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Re: Questions for the DPL candidates



Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> wrote:

> Frank Küster wrote:
>> Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> wrote:
>>>Matthew Garrett wrote:
>>>>How about the creation of a checklist for meeting organisation and
>>>>reporting? Something along the lines of:
>>>>5) Does our write-up start with the problems we wish to address and
>>>>then logically progress from there to the conclusions we reached?
>>>Yes, it did -- the introduction to the plan was:
>> No, it didn't, at least not what I would call "starting from the
>> problems and logically progressing".
>
> No, it's not what *you* would call doing that; but it's what was
> attempted. 

Granted.

> It's certainly reasonable to expect people to do what they
> can to be transparent and logical and efficient and sensible and
> whatever else, but you can't reasonably expect them to achieve that
> perfectly to everyone's satisfaction, so when they try and fail you
> get to say "thanks" and help them do better, not flame the bejesus out
> of them.

Did you read my mail after what you cited?  Did you read this sentence:

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|  many, including him, have expressed
| they wish something similar from the ftpmasters' and DSA point of view
`----

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer



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