Re: questions to candidates about communication

2007-03-10 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007, Josip Rodin wrote: How much time do you generally have to read Debian-related e-mail? How much for the Debian mailing lists? If you only mean read, reading e-mail is a continuous process for me and I don't know how much time it sums up to. About half of the legitimate

Re: questions to candidates about communication

2007-03-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 03:30:18AM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: Hi, How much time do you generally have to read Debian-related e-mail? How much for the Debian mailing lists? I normally expect to read most of my Debian-related mail every day. I read several of the lists directly in my inbox, and on

Re: questions to candidates about communication

2007-03-08 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Thu, 08 Mar 2007, Josip Rodin wrote: How much time do you generally have to read Debian-related e-mail? How much for the Debian mailing lists? This really depends on my workload and in the interest that I have on the discussions going on. I have an incoming folder for mails coming to

Re: questions to candidates about communication

2007-03-08 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 03:30:18AM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: Hi, How much time do you generally have to read Debian-related e-mail? Too much :) How much for the Debian mailing lists? One hour up to a few hours per day. How many lists do you follow, and which ones do you pay real

questions to candidates about communication

2007-03-07 Thread Josip Rodin
Hi, How much time do you generally have to read Debian-related e-mail? How much for the Debian mailing lists? How many lists do you follow, and which ones do you pay real attention to? Have you stopped following a Debian mailing list in the past, and if so, what was the most important/common

Ted replies to Martin (Re: Questions to candidates Towns and van Wolffelaar: debian-volatile)

2006-03-12 Thread Ted Walther
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 10:22:54PM +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: (all other candidates feel free to answer the questions as well.) 1.) What is your opinion regarding the current status of debian-volatile? I just looked it up today. I like the concept a lot. 2.) Do you think this

Re: Ted replies to Martin (Re: Questions to candidates Towns and van Wolffelaar: debian-volatile)

2006-03-12 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Ted Walther [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.03.12.2209 +0100]: Who is on the current volatile team? They will definitely need to be Debian Developers. How do you intend to work with all those hundreds of active contributors who aren't yet DDs? Will you ignore them? -- Please do not send

Re: Ted replies to Martin (Re: Questions to candidates Towns and van Wolffelaar: debian-volatile)

2006-03-12 Thread Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/12/2006 06:09 PM, Ted Walther wrote: On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 10:22:54PM +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: (all other candidates feel free to answer the questions as well.) 1.) What is your opinion regarding the current status of

Re: Ted replies to Martin (Re: Questions to candidates Towns and van Wolffelaar: debian-volatile)

2006-03-12 Thread Ted Walther
On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 09:23:37PM -0300, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) wrote: They will definitely need to be Debian Developers. With that in mind, you have just kicked me off the Volatile Team. :-) Non-DD contributors are important to Debian, and they deserve greater

Re: Questions to candidates Towns and van Wolffelaar: debian-volatile

2006-03-11 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 10:22:54PM +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: 1.) What is your opinion regarding the current status of debian-volatile? [...] Please see the bottom of [1] for my opinion. --Jeroen [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2006/03/msg00211.html -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar

Re: Questions to candidates Towns and van Wolffelaar: debian-volatile

2006-03-08 Thread Ari Pollak
Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: 1.) What is your opinion regarding the current status of debian-volatile? ... more questions about volatile ... Wasn't this just asked by Joey? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Questions to candidates Towns and van Wolffelaar: debian-volatile

2006-03-08 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Martin Zobel-Helas said: Hi Ari, On Wednesday, 08 Mar 2006, you wrote: Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: 1.) What is your opinion regarding the current status of debian-volatile? ... more questions about volatile ... Wasn't this just asked by Joey? yes, in

Re: Questions to candidates Towns and van Wolffelaar: debian-volatile

2006-03-08 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 10:22:54PM +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: 2.) Do you think this services should be made an official service of the debian project? Please give a reason for your answer. I like to think of debian.net as an area where we experiment for things that might or might not

Re: Questions to candidates: what is source?

2005-03-12 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 10:49:26PM +0900, Seo Sanghyeon wrote: The Debian Free Software Guidelines states that The program must include source code. 1. How do you define source code yourself? Any definition of source code, to be useful to the Debian Project in applying our Free Software

Re: Questions for candidates: as spokesperson of Debian Project

2005-03-09 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Jonathan Walther [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.03.06.2352 +0100]: I am not involved in pornography, gambling, or anything else that is illegal. Neither of the first two are illegal. Maybe in your country, but then you must not forget that Debian is International... You don't have to

Re: Questions for candidates: as spokesperson of Debian Project

2005-03-08 Thread Jonathan Walther
On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 10:28:30AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: I'm asking: are there any potential situations in which you would feel the need to curtail outside activities because they could cast a bad light on your work as the DPL? Not at all. All my non-Debian activities are 100% legal,

Re: Questions to candidates: what is source?

2005-03-08 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 02:15:00PM -0800, Jonathan Walther wrote: On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 10:49:26PM +0900, Seo Sanghyeon wrote: 1. How do you define source code yourself? Like pornography, I know source code when I see it. There may be some edge cases where not everyone agrees what

Re: Questions for candidates: as spokesperson of Debian Project

2005-03-08 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Jonathan Walther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 10:28:30AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: I'm asking: are there any potential situations in which you would feel the need to curtail outside activities because they could cast a bad light on your work as the DPL? Not at

Re: Questions for candidates: as spokesperson of Debian Project

2005-03-07 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Jonathan Walther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Have the activities of Bomis.com harmed the growth and reputation of the Wikipedia project? Yet I do nothing even half as controversial. What is controversial about bomis.com? Your web site certainly was controversial; the evidence for that is the

Re: Questions for candidates: as spokesperson of Debian Project

2005-03-07 Thread Matthew Garrett
For some reason, I don't seem to have got the first message in this thread. I'll go looking for it now. Kenshi Muto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Should we act against political/legal problems as Project? When there are issues that affect the entire project, then I think it's right for the

Questions for candidates: as spokesperson of Debian Project

2005-03-06 Thread Kenshi Muto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, As far as I read threads, they are mainly focused Project inside. Yes, they are important issue, but I think one of DPL's work is a representation to the world as spokesperson. Debian Project Leader said ... will be respected than any DD's talk

Re: Questions for candidates: as spokesperson of Debian Project

2005-03-06 Thread Jonathan Walther
On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 05:48:20PM +0900, Kenshi Muto wrote: Questions: * Do you think DPL has spokesperson's job? Absolutely! Every Debian Developer acts as a representative of Debian, but the DPL is first among equals, so to speak. My skills at writing, public speaking, and listening to others

Re: Questions for candidates: as spokesperson of Debian Project

2005-03-06 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Jonathan Walther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 05:48:20PM +0900, Kenshi Muto wrote: Questions: * Do you think DPL has spokesperson's job? Absolutely! Every Debian Developer acts as a representative of Debian, but the DPL is first among equals, so to speak. My skills at

Re: Questions for candidates: as spokesperson of Debian Project

2005-03-06 Thread Sanghyeon Seo
On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 02:05:16 -0800, Jonathan Walther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (snip) Debian doesn't have the resources to focus on anything other than making the best GNU/Linux distribution on the planet. Therefore, Hurd and/or BSD porters should be damned? Sorry, couldn't resist. -- To

Re: Questions to candidates: what is source?

2005-03-06 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 12:44:44AM +0100, Joachim Breitner wrote: Am Samstag, den 05.03.2005, 23:11 + schrieb Andrew Suffield: On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 03:30:14PM +, Henning Makholm wrote: Indeed, I would be reluctant to vote for any candiate who would commit to twenty-four

Re: Questions to candidates: what is source?

2005-03-06 Thread Matthew Garrett
Seo Sanghyeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. How do you define source code yourself? I believe that source code is anything that allows us to learn how the software works and modify it to function in different ways. In almost all cases, the GPL's preferred form for modification will be source code

Re: Questions for candidates: as spokesperson of Debian Project

2005-03-06 Thread Anthony Towns
Kenshi Muto wrote: Questions: * What do you think about Debian Project acts for political/legal theme with other projects such as FSF, EFF and so on? (Although we've already done sometimes.) * Do you think DPL has spokesperson's job? Ideally, I think the people explaining what's going on

Re: Questions for candidates: as spokesperson of Debian Project

2005-03-06 Thread Andreas Schuldei
On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 05:48:20PM +0900, Kenshi Muto wrote: Hi, As far as I read threads, they are mainly focused Project inside. Yes, they are important issue, but I think one of DPL's work is a representation to the world as spokesperson. This is true and it is an other great application

Re: Questions to candidates: what is source?

2005-03-06 Thread Anthony Towns
Seo Sanghyeon wrote: The Debian Free Software Guidelines states that The program must include source code. 1. How do you define source code yourself? It means different things in different contexts; for Debian's purposes it means the stuff you need to modify then compile to produce the stuff you

Re: Questions for candidates: as spokesperson of Debian Project

2005-03-06 Thread Kenshi Muto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Andreas, At Sun, 6 Mar 2005 22:11:19 +0100, Andreas Schuldei wrote: * What do you think about Debian Project acts for political/legal theme with other projects such as FSF, EFF and so on? (Although we've already done sometimes.) I can

Questions to candidates: what is source?

2005-03-05 Thread Seo Sanghyeon
The Debian Free Software Guidelines states that The program must include source code. 1. How do you define source code yourself? 2. I think that people have different ideas of what source code means. Do you agree? Are there significant disagreements regarding this issue within the Debian

Re: Questions to candidates: what is source?

2005-03-05 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Seo Sanghyeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6. Which of the following satisfies DFSG #2? What is the general principle? Or should it be case-by-case? [snip TWENTY-FOUR semi-concrete examples] However relevant and interesting it would be to get the candidates' general opinion about the DFSG's

Re: Questions to candidates: what is source?

2005-03-05 Thread Ean Schuessler
Ha! This gets the official best question so far award. Especially the neural network bit. That's rich. On Saturday 05 March 2005 7:49 am, Seo Sanghyeon wrote: 6. Which of the following satisfies DFSG #2? What is the general principle? Or should it be case-by-case? * ELF binary without C

Re: Questions to candidates: what is source?

2005-03-05 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 03:30:14PM +, Henning Makholm wrote: Indeed, I would be reluctant to vote for any candiate who would commit to twenty-four definite answers as part of his campaign, no matter what the answers were. Or, for that matter, one who couldn't spot the fairly big hole in

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-20 Thread Daniel Stone
On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 08:16:00AM +0100, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Daniel Stone wrote: Coordinating a project the size of Debian requires a very different set of skills than maintaining a large package, such as glibc.[1] ...or XFree86, the reader is

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-20 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Daniel Stone wrote: The XSF is run as a Branden-centric 'team', whereby if someone doesn't agree with you, they're wrong. Personally I don't agree with you. An eg. that doesn't touch either you or me directly:

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-20 Thread Daniel Stone
On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 01:39:51PM +0100, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Daniel Stone wrote: Yes, but had I disagreed with Branden, my opinion would've been noted and very quickly discarded. I think we are going personal here and i don't like to (since i am sure it

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-20 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004, Daniel Stone wrote: YOU'RE AN IDIOT! CHUTUP MORMON (That, by the way, was sarcasm.) lol :-) I would never take that seriously.. not from you at least :P I don't have any real position on the flames, just on the fact that Branden is incapable of working with quite a few

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-20 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 11:49:55AM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: they're wrong. Where if someone slips up and gets a little overenthusiastic, Err, you think that uploading a major new version of a major package is a slip up? It seems a bit more deliberate than that to me. Hamish -- Hamish

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-20 Thread Daniel Stone
On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 12:58:38PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 11:49:55AM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: they're wrong. Where if someone slips up and gets a little overenthusiastic, Err, you think that uploading a major new version of a major package is a slip up?

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-20 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Fabio Massimo Di Nitto [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-20 07:17]: On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Martin Michlmayr wrote: Especially if that leader's most valuable trait is coordination: the initiatives are executed by others, while the leader's role is simply in ^^

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-20 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I believe coordination is an active role. The paragraph I quoted above is from Branden who seems to define coordination in a way that initiatives are executed by others. Perhaps he can clarify if this is what he meant to say. I think it is

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-20 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Martin Michlmayr wrote: Especially if that leader's most valuable trait is coordination: the initiatives are executed by others, while the leader's role is simply in ^^ putting the right people together. Part of coordination is to

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-20 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Daniel Stone wrote: Coordinating a project the size of Debian requires a very different set of skills than maintaining a large package, such as glibc.[1] ...or XFree86, the reader is surely invited to infer. The XSF is run as a Branden-centric 'team', whereby

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-20 Thread Daniel Stone
On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 08:16:00AM +0100, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Daniel Stone wrote: Coordinating a project the size of Debian requires a very different set of skills than maintaining a large package, such as glibc.[1] ...or XFree86, the reader is

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-20 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Daniel Stone wrote: The XSF is run as a Branden-centric 'team', whereby if someone doesn't agree with you, they're wrong. Personally I don't agree with you. An eg. that doesn't touch either you or me directly:

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-20 Thread Daniel Stone
On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 01:39:51PM +0100, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Daniel Stone wrote: Yes, but had I disagreed with Branden, my opinion would've been noted and very quickly discarded. I think we are going personal here and i don't like to (since i am sure it

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-20 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004, Daniel Stone wrote: YOU'RE AN IDIOT! CHUTUP MORMON (That, by the way, was sarcasm.) lol :-) I would never take that seriously.. not from you at least :P I don't have any real position on the flames, just on the fact that Branden is incapable of working with quite a few

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-20 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 11:49:55AM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: they're wrong. Where if someone slips up and gets a little overenthusiastic, Err, you think that uploading a major new version of a major package is a slip up? It seems a bit more deliberate than that to me. Hamish -- Hamish

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-20 Thread Daniel Stone
On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 12:58:38PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 11:49:55AM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: they're wrong. Where if someone slips up and gets a little overenthusiastic, Err, you think that uploading a major new version of a major package is a slip up?

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-20 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Fabio Massimo Di Nitto [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-20 07:17]: On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Martin Michlmayr wrote: Especially if that leader's most valuable trait is coordination: the initiatives are executed by others, while the leader's role is simply in ^^

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-19 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 09:03:17AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: Hi, Andreas has asked a lot of the questions that I intended to ask as well, so I only need to amend one question he asked. Sorry for the delay in replying. Your amended question was a doozy! :) 2a. Do you see the concentration

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-19 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 06:10:28PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-09 00:57]: [...] I certainly hope that people will ask themselves whether I have been productive as DPL. The following questions you raised are all valid, and they are questions I

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-19 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-19 18:06]: I certainly hope that people will ask themselves whether I have been productive as DPL. The following questions you raised are all valid, and they are questions I have constantly asked myself throughout the year in order to measure

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-19 Thread Daniel Stone
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 06:06:27PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 06:10:28PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: I would go a step further and also ask how much Branden has achieved of what he wrote in his platforms in the last years, and how much of this has been done by

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-19 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Martin Michlmayr wrote: Especially if that leader's most valuable trait is coordination: the initiatives are executed by others, while the leader's role is simply in ^^ putting the right people together. Part of coordination is to

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-19 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Daniel Stone wrote: Coordinating a project the size of Debian requires a very different set of skills than maintaining a large package, such as glibc.[1] ...or XFree86, the reader is surely invited to infer. The XSF is run as a Branden-centric 'team', whereby

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-19 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 09:03:17AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: Hi, Andreas has asked a lot of the questions that I intended to ask as well, so I only need to amend one question he asked. Sorry for the delay in replying. Your amended question was a doozy! :) 2a. Do you see the concentration

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-19 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 06:10:28PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-09 00:57]: [...] I certainly hope that people will ask themselves whether I have been productive as DPL. The following questions you raised are all valid, and they are questions I

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-19 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-19 18:06]: I certainly hope that people will ask themselves whether I have been productive as DPL. The following questions you raised are all valid, and they are questions I have constantly asked myself throughout the year in order to measure

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-19 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-12 13:39]: But, even more important than individual interactions is energy and drive. I can only invite you to look at the work I've done for Debian over the last years. You'll see a high level of commitment and energy. Do you feel

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-19 Thread Daniel Stone
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 06:06:27PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 06:10:28PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: I would go a step further and also ask how much Branden has achieved of what he wrote in his platforms in the last years, and how much of this has been done by

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-12 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 08:05:04PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-11 13:52]: But, even more important than individual interactions is energy and drive. That's what I'm still trying to figure out about the both of you. I can only invite you to

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-12 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 08:05:04PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-11 13:52]: But, even more important than individual interactions is energy and drive. That's what I'm still trying to figure out about the both of you. I can only invite you to

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-11 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-09 00:57]: In fact, Martin criticized me last year for not having novel ideas: [..] Note that he didn't say he thought they were bad ideas; instead he asserted that I would be ineffective at achieving them. Yes, and I still assert the same. As I

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-11 Thread Raul Miller
On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 06:10:28PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: Furthermore, partly in line with AJ said, while your communication has significantly improved, I wonder why it had to improve in the first place? I have never been known for flamewars, and most people know me as approachable,

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-11 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-11 13:52]: But, even more important than individual interactions is energy and drive. That's what I'm still trying to figure out about the both of you. I can only invite you to look at the work I've done for Debian over the last years. You'll see a

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-11 Thread Raul Miller
On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 08:05:04PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: I can only invite you to look at the work I've done for Debian over the last years. You'll see a high level of commitment and energy. I don't doubt that -- I'm definitely ranking you above the default option. But, I still have

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-11 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-09 00:57]: In fact, Martin criticized me last year for not having novel ideas: [..] Note that he didn't say he thought they were bad ideas; instead he asserted that I would be ineffective at achieving them. Yes, and I still assert the same. As I

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-11 Thread Raul Miller
On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 06:10:28PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: Furthermore, partly in line with AJ said, while your communication has significantly improved, I wonder why it had to improve in the first place? I have never been known for flamewars, and most people know me as approachable,

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-11 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-11 13:52]: But, even more important than individual interactions is energy and drive. That's what I'm still trying to figure out about the both of you. I can only invite you to look at the work I've done for Debian over the last years. You'll see a

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-11 Thread Raul Miller
On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 08:05:04PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: I can only invite you to look at the work I've done for Debian over the last years. You'll see a high level of commitment and energy. I don't doubt that -- I'm definitely ranking you above the default option. But, I still have

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-08 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 10:35:01AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: Question 1, to Branden and Martin: Reading over your platforms, I notice that they are very similar. I don't think this is a bad thing; I happen to agree quite strongly with both of your assessments of productive roles the DPL

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-08 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 10:35:01AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: Question 1, to Branden and Martin: Reading over your platforms, I notice that they are very similar. I don't think this is a bad thing; I happen to agree quite strongly with both of your assessments of productive roles the DPL

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-05 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Marc Haber [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-05 08:48]: I would like to ask what you have done in your past term to find out overworked core roles, and what happened to ease the work load on these core roles. I stay in constant contact with a wide range of people involved in core team. Just to

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-05 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 02:51:08PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: I stay in constant contact with a wide range of people involved in core team. Just to give two examples, I'm in regular contact with Matt Zimmerman (security) and Pascal Hakim (listmaster), but the same goes for other people

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-05 Thread Marc Haber
Hi Martin, On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 04:03:34AM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: Yes, please see my platform for more details. I will clearly identify who is overworked and help to find addition man power. I will also find out if there are other ways to help them carry out their tasks (for

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-05 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Marc Haber [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-05 08:48]: I would like to ask what you have done in your past term to find out overworked core roles, and what happened to ease the work load on these core roles. I stay in constant contact with a wide range of people involved in core team. Just to

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-05 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 02:51:08PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: I stay in constant contact with a wide range of people involved in core team. Just to give two examples, I'm in regular contact with Matt Zimmerman (security) and Pascal Hakim (listmaster), but the same goes for other people

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-04 Thread Marc Haber
Hi, Andreas has asked a lot of the questions that I intended to ask as well, so I only need to amend one question he asked. On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 03:20:16PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: 2. Recently we had some flamewars about concentration of power for some people inside Debian. While

Re: Questions to candidates - Debian/FSF discussions

2004-03-04 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-03-03 15:46:59 + Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-03 08:33]: It's now over four years since RMS asked -legal for comments on the FDL. Do DPL candidates think agreement is likely in the next three months? How much longer should this

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-04 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 02:27:17PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: I'm not sure it's fruitful to ground public conclusions (on -vote) on premises that have to remain private. If nothing else, it leaves non-Debian-Developers following our election process almost completely in the dark.

Re: Questions for candidates -- Debian's Organizational Structure

2004-03-04 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 07:49:10AM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: Out of curiosity, do you plan to only formally make the people working in these departments delegates? I plan to extend formal delegate status to everyone currently serving in those roles. It is possible that one or more of those

Re: Questions to candidates - Debian/FSF discussions

2004-03-04 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-04 10:15]: Additionally, I asked how much longer you think this discussion should be given before taking further action. For example, is tagging FDL-caused bugs release-ignore for the next four years acceptable? In July last year, I was asked by some

Re: Questions for candidates -- Debian's Organizational Structure

2004-03-04 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-04 06:47]: I wonder why reviving the CTTE has to wait until you become the project leader. The Debian Project Leader is empowered by clause 5.1.6 of the Debian Constitution[2] to seat and remove members of the Technical Committee. The

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-04 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Marc Haber [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-04 09:03]: 2a. Do you see the concentration of many important roles on a few people as a problem? As example, I'd like to name DAM, keyring If they cannot successfully perform their duties, then this is certainly a problem, yes. See below.

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-04 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-03 10:35]: Reading over your platforms, I notice that they are very similar. I don't think this is a bad thing; I happen to agree quite strongly with both of your assessments of productive roles the DPL can play in our community. I think recent

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-04 Thread Marc Haber
Hi Martin, On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 04:03:34AM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: Yes, please see my platform for more details. I will clearly identify who is overworked and help to find addition man power. I will also find out if there are other ways to help them carry out their tasks (for

Re: Questions for candidates -- Debian's Organizational Structure

2004-03-04 Thread Martin Schulze
Branden Robinson wrote: I think the following roles should be formally delegated: FTP Archives Release Manager Release Manager for stable Bug Tracking System Mailing Lists Administration Mailing Lists Archives New Maintainers Front

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-04 Thread Marc Haber
Hi, Andreas has asked a lot of the questions that I intended to ask as well, so I only need to amend one question he asked. On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 03:20:16PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: 2. Recently we had some flamewars about concentration of power for some people inside Debian. While

Re: Questions to candidates - Debian/FSF discussions

2004-03-04 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-03-03 15:46:59 + Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-03 08:33]: It's now over four years since RMS asked -legal for comments on the FDL. Do DPL candidates think agreement is likely in the next three months? How much longer should this

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-04 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 02:27:17PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: I'm not sure it's fruitful to ground public conclusions (on -vote) on premises that have to remain private. If nothing else, it leaves non-Debian-Developers following our election process almost completely in the dark.

Re: Questions for candidates -- Debian's Organizational Structure

2004-03-04 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 07:49:10AM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: Out of curiosity, do you plan to only formally make the people working in these departments delegates? I plan to extend formal delegate status to everyone currently serving in those roles. It is possible that one or more of those

Re: Questions to candidates - Debian/FSF discussions

2004-03-04 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-04 10:15]: Additionally, I asked how much longer you think this discussion should be given before taking further action. For example, is tagging FDL-caused bugs release-ignore for the next four years acceptable? In July last year, I was asked by some

Re: Questions to candidates - Debian/FSF discussions

2004-03-04 Thread Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-03 17:13]: Has all this talking resulted in even an iota of concrete movement on the official FSF position? Have there been any real promises made that there is indeed going to be a change, from hte powers that be in the FSF? Is there anything solid we can

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 05:12:44PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-02 15:20]: This starts with the fact that he is known to actively maintain a quite long killfile For personal mail - not for role accounts. However, he is widely known to have a

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Branden Robinson wrote [ Sorry if I do not answer right inside the thread but the Reply to links in the webform do not work as expected and I did not subscribed to the list. Please CC me, if you want to avoid this.] I'm not sure I can give you the kind of answer you're

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 06:58:12AM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 05:12:44PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: 3. Do you think Debian should continue to support non-free? No. Debian is about creating a operating system with free software, and I don't think we should

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 09:37:11AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 05:12:44PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-02 15:20]: This starts with the fact that he is known to actively maintain a quite long killfile For personal mail

Re: Questions to candidates

2004-03-03 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 09:37:25AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Branden Robinson wrote [ Sorry if I do not answer right inside the thread but the Reply to links in the webform do not work as expected and I did not subscribed to the list. Please CC me, if you want to

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