On Sat, Apr 06, 2024 at 12:14:01AM +0530, Sruthi Chandran wrote:
>On 28/03/24 05:56, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
>
> Greetings candidates,
>
> QUESTION TO THE CANDIDATES: what are your quantitative diversity goals
> and metrics, and what are the rationales behind those
On 26/03/24 00:26, Nilesh Patra wrote:
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,
On 28/03/24 05:56, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
Greetings candidates,
QUESTION TO THE CANDIDATES: what are your quantitative diversity goals
and metrics, and what are the rationales behind those goals and metrics?
Sorry, I do not wish to put a quantitative value to solve a social issue.
Some
Mechtilde Stehmann wrote on 01/04/2024 at 20:36:02+0200:
> Hello Roberto,
>
>> Question to the candidates: do you support using data to help guide
>> decisions regarding gender diversity in Debian and would you support
>> improving the way in which the Debian proj
Hello Roberto,
Question to the candidates: do you support using data to help guide
decisions regarding gender diversity in Debian and would you support
improving the way in which the Debian project collects information on
the gender identity of contributors as an aid to those of us desiring
Hello Roberto,
Question to the candidates: do you support using data to help guide
decisions regarding gender diversity in Debian and would you support
improving the way in which the Debian project collects information on
the gender identity of contributors as an aid to those of us desiring
On 17183 March 1977, Salvo Tomaselli wrote:
I am also the original author of packages, and since I am told that
salsa is
only for debian and upstream projects are not supposed to be there,
for me it
is easier to keep packaging and development on a single repository.
Which of
course can't
On Fri, 29 Mar 2024 11:28:33 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> The reason for asking the question in the first place is because the
> statements made by the candidates demand some level of quantification.
> What, precisely, is the problem with asking for a quantitative
> description of a
On 25/03/24 17:04, Jonathan Carter wrote:
Hi Sruthi
On 2024/03/22 19:51, Sruthi Chandran wrote:
I agree on your point of lack of transparency about the finances. But
from what I understood from highvoltage's platform last year, the
problem is more to do with the current delayed, manual and
and perhaps more productive.
Question to the candidates: do you support using data to help guide
decisions regarding gender diversity in Debian and would you support
improving the way in which the Debian project collects information on
the gender identity of contributors as an aid to those of us
Am Fri, Mar 29, 2024 at 02:10:07PM -0700 schrieb Soren Stoutner:
> Does anyone have a link to the information Margerita shared or information
> from other sources about the number of women contributing to Debian compared
> to Free Software in general? Having specific numbers is a helpful first
On Friday, March 29, 2024 1:56:46 PM MST Andreas Tille wrote:
> Interestingly, this issue may be more relevant than you assume. At
> DebConf15, Margerita Manterola shed light on pertinent statistics,
> revealing that the representation of women in Free Software lags behind
> that of the broader IT
he discrimination of people in Arizona.
> Returning to the Roberto’s question, as both candidates have made this a part
> of their platform, I would hope that they could make a simple statement along
> the lines of, “These are the specific groups I see underrepresented in
On Thursday, March 28, 2024 6:53:19 PM MST Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> So, I repeat my question to the candidates: what are your quantitative
> diversity goals and metrics, and what are the rationales behind those
> goals and metrics?
I would just like to add my support to Roberto f
Hi Louis-Philippe,
Am Fri, Mar 29, 2024 at 02:41:44PM -0400 schrieb Louis-Philippe Véronneau:
> We're getting a little sidetracked here, but that's not the case:
While its sidetracked from the original question I'm happy that this
came up here and I learned two good arguments (from Russ and
On 2024-03-29 4 h 49 a.m., Salvo Tomaselli wrote:
I am told that salsa is
only for debian and upstream projects are not supposed to be there
We're getting a little sidetracked here, but that's not the case:
"4. What can be hosted on salsa?
The answer is simple: As long as it is opensource
I apologize for misunderstanding your reason.Am 29.03.2024 16:28 schrieb "Roberto C. Sánchez" :Hi Sven,
On Fri, Mar 29, 2024 at 03:57:57PM +0100, Sven Mueller wrote:
> Hi Roberto.
> Most of the reason you are asking here so persistently is that Andreas
> chose to say "over
Roberto C. Sánchez writes:
> Without a clear statement of the goal, desired, or preferred diversity
> mix it is not possible to have a discussion about whether any particular
> proposed policy or program is likely to be beneficial or detrimental.
This statement is obviously false. One can have
Hi Sven,
On Fri, Mar 29, 2024 at 03:57:57PM +0100, Sven Mueller wrote:
>Hi Roberto.
>Most of the reason you are asking here so persistently is that Andreas
>chose to say "over representation of white males" instead of "under
>representation of some other group" (be it females,
Hi Roberto.Most of the reason you are asking here so persistently is that Andreas chose to say "over representation of white males" instead of "under representation of some other group" (be it females, POC, ...).I'd like to point out three things about this:1) it is clear from current numbers that
Salvo Tomaselli writes:
> I am also the original author of packages, and since I am told that
> salsa is only for debian and upstream projects are not supposed to be
> there, for me it is easier to keep packaging and development on a single
> repository. Which of course can't be salsa.
The
Hi Salvo,
Am Fri, Mar 29, 2024 at 09:49:24AM +0100 schrieb Salvo Tomaselli:
> I am also the original author of packages, and since I am told that salsa is
> only for debian and upstream projects are not supposed to be there, for me it
> is easier to keep packaging and development on a single
Hi Andreas,
On Fri, Mar 29, 2024 at 06:57:33AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi Robert,
>
> Am Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 07:30:51AM -0400 schrieb Roberto C. Sánchez:
> > ...
> > In any event, rather than infer what you might believe, I thought it
> > more respectful and helpful to ask you give some
Hi Robert,
Am Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 07:30:51AM -0400 schrieb Roberto C. Sánchez:
> ...
> In any event, rather than infer what you might believe, I thought it
> more respectful and helpful to ask you give some insight into how you
> shaped your view so that those who consider voting for you might
>
t;this is a problem" and when asked "please use quantifiable terms
to describe a particular state where this is no longer a problem" one
candidate refused and the other simply did not respond. This makes me
gravely concerned for the Debian project and quality of leadership that
it can
> "Roberto" == Roberto C Sánchez writes:
Roberto> I can infer that you likely view the current ratio of around 3%
women
Roberto> (33/1004) and around 96% men ((1004-33)/1004) [0] (and, yes, I
recognize
Roberto> that this does not account for gender minority individuals, but I
Hi Andreas,
Thank you for responding to my question.
On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 07:28:52AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
>
> We are all aware of the issue you are eloquently illustrating. I will
> not make false promises and give any metrics I intend to reach as DPL.
> The reason behind the
Hi Roberto,
Am Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 08:26:06PM -0400 schrieb Roberto C. Sánchez:
> QUESTION TO THE CANDIDATES: what are your quantitative diversity goals
> and metrics, and what are the rationales behind those goals and metrics?
>
> Some context:
> ...
> In the last GR there we
Greetings candidates,
QUESTION TO THE CANDIDATES: what are your quantitative diversity goals
and metrics, and what are the rationales behind those goals and metrics?
Some context:
Both platforms cite imbalances in the areas of gender and geography as
concerns contributing to each candidate's
Hi Nilesh,
Am Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 12:26:00AM +0530 schrieb 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
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
Hi Sruthi
On 2024/03/22 19:51, Sruthi Chandran wrote:
I agree on your point of lack of transparency about the finances. But
from what I understood from highvoltage's platform last year, the
problem is more to do with the current delayed, manual and tedious
accounting process.
The accounting
On 3/22/24 15:47, Nilesh Patra wrote:
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
On 3/22/24 11:21, Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote:
Hi,
There has been discussion of having one new legal entity representing
the Debian project worldwide. What are the candidates opinions on that?
I am interested in the idea of having a legal entity for Debian. Till a
year back, I was not in
On 3/22/24 09:23, Nilesh Patra wrote:
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 think the money should be spent based on the evaluation of cost to
benefit ratio.
As I have read and from
Hi Nilesh,
Am Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 03:47:08PM +0530 schrieb Nilesh Patra:
> I have worked with both Andreas and Sruthi in some capacity in different teams
I'm hereby use the chance to thank you again for your great work
increasing my personal time for other things quite a lot. ;-)
> so I have
Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote on 22/03/2024 at
09:54:35+0100:
> On Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 06:51:48AM +0100, Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote:
>>
>
>> PS: I am eagerly awaiting a platform from
>> Sruthi Chandran . Up to now there still is the old one at
>> https://www.debian.org/vote/2021/platforms/srud .
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 about how Debian money is
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
Hi Joost,
Am Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 06:51:48AM +0100 schrieb Joost van Baal-Ilić:
> There has been discussion of having one new legal entity representing
> the Debian project worldwide. What are the candidates opinions on that?
Could you please add some pointers to recent discussions about this.
On Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 06:51:48AM +0100, Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote:
>
> PS: I am eagerly awaiting a platform from
> Sruthi Chandran . Up to now there still is the old one at
> https://www.debian.org/vote/2021/platforms/srud .
Oops: apparently I missed
Hi Nilesh,
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 about how Debian money is spent is currently low
and
Hi,
There has been discussion of having one new legal entity representing
the Debian project worldwide. What are the candidates opinions on that?
Bye,
Joost
PS: I am eagerly awaiting a platform from
Sruthi Chandran . Up to now there still is the old one at
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
Le Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 08:30:03AM +0100, Gerfried Fuchs a écrit :
Hi!
I have a question to the candidates: History has shown that DPLs more
or less disappear not too long after their period or at least reduce
their visible efforts immensly. I wonder where you see the reasons
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 08:30:03AM +0100, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
I have a question to the candidates: History has shown that DPLs more
or less disappear not too long after their period or at least reduce
their visible efforts immensly. I wonder where you see the reasons for
this trend, what
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 08:58:42AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
DPLs continue to be volunteers and as such they can be hit by any kind
of time demands from their job, their personal life, etc. Probably, the
fact that they are in a central position, which is expected to
communicate a lot,
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 4:30 AM, Gerfried Fuchs rho...@deb.at wrote:
I have a question to the candidates: History has shown that DPLs more
or less disappear not too long after their period or at least reduce
their visible efforts immensly. I wonder where you see the reasons for
this trend
Hi!
I have a question to the candidates: History has shown that DPLs more
or less disappear not too long after their period or at least reduce
their visible efforts immensly. I wonder where you see the reasons for
this trend, what your impression is about it and wether you try to
follow
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 08:30:03AM +0100, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
I have a question to the candidates: History has shown that DPLs more
or less disappear not too long after their period or at least reduce
their visible efforts immensly. I wonder where you see the reasons for
this trend, what
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 03:14:49PM +0200, Kari Pahula wrote:
I would like to hear what the candidates think about the non-free
section. Is having it hosted on Debian's infrastructure still worth
it?
Yes, I believe so. Unfortunately, there are still quite a few packages
in non-free that a lot of
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007, Kari Pahula wrote:
I would like to hear what the candidates think about the non-free
section. Is having it hosted on Debian's infrastructure still worth
it?
It was never worth it. It has brought disagreement with the FSF
(nothing new, I know) which as a result did not
I would like to hear what the candidates think about the non-free
section. Is having it hosted on Debian's infrastructure still worth
it? Do you expect that there would be any changes regarding its
status during your term? Do you think that there are going to be
votes like
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 03:14:49PM +0200, Kari Pahula wrote:
I would like to hear what the candidates think about the non-free
section. Is having it hosted on Debian's infrastructure still worth
it? Do you expect that there would be any changes regarding its
status during your term? Do you
Hi,
On Tue, 06 Mar 2007, Kari Pahula wrote:
I would like to hear what the candidates think about the non-free
section. Is having it hosted on Debian's infrastructure still worth
it?
Yes.
Do you expect that there would be any changes regarding its
status during your term?
No, but I'm not
Kari Pahula wrote:
I would like to hear what the candidates think about the non-free
section. Is having it hosted on Debian's infrastructure still worth
it? Do you expect that there would be any changes regarding its
status during your term? Do you think that there are going to be
votes
On Wed, 07 Mar 2007, Anthony Towns wrote:
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 03:14:49PM +0200, Kari Pahula wrote:
A snapshot from http://www.debian.org/vote/2004/gr_non_free_tally.txt:
Option 1: Choice 1: Cease active support of non-free [3:1
majority needed]
/ Option 2---: Choice 2:
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Hash: SHA1
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 02:10:32PM +0100, Josselin Mouette 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
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 02:10:32PM +0100, Josselin Mouette 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.
I believe I handled the dispute fairly. I
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 06:45:48PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote:
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 02:10:32PM +0100, Josselin Mouette 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
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
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 become this
problematic in the future?
--
.''`.
: :' :
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 02:10:32PM +0100, Josselin Mouette 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
Hi,
On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Josselin Mouette 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.
I would have delegated the mediation attempt because I
James Troup [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
But I never personally replied to Joey's mail about the next point
release explicitly saying that fixing sudo was a pre-depends, and I
apologise for that.
You're not a DPL candidate, and if this question is relevant at all,
it's relevant to DPL
Hello DPL candidate who signed the Vancouver plan,
(Excluding Anthony Towns who signed as (ftpmaster) not as (DPL
candidate).)
The Vancouver plan has several mention of the security team which lead
to believe it was accomodated to address the concern of this team.
However [EMAIL PROTECTED] shows
Bill Allombert wrote:
The Vancouver plan has several mention of the security team which lead
to believe it was accomodated to address the concern of this team.
However [EMAIL PROTECTED] shows that
the security team was not consulted and the most active security officer
does not endorse the
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bill Allombert wrote:
The Vancouver plan has several mention of the security team which lead
to believe it was accomodated to address the concern of this team.
[...]
Er, let's quote every mention of security in Steve's mail:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~wget -q -O -
Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The interesting question still is: Do the DPL candidates think it is in
order that such a plan is designed without consulting the security team?
Did they know it wasn't consulted? etc.
I think various people that should have been consulted weren't, and I
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 05:58:42PM +0100, Frank K?ster wrote:
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You are right with counting words, and Bill is wrong when he says the
team was mentioned several times. But since there was no rationale
for the criteria put on release arches, people tried to
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 03:53:55PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
Did you sign on the assumption it has been reviewed by the security team,
or did you know they had not been consulted ? Did you make some
investigations ?
Joey was invited to the meeting but could not make it. He was on
the list
Forwarded to the list at Andreas' request.
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On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 01:48:32PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
So this isn't really a James Troup question, it's a question of how
much screw-up is necessary before a delegation should be yanked?
This depends on many
Bill Allombert wrote:
Hello DPL candidate who signed the Vancouver plan,
(Excluding Anthony Towns who signed as (ftpmaster) not as (DPL
candidate).)
No, I signed it as Anthony Towns, and left it up to Steve to work out
which hat or hats he wanted to classify that under. (Well, actually I
didn't
This question goes to all candidates
1. How are you going to address public auditors on major events
(such as LWE, FOSDEM, DebConf, LinuxTag etc.) with speaches?
I read that not all of you were going to many events in the
past or giving talks.
Regards,
Joey
--
Unix is
Le Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 12:08:28PM +0100, Martin Schulze écrivait:
1. How are you going to address public auditors on major events
(such as LWE, FOSDEM, DebConf, LinuxTag etc.) with speaches?
I read that not all of you were going to many events in the
past or giving talks.
It's
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 12:08:28PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote:
1. How are you going to address public auditors on major events
(such as LWE, FOSDEM, DebConf, LinuxTag etc.) with speaches?
I read that not all of you were going to many events in the
past or giving talks.
As I
This question goes to all candidates
1. How are you going to address public auditors on major events
(such as LWE, FOSDEM, DebConf, LinuxTag etc.) with speaches?
I read that not all of you were going to many events in the
past or giving talks.
Regards,
Joey
--
Unix is
Le Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 12:08:28PM +0100, Martin Schulze écrivait:
1. How are you going to address public auditors on major events
(such as LWE, FOSDEM, DebConf, LinuxTag etc.) with speaches?
I read that not all of you were going to many events in the
past or giving talks.
It's
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 12:08:28PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote:
1. How are you going to address public auditors on major events
(such as LWE, FOSDEM, DebConf, LinuxTag etc.) with speaches?
I read that not all of you were going to many events in the
past or giving talks.
As I
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