Re: DebConf

2025-03-21 Thread Holger Levsen
On Fri, Mar 21, 2025 at 07:26:27PM -0300, Santiago Ruano Rincón wrote: > DebConf produces profit, that we don't measure in dollars :-) <3 very much so! & well said. same for DebCamp, MiniDebConfs & BSPs. -- cheers, Holger ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ holger@(debian|reproducible-builds|layer-ach

Re: DebConf

2025-03-21 Thread Santiago Ruano Rincón
Em 20 de março de 2025 09:41:58 GMT-03:00, Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana escreveu: >Hi > >Em 19/03/2025 20:05, Pierre-Elliott Bécue escreveu: >> Hey, >> >> Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana wrote on 19/03/2025 at >> 20:46:12+0100: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Em 19/03/2025 08:15, Andreas Tille escrev

Re: Questions for all candidates

2025-03-21 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, Mar 21, 2025 at 05:28:39PM +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: The problem with December is that lots of people have to contend with some version of end-of-year craze at their workplace (*) *and* preparing for their version of Winter Solstice Festivities (aka "christmas"), both of which ofte

Re: Questions for all candidates

2025-03-21 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Gianfranco Costamagna dijo [Fri, Mar 21, 2025 at 08:24:02AM +]: (...) 3. DebConf (...) I digress, this isn't about my gripes with DebConf, it's about yours. What do you think are the biggest problems with DebConf, and if you had a magic wish or two as DPL to change things, what would that be

Re: Q to nominees: Rough plan on Debian/Ubuntu non-collaboration?

2025-03-21 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Hello again, I *was* part of the Technical Committee, but "graduated" from it slightly over two years ago. Still, Gianfranco Costamagna dijo [Fri, Mar 21, 2025 at 03:29:46PM +]: Hello, (...) Establishing those boundaries and clarifying what we believe may help people who are involved in bo

Re: Questions for all candidates

2025-03-21 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Matthias Urlichs dijo [Fri, Mar 21, 2025 at 05:28:39PM +0100]: On 21.03.25 16:32, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: maybe also December can be a good month for this The problem with December is that lots of people have to contend with some version of end-of-year craze at their workplace (*) *and*

Re: Questions for all candidates

2025-03-21 Thread Matthias Urlichs
On 21.03.25 16:32, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: maybe also December can be a good month for this The problem with December is that lots of people have to contend with some version of end-of-year craze at their workplace (*) *and* preparing for their version of Winter Solstice Festivities (aka

Re: Q for nominees: structural reforms to delegations

2025-03-21 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hello, let me answer to this non-question :) >A third point: the DPL's role is only partially to lead Debian. IMHO a >rather important part of the job is to simply represent the principles >and/or rough consensus of the project's members. Branden's missive >doesn't represent any views other tha

Re: Questions for all candidates

2025-03-21 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hello, >As a long-time DebConf organizer and current member of the DebConf Committee: >The reason DebConf usually takes place in July/August is that it's the spot our >local organizers can usually find availability in the venues that host us (that >are often universities, so it makes sense to be t

Re: Q to nominees: Rough plan on Debian/Ubuntu non-collaboration?

2025-03-21 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hello, >Encouraging collaboration between Debian and Ubuntu seems like a good >thing to me since there is a lot of work/code re-use and people overlap >between these projects. it is to me too :) >However what is not clear to me from the discussion is what the >differences ought to be, and if the

Q to nominees: Rough plan on Debian/Ubuntu non-collaboration?

2025-03-21 Thread Simon Josefsson
All, Encouraging collaboration between Debian and Ubuntu seems like a good thing to me since there is a lot of work/code re-use and people overlap between these projects. However what is not clear to me from the discussion is what the differences ought to be, and if there are contexts where colla

Posting style to reduce flames (Was: Proposal - Remove requirement that emails be wrapped at 80 characters)

2025-03-21 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Hi Sam, I wasn't going to spawn a thread here in d-vote, but since your wise reflections seems to have inspired at least one Debian Leader now, I will do it anyway... Quoting Sam Hartman (2025-03-18 23:04:23) > I find MUA features that allow quoted blocks to be collapsed helpful for > this reason

Re: Q for nominees: structural reforms to delegations

2025-03-21 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Jonas, [just following a hint from Sam Hartman to use top posting in such kind of discussions] Please take my deliberate silence as a signal that, as a potential DPL, I am not willing to reinforce a pattern that has been frequently criticized. However, I am happy to answer any explicit question

Re: Questions for all candidates

2025-03-21 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hello, again >How do you feel about VCS requirements in Debian? Should it be required >that Debian packages are maintained in Salsa? How do you feel about dgit >and tag2upload? when I speak about my love for git, I forget everything else (also typos, please excuse them) I think, all the packa