On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 09:08:20AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > Hi all, > > Since so much of the perceived troubles debian has been having lately can be > traced down to arrogance and pride, as well as failures to communicate, i want > to ask these question to the DPL candidates now : > > 1) Can you tell us a few of the most important mistakes you have made during > these past two years with regard to debian ?
There are many things where I've made a mistake. I said I'd write a replacement for the exim4-config package, which then didn't happen (I really need to revisit that at some point in the not-so-far-away future). I uploaded an nbd-client package a while back with no binary in it (which clearly shows that I didn't test, but "there were relevant changes in nbd-server only anyway"). I'm sure there are other things I could come up with, but I also tend to actively forget the mistakes I make. > 2) What do you believe where the consequences of those mistakes ? Configuring exim4 still sucks. There were no consequences for the nbd mistake (other than that I had to do another upload). > 3) What do you think in retrospect you would have done differently ? I'm not sure. I do think exim4 could use a different set of configuration questions, but I guess I underestimated the amount of work and thought that would require, and exim's complexity. > 4) What lessons did these mistakes teach you, and how will this affect > similar situations you will be facing as DPL if elected, or as normal DD if > not elected ? It taught me that sometimes, there are battles you just can't win. -- <Lo-lan-do> Home is where you have to wash the dishes. -- #debian-devel, Freenode, 2004-09-22 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
