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#debian-derivatives Meeting
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Meeting started by Kamping_Kaiser at 12:00:29 UTC. The full logs are
available at
http://meetbot.debian.net/debian-derivatives/2011/debian-derivatives.2011-10-23-12.00.log.html
.



Meeting summary
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* introductions  (Kamping_Kaiser, 12:00:39)
  * LINK: http://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/CensusFull
    (Kamping_Kaiser, 12:10:12)

* DEX (Debian DErivatives eXchange)  (Kamping_Kaiser, 12:13:12)
  * LINK: http://wiki.debian.org/DEX   (Kamping_Kaiser, 12:14:16)
  * DEX is about teams of people from Debian and derivatives working
    together to get specific classes of changes merged into Debian
    (Kamping_Kaiser, 12:18:45)
  * DEX is not Ubuntu specific, although the only successful "campaign"
    to date was a Ubuntu related one  (Kamping_Kaiser, 12:19:06)
  * HELP: wanted from any derivative willing to do a dex
    (Kamping_Kaiser, 12:22:56)
  * a dex project should be  a group/type/set of changes with defined
    goals for merging, with a team to work on merging those changes
    (Kamping_Kaiser, 12:23:39)
  * dex project for all derivs (and debian) factoring out Debian
    branding into branding packages  (Kamping_Kaiser, 12:26:54)
  * HELP: to try and get the process of factoring out Debian branding
    into branding packages rolling  (Kamping_Kaiser, 12:27:12)
  * nhandler has been working on some tools to view the status of dex
    work as its done and sending monthly (ish) updates about it. info at
    [[DEX/dextools]]  (Kamping_Kaiser, 12:29:38)
  * LINK: http://wiki.debian.org/DEX/dextools   (Kamping_Kaiser,
    12:29:42)
  * LINK: http://lists.debian.org/debian-desktop/2011/10/msg00014.html
    (pabs, 12:32:05)
  * LINK: http://lists.debian.org/debian-desktop/2011/10/msg00014.html
    (Kamping_Kaiser, 12:32:39)

* pabs' distro diff scripts  (Kamping_Kaiser, 12:37:51)
  * LINK: http://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census   (Kamping_Kaiser,
    12:38:24)
  * LINK: http://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Integration
    (Kamping_Kaiser, 12:39:16)
  * derivatives census to gather information about derivatives and
    integrate that information into Debian infrastructure
    (Kamping_Kaiser, 12:39:43)
  * first project was aggregating derivatives blogs  (Kamping_Kaiser,
    12:41:27)
  * LINK: http://planet.debian.org/derivs/ is 404  (devil_, 12:41:59)
  * LINK: http://planet.debian.org/deriv   (Kamping_Kaiser, 12:42:45)
  * LINK: http://dex.alioth.debian.org/census/   (Kamping_Kaiser,
    12:44:19)
  * the patches directory contains patches for each modified package
    (pabs, 12:44:53)
  * work in progress results of the script are availble
    (Kamping_Kaiser, 12:44:54)
  * the debug log files for the patch generation script are sources.log
    in each derivative subdir  (pabs, 12:45:35)
  * the sources.links files list links to modified source packages
    (pabs, 12:46:06)
  * the sources.new files list links to source packages that were never
    in Debian  (pabs, 12:46:24)
  * the sources.patches files are an index of the produced and possible
    useful patches  (pabs, 12:46:54)
  * HELP: with the scripts would be good, a working knowledge of
    python/shell required  (Kamping_Kaiser, 12:50:26)
  * HELP: with presenting the results to Debian through the PTS and
    other QA infrastructure needed too  (pabs, 12:51:07)
  * look for the FIXMEs in the source tree. available at
    git://git.debian.org/git/dex/census.git  (Kamping_Kaiser, 12:51:57)
  * script still has quirks, ask questions in OFTC/#debian-derivatives
    if you have any.  (Kamping_Kaiser, 13:02:21)
  * the gigantic-diffs quirk is currently one of the main blockers for
    deploying the script permanently  (pabs, 13:03:03)

* wrap up  (Kamping_Kaiser, 13:03:55)
  * ACTION: pabs to invite more feedback on the script results on the
    debian-derivatives list  (pabs, 13:04:00)

Meeting ended at 13:08:41 UTC.




Action Items
------------
* pabs to invite more feedback on the script results on the
  debian-derivatives list




Action Items, by person
-----------------------
* dba
  * pabs to invite more feedback on the script results on the
    debian-derivatives list
* pabs
  * pabs to invite more feedback on the script results on the
    debian-derivatives list
* **UNASSIGNED**
  * (none)




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* Kamping_Kaiser (80)
* pabs (55)
* g7 (7)
* waldi (6)
* petani (5)
* jmphilippe (4)
* nthykier (4)
* devil (3)
* dba (3)
* devil_ (3)
* buxy (3)
* MeetBot (2)
* mikap (2)
* ajmitch (2)
* zeha (2)
* bluewater (1)
* knopper (1)
* DonKult (1)




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