On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 01:30:55PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Branden Robinson wrote: > > It's unclear to me how much negative impact we have experienced due to > > this, aside from occasional poor press. As DPL I'd like to encourage > > the security team to take on more members if they can find trustworthy > > and motivated individuals with which to grow their ranks. > > And as security team we'ld like to get some better support from DSA > and buildd maintainer so we don't have to wait as long on build > dependencies to be installed and rbuilders to appear (after a few months > of asking around we are still at exactly 1 working rbuilder in > debian.org..). I'm not quite sure how a DPL can help in that though. I'm open to suggestions, as I am sure the other candidates are. > > 2) Endorsement by major computer manufacturers and or ISV's (like, say, > > Oracle); I think Debian's profile needs to be higher. There are > > *still* too many people in the world who think that "Red Hat = Linux". > > Endorsement by Oracle is solely a matter of money: someone will have > to spent a nice amount of cash to get woody certified by Oracle. The > procedure isn't all that difficult. How much are we talking about? I'm always in the mood to try organizing a fundraiser. Since I suspect you're talking about way more than $1,000, which we raised pretty quickly for Debian's OASIS membership, we might need to find companies that would be willing to participate. -- G. Branden Robinson | You can have my PGP passphrase when Debian GNU/Linux | you pry it from my cold, dead branden@debian.org | brain. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Adam Thornton
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