I'm not a DD, nor a DM... I'm in NM though, I hope my answers will be accepted ;) On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:02:40 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > 1. You > ------ > > a. What's your name, and where are you from? How long have you been > involved in Debian? David Paleino, Italy. I've been directly involved in Debian for nearly one year -- have been a happy user for about 6/7 years now. > b. What do you do outside of Debian - are you a student with lots of > free time, or are you employed full-time with a family and lots of > other commitments? I'm a University student -- studying Odontology (or Dentistry, call it whatever you want) in Palermo. Thus I don't really have much free time, but I try to help Debian as much as I can. > c. How much time *can* you comfortably spend on Debian work in a > typical week? And how much time *do* you spend on Debian work? > (Yes, I know these can be very different!) I could spend... let's say, 1-2 hours a day. But, currently, I don't have any Internet access (but on weekends and holidays -- i.e. when I go back home from University). Thus I spend about 4-5 hrs (sometimes less) on Saturdays, and 1-2 hrs on Sundays. > d. What packages do you maintain? How well do you cope? Are you part > of a team for those packages, or do you work on them on your own? > How much time do you need to spend, on average? Are they in good > shape? I actively maintain some packages, others are all team-maintained. I've adopted gthumb, libx86 and john, and I'm trying to track down all the filed bugs for those. I've ITPed (and had sponsored): gnome-rdp, pinot, clamtk, fuseiso, libopenraw, xpn, packeth. I've also adopted syslog-summary, for which I've become upstream (it was a Debian-native package -- I intend to "port" it to other distributions as well). All packages are generally good in shape -- at least packages I've not adopted. For the adopted packages, I'm generally in contact with upstreams to track down problems. Others seem pretty in good shape. I also maintained lots of Perl modules -- but I've lost interest in pkg-perl (of which I was^Wam a member), so I removed myself from Uploaders and expecting those to disappear from my QA page with new uploads. > e. How would you rank all of your tasks in order of importance? My main task surely would be maintaining my packages well. Secondly, I've maintained the "web infrastructure" of Debian-Med. We currently see our SVN activities on web, have l10n support to the website [0] itself, with dynamic generation of .mo files. We also have dynamic generation of our "Group Policy" (just modify a .tex file in SVN... and here you got the HTML ready). I'm looking forward to improve my work in Debian-Med in this sense, since there's no dentistry-related FOSS available anywhere (yes, I'm working to make one myself!) [0] http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/ > f. Finally, are you having fun working on Debian? Why/why not? Yes, sure :). I feel part of a greater family, and this satisfies me! Isn't that enough? ;) > 2. Teams you're in > ------------------ > > (please answer this section multiple times where appropriate, once per > team, but *excluding* teams for maintenance of individual packages) > > a. What teams do you work on? Are you an "official" member of those > teams? Debian-Med actively (well, when I have time) Bash-Completion (just entered the team, should start working on it soon) I'm also member of these other teams, but not (anymore) actively working in them: Custom Debian Distributions (I work on this rarely, when I need to change something for Debian-Med) Debian Bluetooth (pkg-bluetooth) Debian Forensics (forensics) Debian Italian Maintainers Task Force (pkg-italian) Debian Perl Group (pkg-perl) Debian XFce Packages (pkg-xfce) Python Modules Packaging Team (I currently maintain only nouvelle there -- python-modules) I'm on official member for all these teams -- but I believe one day or another I'll request the removal of my account (since they uselessly bloat my Alioth page ;)) -- no, really. It's non-sense being a member and doing nothing (-- lack of time, mainly). > b. How well do you think those teams are performing, in terms of > getting things done? How are daily/regular tasks dealt with? And > how about less common, one-off things? I can't really talk for any team. My participation in debian-med has become quite rare at the moment (just studying a lot, that's it). But we had lack of uploads by DDs -- now that Charles Plessy <plessy@d.o> has become a DD, I believe the general situation has improved. I can say something about pkg-perl. There they have really great co-ordination, and Damyan Ivanov <dmn@d.o> does a very good job as the team "leader". Kudos also to Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@d.o> and Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@d.o> from that team! I believe the team could work alone with these three people ;) > c. How do members of your teams communicate with each other about what > they're working on? And how do they (as individuals or as a team) > communicate with people outside of the team? Do you feel they > coordinate well? We communicate via e-mail (mailing list). We also have a IRC channel (#debian-med on OFTC -- which I've created for improving communication) which is quite orphaned -- lack of time by anyone. I feel we coordinate well -- anyone can work on anyone's package, and if there's a major change (see: Group Policy, Web Infrastructure, Repository Layout), a proposal is sent to the mailing list before doing anything. That seems great to me! > d. Are there enough resources for your teams to do their jobs well? If > not, what's missing? Man power. And time, *time*, TIME. :) > e. Anything else you'd like to mention? No, thanks. > 3. Other teams > -------------- > > a. What contact, if any, do you (as an individual) have with other > teams? How well does that contact work? I don't really have any contact with teams I'm not member of. Really, I can say I sometimes subscribed too fast to a team, without "lurking" (or whatever) it for enough time. > b. How well do your team(s) interact with other teams? Mainly via e-mail (post to the proper mailing lists) -- I've seen contact sometimes also on IRC, but I can't be more specific (just thoughts coming out). > c. If you have any issues in (a) or (b), how would you suggest to fix > them? No, any issue (AFAICT). > d. Any other observations about the various teams in Debian? No. Other stuff > =========== > > That's the list of things I'm hoping to learn more about from this > review of teams. Thanks for your work, Steve! > But please keep those separate from this survey - it'll help me to avoid my > head exploding in all directions... :-) Help! /me hides under a pillow HTH, David -- . ''`. Debian maintainer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino : :' : Linuxer #334216 --|-- http://www.hanskalabs.net/ `. `'` GPG: 1392B174 ----|---- http://snipr.com/qa_page `- 2BAB C625 4E66 E7B8 450A C3E1 E6AA 9017 1392 B174
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