Hi Daniela, I would like to welcome yourself and Proxmox VE to the Debian derivatives census! Would you like to take this opportunity to introduce yourself and Proxmox to us all? https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census/Proxmox It would be great if you could join our mailing list and IRC channel: https://wiki.debian.org/DerivativesFrontDesk I would encourage you to look at Debian's guidelines for derivatives: https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Guidelines You may want to look at our census QA page, some of the mails from there may apply to Proxmox. https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/CensusQA I've made a few changes to the Proxmox census page: https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census/Proxmox?action=info The page says that Proxmox modifies Debian binary packages. It is quite rare that distributions modify Debian binary packages instead of modifying source packages and rebuilding them. Does Proxmox actually do this? If so could you describe what kind of modifications you are making? If not I guess the page needs to be fixed. Would it be possible for you to add the Proxmox sources.list to the wiki page? This will eventually help feed back patches and new packages to Debian developers. https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Integration#Patches The page is missing a dpkg vendor field. It is important that Debian derivatives set this properly on installed systems and mention the value of the field in the derivatives census. https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Guidelines#Vendor The Proxmox News page doesn't appear to have an RSS feed and there doesn't appear to be a Proxmox blog or a blog aggregator for Proxmox developers. If there was an RSS feed for Proxmox news/blogs, it would be syndicated on Planet Debian derivatives and would help the Debian community find out the things that are happening in Proxmox. http://planet.debian.org/deriv/ Since Proxmox is based in Austria you might be interested in joining the Debian Debienna group from Vienna if you haven't already. https://wiki.debian.org/LocalGroups#Debienna This year the annual Debian conference is in Germany. This appears to be relatively close to the Proxmox location, it would be great if developers from Proxmox could attend DebConf. If this isn't possible, next year DebConf will be in South Africa. http://debconf15.debconf.org/ I would encourage Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH (the Proxmox corporate sponsor) to contribute financially to ensure the continued survival of Debian and the success of the annual Debian conference. I'm not sure what sponsor perks are still available for DebConf15 at this late stage, so contact the DebConf15 sponsor team soon if you want to do this. https://www.debian.org/donations http://debconf.org/sponsors/ http://debconf15.debconf.org/become-sponsor.xhtml I would encourage any attendees to volunteer to ensure the continued the success of the annual Debian conference, here are some examples of things that need helpers. https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf13/VolunteerCoordination I note that Proxmox is based on Debian stable. A great way to help ensure that the next Debian release will work well is to install and run the how-can-i-help tool and try to work on any issues that come up. http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/blog/?p=837 https://packages.debian.org/unstable/how-can-i-help https://wiki.debian.org/how-can-i-help I expect that Proxmox is heavily reliant on Linux, OpenVZ and qemu, I would encourage you to allocate development resources towards upstream improvements for these tools. You might want to consider adding DNSSEC to your domains and TLSA records and SSL to some of your domains. You might also want to redirect HTTP to HTTPS and add HSTS headers. https://www.proxmox.com/ Please feel free to circulate this mail within the Proxmox team. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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