Re: Changing supermajority requirements

2023-11-22 Thread Nilesh Patra
On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 11:29:36AM +, Bill Allombert wrote: > Le Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 11:00:57AM +0100, Ansgar a écrit : > > Hi, > > > > the Constitution has several supermajority requirements that seem > > excessive to me: > > > > Constitution changes: > > > > +--- > > | 4.1.2: Amend this c

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

2024-03-21 Thread 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. As I have read and from time to time observed, the finances in the project do not have a lot of transparency and there are updates posted semi-occasionall

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 abou

Question to candidates: Addressing Bandwidth Challenges in Debian

2024-03-25 Thread Nilesh Patra
It is no secret that most (probably all?) teams (delegated and otherwise packaging/developer teams) in Debian struggle with limited developer time and almost everything in Debian needs help. In quite a few teams that I've seen and also been a part of, there are only 3-4 people sharing a bulk of wor

Re: Q for nominees: structural reforms to delegations

2025-03-20 Thread Nilesh Patra
On 20 March 2025 7:34:08 pm IST, Faidon Liambotis wrote: >Branden, > >On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 05:38:23AM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: >> Prompted in part by many years of reflection on the project's strengths >> and weaknesses, I have a slate of recommendations regarding the >> management of

Re: Question to all candidates: the FTP Team

2025-04-06 Thread Nilesh Patra
On 06/04/25 3:30 pm, Ian Jackson wrote: > To renew this institution, we need to get rid of the toxicity first. > That means getting rid of the toxic people. > > Yes, that is disruptive and risky. But the alternative is to allow > the current situation to persist, as you have allowed it to persist

Re: Questions for all candidates

2025-04-05 Thread Nilesh Patra
On 29/03/25 9:13 pm, Soren Stoutner wrote: > On Saturday, March 29, 2025 2:34:35 AM Mountain Standard Time Nilesh > Patra wrote: >> On 28/03/25 9:33 pm, Gerardo Ballabio wrote: >>> I didn't realize it was a hard break. My fault. >>> >>> In fact, t

Re: Q to all candidates: future of Debian finances

2025-04-05 Thread Nilesh Patra
Hi PEB, On 04/04/25 11:18 pm, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: > This is a public list, and as a TO administrator, I have part of the > answers, but it's not my place to disclose the full situation publicly. > > I'd say that essentially our funds ~halved since 2019/2020. While we are > not close to be

Re: Proposal - Remove requirement that emails be wrapped at 80 characters

2025-03-15 Thread Nilesh Patra
On 16 March 2025 5:08:37 am IST, Soren Stoutner wrote: >On Saturday, March 15, 2025 4:23:58 PM Mountain Standard Time Bart Martens >wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 15, 2025 at 11:47:50AM -0700, Soren Stoutner wrote: >> > I apologize for sending three copies of this proposal. The digital >> > signature on

Re: Questions for all candidates

2025-03-29 Thread Nilesh Patra
On 28/03/25 9:33 pm, Gerardo Ballabio wrote: > I didn't realize it was a hard break. My fault. > > In fact, thinking more about it, the hard break wasn't inserted by > Gmail, but by me copying and pasting from the web interface, because > I'm not suscribed to -vote and I read it there (that's also

Question to candidates: About burnout and in-person meetings

2025-03-29 Thread Nilesh Patra
Hi, I've three questions. 1. There are many contributors who maintain a large chunk of packages, including but not limited to key packages. The bus factor on some key packages is good, on others, it's usually one or two people doing a large majority of work. What are your views on ensuring that

Re: tag2upload - request for DPL action

2025-05-10 Thread Nilesh Patra
On 09/05/25 4:13 pm, Ian Jackson wrote: > tl;dr: > > Dear Andreas: > > Would you please make a temporary delegation, to enable tag2upload ? > We think this consists mostly of deploying a 3-line patch to dak. Thank you for all the work you (and Sean) have done for tag2upload. I too, agree that