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QA and release teams meeting in Extremadura
This page is for coordinating a meeting of the QA and Release teams in Extremadura. The meeting will take place from the 28th November to the 2nd December. Being 28th the coming day and 2nd the leaving day.
Debian contacts
Lucas Nussbaum < lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net >
Martin Michlmayr < tbm@cyrius.com >
Schedule
A tentative and collaborative schedule can be found at Schedule
Final attendee List
- 1 Adeodato Simó
- 2 Amaya Rodrigo (only weekend)
- 3 Ana Guerrero
- 4 Cyril Brulebois
- 5 . .
- 6 Filippo Giunchedi
- 7 Gonéri Le Bouder
- 8 Holger Levsen
- 9 Jörg Jaspert
- 10 Lars Wirzenius
- 11 Lucas Nussbaum
- 12 Luk Claes
- 13 Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
- 14 Mario Iseli
- 15 Ondřej Čertík
- 16 Stefano Zacchiroli
Arrivals (Madrid (MAD) airport)
Name |
Terminal |
Date |
Time |
From |
Mario Iseli |
3 |
28.11.07 |
13.45 |
Barcelona (BCN) |
Lars Wirzenius |
1 |
28.11.07 |
14:20 |
Frankfurt (FRA) (but really Helsinki) |
Luk Claes |
4 |
28.11.07 |
14:35 |
Brussels (BRU) |
Marc Brockschmidt |
4 |
28.11.07 |
14:50 |
Düsseldorf (DUS) |
Filippo Giunchedi |
2 |
28.11.07 |
16:10 |
Rome (FCO) |
Stefano Zacchiroli |
2 |
28.11.07 |
16:10 |
Rome (FCO) |
Ondřej Čertík |
4 |
28.11.07 |
17:25 |
Prague (PRG) |
Joerg Jaspert |
4 |
28.11.07 |
17:45 |
Frankfurt (FRA) |
Lucas Nussbaum |
1 |
28.11.07 |
18:35 |
Paris (CDG) |
Departures (Madrid (MAD) airport)
Name |
Terminal |
Date |
Time |
To |
Filippo Giunchedi |
2 |
02.12.07 |
10:50 |
Milan (MXP) |
Stefano Zacchiroli |
2 |
02.12.07 |
10:50 |
Milan (MXP) |
Joerg Jaspert |
4 |
02.12.07 |
11:45 |
Frankfurt (FRA) |
Luk Claes |
4 |
02.12.07 |
12:30 |
Brussels (BRU) |
Lucas Nussbaum |
2 |
02.12.07 |
12:40 |
Paris Orly |
Mario Iseli |
1 |
02.12.07 |
15.20 |
Zurich (ZRH) |
Marc Brockschmidt |
4 |
02.12.07 |
16:05 |
Düsseldorf (DUS) |
Ondřej Čertík |
4 |
02.12.07 |
16:05 |
Prague (PRG) |
Lars Wirzenius |
2 |
02.12.07 |
18:25 |
Frankfurt (FRA) (but really Helsinki) |
Adeodato Simó |
N/A |
02.12.07 |
18:00 |
Leaving by train from Atocha |
Who would like to come?
It was felt by several people that last year's meeting wasn't "organized" enough. When adding yourself to the list below, please mention what you would like to present, to discuss, and to work on during the meeting. This should help finding common points of interest between attendees, and prepare a list of talks and BOFs.
So, please include the following info:
- name, email
- country, (more likely) airport of origin
- topics of interest (topics on which you plan to (co-)organize a talk/BOF/work session, basically)
- times where you would NOT be available (planned trips/holidays, etc)
Lucas Nussbaum
- France, Lyon (LYS)
- Interests:
- discuss and improve processes used inside collab-qa with other people involved in collab-qa
- discuss what should be done regarding archive-wide QA during the lenny release process
Lior Kaplan
- Israel (TLV)
- Preferred time: (beginning of) December
- Interests:
Work on packages which mentioned removed packages in their build-depends. Especially the recent php4 removal ...
Identify package which need help with bug triage (e.g. OpenOffice.org).
Continue working on binNMU not safe package.
- Just helping other in the group (e.g. processing buildd logs).
Luk Claes
- Belgium (BRU)
- Interests:
- QA Release Goals
- Cleanup of broken, non-maintained and not used packages.
- MIA Team and interaction with WAT efforts
- Co-ordination of QA efforts between Debian and Ubuntu
Stefano Zacchiroli
- Italy, Bologna (BLQ)
- Interests:
- User rating/reviewing of packages in the archive
- Spread the love: your package is my package via broader "commit" permissions on Alioth and similar (r)evolutionary ideas
Marc Brockschmidt
- Germany (DUS)
- Interests:
- More automated checks to find packages to remove (because they are unmaintained/simply bad)
- QA release goals
Ana Guerrero
Sevilla, not flight needed
- Interests:
- Automatic checks, piuparts.
- Helping others in the team.
- Helping with old and forgotten transitions.
Filippo Giunchedi
- Italy, Bologna (BLQ)
- Interests:
- Lots of packages are lacking behind upstream. How do we improve the situation? A quick sketch:
- gather new upstream information from different sources (uscan, freshmeat, sourceforge etc)
- detect dead upstream/(debian) maintainer (MIA integration)
- request for new upstream version should be appropriately tagged
- (automatically) generate watchfiles as needed (a-la DEHS)
- Lots of packages are lacking behind upstream. How do we improve the situation? A quick sketch:
- Not available: probably the first half of October (discussing thesis). Will have some specific date
Michael Ablassmeier
- Germany, Munich (MUC)
- Interests:
- Mass testing and bug filing, how to improve our Workflow and how to get more people into fixing the filed bugs.
- Helping others in the team
- ! I dont know yet if i will be able to attend, belongs on the date of the meeting and if can get a few days off.
Kurt Roeckx
- Belgium (BRU)
- Interests:
- Automatic archive-wide test
- Coordination of all the various tests
- QA Release goals for lenny
- Automatic archive-wide test
David Moreno Garza
- New York City (JFK/EWR/LGA)
- Interests:
- WNPP reformulation.
- debbugs/bts2ldap enhancements.
Mario Iseli
- Switzerland (ZRH/GVA/BSL)
- Interests:
- Split up QA jobs better in teams
- QA Release goals for lenny
- BSP coordination
- NMU policy discussions
- Team maintenance (it's too complicated at the moment with all different and duplicated services)
Amaya Rodrigo
- Madrid, Spain No flight sponsorship needed
- Interests:
- Better MIA handling
- Cleanup of broken, non-maintained and not used packages
- QA and Release Goals
Joerg Jaspert
- Germany (FRA)
- Interests:
- Better MIA / WaT integration
- archive QA (removals, ...)
Holger Levsen
- Germany (HAM), maybe spain...
- Interests:
- piuparts/piatti xen setup
- debian-edu QA
Andi Barth
- aba
- Germany (MUC)
- Interessts: QA and Releases (Etch, Lenny)
Cyril Brulebois
- France. From Paris or Lyon via plane. Or from Toulouse via train.
- Interests:
- Archive QA.
- Associated workflow (see Q_'s and abi's points)
Lars Wirzenius
- liw
- Finland (HEL)
- Interest: automation of QA, piuparts, vlosuts especially, plus co-ordination of QA efforts between Debian and Ubuntu
Ondrej Certik
- Czech Republic, Prague (PRG)
- Interests:
- discuss and improve Debian Personal Package Archives, svnbuildstat etc.
- generally anything that can ease the process of preparing, hosting and getting accepted of new packages in Debian
Adeodato Simó
- Alicante, Spain (ALC, but train probably cheaper)