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* when: DebCamp 2017, day TBC * where: TBC, and `#debian-policy` |
* when: DebCamp 2017, Wednesday 2nd August * ask questions about Policy process; start discussions * continue working on patches for remainder of DebCamp * '''feel free to approach Policy team members before this day!''' * where: Jardin intérieur, and `#debian-policy` |
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* Sean Whitton <spwhitton> ('''policy editor''') * Russ Allbery <rra> via IRC ('''policy editor''') |
(please go ahead and add yourself to the list if you plan to join us for the sprint and '''subscribe''' to this wiki page to receive notifications if the details of the sprint change) ||'''Name'''||'''username/nick'''||'''Remote via IRC?'''||'''Want to work on''' (optional)|| || Sean Whitton ('''policy editor''') || spwhitton || N || || || Russ Allbery ('''policy editor''') || rra || Y || || || Helmut Grohne || helmut || Y || multi-arch || || Taowa Munene-Tardif || taowa || N || Goal 1 || |
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* multiarch * dpkg triggers |
* multiarch (DebianBug:687900, DebianBug:749826) Draft idea for [[DependencyHell#Multi-Arch:_foreign|Multi-Arch: foreign]] * dpkg triggers (DebianBug:582109) |
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* reproducible builds (DebianBug:844431) * FHS 3.0 (DebianBug:787816) |
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* announcement: TBC | * announcement: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2017/07/msg00001.html |
Debian Policy Sprint at DebCamp 2017
Location, Date
when: DebCamp 2017, Wednesday 2nd August
- ask questions about Policy process; start discussions
continue working on patches for remainder of DebCamp
feel free to approach Policy team members before this day!
where: Jardin intérieur, and #debian-policy
Participants
(please go ahead and add yourself to the list if you plan to join us for the sprint and subscribe to this wiki page to receive notifications if the details of the sprint change)
Name |
username/nick |
Remote via IRC? |
Want to work on (optional) |
Sean Whitton (policy editor) |
spwhitton |
N |
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Russ Allbery (policy editor) |
rra |
Y |
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Helmut Grohne |
helmut |
Y |
multi-arch |
Taowa Munene-Tardif |
taowa |
N |
Goal 1 |
Agenda
We've two goals. Sprint participants can work on either.
(1) Clear backlog of uncontroversial changes to Policy
We want to clear the backlog of uncontroversial changes to Policy, which makes up the greater part of bugs filed against debian-policy. They are each at different stages of the PolicyChangesProcess, but it would not take much to get them moved along and committed to the debian-policy git repo.
Bringing this key part of our documentation up-to-date would save lots of volunteer time across Debian. There will be a policy editor physically present at the sprint, with commit access to the debian-policy git repo, and at the end of DebConf we plan a "special edition" release of Policy, closing as many of these uncontroversial bugs as we can. How many can we close?
(2) Draft text for "big ticket" Policy updates
Debian Policy does not document the following important parts of Debian. We want to bring together both those who already understand these mechanisms, and those who are new to them, to produce concise and useful explanations of our preexisting best practices.
the current state of init systems (835520)
- systemd
Draft idea for Multi-Arch: foreign
dpkg triggers (582109)
- replace various obsolete recommendations to use postinst maintscripts
reproducible builds (844431)
FHS 3.0 (787816)
It probably makes sense to use gobby for working on the draft text.
Reports
announcement: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2017/07/msg00001.html
- report: TBC
Acknowledgements
The sprint has been possible thanks to:
Donations to the Debian Project
The dedicated, helpful DebConf team