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bits from the DPL for January 2012

Dear Developers, here is another monthly report of what happened in DPL-land, this time for January 2012. There’s quite a bit to report about — including an insane amount of legal-ish stuff — so please bare with me. Or not.

bits from the DPL for December 2011

Dear Developers, here is a status update of what has been going on in DPL land during December 2011. It is shorter than usual as I took a couple of vacation periods off during last month, for family reasons.

bits from the DPL for November 2011

Dear Project Members, another month has passed, it’s time to bother you again about what has happened in DPL land in November (this time, with even less delay than the last one, ah!).

People behind Debian: Stefano Zacchiroli, Debian Project Leader

It’s been one year since the first People behind Debian interview. For this special occasion, I wanted a special guest… and I’m happy that our Debian Project Leader (DPL)—Stefano Zacchiroli—accepted my invitation.

bits from the DPL for October 2011

Dear Developers or, better, Dear Project Members (see below), I swear I won’t rejoice ever again of a calm month such as September!

bits from the DPL for September 2011

September has been a relatively quiet month in DPL-land. I guess most people from the northern hemisphere were bracing for the impact of the end of vacations (myself included) and didn’t have time bothering me. Good! Below you can find a report of what has happened in DPL land during the last month.

bits from the DPL for August 2011

Dear Developers, August has been a rather short month in DPL land, given that I took two weeks off. Here is a report of DPL activities for the rest of the month.

New member appointed to Debian Technical Committee

By officially appointing Colin Watson to the Debian Technical Committee (tech-ctte), project leader Stefano Zacchiroli has added another member to the Debian developer community’s highest governing body.

bits from the DPL for July 2011

Dear Developers, here is a report of DPL activities for July 2011. I apologize for the embarrassing delay, but I’ve been away, shamelessly on vacation, for the first half of August. On the bright side, this delay means that very soon you will re-hear back from me for a report about August, happy?

Community Distribution Patent Policy FAQ now available

The Debian Project is pleased to announce the availability of the Community Distribution Patent Policy FAQ [1], a document meant to educate Free Software developers, and especially distribution editors, about software patent risks.

bits from the DPL for June 2011

Dear Developers, another month, another bit(s). (This report was meant to be sent out about a week ago, so it covers happenings in DPL land for June. Bear with me for further news shortly after the end of DebConf.)

delegation for the backports team

Dear Developers, since a few months [1] the backports service [2] has become officially supported by the Debian Project. In the spirit of clarifying responsibilities and resource access control within Debian, here is (between dashed lines below) the long overdue delegation for the backports team [3].

Exclusive Interview With Debian Leader Stefano Zacchiroli

Swapnil: Can you tell us a bit about yourself? How you got associated with computers?……Stefano: With computers … wow, that’s quite some time ago! I discovered programming when I was 9 year old – I’m 31 now – finding an illustrated book about BASIC programming at the local library (!). Pair that with a C64 [...]

bits from the DPL: some oldies

Dear Developers, another month has passed, time for another update of what has been going on in DPL-land. Since the last update of mine—released shortly after the recent elections [1]—has been mostly about “DPL interaction tips & tricks”, this one will cover the time span from mid April to now. Better get started …

bits from the DPL: the start of the term

Hi everybody, sorry for the delay [1], it’s about time that I thank you all and recall some practical information about how to use DPL “services”.

DPL 2011: Final call for votes

The voting period for the Debian Project Leader election 2011 is almost over. You still have about 31 hours from the time of this writing.

DPL Elections 2011: second call for votes

This is the second call for votes for the Debian Project Leader Elections 2011.

Debian Project Leader Elections 2011: Call for votes

This is the first call for votes for the Debian Project Leader Elections 2011.

Debian Project Leader elections: a foregone conclusion

In a post on the debian-vote mailing list, Zacchiroli, also known simply as Zack, says that he believes that an election with only one candidate “is not healthy for democracy”, adding that “I’m open to the possibility of retiring, in order to restart the process and have more than one candidate in the actual election.”

DPL elections 2011: Candidates

We’re now a into the campaigning period. We only have 1 candidate this year, our current DPL: Stefano Zacchiroli

DebConf chairs delegation

As anticipated in the past DPL bits, I hereby formalize the delegation of DebConf chairs, as part of the ongoing effort in clarifying the relationships between the Debian Project and DebConf organization.

bits from the DPL: squeeze aftermath

Another month, another load of DPL bits! In case you haven’t noticed, the big news since the last bits is that, not only we have a new stable release in Debian history (the 11th), but also that development for Wheezy is open, meaning you can now break your pet packages (not).

Debian Project Leader Elections 2011: Call for nominations

According to the constitution (5.2. Appointment), project leader elections should begin “six weeks before the leadership post becomes vacant, or (if it is too late already) immediately.”

Project Secretary appointment

Dear Developers, as per Constitution §7.2, me and the current Project Secretary have agreed in (re-)appointing Kurt Roeckx as Project Secretary for another term. The term will start tomorrow, 20 February 2011, and will last for 1 year. – Kurt Roeckx, Stefano Zacchiroli

bits from the DPL: collab., comm., debconf, … & Squeeze party!

Dear Developers, let’s see if I can intrude in the Squeeze release countdown (to expire during the upcoming week-end [1]!) with some DPL bits.

Cross Platform Application Installer Meeting Could Mark A Milestone: Debian Project Leader

openSuse’s Vincent Untz organized a meeting around cross-platform application installer in Germany. The meeting was attended by developers representing major distros. Debian is one of the most reputed distributions, which also wears the crown of being the father/mother of popular distributions like Ubuntu and Linux Mint. We talked to Stefano Zacchiroli, Debian project leader, to [...]

LCA 2011: Why people should care about Debian

The current leader of the Debian GNU/Linux project, Stefano Zacchiroli (pictured below, left), posed the question with a little more force – Why the bloody hell should you care about Debian? – in a talk at the 12th Australian national Linux conference today.

bits from the DPL: news, sprints, comm. & collaboration

Dear Developers, I suspect you have been missing DPL SPAM, so let me try to fix that. In the meantime, Squeeze is looking better and better every passing day [0], but we’re not there yet. How about offering as gifts to your closest friends some RC bug fixes? I’m sure they’ll appreciate!

bits from the DPL: sprints, events, delegations, assets

Dear Developers, here we go again with the periodic SPAM^Wreport from your Friendly Neighborhood DPL.

delegation for FTP Masters

Dear developers, some changes have been recently going on among FTP masters, which I’m hereby ratifying with a delegation under Constitution §8.

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