Hi Louis-Philippe
On 2022/03/16 20:12, Louis-Philippe Véronneau wrote:
I would like to know what is the stance of the 3 candidates on producing monthly "Bits from the DPL" reports on their activities.
I like them very much and I think they are a great way to keep us all informed of what the DPL has been doing.
They do take time to produce though and some DPLs have preferred to
write less frequently.
I like them a lot too, and especially enjoyed the concise and punchy
reports that zack and lamby wrote.
And I guess this question might also be aimed at my total lack of
releasing those. That's not a lack from wanting to, and in my last
campaign I even committed to try harder on that front. The reality is
that this is really difficult for me, I'm myself constantly information overloaded and the amount of incoming stuff just doesn't end.
For smaller items this isn't so hard. Issueing a DD certificate here and
there, approving some expense requests, updating a delegation, welcoming
new DDs, attending meetings for various teams (like treasurer, DAM, CT,
etc) or for external meetings, outreach administration, etc isn't too
hard, but often not all that exciting on it's own (I have split out the welcoming of new DDs to mails to -project, at least).
Also, things like approving sprints and upcoming DPL talks has just
really been stunted by the pandemic. These used to make up quite a bit
of the bits from the DPL, but... urgh.
But the biggest problem by far is that the most time consuming stuff is
the hardest to write about. Dealing with all the many inter-personal
issues that occur takes a lot of patience and listening, and progress is
really slow, and on top of that it's difficult to write about or
summarize. I probably *could* just add a line every month "Deal with inter-personal issues" but it would be pretty boring. The same goes for
the legal stuff we're working on. It's tedious and boring and lots of
work but at the same time, not a lot I can really say publicly.
So, yes, I really like Bits from the DPL, I'd probably do better if
someone could help or give me a regular poke to put together some
updates for it, but after having a very real and sincere goal to improve
this last round and failing, I really can't give a hard commitment for this.
Sadly though, I've often given long updates to people on IRC and thought
"this would actually be great for a bits from a DPL post" and then
quickly get distracted... so, if I do get elected for another term, feel
free to remind me every now again and I will give it another shot.
-Jonathan
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