Re: Question to all candidates: financing of development

2010-03-13 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 05:01, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Some DDs are able to pursue specific Debian projects due to bounties > they put on the projects (both AJ and Raphael have similar initiatives > on their homepages, even though I don't know how much they are > successful in terms of "custom

Question to all the candidates: communication

2010-03-13 Thread Paul Wise
Dear candidates, Debian has a lot of project communications media; lists, forums, IRC, planet, bts, RT. There are also a lot of external communications media covering Debian; news media, , social networks, blogs, microblogging sites & non-IRC chat, video sites and so on. Which project and externa

Question to all Candidates: Heated discussions

2010-03-13 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
Hello =) Sometimes technical Debian discussions (mailing lists, bug reports, blog posts, etc.) become personal flame-wars. Do you think current frequency/amount of heated discussions is acceptable for the Debian project? What would you do to reduce those? --Dima. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Question to all Candidate: In ten years...

2010-03-13 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
Hello =) Please finish "In ten years I'd like Debian" --Dima -- 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/86ecb3c71003131835uaa3e0f7q5708cabdf99c7...@mail.gma

Re: Question to all Candidates: 2IC

2010-03-13 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sat, 13 Mar 2010, Margarita Manterola wrote: > There are a bunch listed in my yet-to-be-published platform. But > just to give an example from the previous mail, I'd like to have a > page with rankings of people reporting and fixing bugs, in order to > give some nice Debian merchandise to the on

Re: Question to all candidates: financing of development

2010-03-13 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 05:11, Mike Hommey wrote: > > Note that GSoc is supposed to sponsor students to do some development > work, preferably with the purpose of getting these people involved in a > project they weren't involved in to begin with. That's not, per se, accurate. From the GSoC FAQ:

Re: Question to all candidates: financing of development

2010-03-13 Thread Julien Cristau
Raphael, On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 17:52:33 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Sat, 13 Mar 2010, Margarita Manterola wrote: > > However, if it's seen as a "Debian" thing, instead of an external > > thing like GSoC is, then it might lead to some resentment from the > > side of the people that don't

Re: Question to all candidates: financing of development

2010-03-13 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 07:01:21PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > So, given that my main perplexities come from the fact that a DD is > involved in organizing all this, you can imagine I wouldn't mind: a > company doing that (which is already the case for Google with GSoC), a > non-DD/DM doing

Re: Question to all candidates: financing of development

2010-03-13 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 08:18:00AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Imagine a DD contacts you, she wants to setup an infrastructure to finance > Debian related projects (i.e. paying people to enable them to work on the > projects that they'd like to do for Debian) but she wants to avoid the > main m

Re: Question to all Candidates: 2IC

2010-03-13 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 05:45:33PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 12:55:38PM +0700, Paul Wise wrote: > > I wonder if the questions period of the DPL elections would be more > > productive if platforms were published beforehand? > > FWIW, my platform is ready, if someone

Re: Question to all Candidates: 2IC

2010-03-13 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 05:10:25PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > FWIW, I think a 2IC is much more effective for outside-leaning > communication, i.e. filtering and/or answering leader@ mail (which > apparently can be overwhelming) and such, not for communication with > other project members or team

Re: Question to all the candidates: time

2010-03-13 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 12:56:17PM +0700, Paul Wise wrote: > #include Eh :-) > How much time do you currently devote to Debian? How will that amount > of time change for the DPL term? How will you balance your DPL time > and time for other Debian activities. In the last few years, I've been abl

Re: Question to all candidates: financing of development

2010-03-13 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, thanks for your answers! On Sat, 13 Mar 2010, Margarita Manterola wrote: > On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 4:18 AM, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > Imagine a DD contacts you, she wants to setup an infrastructure to finance > > Debian related projects (i.e. paying people to enable them to work on the > >

Re: Question to all Candidates: 2IC

2010-03-13 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 12:55:38PM +0700, Paul Wise wrote: > I wonder if the questions period of the DPL elections would be more > productive if platforms were published beforehand? FWIW, my platform is ready, if someone want to have a look before the official publishing just ask me me, otherwise

Re: Question to all candidates: financing of development

2010-03-13 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 4:18 AM, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Imagine a DD contacts you, she wants to setup an infrastructure to finance > Debian related projects (i.e. paying people to enable them to work on the > projects that they'd like to do for Debian) but she wants to avoid the > main mistakes

Re: Question to all the candidates: time

2010-03-13 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 2:56 AM, Paul Wise wrote: > #include > > How much time do you currently devote to Debian? How will that amount > of time change for the DPL term? How will you balance your DPL time > and time for other Debian activities. Currently, I'm devoting only a small portion of my

Re: Question to all candidates: financing of development

2010-03-13 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 10:46:23AM +0100, Luk Claes a écrit : > > If the money is used to pay people and the donor is paying for a > specific project where it can know who will get paid, this could be seen > as a work relationship and open a whole other can of worms than we have > dealt with befor

Re: Question to all candidates: financing of development

2010-03-13 Thread Luk Claes
Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 08:18:00AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : > What I like in your proposal is that the projects will need a donor, as > opposed > to directly use Debian money. I think that showing the capacity of finding a > donor is an important filter before enga

Re: Question to all candidates: financing of development

2010-03-13 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 08:18:00AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : > > Imagine a DD contacts you, she wants to setup an infrastructure to finance > Debian related projects (i.e. paying people to enable them to work on the > projects that they'd like to do for Debian) but she wants to avoid the >