Archive for October, 2007
Better mentors.debian.net/REVU to improve our sponsorship workflow?
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007I recently sponsored several uploads, and was asked to sponsor even more uploads, and that got me thinking about our sponsorship workflow. It’s a clear bottleneck in Debian, and discourages many new contributors, which obviously sucks. It’s important to note that the same problems exist in Ubuntu (their equivalent to mentors.debian.net is named REVU). The [...]
Re: Giving credit where due?
Thursday, October 18th, 2007Christian Perrier is wondering why the official announcement about the Gutsy release does not even contain the word “Debian”. It’s not new: Debian is virtually nonexistent in Ubuntu’s communication. It seems that the last Ubuntu release to acknowledge its Debian origins was Dapper (June 2006), maybe because that was the “Long Term Support” release. The [...]
Who made Debian GNU/Linux, and when?
Thursday, October 18th, 2007Donnie Berkholz wrote an interesting article on Who made Gentoo Linux, and when?. Has someone already done something similar for Debian? It would probably be possible (and easy) to use the debian-devel-changes archives (available since 1998) for that.
Selling Debian tasks
Thursday, October 4th, 2007In a lot of talks or blog posts (like Sam’s talk at RMLL, or Raphaël’s blog posts – both in french), people have been talking about what people could do inside Debian, and how it would help Debian. That doesn’t sound like the best approach to me. When describing tasks with the objective of getting [...]