Re: O Que é Debian 64 Bits
Wan Cabiness
Each release of Debian has a shiny new theme, which is visible on the bootscreen, the login screen and, most prominently, on the desktop wallpaper.Debian plans to release Trixie, the next release, next year. As ever, weneed your help in creating its theme! You have the opportunity to design atheme that will inspire thousands of people while working in their Debiansystems.
Special thanks to Jonathan for an insightful introduction that left lessroom for questions. His introduction covered my first tasks like expenseapproval and CTTE member appointments thoroughly. Although I made avisible oversight by forgetting to exclude Simon McVittie fromthe list, whose term has ended, I'm committed to learning from this mistake. In future I'll prioritizethorough proofreading to ensure accuracy.
Recently I had my first press interview. I had to answer a couple of preparedquestions for Business IT News. It seems journalists arealways on the lookout for unique angles. When asked if humility is a new traitfor DPLs, my response would be a resounding "No." In my experience, humilityis a common quality among DPLs I've encountered, including Jonathan.
One of my top priorities is reaching out to all our dedicated andappointed teams, including those managing critical infrastructure. I'vebegun with the CTTE, Salsa Admins and Debian Snapshot. Everythingappears to be in order with the CTTE team. I'm waiting for responsefrom Salsa and Snapshot, which is fine given the recent contact.
I was pointed out to the fact that lintian is in an unfortunate state asAxel Beckert confirmed on the lintian maintainers list.It turns out that bug #1069745 of magics-python should not have been undetectedfor a long time if lintian bug #677078 wouldhave been fixed. It seems obvious to me that lintian needs more work to fulfill its role as reliably policy checker to ensure our high level ofpackaging quality.
On 2024-04-30 I gave my first talk "Bits from greenhorn DPL" onlineat MiniDebConf Brasil in Belo Horizonte. The Q&A afterwards stiredsome flavours of the question: "What can Debian Brasil do better?"My answer was always in a way: Given your great activity in noworganising the fifth MiniDebConf you are doing pretty well and I haveno additional hints for the moment.
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This morning I decided to just start writing Bits from DPL and sendwhatever I have by 18:00 local time. Here it is, barely proof read,along with all it's warts and grammar mistakes! It's slightly long anddoesn't contain any critical information, so if you're not in the mood,don't feel compelled to read it!
Soon, the voting period will start to elect our next DPL, and my timeas DPL will come to an end. Reading the questions posted to the newcandidates on debian-vote, it takes quite a bit of restraint to notanswer all of them myself, I think I can see how that aspect contributedto me being reeled in to running for DPL! In total I've done so 5 times(the first time I ran, Sam was elected!).
Good luck to both Andreas and Sruthi, our currentDPL candidates! I've already started working on preparing handover, andthere's multiple request from teams that have came in recently that willhave to wait for the new term, so I hope they're both ready to hit theground running!
I can relate! With every task, crisis or deadline that appears, I thinkthat once this is over, I'll have some more breathing space to get backto non-urgent, but important tasks. "Bits from the DPL" was something Ireally wanted to get right this last term, and clearly failedspectacularly. I have two long Bits from the DPL drafts that I neverfinished, I tend to have prioritised problems of the day overcommunication. With all the hindsight I have, I'm not sure which isbetter to prioritise, I do rate communication and transparency veryhighly and this is really the top thing that I wish I could've donebetter over the last four years.
On that note, thanks to people who provided me with some kind wordswhen I've mentioned this to them before. They pointed out that thereare many other ways to communicate and be in touch with the community,and they mentioned that they thought that I did a good job with that.
Since I'm still on communication, I think we can all learn to be moreeffective at it, since it's really so important for the project. Everytime I publicly spoke about us spending more money, we got moredonations. People out there really like to see how we invest funds into Debian, instead of just making it heap up. DSA just spent a nicechunk on money on hardware, but we don't have very good visibility onit. It's one thing having it on a public line item in SPI's reporting,but it would be much more exciting if DSA could provide a write-up onall the cool hardware they're buying and what impact it would have ondevelopers, and post it somewhere prominent like debian-devel-announce,Planet Debian or Bits from Debian (from the publicity team).
I don't want to single out DSA there, it's difficult and affects manyother teams. The Salsa CI team also spent a lot of resources (time andmoney wise) to extend testing on AMD GPUs and other AMD hardware. It'sfantastic and interesting work, and really more people within theproject and in the outside world should know about it!
I'm not going to push my agendas to the next DPL, but I hope that theycontinue to encourage people to write about their work, and hopefullyat some point we'll build enough excitement in doing so that it becomesa more normal part of our daily work.
I'm tempted to write everything out here, including the problemstatement and our current predicaments, what kind of ground work needsto happen, likely constitutional changes that need to happen, and thenature of the GR that would be needed to make such a thing happen, butif I start with that, I might not finish this mail.
In short, I 100% believe that this is still a very high ranking issuefor Debian, and perhaps after my term I'd be in a better position tospend more time on this (hmm, is this an instance of "The grass isalways better on the other side", or "Next week will go better until Idie?"). Anyway, I'm willing to work with any future DPL on this, andperhaps it can in itself be a delegation tasked to properly exploreall the options, and write up a report for the project that can lead toa GR.
Overall, I'd rather have us take another few years and do thisproperly, rather than rush into something that is again difficult tochange afterwards. So while I very much wish this could've beenachieved in the last term, I can't say that I have any regrets hereeither.
My first term in 2020 started just as the COVID-19 pandemic becameknown to spread globally. It was a tough year for everyone, and Debianwasn't immune against its effects either. Many of our contributors gotsick, some have lost loved ones (my father passed away in March 2020just after I became DPL), some have lost their jobs (or other earnersin their household have) and the effects of social distancing took amental and even physical health toll on many. In Debian, we tend to doreally well when we get together in person to solve problems, and whenDebConf20 got cancelled in person, we understood that that wasnecessary, but it was still more bad news in a year we had too much ofit already.
I can't remember if there was ever any kind of formal choice ordiscussion about this at any time, but the DebConf video team just kindof organically and spontaneously became the orga team for an onlineDebConf, and that lead to our first ever completely online DebConf. Thiswas great on so many levels. We got to see each other's faces again,even though it was on screen. We had some teams talk to each other faceto face for the first time in years, even though it was just on a Jitsicall. It had a lasting cultural change in Debian, some teams still havevideo meetings now, where they didn't do that before, and I think it's agood supplement to our other methods of communication.
We also had a few online Mini-DebConfs that was fun, but DebConf21 wasalso online, and by then we all developed an online conference fatigue,and while it was another good online event overall, it did start tofeel a bit like a zombieconf and after that, we had some really niceevents from the Brazillians, but no big global online community eventsagain. In my opinion online MiniDebConfs can be a great way to developour community and we should spend some further energy into this, buthey! This isn't a platform so let me back out of talking about thefuture as I see it...
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