Re: question for all candidates

2006-03-08 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 03:34:33PM +0100, Andreas Schuldei wrote: > - Keyring Mainainance > The only person working on this is very busy. More redundancy > and a more user-driven attitude could help a lot. I have been > talking to the keyring maintainer on several occasions last year > but

Re: Questions for all candidates about developer behavior and abuse

2006-03-08 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 04:53:40PM -0500, Andres Salomon wrote: > At what point does a Debian Developer's behavior cross the line from > annoying to destructive? At what point should the Developer be removed > from the project [...] I tend to think crossing the line once should result in polite c

Re: Questions to candidates Towns and van Wolffelaar: debian-volatile

2006-03-08 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 10:22:54PM +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > 2.) Do you think this services should be made an official service of the > debian project? Please give a reason for your answer. I like to think of debian.net as an area where we experiment for things that might or might not

Re: Question for all candidates: handle debian-admin more openly

2006-03-08 Thread Martin Schulze
Bill Allombert wrote: > On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 10:56:57PM +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > > Now my question: > > > > 1.) Do you think it would be a good idea to handle debian-admin more > > openly? > > > > 2.) Would you encourage debian-admin to do so? If yes, how? > > > > 3.) Do yo

Re: Questions to the candidates

2006-03-08 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 08:16:34AM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > I'd like to ask some questions to the prospecitve project leaders: > 1. Which are Debians top five strengths in your opinion? In no particular order: Breadth -- we include everything we can, and support whoever we can Freedom -

Re: Code of conduct, question to all candidates

2006-03-08 Thread Matthew Garrett
Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At this point, I am not in favour of such code. I am in favour of giving > general guidelines and but not to enforce them. People should follow > them because they agree with them but not because they are forced to. > Not the least, that provides a real

Re: Questions to candidates Towns and van Wolffelaar: debian-volatile

2006-03-08 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Martin Zobel-Helas said: > Hi Ari, > > On Wednesday, 08 Mar 2006, you wrote: > > Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > > >1.) What is your opinion regarding the current status of debian-volatile? > > >... more questions about volatile ... > > > > Wasn't this just asked by Joey?

Re: Questions to candidates Towns and van Wolffelaar: debian-volatile

2006-03-08 Thread Ari Pollak
Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: 1.) What is your opinion regarding the current status of debian-volatile? ... more questions about volatile ... Wasn't this just asked by Joey? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Questions to candidates Towns and van Wolffelaar: debian-volatile

2006-03-08 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi Ari, On Wednesday, 08 Mar 2006, you wrote: > Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > >1.) What is your opinion regarding the current status of debian-volatile? > >... more questions about volatile ... > > Wasn't this just asked by Joey? yes, in some parts. But as i consider myself as one of the debian-v

Addition to my DPL-team

2006-03-08 Thread Andreas Schuldei
I am happy to announce that both Margarita Manterola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> would be willing to work on my DPL Team, should I get elected. Margarita would be our community contact person. Thank you very much, Margarita and Raphael, for your commitment to Debia

Re: Question to all candidates about the NM process

2006-03-08 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 08 Mar 2006, Andreas Schuldei wrote: > * Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-03-07 12:34:05]: > > [In short, if this is such a problem, what have you all been doing in > > your personal capacity as developers to deal with it?] [...] > Apart from that, your question implies that one ha

Re: Questions for all candidates about developer behavior and abuse

2006-03-08 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Andres Salomon [Tue, Mar 07 2006, 04:53:40PM]: > The reason for my question? > > jonas: i hope we never again meet in public, because i promise i > will hit you if i do. A-Ha. Let's buy them two boxing sets and popcorn for the rest of us. Eduard. -- anyone from the MIA team aroun

Re: Question for all candidates: handle debian-admin more openly

2006-03-08 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 10:56:57PM +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > Now my question: > > 1.) Do you think it would be a good idea to handle debian-admin more > openly? > > 2.) Would you encourage debian-admin to do so? If yes, how? > > 3.) Do you think more DSA are needed? I would li

Re: Code of conduct, question to all candidates

2006-03-08 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 10:20:59PM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > What do you think of a code of conduct? What in your opinion would be a > lower limit on acceptable behavior? Do you think that strict rules would > be better than general guidelines? Who should be the judge if a > particular case fo

Re: Second call for votes for the GFDL position statement

2006-03-08 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 07:03:52AM -0600, Debian Project Secretary wrote: > Then mail the ballot to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Don't worry about spacing of the columns or any quote characters > (">") that your reply inserts. NOTE: The vote must be GPG signed > (or PGP signed) with your key that is in th

Re: For Andreas: how can you work full-time for DPL

2006-03-08 Thread Andreas Schuldei
* Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-03-06 14:42:54]: > those questions are for Andreas only: twice in your platform you say > "I can work full-time as DPL". > > Why can you make that claim ? > > If you any have any special arrangements to have free time for Debian, is that > conditioned

Re: Question to all candidates about the NM process

2006-03-08 Thread Andreas Schuldei
* Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-03-07 12:34:05]: > [In short, if this is such a problem, what have you all been doing in > your personal capacity as developers to deal with it?] I was not involved in the NM process actively, just talked to the respective people to find out what would be

Re: Questions to the candidates

2006-03-08 Thread Andreas Schuldei
* Andrew Saunders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-03-08 09:40:21]: > Why has this not happened yet? Could we please have an update on this? Because the responsible person at NetApp (one of the VPs) is a busy man. I recently got news on the topic and that the machine is being worked on. I dont have a da

Re: Code of conduct, question to all candidates

2006-03-08 Thread Andreas Schuldei
* Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-03-03 22:20:59]: > A code of conduct has often been mentioned as a possible solution to > various communication problems we have. The code would have to specify, > either explicitly or implicitly, some rules for acceptable behavior. > > What do you think

Re: question for all candidates

2006-03-08 Thread Andreas Schuldei
* Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-03-07 20:09:11]: > > When important teams seem to be disfunctional or have a hard time to > > find a structure that scales into the future I would however use my > > powers of delegation to restructure the team from the outside. I would > > only do that a

Re: Questions for Jeroen van Wolffelaar and Andreas Schuldei

2006-03-08 Thread Matthew Garrett
Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't think it'd be particularly well-recieved if someone who, after > all, was not elected, would assume leadership. Regardless of the > constitutional issues, it was clear that there was some bit of angst > among DD's during last year's campai

Re: Question to all candidates about stable point releases

2006-03-08 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 10:38:22AM +, MJ Ray wrote: > Anthony Towns wrote: > [+2 questions from other people] > > On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 04:39:52PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > > > Why does it need to happen directly after r2? > [+3 questions] > > Uh, what the hell? > [+2 things that might

Questions for all candidates: plurality of mandates

2006-03-08 Thread Mohammed Adnène Trojette
[Don't Cc: me, I read the list] Questions for all candidates: In the Debian project, some people run many functions because they are very competent and have free time to help on many different fronts. The obvious consequence is a concentration of powers which is dangerous when those people come

Re: Question to all candidates about stable point releases

2006-03-08 Thread MJ Ray
Anthony Towns wrote: [+2 questions from other people] > On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 04:39:52PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > > Why does it need to happen directly after r2? [+3 questions] > > Uh, what the hell? [+2 things that might be answers] > This is why I hate trying to talk about things on Deb

Re: Question to all candidates about stable point releases

2006-03-08 Thread Lars Wirzenius
ke, 2006-03-08 kello 09:23 +0100, Marc Haber kirjoitti: > On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 05:46:53PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 08:19:19AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > > > Feb 22nd, I mail both Joey (as SRM) and the security team noting the > > >queue changes that sh

Re: Candidate questions: expulsions process

2006-03-08 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 10:36:42AM +, MJ Ray wrote: > The process to expel a developer is described in > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/08/msg5.html > I am not sure whether all expulsion attempts get far enough > to be recorded on -private or -project as described in > t

Re: Questions for Jeroen van Wolffelaar and Andreas Schuldei

2006-03-08 Thread Enrico Zini
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 11:40:40PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: > I think this is a poor response. There were several issues that the DPL > team could have dealt with and didn't - it shouldn't have taken access > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to realise that, for instance, people had concerns over > ft

Re: Questions to the candidates

2006-03-08 Thread Andrew Saunders
On 3/8/06, Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 7. What is your opinion about the current situation with the snapshot >archive? Currently it doesn't run on projects assets. On 12/14/05, Andreas Schuldei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote [1]: > actually, NetApp (the storage company) and Intel

Re: Question to all candidates about stable point releases

2006-03-08 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 08 Mar 2006, Marc Haber wrote: > On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 05:45:25PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 08:14:21AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > > > > Uh, what the hell? > > > You have four people asking basically the same question, and you > > > wonder about this? > > > >

Re: Question to all candidates about stable point releases

2006-03-08 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 08 mars 2006 à 17:45 +1000, Anthony Towns a écrit : > What discussion, exactly? There's a bunch of people telling me how I'm > blocking the process and deliberately delaying point releases, Joey's > demanding to be made an ftpmaster, and over what? A single mail that > didn't get a repl

Re: Question to all candidates about stable point releases

2006-03-08 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 05:46:53PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 08:19:19AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > > > > Did you talk to the stable release manager before trying to reduce his > > > > work load? > > > Of course I did. > > In the last four weeks? > > Yes: > > > Feb 22n

Re: Question to all candidates about stable point releases

2006-03-08 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 08:55:35AM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > Anthony Towns writes: > > On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 12:18:32AM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > >> After following the thread on here on -vote, I have the impression that > >> this fixes something that's not a problem -

Re: Question to all candidates about stable point releases

2006-03-08 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 05:45:25PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 08:14:21AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > > > Uh, what the hell? > > You have four people asking basically the same question, and you > > wonder about this? > > Yes, because _all_ of them leap to the conclusion th

Re: Question to all candidates about stable point releases

2006-03-08 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 08:14:21AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > > Uh, what the hell? > You have four people asking basically the same question, and you > wonder about this? Yes, because _all_ of them leap to the conclusion that I'm trying to delay something, when I'm not. > > I sent the mail reques

Re: Question to all candidates about stable point releases

2006-03-08 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 07:57:18AM +0100, Michael Meskes wrote: > > *shrug* I guess you've got a right to your own impression. Mine differs, > > and I think I've got more to base it on than you do -- or than Joey does > > for that matter. What do you want me to say? > Which if course is a valid arg

Re: Question to all candidates about stable point releases

2006-03-08 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 08:19:19AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > > > Did you talk to the stable release manager before trying to reduce his > > > work load? > > Of course I did. > In the last four weeks? Yes: > Feb 22nd, I mail both Joey (as SRM) and the security team noting the >queue

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Request to be approved as FTP-Master]

2006-03-08 Thread David N. Welton
Martin Schulze wrote: >>Given enough thrust pigs will fly, but it's not necessarily a good idea. > This has been rejected by James Troup. He's against the flying part, or giving pigs enough thrust? I for one don't feel it's the sort of activity, entertaining though it might be, that Debian shou