On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 03:16:42AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is a question for all candidates.
>
> Over the years, I've always been very surprised to see that there's very
> little money that Debian is able to get.
I don't agree with that assessment. I do think Debian is able t
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 03:28:53AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If you see projects like Openstack or oVirt (sorry for the examples
> taken from my area of expertise...), they have elections every 6 months
> for project leaders in this or that area of the project.
>
> In Debian, we just
On 03/12/2012 09:00 AM, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
>
> Having said all that, provided we don't overdo it, having more money
> isn't necessarily a bad thing. If there are ways to attract more
> money from donators, we should do so. I don't think sending letters
> to companies is going to accomplish th
On 12.3.2012, at 10.00, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> Of course, it's unfortunate that the full details are not available.
> There's been work on making Debian's monetary details more transparent,
> but AFAIK there hasn't been anything made public on that yet. I suppose
> this is something that will req
Hi,
while reading algernon's platform I stumbled over the two sentences
"More packages, more packagers? A solved problem" and "Not raw,
packaging manpower - with hundreds of people, we have that covered".
How do you think about the current state of reviewing uploads for
maintainers without upload
Hi Zack,
you are 2 years DPL already. In your current platform you state in 1.2
why you want to stand for DPL an other year.
Are there any areas within your current DPL work where you think you
will do completly different to the other two years?
Cheers,
Martin
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On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 05:26:55PM -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Reading zack's platform, it makes me wonder why would you (Gergely and
> Wouter) actually need to be elected as a DPL to do what you mention on your
> platforms. Especially Wouter: you even state that you want to do some
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 09:21:32AM +0100, Mehdi Dogguy wrote:
> On 03/12/2012 09:00 AM, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > Having said all that, provided we don't overdo it, having more money
> > isn't necessarily a bad thing. If there are ways to attract more
> > money from donators, we should do so. I d
Hi,
Let me quote your platform for context:
> 2.3.1 DPL practicing
>
> > If elected again, the next term will be my last term as DPL, because I
> have different plans for my long term Debian future. Having that in
> mind, I will work since the very beginning of the term to ensure a
> smooth tran
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 03:16:42AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> Over the years, I've always been very surprised to see that there's very
> little money that Debian is able to get. I'm convinced that this
> situation could change with a bit of involvement from the DPL, and that
> such money could
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 10:09:09AM +0200, Kalle Kivimaa wrote:
> Well, most of the Debian monetary assets are held by SPI, and the SPI
> reports their assets publicly (the board meeting minutes), so this
> isn't a huge problem. It would be nice if the auditors would release a
> public yearly summar
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 03:28:53AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> If you see projects like Openstack or oVirt (sorry for the examples
> taken from my area of expertise...), they have elections every 6 months
> for project leaders in this or that area of the project.
>
> In Debian, we just elect a
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Hello,
On 12.03.2012 19:25, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 03:16:42AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
>> Over the years, I've always been very surprised to see that
>> there's very little money that Debian is able to get. I'm
>> conv
Raphael Geissert writes:
> * Why do you think you need to be elected as a DPL to do what you
> propose?
Given that one response to this didn't really address the question, let
me try re-stating it:
* What *specific* actions, requiring DPL powers, will you do as DPL? For
each of those specifi
Arno Töll wrote:
> as somebody who pushed $work to donate money to Debian (i.e. via
> FFIS), I always wondered about the financial merits of these
> donations. As much as I am involved to work within Debian, I have no
> clue what you used "our" money for. I am probably not literally
> interested wh
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 08:05:24AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> Raphael Geissert writes:
>
> > * Why do you think you need to be elected as a DPL to do what you
> > propose?
>
> Given that one response to this didn't really address the question, let
> me try re-stating it:
>
> * What *specific*
Please don't send me personal copies of messages that are also going to
the mailing list, as I haven't asked for that.
Wouter Verhelst writes:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 08:05:24AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> > * What *specific* actions, requiring DPL powers, will you do as DPL?
> > For each of t
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 09:55:25PM +0100, Arno Töll wrote:
> as somebody who pushed $work to donate money to Debian (i.e. via
> FFIS), I always wondered about the financial merits of these
> donations. As much as I am involved to work within Debian, I have no
> clue what you used "our" money for. I
Arno Töll dijo [Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 09:55:25PM +0100]:
> as somebody who pushed $work to donate money to Debian (i.e. via
> FFIS), I always wondered about the financial merits of these
> donations. As much as I am involved to work within Debian, I have no
> clue what you used "our" money for. I am
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Hi,
On 12.03.2012 23:19, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
>> Actually, $boss asked me the other day how to support Debian
>> better as he wasn't very convinced about usefulness of money
>> donations to Debian as he didn't get much feedback about that,
>> other than
Stefano Zacchiroli writes:
> Voting on technical matters, or to elect technical bodies, works well
> for projects that have a more narrow scope than Debian. There are Free
> Software *development* projects that use vote among developers as a way
> to decide whether to give commit access to someon
On 03/13/2012 12:18 AM, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> we could
> put a note in the release notes or in the installation manual
Do you *seriously* think that this would help? :)
> and/or put something on the website
We have this on our from page already (eg: the Donations link).
Thomas
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On 03/13/2012 12:14 AM, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> there
> are some things I would like to see the DPL do differently
Could you be a bit more explicit? Which things? Note that I have read
your platform, but I still think it needs some clarifications. For
example, you wrote that you think the DPL cou
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