Hello everybody, I was initially not planning to mentor this GSoC project because I don't have the time required to mentor people who are not familiar enough with Debian packaging in general. However the fact that Gianfranco was willing to co-mentor and the presence of already experienced packagers in the candidate list, made me reconsider my position.
Still I am extremely busy and have very limited time to spend on this project. So please don't sent me private mails about this project. Instead ask your questions on this mailing list and work together to figure out the answers. While the GSoC is putting students into competition, what we are doing in Debian is all about cooperation, so I invite you all to join forces and not duplicate the work. For instance, https://pkg.kali.org/derivative/kali-dev/ has the list of differences between Kali and Debian but you all recognized that this list is not usable as is: - the focus should be on end-users applications (so they must be identified) but they might require packaging some dependencies (which might have already been packaged for Kali too) - some of the applications are likely not-packageable at all for Debian due to licenses not meeting the DFSG So I invite you to collect all this data in a new wiki page instead of putting it in a private google doc: https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/pkg-security/kali-packages (feel free to change the structure of this page if it's not good enough) We will select the student based on his technical skills, his past experience contributing to Debian and pkg-security, his willingness to be a long-term contributor, and his ability to cooperate in a team. So you should likely try to identify a (small) package that should be packaged and package it as part of the team, hereby proving that you meet the above criteria. Good luck to all of you. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Support Debian LTS: https://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts.html Learn to master Debian: https://debian-handbook.info/get/
