Re: Question to all the candidates: what mistakes have you made and what did you learn of it
Hi,
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Sven Luther wrote:
> 1) Can you tell us a few of the most important mistakes you have made during
> these past two years with regard to debian ?
The announce of an Ubuntu freeze on d-d-a.
> 2) What do you believe where the consequences of those mistakes ?
A big flamewar.
> 3) What do you think in retrospect you would have done differently ?
I shouldn't have sent this announce given that it had no direct benefit to
Debian. Instead I have gone through other routes to promote better
collaboration between both distributions.
> 4) What lessons did these mistakes teach you, and how will this affect
> similar situations you will be facing as DPL if elected, or as normal DD if
> not elected ?
You can be in good faith trying to do something positive and still be the
source of flamewar. That's why I believe peer-review is important in
particular for high-visibility tasks such as the one of the DPL. And with
a DPL board, there's this level of selection that avoid the biggest
mistakes.
Cheers,
--
Raphaël Hertzog
Premier livre français sur Debian GNU/Linux :
http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/
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