[DEP9] progress update (aka what kept me busy during DebConf)

[Serafeim Zanikolas <sez@debian.org>]

Hey all,

Maintainers of servers that may be invoked via inetd might want to checkout
DEP9, if not done so already. The implementation is not quite there yet but
there's been considerable progress during DebConf:

    http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/reconf-inetd.git;a=summary

Even though the scope of the project is very narrow, what is interesting IMHO
is the use of behaviour-driven development, with feature-oriented tests [0]
that map directly to the table of expected behaviour that is specified in the
DEP [1].

cheers,
sez

[0] eg. http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/reconf-inetd.git;a=blob;f=features/no-action.feature
[1] http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep9/#index3h1

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