Bits from the Debian Project Leader (February 2019)

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Subject: Bits from the Debian Project Leader (February 2019)

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

Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 12:23:06 -0500

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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Dear developers, The countdown to Debian 10 'buster' truly began last month with the introduction of the "soft" freeze (ie. no new packages, etc.) [0] which will be followed by the upcoming "full" freeze on 12th March [1]. See below on various Bug Squashing Parties (BSPs) which also link to documentation on how to find and fix our — at the time of writing — 363^W373 Release Critical (RC) bugs. Anyway, here follows a brief overview of what I've been getting up to as your Project Leader during February. Again, for those interested in such numbers, it was reasonably busy month in the DPL inbox with over 300 non- spam mails received and just shy of 100 emails sent… [2] [ 0] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2019/02/msg00008.html [ 1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2019/01/msg00008.html [ 2] https://i.imgur.com/O1MO941.jpg ~ § ~ * I ee-appointed Kurt Roeckx to the Project Secretary position for another term. Thanks, Kurt. [3] * Made a request on behalf of Debian's Trademark Team [4] (who deal with requests for permission to use Debian's marks) to attract new volunteers and expand their membership. [5] * Represented Debian and its interests in Brussels, Belgium at FOSDEM [6], CopyLeftConf [7] and the GNOME Advisory Board [8]. I also participated in the Open Source Initiative's [9] monthly board meeting. * Responded to a question regarding the criteria for entry on Debian's "Partners" page [10] which highlights companies and organisations who provide ongoing and substantial assistance to the Project. * Made some early progress on organising some Code of Conduct training to Developers by liasing with another free-software organisation in order to save on costs, forwarded a suggestion regarding some software tooling in this area and finally provided some brief feedback on some potential Anti Harrassment team [11] candidates. * In January, I co-signed an affirmation of the "Open Source Definition" [12] (which based on our own Free Software Guidelines [13]); in particular, the OSI's role as a steward of said Definition. This was published earlier this month. [14] * Made some more arrangements for a Bug Squashing Party [15] I'm organising in Gothenburg, Sweden during April as part of the foss- north.se [16] conference. [17] * Submitted Debian's nominations for the 2019 Open Source Initiative [18] board elections. As an "affiliate" of the OSI, Debian nominates candidates in such an election [19]. * Responded to a number of responses to my previous "Bits from the DPL" and redirected the usual requests for private support. * Issued "DD certificates" [20] for a number of Developers and Maintainers as part of new employment or positions in academic institutions, etc. If you are a DD, a DM or a Debian Contributor and you would like official certification of that, you may ask the Project Leader to generate one for you; please email leader@debian.org. [ 3] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2019/02/msg00009.html [ 4] https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DPL/Trademark [ 5] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2019/02/msg00005.html [ 6] https://fosdem.org/2019/ [ 7] https://sfconservancy.org/news/2018/apr/30/copyleft-conf/ [ 8] https://wiki.gnome.org/AdvisoryBoard [ 9] https://opensource.org/ [10] https://www.debian.org/partners/ [11] https://wiki.debian.org/AntiHarassment [12] https://opensource.org/osd [13] https://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines [14] https://opensource.org/node/966 [15] https://wiki.debian.org/BSP [16] http://foss-north.se/ [17] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2019/01/msg00006.html [18] https://opensource.org/ [19] https://opensource.org/node/963 [20] https://wiki.debian.org/DDCertificate ~ § ~ We have a large number of events coming up in the upcoming month(s) as part of the preparations for 'buster', including: * (now) → March 3rd: Laveno, Italy. [21] * March 8th → March 10th: Cambridge, United Kingdom. [22] * March 30th → March 31st: Paris, France. [23] * April 5th → April 8th: Salzburg, Austria. [24] * April 7th: Gothenburg, Sweden. [25] If there are no Bug Squashing Parties (BSP) planned near you, please do consider organising one [26][27]. Don't forget Debian is willing to reimburse 100 USD (or equivalent) to attend such events [28] which can encourage people to attend and contribute towards making "buster" appear sooner. [21] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/it/2019/SnowCamp [22] https://wiki.debian.org/BSP/2019/03/gb/Cambridge [23] https://wiki.debian.org/BSP/2019/03/fr/Paris [24] https://wiki.debian.org/BSP/2019/04/Salzburg [25] https://wiki.debian.org/BSP/2019/04/se/Gothenburg [26] https://wiki.debian.org/BSPPlanning [27] https://wiki.debian.org/HostingBSP [28] https://wiki.debian.org/BSP ~ § ~ In financial matters, I: * Approved funding for a Web Team [29] sprint to take place in Madrid, Spain during the upcoming month [30]. * Had discussions around the status and next steps regarding a missing-in-action Trusted Organisation [31]. * Approved the purchase of a Mikrotik "hEX" router [32] in order to provide access to some DSA-maintained [33] machines at University of Twente, Netherlands [34] and responded to a number of bursary requests to attend DebUtsav Delhi [35]. * Approved Debian's involvement in this year's Google Summer of Code [36] and Outreachy [37] programmes, clarifying which Trusted Organisation would perform the financial administration. Alexander Wirt (formorer) subsequently published an announcement outlining which Debian sub-projects are involved [38]. * Sent a big "thank you" to a free-software organisation that has shutdown and who have decided to transfer their remaining financial assets to Debian. * Lastly, I asked some further questions about (and subsequently approved another) preliminary budget for DebConf19 [39], offered sponsorship to a Bug Squashing Party planned to take place in Bratislava, and followed-up regarding a company who require a tax/accounting receipt for a donation. [29] https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Webmaster [30] https://wiki.debian.org/Sprints/2019/DebianWebTeam [31] https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DPL/TrustedOrganizationCriteria [32] https://mikrotik.com/product/RB750Gr3 [33] https://dsa.debian.org/ [34] https://www.utwente.nl/en/ [35] https://debutsav.in/ [36] https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/ [37] https://www.outreachy.org/ [38] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2019/02/msg00002.html [39] https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf19 ~ § ~ In case you missed it: * Gregory Colpart (reg) made a call-for-speakers for a MiniDebConf that will take place in Marseille, France between May 25th → May 26th. [40] * The projects and mentors for Debian's involvement in Google Summer of Code [41] and Outreachy [42] were announced. [43] * Agustin Henze (tin) re-announced Salsa's [44] support for testing Debian packages, including running Lintian [45], piuparts [46] and testing for package reproducibility [47]. More information may be found in the respective README file [48]. See you all next month… [40] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2019/02/msg00003.html [41] https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/ [42] https://www.outreachy.org/ [43] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2019/02/msg00002.html [44] https://salsa.debian.org/ [45] https://lintian.debian.org/ [46] https://wiki.debian.org/piuparts [47] https://reproducible-builds.org/ [48] https://salsa.debian.org/salsa-ci-team/pipeline/blob/master/README.md Best wishes, - -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` lamby@debian.org 🍥 chris-lamb.co.uk `- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEwv5L0nHBObhsUz5GHpU+J9QxHlgFAlx4GKQACgkQHpU+J9Qx Hlhp9g/+JY5myjNW4QNVqvI/b2TinScwJUf31umMA04+qY0mZ81f5pCmKRhWUOZe 7JTINKs4AeRxvCFx9/n0zVbY17kdhgb7Mh2ON4L+SQyDTMCfXctmaLwBVW8pyHTu 1yHbV5XZOzaWreIGMuPIcCvBL5zGrAxMjjW5VxfX9DkP5Fd63DfrT+zrDr499NCe Bzk+3Q24ywo83kOFdRDIcjgXRjXxMc1wnIJUJyzxe6GjSob0pcxnmWA0nKs4qtXO GxF2iC/vjbfUxHryl8T7JLrbBRVFKfJINyekroTjrJg9ayJmyU+Nua1kzAAslRdI lakQxwPtY7vCuLRF2WDv6kkzIQ6MTp2ddCWd6lKi7uva1UxhN5mr4W+RR63PjLRt SkGNxnW+iYMD9jnxVgpjvRR/UfkzP1k/KZ58ZQdx1WhS8hltqw4A70tBTn3ZmJkz vv0+Y8TdN1xYo31IqzS5vww0eDz4llE8ENdoT2Mav/4dbAE7D+gm+daaXY9mYA/w USEpXN55Biph2Iv2KcnSCMECvaYkxa/T12Uq+cGEPzIuBB/ro8Ay+lseEjj3a2P8 MYhBYjSIaVo+3fQGdw4kKrvfeZsocQkGnFBhUpIYATKk6YbecyAZRTC0I0Nk2gkr UJ3NUF3e0CxJuixiP3HQza37/z4hdRH2uGu6uOfAqCz8nj+O5To= =yUQn -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----