Re: Q for all candidates: license and copyright requirements

2010-03-25 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 10:45:46PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 02:10:23PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: At the risk of repeating myself (I already said it in an answer to Charles' GR proposal), these core values are also what all DDs agreed to abide by. If Charles doesn't

Re: Question to all Candidates: Who would you vote for?

2010-03-25 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 07:19:43PM +, Kalle Kivimaa wrote: Stefano Zacchiroli z...@debian.org writes: So, I apologize, but I'm not going to disclose my leader vote in public. I think the better phrasing for the original question would be: List reasons why the other candidates would

Standardization, large scale changes, innovations

2010-03-25 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hello, those questions are for all candidates. By standardization I mean that something should be used as default tool unless reasons exist to use something else (I do not mean that we sould impose something to everybody for all cases, but it should still be what's used in 95% of the cases). 1/

Re: Question about membership.

2010-03-25 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Charles, On Donnerstag, 25. März 2010, Charles Plessy wrote: [...] In order to make it more consensual, there is probably a need for making concessions like shortlisting the trusted DDs according to some criteria like [...] What do you mean by shortlisting? cheers, Holger

Re: Standardization, large scale changes, innovations

2010-03-25 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 11:22:36AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : those questions are for all candidates. By standardization I mean that something should be used as default tool unless reasons exist to use something else (I do not mean that we sould impose something to everybody for all

Re: Standardization, large scale changes, innovations

2010-03-25 Thread Roland Mas
Raphael Hertzog, 2010-03-25 11:22:36 +0100 : [...] 1/ Do you believe that it's a good move to standardize our packaging tools? (example: debhelper is almost standard, quilt is gaining status of the standard patch system thanks to the new source format) Please define “standardize” here.

Re: Standardization, large scale changes, innovations

2010-03-25 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 11:22:36AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Hello, those questions are for all candidates. By standardization I mean that something should be used as default tool unless reasons exist to use something else (I do not mean that we sould impose something to everybody for

Re: Question about membership.

2010-03-25 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 09:17:44AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Dear all, Following the ‘Membership procedures’ GR, discussion on membership were started after the Lenny release, but eventually stopped. In this thread it was proposed to trust DDs to nominate other members and I found the

Re: Standardization, large scale changes, innovations

2010-03-25 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org wrote: 1/ Do you believe that it's a good move to standardize our packaging tools?   (example: debhelper is almost standard, quilt is gaining status of the   standard patch system thanks to the new source format) I do not

Re: Question for the other candidates: supermajority.

2010-03-25 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 09:24:45AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: After the very painful GR about “Lenny and resolving DFSG violations”, discussions started about our voting system, and the fact that it does not accomodate well with mixture of supermajority and regular options. Also,

Question to all candidates: How would you enforce Debian Community Guidelines?

2010-03-25 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, First of all congrats to all candidates and thanks for stepping up for doing this task. Secondly, I was wondering how Debian could make it easier for people to contribute than other (derivatives and non-derivatives) distributions. I came up with a really nice draft howto[1] which I

Re: Standardization, large scale changes, innovations

2010-03-25 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 25 Mar 2010, Wouter Verhelst wrote: How can we change our processes so that doing/organizing such changes is less of a burden? They are not. I can't accept the premise that we can't do better at this level. I managed to get my own project through the end (it's deployed,

Re: Question for the other candidates: supermajority.

2010-03-25 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Thu Mar 25 17:38, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: I don't like the underlying intuition that this entails, namely that the GR proposer is somehow different from the other people which contribute to the ballot preparation (e.g. seconders and proposers of the initial and subsequent amendments).

Re: Standardization, large scale changes, innovations

2010-03-25 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 25 Mar 2010, Margarita Manterola wrote: 4/ Organizing changes that have an impact on (a large part of|all) the   archive is very difficult: [...]   How can we change our processes so that doing/organizing such changes   is less of a burden? The only way is to make it easy

Re: Standardization, large scale changes, innovations

2010-03-25 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org wrote: You got me wrong. I don't want to change our processes to force people to adopt new tools. I want to change our processes so that it's easier to complete far-reaching projects: in my case, it includes everything from

Re: Standardization, large scale changes, innovations

2010-03-25 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 06:07:19PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Thu, 25 Mar 2010, Wouter Verhelst wrote: How can we change our processes so that doing/organizing such changes is less of a burden? They are not. I can't accept the premise that we can't do better at this

Re: Standardization, large scale changes, innovations

2010-03-25 Thread Andreas Barth
* Raphael Hertzog (hert...@debian.org) [100325 18:18]: On Thu, 25 Mar 2010, Margarita Manterola wrote: 4/ Organizing changes that have an impact on (a large part of|all) the   archive is very difficult: [...]   How can we change our processes so that doing/organizing such changes

Re: Question for the other candidates: supermajority.

2010-03-25 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 05:16:33PM +, Matthew Johnson wrote: That not withstanding, there is still a legitimate point here. What happens when an amendment is proposed which has different majority requirements to the others? What happens when the secretary and the proposer disagree about

Re: Q for the Candidates: How many users?

2010-03-25 Thread Anthony Towns
So at the start of the week, I asked: On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 05:19:20PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: Bearing in mind: * www.debian.org/social_contract says Debian's priorities are our users and free software, * popcon.debian.org currently reports 91,523 submissions, *

Re: Standardization, large scale changes, innovations

2010-03-25 Thread Joey Hess
Wouter Verhelst wrote: A very good example of that is debhelper; nobody ever told anyone to use it, yet most of our packages do, directly or otherwise. Parts of Debian encourage experimentation, innovation, and evolution of better solutions: parts don't. That debian/rules is a flexible,

Re: To all candidates: personal mentoring

2010-03-25 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:15:45AM +0100, Serafeim Zanikolas wrote: With respect to attracting new contributors, please ponder the idea of a formal one-on-one mentoring scheme (as opposed to one-off interactions via d-mentors). I do realise that personal mentorship takes time; that's a

Re: Question about membership.

2010-03-25 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 09:17:44AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: In this thread it was proposed to trust DDs to nominate other members and I found the idea very interesting. In order to make it more consensual, there is probably a need for making concessions like shortlisting the trusted DDs

Re: Q for all candidates: license and copyright requirements

2010-03-25 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 08:27:43 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Salut Charles, Our users, if they want to modify, study, redistribute or use after rebuild our ^^ system, need the source. At no moment these operations involve modifying a RFC

Re: To all candidates: personal mentoring

2010-03-25 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:08:00 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: Still, in your question you're hinting at some earlier mentoring, and I believe that should happen in teams. [..] That is why I like the http://www.debian.org/Teams/ page. Ideally, that can become the welcome place for new

Re: Question to all candidates: How would you enforce Debian Community Guidelines?

2010-03-25 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Hi Héctor! On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 05:55:35PM +0100, Hector Oron wrote: First of all congrats to all candidates and thanks for stepping up for doing this task. Thanks! :-) I came up with a really nice draft howto[1] which I would like to bring up to your attention, so the basic question

Re: Question about membership.

2010-03-25 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes: In this thread it was proposed to trust DDs to nominate other members and I found the idea very interesting. In order to make it more consensual, there is probably a need for making concessions like shortlisting the trusted DDs according to some

Re: Question for the other candidates: supermajority.

2010-03-25 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Thu Mar 25 18:37, Neil McGovern wrote: On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 05:16:33PM +, Matthew Johnson wrote: That not withstanding, there is still a legitimate point here. What happens when an amendment is proposed which has different majority requirements to the others? What happens when the

Re: Question about membership.

2010-03-25 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Thu Mar 25 21:19, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: The GR we had on DAM proposal [2] has been only on the procedure which led to the d-d-a mail. In fact, the outcome of the GR asks for discussion+consensus (or vote), but we've never dwelled into that afterwords. I did try quite hard, but

Re: Question to all candidates: How would you enforce Debian Community Guidelines?

2010-03-25 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Hector Oron zu...@debian.org wrote:  Secondly, I was wondering how Debian could make it easier for people to contribute than other (derivatives and non-derivatives) distributions. I came up with a really nice draft howto[1] which I would like to bring up to

Rebuttals.

2010-03-25 Thread Kurt Roeckx
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Re: Question to all candidates: How would you enforce Debian Community Guidelines?

2010-03-25 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 05:55:35PM +0100, Hector Oron a écrit : Hello, First of all congrats to all candidates and thanks for stepping up for doing this task. Secondly, I was wondering how Debian could make it easier for people to contribute than other (derivatives and

Re: Q for the Candidates: How many users?

2010-03-25 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear Anthony, sorry for not keeping up with the answers, this campaign is very intensive ! It is interesting that your question was a kind of mini-experiment. As a molecular biologist, I like experiments a lot. Below is the draft that I never sent because I did not find time to add some flesh to