Re: time-limited, auto-reinstated delegations (and reports)

2014-03-30 Thread Neil McGovern
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 06:15:46PM +0900, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: A way around that would be to use time-limited delegations *only*. Q: What do the candidates think of that idea? If you agree it'd be good, would do you engage in doing so for the duration of your term? I think that there's

Re: How should we deal with bad maintainers?

2014-03-30 Thread Neil McGovern
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 10:21:06AM +0100, Gergely Nagy wrote: Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org writes: assume that a package maintainer is active but is doing a bad job regarding our standards (things like ignoring problems in stable, breaking backwards compatibility for no good reason,

Re: Team health and actions

2014-03-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Lucas Nussbaum lu...@debian.org writes: On 28/03/14 at 09:26 +0100, Enrico Zini wrote: 2. a team that works well but not in a sustainable way, and how a DPL can help bringing sustainability; 3. a team that does not work well, and how a DPL can address the problem. I don't think

Re: All DPL candidates: DPL Term lengths and limits?

2014-03-30 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi Brian, On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 07:54:50PM -0400, Brian Gupta wrote: I know this has been raised in elections past, but any thoughts on the current one-year DPL terms, and unlimited terms allowed? If thoughts are geared toward change do you have any plans to actively try to change the

Re: All DPL candidates: Debian assets

2014-03-30 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi Steve, On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 01:03:31PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: Do you think it's appropriate for these organizers to use Debian's name in seeking local sponsorship without consulting the DPL? Sorry for not being clearer, but no. I think that a central repository and/or sponsors

Re: Team health and actions

2014-03-30 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi Enrico, On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 09:26:01AM +0100, Enrico Zini wrote: 1. a team that works well and in a sustainable way, and how a DPL can bring thankfulness and appreciation; I think that most of our teams work well and are sustainable. The level of sustainability can sometimes teeter

Re: non-free?

2014-03-30 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 10:25:02AM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 09:32:26AM +0100, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: On Tue, 2014-03-25 at 15:29 +0900, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: Because as long as we document it, it's very hard to claim that non-free is not part of Debian, when

Re: All DPL candidates: Debian assets

2014-03-30 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 07:55:54PM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 01:03:31PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: Do you think it's appropriate for these organizers to use Debian's name in seeking local sponsorship without consulting the DPL? Sorry for not being clearer, but

Re: DPL candidates: managing the CTTE memberships

2014-03-30 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi Josselin, On 28/03/14 at 10:57 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: Hi Neil Lucas, the DPL has limited powers on the member list of the technical committee. Especially ยง6.2.5 says that he can agree with the committee to dismiss one of the members. What is your stance on disruptive members

Re: time-limited, auto-reinstated delegations (and reports)

2014-03-30 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, On 28/03/14 at 18:15 +0900, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: [ questions for candidate below, see Q: ] On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 10:25:44AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: There are also good reasons for not keeping them in the team: they might be perceived as badge collectors by the rest of the

Re: How should we deal with bad maintainers?

2014-03-30 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, On 30/03/14 at 19:34 +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 10:21:06AM +0100, Gergely Nagy wrote: Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org writes: assume that a package maintainer is active but is doing a bad job regarding our standards (things like ignoring problems in

Re: DPL candidates: managing the CTTE memberships

2014-03-30 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi Josselin, On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 10:57:59AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: What is your stance on disruptive members in the committee? I would prefer TC to work with each other constructively, but I also recognise that this isn't always possible when it comes to a controversial decision.

Debian Project Leader Elections 2014: Call for votes

2014-03-30 Thread Debian Project Secretary - Kurt Roeckx
Hi, This is the first call for votes for the Debian Project Leader Elections 2014. Voting period starts 00:00:00 UTC on Monday, March 31st, 2014 Votes must be received by 23:59:59 UTC on Sunday, April 13th, 2014 This vote is being conducted as required by the Debian

Re: two questions: fund raising money and publicity

2014-03-30 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Neil McGovern dijo [Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 03:42:14PM +]: On the specific case, I remember when I wound up the accounts for DebConf 7 that the surplus was earmarked as a donation to DebConf 8. More specifically, there was a Debian seed fund of 10k USD to help with the cash flow and then 8k

Re: Team health and actions

2014-03-30 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Neil McGovern dijo [Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 08:03:10PM +0100]: 2. a team that works well but not in a sustainable way, and how a DPL can help bringing sustainability; A little bit of a stab in the dark here, but I'm going to *guess* the DebConf team, simply because the huge amount of