Re: Bits from DPL
On Thu, May 02, 2024 at 10:37:57AM -0600, Trevor Howard wrote:
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> On Wed, May 1, 2024 at 11:15 PM Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > keeping my promise for monthly bits, here's a quick snapshot of my first
> > ten days as DPL.
> >
> > Special thanks to Jonathan for an insightful introduction that left less
> > room for questions. His introduction covered my first tasks like expense
> > approval and CTTE member appointments thoroughly. Although I made a
> > visible oversight by forgetting to exclude Simon McVittie <smcv> from
> > the list, whose term has ended[0], I'm committed to learning from this
> > mistake. In future I'll prioritize thorough proofreading to ensure
> > accuracy.
> >
> > Part of my "work" was learning what channels I need to subscribe and
> > adjust my .procmailrc and .muttrc took some time.
> >
> > Recently I had my first press interview. I had to answer a couple of
> > prepared questions for Business IT News[1]. It seems journalists are
> > always on the lookout for unique angles. When asked if humility is a new
> > trait for DPLs, my response would be a resounding "No." In my
> > experience, humility is a common quality among DPLs I've encountered,
> > including Jonathan.
> >
> > One of my top priorities is reaching out to all our dedicated and
> > appointed teams, including those managing critical infrastructure. I've
> > begun with the CTTE, Salsa Admins and Debian Snapshot. Everything
> > appears to be in order with the CTTE team. I'm waiting for response
> > from Salsa and Snapshot, which is fine given the recent contact.
> >
> > I was pointed out to the fact that lintian is in an unfortunate state as
> > Axel Beckert confirmed on the lintian maintainers list[2]. It turns out
> > that bug #1069745 of magics-python should not have been undetected for
> > a long time if lintian bug #677078[3] would have been fixed. It seems
> > obvious to me that lintian needs more work to fulfill its role as
> > reliably policy checker to ensure our high level of packaging quality.
> > In any case thanks a lot to Axel who is doing his best but it seems
> > urgent to me to find some more person-power for this task. Any volunteer
> > to lend some helping hand in the lintian maintainers team?
> >
> > On 2024-04-30 I gave my first talk "Bits from greenhorn DPL" online
> > at MiniDebConf Brasil in Belo Horizonte. The Q&A afterwards stired
> > some flavours of the question: "What can Debian Brasil do better?"
> > My answer was always in a way: Given your great activity in now
> > organising the fifth MiniDebConf you are doing pretty well and I have
> > no additional hints for the moment.
> >
> > Kind regards
> > Andreas.
> >
> > [0] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2024/04/msg00010.html
> > [1]
> > https://itwire.com/business-it-news/open-source/new-debian-leader-brings-an-unusual-trait-to-the-job-humility.html
> > [2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-lint-maint/2024/04/msg00010.html
> > [3] https://bugs.debian.org/677078
> > lintian: Check for Architecture: all in Perl, Python, Ruby etc.
> > packages
> > Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 16:15:53 +0300
> >
> >
> >
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