Re: State of the project - input needed

On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 09:40:47AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: I was asked this morning to jump in for someone else and give a presentation on the state of the project at the upcoming LCA. I always enjoy to talk about Debian, so I accepted, but I leave tomorrow and so this is a bit of a short

Re: State of the project - input needed

On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 11:35:02AM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: - what are the major changes in the project and our product(s) since the etch release? I feel the release team tools are getting improved more and more, making library transitions (and testing transitions in general) smoother,

Re: State of the project - input needed

On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 10:10:41AM +, Steve Langasek wrote: On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 11:35:02AM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: - what are the major changes in the project and our product(s) since the etch release? I feel the release team tools are getting improved more and more,

Re: State of the project - input needed

Russ Allbery writes (Re: State of the project - input needed): I think: http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/a_problem_with_tools/ is a big one that deserves attention. It's been a low-level grumble for quite some time in various places, but it's getting louder. It's a difficult problem

State of the project - input needed

Dear folks, I was asked this morning to jump in for someone else and give a presentation on the state of the project at the upcoming LCA. I always enjoy to talk about Debian, so I accepted, but I leave tomorrow and so this is a bit of a short notice. I am thus hoping that you can help me a bit

Re: State of the project - input needed

On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, martin f krafft wrote: - what else would you deem relevant to a state of the project summary? I'm a little bit unsure whether it is the right forum but Debian-Med gained some momentum in the last year and we consider the Lenny release as the release with debian-med 1.0.x

Re: State of the project - input needed

On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 09:40:47AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: - what are some pending decisions that have to be made? Not sure about a decision, but the pending addition of GNU/KFreeBSD to the archive sounds worthwhile to me (though I don't know the current state, but I was under the

Re: State of the project - input needed

also sprach Michael Banck [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008.01.24.1135 +0100]: Also, the testing security team seems to be doing a great job, further increasing testing's usability for our users. Which reminds me of recent additions to the security team and the DSA team... thanks, Michael! -- .''`.

Re: State of the project - input needed

On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 09:40:47AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: - what are the major changes in the project and our product(s) since the etch release? - what else would you deem relevant to a state of the project summary? Assuming you're going to be listing other incremental changes

Re: State of the project - input needed

On 24/01/2008, martin f krafft wrote: - what else would you deem relevant to a state of the project summary? It is just me or are there more and more teams, counting more and more members? Maybe graphing their count and member count might be interesting. And aren't we moving to using (public

Re: State of the project - input needed

On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 09:40:47AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: I am thus hoping that you can help me a bit to compile a list of current topics in Debian, so quick responses are especially appreciated. I would look at http://wiki.debian.org/DeveloperNews and its past issues. -- Stefano

Re: State of the project - input needed

martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - what are current unsolved challenges? I think: http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/a_problem_with_tools/ is a big one that deserves attention. It's been a low-level grumble for quite some time in various places, but it's getting louder. It's a