On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 02:04:41PM +0100, Henne Vogelsang wrote:
Brothers,
the FOSDEM Team wants to try something new (i like that!) for the upcoming instance. Let me just quote the relevant parts of the announcement mail from Pascal:
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So far only very little discussion has happened around this topic. Mostly people expressed that they liked or disliked it. Which is not really the point i think. Its the FOSDEM's team event. They do all the hard work and should be the driving force behind how it's organized. If they want to try something new we should help them succeed. Thats why i would like to brainstorm a bit about tracks with you and then we can bring them over to the dist2010 list. Let me start:
1. Build Systems I would like to see a build system track. Where different distributions can introduce theirs and the concepts behind it. Including, but not limited to, how contributions, maintenance, branching, image building etc are handled. I think this is a great topic for distros to stimulate each other. I think all of us could do something here for the OBS. From conceptual talks down to hands one hacking stuff.
I could do a talk about the collaboration features of the OBS and/or one about our distribution setup in it.
2. Upstream I would also like to have an Upstream track where the whole distro<>upstream relation is discussed. Including release cycles, contributions, alteration etc. Possible contributions from us would be vuntz/will/lubos talking about how we handle the desktops or we could get one of the kernel guys to talk about that.
Brainstorm please! :)
3. Distribution testing and QA It might be interesting to know how various distributions handle testing and quality control, what are the processes, policies and tools (if any) to support developers/community in testing upcoming maintenance updates, distribution releases etc. Just my two cents... -- Best regards / s pozdravem Petr Uzel, openSUSE Boosters Team ----------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX, s.r.o. e-mail: puzel@suse.cz Lihovarská 1060/12 http://www.suse.cz 190 00 Prague 9, CR