Re: Questions to candidate Anthony Towns

2006-03-09 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 05:45:27PM +0200, Riku Voipio wrote: > At the time you seemed to defend your decision really aggressively[1], > although the GR 2004-003 disagreed with your interpretation of the effect > of Editorial amendments GR to sarge. 2004-001 was the DPL election; -002 was non-free

Re: Questions to candidate Anthony Towns

2006-03-09 Thread Riku Voipio
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 05:19:09PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > The reason I stepped down as release manager wasn't because of any > accusations per se, but rather because I felt that I lacked support > in continuing to act as release manager. That impression was built up > both by the level of di

Re: Questions to candidate Anthony Towns

2006-03-07 Thread Bdale Garbee
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joey Hess) writes: > Anthony Towns wrote: >> (a) branching the archive or doing other necessary changes to ensure >> netinst CDs etc work reliably > > Netinsts are relatively robust (though can be broken), businesscard, > netboot, and floppy would really benefit from tha

Re: Questions to candidate Anthony Towns

2006-03-07 Thread Joey Hess
Anthony Towns wrote: > (a) branching the archive or doing other necessary changes to ensure > netinst CDs etc work reliably Netinsts are relatively robust (though can be broken), businesscard, netboot, and floppy would really benefit from that. > (b) security.d.o support against the las

Re: Questions to candidate Anthony Towns

2006-03-06 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 03:01:41PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > (Please treat this question as if it were asked on debian-devel not > here.) (Not really sure what difference that makes) > Anthony Towns wrote: > > I do think it would be interesting for the project to embrace the d-i beta > > releases

Re: Questions to candidate Anthony Towns

2006-03-05 Thread Joey Hess
(Please treat this question as if it were asked on debian-devel not here.) Anthony Towns wrote: > I do think it would be interesting for the project to embrace the d-i beta > releases and the testing-security support and turn those into regular > "mini-releases", without many of the standards we e

Re: Questions to candidate Anthony Towns

2006-03-05 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 05 mars 2006 à 17:19 +1000, Anthony Towns a écrit : > > 2. Everyone has his own character. However, a representative has to > > be cautious to avoid compromising the project as a whole. Were > > you elected, would you make efforts to stop being contemptuous > >

Re: Questions to candidate Anthony Towns

2006-03-04 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 06:06:18AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > 1. One of your major goals is to release more often. After being > involved in the longest release cycle ever, what are your > proposals to make this cycle shorter? First, I wouldn't say that "release more oft

Questions to candidate Anthony Towns

2006-03-04 Thread Josselin Mouette
1. One of your major goals is to release more often. After being involved in the longest release cycle ever, what are your proposals to make this cycle shorter? 2. Everyone has his own character. However, a representative has to be cautious to avoid compromising th