Hi, Today I attended the talk "Reproducible Builds - aiming for bullseye" at DebConf19 and I want to share some comments since some things I consider we are missing to have more contributors. I think it is very important to share every year the current status of the Reproducible Builds Project inside Debian, but besides giving new information about what have been done, we should do another kind of presentations more focused to technical introductions to everyone, since at every DebConf we have people that being new, Debian Maintainers or Developers, they ask questions that could not be answered with the necessary depth of details and the complexity of what is taking place in RB is really huge, even for people that are working with Debian packages in some way. I have seen that workshops of this DebCamp and DebConf like "Empacotamento de software no Debian" (Debian software packaging) by Joao Eriberto Mota Filho (Basilian DD) and "Introdução de Git e GitLab" (Git and GitLab introduction) by Allythy Rennan (Basilian DD) were very useful to beginners to get motivation, understand since zero what about they are and have useful knowledge to start helping to the Debian Project.
Regarding to this, I purpose we prepare training sessions about Reproducible Builds for every MiniDebConf or DebConf in a way that could be easy for anyone to understand and get involved, like to do a demonstration how to put in practice the "Reproducible Builds How to" https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds/Howto showing all the necessary steps, how to identify the problems, possible solutions and patching. I would propose myself to do these trainings, but I still find it very difficult and my technical knowledge is not enough. It would be good if Holger, lamby, Vagrant or any other member of the team with the experience and confidence they already have, could do this kind of sessions. They would really help us a lot and make the Reproducible Team inside Debian look less hermetic and more friendly to people who have not idea about Reproducible Builds. Please answer me what do you think about it, Best regards Jathan -- Por favor evita enviarme adjuntos en formato de word o powerpoint, si quieres saber porque lee esto: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.es.html ¡Cámbiate a GNU/Linux! http://getgnulinux.org/es _______________________________________________ Reproducible-builds mailing list [email protected] https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/reproducible-builds
