On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 04:19:28PM -0600, Debian Project Secretary wrote: > I apologize for the delay in publishing the Project Leader > platforms. They have not yet been put up on vote.debian.org, since I > have received only two of the four candidate platforms to date. I > strongly urge the remaining candidates to please send me the > platforms asap. And now, I'm told, Manoj has three, leaving me the hold up. Here's the skinny: <Overfiend> Manoj: sorry, I have been really busy, and am trying to roll out XFree86 4.2.1-6 at the moment <Overfiend> Manoj: to fix a FTBFS <Overfiend> which is holding up KDE 3.1 <Joy> Overfiend: use one of the old platform :)) <doogie> Overfiend: who cares? <Joy> heh. took the words from my moth <Joy> mouth * Overfiend shrugs. You're damned if you do and damned if you don't... <Manoj> Overfiend: some intimation would have been nice <Manoj> Overfiend: Do you have an ETA on the platform? <Overfiend> Manoj: I've barely even been on IRC all weekend <Overfiend> Manoj: I'll work on it when I get home this evening <Overfiend> Manoj: that's approx 7pm GMT-0500 <Manoj> Overfiend: Ok. I'll so inform -vote <Overfiend> so I'll try to have you something mailed by 10pm GMT-0500 * Overfiend sighs. Not nearly enough time to do serious analysis of the questionnaire result. I guess I can go through and edits the comments for idiolect and then just post the raw results somewhere. <Manoj> Overfiend: Or you may inform -vote (since you could then provide the reaons better than I probably could) (For those keeping score at home: Overfiend me, Branden Robinson Manoj Project Secretary Manoj Srivastava doogie Adam Heath Joy Josip Rodin Now you KDE 3.1 fans know who to flame. ;-) ) So, there you have it. The questionnaire results were extremely interesting but it's not worth holding up my platform for any longer. I will therefore have to write my platform with only my gut reaction to the questionnaire replies instead of a rigorous, methodical analysis calculated to win me the maximum number of votes. :) Thus, hopefully within 12 hours or so you folks will have my platform. So that you aren't completely in the dark, I will direct you to my platform for last year. There will be changes, of course, but there is not much that I would actively throw out (the qmail on murphy issue, which was near the bottom of the list anyway, has of course been resolved in the past year). http://www.debian.org/vote/2002/platforms/branden The most important thing I have learned from the questionnaire results is that "THE DEBIAN PROJECT LEADER'S DELEGATES" should remain at the top of my agenda. It could be broadened in scope a little bit to imply more attentive supervision of foundering infrastructure in general, but ultimately the solution to Debian's infrastructure problems is going to have to be a leader capable of appointing delegates, and *following up on the progress of those delegations*. I've been thinking about methods to attain this goal, and if the questionnaire results are highly representative of the electorate, than I expect this issue to see some discussion during the campaign period. Thanks for your attention and patience! -- G. Branden Robinson | Men use thought only to justify Debian GNU/Linux | their wrong doings, and speech only branden@debian.org | to conceal their thoughts. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Voltaire
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