Re: Question for all candidates, was: Google SoC 2007 - we're in, sign up quickly!

2007-03-19 Thread MJ Ray
Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First of all, your arbitrary dislike of Google is well-enough known > already; it has no place in this forum. Apparently it's not well-enough known that it's not arbitrary, but actually based on their irritating bugs and misbehaviour! Also, maybe some d

Re: Question for all candidates, was: Google SoC 2007 - we're in, sign up quickly!

2007-03-18 Thread Aigars Mahinovs
MJ Ray wrote: > Bastian Venthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Looks like Google is really everywhere these days. I'm curious about >> SoC: What where the last year's Debian projects and what was there >> outcome? Which projects where successful and which failed? I also mentored a I18N related proj

Re: Question for all candidates, was: Google SoC 2007 - we're in, sign up quickly!

2007-03-17 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007, MJ Ray wrote: > but after that, I didn't find another search result until he mentioned > the 2007 marketing campaign. Is this the sort of "fire and forget" > reporting that we would expect if Steve McIntyre were elected DPL? > > How would other candidates avoid dropping top

Re: Question for all candidates, was: Google SoC 2007 - we're in, sign up quickly!

2007-03-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 09:22:40AM +, MJ Ray wrote: > > "The Google Summer of Code[0] is over, and final reports have been > submitted. Most of our students worked well right up to (and in some > cases beyond) the end of the summer, and hopefully we'll see some > useful results from their p

Re: Question for all candidates, was: Google SoC 2007 - we're in, sign up quickly!

2007-03-16 Thread MJ Ray
Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 09:22:40AM +, MJ Ray wrote: > > [...] Is this the sort of "fire and forget" > > reporting that we would expect if Steve McIntyre were elected DPL? > [...] > If writing the full report wasn't Steve's responsability, then it's n

Re: Question for all candidates, was: Google SoC 2007 - we're in, sign up quickly!

2007-03-16 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 09:22:40AM +, MJ Ray wrote: > Bastian Venthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Looks like Google is really everywhere these days. I'm curious about > > SoC: What where the last year's Debian projects and what was there > > outcome? Which projects where successful and which

Re: Question for all candidates, was: Google SoC 2007 - we're in, sign up quickly!

2007-03-16 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, MJ Ray wrote: > So, just to be sure I've understood your reply: if you-as-DPL (or one of > your delegates) tells us that we can expect something, that would't mean > anything if the task depends on someone else? You'd feel that you need > not check whether we get it, or give a

Re: Question for all candidates, was: Google SoC 2007 - we're in, sign up quickly!

2007-03-16 Thread MJ Ray
Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, MJ Ray wrote: > > How would other candidates avoid dropping topics like this? [cc'd to > > -vote for these questions, please drop -project or -vote on replies] > > This is not really up to the DPL. That would be useless micro-management. [

Re: Question for all candidates, was: Google SoC 2007 - we're in, sign up quickly!

2007-03-16 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Raphael Hertzog a écrit : > On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, MJ Ray wrote: >> How would other candidates avoid dropping topics like this? [cc'd to >> -vote for these questions, please drop -project or -vote on replies] > > This is not really up to the DPL. That would be useless micro-management.

Re: Question for all candidates, was: Google SoC 2007 - we're in, sign up quickly!

2007-03-16 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, MJ Ray wrote: > How would other candidates avoid dropping topics like this? [cc'd to > -vote for these questions, please drop -project or -vote on replies] This is not really up to the DPL. That would be useless micro-management. Last year was our first participation and it ha

Re: Question for all candidates, was: Google SoC 2007 - we're in, sign up quickly!

2007-03-16 Thread Emanuele Rocca
* MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [2007-03-16 9:22 +]: > Bastian Venthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Looks like Google is really everywhere these days. I'm curious about > > SoC: What where the last year's Debian projects and what was there > > outcome? Which projects where successful and w

Question for all candidates, was: Google SoC 2007 - we're in, sign up quickly!

2007-03-16 Thread MJ Ray
Bastian Venthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Looks like Google is really everywhere these days. I'm curious about > SoC: What where the last year's Debian projects and what was there > outcome? Which projects where successful and which failed? Excellent questions! Steve McIntyre wrote in "Bits fr