Re: Question to candidates: How do you plan to manage finances/accounting?

2024-03-22 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Nilesh, Am Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 09:23:12AM +0530 schrieb Nilesh Patra: > I am interested in knowing about what the current candidates think about > accounting bits in Debian and how they think about spending the money. I admit my knowledge about how Debian money is spent is currently low and i

Sruthi's platform (was: Re: Question to candidates: new legal entity for Debian worldwide)

2024-03-22 Thread Joost van Baal-Ilić
On Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 06:51:48AM +0100, Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote: > > PS: I am eagerly awaiting a platform from > Sruthi Chandran . Up to now there still is the old one at > https://www.debian.org/vote/2021/platforms/srud . Oops: apparently I missed https://www.debian.org/vote/2024/platforms/

Re: Question to candidates: new legal entity for Debian worldwide

2024-03-22 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Joost, Am Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 06:51:48AM +0100 schrieb Joost van Baal-Ilić: > There has been discussion of having one new legal entity representing > the Debian project worldwide. What are the candidates opinions on that? Could you please add some pointers to recent discussions about this. I

Re: Candidates question: politics and Debian

2024-03-22 Thread Rhonda D'Vine
* Gerardo Ballabio [2024-03-19 09:38:26 CET]: > Another facet of the question is: do you think that Debian should > support and/or take action on "good causes" that aren't part of its > stated mission (and that some people, including some DDs, might > disagree on being "good")? Extending the DFS

Question to candidates: How much available time would you have for DPL work?

2024-03-22 Thread Nilesh Patra
I have worked with both Andreas and Sruthi in some capacity in different teams so I have some idea about about the turn-around time for both (usually quick). In Debian, responding to something in around a week is normal (anf good), however, some DPL tasks would likely come out as urgent+important

Re: Question to candidates: How do you plan to manage finances/accounting?

2024-03-22 Thread Nilesh Patra
Quoting Andreas Tille: > Am Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 09:23:12AM +0530 schrieb Nilesh Patra: > > I am interested in knowing about what the current candidates think about > > accounting bits in Debian and how they think about spending the money. > > I admit my knowledge about how Debian money is spen

Re: Sruthi's platform (was: Re: Question to candidates: new legal entity for Debian worldwide)

2024-03-22 Thread Pierre-Elliott Bécue
Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote on 22/03/2024 at 09:54:35+0100: > On Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 06:51:48AM +0100, Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote: >> > >> PS: I am eagerly awaiting a platform from >> Sruthi Chandran . Up to now there still is the old one at >> https://www.debian.org/vote/2021/platforms/srud .

Re: Question to candidates: How much available time would you have for DPL work?

2024-03-22 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Nilesh, Am Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 03:47:08PM +0530 schrieb Nilesh Patra: > I have worked with both Andreas and Sruthi in some capacity in different teams I'm hereby use the chance to thank you again for your great work increasing my personal time for other things quite a lot. ;-) > so I have so

Re: Candidates question: politics and Debian

2024-03-22 Thread Soren Stoutner
On Friday, March 22, 2024 3:08:53 AM MST Rhonda D'Vine wrote: > Unfortunately you still are hung up on your discriminatory and downright > disrespectful position that you brought up in 2019 already, haven't learned > from the discussion, and still seem to find a way that the Code of Conduct > woul

Re: Candidates question: politics and Debian

2024-03-22 Thread Sruthi Chandran
On 3/10/24 21:06, Thomas Koch wrote: A question to DPL candidates It seems (to me?) that more and more areas of our lives become political and controversies on such topics more aggressive. Or people stop talking with each other. Personally, I believe that there is politics in every aspect of

Re: Candidates question: politics and Debian

2024-03-22 Thread Sruthi Chandran
On 3/19/24 14:08, Gerardo Ballabio wrote: Andreas Tille wrote: How would you as a DPL try to lead a community that focuses on producing a great distribution without getting divided on controversial topics? I'm not really sure in how far you consider the first statement relevant to the questi

Re: Candidates question: politics and Debian

2024-03-22 Thread Sruthi Chandran
On 3/20/24 00:31, Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana wrote: Hi Andreas, Em 19/03/2024 11:46, Andreas Tille escreveu: If this question is whether we should target for less power consumption I consider this topic as perfectly non-controversal and part of our mission statement.  I can't imagine any

Re: Question to candidates: How do you plan to manage finances/accounting?

2024-03-22 Thread Sruthi Chandran
On 3/22/24 09:23, Nilesh Patra wrote: I am interested in knowing about what the current candidates think about accounting bits in Debian and how they think about spending the money. I think the money should be spent based on the evaluation of cost to benefit ratio. As I have read and from tim

Re: Question to candidates: new legal entity for Debian worldwide

2024-03-22 Thread Sruthi Chandran
On 3/22/24 11:21, Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote: Hi, There has been discussion of having one new legal entity representing the Debian project worldwide. What are the candidates opinions on that? I am interested in the idea of having a legal entity for Debian. Till a year back, I was not in favo

Re: Question to candidates: How much available time would you have for DPL work?

2024-03-22 Thread Sruthi Chandran
On 3/22/24 15:47, Nilesh Patra wrote: I have worked with both Andreas and Sruthi in some capacity in different teams so I have some idea about about the turn-around time for both (usually quick). In Debian, responding to something in around a week is normal (anf good), however, some DPL tasks

Re: Candidates question: politics and Debian

2024-03-22 Thread Rhonda D'Vine
* Soren Stoutner [2024-03-22 16:59:46 CET]: > On Friday, March 22, 2024 3:08:53 AM MST Rhonda D'Vine wrote: > > Unfortunately you still are hung up on your discriminatory and downright > > disrespectful position that you brought up in 2019 already, haven't learned > > from the discussion, and sti

Re: Sruthi's platform

2024-03-22 Thread Sruthi Chandran
On 3/22/24 16:13, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote on 22/03/2024 at 09:54:35+0100: On Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 06:51:48AM +0100, Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote: PS: I am eagerly awaiting a platform from Sruthi Chandran . Up to now there still is the old one at https://www.debia

Re: Candidates question: politics and Debian

2024-03-22 Thread Sruthi Chandran
On 3/22/24 21:29, Soren Stoutner wrote: On Friday, March 22, 2024 3:08:53 AM MST Rhonda D'Vine wrote: Unfortunately you still are hung up on your discriminatory and downright disrespectful position that you brought up in 2019 already, haven't learned from the discussion, and still seem to fin

Re: Candidates question: politics and Debian

2024-03-22 Thread Sven Mueller
I find even calling asking for a stance on wording regarding "gender issues" disrespectful.If you just respect everyone for who they are, using gender neutral language follows automatically. Because it's the only way to be inclusive to all genders and orientations (no matter if people are male, fem

Re: Candidates question: politics and Debian

2024-03-22 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 09:38:26AM +0100, Gerardo Ballabio wrote: I would point out to the candidates that Gerardo is not a voting member of the Debian project. I don't think we should allow our candidate discussions to be hijacked by non-voters. -- Steve Langasek Give me a

Re: Candidates question: politics and Debian

2024-03-22 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 09:38:26AM +0100, Gerardo Ballabio wrote: > >Another facet of the question is: do you think that Debian should >support and/or take action on "good causes" that aren't part of its >stated mission (and that some people, including some DDs, might >disagree on being "good")? >