Well, it's been a busy year since AJ was elected and blind-sided me with his offer of the delegated 2IC job. It's not all been sweetness and light since that point, but certainly a lot has happened... :-) So, my own summary of the last couple of months since last I wrote about stuff. There have been a lot of announcements! Most importantly, we managed to release Etch[1]. Not *quite* on the schedule that we were hoping for, but definitely we managed a much quicker cycle than for Sarge before it. At the risk of boring people with even more repetition, I'd like to pass on my thanks to all the people that made Etch possible - the developers, the users that reported bugs, the translators, the various teams but especially the release team who kept on top of things for such a long period. The new cycle has already started, and Lenny is coming RSN! Debconf 7 preparations are entering the final frantic phase. Attendees should make sure to re-confirm[2] that they're coming, otherwise their sponsored food/accommodation/travel/T-shirts (delete as appropriate) will be dropped. I'm looking forwards to seeing many of you in Edinburgh - it should be good fun. The DSA team have set up a Request Tracker system[3] to help organise various of the tasks that need work in either admin or keyring maintenance. This should provide a welcome improvement in the visibility of their efforts, and hopefully will also allow more of the work to be spread out. The Google Summer of Code student allocations have happened, and Debian will be working with 9 students this summer on a variety of projects[4]. Some of them may already be familiar to you, as a couple of our existing developers are still students and are making the most of the opportunity to be able to dedicate some full-time work to their chosen projects. The other students have all convinced us that they want to join in the Debian community and make some real improvements for us. I wish the successful applicants the best of luck, and also offer commiserations to the students that did not make the cut. We had a very good set of applications this year, and would have gladly accepted more if it were our decision alone. I was asked to give a talk to the Greater London LUG last month[5], and I was happy to go along and tell them more about Debian then join in some cool discussions later at the nearby pub. There are a couple more such talks planned for the next few months, and I'll continue to blog about them as they happen. Finally, we've also had a couple of recent votes. The first[6] gained the support of the developers for "Altering package upload rules", and then we had the result of the Debian Project Leader election. For the second year running, I came second in a close decision[7] (boo! *grin*), this time to Sam Hocevar instead of AJ. Congratulations to Sam, and I wish him all the best for his term. And a final vote of thanks to AJ for all his efforts in the last year - it's been great working with him. Time for me to sign off, I'll see you around... [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/04/msg00005.html [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/04/msg00008.html [3] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/03/msg00018.html [4] http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2007 [5] http://blog.einval.com/2007/03/25#2007-GLLUG [6] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/03/msg00017.html [7] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/04/msg00004.html -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com "I suspect most samba developers are already technically insane... Of course, since many of them are Australians, you can't tell." -- Linus Torvalds
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