At Tue, 8 Mar 2005 07:24:59 +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > Le Mar 8 Mars 2005 04:19, Angus Lees a écrit : > > Now available at http://people.debian.org/~gus/dpl-platform.html > Anyway, I have a couple of questions for you : Sure. > I quote you here : > > » I try not to spend too much time on email or IRC, hence my low > » profile amongst Debian internationally. > and > » The DPL's primary function as I see it is to act as a figurehead—a > » single point of contact to present Debian to the outside world. > » Consequently, I see the most important qualities of a good project > » leader to be availability, written and spoken language skills, > » personality and experience being a Debian Developer. > > And I'm asking me how those two parts are conciliable. Even if in some > threads, there is a really poor signal:noise ratio, there is some > things going on in them ... Moreover, talking from debians problems > around a Beer (quite quoting you here) won't be possible. I live in > Paris, and I don't suppose you'll make the trip, do you ? You seem to be saying that I need to post to Debian lists frequently in order to be able to represent Debian, but I don't see the problem. I *read* a bunch of the Debian lists (and have done so for years) and when there is something that needs my input, I give it. It was fairly rare (before this election) for such a situation to arise. Apparently Debian works just fine without me, which is how it should be ;) Oh, and I'll gladly make the trip to Paris as soon as someone finds the means to get me there ;) > Moreover, I may be wrong, but since you took so many time (wrt > othere candidates) to write your platform, I was hoping to read a > wonderful thing, full of ideas, directions, ... And what I read in 2 > minutes, 10 minutes ago, made me feel deceived I'm not sure what to say to this; I'm sorry you expected some greater entertainment from a DPL platform.. > .. the only thing concrete you propose is to suggest to stop beeing > so extreme wrt freeness. And that's not really true, since (quoting > you) it « should not be directly relevant to the DPL election ». > Like we say in France, my arms fall ... (understand I'm more that > sceptic). You affirm that « I am running for DPL because I believe I > can do a great job » but you don't describe what you want to do, or to > try to at least (except drinking beers, that is honorable). And you > talk about beeing less free in debian, as a side thing, a thing > completely orthogonal ... but IIRC, there was two votes : > the first was to make debian really more free [2], that was the winner > the seconde wart wrt Sarge release, and voters didn't choose to revert > the policy, only to postpone changes for after sarge [3]. It seems > clear to me, that any revert option didn't had the majority. but does > the DPL should represent Debian and not run his primary interest ? > > So how to you will conciliate all the above with beeing DPL ?? You're exactly right. I aim to do what you, the constitution and existing practice demand of the DPL - that is, to represent the views of the project. What I'm trying to get across in my platform is that this *does not* reconcile with having my own agenda and a list of changes I wish to implement in Debian. -- - Gus
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