Re: Debian Project Leader Elections 2019: Call for nominations

2019-03-13 Thread Matthew Vernon
Daniel Kahn Gillmor writes: > Not to pile on, but i wonder whether Lamby's diligence, and his clear > documentation of the workload (via Bits from the DPL at least) hasn't > scared off some prospective candidates, who might now be realizing that > they don't have the bandwidth to handle all of th

Re: Debian Project Leader Elections 2019: Call for nominations

2019-03-13 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
(Dropping Chris from CC: as he is subscribed to -vote) On 2019-03-12 16:55, Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana wrote: Mehdi, would you like to run again? I saw you run in 2017 and you have experience as DPL. I am really not sure what people are expecting from the DPL. My past experience showed m

Re: Debian Project Leader Elections 2019: Call for nominations

2019-03-13 Thread Iustin Pop
On 2019-03-13 15:13:33, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > (Dropping Chris from CC: as he is subscribed to -vote) > > On 2019-03-12 16:55, Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana wrote: > > > > Mehdi, would you like to run again? > > I saw you run in 2017 and you have experience as DPL. > > > > I am really not sure

Re: Debian Project Leader Elections 2019: Call for nominations

2019-03-13 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, Disclaimer: I was the DPL between 2013 and 2015. My recollection of that time might not be entirely correct, and Debian might have changed quite a bit since then. I must admit that I haven't followed Debian closely enough to know some details! (And I hope that other former DPLs will post thei

Re: Debian Project Leader Elections 2019: Call for nominations

2019-03-13 Thread Sam Hartman
How much of the DPL's financial role can be delegated? I understand that for example absent instructions otherwise the DPL is our expendature approval point for SPI (and presumably the other trusted organizations). Would the governing procedures/bilaws/whatever of our trusted organizations permit

Re: Debian Project Leader Elections 2019: Call for nominations

2019-03-13 Thread Bdale Garbee
Lucas Nussbaum writes: > - it's a position where you are often alone, and lack feedback This is true in the limit, but I, and a number of other former DPLs, have often made ourselves available to the acting DPL to act as a "sounding board". In fact, I think I've personally provided advice and g

Re: Debian Project Leader Elections 2019: Call for nominations

2019-03-13 Thread Bdale Garbee
Sam Hartman writes: > How much of the DPL's financial role can be delegated? Unclear. > Would the governing procedures/bilaws/whatever of our trusted > organizations permit a DPL to delegate some or all of this? I think so. However, I suspect this would not feel like a significant reduction i

Re: Debian Project Leader Elections 2019: Call for nominations

2019-03-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 7:05 AM Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Also, from the DPL POV, it would be very useful to have an annual > report on Debian finances. I don't know if this exists nowadays. Some of the TOs have annual reports, the SPI one includes some details of Debian & DebConf money at SPI, inc

Re: Debian Project Leader Elections 2019: Call for nominations

2019-03-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 7:05 AM Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Responsibility #4: "Debian Monthly News" > > Over time, the DPL somehow has grown the responsibility of distributing > news that are sometimes very loosely related to the DPL role. That's > probably a

Re: Debian Project Leader Elections 2019: Call for nominations

2019-03-13 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Lucas Nussbaum [2019-03-14 00:05]: > Also, from the DPL POV, it would be very useful to have an annual > report on Debian finances. I don't know if this exists nowadays. It doesn't. I wanted to do something like that a few years ago but it wasn't possible because we couldn't get the needed dat