Summary of ideas raised to improve Debian during 2013 DPL campaign.
Summarizing http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/blog/?p=763 and conversations on http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/ starting on March 16th.
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Summary of ideas raised to improve Debian during 2013 DPL campaign.
- Accessibility
- Communications/Publicity
- Encouraging contribution
- Events
- Financial
- Freedom
- Governance
- Infrastructure
- New Member process
- Packaging
- Release cycle improvements
- Social
- Technical misc
- Upstream coordination
- Debian Women
- Unsorted from mailing list (Need to organize, dedupe and merge with Lucas's list):
- Notes from Lucas's blog post:
Accessibility
Fix accessibility of GDM: http://bugs.debian.org/694937 http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00230.html
Additional ideas for accessibility: http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00234.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00272.html
Communications/Publicity
Making sure that "official" communications can happen with company representatives and governmental organisations where appropriate http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00199.html
Encouraging contribution
Gamification of contribution to Debian http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00179.html
Getting new people in Debian http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00008.html
Clearer paths in http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00010.html
Make it more fun for new contributors http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00010.html
More active recruitment http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00010.html
Better use of local networks, where possible. http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00010.html
Make it more clear that "we need help!" http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00014.html
Gift tags: http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00014.html
simplify our development procedures, advertise good practices more clearly, improve our documentation. http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00014.html
Events
More regional 1-2 day events http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00169.html
Financial
More active and transparent budget planning before money is spent http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00199.html
More active fundraising to allow the plans http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00199.html
Avoiding having major spending happen merely by DPL edict http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00199.html
Freedom
Debian as an FSF Free Software Distribution http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00171.html
Does Debian Main software need to pass the desert island test? (e.g. libechonest) http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00249.html
Governance
- Find out what blocks potential candidates from running for DPL (was a discussion of DPL salary).
Pushing more topics out from the DPL to delegates http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00199.html
Debian Board? http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00045.html
Making documentation by DPL delegations mandatory??: http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00326.html Or not?: http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00329.html
Infrastructure
(for infrastructure) setting up a development instance is not documented, impossible, or extremely difficult. http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00164.html
== Metrics ==
Why aren't bug reports counts going up as package counts go up? http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00338.html
Assessing status of women in debian http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00208.html
New Member process
Reevaluate status of NM application indicating 6 month's as a DM is strongly encouraged http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00178.html
Debian-private issues? Dealing with hi traffic lists in general? Should we also subscribe new member to -project? http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00351.html
Packaging
Pushing more standardization of packaging methods and practices, and allowing NMUs to contribute to that effort http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00168.html
- ddeb support" (or "PPA" or ...)
Release cycle improvements
Working more with upstreams to avoid shipping old packages. http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00160.html
Identify half-abandoned packages before freeze, to shorten length of freeze. http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00160.html
Explore Rolling release http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00232.html
Advertising 'testing' as a useable distro? http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00250.html
Social
Improving Politeness, Respect, Trust, Humility (Code of Conduct) http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00319.html
Technical misc
Project tools are sometimes too diverse: too many languages, too few people to understand and improve them. This is also a project-wide problem of not being able to make use of our human resources better. http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00157.html
Upstream coordination
How do deal with upstreams that want to bundle 3rd party components that are already in Debian (largely the issue when they set dependencies on components that have a different version than what ships with Debian) http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00160.html
Make it easier for third parties to install/include their software on Debian http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00303.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00330.html
Debian Women
Participation in Gnome OPFW: http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00233.html
== Needs expanding ==
Paul Wise's wishlist: http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise#wishlist
Moray has a list of ideas that he wants to put into wiki http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00191.html
Unsorted from mailing list (Need to organize, dedupe and merge with Lucas's list):
User facing tools don't look nice and can appear unfriendly http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00157.html
Mentoring sprints (in-person) http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00157.html
Volunteer curators, for things like RFP list http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00170.html
Encourage people who have ITP bugs or look seriously at RFP requests to post more updates and comments on bug reports http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00170.html
Improving processes for distribution wide changes http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00116.html
Moving/merging some DebConf teams to become general Debian ones, with approriate delegates as required http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00199.html
How to have these big picture discussions on improving outside of vote time? http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00243.html
How to improve challenges getting consensus on -devel? http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00251.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00315.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00258.html
Escalate to real life meeting http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00297.html
Better procedures for determining if a DD is active, or should be marked in-active? http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00251.html
A really good contributor-tracking system, http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00293.html
Removing or limiting DD rights when needed: http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00309.html
Getting teams more manpower from within the project: http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00310.html
Get TC involved more often and early, seeking advice: http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00312.html
Supporting companies that benefit from Debian and give benefit to Debian: http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00312.html
What to do about maintainer misconduct http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00319.html
Breaking packaging guidelines into "local" vs "uploaded to Debian" http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00334.html
Notes from Lucas's blog post:
Fixing accessibility in Debian http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00210.html
Internationalization of mentors http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00212.html
DPM vs DD http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00214.html
Improving the Debian economy http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00055.html
Crediting companies that provide manpower to debian http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00127.html
When to release http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00228.html
On the campaign itself, and having general discussions inside Debian:
have those discussions on a more regular basis, outside DPL elections (from lucas) https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00125.html
use polls to measure consensus (from lucas https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00144.html, question from mjr http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00142.html)
use a pre-arranged questionnaire that DPL candidates would fill in (from algernon http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00159.html)
On getting new users and contributors to Debian:
discussion on the various steps: Debian user – first contribution – regular contributor – DM/DD (from lucas http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00014.html)
maintain a single list of “paths in” (from moray http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00010.html and lucas http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00060.html)
have some “neutral” people to ask about tasks, and to get suggestions from in response to explaining their current skills and experience (e.g. http://www.debian.org/women/mentoring) (from moray) http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00010.html
more local meetings, compile list of regional contacts (moray) http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00010.html
increase Debian presence at local meetings. Advertise the Debian Events initiative that facilitates that (from lucas) http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00154.html
provide “Debian ambassador” title for students, similar to what is done by Google or Microsoft (from moray) http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00025.html
re-work on advertising gift tags (bugs suitable for new contributors) (from lucas) http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00014.html
- make sure teams have list of easy tasks in their wiki pages (from lucas)
discussion on student projects involving Debian (from lucas) http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00164.html
do mentoring inside teams, like DebianMed’s MoM (from moray) http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00029.html
participate in other internship-like programs, like Outreach Program for Women (link from lucas http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00037.html), or organize our own, which would also avoid some restrictions from GSoC (northern hemisphere only (point made by moray http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00040.html), restricted to students (ana)) http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00080.html
- extend internship-like programs to other kinds of work (packaging, documentation, etc.)
localize -mentors@ (mailing lists + IRC channels for DE, FR, ES contributors) (from lucas) http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00060.html
organize IRC schools/seminars about e.g. packaging (from lucas) http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00069.html
introduce more gamification in mentoring (from rra) http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00179.html
Infrastructure, processes, releases:
improve infrastructure to help with team maintenance (e.g. PET) (from lucas) http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00081.html
authorize NMUs for archive-wide changeovers such as /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc (from moray) http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00149.html
increase visibility of RC bugs squashers by listing them in Debian Project News (from lucas) http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00020.html
provide inexpensive non-monetary gifts (free t-shirts?) to RC bug squashers (from lucas) http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00094.html
re-open discussion on gradual freezes (from lucas), focus attention on more important packages by improving tools (from lucas) http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00020.html and removing packages earlier (from moray http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00035.html and lucas http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00020.html)
involve upstreams and downstreams in RC bug fixing (from algernon) http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00160.html
Relationships with upstreams/downstreams:
use Debian money to sponsor maintainers to attend upstream events (from lucas) http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00015.html