This summit never happened, this page is preserved for now for the information contained within.
What
An in person meeting of interested developers to discuss the future of Debian package management.
Purpose
- discuss proposals for new features
- determine goals for lenny
- develop consensus around dpkg behaviors
- share knowledge in order to have more dpkg experts
- review and fix bugs
- do some development
Potential Topics
triggers - Ian Jackson's proposal
Concepts described in Scott James Remnant's debconf5 talk, Paper for HP
- filters - at 13:10
- classes - at 16:16
- metadata - at 21:44
- the future of dselect
multiarch - multiarch, ?dpkg-multiarch, Paper for HP
- metadata type change proposals - proposal coming soon
install-info transition - recent thread
p2p transport ideas - DebTorrent
other ideas - dpkg TODO
Attendees
If you plan to attend, please add your name and where you are travelling from
- Matt Taggart, Seattle
- Guillem Jover, Helsinki
- Marius Vollmer, Helsinki (because we use apt/dpkg in maemo (maemo.org) and I want to suck in some knowledge)
- Frank Lichtenheld, Frankfurt (Germany)
- Simon Richter, Munich/Germany
- Anthony Towns, Brisbane Australia (debtorrent, ftpmaster stuff)
If you don't plan to attend but have been contacted at some moment, please add your name below
- Christian Perrier (only handling dpkg l10n which is "minor" with regards of the meeting goals. Anyway Nicolas François can represent the i18n crowd very well)
Event details
Dates
- Not yet determined, hopefully some time around Aug-Nov 2007
- Several attendees have indicated a preference for weekends, to limit the effect on their weekday jobs.
- Length of meeting not yet determined, maybe 4 days? Hold a opening dinner the day people arrive, meet for 3 full days, and then have a summary the morning after that.
Location
- Andreas Schuldei (Debian's meeting coordinator) has proposed that we use meeting space provided by Extremadura.
- A lot (most?) of the attendees are in Europe, some place that works well for them might be best.
- Adding on to linux.conf.au 2008 (28 Jan-2 Feb; Melbourne, Australia) could be possible