Re: Question for all candidates: handle debian-admin more openly

2006-03-13 Thread Steve Langasek
[redirecting to -devel where this belongs] On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 12:11:59PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > > > -- > > > Question to the release and archive people: Is there such a > > > requirement? Will such architectures inde

Re: Question for all candidates: handle debian-admin more openly

2006-03-13 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 10:56:57PM +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > There is no way at the moment to see any progress of the issues in public. > Now my question: > 1.) Do you think it would be a good idea to handle debian-admin more > openly? > 2.) Would you encourage debian-admin to do so?

Re: Question for all candidates: handle debian-admin more openly

2006-03-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 11:20:47PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > > Such requests and requirements change the situation. However, I have > > to admit that I first read about this particular requirement here. I > > noticed some babbling about ppc64, sparc64, mips64 and s390

Re: Question for all candidates: handle debian-admin more openly

2006-03-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Bill Allombert wrote: > On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 11:47:25AM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > > Why would we need "more total CPU time"? Not even leisner is > > overloaded at the moment, and it's probably the slowliest machine. > > (leisner has a different problem, though). > > > Hence, please explai

Re: Question for all candidates: handle debian-admin more openly

2006-03-13 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 11:47:25AM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > Why would we need "more total CPU time"? Not even leisner is > overloaded at the moment, and it's probably the slowliest machine. > (leisner has a different problem, though). > Hence, please explain why we need "more total CPU time

Re: Question for all candidates: handle debian-admin more openly

2006-03-13 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 11:20:47PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > Such requests and requirements change the situation. However, I have > to admit that I first read about this particular requirement here. I > noticed some babbling about ppc64, sparc64, mips64 and s390x > architectures but nothing

Re: Ted's reply to Martin (Re: Question for all candidates: handle debian-admin more openly)

2006-03-12 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Ted Walther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.03.12.2220 +0100]: > That is a tough question to answer. So far they have been getting > the job done, but appear to be getting overworked lately. Please define "lately"? > For the good of the project, we need some way to let the sysadmin > team

Ted's reply to Martin (Re: Question for all candidates: handle debian-admin more openly)

2006-03-12 Thread Ted Walther
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 10:56:57PM +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: Hi, the past, there were some issues that seem to indicate that the current Debian System Administrator team (DSA team) is overworked, as problems were not adressed in a timely fashion. The following just lists some of these iss

Re: Question for all candidates: handle debian-admin more openly

2006-03-12 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 11:20:47PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > > > Are bruckner and voltaire overloaded or do they lack services the > > > developers > > > need? > > > > The release team has called for a multi-arch implementation to support > > powerpc64 userland over the biarch situation. Thi

Re: Question for all candidates: handle debian-admin more openly

2006-03-11 Thread Martin Schulze
Bill Allombert wrote: > > > Example of non-priviledged services include secondary web services and > > > developers accessible port machines with separate accounts. As an > > > aside, I think there should be more developers-accessible port machines. > > > > Why? > > Having two developers-accessi

Re: Question for all candidates: handle debian-admin more openly

2006-03-11 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 07:31:49AM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > Bill Allombert wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 10:56:57PM +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > > > Now my question: > > > > > > 1.) Do you think it would be a good idea to handle debian-admin more > > > openly? > > > > >

Re: Question for all candidates: handle debian-admin more openly

2006-03-10 Thread Martin Schulze
Sven Luther wrote: > > > > > Example of non-priviledged services include secondary web services and > > > > > developers accessible port machines with separate accounts. As an > > > > > aside, I think there should be more developers-accessible port > > > > > machines. > > > > > > > > Why? > > >

Re: Question for all candidates: handle debian-admin more openly

2006-03-10 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 10:56:57PM +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: >Hi, Hi Martin! >Now my question: > >1.) Do you think it would be a good idea to handle debian-admin more >openly? Yes, where possible. I'd like to see more openness everywhere in the project, but I would understand if _som

Re: Question for all candidates: handle debian-admin more openly

2006-03-10 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 01:03:47PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > Are bruckner and voltaire overloaded or do they lack services the developers > > need? > The release team has called for a multi-arch implementation to support > powerpc64 userland over the biarch situation. This calls for a machine

Re: Question for all candidates: handle debian-admin more openly

2006-03-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 12:54:54PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 07:31:49AM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > > > Bill Allombert wrote: > > > > Example of non-priviledged services include secondary web services and > > > > developers accessible port mach

Re: Question for all candidates: handle debian-admin more openly

2006-03-09 Thread Martin Schulze
Sven Luther wrote: > On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 07:31:49AM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > > Bill Allombert wrote: > > > Example of non-priviledged services include secondary web services and > > > developers accessible port machines with separate accounts. As an > > > aside, I think there should be m

Re: Question for all candidates: handle debian-admin more openly

2006-03-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 07:31:49AM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > Bill Allombert wrote: > > Example of non-priviledged services include secondary web services and > > developers accessible port machines with separate accounts. As an > > aside, I think there should be more developers-accessible por

Re: Question for all candidates: handle debian-admin more openly

2006-03-08 Thread Martin Schulze
Bill Allombert wrote: > On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 10:56:57PM +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > > Now my question: > > > > 1.) Do you think it would be a good idea to handle debian-admin more > > openly? > > > > 2.) Would you encourage debian-admin to do so? If yes, how? > > > > 3.) Do yo

Re: Question for all candidates: handle debian-admin more openly

2006-03-08 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 10:56:57PM +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > Now my question: > > 1.) Do you think it would be a good idea to handle debian-admin more > openly? > > 2.) Would you encourage debian-admin to do so? If yes, how? > > 3.) Do you think more DSA are needed? I would li

Question for all candidates: handle debian-admin more openly

2006-03-07 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, the past, there were some issues that seem to indicate that the current Debian System Administrator team (DSA team) is overworked, as problems were not adressed in a timely fashion. The following just lists some of these issues: * Problems with one of the security.debian.org host network con