Dear Debian community,
this are my bits from DPL written at my last day at another great
DebConf.
DebConf attendance
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At the beginning of July, there was some discussion with the bursary and
content team about sponsoring attendees. The discussion continued at
DebConf[da1]. I do not have much experience with these discussions. My
summary is that while there is an honest attempt to be fair to everyone,
it did not seem to work for all, and some critical points for future
discussion remained. In any case, I'm thankful to the bursary team for
doing such a time-draining and tedious job.
[da1] https://debconf24.debconf.org/talks/38-debconf-bursary-team-bof/
Popular packages not yet on Salsa at all
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Otto Kekäläinen did some interesting investigation about "Popular
packages not yet on Salsa at all" [ps1]. I think I might provide some
more up to date list soon by some UDD query which considers more recent
uploads than the trends data soon. For instance wget was meanwhile
moved to Salsa (thanks to Noël Köthe for this).
[ps1] https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/debian-salsa-ci/2024-July/000134.html
Keep on contacting more teams
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I kept on contacting teams in July. Despite I managed to contact way
less teams than I was hoping I was able to present some conclusions in
the "Debian Teams exchange" BoF[te1] and Slide 16/23 of my "Bits from
the DPL" talk[te2]. I intend to do further contacts next months.
[te1] https://debconf24.debconf.org/talks/87-debian-teams-exchange/
[te2] https://people.debian.org/~tille/talks/20240730_debconf_dpl/bits.pdf#page=47
Nominating Jeremy Bícha for GNOME Advisory Board
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I've nominated Jeremy Bícha to GNOME Advisory Board. Jeremy has
volunteered to represent Debian at GUADEC [gb2] in Denver.
[gb1] https://wiki.gnome.org/AdvisoryBoard
[gb2] https://events.gnome.org/event/209/
DebCamp / DebConf
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I attended DebCamp starting from 22.7. evening and had a lot of fun with
other attendees. As always DebConf is some important event nearly
every year for me. I enjoyed Korean food, Korean bath, nature at the
costline and other things.
I had a small event without video coverage "Creating web galleries
including maps from a geo-tagged photo collection"[dc1]. At least two
attendees of this workshop confirmed success in creating their own web
galleries.
I used DebCamp and DebConf for several discussions. My main focus was on
discussions with FTP master team members Luke Faraone, Sean Whitton, and
Utkarsh Gupta. I'm really happy that the four of us absolutely agree on
some proposed changes to the structure of the FTP master team, as well
as changes that might be fruitful for the work of the FTP master team
itself and for Debian developers regarding the processing of new
packages.
My explicit thanks go to Luke Faraone, who gave a great introduction to
FTP master work in their BoF[dc2]. It was very instructive for the
attending developers to understand how the FTP master team checks
licenses and copyright and what workflow is used for accepting new
packages.
In the first days of DebConf, I talked to representatives of DebConf
platinum sponsor WindRiver, who announced the derivative eLxr[dc3]. I
warmly welcome this new derivative and look forward to some great
cooperation. I also talked to the representative of our gold sponsor,
Microsoft.
My first own event was the Debian Med BoF[dc4]. I'd like to repeat that
it might not only be interesting for people working in medicine and
microbiology but always contains some hints how to work together in a
team.
As said above I was trying to summarise some first results of my team
contacts and got some further input from other teams in the "Debian
Teams exchange" BoF[te1].
Finally, I had my "Bits from DPL" talk[dc5]. I received positive
responses from attendees as well as from remote participants, which
makes me quite happy. For those who were not able to join the events
on-site or remotely, the videos of all events will be available on the
DebConf site soon. I'd like to repeat the explicit need for some
volunteers to join the Lintian team. I'd also like to point out the
"Tiny tasks" initiative I'd like to start (see below).
BTW, if someone might happen to solve my quiz for the background images
there is a summary page in my slides[dc6] which might help to assign
every slide to some DebConf. I could assume that if you pool your
knowledge you can solve more than just the simple ones. Just let me
know if you have some solution. You can add numbers to the rows and
letters to the columns and send me:
2000/2001: Uv + Wx
2002: not attended
2003: Yz
2004: not attended
2005:
2006: not attended
2007:
...
2024: A1
This list provides some additional information for DebConfs I did not
attend and when no video stream was available. It also reminds you about
the one I uncovered this year and that I used two images from 2001 since
I did not have one from 2000. Have fun reassembling good memories.
[dc1] https://debconf24.debconf.org/talks/153-creating-web-galleries-including-maps-from-a-geo-tagged-photo-collection/
[dc2] https://debconf24.debconf.org/talks/154-meet-the-ftpteam/
[dc3] https://www.windriver.com/blog/Introducing-eLxr
[dc4] https://debconf24.debconf.org/talks/21-debian-med-bof/
[dc5] https://debconf24.debconf.org/talks/20-bits-from-the-dpl/
[dc6] https://people.debian.org/~tille/talks/20240730_debconf_dpl/bits.pdf#page=60
Tiny tasks: Bug of the day
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As I mentioned in my "Bits from DPL" talk[dc5], I'd like to start a
"Tiny tasks" effort within Debian. The first type of tasks will be the
"Bug of the day" initiative[tt1]. For those who would like to join,
please join the corresponding Matrix channel[tt2]. I'm curious to see
how this might work out and am eager to gain some initial experiences
with newcomers. I won't be available until next Monday, as I'll start
traveling soon and have a family event (which is why I need to leave
DebConf today after the formal dinner).
[tt1] https://salsa.debian.org/tille/tiny_qa_tools/-/wikis/Tiny-QA-tasks
[tt2] https://matrix.to/#/#debian-tiny-tasks:matrix.org
Kind regards from DebConf in Busan
Andreas.
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