Hi all, Andreas Tille <ti...@debian.org> wrote (Sun, 26 May 2024 11:31:24 +0200): > - Do you feel good when doing your work in Debian Boot team?
Yes! While I have to admit that I'm mostly doing just the simple things :-) I consider myself being only a small candle on the cake. Being not a programmer, I don't do difficult or critical changings most of the time, so relaxed gaming here ;-) > - Do you consider the workload of your team equally shared amongst its > members and who actually is considered a team member? (I added some > persons in CC who have recently answered to questions on the mailing > list.) My impression is, that kibi might be kind of overloaded (at least some time), since he's the mainly active part, when it comes to the "difficult or critical things", which I leave around ... (and his answer to this survey confirms this) But I cannot see what I can do against this :-( (see below) (ok, that's not strictly correct generally, there are some people taking care of specific packages, taking workload from kibi's shoulders, but that's not for the majority of packages) > - Do you have some strategy to gather new contributors for your team? Since I lack the skills to lead new contributors into doing the difficult or critical things from above (where we would mostly need more manpower, if at all), I'm a bit lost here ... > - Can you give some individual estimation how many hours per week you > are working on your tasks in youre team? Does this fit the amount of > time you can really afford for this task? This ranges from zero to 5-10 hours per week, depending on variables like the state of development cycle of release (when the next release comes nearer, I try to get missing translation updates, which leads to more commits and uploads, as an example). And: I'm fine with this time effort. > - I recently had some discussion on Chemnitzer Linuxtage what might > be the reason for derivatives to write their own installers. While > I'm personally perfectly happy with the way I can install Debian I'm > somehow wondering why others are spending time into a problem we > are considering "solved" and whether we can learn something from this, That was often mentioned, and the arguments for the Debian Installer was the broader range of architectures, and as well as the support for older hardware. You can easily create a nicer installer, if you develop from scratch for only a small variety of up-to-date devices. OTOH since Buster we have the Calamares installer on the live images as well, to serve such approaches. The idea behind the Calamares installer is exactly that: develop a framework, which can be used to install a variety of distributions, to solve those distributions from developing their own installer. So I think we are on a not that bad position here ... (?) > - I once had a amr64 based laptop (Pinebook) and had to learn that I > can't use the Debian installer which was frustrating. I was told > that this is the case for hardware that is not featuring some BIOS-like > boot system. Do you see any chance to let the installer work for > non-Intel architectures (or should I rather ask this question on > Debian CD (sorry for my ignorance if I miss responsibility here.) > - Can I do anything for you? I guess most teams are undermanned in the free software world, and there's nothing one can do against easily, but I consider this being the main "issue", if any... So long Holger -- Holger Wansing <hwans...@mailbox.org> PGP-Fingerprint: 496A C6E8 1442 4B34 8508 3529 59F1 87CA 156E B076
