(Dropping Chris from CC: as he is subscribed to -vote)
On 2019-03-12 16:55, Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana wrote:
Mehdi, would you like to run again?
I saw you run in 2017 and you have experience as DPL.
I am really not sure what people are expecting from the DPL. My past
experience showed m
On 08/04/2017 12:32, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote:
> the problem is not having access to the logs, the problem is having a
> "common/shared way of doing it" It would be mostly fine even to just have a
> password protected irc log server, only accessible to DDs.
>
It is not totally the same thou
On 06/04/2017 19:17, Holger Levsen wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 01, 2017 at 11:52:51PM +0200, Mehdi Dogguy wrote:
>> On 31/03/2017 12:38, Holger Levsen wrote:
>>> On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 04:00:49AM +0200, Mehdi Dogguy wrote:
>>>> If you want to ban someone from a mailing li
Hi Ritesh,
On 30/03/2017 16:04, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> Hello DPL Candidates,
>
> Thank you for standing for the DPL position.
>
> Debian as a project is different than others. Most other similar projects,
> have
> a commercial backing and interest. This puts the onus on them (other Linux
>
On 07/04/2017 16:21, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote:
> (this question was on debian-vote by purpose, and was directed to DPL,
> I'll drop -vote on the next email)
>
>> (Replies redirected to debian-project, since this has nothing to do
>> with the DPL election anymore.)
>
>
> sigh, I agree
> (I w
On 06/04/2017 10:44, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote:
> Hello Mehdi and Chris,
>
>
>
> Debian has a "we don't hide things" wording in his constitution.
>
>
> However we don't have a public irc log system, and most
>
>
> of the conversations between us are happening there.
>
>
>
> How do you
Hi martin,
On 08/04/2017 09:13, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Mehdi Dogguy [2017-03-30 02:13 +0200]:
>> I do not remember myself talking about S.M.A.R.T criteria in personal
>> discussions to be honest :-) or if it ever happened, maybe it was
>> because it was mention
On 2017-04-05 10:18, Chris Lamb wrote:
Dear Lucas,
is there something that you would like to stress about the release
process or the upcoming release?
I think I would highlight that these indeed *are* outside the scope of
the DPL, implicitly stressing Debian's decentralised nature; this
stru
Hi lucas,
On 2017-04-05 09:17, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
How is the release process doing?
As noted by Chris too, the Release Team has all the details and can
reply
on this specific question. I've pinged them about issuing a status
update
on the freeze and proposed my help write/review the mail
Hi Russ,
Sorry for the late reply.
On 29/03/2017 18:33, Russ Allbery wrote:
> 1. Do you agree with the above analysis, or do you see a different
>dynamic?
>
I agree with your analysis. But even in companies, there are issues
and not all managers are able to deal with them. And really, it is
Hi Adrian,
On 31/03/2017 16:36, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> Hi,
>
> first of all thanks a lot for running.
>
> Both of you consider outreach important.
>
> People not drinking alcohol are half of all adults in the world, but
> we are under-represented in free software. Unfortunately far too many
> pe
Hi zack,
On 31/03/2017 10:29, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 01:44:59AM +0200, Mehdi Dogguy wrote:
>> Hope this answers your questions.
>
> So, here's a straw man for you: considering the roadmap failed to
> materialize during a 1-year term, how co
Hi holger,
On 31/03/2017 12:38, Holger Levsen wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 04:00:49AM +0200, Mehdi Dogguy wrote:
>> If you want to ban someone from a mailing list, you may contact list-masters.
>> If you want to ban someone from IRC, you may contact IRC operators.
>&g
Martin,
On 29/03/2017 07:58, Martín Ferrari wrote:
> Mehdi,
>
> In your platform you list "Ensuring the community remains safe and fun"
> as your first priority for the next term.
>
> I need to ask why you think in this term you will manage to do so, when
> I believe you failed to do so in the l
On 30/03/2017 16:14, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Mehdi Dogguy writes ("Re: Q to the candidates: GPLv2 system library
> exception"):
>> On 29/03/2017 20:38, Florian Weimer wrote:
>>> Do you think this situation needs addressing? What do you propose do
>>>
On 30/03/2017 05:32, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> In your platform from last year [1], you discussed this Roadmap (I
> mistakenly recalled roadmaps, but you described it singularly).
>
> How is the Roadmap going? Is it defined? Where can I read about what's
> been accomplished? Is helping Debian an
On 29/03/2017 20:19, Chris Lamb wrote:
> Furthermore, putting people and teams together in real life is also
> another unexplored avenue. Whilst this speaks somewhat to my previous
> commitments for more meetups, the angle I am taking here is not waiting
> for the next {Mini,}DebConf or team summit
On 29/03/2017 20:38, Florian Weimer wrote:
>
> Do you think this situation needs addressing? What do you propose do
> about it? Do you think the way the ZFS situation was resolved could
> be an example?
>
I am not an expert in licensing issues but it is quite easy to ask advice
from specialist
On 25/03/2017 13:52, martin f krafft wrote:
> Dear Mehdi,
>
> among your priorities for your next term, should you get elected, is
> "Ensuring the community remains safe and fun". Yet, I cannot find
> much about that in your platform.
>
> Could you elaborate how you're intending to ensure a safe
Hi Scott,
On 29/03/2017 13:34, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> On Wednesday, March 29, 2017 11:25:29 AM Mehdi Dogguy wrote:
> ...
>> I believe the Roadmap will help us for the first subject and the partners
>> program, once in place, will bring new (useful) workflows on the
&g
Dear martin,
On 25/03/2017 13:42, martin f krafft wrote:
> Dear Mehdi,
>
> in personal discussions and in your platform(s), you've been very
> fond of the "S.M.A.R.T. way" aka. management by objectives.
>
I do not remember myself talking about S.M.A.R.T criteria in personal
discussions to be ho
On 25/03/2017 13:04, martin f krafft wrote:
> - What does universality mean to you and the project?
>
To me, in short, it means that we are able to address a wide range
of different needs in a single homogeneous system. Debian has been
successful as a general and stable platform where others c
On 23/03/2017 21:20, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> Dear candidates, what do you think it's the appropriate frequency for
> reporting back to the project about what the DPL is doing?
>
> Certainly, reporting often is time consuming and divert time from
> actually *doing* stuff, rather than document
On 25/03/2017 13:13, martin f krafft wrote:
> Following the three-pronged approach Chris wants to take towards
> facilitating meetups in Debian (I am replying to the message)¹ —
>
> ¹) <1489954668.1588748.916366632.0df7d...@webmail.messagingengine.com>
>
> I have three questions to both our candi
Hi Ian,
On 21/03/2017 12:10, Ian Jackson wrote:
> The DPL role is generally thought to be rather large and does seem to
> be subject to burnout. But, the DPL can delegate whole areas of
I do not think the DPL role is still subject to burnout. It certainly
requires some commitment but it is in no
Hi Sylvestre,
On 22/03/2017 21:30, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
> Hello,
>
> During your term, is there any chance that you work on replacing the DPL role
> by a board of directors?
>
No.
> If not, why?
>
Because I do not like jumping on conclusions.
Let me explain further.
I agree that it is be
Hi Steve,
On 18/03/2017 23:02, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> Hi Mehdi,
>
> First of all, thanks for standing again!
>
> Do you have any specific things that you'd like to see on a Debian
> roadmap yourself?
>
I have some specific ideas. I didn't want to share them (although
already mentioned elsewhe
Hi Lucas,
On 16/03/2017 12:15, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> Hi Mehdi,
>
> In you platform, you mention the partners program, and apparently a lot
> of progress was made recently. This was a (good) surprise for me. You
> write:
>> With the help of the new partners team I formed during my first term,
>>
Hi,
I hereby nominate myself as a candidate for the 2017 DPL election.
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On 08/07/2016 15:27, Margarita Manterola wrote:
>
> === BEGIN GR TEXT ===
>
> Title: Replace "Chairman" with "Chair" throughout the Debian Constitution
>
> All appearances of the word Chairman shall be replaced with the word Chair.
>
> === END GR TEXT ===
>
Seconded.
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Hi,
On 07/07/2016 15:37, Nicolas Dandrimont wrote:
> === BEGIN GR TEXT ===
>
> Title: Acknowledge that the debian-private list will remain private.
>
> 1. The 2005 General Resolution titled "Declassification of debian-private
>list archives" is repealed.
> 2. In keeping with paragraph 3 of t
Hi,
On 24/03/2016 12:55, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> Hi Mehdi,
>
> Last year, Ana started a great thread about the role of the DPL[1].
>
> I wonder where you stand wrt the various positions in that thread?
> What will be your priorities when deciding what to work on?
> What do you see as tasks that
Hello Enrico,
On 21/03/2016 16:29, Enrico Zini wrote:
> Hello Mehdi,
>
> in your platform there is a section "Vision" that deals with several
> important practical aspects of Debian.
>
> I see the DPL as a person that we choose for a year to give the project
> a broad sense of direction, to insp
Hi,
On 18/03/2016 00:40, Paul Wise wrote:
> To the candidate:
>
> Have you read Lars Wirzenius' not-platform?
>
> http://blog.liw.fi/posts/dpl-2016-not-platform/
>
> Do you have any thoughts on it?
>
> Does Debian need the Social Committee proposed by Lars?
>
The candidate replied in <56ed3f
Hi Daniel,
On 17/03/2016 11:58, Daniel Pocock wrote:
>
> Hi Mehdi,
>
> I've been reading over your platform, I couldn't help noticing it is in
> all seriousness better than some of the other candidate's running for
> high office right now. The only other thing needed to be in that league
> of c
Hi Paul,
On 14/03/2016 04:25, Paul Wise wrote:
> Hi Mehdi,
>
> Lars Wirzenius recently wrote a blog post entitled "Not-platform for
> Debian project leader elections 2016". I wonder if you have any
> thoughts on what he has written there:
>
> http://blog.liw.fi/posts/dpl-2016-not-platform/
>
Hi Paul,
On 14/03/2016 03:53, Paul Wise wrote:
> Hi Mehdi,
>
> Any thoughts on the low amount of DPL candidates this year? The only
> year we have had a sole candidate was when zack ran for second-term
> re-election in 2011, which is a quite different situation to this
> one, where the previou
Hi,
I hereby nominate myself as a candidate for the 2016 DPL election.
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On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 12:07:07AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli
wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 11:53:20PM +0200, Mehdi Dogguy wrote:
> > This is part of our history now and we can surely learn from past
> > experiences to be able to handle similar situations better in the
> >
"their" agenda doesn't match
ours.
I agree that it is an hypothetical situation, but so is yours. So I
don't agree on the fact the analogy is not pertinent here. It really
does, but it is important to keep that in mind to not be trapped once
again.
Regards,
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Le 31 mars 2015 02:49, bjf...@gmail.com a écrit :
>
> After explaining we have an impressive ratio of female to male participants
> in the Debian project as a whole (not just technical), your suggestion is to
> get more women involved generally with Debian (still not technically)?
No. At all. I
Hi,
Le 2015-03-26 20:21, Bas Wijnen a écrit :
So to the candidates: can you please let us know whether you would be
in
favor of restricting non-free, so that it will only contain things
that
are required for making hardware work, and for which there is no fully
functional free alternative? If
Hi,
Le 2015-03-21 03:50, Charles Plessy a écrit :
You probably noted that no woman was candidate this year, and that no
woman was
appointed to the technical committee in the recent replacements.
Do you think that it is a problem that there are no women in key
positions in
Debian ? If yes,
Le 2015-03-14 21:59, Lucas Nussbaum a écrit :
There has been some discussions about the focus moving to other areas
of
Free Software, distributions being solved problems, containers as a
alternative/better way to ship software, etc.
In five years, what should Debian's position and role be in th
Le 2015-03-13 12:03, martin f krafft a écrit :
What is your perception of DebConf and its organisation?
If any, what changes would you like to implement?
First, I'd be careful here because we have DebConf chairs which are
official delegates. So, I'd leave them implement whatever changes
are r
Le 2015-03-17 01:19, Thomas Goirand a écrit :
On 03/15/2015 09:57 AM, martin f krafft wrote:
Neil,
in your platform, you advocate PPAs and modernising our build and
infrastructure.
What's the DPL's role in this? Or, put differently, couldn't you
just start working on this without the DPL hat?
Hi,
Le 2015-03-15 10:44, martin f krafft a écrit :
Have you considered working with a "DPL team" and if so, why have
you decided against including such plans in your platform?
I have to admit that I intended to add a paragraph about it but didn't
because it is not easy to imagine how such a t
Hi,
Le 2015-03-13 02:20, Anthony Towns a écrit :
Number one is something like "where should the innovation come from?"
GN> You may notice that unlike in previous years, I do not have a
Grand
GN> Vision, not in the same sense at least.
MD> Of course, those are not trivial questions and I don'
Le 2015-03-17 10:03, martin f krafft a écrit :
also sprach Mehdi Dogguy [2015-03-17 09:56 +0100]:
For a start, Debian can fund two slots *this* year. If we want to
do this sustainably, we will have to make sure we have funds
dedicated for it
Just funding the slots won't cut it, at leas
Le 2015-03-17 07:41, martin f krafft a écrit :
also sprach Mehdi Dogguy [2015-03-17 00:46 +0100]:
programs like Outreachy. I think that we can fund 2 slots per year.
[…]
Of course, as you duly noted, this doesn't prevent us from organizing
a fun raising campaign to sponsor extra slots
Hi,
Le 2015-03-12 09:16, Lucas Nussbaum a écrit :
Hi,
In his platform, Neil wrote:
I will spend some money we have horded. Debian currently holds
approximately $200,000 at SPI alone. Our donators didn't give us
money
for it to be sat around in a bank account, we should spend it to make
the p
Hi,
Le 2015-03-13 19:06, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit :
On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 06:44:45PM +, Neil McGovern wrote:
* Outreach. Every team complains (quite rightly!) about the lack of
people to do the work. Yet we seem to be rather poor at actively
recruiting people to come and do things for u
Hi,
Le 2015-03-16 08:59, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit :
On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 09:31:03AM +0100, Gergely Nagy wrote:
So, the only way I could see the drop of SC §5 as a worthwhile goal,
is if we also removed non-free (and possibly contrib) too.
I respect this point of view, even though I disag
Le 2015-03-15 05:15, Paul Wise a écrit :
On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 6:25 AM, Mehdi Dogguy wrote:
- Lack of people power in some areas
Which general areas would you say we have a particular need for more
people in?
- Generally, no interest of contributors for non-technical tasks
The amount of
Le 2015-03-13 12:08, martin f krafft a écrit :
also sprach Lucas Nussbaum [2015-03-12 10:16
+0100]:
All candidates: how will you reconcile that with the fact that the
DPL
currently only has a limited vision of what funds are available, and
how
they evolved over time?
All candidates: what do
Hi,
Le 2015-03-12 23:07, Martin Zobel-Helas a écrit :
Hi,
question to all candidates:
Will you revoke <20131008134615.ga19...@xanadu.blop.info> or do you
think this authorization is useful?
Revoking this authorization looks more counter-productive than anything
else. I will not revoke it. I
Le 2015-03-13 19:25, Neil McGovern a écrit :
On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 09:55:01AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
Hi,
You are probably familiar with SWOT analysis
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis).
From your perspective, what are Debian's main strengths, weaknesses,
opportunities and th
I hereby nominate myself for the forthcoming DPL election.
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On 03/12/2013 06:37 PM, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Hello Lucas,
>
> I've read your platform and I share your 5-years goals and I agree
> on most of the suggested intermediary goals to bring us closer to
> the long term goals.
>
> That said, it's not clear to me how you plan to achieve them. Being
>
mpanies is going to accomplish that, but that doesn't mean we
> shouldn't try other things.
>
The question was precisely: what are “other things”? Can you be more
explicit?
Regards,
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