Saturday July 19th

ききながら hotplugとかgroffとかをいじっていた

Legal aspects of free software

Jonas Oberg @ gnu.org / FSF Europe

10:00-10:45

you can't use public domain to give people freedom
defend freedom of software
we need to have copyright
legal maintainability
A comment I heard from a well placed person in the FSF was that GPLv3 is not just Richards baby and is likely to be fine, but that the FDL is entirely rms' baby.

Jeff Bailey

11:00-11:45

http://delta.nisa.net/~jbailey/cdbs/1.html
cdbs is a modular system that you can use to radically simplify your debian/rules files
The idea is that it's modular so that you don't pay for features you don't use, and extensible so that you don't need to fork to get special features you need.

Andreas Schuldei

12:00-12:45

Martin Michlmayr

14:30-15:15

They are responsible for a package but don't maintain it
also known as AWOL (Absent WithOut Leave)
Debian: ownership (package)
other projects: fre maintainers + many contributors (e.g. code contribution)
Sources of informatio
- LDAP echelon (last mail and last encrypted mail)
- RC (release critical) bugs
- FTBFS (Fails To Build From Source) bugs are 'fixed'
- Standards-Version out of date (conforms to old version of the policy)
- @debian e-mail bounces
Attention
- Be polite
- Don't forget we're volunteers
- There might be a good reason for being MIA
MIA DB qa.debian.org:/org/qa.debian.org/mia/
MIA pings
- they have 2 months to respond; if they don't respond, their account will be retired
- 191 people were mailed
- alive: 10
- maybe: 38
- noreply: 71
- retire-me: 43
New Maintainer
- how to ensure that people don't become inactive after 2 months?
- initial hardle
- long-term contribution
Teams
- Have maintainer teams
- Uploaders: PTS
- NM: promote becoming co-maintainers
http://qa.debian.org/

Michael Beattie, Anthony Towns, James Troup

15:30-16:15

archive size
- buzz: 229MB
- rex: 306Mb
- bo: 1.2G
- hamm: 2.1Gb
- slink: 4.1Gb
daily pulse: 200MB -> 1Gb+
average is ~500Mb
http://snapshot.debian.net/ のグラフも参照
People drop other archives (e.g. GNU) to make space for Debian
pool
Britney Theory
- Theory 1: Unstable is well maintained most of the time
- Theory 2: Measure server brokenness by bugs, builds and deps.
- Theory 3: If it's never broken, it's always releasable!
Britney Failures
- parts of unstable aren't well maintained
- toolchain, gnome2, snapshot packages
- Bug appearing in testing
- "Oh, I'll fix that when we get closer to the freeze" scc.debian.org
http://ftp-master.debian.org/
auric.debian.org:/org/ftp.debian.org/