Re: Bits from the DPL (April 2018)

[Martin Michlmayr]

* Sean Whitton  [2018-04-30 17:30]:
> >  * Ensuring the continuity of Debian's LWN [9] subscription.
> 
> I noticed that name of the group subscription no longer contains
> "HPE-sponsored" (or whatever it was before).
> 
> Are we now funding that group subscription from our own funds?

I believe lamby is working on finding a new sponsor but I don't
know the status.

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Re: Q: number of project members

[Adam Borowski]

On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 10:56:56AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> >  https://www.debian.org/intro/about.en.html#who describes "Debian is 
> > produced
> >  by almost a thousand active developers spread around the world who 
> > volunteer
> >  in their spare time." but how do we count this?
> 
> We don't, the website hard-codes that number and it hasn't been
> updated since 2002.
> 
> Presumably it means developers in the "DDs" or Debian members sense,
> so it isn't counting Debian contributors either:
> 
> https://contributors.debian.org/

These numbers are so inaccurate it's not really worth it to bother:
should a DD who hasn't made an upload in ten years be counted?  Should a
non-DD non-DM contributor who maintains 86 packages for one and half
decades?  Then, don't forget that a good part of the credit should go to
upstreams who actually wrote the software.  And so on.

Thus, saying that Debian is produced "by almost a thousand active
developers" is the most accurate figure we can honestly give.


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Re: UEFI Secure Boot sprint report

[Steve McIntyre]

On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 04:16:22AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
>On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 11:46:00AM +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote:
>> On Tue, 15 May 2018 03:32:26 +0100
>> Ben Hutchings  wrote:
>> > > > The second point (have DAK accept ...) is part of step 7, yes.  It
>> > > > seems to have been implemented now.
>> > > 
>> > >  Then, remaining blocker is only template for GRUB2?
>> > 
>> > For testing purposes, I think so.  I don't know whether GRUB implements
>> > the policy we want at the moment.
>> 
>>  Is there any issue to apply such policy to grub2 package, or just not
>>  discussed yet?
>
>Either nobody's tried to discuss it with me yet or I missed the email.
>Feel free to (preferably in the form of a patch I can review :-) ).

At / shortly after the sprint, Philipp (in CC) had patches basically
ready for grub2, but he seems to have gone quiet. 

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