Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Finally, I'm curious - where do you stand on these issues?
Well, I guess I should send this as a private email to Steve, but considering that most of the candidates have answered these already, here are my personal opinions :) >>What is the role of the DPL? Is he a strong leader, who uses his I feel that in a volunteer project you actually could have any of the three kinds of leaders I listed, with everybody being more or less happy. E.g. in my local Red Cross chapter we had a very strong chairman a few years back, who got things very much done her way, with very little opposition. Currently I'm the chairman and I try to be a figurehead and a facilitator, and things seem to work just as fine. I just wanted to hear what type of leader you all would be :) >>Do you feel that the DPL is first and foremost The Debian Project >>Leader, in the sense that anything Debian-related the DPL does, he >>does so as the DPL, not as a DD or a private person? My belief is that the DPL hat is something you can take off. Of course, the DPL must be very explict in this, but if I take the dunc-tank issue, which sparked my question, I think aj handled it not that badly. Maybe he could have been more clear but he most certainly had the moral right to be involved in dunc-tank. >>There are problems with communication between some key teams and >>the rest of the project. What solutions will you try to implement >>during the next year? I personally have had very little to do with our core teams, and I raised this question solely based on the -project discussions by others, who find (some of) the core teams silent and unresponsive. So, again, I was just curious to hear your thoughts :) >>How do you feel about spending Debian monies into buying core >>infrastructure support? Again, question inspired by others. I personally don't think we would be any better off hiring administrators, we are doing just fine with our volunteer effort. >>Currently just about every single conversation on -project and >>-vote degenerates immediately into a (minor) flame war. What will you >>do to fix the current atmosphere? I feel very strongly that the current mailing list atmosphere is more or less intolerable. I've actually considered resigning from the project (not a big loss, I have a couple of not-that-important packages and you can always find a better Auditor), as reading just -project and -vote makes me sad at the level of "discussion". But, I think I'll give the new DPL a couple of months to try to find out ways to improve. -- * Sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology (T.P) * * PGP public key available @ http://www.iki.fi/killer * -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
