Re: Question for all candidates: Release process

2010-03-29 Thread Joerg Jaspert
(And to answer to the comment ‘you do not need to be DPL for doing this’, that is true, but if I make a bad score at this election, I will conclude that there are not many persons interested in what I propose anyway, and will save everybody's time by not discussing them further in the

Re: Question for all candidates: Release process

2010-03-29 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 11:03:00AM +0800, Paul Wise a écrit : I find that attitude problematic. When electing a DPL we get a package deal. Some of each candidates ideas are liked by some/many, others disliked by some/many. It would be a shame to throw out good ideas with bad ones. Le Mon,

Re: Question to all candidates: DPL's role in important package maintenance

2010-03-29 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Kumar Appaiah a.ku...@alumni.iitm.ac.in wrote: My question to you is, do you envision a role for the DPL in fixing such inadequate maintenance of important packages, or are you of the opinion that is it up to the affected Debian community to stop whining and

Re: planet.debian.org is RC buggy (?)

2010-03-29 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Frank Lin PIAT fp...@klabs.be wrote: planet.d.o has became one of the most visible media for Debian, if not the most visible one. Do you think it is a good thing? As has been already said, I'm not sure it's the most visible media. If it is, it's probably

Re: Questions for all candidates: decentralization of power

2010-03-29 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Clint Adams sch...@debian.org wrote: Well, in the paid employment part of my life, I have been put in positions where I have needed to work with people I disliked, and it is not considered professional to refuse on those grounds. Indeed, I guess most of us

Re: Questions for all candidates: decentralization of power

2010-03-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Clint Adams sch...@debian.org writes: Well, in the paid employment part of my life, I have been put in positions where I have needed to work with people I disliked, and it is not considered professional to refuse on those grounds. In Debian I receive bug reports from people I might dislike,

Re: Standardization, large scale changes, innovations

2010-03-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, Mar 25 2010, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Hello, those questions are for all candidates. By standardization I mean that something should be used as default tool unless reasons exist to use something else This is great!! perhaps we can get rid of the abomination that is vi and