Hi Steve and greetings from Busan, at first: Missing you here!
Am Mon, Jul 22, 2024 at 10:54:26PM +0100 schrieb Steve McIntyre: > > We don't tend to have meetings as such, but we tend to get together > for releases and point releases to work on building and testing. You'd > be more than welcome to join us! :-) No promises but its fine to keep me in the row. > >I'm sure not everybody will be able to travel this distance but it would > >be great if you would at least consider joining that BoF remotely. I'll > >care for a somehow TimeZone aware scheduling - if needed we'll organise > >two BoFs to match all time zones. I'm also aware that we have pretty > >different teams and it might make sense to do some infrastructure > >related BoF with your team and other teams that are caring for Debian > >infrastructure. > > ACK. I'll be looking for stuff in the schedule and trying to join > remotely where it makes sense. That would be nice. > > - Do you feel good when doing your work in Debian CD team? > > Yep! Especially as we have a good bunch of friends working together. Nice. > > - Do you consider the workload of your team equally shared amongst its > > members? > > Not quite, but it's ok. I'm the primary maintainer of our setup (both > code and archive), and I tend to do most of the builds. But other > people are capable of doing that (Cyril and Andy Simpkins) if > needed. On release weekends, people chip in with whatever time and > skills they have, and we have some non-DD contributors in that set > too. OK. > > - Do you have some strategy to gather new contributors for your team? > > Exactly that - we encourage new people to contribute with testing when > they're interested. In terms of maintenance and development of new > stuff, that's more difficult, but we do have other people helping too. Wish you all the best for some healthy team growth. > > - 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? > > Typically it's no more than a few minutes per week, but that ramps up > a lot when we spend an entire day doing releases. It's bursty! From > time to time I spend a few hours together checking on infrastructure > like snapshots, and I have a few outstanding MRs to pick up. > > debian-cd stuff tends to be fine; I have more issues finding time for > other tasks that are more interrupt-driven. Understood. > > - My very personal (not DPL related) hope is that we will see some > > installer featuring Debian Pure Blends. What chances do you see > > to get this happen? > > Hmmm. We have history here... :-) What exactly are you hoping to see? > A separate set of installer image(s) with all the Blends included? > Just the normal installer images but with the blends version of > tasksel included? The latter would be very easy, the former much more > effort for not so much gain (IMHO). We really want to "advertise" Blends inside the official installer CD. Separate CDs are not needed at all, IMHO. After a >20 year history I was hoping for https://lists.debian.org/debian-blends/2024/05/msg00001.html and I would be really happy to see that in Trixi. > > - Can I do anything for you? > > I'm good, thanks. :-) Great! See you in Cambridge Andreas. -- https://fam-tille.de
