Question to all the candidates: what mistakes have you mad..

Hi all,

Since so much of the perceived troubles debian has been having lately can be
traced down to arrogance and pride, as well as failures to communicate, i want
to ask these question to the DPL candidates now :

1) Can you tell us a few of the most important mistakes you have made during
these past two years with regard to debian ?

(I am particularly interested in the replies from Steve and Anthony, who
where in power the last term, but also of other who had similar leadership
activities in some other sub-team in debian).

2) What do you believe where the consequences of those mistakes ?

3) What do you think in retrospect you would have done differently ?

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 ?

Friendly,

Sven Luther




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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,
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Raphaël Hertzog

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