{"id":694,"date":"2011-08-01T15:10:25","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T13:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/?p=694"},"modified":"2011-08-01T18:45:44","modified_gmt":"2011-08-01T16:45:44","slug":"694","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/?p=694","title":{"rendered":"Debconf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, the fifth Debconf I&#8217;ve had the chance to attend is clearly over now. It was great, and all organizers (and sponsors) really deserve huge &#8220;<strong>thank you<\/strong>&#8221; for making this event so successful. I&#8217;m already looking forward to next year&#8217;s edition.<\/p>\n<p>Debconf has been very productive for me. I chaired 4 sessions:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"position: static; z-index: auto;\">\n<li>the usual Quality Assurance BOF, which was a bit depressing: even if work gets done, the QA &#8220;team&#8221; doesn&#8217;t really feel like a &#8220;team&#8221;. Maybe that&#8217;s because a QA &#8220;team&#8221; is not needed, and we should instead split it into smaller teams focusing on subsets of the QA work (archive-wide testing, QA services, etc.)?<\/li>\n<li>a BOF on Ruby, where I demoed the work we have been doing around gem2deb, our new dh-based packaging helper [<a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.debian.org\/Teams\/Ruby\">Ruby team website<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>a tutorial on archive testing, hoping to get more people involved in tests such as archive rebuilds. If you are interested in helping with reporting bugs, please drop me an email [<a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.debian.org\/qa.debian.org\/ArchiveTesting\">doc about archive tests on wiki.d.o<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>a BOF on finding a &#8216;standard&#8217; Git workflows for packaging teams. More work is needed on this, but it looks like a good start. [<a href=\"http:\/\/lists.debian.org\/debian-devel\/2011\/07\/msg00820.html\">thread on -devel@<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.debian.org\/GitPackagingWorkflow\">wiki page<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.debian.org\/GitPackagingWorkflow\/DebConf11BOF\">BOF notes<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also made numerous uploads of Ruby-related packages, and reduced my backlog on <a href=\"http:\/\/udd.debian.org\/\">UDD<\/a> to a reasonable level. I even managed to make a developers-reference upload, integrating all the pending patches from the BTS.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, I&#8217;m very excited about the recent progress on <a href=\"http:\/\/expo.debian.net\">expo.debian.net<\/a> (a mentors.debian.net replacement), which could help streamline our sponsorship process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, the fifth Debconf I&#8217;ve had the chance to attend is clearly over now. It was great, and all organizers (and sponsors) really deserve huge &#8220;thank you&#8221; for making this event so successful. I&#8217;m already looking forward to next year&#8217;s edition. Debconf has been very productive for me. I chaired 4 sessions: the usual Quality [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-planetdebian","category-planetubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":700,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions\/700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}