Re: Team health and actions

2014-03-30 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Neil McGovern dijo [Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 08:03:10PM +0100]: > > 2. a team that works well but not in a sustainable way, and how a DPL > > can help bringing sustainability; > > A little bit of a stab in the dark here, but I'm going to *guess* the > DebConf team, simply because the huge amount

Re: two questions: fund raising money and publicity

2014-03-30 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Neil McGovern dijo [Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 03:42:14PM +]: > On the specific case, I remember when I wound up the accounts for > DebConf 7 that the surplus was earmarked as a donation to DebConf 8. > More specifically, there was a Debian seed fund of 10k USD to help with > the cash flow and then 8

Debian Project Leader Elections 2014: Call for votes

2014-03-30 Thread Debian Project Secretary - Kurt Roeckx
Hi, This is the first call for votes for the Debian Project Leader Elections 2014. Voting period starts 00:00:00 UTC on Monday, March 31st, 2014 Votes must be received by 23:59:59 UTC on Sunday, April 13th, 2014 This vote is being conducted as required by the Debian Constitution.

Re: DPL candidates: managing the CTTE memberships

2014-03-30 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi Josselin, On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 10:57:59AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > What is your stance on disruptive members in the committee? I would prefer TC to work with each other constructively, but I also recognise that this isn't always possible when it comes to a controversial decision. O

Re: How should we deal with bad maintainers?

2014-03-30 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, On 30/03/14 at 19:34 +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: > On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 10:21:06AM +0100, Gergely Nagy wrote: > > Raphael Hertzog writes: > > > > > assume that a package maintainer is active but is doing a bad job > > > regarding our standards (things like ignoring problems in stable, bre

Re: time-limited, auto-reinstated delegations (and reports)

2014-03-30 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, On 28/03/14 at 18:15 +0900, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > [ questions for candidate below, see "Q:" ] > > On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 10:25:44AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > There are also good reasons for not keeping them in the team: they might > > be perceived as "badge collectors" by the re

Re: DPL candidates: managing the CTTE memberships

2014-03-30 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi Josselin, On 28/03/14 at 10:57 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Hi Neil & Lucas, > > the DPL has limited powers on the member list of the technical > committee. Especially §6.2.5 says that he can agree with the committee > to dismiss one of the members. > > What is your stance on disruptive m

Re: All DPL candidates: Debian assets

2014-03-30 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 07:55:54PM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 01:03:31PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Do you think it's appropriate for these organizers to use Debian's name in > > seeking local sponsorship without consulting the DPL? > Sorry for not being clearer, b

Re: non-free?

2014-03-30 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 10:25:02AM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 09:32:26AM +0100, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > >On Tue, 2014-03-25 at 15:29 +0900, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > >> Because as long as we document it, it's very hard to claim that > >> "non-free" is not part of Debia

Re: Team health and actions

2014-03-30 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi Enrico, On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 09:26:01AM +0100, Enrico Zini wrote: > 1. a team that works well and in a sustainable way, and how a DPL can > bring thankfulness and appreciation; I think that most of our teams work well and are sustainable. The level of sustainability can sometimes teete

Re: All DPL candidates: Debian assets

2014-03-30 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi Steve, On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 01:03:31PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > Do you think it's appropriate for these organizers to use Debian's name in > seeking local sponsorship without consulting the DPL? > Sorry for not being clearer, but no. I think that a central repository and/or sponsors

Re: All DPL candidates: DPL Term lengths and limits?

2014-03-30 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi Brian, On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 07:54:50PM -0400, Brian Gupta wrote: > I know this has been raised in elections past, but any thoughts on the > current one-year DPL terms, and unlimited terms allowed? If thoughts > are geared toward change do you have any plans to actively try to > change the st

Re: Team health and actions

2014-03-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Lucas Nussbaum writes: > On 28/03/14 at 09:26 +0100, Enrico Zini wrote: >> 2. a team that works well but not in a sustainable way, and how a DPL >> can help bringing sustainability; >> 3. a team that does not work well, and how a DPL can address the >> problem. > I don't think that it'

Re: How should we deal with bad maintainers?

2014-03-30 Thread Neil McGovern
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 10:21:06AM +0100, Gergely Nagy wrote: > Raphael Hertzog writes: > > > assume that a package maintainer is active but is doing a bad job > > regarding our standards (things like ignoring problems in stable, breaking > > backwards compatibility for no good reason, not packag

Re: time-limited, auto-reinstated delegations (and reports)

2014-03-30 Thread Neil McGovern
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 06:15:46PM +0900, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > A way around that would be to use time-limited delegations *only*. > Q: What do the candidates think of that idea? If you agree it'd be good, > would do you engage in doing so for the duration of your term? > I think that there

Re: Question on DPL delegations.

2014-03-30 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi Charles, On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 07:31:12AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 05:44:55PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum a écrit : > > > > Internally, we would need to adjust, but I'm quite sure that we would > > manage. Actually, the lack of a DPL might make everybody feel more >

Re: Team health and actions

2014-03-30 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi Enrico, On 28/03/14 at 09:26 +0100, Enrico Zini wrote: > Hello, > > here's my question to the candidates[1]: > > Please name three teams in Debian: > > 1. a team that works well and in a sustainable way, and how a DPL can > bring thankfulness and appreciation; I think that DSA is a pre