Hi Sylvestre, On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 10:58:07AM +0100, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: > * Are you allowed by your employer to work during the week on DPL tasks > or is it something that you are going to do on your free time? > A bit of both. Collabora allows for a certain percentage of time to be spent on "Community", though I'm in no doubts it'll require quite a lot of my free time as well! As a former City Councillor however, I'm quite aware of time requirements - I spent about 20 hours per week doing that for four years, as well as a full time job (and being Release manager!). > * Are you considering a second-in-charge or a "DPL team" (like the DPL > helpers but with more official roles) ? > I don't intend on running on a platform of a DPL board/team - this has been discussed quite extensively in the past [0], or Project SCUD [1]. We have teams, and delegations. I'm not convinced that adding yet another committee, and the overhead and bureaucracy that this entails is beneficial to the project. However, I do think it's an essential skill for the DPL to be able to delegate tasks (rather than formal delegations, though those may be needed in some circumstances). The DPL helpers initiative was an attempt to start along these lines, and has helped relieve some of the issues here. I would be keen to try and find people who want to take on some of the other more administrative tasks, but I'm aware of the difficulties that this entails. For example, both myself and Steve McIntyre were victimised^W^Wvolunteered to co-ordinate the sprint approvals by Stefano, but without the budgetary sign-off, there wasn't really much we could do. Additionally, while I was on the SPI board, I often wondered why we don't get more people involved in the non-technical side of Debian. The conclusion I came to was that it doesn't interest people as much, they'd rather just get on with producing an excellent package/distribution. I do find the concept of the 2IC more appealing, I think this is a better model, and shall be putting more thought into this if elected. Sorry, this turned into a bit of a longer mail than the simple yes/no answer you may have been after. Neil [0] https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2007/02/msg00061.html [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2005/03/msg00035.html --
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