Re: Q: All: Account creation latency

2008-03-17 Thread Raphael Hertzog
(resending to list, I responded privately by error) Hi, On Sat, 15 Mar 2008, Nacho Barrientos Arias wrote: If you get elected, what will you do to prevent people from waiting for weeks (and usually for months) to see their account created after DAM approval? Account creation is not the only

Re: Q: Small tasks best on the fly? was: Q: All: Account creation latency

2008-03-17 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, MJ Ray wrote: Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] It's well known that small task (when they take less than 5 minutes) are usually best done on the fly instead of accumulating them. [...] Where is this well known? I thought opinion was divided. See

Q: Small tasks best on the fly? was: Q: All: Account creation latency

2008-03-17 Thread MJ Ray
Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] It's well known that small task (when they take less than 5 minutes) are usually best done on the fly instead of accumulating them. [...] Where is this well known? I thought opinion was divided. See Ganging your mosquito tasks

Re: All Candidates: Do you plan to be prominently visible during your term?

2008-03-17 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Sun, 16 Mar 2008, Holger Levsen wrote: On Saturday 15 March 2008 22:40, Marc Haber wrote: Additionally, it may be a good idea to have regular IRC conferences where the DPL is available to answer questions. A good time would probably be a week after bits have been posted so that the

Re: Q: Small tasks best on the fly? was: Q: All: Account creation latency

2008-03-17 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 10:40:18AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: GTD is quite popular and has been discussed on planet Debian several times together with the Inbox Zero principle... that's why I said well-known. But you're right that I should have given more references. Note that the whole

Re: Q: Small tasks best on the fly? was: Q: All: Account creation latency

2008-03-17 Thread MJ Ray
Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, MJ Ray wrote: Where is this well known? I thought opinion was divided. [...] I must admit that I've read some Getting Things Done related literature and that this organization method usually suggests to do small tasks on the fly

Re: Q: All: Account creation latency

2008-03-17 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 07:35:35AM +, Raphael Hertzog wrote: We need to break that logic. I would like to talk with James and try to convince him to create accounts as they come. It's well known that small task (when they take less than 5 minutes) are usually best done on the fly instead

Re: Q: Small tasks best on the fly? was: Q: All: Account creation latency

2008-03-17 Thread Cyril Brulebois
On 17/03/2008, MJ Ray wrote: Is creating accounts really now a sub-two-minute task? If so, that's great, but I believed there was still often a lot of multi-step independent double-checking in that task. If not so, is that sooo long that there are only a couple of runs each

Re: Q: Small tasks best on the fly? was: Q: All: Account creation latency

2008-03-17 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, MJ Ray wrote: Is creating accounts really now a sub-two-minute task? If so, that's great, but I believed there was still often a lot of multi-step independent double-checking in that task. Honestly I don't know. But if it's not, then it gives us at least a precise idea of

Re: Q: All: Account creation latency

2008-03-17 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11327 March 1977, Pierre Habouzit wrote: We need to break that logic. I would like to talk with James and try to convince him to create accounts as they come. It's well known that small task (when they take less than 5 minutes) are usually best done on the fly instead of accumulating them.

Re: Q: All: Account creation latency

2008-03-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 11:35:18AM +0100, Nacho Barrientos Arias wrote: Hello, If you get elected, what will you do to prevent people from waiting for weeks (and usually for months) to see their account created after DAM approval? Hi Nacho, NM is one of quite a few areas in Debian that I'd like

Re: Q: Steve McIntyre: 2IC vs. DPL

2008-03-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 08:54:27PM -0400, Clint Adams wrote: Steve, You served a term as Assistant Project Leader. What are the differences between the job you did then and the job you would do as DPL? Hi Clint, Mainly, I would expect to push some more high-profile issues than when I was

Re: Technical committee resolution

2008-03-17 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 10:45:25PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: or the tech-ctte's involvement in technical improvement of Debian before a conflict exists. Well, with my Policy delegate hat on, I'd certainly welcome more help in that area, but on the

Re: Technical committee resolution

2008-03-17 Thread Clint Adams
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 12:43:14AM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: I also think that the process is not clear to everybody. There is an policy-process.txt, but that doesn't seem to be current. From Anthony's mail about the delegation: Marga put this up: http://wiki.debian.org/PolicyChangesProcess

Re: Technical committee resolution

2008-03-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Clint Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 12:43:14AM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: I also think that the process is not clear to everybody. There is an policy-process.txt, but that doesn't seem to be current. It is almost completely wrong. It will not be present in the next

Re: Q: All: Account creation latency

2008-03-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Pierre Habouzit [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: FWIW Reviewing an AM report and an application is nothing near a small 5 minutes task. I believe it's rather 30 minutes of work per applicant if you do it seriously enough. Creating an account should though (meaning I don't know if it is, but I see

Re: Technical committee resolution

2008-03-17 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:51:56 -0400, Clint Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 12:43:14AM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: I also think that the process is not clear to everybody. There is an policy-process.txt, but that doesn't seem to be current. From Anthony's mail about the

Re: Technical committee resolution

2008-03-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:51:56 -0400, Clint Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I believe it is closer to the current process than policy-process.(html|sgml|txt), but not yet spot-on. I think if someone were to match it to practice, it would help a large