Re: Debian Project Leader report for 2005-04-24
On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 01:03:35AM -0500, Branden Robinson / Debian Project Leader wrote:
> Here is the first of my reports as Debian Project Leader. You may read it
> in HTML format at:
> http://people.debian.org/~branden/dpl/reports/2005-04-24.html
(First suggestion: set M-F-T appropriately. It was set to
debian-devel-announce and dwn@debian.org. debian-project would be
better, or debian-devel.)
> Sarge Release Challenges and Progress
> -------------------------------------
[...]
> I offer a status report on the Sarge release because of its criticality,
> and because as DPL I want to do everything I can to keep our developers
> and users apprised of this central issue. If the release managers see
> that this report is correlated with a spike in reckless uploads to
> unstable, however, I will be forced to refrain from offering them. As I
> said in all three of the interviews I conducted recently (see
> `Interviews and Public Appearances`_, below), my top priority as DPL is
> to not get in the way of the Sarge release. Please do not put me in the
> awkward position of having to refrain from reporting on this issue to
> serve that goal.
Just a bit of (hopefully constructive) feedback: I find the above to be
quite unnecessarily condescending. We're not children and deserve to be
treated as such.
Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>
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