Re: Constitutional amendment: reduce the length of DPL election process

2007-08-02 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Tuesday 31 July 2007 10:48, Anthony Towns wrote: > Oh, that reminds me. > > I propose we change section 5.2 of the constitution concerning > appointment of the Project Leader to reduce the nomination period > to a week, and the voting period to two weeks. In wdiff format: > > = > 5.2. Appo

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal

2007-06-21 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Thursday 21 June 2007 16:50, Anthony Towns wrote: > * multiple Debian developers have requested the individual's > removal for non-spurious reasons; eg, due to problematic > uploads, unfixed bugs, or being unreasonably difficult to > work with. This by itself is to

Questions to Anthony Towns

2007-02-25 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
Two simple questions: a) Is there anything you regret doing in the past year (as DPL of course)? b) are there things you didn't have time to do in the first year but would like to do if you would get elected again? Regards Konstantinos pgpM0z1cXzTXy.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Third call for votes for the debian project leader election 2005

2005-04-04 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
This must be contagious :-) On ÎÎÏÏÎÏÎ 04 ÎÏÏÏ 2005 21:32, Otavio Salvador wrote: > || On Sun, 03 Apr 2005 18:26:16 -0500 > || Debian Project Secretary <[EMAIL PROTECTED] (va, manoj)> > || wrote: > > dps> - - -=-=-=-=-=- Don't Delete Anything Between These Lines > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- dps> 4634844

Re: Why vote for DPL only?

2005-03-15 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On ÎÏÎÏÎ 15 ÎÎÏÏÎÎÏ 2005 15:12, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Traditionally, the people doing work have been, uh, the people who > do the work. If people are in a position where they should be doing > work and are failing to do so, then it's already possible for the > DPL to remove them and appoint a ne

Why vote for DPL only?

2005-03-15 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
Hello everyone, So far, we've been discussing voting for position of the DPL, which undeniably, is the highest rank -or whatever you wish to call it, that's not the point i'm trying to make- within Debian. However, as every past, present and (possibly) future, DPL will probably tell you, the D

Re: Questions to all DPL candidates

2005-03-13 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On ÎÏÏ 13 ÎÎÏÏÎÎÏ 2005 18:28, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > What's the compatible replacement for Times New Roman? Compatible in what way? Do you need just a serif font? Or do you need some serif font that looks exactly like Times New Roman, same kerning, dimensions, etc but is not TImes New Roman?

Re: Questions to all DPL candidates

2005-03-13 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On ÎÏÏ 13 ÎÎÏÏÎÎÏ 2005 15:53, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > - eclipse > - msttcorefonts I can't speak about the rest of this list, but kaffe is now able to run eclipse 3.0.1, which means that eclipse will sooner or later enter main. As for msttcorefonts, do we really need it? There are quit

Re: The Ineffectual DPL?

2004-04-08 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Wednesday 07 April 2004 23:12, Adam Heath wrote: > There are countless incidents in Debian's past, where some existing > developer has left in outrage, because of either some disagreement, > or having something demanded of them(this list is not exhaustive). > At any point, a developer can deci

Re: The Ineffectual DPL?

2004-04-08 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Wednesday 07 April 2004 23:12, Adam Heath wrote: > There are countless incidents in Debian's past, where some existing > developer has left in outrage, because of either some disagreement, > or having something demanded of them(this list is not exhaustive). > At any point, a developer can deci

Re: Candidate questions/musings

2004-03-24 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Wednesday 24 March 2004 22:20, Raul Miller wrote: > People have lots of trouble understanding many other things, too. > Included in the set of things that people have trouble > understanding are people, computers, and just about everything > else. IMHO, the only thing that is actually difficult

Re: Mailing list behaviour was: Candidate questions/musings

2004-03-24 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Wednesday 24 March 2004 06:34, Anand Kumria wrote: > I, personally, suspect that the unfriendliness of Debian is behind > a lot of requests for smaller mailing lists seen by listmaster > these days. A lot of people don't bother to use the main mailing > lists anymore but instead find it simpler

Re: Candidate questions/musings

2004-03-24 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Wednesday 24 March 2004 22:20, Raul Miller wrote: > People have lots of trouble understanding many other things, too. > Included in the set of things that people have trouble > understanding are people, computers, and just about everything > else. IMHO, the only thing that is actually difficult

Re: Mailing list behaviour was: Candidate questions/musings

2004-03-24 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Wednesday 24 March 2004 06:34, Anand Kumria wrote: > I, personally, suspect that the unfriendliness of Debian is behind > a lot of requests for smaller mailing lists seen by listmaster > these days. A lot of people don't bother to use the main mailing > lists anymore but instead find it simpler

More questions to the candidates

2004-03-14 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
Hi to all, I have been following the past discussions on -vote, though I stayed quiet, being busy etc. Straight to the point: 1. Debian currently supports more than 10 arches (just a quick check in /ports. Obviously, trying to keep in sync all of them is too much. And I hope I'm not the only

More questions to the candidates

2004-03-14 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
Hi to all, I have been following the past discussions on -vote, though I stayed quiet, being busy etc. Straight to the point: 1. Debian currently supports more than 10 arches (just a quick check in /ports. Obviously, trying to keep in sync all of them is too much. And I hope I'm not the only

Re: Negative Summary of the Split Proposal

1999-07-05 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
st of us are used to knowing where to look for something, or the difference between using free/non-free software, new users don't. Remember the important thing is not freeness of software, it's its usefullness. THe fact that freeness allows for software to become useful is not the goal, it is the means. -- Konstantinos Margaritis

Re: Logo swap vote is bogus

1999-06-29 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
27;t judge by the looks says it all". Let's drop this whole conversation and proceed. The vote itself will render this whole deal a good or bad choice. -- Konstantinos Margaritis