Gergely Nagy wrote:
Wouter Verhelst wou...@debian.org writes:
Arno Töll a...@debian.org writes:
In fact, even the wiki says Becoming a Debian Developer: You should be
a Debian Maintainer for six months before applying to the Debian New
Member Process [1]. That's somewhat different to the
On 16/03/13 at 22:13 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
Hello,
while reviewing the vote that introduced the Debian Maintainer status
in 2007 (http://www.debian.org/vote/2007/vote_003_tally.txt) I noticed
that Lucas voted in favor and that Moray voted against it.
Moray, why did you vote
On 18/03/13 at 00:20 +0300, Moray Allan wrote:
I am not happy that:
- People have gone for DM status because it's easier to get, but
then not gone on to become project members, in many more cases than
because they actively don't want to have full rights.
Or because the perceived difficulty
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 09:56:16AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
Also, the wiki has pages for http://wiki.debian.org/DebianDeveloper
but also for http://wiki.debian.org/DebianProjectMember that says:
Debian Developers are Debian Project Member with uploading rights
As observed in the past, the
Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com writes:
Gergely Nagy wrote:
Wouter Verhelst wou...@debian.org writes:
Arno Töll a...@debian.org writes:
In fact, even the wiki says Becoming a Debian Developer: You should be
a Debian Maintainer for six months before applying to the Debian New
Member
Le Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 10:32:09AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit :
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 09:56:16AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
Also, the wiki has pages for http://wiki.debian.org/DebianDeveloper
but also for http://wiki.debian.org/DebianProjectMember that says:
Debian Developers are
Hi,
I would like to know your opinion about this graph (thanks Francesca!):
http://blog.zouish.org/posts/dw/
Note that I'm not asking for a way to recruit women (there are already
efforts on that). I would like to know if you think that this lack of
women affects (or not) the Debian project and
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 12:41:05PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
Tasks I am quite sure I will do are:
(...)
- investigate the localization of -mentors@ and #-mentors. Language is often
a barrier for new contributors. That sounds like a low-hanging fruit.
Could you elaborate more since you
Hi.
To make a rather complicated and long story short: Accessibility of
graphical user interfaces in Debian has taken a slight step backward
with the GNOME 3 rewrite. Squeeze was more stable regarding this.
While discussing this topic on IRC with other Debian people I was kind
of shocked to
Hi Moray,
Le dimanche, 17 mars 2013 16.42:34, Moray Allan a écrit :
Will not being elected de-motivate you?
In many ways, not being elected would be a relief. I'd have more time
to put into non-Debian parts of my life.
However, if I am not elected, I would see that as a lack of
On 18/03/13 at 12:03 +0100, Ana Guerrero wrote:
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 12:41:05PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
Tasks I am quite sure I will do are:
(...)
- investigate the localization of -mentors@ and #-mentors. Language is
often
a barrier for new contributors. That sounds like a
Hi Jonathan,
On 18-03-13 08:49, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
[...DM status before entering NM...]
I do not even agree that it is useful as a stepping stone.
DM privileges recognize that a contributor should not have to wait on
a DD to apply improvements within a specific domain where the DM has
Hi,
On 18/03/13 at 18:45 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
Le Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 10:32:09AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit :
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 09:56:16AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
Also, the wiki has pages for http://wiki.debian.org/DebianDeveloper
but also for
Some of the longest -devel thread in recent years have been about
Debian's (default) init system: SysV, SystemD, Upstart, OpenRC, etc.
Despite folklore, I don't think those thread have been (entirely)
trollish, they all hint at a concrete problem:
How do we make an inherently archive-wide
Le lundi 18 mars 2013 12:37:15, Mario Lang a écrit :
Hi.
To make a rather complicated and long story short: Accessibility of
graphical user interfaces in Debian has taken a slight step backward
with the GNOME 3 rewrite. Squeeze was more stable regarding this.
[SNIP justified rant about
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 01:30:28PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
At least for debian-devel-french@, I don't think that we advertise the
possibility to ask questions there.
Just start a discussion there, get a new wording and then ask listmasters
to change it.
Probably this update could benefit
Hi,
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 01:55:16PM +0100, Thomas Preud'homme wrote:
As just said I don't have any peticuliar disabilities myself right now, but I
wholeheartedly agree that accessibility is important and should be important
for the project. Thanks a lot for this question to the
On Thu, 14 Mar 2013 22:07:39 +0100
Stefano Zacchiroli z...@debian.org wrote:
For example, LWN's regular stats on contributions to the
various Linux Kernel releases are based on email domains. So it seems
unfair to compare the two worlds on the basis of which email domains are
used when
On 18/03/13 at 14:00 +0100, Ana Guerrero wrote:
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 01:30:28PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
At least for debian-devel-french@, I don't think that we advertise the
possibility to ask questions there.
Just start a discussion there, get a new wording and then ask
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 03:54:20PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
But despite being a small group of people working a lot on it and the
Spanish
speaking community being big, it didn't last long.
[ after seeking clarification: it didn't last long because there were
not enough people
On 2013-03-18 12:45, Charles Plessy wrote:
Perhaps the candidates can comment on the fact that this already been
raised
last year
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/07/msg00716.html
I didn't see this subthread at the time.
From reading it, I can't understand why no one who took
Didier 'OdyX' Raboud o...@debian.org writes:
As far as I'm concerned, I'm not voting between three distinct sets of
proposals: as it's been apparent in other threads, there's quite a lot
of overlap between the candidate platforms and their specific
proposals. We are electing someone to stand
Moray Allan mo...@sermisy.org
On 2013-03-18 12:45, Charles Plessy wrote:
Perhaps the candidates can comment on the fact that this already been
raised
last year
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/07/msg00716.html
I didn't see this subthread at the time.
From reading it,
Wouter Verhelst wrote:
That's a good
thing for everyone; and it also explains why occasionally the NM
frontdesk will waive this policy for people who are 'obviously' ready to
become a Debian Developer *now* rather than in six months:
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 4:37 AM, Mario Lang ml...@delysid.org wrote:
Hi.
To make a rather complicated and long story short: Accessibility of
graphical user interfaces in Debian has taken a slight step backward
with the GNOME 3 rewrite. Squeeze was more stable regarding this.
[snip]
Slightly
On 2013-03-18 13:23, Mònica Ramírez Arceda wrote:
I would like to know your opinion about this graph (thanks
Francesca!):
http://blog.zouish.org/posts/dw/
It's disappointing for me that the numbers compared to men are still so
low, and things are even worse if you look only at active project
On 2013-03-11, Moray Allan wrote:
When to release: I would also note that we should continue to be
flexible about -ignore tags where appropriate. In some cases
leaving a package in the release with RC bugs is more useful to users
than removing it altogether. Indeed, we always release with
On 2013-03-18, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
I'd like to know how the candidates would approach the problem of
*helping Debian* making a decision on this matter; decision which we
will likely have to make at the beginning of Jessie's release cycle.
Personally, I'm not particularly interested in
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