gmane.linux.debian.user.news

Debian Project News - June 23rd, 2008

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Debian Project News
http://www.debian.org/News/project/2008/05/
Debian Project News - June 23rd, 2008
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

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

(Continue reading)

headers

Michael Deegan | 24 Jun 11:29

Re: Debian Project News - June 23rd, 2008

G'day,

On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 10:24:06AM +0200, Alexander Schmehl wrote:
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Debian Project News
> http://www.debian.org/News/project/2008/05/
> Debian Project News - June 23rd, 2008
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

It may be a good idea to check that the copy on the website isn't 404
before posting to the list. :)

Also, I miss the new-packages list (and to a lesser degree the list of
packages with security fixes) previously found in DWN, though if this
omission is due to lack of manpower then I totally understand. :)

HTH,

-MD

--

-- 
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Michael Deegan           Hugaholic          http://wibble.darktech.org/gallery/
------------------------- Nyy Tybel Gb Gur Ulcabgbnq! -------------------------

headers

P. Kaluza | 24 Jun 18:39

Re: Debian Project News - June 23rd, 2008

Hi Alexander and all,

thanks for your hard work to resurrect and reinvent DWN.

Alexander Schmehl wrote:
> Welcome to this year's 4th issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian
> community.
>   
actually it is the 5th issue since the rename. (Fourth issue was on 
2008-06-09)

Could you maybe change it on the website (before the translators hit it) ?
And please make the next issue the 6th.

And a little wishlist suggestion: I really liked that the new WNPP bugs 
used to be inlined in the old DWN. Given the asynchronous release cycles 
of DPN and the WNPP report i guess this would be hard to aggregate. But 
maybe itwould bepossible to get a hold of the script that generates the 
WNPP report and use it within the DPN release scripts directly ?

Thanks,
  Philipp