Hi Fernando, I would like to welcome yourself and Huayra to the Debian derivatives census! Would you like to take this opportunity to introduce yourself and Huayra to us all in more detail? https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census/Huayra 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 Huayra. https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/CensusQA You don't appear to be subscribed to the Huayra census page, I've made a few changes to the Huayra census page: https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census/Huayra?action=info The page says that Huayra modifies Debian binary packages. It is quite rare that distributions modify Debian binary packages instead of modifying source packages and rebuilding them. Does Huayra 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. Some of the Release files in the apt repository for Huayra 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 Huayra dev blog to Planet Debian derivatives which helps the Debian community find out the things that are happening in the world of Debian derivatives. Unfortunately the main Huayra news source doesn't have an RSS feed, could you add one? http://planet.debian.org/deriv/ http://huayra.conectarigualdad.gob.ar/noticias Since Huayra is based in Argentina you might be interested in joining the #debian-ar IRC channel. https://wiki.debian.org/LocalGroups#Argentina Next year the annual Debian conference is in South Africa. It would be great if developers from Huayra could attend DebConf16. I would encourage ANSES (the Huayra government sponsor) to contribute financially to ensure the continued survival of Debian and the success of the annual Debian conference. Please note that sponsorship for DebConf16 is not yet open. 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 A great way to help ensure that the next Debian release working 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 note that Huayra uses MATE, I would encourage you to provide feedback and fixes to the Debian MATE team. https://wiki.debian.org/PkgMate You might want to consider adding DNSSEC to your domains, TLSA records and SSL to some of your domains. SSL on the repository will help Huayra users to obscure package names and version numbers from global active adversaries. You might also want to add HSTS headers. http://huayra.conectarigualdad.gob.ar/ http://repo.huayragnulinux.com.ar/ Please feel free to circulate this mail within the Huayra team. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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