Re: Question to all Candidates: we want more, aren't we?

2010-04-02 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hello, [switching to debian-project] On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 09:57 +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > Debian project raise it's expectation every year: higher quality, more > package, more architectures, more Desktops, etc... (cool). > > How do we face the challenge to do more every year? This fir

Re: Question to all Candidates: we want more, aren't we?

2010-04-02 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 06:39:46PM -0300, Margarita Manterola wrote: > I'm not sure why you think so, but I do acknowledge that this > is a hard thing to implement. Not wishing to oversimplify, this kind of strategy carries a high risk of conditioning the horse to walk *only* if there's a carr

Re: Question to all Candidates: we want more, aren't we?

2010-04-02 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
[ Apologies for this late/out of time answer, I'll try hard to make this the last time I bother the -vote-rs :-) ] On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 09:57:38AM +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > Debian project raise it's expectation every year: higher quality, more > package, more architectures, more Desktops

Re: Question to all Candidates: we want more, aren't we?

2010-04-02 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 09:57:38AM +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > Hello dear candidates, > > Debian project raise it's expectation every year: higher quality, more > package, more architectures, more Desktops, etc... (cool). > > How do we face the challenge to do more every year? As Marge also m

Re: Question to all candidates: DPL's role in important package maintenance

2010-04-02 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 06:47:53AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > Agreed, but would you agree that it is a core part of the role of the > DPL/2IC, or indeed any mediator, to provide at least basic status and > progress info to the project as a whole? > > What we've been seeing with this issue is that

Re: Standardization, large scale changes, innovations

2010-04-02 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 09:57:35AM +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > There isn't just Manoj that work on Manoj's packages (QA team, Security > team, Derivative distro... and our users!) They can use standard interfaces to modify the package, should they want to. Manoj does the same. > BTW, does Mano