Hi Arjen, I would like to welcome yourself and SolydXK to the Debian derivatives census! Would you like to take this opportunity to introduce yourself and SolydXK to us all? https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census/SolydXK It would be great if you could join our mailing list and IRC channel: http://wiki.debian.org/DerivativesFrontDesk I would encourage you to look at Debian's guidelines for derivatives: http://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Guidelines You may want to look at our census QA page, some of the mails from there may apply to SolydXK. http://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/CensusQA You don't appear to be subscribed to the SolydXK census page, I've made a few changes: http://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census/SolydXK?action=info The apt repository for SolydXK does not contain source packages for the security section, including for packages licensed under the GNU GPL. This may or may not be a copyright violation depending on whether our not you distribute those elsewhere. In any case, please add source packages to your repository so that Debian can automatically create patches to be presented to Debian package maintainers. https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/CensusQA#No_source_packages https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Integration#Patches Some of the Release files in the apt repository for SolydXK are missing the Valid-Until header, which allows clients to find out when active network attackers are holding back newer Release files. At minimum, rolling releases and suites containing security updates should have this header. With reprepro you can use the ValidFor config option. https://wiki.debian.org/RepositoryFormat#Date.2CValid-Until I've added the SolydXK blog to Planet Debian derivatives which helps the Debian community find out the things that are happening in the world of Debian derivatives. http://planet.debian.org/deriv/ This year the annual Debian conference is in Portland, OR, USA. It is fairly close to the start of the conference but it would be great if developers from SolydXK could attend DebConf. If this isn't possible, next year DebConf will be in Germany. http://debconf14.debconf.org/ http://debconf15.debconf.org/ I note that SolydXK is partly based on Debian stable. The Debian release team recently released a timeline for the freeze for the next Debian stable release. I would encourage you to review it and prepare your plans for rebasing on the next Debian release (jessie). https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2014/07/msg00002.html I note that SolydXK is partly based on Debian testing. A great way to help ensure Debian testing is working well is to install and run the how-can-i-help tool and try to work on any issues that come up. https://packages.debian.org/unstable/how-can-i-help https://wiki.debian.org/how-can-i-help I note that SolydXK uses DebianLive, I would encourage you to provide feedback and fixes to the live team. https://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-live/ I note that SolydXK uses KDE and Xfce, I would encourage you to join the Debian KDE/Xfce groups. https://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/join.html https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianXfceGroup Please feel free to circulate this mail within the SolydXK team. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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