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Re: Reflections about the questions for the candidates



On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 09:49:29AM +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
> Hello Enrico,

> > But there's more than that.  In the last year as part of the DPL Team,
> > people have been criticising the last year for the lack of reports.  But
> > I don't remember a single one sending in a mail like "Dear DPL[-Team],
> > what happened last week?".

> > It would have been a pleasure to answer such a question with something
> > like "Hi, thanks for asking.  It was mainly reasoning about the Security
> > Team, plus approving expenditure of $300 for flying person X to
> > conference Y".

> If that would have been a pleasure, I'm wondering why your team did not do
> that.

> I've sent just a couple of mails to leader in the past term, less than a
> handfull. Of those, I have received exactly zero replies from the DPL, you
> or the rest of the team.

Uh, for one thing, "leader@debian.org" != "DPL Team".  It was Branden's
decision to not auto-forward the leader address  to the DPL team, so that
anyone could feel comfortable contacting leader@ about confidential matters;
the flipside is that responsiveness to that address was definitely
contingent on Branden's personal availability.

-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
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