Hi, [I don't normally respond to spam, but I need to blow off some frustration =)]
"Brian Exelbierd" <b...@pobox.com> wrote: > Online at: > https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2017-October/002648.html > > The Distributions devroom will take place Sunday 4 February 2018 at > FOSDEM, in Brussels, Belgium at the Universit=C3=A9 Libre de Bruxelles. Interesting. What does this have to do with OpenBSD? > For this year's distributions devroom, we want to focus on the ways that > distribution technologies can be leveraged to allow for easier > creation of a multi-verse of artifacts from single source trees. Uhm, what does that *mean*, in technical terms? > We also > want to continue to highlight the huge efforts being made in shared > environments around Build/Test/Release cycles. Define 'shared environments'? > We welcome submissions targeted at contributors interested in issues > unique to distributions, especially in the following topics: > > - Distribution and Community collaborations, eg: how does code flow from > developers to end users across communities, ensuring trust and code > audibility ^^^^^^^^^^ I propose reviving speak(1). > - Automating building software for redistribution to minimize human > involvement, eg: bots that branch and build software, bots that > participate as team members extending human involvement Counterproductive. > - Cross-distribution collaboration on common issues, eg: content > distribution, infrastructure, and documentation What's cross-distribution? Is it like cross-pollination? > - Growing distribution communities, eg: onboarding new users, helping > new contributors learn community values and technology, increasing > contributor technical skills, recognizing and rewarding contribution Sounds like a schoolteacher approach to me. An onboarding school, haha! > - Principals of Rolling Releases, Long Term Supported Releases (LTS), > Feature gated releases, and calendar releases You do know that calendar releases have been obsolete since cal(1), right? Unless you like pretty pictures. > - Distribution construction, installation, deployment, packaging and > content management Ooh yes, when installing OpenBSD I'm very very interested in content management, woohoo! > - Balancing new code and active upstreams verus security updates, back > porting and minimization of user breaking changes {,L}users are broken by design, so we don't need to worry about that =) > - Delivering architecture independent software universally across > architectures within the confines of distribution systems Gibberish. > - Effectively communicating the difference in experience across > architectures for developers, packagers, and users Ever heard of manual pages? They're great! > - Working with vendors and including them in the community What vendors? Most of them ain't interested. > - The future of distributions, emerging trends and evolving user demands > from the idea of a platform I DEMAND WINDOZE 3193179381, AND I DEMAND IT NOW!!!11!!1!! WEEEEHEEEE!11!!! > Ideal submissions are actionable and opinionated. Submissions may > be in the form of 25 or 50 minute talks, panel sessions, round-table > discussions, or Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions. Actionable? Prolly. Opinionated? Yup. Write me in! And I'll sign it with my shit. Stop spamming us, really. --schaafuit.
