Bits from the DPL (October 2018)
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Dear developers,
"Winter is coming"… But so is Debian buster — if your weather is cooling
remember to keep your room warm from the heat eminating from your (RC-
bug fixing) machine. And if your temperature happens to be rising
instead please head out onto the deck/porch/balcony and do the same with
your beverage of choice.
~ § ~
October was unfortunately another month where most of my available
bandwidth for the Project Leader role was consumed with mediating
inter- personal, intra-project and adjacent issues in the anti-
harrassment space, both in terms volume and severity.
Whilst dealing-with and keeping on top of these matters is somewhat
unavoidable and inevitable they tragically take away time that the
Leader could be working on such as working on longer-term Project
affairs. Thank you to those who helped & provided insight into the
issues themselves as well as to those who knowingly and unknowingly
provided support.
~ § ~
Despite the above, I managed to get most of the quotidian tasks of being
DPL out of the way including:
* Officially announced the creation of the Debian Cloud [0] Delegates.
They will be responsible for overseeing the maintainance of
"official" images on various cloud providers. Thank you to Luca
Filipozzi for his help in preparing this delegation. [1]
* Fielded a number of questions and queries around the Server Side
Public License [2] and the "Commons Clause" [3] the latter of which
I was the maintainer of a package in question as well adding some
remarks regarding an upcoming announcement from the Civil
Infrastructure Platform (CIP) [4].
* Updated the delegation for the DebConf committee. [5]
* Enquired and requested updates about the membership of a number of
Debian teams such as the Trademark [6] and Anti Harassment [7]
teams. I also sent a brief call-for-volunteers for the FTP team. [8]
* Redirected the usual requests for private support including ensuring
an enquiry regarding about Debian and the future of C++ packaging
[9] reached debian-devel. I also had a few tentative / in-progress
talks with some well-established organisations & companies wishing
to partner with Debian.
* Further help in setting up a potential Bug Squashing Party as part
of the "foss-north" [10] conference in Gothenburg, Sweden during
April 2019, as well as issued a "DD certificate" [11] for
a Developer.
[ 0] https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Cloud
[ 1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2018/10/msg00001.html
[ 2] https://www.mongodb.com/licensing/server-side-public-license
[ 3] https://lwn.net/Articles/763179/
[ 4] https://www.cip-project.org/
[ 5] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2018/10/msg00000.html
[ 6] https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DPL/Trademark
[ 7] https://wiki.debian.org/AntiHarassment
[ 8] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2018/10/msg00144.html
[ 9] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2018/10/msg00044.html
[10] http://foss-north.se/
[11] https://wiki.debian.org/DDCertificate
~ § ~
On the finance side of things, in addition to responding to various
follow-ups to previous money and event-related requests I:
* Approved expenses for a Debian Bug Squashing Party (BSP) in
Karlsruhe. [12]
* Approved sponsorship for some developers to attend the Reproducible
Builds [13] summit in December and another contributor to attend the
Open Source Design Summit [14] in Tirana, Albania.
* Managed a number of funding requests around the Google Summer of
Code [15] mentor summit.
* Assisted a developer regarding which Trusted Organisation (TO) [16]
they should use for a reimbursement request, provided some input on
the potential future of one of our existing TOs and sent multiple
pings to another TO that has appeared to have gone AWOL.
* Chased up missing reimbursement for a Videoteam [17] sprint,
increased the request amount for the recent Debian Cloud [18] sprint
(due to local currency fluctuations) and provided input on what
could be requested to a developer in the early stages of arranging
an event.
[12] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2018/09/msg00000.html
[13] https://reproducible-builds.org/events/paris2018/
[14] https://opensourcedesign.net/summit/
[15] https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/
[16] https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Treasurer/Organizations
[17] https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/Videoteam
[18] https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Cloud
~ § ~
Don't forget that Debian is willing to reimburse 100 USD (or equivalent
in your local currency) to attend Bug Squashing Parties (BSP) [19].
Indeed, in case you missed it, there's a BSP arranged to occur in Bern,
Switzerland between November 30th and December 2nd [20]. If there are no
BSPs near to you, please do consider organising one. [21] [22]
[19] https://wiki.debian.org/BSP
[20] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2018/10/msg00003.html
[21] https://wiki.debian.org/BSPPlanning
[22] https://wiki.debian.org/HostingBSP
~ § ~
I would like to repeat my usual request for any feedback. Other
questions or concerns about the Project that would be difficult to bring
up elsewhere are welcome too — please address them to leader@debian.org.
See you all next month but happy Halloween in the meantime…
Best wishes,
- --
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: :' : Chris Lamb
`. `'` lamby@debian.org / chris-lamb.co.uk
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