Re: agenda for Debian leadership team (a.k.a. Project Scud) meeting on 2005-04-24

2005-04-25 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sun, 24 Apr 2005, Branden Robinson / Debian Project Leader wrote:
 I realize that a closed meeting is not ideal; I welcome suggestions
 on how to balance the accountability of the DPL and the leadership
 team with the necessity of dealing with the occasional sensitive
 issue in a more discrete manner than a public IRC channel.

Could abridged logs be made available with the content that is
sensitive redacted?[1] (Ideally with a notation that content has been
redacted.)

That would help increase the transparency of the group and eliminate
the need for you all to prepare public minutes,[2] as any other
interested party could prepare their own.


Don Armstrong

1: If needed, I volunteer to help facilitate this, but it may be best
for the current members to handle it.
2: Not that they couldn't still be prepared by the attendees, of
course.
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Re: snapshot.debian.net

2005-04-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 08:39:55AM +0200, Adrian von Bidder wrote:
 On Monday 25 April 2005 08.03, Branden Robinson / Debian Project Leader 
 wrote:
  * establishing a backup site for ``snapshot.debian.net``

 I wonder if snapshot shouldn't be promoted to an official debian.*org* 
 service in recognition of its value to the project.

One concern I have, personally, is over precisely how much value
snapshot.d.n provides to the *project*, as opposed to providing value to
others outside the project.  Since DDs have access to recently removed
packages via the morgue on merkel (albeit not indexed nicely the way
snapshot.d.n currently is), I really wonder if this service should be a
priority for Debian to spend money on while our ports and other areas of
core infrastructure are in a state of disarray (IMHO).

I do find snapshot.d.n very helpful from time to time, and am certainly glad
it's there; I don't even think it would be wrong for Debian to spend money
on it; I just think there's just a question here of which hardware should
get priority for funding.

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Re: Debian Project Leader report for 2005-04-24

2005-04-25 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 01:03:35AM -0500, Branden Robinson / Debian Project 
Leader wrote:
 Here is the first of my reports as Debian Project Leader.  You may read it
 in HTML format at:
   http://people.debian.org/~branden/dpl/reports/2005-04-24.html

(First suggestion: set M-F-T appropriately. It was set to
debian-devel-announce and [EMAIL PROTECTED] debian-project would be
better, or debian-devel.)

 Sarge Release Challenges and Progress
 -
[...]
 I offer a status report on the Sarge release because of its criticality,
 and because as DPL I want to do everything I can to keep our developers
 and users apprised of this central issue.  If the release managers see
 that this report is correlated with a spike in reckless uploads to
 unstable, however, I will be forced to refrain from offering them.  As I
 said in all three of the interviews I conducted recently (see
 `Interviews and Public Appearances`_, below), my top priority as DPL is
 to not get in the way of the Sarge release.  Please do not put me in the
 awkward position of having to refrain from reporting on this issue to
 serve that goal.

Just a bit of (hopefully constructive) feedback: I find the above to be
quite unnecessarily condescending. We're not children and deserve to be
treated as such.

Hamish
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Re: agenda for Debian leadership team (a.k.a. Project Scud) meeting on 2005-04-24

2005-04-25 Thread Peter Makholm
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 I hope I'm not alone when I say that this confidentiality and seemingly
 crass Besserwisser tone concerns me. Because I am not experienced
 with the politics of Debian, this is all I will say.

It is not ideal as Branden says. But I prefer closed groups who does
some work to Anonymous Cowards who just complains. I'm all for
openness but my experience shows me that closely knit groups with
clear responsabilities does work better than fully open mailling
lists.

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Re: agenda for Debian leadership team (a.k.a. Project Scud) meeting on 2005-04-24

2005-04-25 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Le Lundi 25 Avril 2005 08:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit :
 I hope I'm not alone when I say that this confidentiality and
 seemingly crass Besserwisser tone concerns me. Because I am not
 experienced with the politics of Debian, this is all I will say.

the point is, a DPL as a single person, may have confidential meetings 
with himself, and nobody bothers. But when it's a group of person ... 
whoa ... that's now a big deal !

So please, scud is not popular in all the community, but when you want 
to attack it, find real reasons.
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Re: snapshot.debian.net

2005-04-25 Thread Martin Schulze
Steve Langasek wrote:
 On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 08:39:55AM +0200, Adrian von Bidder wrote:
  On Monday 25 April 2005 08.03, Branden Robinson / Debian Project Leader 
  wrote:
   * establishing a backup site for ``snapshot.debian.net``
 
  I wonder if snapshot shouldn't be promoted to an official debian.*org* 
  service in recognition of its value to the project.
 
 One concern I have, personally, is over precisely how much value
 snapshot.d.n provides to the *project*, as opposed to providing value to
 others outside the project.  Since DDs have access to recently removed
 packages via the morgue on merkel (albeit not indexed nicely the way
 snapshot.d.n currently is), I really wonder if this service should be a
 priority for Debian to spend money on while our ports and other areas of
 core infrastructure are in a state of disarray (IMHO).

The snapshot service is very valuable when it comes to checking older
versions of packages.  For example, it is a very, very good help for
doing security work when older package versions need to be reviewed.

I would love to have it as an official service, and even a backup.  I read
that it currently takes one TB of disk space.

Regards,

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Re: snapshot.debian.net

2005-04-25 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 11:15:57AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
 The snapshot service is very valuable when it comes to checking older
 versions of packages.  For example, it is a very, very good help for
 doing security work when older package versions need to be reviewed.

Does that include the binary packages? I'd guess that binary packages
are of lesser use because of library and other environmental changes,
and it is mainly/exclusively the source packages that are of assistance
in this matter.

Is that correct?

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Re: snapshot.debian.net

2005-04-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 11:15:57AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
 Steve Langasek wrote:
  On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 08:39:55AM +0200, Adrian von Bidder wrote:
   On Monday 25 April 2005 08.03, Branden Robinson / Debian Project Leader 
   wrote:
* establishing a backup site for ``snapshot.debian.net``

   I wonder if snapshot shouldn't be promoted to an official debian.*org* 
   service in recognition of its value to the project.

  One concern I have, personally, is over precisely how much value
  snapshot.d.n provides to the *project*, as opposed to providing value to
  others outside the project.  Since DDs have access to recently removed
  packages via the morgue on merkel (albeit not indexed nicely the way
  snapshot.d.n currently is), I really wonder if this service should be a
  priority for Debian to spend money on while our ports and other areas of
  core infrastructure are in a state of disarray (IMHO).

 The snapshot service is very valuable when it comes to checking older
 versions of packages.  For example, it is a very, very good help for
 doing security work when older package versions need to be reviewed.

Out of curiosity, do you have a sense of how long after a package is dropped
from the archive that it ceases being useful to you for security research?
I know that all of the stuff I've used snapshot for falls within the scope
of what's kept in the morgue, which is quite a small subset of what snapshot
keeps; snapshot just has much better (i.e., existing) indexing.

 I would love to have it as an official service, and even a backup.  I read
 that it currently takes one TB of disk space.

According to http://snapshot.debian.net/du/df.png, it's already exceeded
1.2TB.  That sounds to me like it would be one of the larger direct hardware
purchases ever made by the project, so I do think it's a good idea to ask
how much of this history is truly needed by the project -- the open-ended
1.2TB and growing of snapshot.d.n, or something more modest, like the 60GB
used by the morgue?

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Re: snapshot.debian.net

2005-04-25 Thread Martin Schulze
Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
 On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 11:15:57AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
  The snapshot service is very valuable when it comes to checking older
  versions of packages.  For example, it is a very, very good help for
  doing security work when older package versions need to be reviewed.
 
 Does that include the binary packages? I'd guess that binary packages
 are of lesser use because of library and other environmental changes,
 and it is mainly/exclusively the source packages that are of assistance
 in this matter.

Up to now I only needed source packages for security work.  For investigating
breakages and stuff, I would need binary packages, though.  Even though I
usually don't need them, I still consider the way to specify a date in the
apt line quite useful when you want to downgrade your entire system back
to before the breakage.

Regards,

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Re: Debian Project Leader report for 2005-04-24

2005-04-25 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
  and users apprised of this central issue.  If the release managers see
  that this report is correlated with a spike in reckless uploads to
[...]
 Just a bit of (hopefully constructive) feedback: I find the above to be
 quite unnecessarily condescending. We're not children and deserve to be
 treated as such.

While we are not children, there are a lot of us who are rather expletive
deleted individuals.  DDs do reckless, irresponsible uploads all the time,
why should anyone expect people not to do it after a sarge-might-freeze
heads'up?

If you never act like that, just ignore the whole thing.  It is not meant
for you.

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Re: snapshot.debian.net

2005-04-25 Thread Andreas Barth
* Jeroen van Wolffelaar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050425 11:40]:
 On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 11:15:57AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
  The snapshot service is very valuable when it comes to checking older
  versions of packages.  For example, it is a very, very good help for
  doing security work when older package versions need to be reviewed.

 Does that include the binary packages? I'd guess that binary packages
 are of lesser use because of library and other environmental changes,
 and it is mainly/exclusively the source packages that are of assistance
 in this matter.


I consider binary packages as extrem useful to check for dependency
changes etc, or for fixing issues in some core packages where you need
to take an older version for building a newer one.


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Re: snapshot.debian.net

2005-04-25 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 01:12:43PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote:
 I consider binary packages as extrem useful to check for dependency
 changes etc,

That can be done by having an archive of packages files alone.

 or for fixing issues in some core packages where you need to take an
 older version for building a newer one.

Would one really do that after 6 months, the current on-and-about
keeping time for .deb's on ftp-master  merkel? I seriously doubt that
-- for past stable releases and revisions, ok, but for unstable/testing?
Those are by definition development branches, and older .deb's loose
relevance after some time, nobody has them anymore, and whatever effect
they had is no longer supported anyway in not a single way.

For source packages that's different indeed, but a source only
snapshot.d.o would at this moment be about 100GB, which is *much* better
handleble, and is viable for some .d.o machine to provide as
'debian-snapshot' and that will probably get at least a few mirrors
without any Debian expenses spend on it.

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Re: snapshot.debian.net

2005-04-25 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 01:21:04PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
 On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 01:12:43PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote:
  I consider binary packages as extrem useful to check for dependency
  changes etc,
 
 That can be done by having an archive of packages files alone.
 
  or for fixing issues in some core packages where you need to take an
  older version for building a newer one.
 
 Would one really do that after 6 months, the current on-and-about
 keeping time for .deb's on ftp-master  merkel? I seriously doubt that
 -- for past stable releases and revisions, ok, but for unstable/testing?
 Those are by definition development branches, and older .deb's loose
 relevance after some time, nobody has them anymore, and whatever effect
 they had is no longer supported anyway in not a single way.

Here's a use-case I had for snapshot.d.n -- I needed debs which matched
reasonably closely with the d-i rc2 release for use in an installfest.  The
nightly/weekly d-i builds didn't work for various reasons, and d-i failed
to be happy with the debs currently in testing.  So, back to s.d.n for the
day the d-i rc2 came out, get the relevant debs, and -- lo and behold -- it
all Just Worked.  Without s.d.n I would have been very dead in the water,
and there'd quite possibly be 40 less Debian machines in the world.

Whilst snapshot.d.n might not be the most core of Debian services, I reckon
it has it's uses -- if for no other reason than as a resource for collecting
interesting historical statistics.  

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Re: Debian Project Leader report for 2005-04-24

2005-04-25 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
On Monday 25 April 2005 14:10, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
 I think the request is ok (and the release managers have requested
 the same before, quite reasonably). My complaint was Branden's threat:
 if his email triggers more uploads, he'll stop sending emails.

er, no, if it triggers an upload storm, he'll stop reporting on 
release-issues in his emails, not stop sending mails all together. Quite a 
different thing no?
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Re: snapshot.debian.net

2005-04-25 Thread Martin Schulze
Steve Langasek wrote:
I wonder if snapshot shouldn't be promoted to an official debian.*org* 
service in recognition of its value to the project.
 
   One concern I have, personally, is over precisely how much value
   snapshot.d.n provides to the *project*, as opposed to providing value to
   others outside the project.  Since DDs have access to recently removed
   packages via the morgue on merkel (albeit not indexed nicely the way
   snapshot.d.n currently is), I really wonder if this service should be a
   priority for Debian to spend money on while our ports and other areas of
   core infrastructure are in a state of disarray (IMHO).
 
  The snapshot service is very valuable when it comes to checking older
  versions of packages.  For example, it is a very, very good help for
  doing security work when older package versions need to be reviewed.
 
 Out of curiosity, do you have a sense of how long after a package is dropped
 from the archive that it ceases being useful to you for security research?

At least as long as the package is in at least one of {oldstable,
stable, testing, unstable, experimental}.  However, since there are
only rare cases of me dealing with removed packages, I can't rely on
experience.

 According to http://snapshot.debian.net/du/df.png, it's already exceeded
 1.2TB.  That sounds to me like it would be one of the larger direct hardware
 purchases ever made by the project, so I do think it's a good idea to ask
 how much of this history is truly needed by the project -- the open-ended
 1.2TB and growing of snapshot.d.n, or something more modest, like the 60GB
 used by the morgue?

Having source packages available indefinitively would be good.  When
it comes to space problems, maybe dropping binary packages when the
version is older than what is in (old)oldstable currently would be an
option.

Regards,

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Re: Debian Project Leader report for 2005-04-24

2005-04-25 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 02:36:35PM +0200, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote:
 On Monday 25 April 2005 14:10, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
  I think the request is ok (and the release managers have requested
  the same before, quite reasonably). My complaint was Branden's threat:
  if his email triggers more uploads, he'll stop sending emails.
 
 er, no, if it triggers an upload storm, he'll stop reporting on 
 release-issues in his emails, not stop sending mails all together. Quite a 
 different thing no?

Not really. It's still I'll-take-something-away-if-you-don't-behave.

As the release managers are doing a fine job of communicating themselves
I didn't expect the DPL to report on the release anyway.

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Re: Debian Project Leader report for 2005-04-24

2005-04-25 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
On Monday 25 April 2005 15:40, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
 On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 02:36:35PM +0200, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) 
wrote:
  On Monday 25 April 2005 14:10, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
   I think the request is ok (and the release managers have requested
   the same before, quite reasonably). My complaint was Branden's
   threat: if his email triggers more uploads, he'll stop sending
   emails.
 
  er, no, if it triggers an upload storm, he'll stop reporting on
  release-issues in his emails, not stop sending mails all together.
  Quite a different thing no?

 Not really. It's still I'll-take-something-away-if-you-don't-behave.

I disagree, it's just a I'm gonna try this, if I find it is 
counterproductive, I won't do it again in the future which IMO is just 
common sense.
 
 As the release managers are doing a fine job of communicating themselves
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Re: snapshot.debian.net

2005-04-25 Thread Lars Wirzenius
ma, 2005-04-25 kello 11:37 +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar kirjoitti:
 Does that include the binary packages? I'd guess that binary packages
 are of lesser use because of library and other environmental changes,
 and it is mainly/exclusively the source packages that are of assistance
 in this matter.
 
 Is that correct?

I have used snapshot.d.n a couple of times to get old (from early sarge)
binary packages to test bugs related to upgrade problems for a package.
It is possible that a mere source package would do, but recompilation
now is not guaranteed to create the same binary package as what the user
user installed back then. Fewer moving parts means debugging is easier.

This use alone is not, however, enough to warrant a disk system in the
terabyte size, I think.


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Re: snapshot.debian.net

2005-04-25 Thread Adrian von Bidder
 I wonder if snapshot shouldn't be promoted to an official debian.*org*
 service in recognition of its value to the project.

Summarizing the discussion so far:

 (1) drain of funds / should Debian really purchase disk space of that size?
(1.4TB, growing and growing...)
 (2) there is also the morgue (60G but only goes back a few months)
 (3) snapshot.d.n is useful for security - so far only source was used for 
this purpose
 (4) for various purposes, old binaries also seem useful; especially since 
the old binaries can not (easily) be regenerated from the sources.
 (5) the indexing is really nice (compared with what the morgue offers)

Comments:
 - why not leave it where it is now, just add the DNS alias
 - How much *does* Debian spend on resources right now?  Not much, afaict -  
most resources are sponsored by somebody (as is current 
snapshot.debian.net).
 - to limit the growth: keep x years of binaries, y years of source, and 
rely on past Debian releases for the really ancient stuff.

Conclusion: so far, I get the feeling that snapshot is a service that would 
be missed if it were discontinued, so I think 'awarding' it a debian.org 
alias is justified.

NOTE I haven't spoken Fumitoshi Ukai, who is maintaining snapshot.d.n 
afaict, so maybe he has totally different views.

so long
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Re: snapshot.debian.net

2005-04-25 Thread Andreas Schuldei
On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 10:37:48PM +0200, Adrian von Bidder wrote:
  I wonder if snapshot shouldn't be promoted to an official debian.*org*
  service in recognition of its value to the project.
 
 Summarizing the discussion so far:

[...]

an interesting data point would be how much the service is used.

could access statistics be made available, please?


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Re: snapshot.debian.net

2005-04-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 03:14:41PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
 Steve Langasek wrote:
 I wonder if snapshot shouldn't be promoted to an official 
 debian.*org* 
 service in recognition of its value to the project.

One concern I have, personally, is over precisely how much value
snapshot.d.n provides to the *project*, as opposed to providing value to
others outside the project.  Since DDs have access to recently removed
packages via the morgue on merkel (albeit not indexed nicely the way
snapshot.d.n currently is), I really wonder if this service should be a
priority for Debian to spend money on while our ports and other areas of
core infrastructure are in a state of disarray (IMHO).

   The snapshot service is very valuable when it comes to checking older
   versions of packages.  For example, it is a very, very good help for
   doing security work when older package versions need to be reviewed.

  Out of curiosity, do you have a sense of how long after a package is dropped
  from the archive that it ceases being useful to you for security research?

 At least as long as the package is in at least one of {oldstable,
 stable, testing, unstable, experimental}.  However, since there are
 only rare cases of me dealing with removed packages, I can't rely on
 experience.

Sorry, I guess I wasn't clear.  When I said dropped from the archive, I
meant the particular version of the package, not the package as a whole.

  According to http://snapshot.debian.net/du/df.png, it's already exceeded
  1.2TB.  That sounds to me like it would be one of the larger direct hardware
  purchases ever made by the project, so I do think it's a good idea to ask
  how much of this history is truly needed by the project -- the open-ended
  1.2TB and growing of snapshot.d.n, or something more modest, like the 60GB
  used by the morgue?

 Having source packages available indefinitively would be good.  When
 it comes to space problems, maybe dropping binary packages when the
 version is older than what is in (old)oldstable currently would be an
 option.

At the current rate, that would suggest 3-4TB of usage total... that seems
excessive to me, but if you say all of this data is potentially useful to
you, then I accept that.

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Re: snapshot.debian.net

2005-04-25 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-04-25 13:12]:
 I consider binary packages as extrem useful to check for dependency
 changes etc, or for fixing issues in some core packages where you
 need to take an older version for building a newer one.

Also, snapshot.d.net could be used for automated upgrade testing
between different versions and all kind of combinations.  This is a
great project just waiting to be implemented by someone...
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Re: snapshot.debian.net

2005-04-25 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-04-25 19:58]:
 Instead, if you really want to set up a European mirror, buy
 a couple of disks in Japan, ask them folks over there to make
 a copy, set it up with the same scripts here, rsync it once, and
 name it snapshot-eu.debian.net.

Actually, that's what I suggested to Ukai-san too but he thought that
rsyncing the archive across the net would be a better idea.  He wrote
a simple script for this which basically uses rsync and cp and goes
through every day.
-- 
Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/


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Re: agenda for Debian leadership team (a.k.a. Project Scud) meeting on 2005-04-24

2005-04-25 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Michael Banck wrote:
 I hope I'm not alone when I say that you hiding behind such a laughable
 email address concerns me.
 
 If you want to be part of the Debian community (and posting to -project
 pretty much indicates that), you should get a real name and email
 address now.

Don't kid yourself, he might not be a new kid on the block.  For all we
know, he might be Eray in disguise...  His obfuscated identity is obviously
being done on purpose.  For which purpose, well, only he knows for sure.

-- 
  One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie. -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh


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