Debian Policy Sprint at DebCamp 2018
Location, Date
when: every day of DebCamp 2018
where: Noisy hacklab and #debian-policy
Participants
Please go ahead and add yourself to the list if you plan to join us for the sprint.
Name |
username/nick |
Remote via IRC? |
Want to work on (optional) |
Hsinchu timezone offset |
Sean Whitton (policy editor) |
spwhitton |
N |
|
0 |
David Bremner |
bremner |
N |
seconding Sean's patches |
0 |
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.
There is a list of uncontroversial bugs in the triage branch of policy.git, or ask Sean.
(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.
Draft idea for Multi-Arch: foreign
dpkg triggers (582109)
- replace various obsolete recommendations to use postinst maintscripts
It probably makes sense to use gobby for working on the draft text.
(3) Translating Policy
Getting the packaging infrastructure in place that makes it possible for people to translate the Policy Manual. Sphinx experts, or those willing to learn about Sphinx, are needed here.
Reports
(pointers to communication about the sprint)
announcement: https://lists.debian.org/debian-policy/2018/06/msg00072.html
- report: (e.g. link to lists.d.o archives)
Acknowledgements
the sprint has been possible thanks to:
Donations to the Debian Project
The dedicated, helpful DebConf18 team