Re: Questions to the candidates
Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> writes:
> Finally, I'm curious - where do you stand on these issues?
Well, I guess I should send this as a private email to Steve, but
considering that most of the candidates have answered these already,
here are my personal opinions :)
>>What is the role of the DPL? Is he a strong leader, who uses his
I feel that in a volunteer project you actually could have any of the
three kinds of leaders I listed, with everybody being more or less
happy. E.g. in my local Red Cross chapter we had a very strong
chairman a few years back, who got things very much done her way, with
very little opposition. Currently I'm the chairman and I try to be a
figurehead and a facilitator, and things seem to work just as fine.
I just wanted to hear what type of leader you all would be :)
>>Do you feel that the DPL is first and foremost The Debian Project
>>Leader, in the sense that anything Debian-related the DPL does, he
>>does so as the DPL, not as a DD or a private person?
My belief is that the DPL hat is something you can take off. Of
course, the DPL must be very explict in this, but if I take the
dunc-tank issue, which sparked my question, I think aj handled it not
that badly. Maybe he could have been more clear but he most certainly
had the moral right to be involved in dunc-tank.
>>There are problems with communication between some key teams and
>>the rest of the project. What solutions will you try to implement
>>during the next year?
I personally have had very little to do with our core teams, and I
raised this question solely based on the -project discussions by
others, who find (some of) the core teams silent and unresponsive. So,
again, I was just curious to hear your thoughts :)
>>How do you feel about spending Debian monies into buying core
>>infrastructure support?
Again, question inspired by others. I personally don't think we would
be any better off hiring administrators, we are doing just fine with
our volunteer effort.
>>Currently just about every single conversation on -project and
>>-vote degenerates immediately into a (minor) flame war. What will you
>>do to fix the current atmosphere?
I feel very strongly that the current mailing list atmosphere is more
or less intolerable. I've actually considered resigning from the
project (not a big loss, I have a couple of not-that-important
packages and you can always find a better Auditor), as reading just
-project and -vote makes me sad at the level of "discussion". But, I
think I'll give the new DPL a couple of months to try to find out ways
to improve.
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