Debian Conference 2015 The annual Debian developer meeting

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DebConf registration system sprint and streaming test

Speaker: Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Key Signing Best Practices

Speaker: Christoph Berg
The debian-ha group was pretty much MIA during the jessie release cycle, so the release missed pacemaker, rendering existing HA setups un-upgradeable. In the meantime, a new group has formed. This BoF discusses the current state of the HA stack and the next steps to take.

Speaker: Olly Betts
Xapian is used to provide fast search in several parts of the Debian infrastructure (lists.d.o, packages.d.o, search.d.o, wiki.d.o, debtags.d.n) and is also used by dozens of packages in the archive, from aptitude to zeitgeist-core. It's installed on 95% of machines reporting to popcon. This BoF is an opportunity for the maintainers and developers of these packages and services to get together and discuss all things Xapian.

Speaker: Enrico Zini
Front Desk members, Debian Account Managers, Application Managers, current or prospective New Member applicants are invited to ask questions, tell stories and exchange tips about everything related to handing out Debian Developer hats.

Speaker: Andreas Tille
Since 2008 I'm working on graphing data about teams in Debian. In 2011 a GSoC project "Teammetrics" established some better infrastucture and some additional measures were added. The last addition was a number of maintainers per packaging graph which also creates some enlightment how good a team works together. Besides measuring how teams are working together I'd like to explain ways how to gain new team members by lowering the entry barrier. This is done in the Mentoring of the Month project for Debian Med. I was also running a Mentoring of the Month for Women by droping the constraint of medical software. It was a specific challenge for me to introduce an outsider into a team I'm no member of and where I was unaware of the specific team policy.

Speaker: Wouter Verhelst
Debian used to have a reputation of having a rather harsh community, where flamewars were the normal way of handling conflict. Over the past decade or so, however, things have gradually improved to the point where this is no longer the case. In recent years, we've had two general resolutions in this area: the diversity statement in 2012, and the code of conduct in 2014. Together, they are the Debian community's instruments in ensuring that our project remains a welcoming environment. Are these instruments working? Do we need more of these? Or are we perhaps overreaching in our effort to keep discussion civil, to a point where these instruments are counterproductive? Let's talk about that.

Speaker: Paul Gevers
In this BoF I like to take some time to explain what dbconfig-common can do for packages that require a working database. dbconfig-common has recently seen a lot of long standing bugs fixed, so I think it is time that more packagers are aware of it's possibilities. I would like to take the opportunity to solicit for further enhancements and help.

Speaker: Richard Hartmann
How do you use Git for code, personal files, and Debian?

Speaker: Daniel Kahn Gillmor
patch queues! upstream VCS tags! pristine tar! tracking security updates! contributing back to upstream! Do you use git-buildpackage (gbp) in your debian packaging? Do you have special tricks that you find sanity-preserving, time-saving, or otherwise handy? Do you want to learn more about this workflow? come to this skillshare/discussion to share and learn.

Speaker: Guido Günther
git-buildpackage{,-rpm} are used inside and outside of Debian for creating Debian and RPM packages out of Git repositories. What workflows do you use? Where can gbp be improved for that? What's missing? Where should it integrate better into other tools? What about DEP-14?

Speaker: Richard Hartmann
Debian is being offered as part of a service more and more often. Hosted servers, Debian installations on Android, pre-installed laptops, cloud images, and containers are just some examples. We need a common set of guidelines to determine when something can be called "official Debian", "Debian", and "based on Debian"

Speaker: Richard Hartmann
The Debian Trademark Team invites all interested parties to join and discuss with us.

Speakers: Steve McIntyre, Wookey
Discussion of the state of the ARM ports, and planning for the future.

Speaker: David Bremner
One of (at least my) primary motivations for working on Notmuch [1] is reducing my dependence on cloud services, and supporting the secure sending and receiving of signed and encrypted mail. Like any real world piece of software, notmuch is far from perfect, and several areas related to privacy and security could clearly be improved. During this BoF we'd like to plan out some topics to work on in followup hacking sessions. Anyone is welcome, even if they don't feel like hacking on notmuch. Potential topics of discussion and hacking include: - S/MIME signatures and encryption - Improving the security of the Emacs MML mime composer - Searching of GPG encrypted mail - Auditing and fixing "webbug" style problems in front ends - Making notmuch build reproducibly [1]: http://notmuchmail.org

Speaker: Joachim Breitner
As every year, those who care about Haskell in Debian meet and discuss. In contrast to last year, there will be no (or only very little) presentation before, so that we have more time to discuss. Possible topics are: * Report from the DebCamp: What, if anything, did we produce there? * How can we automate the packaging and upgrading more, using cabal-debian. * What is our relation to Stackage and Stackage LTS? how can we best build on their work? * Can we better define the scope of what we want to have packaged in Debian and, especially, what not? * Do and can we want to provide up-to-date packages in backports? * Is there a better VCS-workflow for us, and what would it be? * Generally: How can we distribute the work on more shoulders?

Speaker: Andreas Tille
The Debian GIS Blend gained some new activists in the last two years. So its time to reserve a slot for GIS enthusiasts in Debian to meet in one place and discuss common issues and further development. I'd like to present some teammetrics stats and give some short introduction into the Blends GSoC project to rewrite Blends tasks pages to ask for comments about potential enhancements which could help the Debian GIS team. I'd be more than happy if somebody of Debian GIS would serve as additional speaker and bring in more ideas for this meeting.

Speaker: Piotr Ożarowski
any Python related topics

Speakers: Cédric Boutillier, Ana Guerrero Lopez
The Debian Publicity team's motto is "Make Debian famous" and this means to try to spread the word about Debian to a wider audience but also spread the word inside the Debian community about the cool things that happen. The Publicity work is kind of transversal to each other Team in Debian, but there are some areas in which collaboration with Publicity is key to success: outreach/diversity/newcomers, DebConf and MiniConfs, Release, collaboration with other entities In this BoF, we will discuss how we can improve the services handled by the Publicity team, which new tools or services can be created, and how can people get involved.

Speaker: Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Members of the GnuPG packaging team, upstream, and anyone else interested are welcome to come to discuss outstanding work, divvy up tasks, and get things done.

Speakers: Raphaël Hertzog, Holger Levsen
Work sessions between the members of the security team and of the LTS team to prepare for Wheezy LTS: - infrastructure changes so that security.debian.org repositories can be used by the LTS team - discussing what will be supported in Wheezy LTS - etc.

Speaker: Holger Levsen
A roundtable with relevant Debian parties to discuss and plan what needs to be done, so that reproducible builds can become a official supported feature for (at least some packages in) Debian Stretch. We would like to see ftpmaster team members, dpkg maintainers, release team members, tech-ctte members and you at this event!

Speaker: Antonio Terceiro
The anual gathering of the Ruby team, to discuss all things Ruby in Debian.

Speaker: Martin Zobel-Helas
What has DSA done for you and what you can do for DSA. The (nearly) yearly Q&A Session with your friendly DSA Team.

Speaker: Bdale Garbee
Software in the Public Interest is the legal and financial umbrella organization providing services to Debian in the United States. This session will provide an opportunity to meet the members of the SPI board attending Debconf, hear a brief update on the organization's activities in the last year, and get your questions answered.

Speaker: Steve McIntyre
Discussion of the state of our installation and other images we build, and planning for the future.

Speaker: Gregor Herrmann
The pkg-perl team will again take the opportunity to meet in person for discussing current topics and planning future work. Items for discussion and work are collected at http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianPerlGroup/OpenTasks

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Alioth git replacement BoF

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GBP skills exchange

Speaker: Lucas Nussbaum
Over the recent years, a number of packaging tools have been improved to include "automated packaging" features, to facilitate the packaging of software also distributed through CPAN, Pypi, rubygems, etc. The goal of this BOF is to discuss the existing tools, discover opportunities for improvements in each tool, and opportunities for collaboration between those tools.

Speaker: Andi Barth
Current state and updates about the buildd / wanna-build infrastructure / system (and discussion - this is a BoF)

Speakers: Helmut Grohne, Mattia Rizzolo, Holger Levsen
Defining what need's to be done to move jenkins.debian.net to DSA maintenance jenkins.debian.net exists since more than 2.5 years now and has been proven useful to many teams since them. To ensure its future it should be moved to a DSA maintained .debian.org machine with the Jenkins setup being under team maintence by a group of people. This session should ideally come up with a list whats needs to be done, and probably bugs filed to track them.