Re: Q for the Candidates: How many users?

2010-03-26 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 04:52:19AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 09:49:47PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: Then we can look at the official mirrors logs (for distinct IPs regularly downloading package indexes in a given time window), and at the same index downloads

Re: Question about membership.

2010-03-26 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Charles Plessy wrote: If I am elected DPL, I will re-open the discussion and lead them in a way that maximises everybody's contribution, for instance by making pauses if necessary, and by posting neutral summaries. After the discussion reaches conclusion, I will initiate a GR. When did you

Re: Question about membership.

2010-03-26 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 02:06:44PM +0100, Bernd Zeimetz a écrit : Charles Plessy wrote: If I am elected DPL, I will re-open the discussion and lead them in a way that maximises everybody's contribution, for instance by making pauses if necessary, and by posting neutral summaries.

Re: Q for the Candidates: How many users?

2010-03-26 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 04:52:19AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: I note Steve points out: On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 03:06:37PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/123481/index.html which cites estimates of 6-8 million Ubuntu users, for a factor of between 4 and

Re: Standardization, large scale changes, innovations

2010-03-26 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 25 Mar 2010, Joey Hess wrote: The exciting potential of dpkg source v3 to me is that it potentially opens an area that had stifled most innopvation, by allowing subtypes of the source format to be developed. But this area is still relatively closed to innovation; dpkg's maintainers

Re: Question about membership.

2010-03-26 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Hi Charles, thanks for you long answer. But unfortunately I feel like a journalist now, instead of getting a short *answer* to my questions, I got a looong talk around them. So here are they again, in a very simplified form: * Did you or do you plan to talk to DAM/Frontdesk about membership

Re: Question about membership.

2010-03-26 Thread Charles Plessy
* Did you or do you plan to talk to DAM/Frontdesk about membership changes? Discussion must be public from the start. DAM/Frontdesk is contribution essential. Your position will be first in the discussion's summary. * Do you need to come up with a GR to change membership procedures, or is

Re: Q for the Candidates: How many users?

2010-03-26 Thread Simon Paillard
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 04:52:19AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: 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