Hi Kathy, I would like to welcome yourself and Mentor Embedded Linux Omni OS to the Debian derivatives census! Would you like to take this opportunity to introduce yourself and Omni OS to us all? https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census/MentorEmbeddedLinuxOmniOS 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 Omni OS. https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/CensusQA You aren't subscribed to the census page, I've made minor changes: https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census/MentorEmbeddedLinuxOmniOS?action=info Please update the contact information in the maintainer field. The page says that Omni OS modifies Debian binary packages. It is quite rare that distributions modify Debian binary packages instead of modifying source packages and rebuilding them. Does Omni OS 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 Omni OS sources.list to the wiki page? This will eventually help feed back patches and new packages to Debian developers. I note that Omni OS is based on Debian stretch. 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 (buster). https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2019/03/msg00003.html https://release.debian.org/#updates A great way to help ensure that the next Debian release 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://wiki.debian.org/how-can-i-help https://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/blog/?p=837 https://packages.debian.org/unstable/how-can-i-help As an enterprise distribution, I assume that Omni OS has a long period of security support. The Debian LTS (Long Term Support) team provides long term support for Debian releases. I would encourage Mentor to help out with this effort either financially or with developer time. You may also want to help Debian security efforts more generally. https://wiki.debian.org/LTS https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/data/report https://www.debian.org/security/audit/ https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.html#bug-security https://www.debian.org/security/ The Omni OS census 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 There doesn't appear to be a blog for Omni OS or a blog aggregator for Omni OS developers. If these existed they would be syndicated on Planet Debian derivatives and would help the Debian community find out the things that are happening in Omni OS. https://planet.debian.org/deriv/ This year the annual Debian conference is in Curitiba, Brazil. It would be great if developers from Omni OS could attend DebConf. If this isn't possible, next year DebConf will be in Haifa, Israel. https://debconf19.debconf.org/ I would encourage Mentor (the Omni OS corporate sponsor) to contribute financially to ensure the continued survival of Debian and the success of the annual Debian conference. https://www.debian.org/donations https://debconf.org/sponsors/ https://debconf19.debconf.org/sponsors/become-a-sponsor/ I would encourage any attendees to volunteer to ensure the continued success of the annual Debian conference, here are some examples of things that need helpers. https://wiki.debian.org/DebConf/19/Volunteer https://debconf-video-team.pages.debian.net/docs/volunteer_roles.html I note that Omni OS uses some non-x86 architectures (ARM), I would encourage you to provide help porting Debian to those architectures. https://www.debian.org/ports/arm/ https://wiki.debian.org/ArmPorts https://lists.debian.org/debian-arm/ Please feel free to circulate this mail within the Omni OS team. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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