Hi Bob, I would like to welcome yourself and Freedombone to the Debian derivatives census! Would you like to take this opportunity to introduce yourself and Freedombone to us all? https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census/Freedombone 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 Freedombone. https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/CensusQA You don't appear to be subscribed to the Freedombone census page, I've made a few changes to the Freedombone census page: https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census/Freedombone?action=info You don't appear to be subscribed to the Freedombone census error output, please add a subscribers line containing your email address. Please include a similar line for the census page maintainer: https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/CensusTemplate?action=raw The page says that Freedombone modifies Debian binary packages. It is quite rare that distributions modify Debian binary packages instead of modifying source packages and rebuilding them. Does Freedombone 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 Freedombone sources.list to the wiki page if there is one? This will eventually help feed back patches and new packages to Debian developers. I note that Freedombone is based on Debian stable. 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 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 Freedombone blog to Planet Debian derivatives which helps the Debian community find out the things that are happening in the world of Debian derivatives. https://planet.debian.org/deriv/ Please note that the RSS feed linked to from by the freedombone tag supplied on the wiki page gives the full feed instead of a feed restricted to the freedombone tag. So right now all posts from the Freedombone blog will appear on Planet Debian derivatives. $ curl -s https://blog.freedombone.net/tag/freedombone | grep alternate <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" href="https://blog.freedombone.net/rss.xml"; title="RSS Feed"> Since Freedombone is based in the UK you might be interested in joining one of the local Debian groups in the UK. Also the annual Debian UK BBQ weekend is always worth a visit and occurs at the end of August. There are lots of folks there with experience around ARM boards, so it might be useful to you for Freedombone purposes. https://wiki.debian.org/LocalGroups#UK https://wiki.debian.org/DebianLocations http://wiki.earth.li/DebianParty2019 https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/20190710160114.GB18097@tack.einval.com Next year the annual Debian conference is in Haifa, Israel. It would be great if developers from Freedombone could attend DebConf. If this isn't possible, the following year DebConf could be in India, Sweden, Kosovo or Portugal. https://debconf20.debconf.org/ https://wiki.debian.org/DebConf/21 https://debconf19.debconf.org/talks/134-debconf21-in-your-city/ 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.debian.org/DebConf/19/Volunteer https://debconf-video-team.pages.debian.net/docs/volunteer_roles.html You might be interested in these ARM-related events from DebConf19: https://debconf19.debconf.org/talks/97-arm-ports-bof/ https://debconf19.debconf.org/talks/58-debian-on-the-raspberryscape/ https://debconf19.debconf.org/talks/121-cat-herding-development-boards/ I note that Freedombone uses vmdebootstrap, please note that it has been deprecated by its maintainer and replaced by vmdb2 in Debian. I note that Freedombone uses some non-x86 architectures, I would encourage you to provide help porting Debian to those architectures. https://www.debian.org/ports/ https://wiki.debian.org/Ports Please feel free to circulate this mail within the Freedombone team. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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