Debian Event - Debian QA Meeting 2005
Name: |
Debian QA Meeting 2005 in Darmstadt |
Location: |
TU Darmstadt |
Time: |
9th - 11th of September 2005 |
This is the annual Debian QA meeting taking place in Darmstadt. See http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/07/msg00012.html for more details. See http://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2005/08/msg00085.html for a status update. Instructions for those coming by plane, train, and car.
Please follow my thread on debian-qa, as i will send any further infos to that thread. I WILL NOT mail every single person.
See [1] for the local map. The meeting will take place at building L1|01, 3rd floor. For geeks: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Darmstadt,+Germany&ll=49.861531,8.679113&spn=0.004902,0.011069&t=k&hl=en
This year, the following persons have announced to attend:
- Andreas Barth (aba)
- Frank Lichtenheld (djpig)
Adeodato Simó (dato) (flight AB-2853, arrival time at Frankfurt: 2005-09-09 17:05)
- Peter De Schrijver (p2-mate)
- Marc Brockschmidt (HE)
Mohammed Adnène Trojette (adn) (flight #4221, arrival time at Frankfurt: 2005/09/09 16:30)
Samuel Hocevar (sam) (flight #4221, arrival time at Frankfurt: 2005/09/09 16:30)
Alexis Sukrieh (sukria) (flight #4221, arrival time at Frankfurt: 2005/09/09 16:30)
- Alexander Schmehl (Tolimar)
Ulrich Scholler (cpt_nemo) (L)
Martin Zobel-Helas (zobel) (L)
Michael Fladerer (mfl) (L)
- Joerg Jaspert (Ganneff)
- Holger Levsen (h01ger)
Frans Pop (fjp) (train, arrivial time at Frankfurt Main: 2005/09/09 14:00)
- Gerfried Fuchs (Rhonda/Alfie)
- Peter Palfrader (weasel)
Christoph Berg (Myon) (arrival: Thursday 18h for the GnuPG talk)
Raphaël Hertzog (buxy) (flight #AF5888, arrival time at Frankfurt: 2005/09/09 17:20)
Pierre Machard (migus) (flight #2118, arrival time at Frankfurt: 2005/09/09 16:50)
- Luk Claes (Luk)
- Daniel J. Priem (codebreaker)
Amaya Rodrigo (amaya) (flight #LA704, arrival time at Frankfurt: 2005/09/09 17:50)
- Uli Martens (youam)
Jesus Climent (mooch) (flight #AY0821, arrival time at Frankfurt: 2005/09/09 09:55)
Axel Beckert (XTaran) (L)
WE ARE FULL NOW!
All persons with (L) are locals and need no sleeping place to get organized.
The following people have announced to offer sleeping places:
Sleeping places will be organized by DaLUG. Request mail being prepared. We should get many more sleeping places soon.
- Martin Zobel-Helas (up to 6 persons)
- Michael Fladerer (up to 7 persons)
- Nis Martensen (up to 2 persons) (zobel has mail-addi)
- Martin Konrad (a complete empty flat in DA-Kranichstein)
Program
All times are in CEST which is GMT+0200
This program might change.
Friday
Day |
Time: |
Talk |
Friday |
til 19:00 |
Arrival |
Friday |
19:30 |
Dinner at the Mensa Biergarten[1] |
Friday |
20:30 |
Round of Introductions [2] |
Friday |
23:00 |
Hacking with Open End |
Saturday
Day |
Time: |
Talk |
Saturday |
09:00 |
Breakfast |
Saturday |
09:45 |
Learning internals of the Package Tracking System (by Raphael Hertzog) |
Saturday |
10:30 |
Portability Issues (by Peter De Schrijver) |
Saturday |
11:15 |
New maintainers - new help or new problems? (by Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt) |
Saturday |
12:00 |
Fixing autotools-related build issues (by Sam Hocevar) |
Saturday |
12:45 |
Lunch |
Saturday |
13:30 |
Hacking |
Saturday |
17:30 |
BBQ with DaLUG and HRZ |
Saturday |
????? |
Hacking open end |
Saturday |
20:30 |
Start to file removal requests for packages on http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/oldest.html |
Sunday
Day |
Time: |
Talk |
Sunday |
09:00 |
Breakfast |
Sunday |
09:45 |
Managing breakage in Debian Installer (by Frans Pop) |
Sunday |
10:30 |
Lintian, internals and thoughts about further development (by Frank Lichtenheld) |
Sunday |
11:15 |
Discussion: Debian Security and Quality Assurance |
Sunday |
12:45 |
Lunch |
Sunday |
13:15 |
Open discussion: infrastructure for collaborative maintenance by external contributors (by Alexis Sukrieh and Raphael Hertzog) |
Sunday |
14:00 |
(not) managing Debian releases (by Andi Barth) |
Sunday |
14:45 |
Hacking open end |
[1] http://www.tu-darmstadt.de/lageplaene/darmstadt/lbh/lichtwiese.tud
- Mensa is at building L4|01
[2] Please prepare an overview about your QA-activity - not more than 10min/person
Talks suggested
Portability Issues (by Peter De Schrijver)
Managing breakage in Debian Installer (by Frans Pop)
Learning internals of the Package Tracking System (by Raphael Hertzog)
Open discussion: infrastructure for collaborative maintenance by external contributors (by Alexis Sukrieh and Raphael Hertzog)
- Discussion: Debian Security and Quality Assurance
Lintian, internals and thoughts about further development (by Frank Lichtenheld)
Fixing autotools-related build issues (by Sam Hocevar)
- Not a talk, but: Mass-closing of old ITPs - how old? discuss and then do. (Ganneff)
Equipment
- Please bring your own laptop, PC, whatever.... we might have a few spare machines, but not sure yet.
Please consider bringing the correct power adapters. We have Schuko power outlets and ~220V/50-60Hz in Germany.
Coordinated ordering
We'll also do some organized buying of stuff to save on shipping costs. See http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/BlacklightKeychain for more details