Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-19 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 09:03:17AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: Hi, Andreas has asked a lot of the questions that I intended to ask as well, so I only need to amend one question he asked. Sorry for the delay in replying. Your amended question was a doozy! :) 2a. Do you see the concentration

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-19 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 06:10:28PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-09 00:57]: [...] I certainly hope that people will ask themselves whether I have been productive as DPL. The following questions you raised are all valid, and they are questions I

Re: tb's questions for the candidates

2004-03-19 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-19 18:19]: action (We should thank them for their efforts, put them on the emeritus keyring, and find new maintainers for their packages.) do you I do that and I never said otherwise. Well, actually, you said: I disagree with this. I

Re: More questions to the candidates

2004-03-19 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-17 11:24]: You might want to add to that something about a charter for the people who will be running it. [Something like: will coordinate with Debian where it makes sense.] Yes, indeed. There are questions about who is going to run the project, what

Re: More questions to the candidates

2004-03-19 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 10:48:48PM +0200, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: 1. Debian currently supports more than 10 arches (just a quick check in /ports. Obviously, trying to keep in sync all of them is too much. And I hope I'm not the only one who sees that it's increasingly becoming a

Branden's Platform in German, Spanish, Italian, and (some) French

2004-03-19 Thread Branden Robinson
Hi folks, Since we're foregoing the rebuttals this year (and the debate, to my disappointment), I thought I'd offer this reference to translated versions of my platform. http://people.debian.org/~branden/dpl/campaign/2004/platform.xhtml.de

Re: Branden's Platform in German, Spanish, Italian, and (some) French

2004-03-19 Thread Morphix User
Branden Robinson escribió: Hi folks, Since we're foregoing the rebuttals this year (and the debate, to my disappointment), I thought I'd offer this reference to translated versions of my platform. http://people.debian.org/~branden/dpl/campaign/2004/platform.xhtml.de

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-19 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-19 18:06]: I certainly hope that people will ask themselves whether I have been productive as DPL. The following questions you raised are all valid, and they are questions I have constantly asked myself throughout the year in order to measure

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-19 Thread Daniel Stone
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 06:06:27PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 06:10:28PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: I would go a step further and also ask how much Branden has achieved of what he wrote in his platforms in the last years, and how much of this has been done by

Re: Branden's Platform in German, Spanish, Italian, and (some) French

2004-03-19 Thread Raul Miller
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 07:01:59PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: http://people.debian.org/~branden/dpl/campaign/2004/platform.xhtml.en One of the issues you emphasized has to do with the bug tracking system, and open communication. In some completely different contexts, some people swear by

Q: guidelines for post-campaign period?

2004-03-19 Thread Branden Robinson
Mr. Secretary, The Debian Constitution[1] describes the DPL election process as follows: 5.2. Appointment 1. The Project Leader is elected by the Developers. 2. The election begins nine weeks before the leadership post becomes vacant, or (if it is too late already) immediately.

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-19 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Martin Michlmayr wrote: Especially if that leader's most valuable trait is coordination: the initiatives are executed by others, while the leader's role is simply in ^^ putting the right people together. Part of coordination is to

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-19 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Daniel Stone wrote: Coordinating a project the size of Debian requires a very different set of skills than maintaining a large package, such as glibc.[1] ...or XFree86, the reader is surely invited to infer. The XSF is run as a Branden-centric 'team', whereby

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-19 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 09:03:17AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: Hi, Andreas has asked a lot of the questions that I intended to ask as well, so I only need to amend one question he asked. Sorry for the delay in replying. Your amended question was a doozy! :) 2a. Do you see the concentration

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-19 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 06:10:28PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-09 00:57]: [...] I certainly hope that people will ask themselves whether I have been productive as DPL. The following questions you raised are all valid, and they are questions I

Re: tb's questions for the candidates

2004-03-19 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 05:03:56PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-12 11:00]: So, given that you don't think maintainers who neglect their duties and don't follow documented procedures should be treated the same as maintainers who leave the

Re: tb's questions for the candidates

2004-03-19 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-19 18:19]: action (We should thank them for their efforts, put them on the emeritus keyring, and find new maintainers for their packages.) do you I do that and I never said otherwise. Well, actually, you said: I disagree with this. I

Re: tb's questions for the candidates

2004-03-19 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au [2004-03-13 14:46]: retired can simply get added again, and that others have to do more checks. So, is it possible for them to fail these checks? If one of them is: Last time you were in Debian, you dropped out of contact for six months, your

Branden's Platform in German, Spanish, Italian, and (some) French

2004-03-19 Thread Branden Robinson
Hi folks, Since we're foregoing the rebuttals this year (and the debate, to my disappointment), I thought I'd offer this reference to translated versions of my platform. http://people.debian.org/~branden/dpl/campaign/2004/platform.xhtml.de

Re: Branden's Platform in German, Spanish, Italian, and (some) French

2004-03-19 Thread Morphix User
Branden Robinson escribió: Hi folks, Since we're foregoing the rebuttals this year (and the debate, to my disappointment), I thought I'd offer this reference to translated versions of my platform. http://people.debian.org/~branden/dpl/campaign/2004/platform.xhtml.de

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-19 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-19 18:06]: I certainly hope that people will ask themselves whether I have been productive as DPL. The following questions you raised are all valid, and they are questions I have constantly asked myself throughout the year in order to measure

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-19 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-12 13:39]: But, even more important than individual interactions is energy and drive. I can only invite you to look at the work I've done for Debian over the last years. You'll see a high level of commitment and energy. Do you feel

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-19 Thread Daniel Stone
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 06:06:27PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 06:10:28PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: I would go a step further and also ask how much Branden has achieved of what he wrote in his platforms in the last years, and how much of this has been done by

Re: Branden's Platform in German, Spanish, Italian, and (some) French

2004-03-19 Thread Raul Miller
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 07:01:59PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: http://people.debian.org/~branden/dpl/campaign/2004/platform.xhtml.en One of the issues you emphasized has to do with the bug tracking system, and open communication. In some completely different contexts, some people swear by

Q: guidelines for post-campaign period?

2004-03-19 Thread Branden Robinson
Mr. Secretary, The Debian Constitution[1] describes the DPL election process as follows: 5.2. Appointment 1. The Project Leader is elected by the Developers. 2. The election begins nine weeks before the leadership post becomes vacant, or (if it is too late already) immediately.