Hi, Thanks! ======= First, I'd like to thank everyone who voted for me and allowed me to be elected as DPL. More generally, I'd like to thank everyone who took part in the election. I consider DPL elections as a very important event for our project and I believe it help us, each individual DD, to discuss important plans for the project and try to make things move forward. I'd also like to thank Neil McGovern for his work as a DPL. The DPL job is very time consuming and requires great motivation and dedication during the whole term! Last but not least, in order to simplify and ease communication with project members and contributors, here are a few simple rules you may want to follow: - If you think you have something to tell me, contact me! - If you think there is something I may find interesting, contact me! - If you think I may have something to say on some subject, contact me! - If you need some support to help you moving forward with your project, contact me! - If you still hesitate, contact me… and we will discuss about that! :-) ZFS On Linux ============ As you might have noticed already, zfs-linux[1] has been accepted in the “contrib” archive area recently. It an important milestone for us, and will help more users to take advantage of ZoL while still using their favorite Linux distribution, Debian. It is important to note that CDDL is an open source license, and complies with DFSG. Unfortunately, it is incompatible with GPLv2. In order to avoid putting our users at risk of violating GPL, we decided that “contrib” was the right place for zfs-linux. Conservancy provided more details on the issue [2]. This event has been covered by some media already [3,4,5]. The confusion around the subject shows that this is not an easy topic. Publicity team published a statement to help clarifying the what, why and how in [6]. [1] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/zfs-linux [2] https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2016/feb/25/zfs-and-linux/ [3] http://news.softpedia.com/news/after-years-of-hard-work-zfs-for-linux-finally-lands-in-debian-gnu-linux-repos-504047.shtml [4] http://www.itwire.com/business-it-news/open-source/72834-zfs-to-be-offered-by-debian.html [5] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/05/16/zfs_comes_to_debian_thanks_to_licensing_workaround/ [6] https://bits.debian.org/2016/05/what-does-it-mean-that-zfs-is-in-debian.html Newmaint: Call for help! ======================== The process leading to acceptation of new Debian Maintainers is mainly administrative today and is handled by the Newmaint team. In order to simplify this process further, the team wants to integrate their workflow into nm.debian.org's interface so that prospective maintainers can send their application online and the Newmaint team review it from within the website. We need your help to implement the missing pieces into nm.debian.org. It is written in Python and using Django. If you have some experience with that, you should definitely join the newmaint-site mailing list [7] and ask for the details. Enrico or someone else in the list will do their best to share their vision and explain the needed work in order to get this properly implemented! It doesn't matter if you're already a Debian Developer to be able to contribute to this project. Anyone can step up and help! [7] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newmaint-site Communication about technical work ================================== We are often too focused on our day to day work or after a long term objective without noticing that we are making progress towards one longstanding goal. Recently, I was really pleased to see the Java Team blog [8] coming up on our Planet. It would be great if we could publish more posts of the same kind. Advertising what we do in Debian is very important and helps our (prospective) users better understand our vision. If you don't want to setup a blog engine, remember you can reach out to the Publicity team and use bits.debian.org [9] to advertise your work! [8] http://java.debian.net/blog/ [9] https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Publicity/bits.debian.org Debian Sun Camp =============== Tincho and Ana are organizing the Debian Sun Camp [10], May 26-29. The main goal of this event is to socialize and hack with Debian folks under the sun! I already booked my tickets and hope to meet you there. It is still time to organize your trip to Lloret de Mar and join us! [10] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2016/03/msg00007.html ITWire interview ================ I answered an interview for ITWire which has been published in [12]. [12] http://www.itwire.com/business-it-news/open-source/72513-debian-entering-fresh-territory-as-new-dpl-begins-his-term.html Assets ====== - Approved expenses for MiniDebConf at Curitiba, Brazil. (3000 BRL) - Approved expenses for MiniDebConf at Vienna, Austria. (Up to 3000€) - Approved expenses for CubaConf at Havana, Cuba. (Up to 300 USD) - Approved purchase of two video capture cards for the Video team and which will be used during DebConf16. (300 USD) - Approved budget (Up to 15k USD) to help GSoC/Outreachy interns attend DebConf 16. - Approved budget extension (of 13k USD) for DebConf travel sponsorship. The goal is obviously to encourage more contributors to attend the conference. Day-to-day log ============== My day-to-day log of DPL activities is available on master: - /srv/leader/news/bits-from-the-DPL.txt.201604 - /srv/leader/news/bits-from-the-DPL.txt.201605 -- Mehdi Dogguy
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