Hi Debian Srbija :) I would like to welcome yourself and Serbian GNU/Linux to the Debian derivatives census! Would you like to take this opportunity to introduce yourself and Serbian GNU/Linux to us all? https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census/SerbianLinux 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 Serbian GNU/Linux. https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/CensusQA You don't appear to be subscribed to the Serbian GNU/Linux census page, I've made a few changes to the Serbian GNU/Linux census page: https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census/SerbianLinux?action=info Generally we prefer the census page maintainer to be a human rather than an address for a group of people. The page says that Serbian GNU/Linux modifies Debian binary packages. It is quite rare that distributions modify Debian binary packages instead of modifying source packages and rebuilding them. Does Serbian GNU/Linux 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 Serbian GNU/Linux sources.list to the wiki page? This will eventually help feed back patches and new packages to Debian developers. 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 I've added the Serbian GNU/Linux 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/ There doesn't appear to be a blog aggregator for Serbian GNU/Linux developers. If it existed it would be syndicated on Planet Debian derivatives and would help the Debian community find out the things that are happening in Serbian GNU/Linux. http://planet.debian.org/deriv/ This year the annual Debian conference is in Germany. This isn't particularly far from Serbia, it would be great if developers from Serbian GNU/Linux could attend DebConf. If this isn't possible, next year DebConf will be in South Africa. http://debconf15.debconf.org/ 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 Serbian GNU/Linux is based on Debian stable. The Debian release team recently released a status report 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/2015/03/msg00002.html https://release.debian.org/jessie/freeze_policy.html 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 Serbian GNU/Linux uses KDE and Openbox, I would encourage you to provide feedback and fixes to their Debian maintainers. https://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/ https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/openbox Please feel free to circulate this mail within the Serbian GNU/Linux team. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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