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Presentation of the PTS

September 10, 2005 by Raphaël Hertzog

I gave this morning a quick conference presenting how the PTS works internally. My hope is to attract some contributors like aj (Anthony Towns) managed to do with the BTS. He got impressive results in a few months, I hope I’ll get some too. 🙂

Anyway, for those of you who aren’t there in Darmstaadt at the Debian-QA conference, you can still check my slides. Of course, feel free to ask me some questions if you’re currently trying to hack on the PTS… I’d love to help you if you’re gonna help me maintain it in the long run.

We got some interesting ideas for improvements, I hope they’ll evolve in some patches.

Alioth documentation

July 19, 2005 by Raphaël Hertzog

Since people complained about lack of documentation concerning Alioth I decided to write down the most important things in the Debian Wiki.

Check http://wiki.debian.org/Alioth. Feel free to complete the page and to spread the infos whereever needed.

How to handle unmaintained packages with few users

July 17, 2005 by Raphaël Hertzog

Last week I had an interesting discussion with Benjamin Bayart about unmaintained packages which have very few users. Once the initial maintainer disappear, we usually don’t find another one having both Debian skills and a good knowledge of the package. So the software just stay there until it becomes so outdated that it doesn’t work anymore… and then it gets removed blindly. Most of those packages have a low “popcon” rating so they get removed without care.

Read the whole problematic described by Benjamin, and then see my initial mail with a suggestion on how to do better in that area.

The discussion has seen interesting developments even if there’s no consensus (yet). But it’s an important topic concerning QA, so I hope that something useful will come out of it… I’d like to have more time to implement something but I’m already overloaded… I really should have proposed projects for Google’s summer of code. 🙂

Debian booth at LSM

July 5, 2005 by Raphaël Hertzog

This morning when I arrived to the LSM (Libre Software Meeting) in Dijon (France) I discovered that there was no Debian booth … so I quickly created one. Emmanuel Dreyfus agreed to give me a bit of space on his NetBSD booth. Thanks !

Feel free to come to the little Debian booth. There’s not much to see on the booth but you can bring your stuff if you have…

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