Re: question for all candidates

2006-03-09 Thread Martin Schulze
Andreas Schuldei wrote: > * Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-03-07 20:09:11]: > > > When important teams seem to be disfunctional or have a hard time to > > > find a structure that scales into the future I would however use my > > > powers of delegation to restructure the team from the out

Re: question for all candidates

2006-03-09 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 09 Mar 2006, Anthony Towns wrote: > In the mail to the DPL I mentioned above, James outlined three > fairly significant technical changes that could be implemented to > make the job easier, and could be done by anyone, without requiring > any special priveleges; and also noted why he doesn'

Re: question for all candidates

2006-03-09 Thread Kalle Kivimaa
Anthony Towns writes: > In the mail to the DPL I mentioned above, James outlined three fairly > significant technical changes that could be implemented to make the > job easier, and could be done by anyone, without requiring any special > priveleges; What would these three things be? I might be i

Re: Candidate questions: expulsions process

2006-03-09 Thread MJ Ray
Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 10:36:42AM +, MJ Ray wrote: > > 1. The process "is intended as a last resort" - what steps would > >you take before initiating or supporting it yourself? > > [...] As such, I would also want to ensure that there has been e

Re: Candidate questions: expulsions process

2006-03-09 Thread MJ Ray
Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 10:36:42AM +, MJ Ray wrote: > > 2. Do you believe it would be fair to cite someone's non-technical > >socio-religious views in the reasoning for or against expulsion? > > I sure hope you are not seriously asking that. Sadly, eve

Re: Code of conduct, question to all candidates

2006-03-09 Thread MJ Ray
Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > (As a reference point, I am no longer on any significant Debian mailing > lists other than -vote because I am sick of people who behave in an > anti-social manner towards each other. Allowing people to behave as they > wish to has a direct cost to the project

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: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Request to be approved as FTP-Master]

2006-03-09 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.03.08.0853 +0100]: > This has been rejected by James Troup. What was the reason? -- Please do not send copies of list mail to me; I read the list! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer and author:

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 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Request to be approved as FTP-Master]

2006-03-09 Thread Martin Schulze
martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.03.08.0853 +0100]: > > This has been rejected by James Troup. > > What was the reason? No reason given. Regards, Joey -- MIME - broken solution for a broken design. -- Ralf Baechle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: question for all candidates

2006-03-09 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 01:35:05AM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Thu, 09 Mar 2006, Anthony Towns wrote: > > In the mail to the DPL I mentioned above, James outlined three > > fairly significant technical changes that could be implemented to > > make the job easier, and could be done by anyone, w

Re: question for all candidates

2006-03-09 Thread Kalle Kivimaa
[Moving this to -devel, please reply only there, this is not really voting related stuff. We are talking about things to improve keyring maintenance, for those not reading -vote.] Anthony Towns writes: > So first one was the spam problem, keyring-maint is a well-known address, > and mails that ar

Re: Candidate questions: expulsions process

2006-03-09 Thread Matthew Garrett
Majid Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 10:36:42AM +, MJ Ray wrote: >> > 2. Do you believe it would be fair to cite someone's non-technical >> >socio-religious views in the reasoning for or against expulsion? >> >> I sure hope yo

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: Question to all candidates about the NM process

2006-03-09 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 12:12:00AM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 01:06:37PM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > > 2. Asks for too broad knowledge > > > > It has been suggested several times over the years that we ask

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: question for all candidates

2006-03-09 Thread Jutta Wrage
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 08.03.2006 um 15:34 schrieb Andreas Schuldei: - Stable security There was a security blackout during the summer of 2005, with repercussions in the press and public oppinion, hurting the project. Shouldn't it be more: Looking that there w

Re: question for all candidates

2006-03-09 Thread Matthew Garrett
Andreas Schuldei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-03-07 20:09:11]: >> If you were DPL right now, which teams would you consider making formal >> delegates regardless of their wishes? > > It would depend on weather I had good additional people that > could ma

Final call for votes for the GFDL position statement

2006-03-09 Thread Debian Project Secretary
Hi, At the time of writing, about two days left in the vote, 269 people have voted, out of a potential 972. As you can see, we are still well shy of the 50% mark. If you have been waiting for the last minute to cast your vote, this is it. I would not advice waiting for the 11th hour,

Draft ballot for the debian project leader election 2006

2006-03-09 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, This is just a draft. If you vote, your ballot shall bounce. The vote key is valid, though. The order of the candidates on the ballot is the same as on the http://vote.debian.org/2006/vote_002 page -- which is the order their nomination mails came into my Inbox. manoj

Final call for votes for the GFDL position statement

2006-03-09 Thread brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > - - -=-=-=-=-=- Don't Delete Anything Between These Lines =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > 25a628e9-d88e-40b7-8e1c-888cff421ea5 > [ 4 ] Choice 1: GFDL-licensed works are unsuitable for main in all cases > [ 2 ] Choice 2: GFDL-licensed works without unmodifia

Re: Final call for votes for the GFDL position statement

2006-03-09 Thread Duck
> - - -=-=-=-=-=- Don't Delete Anything Between These Lines =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > 25a628e9-d88e-40b7-8e1c-888cff421ea5 > [ 3 ] Choice 1: GFDL-licensed works are unsuitable for main in all cases > [ 1 ] Choice 2: GFDL-licensed works without unmodifiable sections are free > [ ] Choice 3: GFDL-license

Ted Walther interview

2006-03-09 Thread Aigars Mahinovs
Hi all, I did an interview with Ted Walther on my blog that you might find interesting: http://www.aigarius.com/2006/03/10/interview-with-ted.html Warning: it is very long and is basically a subjective portrayal of another subjective position. Note: I am not subscribed to debian-vote, so please C

PROPOSAL: Additional yearly voting ritual

2006-03-09 Thread Ean Schuessler
My Dear Fellow Developers, I would like to propose a new voting routine as an adjunct (or perhaps replacement) to the DPL race. I propose we allow Developers to nominate one and another (or perhaps themselves) for elimination from the project. Winners would have their membership in the Debian pro

Re: Candidate questions: expulsions process

2006-03-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 10:36:42AM +, MJ Ray wrote: >The process to expel a developer is described in >http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/08/msg5.html >I am not sure whether all expulsion attempts get far enough >to be recorded on -private or -project as described in >the pr

Re: Questions for all candidates about developer behavior and abuse

2006-03-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 04:53:40PM -0500, Andres Salomon wrote: >Hi, > >At what point does a Debian Developer's behavior cross the line from >annoying to destructive? At what point should the Developer be removed >from the project (key removed from keyring, alioth account disabled, and >blackliste

Re: Question to all candidates about the NM process

2006-03-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 12:12:00AM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: >Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 01:06:37PM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: >> 2. Asks for too broad knowledge >> >> It has been suggested several times over the years that we ask too

Re: PROPOSAL: Additional yearly voting ritual

2006-03-09 Thread Ari Pollak
Yeah! It should be like Survivor, only with less excitement and more flaming! This is a great idea, Ean! Please tell us more! Look how many exclamation marks I am using! Ari! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PROPOSAL: Additional yearly voting ritual

2006-03-09 Thread Ean Schuessler
No match for "DEBIANSURVIVOR.COM"! On Thursday 09 March 2006 08:12 pm, Ari Pollak wrote: > Yeah! It should be like Survivor, only with less excitement and more > flaming! This is a great idea, Ean! Please tell us more! Look how many > exclamation marks I am using!

Re: Candidate questions: expulsions process

2006-03-09 Thread MJ Ray
Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Do you believe that anyone in Debian has ever been discriminated against > for socio-religious views that had no impact on their ability to work in > the project? Given the number of people in Debian, it seems probable that one will have experienced religiou

(For SteveM) Re: Questions for all candidates about developer behavior and abuse

2006-03-09 Thread Ted Walther
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 02:00:22AM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 04:53:40PM -0500, Andres Salomon wrote: At what point does a Debian Developer's behavior cross the line from annoying to destructive? At what point should the Developer be removed from the project (key remov

Re: Questions for all candidates: plurality of mandates

2006-03-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 11:45:44AM +0100, Mohammed Adnène Trojette wrote: > >Questions for all candidates: > >In the Debian project, some people run many functions because they are >very competent and have free time to help on many different fronts. > >The obvious consequence is a concentration of

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Request to be approved as FTP-Master]

2006-03-09 Thread James Troup
Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > martin f krafft wrote: >> also sprach Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.03.08.0853 +0100]: >> > This has been rejected by James Troup. >> >> What was the reason? > > No reason given. Err, I don't think that's fair. Here's the relevant portion

Re: Candidate questions: expulsions process

2006-03-09 Thread Lars Wirzenius
pe, 2006-03-10 kello 02:52 +, MJ Ray kirjoitti: > Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Do you believe that anyone in Debian has ever been discriminated against > > for socio-religious views that had no impact on their ability to work in > > the project? > > Given the number of people in D