Re: Question to all candidates: financing of development

2010-03-13 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 08:18:00AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : Imagine a DD contacts you, she wants to setup an infrastructure to finance Debian related projects (i.e. paying people to enable them to work on the projects that they'd like to do for Debian) but she wants to avoid the main

Re: Question to all the candidates: time

2010-03-13 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 2:56 AM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: #include stdtimequestion.h How much time do you currently devote to Debian? How will that amount of time change for the DPL term? How will you balance your DPL time and time for other Debian activities. Currently, I'm devoting

Re: Question to all candidates: financing of development

2010-03-13 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 4:18 AM, Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org wrote: Imagine a DD contacts you, she wants to setup an infrastructure to finance Debian related projects (i.e. paying people to enable them to work on the projects that they'd like to do for Debian) but she wants to avoid the

Re: Question to all Candidates: 2IC

2010-03-13 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 12:55:38PM +0700, Paul Wise wrote: I wonder if the questions period of the DPL elections would be more productive if platforms were published beforehand? FWIW, my platform is ready, if someone want to have a look before the official publishing just ask me me, otherwise I

Re: Question to all candidates: financing of development

2010-03-13 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, thanks for your answers! On Sat, 13 Mar 2010, Margarita Manterola wrote: On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 4:18 AM, Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org wrote: Imagine a DD contacts you, she wants to setup an infrastructure to finance Debian related projects (i.e. paying people to enable them to

Re: Question to all the candidates: time

2010-03-13 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 12:56:17PM +0700, Paul Wise wrote: #include stdtimequestion.h Eh :-) How much time do you currently devote to Debian? How will that amount of time change for the DPL term? How will you balance your DPL time and time for other Debian activities. In the last few years,

Re: Question to all Candidates: 2IC

2010-03-13 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 05:10:25PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: FWIW, I think a 2IC is much more effective for outside-leaning communication, i.e. filtering and/or answering leader@ mail (which apparently can be overwhelming) and such, not for communication with other project members or teams.

Re: Question to all candidates: financing of development

2010-03-13 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 08:18:00AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Imagine a DD contacts you, she wants to setup an infrastructure to finance Debian related projects (i.e. paying people to enable them to work on the projects that they'd like to do for Debian) but she wants to avoid the main

Re: Question to all candidates: financing of development

2010-03-13 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 07:01:21PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: So, given that my main perplexities come from the fact that a DD is involved in organizing all this, you can imagine I wouldn't mind: a company doing that (which is already the case for Google with GSoC), a non-DD/DM doing

Re: Question to all candidates: financing of development

2010-03-13 Thread Julien Cristau
Raphael, On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 17:52:33 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Sat, 13 Mar 2010, Margarita Manterola wrote: However, if it's seen as a Debian thing, instead of an external thing like GSoC is, then it might lead to some resentment from the side of the people that don't get any

Re: Question to all candidates: financing of development

2010-03-13 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 05:11, Mike Hommey m...@glandium.org wrote: Note that GSoc is supposed to sponsor students to do some development work, preferably with the purpose of getting these people involved in a project they weren't involved in to begin with. That's not, per se, accurate. From

Re: Question to all Candidates: 2IC

2010-03-13 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sat, 13 Mar 2010, Margarita Manterola wrote: There are a bunch listed in my yet-to-be-published platform. But just to give an example from the previous mail, I'd like to have a page with rankings of people reporting and fixing bugs, in order to give some nice Debian merchandise to the ones

Question to all Candidate: In ten years...

2010-03-13 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
Hello =) Please finish In ten years I'd like Debian --Dima -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Question to all Candidates: Heated discussions

2010-03-13 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
Hello =) Sometimes technical Debian discussions (mailing lists, bug reports, blog posts, etc.) become personal flame-wars. Do you think current frequency/amount of heated discussions is acceptable for the Debian project? What would you do to reduce those? --Dima. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Question to all the candidates: communication

2010-03-13 Thread Paul Wise
Dear candidates, Debian has a lot of project communications media; lists, forums, IRC, planet, bts, RT. There are also a lot of external communications media covering Debian; news media, , social networks, blogs, microblogging sites non-IRC chat, video sites and so on. Which project and

Re: Question to all candidates: financing of development

2010-03-13 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 05:01, Stefano Zacchiroli z...@debian.org wrote: Some DDs are able to pursue specific Debian projects due to bounties they put on the projects (both AJ and Raphael have similar initiatives on their homepages, even though I don't know how much they are successful in