On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:06:21 +0000 Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> wrote: > Inspired by conversations here, and with various people in person and > on IRC, Stefano Zacchiroli and I have set up a new Alioth project > called DEX: > > http://dex.alioth.debian.org/ One thing thats not immediately obvious to me is what DEX stands for? > ...with an appropriately primitive website. :-) Always important :) > The premise of DEX is that by forming projects and teams around > specific work to be done with derivatives (e.g. merging patches), we > can build momentum and help individual contributors accomplish more. > Our hope is for DEX teams to include both Debian developers *and* > developers from derivatives, working together on common goals. I like the vision, hopefully it can be realised. > The first DEX team is the Ubuntu one: > > http://dex.alioth.debian.org/ubuntu > > and a few developers have signed up to it already. We've set a modest > initial goal of clearing a queue of (years) old patches from Ubuntu, > merging them into Debian where appropriate. We hope to build on that > with larger and more ambitious projects in the future, such as > reducing the ongoing delta between Debian and Ubuntu. I'll see if i can get together a team from gNewSense, but it may take a while. > Please let us know what you think, and speak up if you'd like to get > involved! > > If nobody hates the idea, we'll make a more formal announcement > beyond this list and invite more participation. No hate from me! thanks, kk -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS) Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group
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