On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 6:25 AM, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > - Lack of people power in some areas
Which general areas would you say we have a particular need for more people in? > - Generally, no interest of contributors for non-technical tasks The amount of translators we have suggests otherwise. Likewise the amount of themes we got for jessie. The newish recruits to the publicity team are another exception. I believe there are people interested in these tasks but most existing contributors are focussed on technical things so there are issues around getting started and visibility. https://www.debian.org/international/ https://wiki.debian.org/DebianArt/Themes > - Not easy to get started In terms of packaging stuff, we have an excess of documentation of different quality, outdatedness and detail. This is a swamp that needs to be drained. A sprint could be a good way to get this fixed, if enough people interested in mentors stuff could be found. In general, debian-mentors seems to answer most questions and almost all getting started questions, but of course we miss the people who give up before getting to debian-mentors. > - Complex processes (or sometimes, not well known) Undocumented or non-existent processes is something we definitely need to improve. Complexity also leads to swamps of documentation. > - No roadmap How would you propose to set a roadmap? > Threats: > - Containers as a solution to deploy applications and services. I consider this an opportunity; imagine a future where people say this; go to Debian for your container needs, they produce secure, security-updated and backport-updated container images for these tasks/applications/blends. This could expand the amount of people using Debian in some form and the amount of package maintainers. > - Non-free hardware more and more common. Even our CPUs require a microcode > that we are invited update blindly! OTOH, the wider world is reacting to this and is starting work on libre ISAs, SoC designs and silicon for that, which represents a significant opportunity for us to have an official port to a Free CPU for the first time. There is already an OpenRISC Debian port but RISC-V/lowRISC seems more likely to have widely available ASICs. http://riscv.org/ http://www.lowrisc.org/ http://openrisc.debian.net/ > - Complexity of new software stacks: Who's really able to debug his Gnome > installation and understand all dbus-triggered stuff? It became so much > complex that even power users have troubles finding answers. And this is > not an isolated example. Surely this is just a matter of having debugging tools, knowing they exist and learning to use them? For D-Bus, there are bustle, dbus-monitor mdbus2 AFAICT. I certainly wouldn't expect to be able to debug a C/C++ program without valgrind/GDB/etc, nor a web application without Firebug or similar. > Opportunities: Could you write a bit more about the opportunities? How can we take advantage of them? What work do we need to do? What improvements to Debian could they bring? > - Potential new contributors from Arabic-speaking countries I haven't noticed any particular opportunity for this, could you mention where/how you noticed this? -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/caktje6h_f3okmhitw6onihasnzfgqfxdahwcjz1x5lkpz1n...@mail.gmail.com
