Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-03-01 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, 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 because they will never h

Question to Anthony Towns: precision about your platform

2007-03-01 Thread Pierre Habouzit
In the “DPL Review” part of your platform, I'm quite surprised to see: * September: Dunc-Tank.org launch It feels like sometimes the separation between your two alter egos (the DPL and the Debian Developer) gets confused as we see the actions you claim to be from the latter being attrib

Question for Steve McIntyre

2007-03-01 Thread Peter Nuttall
Hello all, Quick questions for Steve McIntyre, though anyone can throw in their two cents: You have been 2IC for a year, give or take a bit. Do you think the position has been a sucess? If elected, would you appoint a 2IC yourself, and, assuming you would, how would you select your 2IC? Thanks

Re: Question to the candidates: inclusion of the kFreeBSD-* ports

2007-03-01 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 05:17:01PM +0100, Julien BLACHE wrote: > The kFreeBSD ports are now in a good enough shape to be included in > unstable. Aur?lien Jarno got ftpmaster's approval for that during an > informal conversation at debconf5 [1] but so far, there's been no > progress on this front.

Re: Question to the candidates: inclusion of the kFreeBSD-* ports

2007-03-01 Thread Frank Küster
Anthony Towns wrote: > Personally, due to things like [0], I tend to think having different > sources for different OSes is likely to make sense; which isn't something > we can manage with the main archive as it stands. > > Cheers, > aj > > [0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/0

Re: Question to the candidates: inclusion of the kFreeBSD-* ports

2007-03-01 Thread Julien BLACHE
Anthony Towns wrote: > Personally, due to things like [0], I tend to think having different > sources for different OSes is likely to make sense; which isn't something > we can manage with the main archive as it stands. I disagree here. Building for different OSes from the same source will impr

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

2007-03-01 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007, Steve Langasek wrote: > > * we announced a bogus release date. I know not everyone agrees on > > who is responsible for that announcement, > > Who do you believe is responsible for that announcement? The story as I understand it is that the press team slightly change

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-03-01 Thread Simon Richter
Hello, 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 current role seems to be that the D

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-03-01 Thread Simon Richter
I wrote: There is a lot of gray area between those extremes, and we have to decide on a case-by-case basis. I can see Debian spending more money than it used to (e.g. to get some of the developer machines back up), but I want to avoid both setting precedent and starting an internal competitio

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Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-03-01 Thread Simon Richter
Hello, What do you think of the dunc-tank initiative ? What do you think are the result of the "experiment" ? I think we should have been able to see the outcome before trying it. The idea itself is not a bad one, however during the entire course of the experiment it was never questioned by

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-03-01 Thread Simon Richter
Hello, Ana Guerrero wrote: Why do you think you will be a good DPL? I see the role of the DPL mostly as a mediator; for that to work it is important to listen and to be able to put one's own opinion aside; both of which I think I can do. What you can for Debian as DPL that you can not do