Hi folks, Just a quick note to start my term as the new Project Leader. I must thank Sam for all his efforts in the last year, I also want to tell him that he can't get away quite so easily - I'm sure we'll find plenty more for him to do yet. *grin* Thanks also to both Marc and Raphael for standing in the election this year. Of course I'm happy to have beaten them, but I also believe that they could each have done a very reasonable DPL job. I've spoken to both in the last week, and we'll be working on stuff together regardless of this result. Over the coming year, I expect I'll get to meet lots more of you and I'm hoping I'll be able to help make Debian work better and be more fun for you. Maybe to counter that aim (*grin*), I'm planning on boring you with regular updates on what I've been up to from month to month, and with pointers to cool stuff in the project as a whole. I've also got a pile of press questions to answer in the next few days, so you'll probably see more of my words and (gods forbid!) my ugly mug staring back at you from various websites in the next month or so. Apologies in advance for that. I'm not planning on taking on a DPL team or a 2IC as such this year, but I fully expect to be delegating bits and pieces of work to various people from time to time. I'll go into more details as and when that happens. The first thing I've promised to work on is a review of all the core jobs in Debian. There are plainly places where we can improve on how things are working, and my very first task is going to be looking into those. Over the next few weeks, I'm going to be contacting all the core teams. In each case, we're going to come up with an honest assessment of how we're doing and how/whether we can make things better. Once those reviews are done, I'm going to be pushing through whatever changes are indicated. There's no point in rushing into trying to solve problems without a full grasp of the situation, but equally I'm not going to sit back and wait forever for problems to fix themselves this year. The rest of my plans for the year are not quite so urgent, so I'll keep you in suspense a little longer about those. In the meantime, please get in touch with me if you have any problems that you think I could assist with. I'm here to help, so please talk to me...! Cheers, -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com "I've only once written 'SQL is my bitch' in a comment. But that code is in use on a military site..." -- Simon Booth
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