> As DPL, you can expect me to take action when I see that our policies, or > the quality of our distribution, are being threatened. However, you need > only expect me to act as DPL on such issues as a last resort. Most of > the time, I think problems like the ones you point out can be addressed > by ordinary Debian Developers, or by the DSA team. I think this answer hedges on the question a little bit. The context of the question was something like "I feel you've been rude to people in the past - if you're elected DPL will you continue to use such a tone?" Your answer make sense, basically you won't wield the stick of DPL too much if possible. (Whatever stick there is to wield anyways ;-)) But the question still stands in my mind - when acting simply as Branden Robinson would you plan on softening your tone some? Even if you're not signing emails as "the almighty DPL", if you're being perceived as rude - even if it's not your intention - you'd still be the DPL and that might sour people on the project in general. Here's a better example where you might have come across as being rude: http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2001/debian-x-200110/msg00144.html To me it doesn't matter if the statement made was justified or not - I don't really want to see the DPL making such comments in public forums. Later, Dale -- Dale E. Martin, Clifton Labs, Inc. Senior Computer Engineer dmartin@cliftonlabs.com http://www.cliftonlabs.com pgp key available
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