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En esta plática se planteará tanto el empaquetamiento de extensiones de PEAR, como los efectos secundarios provocados por el uso de conf.d/ para almacenar las configuraciones de dichas extensiones. En esta plática se planteará tanto el empaquetamiento de extensiones de PECL, como los efectos secundarios provocados por el uso de conf.d/ para almacenar las configuraciones de dichas extensiones.
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Quick info:

Status at Debian: [http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=atomo64@gmail.com maintainer]

Location: Xalapa, Mexico

Contact: atomo64@gmail.com

Spoken languages: Spanish, English, French

Written languages: Spanish, English

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Mission in Debian

Debian is my primary OS used as desktop and server. Here are some of my personal goals in my involvement with Debian.

Packages maintenance

There are tons of useful, and useless, software out there; and it happens that some of them are commonly used by a high amount of people but they are not available in Debian.

I would like to see more software available in Debian. This goal can only be accomplished by getting more people involved in packages maintenance.

QA

QA is not only about fixing bugs.

I want to keep and even help increase the QA level of Debian.

Very personal way to describe QA: "QA is the difference between Debian and Ubuntu" (see About Ubuntu below)

Debian as a desktop OS

As simple as this: Debian is a good OS for desktops.

All it needs is to make it more user friendly and provide easier ways to setup "standard" environments (some good job has been done with the new graphical installer).

About Ubuntu

My opinion about Ubuntu:

Ubuntu as a project (pros)

I find some of the ideas (whether they were intentional or not) behind Ubuntu as very good: release soon, include more, easier to use, not afraid of changing.

Release soon: One of the main "problems" I find with Debian is its always long-waited new stable release.

Include more: Lots of new packages are available thanks to the universe (correct me if mistaken) repository.

Easier to use: Many things are more home users friendly than it's counterpart at Debian.

Not afraid of changing: Ubuntu has caused some changes to be made in the Linux world and in the Debian world; mainly because they just make the changes.

Ubuntu as what it is currently is (cons)

Release soon: it is well known that there is no easy way to upgrade between releases, making the whole release soon thing more a deception than a pro.

Include more: as I said, the universe idea is cool; but the problem is that the QA level, lack of maintenance on some packages, and bad packaging (which may or may not affect the final .deb package) makes me think not only twice before installing a package from universe.

About this all I have to say is: if the packages are good, they should be in Debian and thus in Ubuntu.

Easier to use: As stated above: "home users friendly" which sometimes happen not to be the best for non-home users (this is my main criticise for GNOME: its friendliness makes it hard to use for people who need more customisation)

Not afraid of changing: Changing things may "reduce" the stability of a well-known system. Even tough it is not bad at all to make big changes time by time ;-)

Ubuntu and QA

Criticisms:

  • No easy way to upgrade between releases
  • Packages are taken from Debian unstable (isn't the unstable name more than enough for this??)

Proposed changes

?SemiStable

What about providing a semi-stable distribution where packages older than one month are pulled from testing.

This semi-stable distribution could be very useful for home users, providing more stability than testing but more recent versions of packages than stable.

DebianSpanish/Devel/IRCTalks

This section is in Spanish for obvious reasons.

Empaquetando extensiones PECL de PHP

En esta plática se planteará tanto el empaquetamiento de extensiones de PECL, como los efectos secundarios provocados por el uso de conf.d/ para almacenar las configuraciones de dichas extensiones.

Los interesados deberán de contar con:

  • Un poco de experiencia creando paquetes para Debian, y conocimieto del funcionamiento de make (no se necesita mucho tampoco)
  • Algunos paquetes como: php5-dev, devscripts, build-essential, debhelper, dh-make-php, wget
  • Un editor de textos
  • Idea de que extensión de pecl.php.net desean empaquetar

Recomendaciones (pero no obligatorio):

  • Contar con pbuilder o algun sistema parecido (si se cuenta con uno se deberá saber usarlo, ya que no se va a explicar nada de eso).
  • Tener ganas de después subir y mantener el paquete en Debian