Re: Question to all candidates: DPL's role in important package maintenance

2010-04-02 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 06:47:53AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > Agreed, but would you agree that it is a core part of the role of the > DPL/2IC, or indeed any mediator, to provide at least basic status and > progress info to the project as a whole? > > What we've been seeing with this issue is that

Re: Question to all candidates: DPL's role in important package maintenance

2010-04-01 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 06:47:53AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > Agreed, but would you agree that it is a core part of the role of the > DPL/2IC, or indeed any mediator, to provide at least basic status and > progress info to the project as a whole? Yes, absolutely. Beside this specific case---whic

Re: Question to all candidates: DPL's role in important package maintenance

2010-03-31 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 06:47:53AM +0200, Frans Pop a écrit : > Also, it has been claimed "we cannot provide any information because > discussions are in private" [1]. Do candidates agree to that, or do they > think that a DPL should make clear to parties in advance that the project > will be ke

Re: Question to all candidates: DPL's role in important package maintenance

2010-03-31 Thread Frans Pop
Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Discussing problems in public works very well if two people like > eachother. If they don't, however, you get two people cursing at > eachother. Now there are some people who really don't mind doing that in > public; but when things get messy, not being messy out in the ope

Re: Question to all candidates: DPL's role in important package maintenance

2010-03-31 Thread Russ Allbery
Kumar Appaiah writes: > This totally makes sense, but when it gets to the point where personal > disagreements and their resolution seem to stifle a significant part of > the community at large, this also results in disillusion. Oh, yeah, absolutely. That's one of the reasons why I encouraged p

Re: Question to all candidates: DPL's role in important package maintenance

2010-03-31 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Dear Wouter, On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 03:28:54AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > Shouldn't it be very easy to find out what the discussions were, > > rather than have to ask those who discussed behind closed doors as to > > wha t the current situation is? > > It depends on what the problem is. >

Re: Question to all candidates: DPL's role in important package maintenance

2010-03-31 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Dear Russ, On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 06:19:13PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > >> I don't wish to comment on the specific case of python packaging. > >> There's been lots of things going on there, and though some of it was > >> in public, the thread you point to clearly states that some things were >

Re: Question to all candidates: DPL's role in important package maintenance

2010-03-31 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 08:05:40PM -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 02:57:59AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > One of the questions which I've not yet seen exactly in the > > > discussions is on the transparency in the maintenance of non-core but > > > "important" packages,

Re: Question to all candidates: DPL's role in important package maintenance

2010-03-31 Thread Russ Allbery
Kumar Appaiah writes: > On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 02:57:59AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >> I don't wish to comment on the specific case of python packaging. >> There's been lots of things going on there, and though some of it was >> in public, the thread you point to clearly states that some thi

Re: Question to all candidates: DPL's role in important package maintenance

2010-03-31 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Dear Charles, On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 09:23:25AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > for the moment, you have taken the way of the Technical Comitee, and this does > not require the intervention of the DPL. Asking the TC to solve a disagreement > between two parties should be the occasion to write down

Re: Question to all candidates: DPL's role in important package maintenance

2010-03-31 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 02:57:59AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > One of the questions which I've not yet seen exactly in the > > discussions is on the transparency in the maintenance of non-core but > > "important" packages, such as python, wherein the maintenance of the > > package and policy

Re: Question to all candidates: DPL's role in important package maintenance

2010-03-31 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi Kumar, On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 06:27:00PM -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > Dear Candidates, > > First of all, I wish you all the very best for the elections! > > At the outset, this question is not meant to be inflammatory or to > express ire at a particular individual or set of individuals invo

Re: Question to all candidates: DPL's role in important package maintenance

2010-03-31 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 06:27:00PM -0500, Kumar Appaiah a écrit : > > My question to you is, do you envision a role for the DPL in fixing > such inadequate maintenance of important packages. Hello Kumar, for the moment, you have taken the way of the Technical Comitee, and this does not require t

Re: Question to all candidates: DPL's role in important package maintenance

2010-03-31 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Dear Margarita and Stefano, On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 04:03:00PM -0300, Margarita Manterola wrote: [snip] On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 05:30:50PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: [snip] Thank you for your replies. I am glad that you care about this issue, and have voiced your opinion on how to handle i

Re: Question to all candidates: DPL's role in important package maintenance

2010-03-29 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > My question to you is, do you envision a role for the DPL in fixing > such inadequate maintenance of important packages, or are you of the > opinion that is it up to the affected Debian "community" to stop > whining and step up with some act

Re: Question to all candidates: DPL's role in important package maintenance

2010-03-28 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 09:59:08AM -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > The method adopted for resolution of this conflict has, for better or > for worse, happened "behind-the-scenes". Now, some in the project feel > that this is the best way to avoid a conflagration of sorts, but > others feel that this

Re: Question to all candidates: DPL's role in important package maintenance

2010-03-28 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Dear Zack, Thanks for the response. On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 04:51:52PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > My question to you is, do you envision a role for the DPL in fixing > > such inadequate maintenance of important packages, or are you of the > > opinion that is it up to the affected Debian

Re: Question to all candidates: DPL's role in important package maintenance

2010-03-28 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 16:51, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: ... > unfortunately some of the involved parties did not reply to the > offer. Not "some", just one: the Python maintainer. (as said in the bug log.) Regards, -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.

Re: Question to all candidates: DPL's role in important package maintenance

2010-03-28 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 06:27:00PM -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > First of all, I wish you all the very best for the elections! Hi Kumar, thanks a lot! > This has led some parts of the "community" (Debian Python, in this > case) to knock the doors of the tech-ctte[1] (recommended reading, > unless

Question to all candidates: DPL's role in important package maintenance

2010-03-27 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Dear Candidates, First of all, I wish you all the very best for the elections! At the outset, this question is not meant to be inflammatory or to express ire at a particular individual or set of individuals involved; I have great respect for the contributions of all involved in the community. On