Re: Small teams and other platform positions...

2005-04-10 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Ean Schuessler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-03-25 12:50]: > When you vote, remember, code is more important than commercials. I guess you mean "if" here given that you have neither voted this nor last year. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Small teams and other platform positions...

2005-03-29 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Martin Schulze] > How to you fund the time people need to travel to and stay at the > meetings? Until now, we haven't. As I said, those already investing lots of time into Debian tend to get their travel and lodging expenses covered to join the meetings in questions. Experience have shown that

Re: Small teams and other platform positions...

2005-03-29 Thread Martin Schulze
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > [Vaidhyanathan Mayilrangam Gopalan] > > If we do, then we are essentially saying that only those developers > > who are rich enough (in terms of money, time , ability ) to travel > > are only ones who are worthy of contributing. It has got nothing to > > do with the

Re: Small teams and other platform positions...

2005-03-29 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Vaidhyanathan Mayilrangam Gopalan] > If we do, then we are essentially saying that only those developers > who are rich enough (in terms of money, time , ability ) to travel > are only ones who are worthy of contributing. It has got nothing to > do with the amount of work they are putting into D

Re: Small teams and other platform positions...

2005-03-29 Thread Vaidhyanathan Mayilrangam Gopalan
I believe Ean is not arguing about what is the most effective way. He runs his own s/w development company and he knows the value of face to face meetings. The point is, we as Debian team, should not depend on physical meetings as a way to conduct business. If we do, then we are essentially saying

Re: Small teams and other platform positions...

2005-03-29 Thread David Schmitt
On Sunday 27 March 2005 22:10, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > Yes there should be accessible documentation for what all the teams are > upto and electronic systems could automate a lot of that. But eventually > someone has to monitor the electronic systems and then we are right back > to square one. Onl

Re: Small teams and other platform positions...

2005-03-27 Thread Ean Schuessler
On Sunday 27 March 2005 02:10 pm, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > Employees maybe not, but the majority of the work in Debian is done by > people who probably spend 20+ hours a week on it and if that's not > professional it certainly isn't what I'd call amateur either. > > Then we have many DDs who just b

Re: Small teams and other platform positions...

2005-03-27 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005, Ean Schuessler wrote: > I disagree. The bulk of work in Debian is not done by employees of > professional Debian service companies that regularly attend required events. > Employees maybe not, but the majority of the work in Debian is done by people who probably spend 20+ hou

Re: Small teams and other platform positions...

2005-03-25 Thread Ean Schuessler
On Friday 25 March 2005 8:50 pm, Steve Langasek wrote: > That would be nice. Which did you just do? What makes a cabal -- a group > of people meeting in person to sort out a problem, or a group of people > making noise about the fact that people met in person to work on problems? > > The leap fro

Re: Small teams and other platform positions...

2005-03-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 12:50:52PM -0600, Ean Schuessler wrote: > I hope we can focus our group on discrete systems instead of cliques and > cabals. That would be nice. Which did you just do? What makes a cabal -- a group of people meeting in person to sort out a problem, or a group of people m

Re: Small teams and other platform positions...

2005-03-25 Thread Ean Schuessler
On Friday 25 March 2005 5:49 pm, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > We already have a two class society. (But TINC...yet) http://tinc.debian.net/ > >. Create several "key gatherings" a year and only a "professional > > Debianer" will be able to keep up. > > This is already the case even with (or probabl

Re: Small teams and other platform positions...

2005-03-25 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005, Ean Schuessler wrote: > The Vancouver Prospectus, SCUD and "small teams" have given me pause for > thought. On the surface, it seems that there cannot be much wrong with > Debianers gathering together physically to talk and make decisions about the > direction of the operating

Re: Small teams and other platform positions...

2005-03-25 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
|| On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 12:50:52 -0600 || Ean Schuessler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ean> However, I have grave concerns about placing emphasis on face-to-face ean> meetings as a methodology for moving the project forward. Could we ean> accidentally create a "two class" society in the proces

Small teams and other platform positions...

2005-03-25 Thread Ean Schuessler
I sent this to debian-vote initially since it is about platforms. Maybe discussion belongs in -project. The Vancouver Prospectus, SCUD and "small teams" have given me pause for thought. On the surface, it seems that there cannot be much wrong with Debianers gathering together physically to