Re: More votes in Debian? Any idea for improvement?

2012-03-15 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 03/12/2012 04:04 PM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > 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

Re: More votes in Debian? Any idea for improvement?

2012-03-15 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 03:11:28PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 03/12/2012 04:04 PM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > 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 expe

Re: More votes in Debian? Any idea for improvement?

2012-03-15 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 03/15/2012 10:10 PM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 03:11:28PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> On 03/12/2012 04:04 PM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >>> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 03:28:53AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: Hi, If you see projects like Openstack or oVirt (sorr

Re: A "Review & Mentor" team

2012-03-15 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 03/13/2012 06:18 PM, Gergely Nagy wrote: > I would also love to see a "Review & Mentor" team, something that could > work along and with the NM process, whose task would be to do just what > the name suggests: reivew packages, help find a sponsor Oh, *that* is very interesting. And that gives m

Re: More votes in Debian? Any idea for improvement?

2012-03-15 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 01:27:07AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 03/15/2012 10:10 PM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 03:11:28PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > >> On 03/12/2012 04:04 PM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > >>> Debian is not a democracy, nor does it need to be. > >>> > >

Re: A "Review & Mentor" team

2012-03-15 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Thomas, On 15.03.2012 18:50, Thomas Goirand wrote: > A sponsor would, on his side, select what type of tags he is > interested in. For me for example, I'd be selecting server type of > software, so I'd for example select system::server. Then I woul

Re: Gergely and Wouter: on the need of becoming a DPL

2012-03-15 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 04:30:06PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > Wouter Verhelst writes: > > > On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 07:33:06AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > > > Wouter Verhelst writes: > > > > > > > I will try to be a DPL who will care a bit less about the letter > > > > of the constitution or the

Re: Debian's trademarks and logos, and their terms of use.

2012-03-15 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 09:47:27AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: [...] > I would like to know your position or vision on our trademarks and logos, and, > if you indend to work on that question as a DPL, what would be the key points > of your action. Stefano has already given an overview of the curr

Re: DPL practicing

2012-03-15 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 06:42:29PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Could you give some examples of DPL tasks of the last 24 months that you > could have transferred to someone else? > > Looking through your log, I have the impression that most of the tasks > are either very short tasks, or tasks th

Re: More votes in Debian? Any idea for improvement?

2012-03-15 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 02:28:02PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > According to the constitution we can ask the Technical Committee to make > > such decisions. But we don't have the habit of doing so and I don't > > think the committee would scale if we would start doing so. > > I believe the Techn

Re: DPL practicing

2012-03-15 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 09:53:35PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > (not I'm in principle against at authorizing people to talk on behalf > of the DPL --- I've authorized people to attend events "on behalf of > Debian" and represent the Project there, which boils down to the same > principle). E

Re: Gergely and Wouter: on the need of becoming a DPL

2012-03-15 Thread Ben Finney
Wouter Verhelst writes: > So, I've given this some thought, and I think I understand why we seem > to be talking two different languages here. Thank you for thinking and responding. […] > I hope that explains it. If not, I'm afraid I'm going to have to tell > you that I don't believe I can give