One more question to the candidates

2007-02-26 Thread Kalle Kivimaa
Forgot to ask this question: In your opinion, what is a good length of total term for a DPL? -- * Sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology (T.P) * * PGP public key available @ http://www.iki.fi/killer * -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-02-26 Thread MJ Ray
Gustavo Franco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > - Sense of participation > There is no community without a group of individuals participating and > a better community is one where these individuals feel that they're > part of the group. > > - Hard work > There is no doubt that hard work can be d

Questions to all candidates: Release importance, release blockers, release quality

2007-02-26 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Hi, I would be happy to hear answers from all candidates to these questions, but I expect that they are at least partially answered by the platforms. Please simply point to them if you included an answer there, even if they are not online yet. So, to the questions: * How important are regular r

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-02-26 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 12:13:12AM +0100, Ana Guerrero wrote: > Why do you think you will be a good DPL? Two things: first, when discussing matters with other people, I generally try to see their point of view before coming up with a proposal that will work for the both of us, thereby trying to co

Re: DPL candidate question

2007-02-26 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 10:52:20PM -0500, Curt Larson wrote: > As kind of a follow-up to the basic 'what would you do as DPL that you > could not do as DD?' I would like to know more about how you would > handle marketing Debian. First of all, I would like to make clear that I do not view marketin

Re: One more question to the candidates

2007-02-26 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 10:31:29AM +0200, Kalle Kivimaa wrote: > Forgot to ask this question: In your opinion, what is a good length of > total term for a DPL? I have always thought that a one-year term might be too short, since it does not allow for too much action by the DPL. However, I never fe

Re: One more question to the candidates

2007-02-26 Thread Kalle Kivimaa
Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 10:31:29AM +0200, Kalle Kivimaa wrote: >> Forgot to ask this question: In your opinion, what is a good length of >> total term for a DPL? > > I have always thought that a one-year term might be too short, since it > does not allo

Re: Questions to all candidates: Release importance, release blockers, release quality

2007-02-26 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 12:16:21PM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > * How important are regular releases for the project? Very. Individual people may be happy with testing or unstable, but large corporate users need stable releases in order to be able to use Debian. > * How important are re

Re: One more question to the candidates

2007-02-26 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 04:18:05PM +0200, Kalle Kivimaa wrote: > Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 10:31:29AM +0200, Kalle Kivimaa wrote: > >> Forgot to ask this question: In your opinion, what is a good length of > >> total term for a DPL? > > > > I have alway

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-02-26 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hello, On Sun, 25 Feb 2007, Kalle Kivimaa wrote: > Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > So your question is "What about paying people to have first-class support > > on some of our core infrastructure", is that correct ? > > Exactly, thanks for a better wording. I don't think it's a g

Re: One more question to the candidates

2007-02-26 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Kalle Kivimaa wrote: > Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 10:31:29AM +0200, Kalle Kivimaa wrote: > >> Forgot to ask this question: In your opinion, what is a good length of > >> total term for a DPL? > > > > I have always thought that a one-

Re: Questions to all candidates: Release importance, release blockers, release quality

2007-02-26 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hello, I'm mostly in agreement with what Wouter expressed so I'll simply point out what's different for me. On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 12:16:21PM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > > * How important are regular releases for the project? > > Very. I

Re: DPL candidate question

2007-02-26 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hello, On Sun, 25 Feb 2007, Curt Larson wrote: > As kind of a follow-up to the basic 'what would you do as DPL that you > could not do as DD?' I would like to know more about how you would > handle marketing Debian. I would promote more the debian-publicity@lists.debian.org mailing list that we s

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-02-26 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Ana Guerrero wrote: > Why do you think you will be a good DPL? The anwer to this question depends on what you expect from a "good DPL". I think I can do a good job with a DPL board because I have a long experience both as "simple DD" and as members of various internal teams (

Questions Regarding Delegates

2007-02-26 Thread John Lightsey
The first power enumerated to the DPL in the Debian Constitution is the power to appoint and remove delegates. My questions are directed at determining how you as DPL will use this power to guide the Debian Project. 1) Do you believe past DPL's have used the power of delegation effectively? 2) A

Re: Questions Regarding Delegates

2007-02-26 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 04:46:55PM -0600, John Lightsey wrote: > The first power enumerated to the DPL in the Debian Constitution is the > power to appoint and remove delegates. My questions are directed at > determining how you as DPL will use this power to guide the Debian > Project. Even if th

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-02-26 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 2/26/07, MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Gustavo Franco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > - Sense of participation > There is no community without a group of individuals participating and > a better community is one where these individuals feel that they're > part of the group. > > - Hard w

Re: One more question to the candidates

2007-02-26 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 2/26/07, Kalle Kivimaa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Forgot to ask this question: In your opinion, what is a good length of total term for a DPL? Hi Kalle, Maybe one year isn't enough to work on key topics to see a release (as a DPL), but i don't plan to be a candidate for a second time, if el

Re: Questions to all candidates: Release importance, release blockers, release quality

2007-02-26 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 2/26/07, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I would be happy to hear answers from all candidates to these questions, but I expect that they are at least partially answered by the platforms. Please simply point to them if you included an answer there, even if they are not on

DPL Debate Scheduling [Re: DPL Debate Volunteers and Format]

2007-02-26 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sat, 24 Feb 2007, Don Armstrong wrote: > I'd like to make a decision on the time for the debate within the > next few days, so if you have serious objections to either method, > you need to make them known. Most of the candidates have responded to my requests for scheduling information, but:

Re: DPL Debate Scheduling [Re: DPL Debate Volunteers and Format]

2007-02-26 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 18:03:19 -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > Most of the candidates have responded to my requests for scheduling > information, but: > > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I guess this should be <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>? Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DPL Debate Scheduling [Re: DPL Debate Volunteers and Format]

2007-02-26 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 18:03:19 -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > > > Most of the candidates have responded to my requests for scheduling > > information, but: > > > > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I guess this should be <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>? Err,

Re: Questions Regarding Delegates

2007-02-26 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 2/26/07, John Lightsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The first power enumerated to the DPL in the Debian Constitution is the power to appoint and remove delegates. My questions are directed at determining how you as DPL will use this power to guide the Debian Project. Hi John, 1) Do you beli

Re: DPL candidate question

2007-02-26 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 2/26/07, Curt Larson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As kind of a follow-up to the basic 'what would you do as DPL that you could not do as DD?' I would like to know more about how you would handle marketing Debian. The very hot topic this week is Dell's move to offer open source alternatives. Bur

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-02-26 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 2/25/07, Ana Guerrero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, here my questions: Why do you think you will be a good DPL? I will work for and with the high skilled and motivated people in the project, being sure that one time contributors won't be treated as second class developers, if it will make

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-02-26 Thread Mohammed Adnène Trojette
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007, Gustavo Franco wrote: > >- Hard work - the reduced participation made more work hard work IMO; > > Some worked harder to find and solve RC bugs. Take a wall. Take a car going fast towards this wall. Take people working hard to take the wall down so that the car doesn't hit

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-02-26 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 2/26/07, Mohammed Adnène Trojette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Feb 26, 2007, Gustavo Franco wrote: > >- Hard work - the reduced participation made more work hard work IMO; > > Some worked harder to find and solve RC bugs. Take a wall. Take a car going fast towards this wall. Take peop

Re: Questions Regarding Delegates

2007-02-26 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 04:46:55PM -0600, John Lightsey wrote: > > The first power enumerated to the DPL in the Debian Constitution is the > > power to appoint and remove delegates. My questions are directed at > > determining how you as DPL will use t