Lightning Talks

debconf6 - Oaxtepec

May 20, 2006

Actively discovering bugs/issues with packages

Jeroen van Wolffelaar

jeroen@debian.org

Walkthrough: Make your Country love Debian

Jose Parrella

joseparrella@cantv.net

Debian in the greater Linux ecosystem

Andreas Schuldei

andreas@debian.org

WNPP: Automatizing the unautomatizable

David Moreno Garza

damog@debian.org

How far can we go with a collaborative maintenance infrastructure

Raphael Hertzog

hertzog@debian.org

How to get debian-admin to help you

Matt Taggart

taggart@debian.org

Who

send to the right place

DSA: elmo, neuro, joey, fil

debian-admin@debian.org = DSA (4)

debian-admin@lists.debian.org = DSA + local admins (11)

use the lists address unless you have a reason not to -> more people to help you

How

make it easy to fulfill your request

research and provide specific needed info

ask clear questions

debian-admin is busy

clear = done now

vague = put off till later

avoid the need for back and forth emails

avoid unneeded info or attitude

IS and IS NOT

IS

debian.org machine sysadmin issues

chroot install requests

machine usage questions

NOT

alioth: admin@alioth.debian.org or #alioth

archive: ftpmaster@debian.org

BTS: owner@bugs.debian.org (or file a bug on bugs.debian.org)

lists: listmaster@debian.org

web: webmaster@debian.org

chroot requests

check first, ask for what's missing

specify machine and chroot

space separated list (remove commas, versions, etc.) easy to cut and paste

additional info optional, but may help if there are issues

Learning from Gentoo

Joey Hess

joeyh@debian.org

Gentoo's dispatch-conf

invoke-rc.d

--force-confold

Datamining on Debian packages metadata

Jeroen van Wolffelaar

jeroen@debian.org

Tracking MIA developers

Jeroen van Wolffelaar

jeroen@debian.org

The End

How to pronounce Jeroen van Wolffelaar, and other names

Jeroen van Wolffelaar

jeroen@debian.org

Jeroen van Wolffelaar

Manoj Srivastava

Wichert Akkerman

Junichi Uekawa

Thanks for all chanting my name, that was the real purpose of this talk.

Debian in 4 MB or less

Joey Hess

joeyh@debian.org

2002-03-04T21:54:35