Debian Project Leader Elections 2007: Gustavo Franco.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I would like to inform the project secretary, debian-vote and debian-devel-portuguese mailing lists subscribers my intention to be a candidate. thanks, Gustavo Franco - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.

Re: Bits from the 2IC

On 2/20/07, Martin Zobel-Helas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, On Tue Feb 20, 2007 at 09:37:44 +, MJ Ray wrote: > Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote to devel-announce: [...] > > What else is coming soon? We're part-way into the DPL election process > > for 2007[13]. I've just announced

Re: Questions to the candidates

On 2/25/07, Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Hi Mike, These questions may be skipped by AJ, because the answers are obvious. I would like to read his answers too. What do you think of the dunc-tank initiative ? I think that the initiative affected the Debian community as a who

Re: Questions to the candidates

On 2/25/07, Kalle Kivimaa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Now that we are well into the campaigning period, I'd like to ask each candidate a couple of questions. Feel free to say that "this is answered in my platform", if that is the case. What is the role of the DPL? Is he a strong leader, who uses

Re: Questions to the candidates

On 2/25/07, Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 04:33:48PM -0200, Gustavo Franco wrote: > On 2/25/07, Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Hi, > > Hi Mike, > > >These questions may be skipped by AJ, because the answers are o

Re: Questions to the candidates

On 2/26/07, MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Gustavo Franco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > - Sense of participation > There is no community without a group of individuals participating and > a better community is one where these individuals feel that they're >

Re: One more question to the candidates

On 2/26/07, Kalle Kivimaa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Forgot to ask this question: In your opinion, what is a good length of total term for a DPL? Hi Kalle, Maybe one year isn't enough to work on key topics to see a release (as a DPL), but i don't plan to be a candidate for a second time, if el

Re: Questions to all candidates: Release importance, release blockers, release quality

On 2/26/07, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I would be happy to hear answers from all candidates to these questions, but I expect that they are at least partially answered by the platforms. Please simply point to them if you included an answer there, even if they are not on

Re: Questions Regarding Delegates

On 2/26/07, John Lightsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The first power enumerated to the DPL in the Debian Constitution is the power to appoint and remove delegates. My questions are directed at determining how you as DPL will use this power to guide the Debian Project. Hi John, 1) Do you beli

Re: DPL candidate question

On 2/26/07, Curt Larson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As kind of a follow-up to the basic 'what would you do as DPL that you could not do as DD?' I would like to know more about how you would handle marketing Debian. The very hot topic this week is Dell's move to offer open source alternatives. Bur

Re: Questions to the candidates

On 2/25/07, Ana Guerrero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, here my questions: Why do you think you will be a good DPL? I will work for and with the high skilled and motivated people in the project, being sure that one time contributors won't be treated as second class developers, if it will make

Re: Questions to the candidates

On 2/26/07, Mohammed Adnène Trojette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Feb 26, 2007, Gustavo Franco wrote: > >- Hard work - the reduced participation made more work hard work IMO; > > Some worked harder to find and solve RC bugs. Take a wall. Take a car going fast toward

Re: Question to the candidates: inclusion of the kFreeBSD-* ports

On 2/27/07, Julien BLACHE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi DPL candidates, The kFreeBSD ports are now in a good enough shape to be included in unstable. Aurélien Jarno got ftpmaster's approval for that during an informal conversation at debconf5 [1] but so far, there's been no progress on this fron

Re: Question for the candidates: ponies

On 2/27/07, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Which of the candidates, if elected, would finally get me the ponies I've been craving for years? Every time you ask for a pony, a kitten commits suicide. :-) I'll give you a klingon translated Debian Operating Systems book and that's enou

Re: A question of time

On 2/27/07, Sune Vuorela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi! Many of the candidates are busy in other parts of debian with doing some other more or less important work. Which parts of your current work will you spend less time on when being a DPL? I will work less on package maintenance and sponso

Re: Question for candidates: the d-i conflict

On 2/27/07, Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I'd like to ask Anthony and Steve what they think of how they handled the conflict between Frans Pop and Sven Luther, and other candidates how they would have handled this conflict. To everyone: how would you avoid such situations to b

Re: DPL candidates: what is effective?

On 2/27/07, Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, MJ Ray wrote: > - what do you mean by "effective"? > - when would you say a delegation is no longer effective? A delegation is no longer effective: - either when the delegated work has been completed - or when the delega

Re: Question for the candidates

On 3/2/07, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: To all candidates: lists 59 release-critical bugs unfixed in etch, with

Re: Question for the candidates

On 3/2/07, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: To all candidates: (...) Which release-critical bug will each of you fix in order to convince me to vote for you? :) #407361 is my boy (see the patch), but i haven't uploaded yet. It's maintained by Simon Richter, let him give us some feedba

Re: Question for the candidates

On 3/2/07, Gustavo Franco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 3/2/07, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To all candidates: > (...) > Which release-critical bug will each of you fix in order to convince me to > vote for you? :) > #407361 is my boy (see the patch),

Re: Question for Gustavo and Sam: bringing back the fun

On 3/13/07, Margarita Manterola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi! This is for Gustavo and Sam, who have both stated in their campaigns that they want to bring back the fun to Debian. Now, I'm all for Debian being more fun, but I wonder: How do you plan to bring back the fun? What are the specific

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal, updated

On 6/27/07, Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Okay, here's a new draft with the following changes: - incorporate committers by name rather than by relevant qualifications - split committers into expected active committers and reserve committers - mention tools ex