team, Héctor! > - Maintaining the central user (LDAP) database listing all the Debian > developers. This includes: I don't think the delegation should specify the technology for handling user accounts. If we want to switch to another technology, that shoul

Re: Please update the DSA delegation

2013-12-04 Thread Joerg Jaspert
>> Now, I have no idea how that private discussion looks like, so I can >> only base my observation on what I see of DSAs works and the old >> delegation text. Which doesn't look like the role really changed? May >> I ask what I miss? > Over the last months, I was contacted by DDs about several i

Re: Please update the DSA delegation

2013-12-04 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 04/12/13 at 14:58 +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > Hi > > >>I am pleased to announce that DSA has promoted Héctor Orón > >>Martínez to a > >>full member of the team. > >>Please update the delegation for the Debian System Administrators > >>accordingly. > >I'd rather wait until we see where our cur

Re: Please update the DSA delegation

2013-12-04 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Hi I am pleased to announce that DSA has promoted Héctor Orón Martínez to a full member of the team. Please update the delegation for the Debian System Administrators accordingly. I'd rather wait until we see where our current (private) conversation is going, as the job description could be u

Re: Please update the DSA delegation

2013-12-03 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 02/12/13 at 22:11 +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > Hi Lucas, > > I am pleased to announce that DSA has promoted Héctor Orón Martínez to a > full member of the team. > > Please update the delegation for the Debian System Administrators > accordingly. Hi, I'd rather wait until we see where o

Please update the DSA delegation

2013-12-02 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi Lucas, I am pleased to announce that DSA has promoted Héctor Orón Martínez to a full member of the team. Please update the delegation for the Debian System Administrators accordingly. Here's a proposed text for this delegation: [Text taken from old delegation at https://lists.debian.org/deb