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Alexander Schmehl | 24 Jun 10:23
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Debian Project News - June 23rd, 2008

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Welcome to this year's 4th issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian
community.
Some of the topics covered in this issue:

 * Call for new New Maintainer Application Managers
 * Backports.org keyring package?
 * Debian powers Max Planck Institute 32.8 TFlops supercomputer
 * ... and much more.

Call for new New Maintainer Application Managers

Marc Brockschmidt, member of the New Maintainer Frontdesk, [1]sent a
call for Application Managers taking care of New Maintainers.
Application Managers should have a broad experience in sponsoring and
mentoring of prospective developers, a firm knowledge of the Debian
Policy and Developer's Reference and at least a rough understanding of
the current New Maintainer process.

  1: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/06/msg00005.html

Interested Developers, who have above all that a few hours of time each
week, should send mail to [2]new-maintainer <at> debian.org.

  2: mailto:new-maintainer <at> debian.org
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Alexander Schmehl | 10 Jun 01:30
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Debian Project News - June 9th, 2008

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Welcome to this year's 4th issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian
community.
Some of the topics covered in this issue:

 * Release Update
 * Beta-2 of the Lenny Debian Installer released
 * Report from LinuxTag 2008
 * Call for help by the german translation team
 * ... and much more.

Release Update

Marc Brockschmidt reported[1] about the status of the upcoming stable
release. After some major transitions, like the ocaml transition[2][3]
"Lenny" is in good shape, but still a lot of work needs to be done. Since
the armel architecture made great improvements the release team decided
to upgrade it to a proper release architecture.

  1: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/06/msg00000.html
  2: http://upsilon.cc/~zack/blog/posts/2008/05/debian_ocaml_news/
  3: http://upsilon.cc/~zack/blog/posts/2008/06/ocaml_3.10.2_is_in_testing/

Regarding Lenny the Qt/KDE Packaging Team [4]decided that the upcoming
release will be shipped with KDE 3.5.9 (and with the KDE 4.1 development
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Alexander Schmehl | 27 May 01:04
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Debian Weekly News - May 26th, 2008

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Welcome to this year's 3rd issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian
community. Steve McIntyre sent a new "Bits from the DPL" mail. A
serious issue in Debians OpenSSL package has been fixed recently.
Debian is discussing about an archive strucure for huge packages.

Bits from the Debian Project Leader
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Steve McIntyre sent a new release of his "Bits from the DPL"[1] reporting
his recent activities as elected Project Leader. He starts by pointing to
several interviews he gave recently[2][3][4][5][6] and continues by
informing about personal changes in core teams. Jonathan McDowell has
been added as keyring maintainer, and is already working together with
James Troup on easier integration of keyring maintenance and our ldap
system for better cooperation with the Debian System Administrators. He
thanks Anthony Towns, who stepped down from the teams he was in.

  1: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/05/msg00006.html
  2: http://www.itwire.com/content/view/17716/1090/
  3: http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?RSS&entryid=741
  4: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39406494,00.htm
  5: http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2008/04/21/debian_developers_approved/
  6: http://www.tllts.org/audio/tllts_244-05-07-08.ogg
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Alexander Schmehl | 16 May 22:43
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Debian Project News - May 9th, 2008

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Welcome to this year's 2nd issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian
community. We would like to thank everyone for his feedback on the last
issue of the Debian Project News! We didn't reckoned a tiny newsletter
would cause such an sensation - we where even mentioned in some print
magazines! So many, many thanks! We'll try our very best to come up and
exceed your expectations!

While visiting Stefano Zacchiroli the www 2008 conference[1] in china Sir
Tim Berners-Lee[2] offered Debian kudos[3] for its well thought-out
encapsulation/packaging of libraries. Paul Wise will close[4] his Debian
user[5] and Debian new contributor[6] surveys on June 1st so that
analysis of the results can begin. Please participate if you haven't done
so, yet.

  1. http://www2008.org/
  2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_berners-lee
  3. http://upsilon.cc/~zack/blog/posts/2008/04/unexpected_kudos_from_TBL/
  4. http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/05/msg00006.html
  5. http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/03/msg02475.html
  6. http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2008/03/msg00030.html

Debian and Googles Summer of Code
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The Debian Project announced[7] to participate again in Googles Summer of
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Alexander Schmehl | 27 Apr 23:02
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Debian participates in the 2008 Google "Summer of Code"

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Debian is participating in the 2008 Google Summer of Code

The Debian project is proud to announce that it has again been accepted
by Google as a mentor organisation for the Summer of Code programme. We
have been allocated twelve tasks for this year. Google will fund the
students mentioned here to work full time on those tasks during their
summer vacation, from May 26th to August 18th. They will be guided and
evaluated during this time by a team of Debian developers.

Several tasks cover communication between software authors, users and
Debian developers. A number of tasks target quality assurance and
improved testing, while others will result in new tools that help
maintain Debian systems.

 * Jonathan Roes will work on Netconf, a next generation approach for
   network configuration management on Linux systems. This will
   provide a single logical replacement for a large number of programs
   currently handling related tasks on Debian systems.
 * CRAN is a comprehensive archive of tools and libraries for the GNU
   R statistical computing language. Charles Blundell will write
   cran2deb, a tool to help with automatic generation of Debian
   packages from CRAN packages and bundles. This makes it much easier
   for developers and users to work with R extensions on Debian
   systems, especially for administrators of larger computing
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Alexander Schmehl | 21 Apr 22:07
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Debian Project News - April 21st, 2008

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Welcome to the first issue of the Debian Project News, the newsletter
for the Debian community! From now on we'll keep you informed about
recent events and interesting developments in and around the Debian
Community on a biweekly basis. But we could still use some help, so
feel free to take a look at our [1]wiki.

  1. http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/

New Debian Project Leader elected
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After 12 years of working on Debian as a developer [2]Steve McIntyre
was elected as the new Debian project leader. Within short hours of
taking the job Steve had his first [3]interview with iTWire where he
plans to focus his energy during his term. The interview highlights
Steve's hopes to improve communication between the core teams, get
Lenny out in the second half of 2008 and encourage greater
participation in the project.

When asked how Steve will know if he has done a good job this year he
replied, "I'll know I've done a good job if Debian is in a better
shape: More efficient, more people having fun, more people working on
the core tasks that are needed. I want to see Lenny released inside our
target window. Beyond that, I'll just have to trust to judgement - my
own and those of my peers. I know that's a little wishy-washy, but it's
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Martin Schulze | 3 Jul 22:18
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Debian Weekly News - July 3rd, 2007

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Welcome to this year's 6th issue of DWN, the newsletter for the Debian
community. Ulrich Hansen created a set of nice looking CD and DVD
[1]covers for the just released [2]Debian GNU/Linux 4.0. Roland Mas
[3]announced that [4]Alioth has been upgrade to [5]etch. Kurt
Gramlich [6]announced a Skolelinux Youngster Meeting on July 20th to
26th in Chemnitz, Germany.

 1. http://www.ulrich-hansen.de/etch/
 2. http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/
 3. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/05/msg00001.html
 4. http://alioth.debian.org/
 5. http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/
 6. http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-eu/2007/06/msg00015.html

Call for Papers for LVEE-2007. Vlad Shakhov [7]called for papers and
speakers for the upcoming [8]Linux Vacation/Eastern Europe (LVEE)
meeting. The event takes place from June, 14th to 17th near Hrodna,
Belarus. The conference goal is to provide open exchange of ideas and
experience between developers and users, give them ability to establish
personal contacts. Participants and speakers are asked to apply not
later than 1st of June.

 7. http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-eu/2007/04/msg00012.html
 8. http://lvee.org.by/
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Martin Schulze | 24 Apr 21:05
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Debian Weekly News - April 24th, 2007

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Welcome to this year's 5th issue of DWN, the newsletter for the Debian
community. Roland Mas [1]announced that [2]Alioth users can use
[3]Mercurial for version control. Robert Millan [4]announced version
0.4.0 of the Debian [5]loader for Windows operating systems including
Vista. Joey Schulze [6]reported that [7]security updates are
available via IPv6 from official servers as well. The new release of
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 is [8]celebrated all over the world.

 1. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/03/msg00011.html
 2. http://alioth.debian.org/
 3. http://packages.debian.org/mercurial
 4. http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2007/03/msg01168.html
 5. http://goodbye-microsoft.com/
 6. http://www.infodrom.org/~joey/log/?200703292005
 7. http://www.debian.org/security/
 8. http://wiki.debian.org/ReleasePartyEtch

Saving Money with Debian GNU/Linux. The leader of the IT department of
Germany's [9]Federal Foreign Office, Rolf Schuster, [10]reported that
they have seriously cut their IT costs by consequently using Free
Software. Driven by the urge to save money on license fees and to
escape from update cycles the office started the move in 2002 and has
since then connected 230 embassies with the secure intranet
[11]gateways. More than 300 laptops of diplomats also run a
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Joey Schulze | 25 Apr 15:56
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Debian Project participates in Google's Summer of Code

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Debian Project participates in Google's Summer of Code

The Debian project is proud that it has been accepted by Google as a
mentor organisation for this year's Summer of Code program, with nine
tasks in total.  Google will fund the students mentioned below to work
full time on these tasks during their summer vacation, from May 28th
to August 20th. They will be guided and evaluated during this time by
active Debian developers.

The main focus of all the student tasks is to create or improve
utilities that assist developers working on Debian packages and the
Debian release.  Several tasks cover communication between software
authors, users and Debian developers.  A number of tasks target
quality assurance and improved testing, while others will result in
new tools that help maintain Debian systems.

In particular the following tasks and students have been accepted:

  Jeroen van Wolffelaar will implement Mole, an infrastructure for
  managing information.  This will help make Debian's vast supply of
  data easier accessible to developers and users.  Included are
  package history and release statistics.

  Ian Haken will write tools to use QEMU, a virtual machine emulator,
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Martin Schulze | 13 Mar 21:05
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Debian Weekly News - March 13th, 2007

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Welcome to this year's 4th issue of DWN, the newsletter for the Debian
community. The Debian listmaster [1]determined as part of the spring
cleaning effort several unused and obsolete lists that will be closed
down. Tony Mobily [2]noted that the last [3]GIF patent has finally
expired. Gustavo Franco [4]reported that Second Life [5]runs on
Debian servers because it is suited to scaling massively with a small
IT staff.

 1. http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2007/01/msg00046.html
 2. http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/node/1772
 3. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gif.html
 4. http://stratusandtheswirl.blogspot.com/2007/03/debian-get-life.html
 5. http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197800179

Directory for Web Applications. Paul Cager [6]wondered what directory
should be used as document root for a small web server he is
packaging. Luis Matos [7]noted that packages like [8]phpsysinfo use
/usr/share/≤packagename> and symbolic links to /var/www/≤packagename>.
Sean Finney [9]explained that the proper way to include web
applications is via an alias in the web server configuration and
pointed to the [10]Webapps Policy Manual written by the Debian Webapps
Team.

 6. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2007/01/msg00608.html
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Martin Schulze | 13 Feb 21:26
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Debian Weekly News - February 13th, 2007

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Welcome to this year's 3rd issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the
Debian community. In light of recent [1]attacks on SHA-1, the
[2]National Institute of Standards and Technology is preparing for a
[3]competition to augment and revise the current Secure Hash
Standard. Rick Lehrbaum [4]reported that the installation of Debian
etch on an old ThinkPad notebook went pretty well and added a number
of screenshots.

 1. http://it.slashdot.org/it/07/01/20/1936257.shtml
 2. http://www.nist.gov/
 3. http://www.full-disk-encryption.net/nist_hash.html
 4. http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT8143350649.html

Supporting Package Downgrade? Justin Pryzby [5]listed a couple of
reasons for not supporting package downgrades. They often work
nevertheless, except when package replacements and maintainer scripts
are involved. He wondered if there are any other reasons. Damyan
Ivanov [6]recommended the excellent documentation of [7]maintainer
scripts written by Margarita Manterola on the [8]Debian Women Wiki.

 5. http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2007/01/msg00241.html
 6. http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2007/01/msg00253.html
 7. http://women.debian.org/wiki/English/MaintainerScripts
 8. http://women.debian.org/wiki/
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