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What

An in person meeting of interested developers to discuss the future of Debian package management.

Purpose

  • discuss proposals for new features
  • determine goals for lenny
  • develop consensus around dpkg behaviors
  • share knowledge in order to have more dpkg experts
  • review and fix bugs
  • do some development

Potential Topics

  • triggers - Ian Jackson's proposal

  • Concepts described in Scott James Remnant's debconf5 talk, Paper for HP

    • filters - at 13:10
    • classes - at 16:16
    • metadata - at 21:44
  • dpkg data storage - recent thread 1 2

  • the future of dselect
  • multiarch - multiarch, ?dpkg-multiarch, Paper for HP

  • metadata type change proposals - proposal coming soon
  • install-info transition - recent thread

  • p2p transport ideas - DebTorrent

  • other ideas - dpkg TODO

Attendees

If you plan to attend, please add your name and where you are travelling from

  • Matt Taggart, Seattle
  • Guillem Jover, Helsinki
  • Marius Vollmer, Helsinki (because we use apt/dpkg in maemo (maemo.org) and I want to suck in some knowledge)
  • Frank Lichtenheld, Frankfurt (Germany)
  • Simon Richter, Munich/Germany
  • Anthony Towns, Brisbane Australia (debtorrent, ftpmaster stuff)

If you don't plan to attend but have been contacted at some moment, please add your name below

  • Christian Perrier (only handling dpkg l10n which is "minor" with regards of the meeting goals. Anyway Nicolas François can represent the i18n crowd very well)

Event details

Dates

  • Not yet determined, hopefully some time around Aug-Nov 2007
  • Several attendees have indicated a preference for weekends, to limit the effect on their weekday jobs.
  • Length of meeting not yet determined, maybe 4 days? Hold a opening dinner the day people arrive, meet for 3 full days, and then have a summary the morning after that.

Location

  • Andreas Schuldei (Debian's meeting coordinator) has proposed that we use meeting space provided by Extremadura.
  • A lot (most?) of the attendees are in Europe, some place that works well for them might be best.
  • Adding on to linux.conf.au 2008 (28 Jan-2 Feb; Melbourne, Australia) could be possible