Hi,
I am not a DD or DM, and I'm not familiar with the challenges that for instance people like M. Zhou face in getting software packaged officially for Debian. Also, I won't be attending in person, only online if that's an option.
However, I have been campaigning as part of my FRDCSA project since 2002 to get many of the tens of thousands of open source AI tools in the wild packaged for Debian, whether that be (possibly roughshod and unofficial) auto-packaged packages, or manually packaged. I have been dabbling with ML/DNN/DL/LLM/etc lately to try to package these tools and/or use these tools to auto-package.
For instance, I wrote the mailing list at the beginning of 2008 promoting this idea.
Recently, I started a team of four people for a three day hackathon, some of which who have more experience than I do with ML/DNN/DL/LLM/etc, to create an LLM-autonomous agent (such as SuperAGI/BabyAGI/AutoGPT/MetaGPT/BeeBot/etc) capable of packaging software for Debian. Of the around 400 teams that entered, we placed in the top 25, however, we neglected to include a required business plan.
At the end of our presentation video you can see a demonstration that two of our team members got working of SuperAGI rolling a Debian package automatically.
Our team is now debating doing a second much long (three week) hackathon to develop these technologies further.
Debian would be the perfect universal operating system to package all this software for, if there was the interest.
If needed, I can speak about some of the technical challenges that we ourselves have faced. I could possibly work on a short to medium length presentation on this topic, if anyone was really interested (otherwise, my time would be better served by continuing to work on FRDCSA), by adapting some of my previous attempts at presenting at a DebConf on the topic.
For instance here is a somewhat cringey partially finished (but never shown) video for DebConf 2020. I don't remember what's in it, and I was definitely going to finish and revamp it, such as with using Text To Speech instead of my own voice. It's embarassing to share this:
However, I haven't rolled a .deb in years, and have not been brought up to speed on the latest best practices.
I apologize if I have erred in sending this to the mailing list. I am just offering some help if people should want it, on the topic of packaging-with-AI and packaging-for-AI.
Cheers,
Andrew Dougherty