Re: Announcing new Distribution

2011/9/18 Steffen Möller <steffen_moeller@gmx.de>

On 09/18/2011 01:45 PM, Ferdinand Thommes wrote:
> 2011/9/18 Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
>
>> Hello Ferdinand,
>>
>> thanks for sharing your plans!
>>
>> On Sat, 17 Sep 2011, Ferdinand Thommes wrote:
>>> First of all, noone in the siduction team at this moment has any official
>>> ties to Debian, e.g. is a DD or wears any other official hat. This fact
>>
>> It does not work that way. To become DD, you have to do something first.
>> As long as you keep doing things outside, you're unlikely to become DD
>> :-)
>>
>
> Well, i am not a coder but rather organizer, publicist, integrator,
> motivator ...

Most of the times, Debian packaging is not about coding, but about
organising, publishing, integrating, motivating .. sounds all to fit
quite nicely :)

>> I have been doing things for Debian, like organitzing conferences
> (Mini-debconf Berlin 2010), doing support in #debian and #debian-next,
> whenever i can, updating copyright files for debian-qt-kde for kde 4.4
> release...
> Besides that, the work me and my colleagues have done, releasing
> unstable-based distributions, is work for Debian, imho. I guess that would
> entitle me to apply for non-uploading DD.

But as a non-uploading DD you do not help the aims of siduction. Berlin
is rather densely covered with DDs. Start contacting someone on
http://wiki.debian.org/Keysigning/Offers
who may then help you with additional contacts on their side to
propel you forward.

I know most of the active Berlin DDs, we tried to get Debconf11 to Berlin.

[...]

>> I don't really see how you would hinder us... can you be more specific?
>>
> Debian is lacking manpower. Us using parts of the Debian
> infrastructure/manhours would not really help there.

I do not get it. The technical infrastructure scales. If you are good,
then you contribute to the manpower side with whatever you are doing.
If you need time from other contributors to Debian that is distracting
them too much or that they find irritating, then I have little doubt
they will tell you upfront. It is Berlin after all ..(have lived
there) .. :)

I might be having a misconception here, but what i know is, that its been a long and winding road until today, where relations between Debian and its derivatives are on a friendly level. In the days when we set out with sidux, things were quite different, and i was called all kinds of names, trying to promote the idea of a distribution based on unstable. So i might be a bit overcautios in that respect.

regards
Ferdinand

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