On 07/29/2017 10:54 PM, Paul Wise wrote: > Hi Felix, > > I would like to welcome yourself and Deepin to the Debian derivatives > census! Would you like to take this opportunity to introduce yourself > and Deepin to us all? Thank you. Here is a brief intro: Deepin is not a very new distribution, but it was Ubuntu-based until late 2015. Deepin comes with DDE, a new desktop environment based on Qt5 and Go, optimized for desktop users, especially for Chinese desktop users. Hardware side, we focus on x86_64, mips64el and alpha. Currently there is an effort going on to submit DDE packages to Debian upstream. We are working at the GitHub debian-dde-team [1] for now, but will likely to switch to Debian infrastructure once we get permission. Boyuan Yang [2] is helping us on this. Some info about myself: My Chinese name is 晏然, Felix is my English name. I was born and currently live in Wuhan, China, the same city as Deepin's R&D center is located. I am an Arch developer since 2013, ported DDE to Arch in 2015, before I join Deepin as a developer. I manage many servers running Debian or its derivatives. > It would be great if you could join our mailing list and IRC channel: > > https://wiki.debian.org/DerivativesFrontDesk Sure, both joined :) > You don't appear to be subscribed to the Deepin census page, > I've made a few changes to the Deepin census page: > > https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census/Deepin?action=info Subscribed now. > The page says that Deepin modifies Debian binary packages. It is quite > rare that distributions modify Debian binary packages instead of > modifying source packages and rebuilding them. Does Deepin actually do > this? If so could you describe what kind of modifications you are > making? If not I guess the page needs to be fixed. Corrected. I meant to say "modifies some of the source packages" but somehow overlooked what the example gives. > Are you sure that the Deepin sources.list on the wiki page is correct > and complete? When I was tracking down Deepin sources, I found these: > > deb-src http://packages.deepin.com/experimental experimental main > deb-src http://packages.deepin.com/loongson unstable main > deb-src http://packages.deepin.com/deepin-server kui main contrib non-free > deb-src http://packages.deepin.com/deepin-server kui-security main contrib non-free > deb-src http://packages.deepin.com/deepin-debian unstable main contrib non-free > deb-src http://packages.deepin.com/deepin unstable main contrib non-free The entries I listed are for latest community edition, we also have a professional version (based on jessie) for enterprises and I thought it would be confusing to list them together. Please correct me if this was meant to list all apt repos unconditionally. > I've added the Deepin blog to Planet Debian derivatives which helps the > Debian community find out the things that are happening in the world of > Debian derivatives. > > http://planet.debian.org/deriv/ Since it's an English page I guess the following feed would be better: https://www.deepin.org/en/feed/ > Since Deepin is based in China you might be interested in joining > the Debian China group. > > https://wiki.debian.org/LocalGroups/Debian-CN Already a frequenter :) > This year the annual Debian conference is in Montreal, Canada. > Unfortunately it is very close to the start of the conference so you > probably won't be able to attend this year, but next year is in > Hsinchu, Taiwan. This appears to be relatively close to the Deepin > location, it would be great if developers from Deepin could attend > DebConf18. > > https://debconf17.debconf.org/ > https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf18 We are planning to, and thanks for the info. > I would encourage Wuhan Deepin Technology (the Deepin corporate > sponsor) to contribute financially to ensure the continued survival of > Debian and the success of the annual Debian conference. > > https://www.debian.org/donations > https://debconf.org/sponsors/ > https://debconf17.debconf.org/sponsors/become-a-sponsor/ > > I would encourage any attendees to volunteer to ensure the continued > the success of the annual Debian conference, here are some examples of > things that need helpers. > > https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf13/VolunteerCoordination I have forwarded these to our managers. Some of the issues are not yet answered since I still have to investigate or contact others to fix. Many thanks for the detailed instructions! [1] https://github.com/debian-dde-team [2] https://nm.debian.org/person/byang -- Regards, Felix Yan
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