Bits from the DPL (October 2018)

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Subject: Bits from the DPL (October 2018)

From: "Chris Lamb " <lamby@debian.org>

Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2018 07:25:51 -0400

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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Dear developers, "Winter is coming"… But so is Debian buster — if your weather is cooling remember to keep your room warm from the heat eminating from your (RC- bug fixing) machine. And if your temperature happens to be rising instead please head out onto the deck/porch/balcony and do the same with your beverage of choice. ~ § ~ October was unfortunately another month where most of my available bandwidth for the Project Leader role was consumed with mediating inter- personal, intra-project and adjacent issues in the anti- harrassment space, both in terms volume and severity. Whilst dealing-with and keeping on top of these matters is somewhat unavoidable and inevitable they tragically take away time that the Leader could be working on such as working on longer-term Project affairs. Thank you to those who helped & provided insight into the issues themselves as well as to those who knowingly and unknowingly provided support. ~ § ~ Despite the above, I managed to get most of the quotidian tasks of being DPL out of the way including: * Officially announced the creation of the Debian Cloud [0] Delegates. They will be responsible for overseeing the maintainance of "official" images on various cloud providers. Thank you to Luca Filipozzi for his help in preparing this delegation. [1] * Fielded a number of questions and queries around the Server Side Public License [2] and the "Commons Clause" [3] the latter of which I was the maintainer of a package in question as well adding some remarks regarding an upcoming announcement from the Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) [4]. * Updated the delegation for the DebConf committee. [5] * Enquired and requested updates about the membership of a number of Debian teams such as the Trademark [6] and Anti Harassment [7] teams. I also sent a brief call-for-volunteers for the FTP team. [8] * Redirected the usual requests for private support including ensuring an enquiry regarding about Debian and the future of C++ packaging [9] reached debian-devel. I also had a few tentative / in-progress talks with some well-established organisations & companies wishing to partner with Debian. * Further help in setting up a potential Bug Squashing Party as part of the "foss-north" [10] conference in Gothenburg, Sweden during April 2019, as well as issued a "DD certificate" [11] for a Developer. [ 0] https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Cloud [ 1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2018/10/msg00001.html [ 2] https://www.mongodb.com/licensing/server-side-public-license [ 3] https://lwn.net/Articles/763179/ [ 4] https://www.cip-project.org/ [ 5] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2018/10/msg00000.html [ 6] https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DPL/Trademark [ 7] https://wiki.debian.org/AntiHarassment [ 8] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2018/10/msg00144.html [ 9] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2018/10/msg00044.html [10] http://foss-north.se/ [11] https://wiki.debian.org/DDCertificate ~ § ~ On the finance side of things, in addition to responding to various follow-ups to previous money and event-related requests I: * Approved expenses for a Debian Bug Squashing Party (BSP) in Karlsruhe. [12] * Approved sponsorship for some developers to attend the Reproducible Builds [13] summit in December and another contributor to attend the Open Source Design Summit [14] in Tirana, Albania. * Managed a number of funding requests around the Google Summer of Code [15] mentor summit. * Assisted a developer regarding which Trusted Organisation (TO) [16] they should use for a reimbursement request, provided some input on the potential future of one of our existing TOs and sent multiple pings to another TO that has appeared to have gone AWOL. * Chased up missing reimbursement for a Videoteam [17] sprint, increased the request amount for the recent Debian Cloud [18] sprint (due to local currency fluctuations) and provided input on what could be requested to a developer in the early stages of arranging an event. [12] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2018/09/msg00000.html [13] https://reproducible-builds.org/events/paris2018/ [14] https://opensourcedesign.net/summit/ [15] https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/ [16] https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Treasurer/Organizations [17] https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/Videoteam [18] https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Cloud ~ § ~ Don't forget that Debian is willing to reimburse 100 USD (or equivalent in your local currency) to attend Bug Squashing Parties (BSP) [19]. Indeed, in case you missed it, there's a BSP arranged to occur in Bern, Switzerland between November 30th and December 2nd [20]. If there are no BSPs near to you, please do consider organising one. [21] [22] [19] https://wiki.debian.org/BSP [20] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2018/10/msg00003.html [21] https://wiki.debian.org/BSPPlanning [22] https://wiki.debian.org/HostingBSP ~ § ~ I would like to repeat my usual request for any feedback. Other questions or concerns about the Project that would be difficult to bring up elsewhere are welcome too — please address them to leader@debian.org. See you all next month but happy Halloween in the meantime… Best wishes, - -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` lamby@debian.org / chris-lamb.co.uk `- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEwv5L0nHBObhsUz5GHpU+J9QxHlgFAlvZkRYACgkQHpU+J9Qx Hlh/XhAAhHrkNbEI81s5U+5BJbDZtvpwkTjJ890pCK00elDuWxQZX+XdPvHuQcUp tbWk03QqXWEHM20rEpUAPY4R5PPon+o26A4lV8WGVdnVrIFpi0zMWlfmcL74ppBS Mwy3INDa7tf5oQHte4DA1aqDAP7xAVzxut27lIO+eFMI0WrrpOK5ZpAMUBX2onNN oCPLOn73w5y/y9QbLXLT7NSWCvyNp2urlRRMPZVBUdGpzXj5BrRY169eB78UJkvh MOI6iS+4RoAREQVEeU4rLnRPys2Z0WMLfdwjOhUUmXyMEUMHYNk5QKm1GRHpJ4LJ qhb6+QYuG3NSfxXtRdhW8WPjLBJpE2+64bpJUzM0lGQYOCm5YZrtNlyHj6gObC1U vb94w/3S2gLc1p/IUYfqEpV5syFMnr5JvrFtG5zrpER6/pjZUoWEOBsa9uUHhviJ hs+nHr+bhfHwGmdSGjggIEmtz04x2FwwerTTWnQqGQKRA7uYEm2CLBXidpaGmrlu 54vbMgkb9eqYmEDODZXdICSNr1FPo7N8aJzindVRuwXhUyn78T0MFKcxreYzT9AQ V4VUyJN3O8LS65REUhiOEHj04ruTn1AtlAWsq11VX/FBfbvG5Ay5Q4JIu39Dmwlv fc5v5INBwEhBptjuahYdqvqDOm8mS9V77JI75VLB2eNzyIdDTro= =UinI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----