Debian Project Leader (DPL)
Infrastructure
Documentation:
the role of the Debian Project Leader is described in the Debian Constitution and in the DebianProjectLeader page
Unix group: dpl
Alioth project: http://alioth.debian.org/projects/dpl
- Services handled by the team:
/srv/leader/ on host master.debian.org, in particular:
/srv/leader/news/ daily activity log (current and past)
Interacting with the DPL
Email contact: <leader AT debian DOT org>
Usual roles
StefanoZacchiroli is the current project leader
More stuff
Money
One of DPL duties is taking care of Debian money, below you can find pointers to money-related resources.
Sprint Program - the most common and possibly useful way of putting into use Debian money
Sponsoring Guidelines - best practices / requirements to get sponsored with Debian money
Using Money - what you (as a DD) can ask sponsoring for
Bits from the DPL
Bits from the DPL get posted monthly to d-d-a; here is a summary of the most recent of the current term:
past bits (DPL term 2010-2011): 16 Apr 2011, 6 Mar 2011, 4 Feb 2011, 24 Dec 2010, 13 Nov 2010, 6 Oct 2010, 29 Aug 2010 (DebConf10 report), 10 Aug 2010, 27 Jun 2010, 20 May 2010, 18 Apr 2010
A daily activity log can be found on master.debian.org under /srv/leader/news/bits-from-the-DPL.txt. Old entries are rotated to files named bits-from-the-DPL.txt.YYYYMM.
Miscellanea
DD certificate: you might ask the DPL for a Debian Developer certificate (please don't ask for it just for vanity though, as it's take anyhow some time to verify and send it out; if you need it for job or similar reasons however, you're more than welcome!)
Help needed
DebianPrivateDeclassification: volunteers are needed to implement -private GR