Re: Debian derivatives census: Mentor Embedded Linux Omni OS: welcome!
Hi Paul,
Hi Paul,
I am working on the Debian census page between other tasks and international travel. It Is not yet complete, but we will get it completed in the next few weeks. After that, I. will provide an introduction to the community.
Thanks,
Kathy
On 4/10/19, 8:36 PM, "Paul Wise" <pabs@debian.org> wrote:
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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