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  • Bits from the Debian Project Leader (February 2019)

    From Chris Lamb@21:1/5 to All on Thu Feb 28 18:30:02 2019
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    Dear developers,

    The countdown to Debian 10 'buster' truly began last month with the introduction of the "soft" freeze (ie. no new packages, etc.) [0] which
    will be followed by the upcoming "full" freeze on 12th March [1]. See
    below on various Bug Squashing Parties (BSPs) which also link to
    documentation on how to find and fix our — at the time of writing — 363^W373 Release Critical (RC) bugs.

    Anyway, here follows a brief overview of what I've been getting up to as
    your Project Leader during February. Again, for those interested in such numbers, it was reasonably busy month in the DPL inbox with over 300 non-
    spam mails received and just shy of 100 emails sent… [2]

    [ 0] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2019/02/msg00008.html
    [ 1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2019/01/msg00008.html
    [ 2] https://i.imgur.com/O1MO941.jpg

    ~ § ~

    * I ee-appointed Kurt Roeckx to the Project Secretary position for
    another term. Thanks, Kurt. [3]

    * Made a request on behalf of Debian's Trademark Team [4] (who deal
    with requests for permission to use Debian's marks) to attract new
    volunteers and expand their membership. [5]

    * Represented Debian and its interests in Brussels, Belgium at FOSDEM
    [6], CopyLeftConf [7] and the GNOME Advisory Board [8]. I also
    participated in the Open Source Initiative's [9] monthly
    board meeting.

    * Responded to a question regarding the criteria for entry on Debian's
    "Partners" page [10] which highlights companies and organisations
    who provide ongoing and substantial assistance to the Project.

    * Made some early progress on organising some Code of Conduct training
    to Developers by liasing with another free-software organisation in
    order to save on costs, forwarded a suggestion regarding some
    software tooling in this area and finally provided some brief feedback
    on some potential Anti Harrassment team [11] candidates.

    * In January, I co-signed an affirmation of the "Open Source
    Definition" [12] (which based on our own Free Software Guidelines
    [13]); in particular, the OSI's role as a steward of said Definition.
    This was published earlier this month. [14]

    * Made some more arrangements for a Bug Squashing Party [15] I'm
    organising in Gothenburg, Sweden during April as part of the foss-
    north.se [16] conference. [17]

    * Submitted Debian's nominations for the 2019 Open Source Initiative
    [18] board elections. As an "affiliate" of the OSI, Debian nominates
    candidates in such an election [19].

    * Responded to a number of responses to my previous "Bits from the
    DPL" and redirected the usual requests for private support.

    * Issued "DD certificates" [20] for a number of Developers and
    Maintainers as part of new employment or positions in academic
    institutions, etc. If you are a DD, a DM or a Debian Contributor and
    you would like official certification of that, you may ask the
    Project Leader to generate one for you; please
    email leader@debian.org.

    [ 3] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2019/02/msg00009.html
    [ 4] https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DPL/Trademark
    [ 5] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2019/02/msg00005.html
    [ 6] https://fosdem.org/2019/
    [ 7] https://sfconservancy.org/news/2018/apr/30/copyleft-conf/
    [ 8] https://wiki.gnome.org/AdvisoryBoard
    [ 9] https://opensource.org/
    [10] https://www.debian.org/partners/
    [11] https://wiki.debian.org/AntiHarassment
    [12] https://opensource.org/osd
    [13] https://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines
    [14] https://opensource.org/node/966
    [15] https://wiki.debian.org/BSP
    [16] http://foss-north.se/
    [17] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2019/01/msg00006.html
    [18] https://opensource.org/
    [19] https://opensource.org/node/963
    [20] https://wiki.debian.org/DDCertificate

    ~ § ~

    We have a large number of events coming up in the upcoming month(s) as
    part of the preparations for 'buster', including:

    * (now) → March 3rd: Laveno, Italy. [21]

    * March 8th → March 10th: Cambridge, United Kingdom. [22]

    * March 30th → March 31st: Paris, France. [23]

    * April 5th → April 8th: Salzburg, Austria. [24]

    * April 7th: Gothenburg, Sweden. [25]

    If there are no Bug Squashing Parties (BSP) planned near you, please do consider organising one [26][27]. Don't forget Debian is willing to
    reimburse 100 USD (or equivalent) to attend such events [28] which
    can encourage people to attend and contribute towards making "buster"
    appear sooner.

    [21] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/it/2019/SnowCamp
    [22] https://wiki.debian.org/BSP/2019/03/gb/Cambridge
    [23] https://wiki.debian.org/BSP/2019/03/fr/Paris
    [24] https://wiki.debian.org/BSP/2019/04/Salzburg
    [25] https://wiki.debian.org/BSP/2019/04/se/Gothenburg
    [26] https://wiki.debian.org/BSPPlanning
    [27] https://wiki.debian.org/HostingBSP
    [28] https://wiki.debian.org/BSP

    ~ § ~

    In financial matters, I:

    * Approved funding for a Web Team [29] sprint to take place in Madrid,
    Spain during the upcoming month [30].

    * Had discussions around the status and next steps regarding a
    missing-in-action Trusted Organisation [31].

    * Approved the purchase of a Mikrotik "hEX" router [32] in order to
    provide access to some DSA-maintained [33] machines at University of
    Twente, Netherlands [34] and responded to a number of bursary
    requests to attend DebUtsav Delhi [35].

    * Approved Debian's involvement in this year's Google Summer of Code
    [36] and Outreachy [37] programmes, clarifying which Trusted
    Organisation would perform the financial administration. Alexander
    Wirt (formorer) subsequently published an announcement outlining
    which Debian sub-projects are involved [38].

    * Sent a big "thank you" to a free-software organisation that has
    shutdown and who have decided to transfer their remaining financial
    assets to Debian.

    * Lastly, I asked some further questions about (and subsequently
    approved another) preliminary budget for DebConf19 [39], offered
    sponsorship to a Bug Squashing Party planned to take place in
    Bratislava, and followed-up regarding a company who require a
    tax/accounting receipt for a donation.

    [29] https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Webmaster
    [30] https://wiki.debian.org/Sprints/2019/DebianWebTeam
    [31] https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DPL/TrustedOrganizationCriteria
    [32] https://mikrotik.com/product/RB750Gr3
    [33] https://dsa.debian.org/
    [34] https://www.utwente.nl/en/
    [35] https://debutsav.in/
    [36] https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/
    [37] https://www.outreachy.org/
    [38] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2019/02/msg00002.html
    [39] https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf19

    ~ § ~

    In case you missed it:

    * Gregory Colpart (reg) made a call-for-speakers for a MiniDebConf
    that will take place in Marseille, France between May 25th → May
    26th. [40]

    * The projects and mentors for Debian's involvement in Google Summer
    of Code [41] and Outreachy [42] were announced. [43]

    * Agustin Henze (tin) re-announced Salsa's [44] support for testing
    Debian packages, including running Lintian [45], piuparts [46] and
    testing for package reproducibility [47]. More information may be
    found in the respective README file [48].

    See you all next month…

    [40] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2019/02/msg00003.html
    [41] https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/
    [42] https://www.outreachy.org/
    [43] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2019/02/msg00002.html
    [44] https://salsa.debian.org/
    [45] https://lintian.debian.org/
    [46] https://wiki.debian.org/piuparts
    [47] https://reproducible-builds.org/
    [48] https://salsa.debian.org/salsa-ci-team/pipeline/blob/master/README.md


    Best wishes,

    - --
    ,''`.
    : :' : Chris Lamb
    `. `'` lamby@debian.org 🍥 chris-lamb.co.uk
    `-


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