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]
- 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
- 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 - proposal coming soon
Attendees
If you plan to attend, please add your name
- Matt Taggart
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
- 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?
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.