• Contacting Debian Kernel team

    From Andreas Tille@21:1/5 to All on Mon May 20 08:30:01 2024
    Hi,

    I'd like to officially contact all our teams to learn about potential
    issues that might affect your work. I would love to learn how you
    organise / share your workload. If you do some regular meetings - be it
    on IRC, video conference or whatever I'm interested in joining one of
    your next meetings.

    Like previous DPLs, I'm open to any inquiries or requests for
    assistance. I personally prefer public discussion whenever possible, as
    they can benefit a wider audience. You can find a list of contact
    options at the bottom of my page on people.d.o[1].

    I prefer being offline when I'm away from my keyboard, so I don't carry
    a phone. In urgent situations, I can provide the number of my dumb
    phone, though it may not always be within reach. Feel free to ping me
    via email if I don't respond promptly to ensure I address your concerns.

    Please let me know whether I can do something for you. I'm fine joining
    your IRC channel if needed but please invite me in case I should be
    informed about some urgent discussion there since I normally do not lurk
    on this channel.

    I'd also like to inform you that I've registered a BoF for DebConf24 in
    Busan with the following description:

    This BoF is an attempt to gather as much as possible teams inside
    Debian to exchange experiences, discuss workflows inside teams, share
    their ways to attract newcomers etc.

    Each participant team should prepare a short description of their work
    and what team roles (“openings”) they have for new contributors. Even
    for delegated teams (membership is less fluid), it would be good to
    present the team, explain what it takes to be a team member, and what
    steps people usually go to end up being invited to participate. Some
    other teams can easily absorb contributions from salsa MRs, and at some
    point people get commit access. Anyway, the point is that we work on the
    idea that the pathway to become a team member becomes more clear from an
    outsider point-of-view.

    I'm sure not everybody will be able to travel this distance but it would
    be great if you would at least consider joining that BoF remotely. I'll
    care for a somehow TimeZone aware scheduling - if needed we'll organise
    two BoFs to match all time zones. I'm also aware that we have pretty
    different teams and it might make sense to do some infrastructure
    related BoF with your team and other teams that are caring for Debian infrastructure.

    I have some specific questions to the Debian Kernel team.

    - Do you feel good when doing your work in Kernel team?
    - Team metrics currently shows two current contributors
    (Ben and Salvatore). Do you consider the workload well
    shared in your team?
    - Do you have some strategy to gather new contributors for
    your team?
    - Can I do anything for you?

    Kind regards and thanks a lot for your work
    Andreas.


    [1] https://people.debian.org/~tille/

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  • From Diederik de Haas@21:1/5 to All on Mon May 20 13:06:52 2024
    On Monday, 20 May 2024 12:41:48 CEST Ben Hutchings wrote:
    - Can I do anything for you?

    My top priority would be more computing resources for Salsa, and
    particularly for CI runners.

    +1

    That was the first thing that came to my mind too, but it felt out of place for me to suggest that. I've less problems giving a '+1' on a suggestion from someone like Ben.

    From "Salsa stats for the curious" on debian-project ML:
    On Friday, 12 April 2024 17:32:04 CEST Joerg Jaspert wrote:
    The VM this all runs on has 8 cores and 32g

    I had several thoughts about that:
    - The PC on which I'm typing this email has twice the resources
    - It's impressive that the whole of Salsa can run on that
    - But why doesn't have f.e. 4x or 8x those resources?

    I think Salsa is great and I'm a big fan of CI.
    But IMO Salsa isn't exactly fast and particularly running the CI pipelines takes (way) longer then I'd like. The major value of a CI is in providing a fast feedback loop.
    Not hindered by any knowledge in this specific area, this seems an area where throwing money at it will actually help. Possibly substantially.

    Cheers,
    Diederik

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  • From Bastian Blank@21:1/5 to Diederik de Haas on Fri May 24 08:50:01 2024
    Hi

    On Mon, May 20, 2024 at 01:06:52PM +0200, Diederik de Haas wrote:
    From "Salsa stats for the curious" on debian-project ML:
    On Friday, 12 April 2024 17:32:04 CEST Joerg Jaspert wrote:
    The VM this all runs on has 8 cores and 32g

    I had several thoughts about that:
    - But why doesn't have f.e. 4x or 8x those resources?

    As former Salsa admin, I might be able give some insight in that.

    GitLab is only so much able to scale vertically. Instead you need to
    scale all of that horizontally. With this you can get amazing things
    out of it. Just remember that gitlab.com is three to four magnitudes
    larger.

    We even had a plan to do that somewhat at that time, but in the end it
    failed due to external circumstances.

    Not hindered by any knowledge in this specific area, this seems an area where throwing money at it will actually help. Possibly substantially.

    It is not so much the problem of throwing money. It's disagreements
    between teams and how things can be made better.

    Bastian

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  • From Andreas Tille@21:1/5 to All on Fri May 24 09:50:01 2024
    Hi Bastian,

    Am Fri, May 24, 2024 at 08:26:55AM +0200 schrieb Bastian Blank:

    It is not so much the problem of throwing money. It's disagreements
    between teams and how things can be made better.

    Thanks for the clarification. The purpose of my contacting the teams
    effort is to learn about such cases. Now the question is how we can get
    the people involved into one (virtual) room and find a solution. Any
    idea how to pproach this since I do not know the persons behind yet?

    Kind regards
    Andreas.

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