Re: Questions Regarding Delegates

2007-02-28 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 09:55:52PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Probably. But what is the purpose of not being able to delegate to > the DPL then? I doubt it was added just to make sure that people > understand that delegation means sharing power with someone else. There are mandatory delegatio

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-02-28 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007, Mike Hommey wrote: > What do you think of the dunc-tank initiative ? First the good things. I clearly think dunc-tank helped Steve and Andi be more productive, and all things equal otherwise this improved the release. There is no denying that. I see several problems w

Re: Questions Regarding Delegates

2007-02-28 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 09:55:52PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > Probably. But what is the purpose of not being able to delegate to > > the DPL then? I doubt it was added just to make sure that people > > understand that delegation means shar

Re: DPL candidates: what is effective?

2007-02-28 Thread MJ Ray
Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 09:42:39AM +, MJ Ray wrote: > > - what do you mean by "effective"? > > Effective \Ef*fect"ive\, a. [L. effectivus: cf. F. effectif.] > Having the power to produce an effect or effects; producing a > decided or dec

Re: Questions Regarding Delegates

2007-02-28 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 10:43:34AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > So it was quite logical to forbid the sharing of DPL hat and DAM hat. As far as I can tell, it is not forbidden. A DAM can run for DPL and still retain the DAM hat if elected. Again, this makes sense, as the fact that the DAM is

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

2007-02-28 Thread Frank Küster
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [to Sam Hovecar] > If you think there's a "usual two-month buffer" that applies to release date > targets, why, before we'd even reached the original target release date, > were you publicly mocking the release team's efforts in your blog? > > I appreciat

Re: Questions Regarding Delegates

2007-02-28 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > As far as I can tell, it is not forbidden. A DAM can run for DPL and > still retain the DAM hat if elected. Again, this makes sense, as the > fact that the DAM is in the race would be well known and therefore a > vote to elect them would be an

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

2007-02-28 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007, Frank Küster wrote: > > I appreciate your support as a maintainer in dealing with release-critical > > bugs that affected your packages. But why should anyone who cares about > > Debian's stable releases vote for you if that's the sort of support you're > > going to show for

Re: DPL candidates: what is effective?

2007-02-28 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007, MJ Ray wrote: > I've read a few questions and answers which use the word "effective". > I suspect there are different interpretations of effective. In > particular, whether a delegation is still effective - because on the > face of it, that could be a no-op in all cases. So:

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-02-28 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007, Kalle Kivimaa wrote: > What is the role of the DPL? Is he a strong leader, who uses his > position to Get Things Done His Way, a public figurehead, who just > Speaks For The Project, a mediator, who tries to solve internal > squabbles, or something else? The DPL is a stro

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-02-28 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007, Anthony Towns wrote: > 1) raising money to support Debian activities people care about is > possible in reasonable amounts Ack. > 2) it's difficult to pay people to work on core Debian things if > you do it publically Wow, that's quite a shortcut. I'd have

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-02-28 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Sun, 25 Feb 2007, Mike Hommey wrote: > Hi, > > These questions may be skipped by AJ, because the answers are obvious. > > What do you think of the dunc-tank initiative ? As you know, I've been involved in the dunc-tank board. I accepted the offer of Anthony because I'm really interested

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-02-28 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 04:55:58PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Unfortunately we have big cultural differences when it comes to use of the > money. Some people [...] feel they are some sort of second class > developers because they will never have that opportunity to earn money > while doing Deb

Házon kívüli automatikus válasz: qdvfhvwrtyxbu

2007-02-28 Thread Tóth Adrienne
Kedves Levélíró, Jelenleg nem tartózkodom az irodában, leveleimre leghamarabb március 2-án tudok válaszolni. Sürgős ügyekben, kérem, keresse kollégáim az [EMAIL PROTECTED] e-mail címen vagy az alábbi elérhetőségeken: http://sanomaonline.hu/cgi-mod/ad.php Kreatívokkal kapcsolatban: http://sanomao

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-02-28 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 17:16 +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > Hey, that's not really a cultural difference here. If you really > already know for sure some people won't never ever get paid, how could > they feel otherwise? How about: "I couldn't care less"? I think you illustrated a part of the pro

Re: Project leader platform status

2007-02-28 Thread Debian Project Secretary
Hi, On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 11:52:44 -0600, Debian Project Secretary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I plan on publishing whatever I have tomorrow, and limit our > schedule slippage. I have just committed the platforms to webwml CVS, so they should get installed in due course (less than 4 ho

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-02-28 Thread Frank Küster
Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 04:55:58PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >> Unfortunately we have big cultural differences when it comes to use of the >> money. Some people [...] feel they are some sort of second class >> developers because they will never have

Re: A question of time

2007-02-28 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 2/27/07, Sune Vuorela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi! Many of the candidates are busy in other parts of debian with doing some other more or less important work. Which parts of your current work will you spend less time on when being a DPL? I will work less on package maintenance and sponso

Re: Question for candidates: the d-i conflict

2007-02-28 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 2/27/07, Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I'd like to ask Anthony and Steve what they think of how they handled the conflict between Frans Pop and Sven Luther, and other candidates how they would have handled this conflict. To everyone: how would you avoid such situations to b

Re: DPL candidates: what is effective?

2007-02-28 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 2/27/07, Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, MJ Ray wrote: > - what do you mean by "effective"? > - when would you say a delegation is no longer effective? A delegation is no longer effective: - either when the delegated work has been completed - or when the delega

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-02-28 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 05:16:34PM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 04:55:58PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > Unfortunately we have big cultural differences when it comes to use of the > > money. Some people [...] feel they are some sort of second class > > developers bec