Re: All candidates: Development and technical issues and challenges

2013-03-18 Thread anarcat
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

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

2013-03-18 Thread anarcat
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

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 below