Hi Patrick, I would like to welcome yourself and EmmabuntusDE to the Debian derivatives census! Would you like to take this opportunity to introduce yourself and EmmabuntusDE to us all? https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census/EmmabuntusDE 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 EmmabuntusDE. https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/CensusQA You don't appear to be subscribed to the EmmabuntusDE census page, I've made a few changes to the EmmabuntusDE census page: https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census/EmmabuntusDE?action=info The page says that EmmabuntusDE modifies Debian binary packages. It is quite rare that distributions modify Debian binary packages instead of modifying source packages and rebuilding them. Does EmmabuntusDE 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 EmmabuntusDE 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 EmmabuntusDE 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/ Since EmmabuntusDE is based in France you might be interested in joining the Debian France group. https://wiki.debian.org/LocalGroups#France Next/This year the annual Debian conference is in South Africa. It would be great if developers from EmmabuntusDE could attend DebConf. If this isn't possible, next year DebConf will be in Montreal. http://debconf16.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 https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf16/LocalTeamRoles I note that EmmabuntusDE is based on Debian stable. The Debian release team semi-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 (stretch). https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2016/03/msg00000.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 EmmabuntusDE uses live-build, which has been orphaned. I would encourage you to join the Debian Live team to help out with it. https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-live/ You might want to consider adding DNSSEC to your domains, TLSA records and SSL to some of your domains. Please feel free to circulate this mail within the EmmabuntusDE team. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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