#debian-derivatives Meeting

Meeting summary

1. introductions (Kamping_Kaiser, 12:00:39)
   1. http://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/CensusFull (Kamping_Kaiser, 12:10:12)
   
   
2. DEX (Debian DErivatives eXchange) (Kamping_Kaiser, 12:13:12)
   1. http://wiki.debian.org/DEX (Kamping_Kaiser, 12:14:16)
   2. DEX is about teams of people from Debian and derivatives working together to get specific classes of changes merged into Debian (Kamping_Kaiser, 12:18:45)
   3. DEX is not Ubuntu specific, although the only successful "campaign" to date was a Ubuntu related one (Kamping_Kaiser, 12:19:06)
   4. HELP: wanted from any derivative willing to do a dex (Kamping_Kaiser, 12:22:56)
   5. a dex project should be a group/type/set of changes with defined goals for merging, with a team to work on merging those changes (Kamping_Kaiser, 12:23:39)
   6. dex project for all derivs (and debian) factoring out Debian branding into branding packages (Kamping_Kaiser, 12:26:54)
   7. HELP: to try and get the process of factoring out Debian branding into branding packages rolling (Kamping_Kaiser, 12:27:12)
   8. nhandler has been working on some tools to view the status of dex work as its done and sending monthly (ish) updates about it. info at [[DEX/dextools]] (Kamping_Kaiser, 12:29:38)
   9. http://wiki.debian.org/DEX/dextools (Kamping_Kaiser, 12:29:42)
   10. http://lists.debian.org/debian-desktop/2011/10/msg00014.html (pabs, 12:32:05)
   11. http://lists.debian.org/debian-desktop/2011/10/msg00014.html (Kamping_Kaiser, 12:32:39)
   
   
3. pabs' distro diff scripts (Kamping_Kaiser, 12:37:51)
   1. http://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census (Kamping_Kaiser, 12:38:24)
   2. http://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Integration (Kamping_Kaiser, 12:39:16)
   3. derivatives census to gather information about derivatives and integrate that information into Debian infrastructure (Kamping_Kaiser, 12:39:43)
   4. first project was aggregating derivatives blogs (Kamping_Kaiser, 12:41:27)
   5. http://planet.debian.org/derivs/ is 404 (devil_, 12:41:59)
   6. http://planet.debian.org/deriv (Kamping_Kaiser, 12:42:45)
   7. http://dex.alioth.debian.org/census/ (Kamping_Kaiser, 12:44:19)
   8. the patches directory contains patches for each modified package (pabs, 12:44:53)
   9. work in progress results of the script are availble (Kamping_Kaiser, 12:44:54)
   10. the debug log files for the patch generation script are sources.log in each derivative subdir (pabs, 12:45:35)
   11. the sources.links files list links to modified source packages (pabs, 12:46:06)
   12. the sources.new files list links to source packages that were never in Debian (pabs, 12:46:24)
   13. the sources.patches files are an index of the produced and possible useful patches (pabs, 12:46:54)
   14. HELP: with the scripts would be good, a working knowledge of python/shell required (Kamping_Kaiser, 12:50:26)
   15. HELP: with presenting the results to Debian through the PTS and other QA infrastructure needed too (pabs, 12:51:07)
   16. look for the FIXMEs in the source tree. available at git://git.debian.org/git/dex/census.git (Kamping_Kaiser, 12:51:57)
   17. script still has quirks, ask questions in OFTC/#debian-derivatives if you have any. (Kamping_Kaiser, 13:02:21)
   18. the gigantic-diffs quirk is currently one of the main blockers for deploying the script permanently (pabs, 13:03:03)
   
   
4. wrap up (Kamping_Kaiser, 13:03:55)
   1. ACTION: pabs to invite more feedback on the script results on the debian-derivatives list (pabs, 13:04:00)

Action items

1. pabs to invite more feedback on the script results on the debian-derivatives list

Action items, by person

1. dba
   1. pabs to invite more feedback on the script results on the debian-derivatives list
2. pabs
   1. pabs to invite more feedback on the script results on the debian-derivatives list

People present (lines said)

1. Kamping_Kaiser (80)
2. pabs (55)
3. g7 (7)
4. waldi (6)
5. petani (5)
6. jmphilippe (4)
7. nthykier (4)
8. devil (3)
9. dba (3)
10. devil_ (3)
11. buxy (3)
12. MeetBot (2)
13. mikap (2)
14. ajmitch (2)
15. zeha (2)
16. bluewater (1)
17. knopper (1)
18. DonKult (1)