Re: [all candidates] the release process

2013-04-03 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 06:36:14PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On 3 Apr 2013, at 17:29, Moray Allan wrote: > > > The campaign period already finished a few days ago > Yes, I was aware of that when I posted, but RL interfered with me asking > prior to voting opening. I sought advice as to wh

Re: [all candidates] the release process

2013-04-03 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On 3 Apr 2013, at 17:29, Moray Allan wrote: > The campaign period already finished a few days ago Yes, I was aware of that when I posted, but RL interfered with me asking prior to voting opening. I sought advice as to whether it was appropriate to ask further Qs and got a luke-warm "yes". My re

Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?

2013-04-03 Thread Chris Knadle
On Wednesday, April 03, 2013 09:40:50, Ian Jackson wrote: > Chris Knadle writes ("Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?"): > > On Tuesday, April 02, 2013 13:53:24, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > The purpose of a bug report is not to help solve the submitter's > > > problem. > > > > ... N

Re: [all candidates] the release process

2013-04-03 Thread Moray Allan
On 2013-04-03 09:38, Jonathan Dowland wrote: What are the candidates opinion on the current release process? Can it be improved? What role should the DPL play in such work? Thanks - with apologies for raising this at a release-sensitive time, but obviously it has to be at a vote-appropriate time

[all candidates] the release process

2013-04-03 Thread Jonathan Dowland
What are the candidates opinion on the current release process? Can it be improved? What role should the DPL play in such work? Thanks - with apologies for raising this at a release-sensitive time, but obviously it has to be at a vote-appropriate timeā€¦ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-re

Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?

2013-04-03 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Ian Jackson writes: >> From the point of view of the bug reporter, the message the DD has >> sent (whether intended or not) is "I'm not even going to dignify >> this with a response. *click* " It's not /only/ this rudeness >> that's the problem, though; the bug reporter has now been handed a >> p

Re: [all candidates] Debian as an FSF Free Software Distribution

2013-04-03 Thread Wouter Verhelst
[your mail-to-news gateway seems to keep the "Newsgroup" header in the mail, which confuses my MUA. Dunno if that's a bug, but you might want to look into it] On 03-04-13 14:38, Ian Jackson wrote: > Wouter Verhelst writes ("Re: [all candidates] Debian as an FSF Free Software > Distribution"): >>

Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?

2013-04-03 Thread Ian Jackson
Chris Knadle writes ("Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?"): > On Tuesday, April 02, 2013 13:53:24, Ian Jackson wrote: > > The purpose of a bug report is not to help solve the submitter's > > problem. > > ... No, I don't agree with this. I understand that this reteoric > helps "e

Re: [all candidates] on distribution-wide changes and scalability

2013-04-03 Thread Ian Jackson
Lucas Nussbaum writes ("Re: [all candidates] on distribution-wide changes and scalability"): > On 14/03/13 at 17:55 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > - Debian should decide to use a single VCS (say, Git), for all packages, > > uniform repository structure and work-flow, and give by default >

Re: [all candidates] Debian as an FSF Free Software Distribution

2013-04-03 Thread Ian Jackson
Wouter Verhelst writes ("Re: [all candidates] Debian as an FSF Free Software Distribution"): > Personally, I think we shouldn't be worried about the FSF's opinion > regarding the freeness of our distribution any more than the FSF is > worried about our opinion of the GFDL. My starting point is th

Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?

2013-04-03 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On 03.04.2013 06:09, Chris Knadle wrote: On Tuesday, April 02, 2013 20:34:28, Russ Allbery wrote: Note that we already did do something about it by deprecating close in the BTS in favor of sending a real email message to -done that is copied to the submitter. The Debian BTS now nags the mainta