Bits from the DPL – Bits from Debian
Dear Debian community,
this are my bits from DPL written at my last day at another great
DebConf.
DebConf attendance
At the beginning of July, there was some discussion with the bursary and
content team about sponsoring attendees. The discussion continued at
DebConf.
I do not have much experience with these discussions. My summary is that
while there is an honest attempt to be fair to everyone, it did not seem to
work for all, and some critical points for future discussion remained. In
any case, I’m thankful to the bursary team for doing such a time-draining
and tedious job.
Popular packages not yet on Salsa at all
Otto Kekäläinen did some interesting investigation about
Popular packages not yet on Salsa at all.
I think I might provide some more up to date list soon by some UDD query
which considers more recent uploads than the trends data soon. For
instance wget was meanwhile moved to Salsa (thanks to Noël Köthe for this).
Keep on contacting more teams
I kept on contacting teams in July. Despite I managed to contact way
less teams than I was hoping I was able to present some conclusions in
the Debian Teams exchange BoF and Slide 16/23 of my
Bits from the DPL talk.
I intend to do further contacts next months.
Nominating Jeremy Bícha for GNOME Advisory Board
I’ve nominated Jeremy Bícha to
GNOME Advisory Board.
Jeremy has volunteered to represent Debian at
GUADEC in Denver.
DebCamp / DebConf
I attended DebCamp starting from 22 July evening and had a lot of fun with
other attendees. As always DebConf is some important event nearly
every year for me. I enjoyed Korean food, Korean bath, nature at the
costline and other things.
I had a small event without video coverage
Creating web galleries including maps from a geo-tagged photo collection.
At least two attendees of this workshop confirmed success in creating their
own web galleries.
I used DebCamp and DebConf for several discussions. My main focus was on
discussions with FTP master team members Luke Faraone, Sean Whitton, and
Utkarsh Gupta. I’m really happy that the four of us absolutely agree on
some proposed changes to the structure of the FTP master team, as well
as changes that might be fruitful for the work of the FTP master team
itself and for Debian developers regarding the processing of new
packages.
My explicit thanks go to Luke Faraone, who gave a great introduction to
FTP master work in their
BoF.
It was very instructive for the attending developers to understand how the
FTP master team checks licenses and copyright and what workflow is used
for accepting new packages.
In the first days of DebConf, I talked to representatives of DebConf
platinum sponsor WindRiver, who announced the derivative
eLxr. I warmly welcome
this new derivative and look forward to some great cooperation. I also
talked to the representative of our gold sponsor, Microsoft.
My first own event was the
Debian Med BoF.
I’d like to repeat that it might not only be interesting for people
working in medicine and microbiology but always contains some hints how
to work together in a team.
As said above I was trying to summarise some first results of my team
contacts and got some further input from other teams in the
Debian Teams exchange BoF.
Finally, I had my
Bits from DPL talk.
I received positive responses from attendees as well as from remote
participants, which makes me quite happy. For those who were not able to
join the events on-site or remotely, the videos of all events will be
available on the DebConf site soon. I’d like to repeat the explicit need
for some volunteers to join the Lintian team. I’d also like to point out
the “Tiny tasks” initiative I’d like to start (see below).
BTW, if someone might happen to solve my quiz for the background images
there is a
summary page
in my slides which might help to assign every slide to some DebConf. I
could assume that if you pool your knowledge you can solve more than just
the simple ones. Just let me know if you have some solution. You can add
numbers to the rows and letters to the columns and send me:
2000/2001: Uv + Wx
2002: not attended
2003: Yz
2004: not attended
2005:
2006: not attended
2007:
...
2024: A1
This list provides some additional information for DebConfs I did not
attend and when no video stream was available. It also reminds you about
the one I uncovered this year and that I used two images from 2001 since
I did not have one from 2000. Have fun reassembling good memories.
Tiny tasks: Bug of the day
As I mentioned in my
Bits from DPL talk,
I’d like to start a “Tiny tasks” effort within Debian. The first type of
tasks will be the
Bug of the day
initiative. For those who would like to join, please join the corresponding
Matrix channel. I’m
curious to see how this might work out and am eager to gain some initial
experiences with newcomers. I won’t be available until next Monday, as I’ll
start traveling soon and have a family event (which is why I need to leave
DebConf today after the formal dinner).
Kind regards from DebConf in Busan
Andreas.