Re: Question for all candidates: Release process

2010-03-26 Thread Charles Plessy
Hello Bernhard and everybody, I think that the ‘RPM hell’ that you used to comment my propositions is more related to a situation when independant distributions are using the same package format, than when a distribution offers multiple repositories that obey to a policy that keeps the whole syste

Re: Q for the Candidates: How many users?

2010-03-26 Thread Simon Paillard
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 04:52:19AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 05:19:20PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > Bearing in mind: > > * www.debian.org/social_contract says Debian's "priorities are our > > users and free software", > > * popcon.debian.org currently reports

Re: Question about membership.

2010-03-26 Thread Charles Plessy
> * Did you or do you plan to talk to DAM/Frontdesk about membership changes? Discussion must be public from the start. DAM/Frontdesk is contribution essential. Your position will be first in the discussion's summary. > * Do you need to come up with a GR to change membership procedures, or is >

Re: Question about membership.

2010-03-26 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Hi Charles, thanks for you long answer. But unfortunately I feel like a journalist now, instead of getting a short *answer* to my questions, I got a looong talk around them. So here are they again, in a very simplified form: * Did you or do you plan to talk to DAM/Frontdesk about membership chang

Re: Standardization, large scale changes, innovations

2010-03-26 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 25 Mar 2010, Joey Hess wrote: > The exciting potential of dpkg source v3 to me is that it potentially > opens an area that had stifled most innopvation, by allowing subtypes of > the source format to be developed. But this area is still relatively > closed to innovation; dpkg's maintainers

Re: Q for the Candidates: How many users?

2010-03-26 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 04:52:19AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > I note Steve points out: > > On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 03:06:37PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/123481/index.html > > which cites estimates of 6-8 million Ubuntu users, for a factor of > between

Re: Question about membership.

2010-03-26 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 02:06:44PM +0100, Bernd Zeimetz a écrit : > Charles Plessy wrote: > > > If I am elected DPL, I will re-open the discussion and lead them in a way > > that > > maximises everybody's contribution, for instance by making pauses if > > necessary, > > and by posting neutral su

Re: Question about membership.

2010-03-26 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Charles Plessy wrote: > If I am elected DPL, I will re-open the discussion and lead them in a way that > maximises everybody's contribution, for instance by making pauses if > necessary, > and by posting neutral summaries. After the discussion reaches conclusion, I > will initiate a GR. When did

Re: Q for the Candidates: How many users?

2010-03-26 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 04:52:19AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 09:49:47PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > Then we can look at the official mirrors logs > > (for distinct IPs regularly downloading package indexes in a given time > > window), and at the same index down