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Bits from Debian Bits from the DPL On Thu 02 May 2024 with tags dpl bits from the dpl community debian Written by Andreas Tille Hi, Keeping my promise for monthly bits, here’s a quick snapshot of my first ten days as DPL. Special thanks to Jonathan for an insightful introduction that left less room for questions. His introduction covered my first tasks like expense approval and CTTE member appointments thoroughly. Although I made a visible oversight by forgetting to exclude Simon McVittie from the list, whose term has ended , I’m committed to learning from this mistake. In future I’ll prioritize thorough proofreading to ensure accuracy. Part of my "work" was learning what channels I need to subscribe and adjust my .procmailrc and .muttrc took some time. Recently I had my first press interview. I had to answer a couple of prepared questions for Business IT News . It seems journalists are always on the lookout for unique angles. When asked if humility is a new trait for DPLs, my response would be a resounding "No." In my experience, humility is a common quality among DPLs I’ve encountered, including Jonathan. One of my top priorities is reaching out to all our dedicated and appointed teams, including those managing critical infrastructure. I’ve begun with the CTTE, Salsa Admins and Debian Snapshot. Everything appears to be in order with the CTTE team. I’m waiting for response from Salsa and Snapshot, which is fine given the recent contact. I was pointed out to the fact that lintian is in an unfortunate state as Axel Beckert confirmed on the lintian maintainers list . It turns out that bug #1069745 of magics-python should not have been undetected for a long time if lintian bug #677078 would have been fixed. It seems obvious to me that lintian needs more work to fulfill its role as reliably policy checker to ensure our high level of packaging quality. In any case thanks a lot to Axel who is doing his best but it seems urgent to me to find some more person-power for this task. Any volunteer to lend some helping hand in the lintian maintainers team? On 2024-04-30 I gave my first talk "Bits from greenhorn DPL" online at MiniDebConf Brasil in Belo Horizonte. The Q&A afterwards stired some flavours of the question: "What can Debian Brasil do better?" My answer was always in a way: Given your great activity in now organising the fifth MiniDebConf you are doing pretty well and I have no additional hints for the moment. Kind regards Andreas. Debian welcomes the 2024 GSOC contributors/students On Wed 01 May 2024 with tags gsoc development diversity software Written by Nilesh Patra We are very excited to announce that Debian has selected seven contributors to work under mentorship on a variety of projects with us during the Google Summer of Code . Here are the list of the projects, students, and details of the tasks to be performed. Project: Android SDK Tools in Debian Student: anuragxone Deliverables of the project: Make the entire Android toolchain, Android Target Platform Framework, and SDK tools available in the Debian archives. Project: Benchmarking Parallel Performance of Numerical MPI Packages Student: Nikolaos Deliverables of the project: Deliver an automated method for Debian maintainers to test selected numerical Debian packages for their parallel performance in clusters, in particular to catch performance regressions from updates, and to verify expected performance gains, such as Amdahl’s and Gufstafson’s law, from increased cluster resources. Project: Debian MobCom Student: Nathan D Deliverables of the project: Update the outdated mobile packages and recreate aged packages due to new dependencies. Bring in more mobile communication tools by adding about 5 new packages. Project: Improve support of the Rust coreutils in Debian Student: Sreehari Prasad TM Deliverables of the project: Make uutils behave more like GNU’s coreutils by improving compatibility with GNU coreutils test suit. Project: Improve support of the Rust findutils in Debian Student: hanbings Deliverables of the project: A safer and more performant implementation of the GNU suite’s xargs, find, locate and updatedb tools in rust. Project: Expanding ROCm support within Debian and derivatives Student: xuantengh Deliverables of the project: Building, packaging, and uploading missing ROCm software into Debian repositories, starting with simple tools and progressing to high-level applications like PyTorch, with the final deliverables comprising a series of ROCm packages meeting community quality assurance standards. Project: procps: Development of System Monitoring, Statistics and Information Tools in Rust Student: Krysztal Huang Deliverables of the project: Improve the usability of the entire Rust-based implementation of the procps utility on Linux. Congratulations and welcome to all the contributors! The Google Summer of Code program is possible in Debian thanks to the efforts of Debian Developers and Debian Contributors that dedicate part of their free time to mentor contributors and outreach tasks. Join us and help extend Debian! You can follow the contributors’ weekly reports on the debian-outreach mailing-list , chat with us on our IRC channel or reach out to the individual projects’ team mailing lists. Infomaniak First Platinum Sponsor of DebConf24 On Wed 01 May 2024 with tags debconf24 debconf sponsors infomaniak Written by Sahil Dhiman Artwork by Infomaniak We are pleased to announce that Infomaniak has committed to sponsor DebConf24 as a Platinum Sponsor . 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Thank you very much, Infomaniak, for your support of DebConf24! Become a sponsor too! DebConf24 will take place from 28th July to 4th August 2024 in Busan, South Korea, and will be preceded by DebCamp, from 21st to 27th July 2024. DebConf24 is accepting sponsors! Interested companies and organizations should contact the DebConf team through sponsors@debconf.org , or viisit the DebConf24 website at https://debconf24.debconf.org/sponsors/become-a-sponsor/ . Debian Project Leader Election 2024, Andreas Tille elected. On Mon 22 April 2024 with tags dpl election leader vote Written by Donald Norwood The voting period for the Debian Project Leader election has ended. Please join us in congratulating Andreas Tille as the new Debian Project Leader. The new term for the project leader started on 2024-04-21. 369 of 1,010 Debian Developers voted using the Condorcet method . More information about the results of the voting are available on the Debian Project Leader Elections 2024 page. Many thanks all of our Developers for voting. apt install dpl-candidate: Andreas Tille On Fri 05 April 2024 with tags interview dpl vote meetDDs Written by Yashraj Moghe with The Debian Publicity Team The Debian Project Developers will shortly vote for a new Debian Project Leader known as the DPL. The Project Leader is the official representative of The Debian Project tasked with managing the overall project, its vision, direction, and finances. The DPL is also responsible for the selection of Delegates, defining areas of responsibility...