Team Name

Infrastructure

• Website: https://bugs.debian.org

• Sourcecode: https://bugs.debian.org/debbugs-source/

• Documentation:

  • SOAP Interface: DebbugsSoapInterface

  • Bugs Version Tracking: BugsVersionTracking

• Unix group: debbugs

• Services handled by the team:

  • /org/bugs.debian.org on host rietz.debian.org, et al.

Interacting with the team

• Email contact: owner@bugs.debian.org

• Request tracker: https://bugs.debian.org/bugs.debian.org

• Public IRC channel: #debbugs on irc.debian.org (OFTC)

Usual roles

• Don Armstrong (IRC nick dondelelcaro) is the current maintainer (most active developer)

• Blars Blarson regularly tunes the anti-spam filters during spam attacks
• Josip Rodin helped with various bits over the years.
• Colin Watson coded various parts of the Perl code, which he still groks.

Other members of the debbugs group, still not described properly: Martin "Joey" Schulze

Former members:

• Ian Jackson, Debbugs creator
• Adam Heath
• Pascal Hakim worked on the BTS subscription feature (which is delegated to lists.debian.org). His listmaster hat helped of course.

• Steinar H. Gunderson, who worked hard to add version tracking (in general and in https://bugs.debian.org/release-critical in particular)

• Anthony Towns, who coded various parts of the Perl code

Task description

The debbugs team is responsible for the bug tracking system on bugs.debian.org.

Source Code Branches

The source code is in a git repository; these are the main branches

• Upstream Branch: https://bugs.debian.org/debbugs-source/debbugs.git master -- main upstream branch

• Debian Branch: https://bugs.debian.org/debbugs-source/debbugs.git debian -- branch which is running on bugs.debian.org

• Don Branch: https://git.donarmstrong.com/debbugs.git master (and others) -- branches for development and breaking things

Get involved

If you want to help out with debbugs, see the list of open bugs in the debbugs and bugs.debian.org pseudopackages.

Patches accepted.

Events

• DebConf17: Debbugs: 22 years of bugs (slides, video)

• DebConf5: Debbugs, tips, tricks and hacks (video 1 2)