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Re: Nomination



On Fri, Dec 11, 1998 at 09:34:47AM +0100, Michael Meskes wrote:
> > About the time of the hamm release, so not too long actually.  I've been
> 
> This may be a problem IMO.

<nod>  But I have been around longer than that certainly, so it's not
like I have only had a few months' experience with Debian.


> > projects such as the QPL license which I pretty much rewrote between .90
> > and .91, though this is really only Debian-related.
> 
> Now this is work that is much more relevant for DPL than package
> maintainance. A project leader is not that simple a job as some might
> believe. I've seen way too many so called project leaders in realworld
> projects who were pretty well paid to that and had no idea how to do that
> job.

Just ask Scott Adams about the typical company management staff.  =>


> So I think a much more important question is: Did you ever lead a project?

Several and various, none nearly to the scale of Debian.  But at the same
time some of them were a lot like Debian as far as the way others wanted
it run with hopefully equal representation to everyone.  And a lot of the
same types of disagreements and conflicts.  We tend to argue these here
in massive flamewars to hash them out, but in smaller projects I had to
mediate the two sides since we weren't emailling each other but rather
directly talking real-time.

It was a lot of work sometimes, but I think I was pretty good at it.  I
would expect there to be more work involved with Debian because it is
bigger and I am prepared for this.  Fortunately it seems especially with
the constitution, a lot is delegated to others and my job would be as
much coordinating with those others as being a visible person both
internally and externally.  I have already said I would not be invisible
as I feel Ian is now.


> Just in case some are wondering, yes I know what I'm talking about and I
> have the feeling that DPL could easily become a fulltime job. So I think
> most won't take this job simply for a lack of time.

I almost expect it will be very nearly a full-time position.  I have the
time to devote to Debian and feel this is the best way I can do it right
now.

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