Debian CD
Infrastructure
Website: https://get.debian.org
Salsa Team: https://salsa.debian.org/images-team
Documentation: not much
- Services handled by the team:
Production of the official release CD/DVD images (https://get.debian.org/debian-cd/)
Production of the daily/weekly CD/DVD images (https://get.debian.org/images/)
Interacting with the team
Email contact: debian-cd@lists.debian.org
Public IRC channel: #debian-cd on irc.debian.org (OFTC)
Usual roles
SteveMcIntyre (IRC nick Sledge) is team lead, doing most of the current development of debian-cd and the day-to-day maintenance of the regular builds.
- Mattias Wadenstein (IRC nick maswan) maintains the servers and infrastructure that primarily serve the CD and DVD images.
AndySimpkins (IRC nick RattusRattus) helps co-ordinate CD and DVD testing on release weekends
Others
RaphaelHertzog (IRC nick buxy) wrote YACS (the software that grew into debian-cd) and has provided various fixes since
Frans Pop used to do a huge amount of work on debian-cd and debian-installer integration
JoeyHess used to maintain the task lists that define what packages need to go onto the CDs for debian-installer
- Santiago Garcia used to run the regular builds, and the scripts in use today are still based on his work
?PetterReinholdtsen
?RichardHirst
others...
Task description
We produce CDs and DVDs to help people install Debian. That means that we need to work regularly with other teams to make things work:
- debian-installer
the Release Team
- the architecture porters
Then the work splits into two parts:
- Developing the debian-cd software itself
- Using that software regularly to generate and publish CD and DVD images, both daily/weekly for testing images and straight after each release for official stable images
Get involved
Help test our images - download, test installations and report bugs
Look at the debian-cd bug list and see if you can help fix things
mkisofs / genisoimage problems (especially on hfs hybrid images)
More stuff
DebianCd - old debian-cd information page
DebianCDTester - Martin Ferrari's project to develop a testing tool for debian CD images]
DebianLive - Debian Live CDs
- Browse the Git repositories:
https://salsa.debian.org/images-team/debian-cd (core debian-cd code)
https://salsa.debian.org/images-team/setup (the scripts in use on cdbuilder.debian.org, the CD build machine)
https://salsa.debian.org/images-team/package-lists (lists of packages contained in releases, used for update-cd)
https://salsa.debian.org/images-team/live-setup (the scripts we use on cdbuilder.debian.org to make live and openstack images)