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 [http://lists.debian.org/debian-dpkg/2007/04/msg00006.html proposal]
Concepts described in Scott James Remnant's debconf5 [http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2005/debconf5/ogg_theora/720x576/2005-07-15/02-Freezing_HEL_Over-Scott_James_Remnant.ogg talk], [http://multiarch.alioth.debian.org/dpkg2.pdf Paper for HP]
- filters - at 13:10
- classes - at 16:16
- metadata - at 21:44
dpkg data storage - recent thread [http://lists.debian.org/debian-dpkg/2007/03/msg00011.html 1] [http://lists.debian.org/debian-dpkg/2007/04/msg00015.html 2]
- the future of dselect
multiarch - multiarch, ?dpkg-multiarch, [http://multiarch.alioth.debian.org/multiarch-hp-report.pdf Paper for HP]
- metadata type change proposals - proposal coming soon
install-info transition - [http://lists.debian.org/debian-dpkg/2007/04/msg00031.html recent thread]
p2p transport ideas - DebTorrent
other ideas - [http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/dpkg/trunk/TODO?op=file&rev=0&sc=0 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) (a date in May is probably too short-term for me though)
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 in May
- Ideally before debconf7, on order to be able to share results and develop at debconf
ubuntu is holding a [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UDS-Sevilla developer summit] on May 6-11 in Sevilla, Spain. Several of the people that might want to attend will be there anyway, maybe if we planned for meeting right after that in Extremadura that would work well. ?ScottJamesRemnant: anybody attending this will already have their flights booked, so afterwards won't work
- 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.