Re: Angus Lees for DPL

At Wed, 23 Feb 2005 19:48:35 -0600, Graham Wilson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 11:52:08AM +1100, Anand Kumria wrote: > > I hereby nominate Angus 'gus' Lees as Debian Project Leader (DPL). > > Don't developers have to nominate themselves? Or am I mistaken? That seems a strange rule. How about

Re: Angus Lees for DPL

At Wed, 23 Feb 2005 23:50:01 -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 13:17:53 +1100, Angus Lees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > That seems a strange rule. How about I second the nomination, is > > that good enough for you? > > Umm, it is in the const

Re: Question for candidate Lees

At Fri, 4 Mar 2005 01:44:32 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > First, I know that you didn't get a platform to Manoj before his deadline, > and that he has not been in a position to post web updates since then. Do > you have a platform that you could post to the list to tell us about > yourself as a c

My platform

Now available at http://people.debian.org/~gus/dpl-platform.html My sincere apologies for the delay. -- - Gus pgpUtJHMliiEm.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: My platform

At Tue, 8 Mar 2005 07:24:59 +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > Le Mar 8 Mars 2005 04:19, Angus Lees a écrit : > > Now available at http://people.debian.org/~gus/dpl-platform.html > Anyway, I have a couple of questions for you : Sure. > I quote you here : > > » I try not t

Re: My platform

Right, we seem to agree quite well on the separation of the DPL's personal opinions and the actions he should perform as DPL. So your concerns seem to boil down to two things: - You are not sure what I (personally) want to change about Debian. - You are concerned that I may (as DPL) want to und

Re: My platform

I'm saying the goal is widespread adoption of free software and its ideals. We should tread carefully; if we alienate too many people along the way we don't do our cause any favours. -- - Gus pgpcveOCj07wW.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: My platform

At Thu, 10 Mar 2005 03:43:48 +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > > My sincere apologies for the delay. > Note up front: I have not yet looked at your platform. [...] > Could you please state in public that you did not use the delay in > any way to gain an advantage by looking over the others' platforms

Re: Question: Do you have the time to be DPL?

At Fri, 11 Mar 2005 15:04:26 +, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > Given the DPL's role involves a fair amount of travel, speaking, giving > interviews to the press, etc, do you think that you will have sufficient > time to do a good job as DPL given your other commitments to Debian? Yes. Travelling and

Re: Questions to all DPL candidates

At Sun, 13 Mar 2005 22:17:26 +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > > Replacement fonts are a standard feature, and using is usually breaks > > formatting of the document. > This may be a nitpick, but documents which *break*, instead of just > looking somewhat sub-optimal, are

Re: Question: Do you have the time to be DPL?

At Mon, 14 Mar 2005 00:24:22 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Out of curiosity - who do you work for, and which other DDs are > employed there? I work for "Ursys" (http://www.urnet.com.au/ - but the web page sucks) along with: Bart Bunting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Steve Kowalik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: other candidates opinion about project scud

[Apologies for the delayed response, your post did indeed get lost in the noise (not helped by some gmane silliness)] At Wed, 9 Mar 2005 18:56:17 +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > What is your opinion about the proposed DPL team? Where do you see > problems with this approach? What are the key ben