Re: [all candidates] Advertising testing and security support

2013-03-22 Thread Arno Töll
On 19.03.2013 23:52, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: Given that our security support for stable is already not as best as it could be, do you think we should encourage volunteers to be more active in security support for testing? With due to respect, I disagree. From a user's perspective who

Re: [all candidates] beyond tech: how do you deal with humans?

2013-03-22 Thread Moray Allan
On 2013-03-19 03:26, anarcat wrote: You all have an impressive technical curriculum. Your deeds in Debian speak for themselves. However, the role of a project leader is unusually non-technical. Well, sure I could sell myself technically as - studied informatics at Edinburgh University - phd

Re: [all candidates] beyond tech: how do you deal with humans?

2013-03-22 Thread anarcat
On 2013-03-19, Gergely Nagy wrote: anarcat anar...@debian.org writes: Why are you good candidates for that role? What social skills do you bring to the community in terms of mediation and leadership? I'm pretty darn good at mediation, did that both inside Debian (see an example shortly

Re: To all candidates: which way out of the project ?

2013-03-22 Thread Moray Allan
On 2013-03-20 05:22, Charles Plessy wrote: In Debian, we stay member until we die or quit (or very exceptionally, are expelled). The consequence is that it is hard to evaluate how much active members we have. It may also create more crispations about giving membership. As other replies

Re: To all candidates: which way out of the project ?

2013-03-22 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 10:15:32AM +0100, Gergely Nagy a écrit : Do you see a particular problem, or shortcoming, perhaps, that you'd like to see solved? Hi all, the problem I was trying to solve was to find more differences between the candidates :) For instance, one of you might have

Re: To all candidates: which way out of the project ?

2013-03-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 4:23 AM, Moray Allan wrote: retire gracefully. It's still possible for someone to continue as a project member indefinitely if they want to, without doing any work, if they get rid of all their responsibilities first, but I don't think that a large enough number of