How do I unsubscribe from these emails? On Wed, May 1, 2024 at 11:15 PM Andreas Tille <ti...@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi, > > keeping my promise for monthly bits, here's a quick snapshot of my first > ten days as DPL. > > Special thanks to Jonathan for an insightful introduction that left less > room for questions. His introduction covered my first tasks like expense > approval and CTTE member appointments thoroughly. Although I made a > visible oversight by forgetting to exclude Simon McVittie <smcv> from > the list, whose term has ended[0], I'm committed to learning from this > mistake. In future I'll prioritize thorough proofreading to ensure > accuracy. > > Part of my "work" was learning what channels I need to subscribe and > adjust my .procmailrc and .muttrc took some time. > > Recently I had my first press interview. I had to answer a couple of > prepared questions for Business IT News[1]. It seems journalists are > always on the lookout for unique angles. When asked if humility is a new > trait for DPLs, my response would be a resounding "No." In my > experience, humility is a common quality among DPLs I've encountered, > including Jonathan. > > One of my top priorities is reaching out to all our dedicated and > appointed teams, including those managing critical infrastructure. I've > begun with the CTTE, Salsa Admins and Debian Snapshot. Everything > appears to be in order with the CTTE team. I'm waiting for response > from Salsa and Snapshot, which is fine given the recent contact. > > I was pointed out to the fact that lintian is in an unfortunate state as > Axel Beckert confirmed on the lintian maintainers list[2]. It turns out > that bug #1069745 of magics-python should not have been undetected for > a long time if lintian bug #677078[3] would have been fixed. It seems > obvious to me that lintian needs more work to fulfill its role as > reliably policy checker to ensure our high level of packaging quality. > In any case thanks a lot to Axel who is doing his best but it seems > urgent to me to find some more person-power for this task. Any volunteer > to lend some helping hand in the lintian maintainers team? > > On 2024-04-30 I gave my first talk "Bits from greenhorn DPL" online > at MiniDebConf Brasil in Belo Horizonte. The Q&A afterwards stired > some flavours of the question: "What can Debian Brasil do better?" > My answer was always in a way: Given your great activity in now > organising the fifth MiniDebConf you are doing pretty well and I have > no additional hints for the moment. > > Kind regards > Andreas. > > [0] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2024/04/msg00010.html > [1] > https://itwire.com/business-it-news/open-source/new-debian-leader-brings-an-unusual-trait-to-the-job-humility.html > [2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-lint-maint/2024/04/msg00010.html > [3] https://bugs.debian.org/677078 > lintian: Check for Architecture: all in Perl, Python, Ruby etc. > packages > Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 16:15:53 +0300 > > >
