Re: Question for all candidates: Release process

2010-03-18 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 08:09:19AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum a écrit : > > During the last debconf, the freeze of squeeze was first announced to > take place in December, then this decision was cancelled, and now we are > in March. > - How do you analyze what happened during last summer? What went wro

Re: Q for all candidates: (Old) Architecture Support

2010-03-18 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Yavor Doganov wrote: > Debian has been known through the years for its excellent support for > many architectures.  In theory, a released arch should be as stable as > the common/popular archs.  (In practice, it is/was pretty close, which > is good enough.) Yes,

Re: Question for DD candidates: The race against NOTA

2010-03-18 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 09:53:46AM -0300, Margarita Manterola wrote: > I know, but if we were to be without a DPL, those delegations could > not be re-validated. It is not clear by reading the Constitution what > would happen to the "DPL delegates" if there was no DPL. However, > even assuming th

Re: Q for all candidates: (Old) Architecture Support

2010-03-18 Thread Yavor Doganov
В Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:02:56 +0900, Charles Plessy написа: > Le Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 03:49:16PM +0200, Yavor Doganov a écrit : >> * There should be an entitiy within the project to decide which arch >> gets released and which not > I do not completely agree with this: > > I think that the porters

Re: Question for DD candidates: The race against NOTA

2010-03-18 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: >> Without a leader, the press team would have to be delegated by the >> body of developers, through a GR or similar election, in order to >> actually be "the voice of Debian". > > Leaving out meta questions, when one can be consid

Re: Question for DD candidates: The race against NOTA

2010-03-18 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 11:07:32PM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Of course - But we do have a press team. If we were to lack a Leader, > the press team would just become the contact point for the press, > right? Right, but the difference is in "directionality". The press team puts into use their ab

Re: Question for DD candidates: The race against NOTA

2010-03-18 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Hi! Margarita Manterola schrieb: Without a leader, the press team would have to be delegated by the body of developers, through a GR or similar election, in order to actually be "the voice of Debian". Leaving out meta questions, when one can be considered to be "the voice of Debian", but the

Re: Question for DD candidates: The race against NOTA

2010-03-18 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 2:07 AM, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Of course - But we do have a press team. If we were to lack a Leader, > the press team would just become the contact point for the press, > right? Without a leader, the press team would have to be delegated by the body of developers, through