Re: On management

2007-03-06 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
Quoting "cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > So saying translators do it purely, or even mainly, for themselves is doing > debian translators in general a disservice IMHO Dang, everyone is looking for stuff to criticize something today... But fine.. There ARE exeptions to any rul

Re: On management

2007-03-06 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 10:46:40PM +0100, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: >> Quoting Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> > I'm not convinced at all that *funding* a manager would do any good to >> > the project. >> >> If we already had a _good_ project manager in ou

Re: On management

2007-03-06 Thread paddy
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 10:46:40PM +0100, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > Quoting Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I'm not convinced at all that *funding* a manager would do any good to > > the project. > > If we already had a _good_ project manager in our ranks, don't you think > they/he/s

Re: On management

2007-03-05 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
On Monday 05 March 2007, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > (exept maybe translators, but they don't do it for the project, they do it > for them selfs - which is a GOOD thing! The mere fact that you're able to translate kinda excludes you needing the translation in the first place (e.g. I translate cau

Re: On management

2007-03-05 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
Quoting Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm not convinced at all that *funding* a manager would do any good to > the project. If we already had a _good_ project manager in our ranks, don't you think they/he/she would have stepped up already? THAT'S why I think paying for one might help...

Re: On management

2007-03-02 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 05:58:58PM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [Roberto C. Sanchez] > > I am not advocating having a manager without technical competency or > > the ability to understand technical issues. Just that being a > > manager does not require being a fourth-degree blackbelt in Perl

Re: On management

2007-03-02 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Roberto C. Sanchez] > I am not advocating having a manager without technical competency or > the ability to understand technical issues. Just that being a > manager does not require being a fourth-degree blackbelt in Perl or > having written a textbook on C++ programming. And you think the curr

Re: On management

2007-03-02 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Thursday 01 March 2007 22:28, Josselin Mouette wrote: > First, please keep your bullshit about dunc-tank outside this otherwise > interesting discussion. be liberal what you accept, and conservative what you send? regards, Holger pgpeWcMQwasHw.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: On management

2007-03-02 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 01 Mar 2007, Josselin Mouette wrote: > That, I fully agree with. I also had the chance to see a good project > manager in action, and that makes a huge difference. > > I'm not convinced at all that *funding* a manager would do any good to > the project. Which is why I'm wondering if there

Re: On management

2007-03-01 Thread Josselin Mouette
First, please keep your bullshit about dunc-tank outside this otherwise interesting discussion. Le jeudi 01 mars 2007 à 16:18 -0500, Theodore Tso a écrit : > The harder problem, though is that finding a really good project > manager. In my day job, I can tell you have as a technical architect, >

Re: On management

2007-03-01 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2007-03-01, Theodore Tso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A third party organization, dunc-tank, which included a number of > prominent Debian Developers, including AJ, did pay for two of the How can it be a third party organization if it is launched by the DPL _as_ DPL ? (Source: AJs DPL review

Re: On management

2007-03-01 Thread Theodore Tso
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 03:28:50PM +0100, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > Quoting Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > As of now, I see it as a failure of the project. But this is also > > nothing that can't be fixed. What do you people think could be done to > > bring the skills we are lacking

Re: On management

2007-03-01 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
Quoting Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > As of now, I see it as a failure of the project. But this is also > nothing that can't be fixed. What do you people think could be done to > bring the skills we are lacking to the project, with its current > structure? Since I agree (well, more than

Re: On management

2007-02-28 Thread Christian Perrier
> I'm not sure what you're advocating, but in my experience, project > managers without the capacity to understand the technical issues of the > project that they are supposed to be managing are worse than useless. But project manageers who understand too well the technical issues involved are al

Re: On management

2007-02-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
argl On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 05:46:05PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 02:58:12PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > It is my belief that such things could be avoided if we had proper > > release management. > > I'm quite utterly convinced that this is not true. I do agre

Re: On management

2007-02-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 02:58:12PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: [...] > of people running experimental. As GNOME 2.18 is scheduled in two > months, this means we will be lagging two versions behind upstream as > soon as we have released. What's wrong with that? Many packages lag behind. The kern

Re: On management

2007-02-28 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 10:31:37AM -0500, Clint Adams wrote: > > I would think that the same things that attract a technical individual > > could attract a non-technical individual. Desire to learn. Desire to > > contribute. Desire to build skills for resume or future employment. > > And so on.

Re: On management

2007-02-28 Thread Clint Adams
> I would think that the same things that attract a technical individual > could attract a non-technical individual. Desire to learn. Desire to > contribute. Desire to build skills for resume or future employment. > And so on. The thing is that the current NM process is heavily biased > toward

Re: On management

2007-02-28 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Heya, I certainly agree with some of things you said, as I also believe that Debian could profit from better management and/or planning in some areas, I don't think this would have made the timely release of etch possible. Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Back in September, it seeme

Re: On management

2007-02-28 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 02:58:12PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Management is quite a different job that what most of us are doing. In > the real world, a good manager is as rare a resource as a good engineer, > and you need both to make a business running. The Debian project is > currently

Re: On management

2007-02-28 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 02:58:12PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > It should be obvious now that, with the delays the release is facing, > this decision was wrong. I'm not so sure. By not trying to push 2.16 in, you've probably been creating a lot less work for the release team than if you were t