October 2009 Meeting in Essen, Germany

This page includes planning and other information for the meeting at LinuxHotel, Essen in late October 2009.

When and Where

Linuxhotel GmbH Antonienallee 1, 45279 Essen-Horst

Tel.: 0201 8536-600 Fax: 0201 8536-605

E-Mail: info@linuxhotel.de

We have four slots for the full week and a further four for the latter half of the week.

Luk Claes will be present to discuss matters relating to the release team on Saturday 31st (but will not require accomodation)

Items for discussion and work:

dak - cleanup and future
ftp-team workflow
1. Day-to-day work
2. Tracking projects
  - Tracking (and letting people know) which features such as compression are available in the main archive or when they'll be made available.
3. Communication and tracking what's going on
archive projects
1. dpkg-source v3
2. Enabling other compression types (bz2 / lzma or whatever it's calling itself this week)
3. buildd autosigning
4. multiarch
5. Possible Project/Release file changes:
  - Eliding out Long descriptions
  - Inline signing / Preventing checksum mismatch problems
6. Contents/Packages/Sources generation
7. debtags integration
8. Source only uploads / Rebuild all binaries
9. The linux-modules-extra/contrib/non-free source <-> binary case
10. what is necessary in the copyright file
11. removing packages against the maintainer's will (or not)
12. tracking arch all packages per suite
new sub-archives
1. data.debian.org
2. volatile
admin / legal issues
1. gcc-4.4 licensing situation
2. mplayer situation
3. the "hostile upstream" situation
4. maintainers suffering upload addiction