Hi, as your Debian Project Leader I'd like to officially contact all our teams to learn about potential issues that might affect your work. I would love to learn how you organise / share your workload. If you do some regular meetings - be it on IRC, video conference or whatever I'm interested in joining one of your next meetings.
Like previous DPLs, I'm open to any inquiries or requests for
assistance. I personally prefer public discussion whenever possible, as
they can benefit a wider audience. You can find a list of contact
options at the bottom of my page on people.d.o[1].
I prefer being offline when I'm away from my keyboard, so I don't carry
a phone. In urgent situations, I can provide the number of my dumb
phone, though it may not always be within reach. Feel free to ping me
via email if I don't respond promptly to ensure I address your concerns.
Please let me know whether I can do something for you. I'm fine joining
your IRC channel if needed but please invite me in case I should be
informed about some urgent discussion there since I normally do not lurk
on this channel.
I'd also like to inform you that I've registered a BoF for DebConf24 in
Busan with the following description:
This BoF is an attempt to gather as much as possible teams inside
Debian to exchange experiences, discuss workflows inside teams, share
their ways to attract newcomers etc.
Each participant team should prepare a short description of their work
and what team roles (“openings”) they have for new contributors. Even
for delegated teams (membership is less fluid), it would be good to
present the team, explain what it takes to be a team member, and what
steps people usually go to end up being invited to participate. Some
other teams can easily absorb contributions from salsa MRs, and at some
point people get commit access. Anyway, the point is that we work on the
idea that the pathway to become a team member becomes more clear from an
outsider point-of-view.
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.
I have some specific questions to the X Strike Force team.
- Do you feel good when doing your work in X Strike Force team?
- Do you consider the workload of your team equally shared amongst its
members?
- Do you have some strategy to gather new contributors for your team?
- 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?
- Otto Kekäläinen has done some investigation about popular packages not
yet on Salsa at all via
curl -s -LO https://trends.debian.net/vcs-hosting_unstable-packages.csv
curl -s -LO https://popcon.debian.org/sourcemax/by_inst
for x in $(tail -n +13 by_inst | head -n 100 | cut -c 7-25)
do
grep -E "^$x," vcs-hosting_unstable-packages.csv
done | grep -v salsa | grep libxdmcp
(Last grep was added by me to point to the actual problem I want to
talk about here.)
Looking at tracker[2] and BTS[3] I see a package that was not uploaded
for more than seven years, lagging behind upstream with some bugs that are
pretty easy to fix. So I think its not actively maintained but has quite
some high popcon value [4].
I wonder whether this might be a singular case for a package which for
whatever reason slipped through or whether there are chances that other
packages maintained by your team might somehow be forgotten to migrate from
Alioth.
Do you plan to work on this and possibly other packages in the near future?
- Can I do anything for you?
Kind regards and thanks a lot for your work
Andreas.
[1] https://people.debian.org/~tille/
[2] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/libxdmcp
[3] https://bugs.debian.org/src:libxdmcp
[4] https://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=libxdmcp6
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