Re: DebCamp sprint?
Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> writes:
> Hello policy editors + others,
> There was a DebConf talk last year about the state of Policy. I also
> note that there was mention of off-list discussion of the current
> situation in the latest "Bits from the DPL".
> How many of the current policy editors expect to be present at DebCamp
> this year? How about organising a sprint to handle the current backlog?
> This would raise everyone's spirits about making progress with Policy.
> I would love to be involved.
I will be at DebConf but not at DebCamp (just can't take the two weeks
away from work without cutting into other vacation that I want to take
this year).
I think I'm currently the only active Policy editor. Not sure if the
other current editors have plans or hopes to become active again.
If I were going to prioritize the sort of work that could be done in
sprints (a lot of Policy work requires getting project consensus, which
isn't well-suited to sprints because it's hard to determine the absence of
well-founded objections in the context of a sprint), it would be
documenting the major changes in the project that Policy is entirely
silent about. Off the top of my head, the most pressing:
- Triggers
- Multiarch
- systemd integration (there's a draft in an external repo)
- FHS 3.0
For the first two, having Guillem or someone else deeply involved in dpkg
development on-hand would be hugely helpful since they'll have to review
the resulting document anyway. I think there may be some drafts buried in
bugs?
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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