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Paul Wise <
pabs@debian.org
pabs@debian.org on XMPP
pabs on irc.oftc.net
pabs3 on irc.libera.chat
Other contact information is available on my website
Portfolio
For more information about my involvement in Debian, please see
my portfolio page
. Below is some more information that is not available from my portfolio page.
Teams
I am a member of the
sysadmin
team,
wiki admin team
, IRC admin team and QA group.
Until 2015 I was an assistant to the press team.
I'm semi-active in the derivatives, publicity and web teams.
I've previously been active in the games and fonts teams
Bugs (old/other addresses)
bugs received:
(note: co-maintainers
not
listed, see
430986
correspondent:
Events:
helped organise a
local BSP in 2012
helped organise local Debian
squeeze
jessie
release parties
External
Homepage:
contrib/non-free
I use the following packages from Debian contrib/non-free (and their deps):
Hardware enablement: intel-microcode firmware-iwlwifi firmware-realtek firmware-misc-nonfree
GFDL GNU documentation: gcc-doc gdb-doc make-doc tar-doc
Tor Browser: torbrowser-launcher onionshare
Web services: translate-shell
Goals
defoma -> fontconfig migration
Derivatives
unsupported.d.n
improve the
games team
wishlist
comms:
better communication
on Debian fora
this timeperiod on IRC
merge
unofficial tools and services
into official services/systems
merge debian-ports mirror stuff into the Debian mirror stuff <
1455925978.3531.43.camel@debian.org
web stuff: replace all contact information with a link to www.d.o/contact to ensure people don't annoy various aliases with user support questions
general, per-distribution mechanism to list releases and their URLs/order/support/etc. This should replace all the hardcoding of release names in various places. (
761348
ending the tyranny of unix permissions/groups - move more projects to collab-maint
better general, per-release and per-package communication mechanisms with Debian users.
get rid of templates in various places and replace them with forms that must be filled out. Known: reportbug mentors-rfs-template
automated
sentiment analysis
to find out about community/individual satisfaction
DEP-11 component search on packages.d.o
polls infrastructure
a way for manual pages to be
autodownloaded
convince all upstreams to switch from Flash to
JavaScript, purge all .swf/.fla files and software for building from Debian
convince all upstreams to stop
parsing /proc/cpuinfo
move to using www.debian.org as the source location for dents/tweets and produce feeds for import into various social networks
better workflows for Debian press releases and DPN
a mirrorbrain instance for ISO image redirecting
better ways for users to get a copy of Debian
generation of source code indexes for offline code searching
map information flow from every file in a source package to every file in binary packages
reduce and track
static linking
reduce and track
embedded code and data copies
reduce and track
hardcoded release names, versions and architectures
reduce and mitigate
general
and
repository
vulnerabilities
reduce non-reproducible builds (inc build arch variation)
reduce non-multi-arch libraries
reduce non-cross-buildable packages
reduce privacy-violating packages
reduce packages causing
freedom
issues
refocus
DebConf
and Debian funding on regular donations by individuals
d-i:
get rid of the concept of default desktops
more integration of Debian blends
support for touchscreen-only and mobile devices
OEM mode
tell you about freedom issues with whatever you are running Debian on (hardware, hypervisor, kernel etc)
post-install for OEM mode
options for checking the hardware - memtest86+ badblocks etc
make debootstrap apt-mark auto everything except what it installs
dpkg/apt/aptitude:
Supersedes to get rid of transition packages
allow packages to register files as belonging to them
a mode where packages can be generically-configured but not configured for specific machines (useful for OEM/Live images, OpenSSH keys for eg are machine-specific and should not be in OEM/Live images).
integration with debdelta
sync dpkg and aptitude holds
a way to keep build-deps installed without metapackages for each source package
make apt not forget its brain when there are hash mismatches
build-depends on source packages
architecture wildcards for linux-all, kfreebsd-all, etc for things that could be built once but only work on specific kernels.
ways to direct/encourage user donations to upstreams/Debian
cut down packages/sources per blend in dists
cut down packages/sources per non-free section in dists
option to be silent so that postinst errors are more visible (
288778
deployment
automatically build one Flatpak for each Debian binary packages as an easier alternative to backports, dependencies and the app itself go into a per-binary-package runtime and some symlinks go into the app
automatically build other types of containers
remove Debian-specific stuff
port aptitude/synaptic/etc to
PackageKit
split branding into separate packages
QA
add more to UDD
base more services on UDD
revive mole, reimplement DACA in mole and add
more
tests
infra for a "QA cloud" based on donating CPU time
source package search based on LXR/OpenGrok/etc
automated detection of embedded code copies (CloneWise)
revive DDPO-by-mail
survey use of QA infra by Debian contributors
fix upstream check situation
unified dynamic infrastructure instead of daily-built and split up into multiple interfaces
merge bts-link into debbugs
use distromatch to link to patches, bugs etc from other distributions
export sponsor info into mentors.d.n sources
bapase to pts
mole to pts
compare upstream VCS repositories to tarballs
release
reduce the impact of the freeze on development
mail people when their packages do not migrate instead of when they do
oldstable security support until stable+1 release
clarify/obsolete the conflation between bug severity and RC-ness
support information in Release files and user notification
transition staging areas
revive package promotion/reviews and promote them from packages.d.o (
543343
figure out a solution for dotfile insanity
delete obsolete files from ~/ on package upgrade/removal
debconf:
use audio source speaker separation (like
manyears
) to separate and re-mix conference audio
use transparent slides to overlay speaker's text on speaker's video
microphone drones to capture more of the audience questions
a virtual
DebConf
every 3/6 months
something like FUDcon, which is a *users* conference more than a dev one
talk accessibility for deaf/blind attendees
services:
info.debian.net: extract all info files
docs.debian.net: extract all documentation files (from
doc-base
, GNOME, KDE etc doc indexes) and display them on the web
fonts.debian.net: font lookup/etc
mime.debian.net: file format lookup
wiki: improve
DebianLogo
ChangeLanguage
Freshplayerplugin
Software that can't be packaged
LocalGroups
yay!
Things I wanted that are done!
dpkg:
versioned Provides
apt: a better format for
sources.list
DebConf
: package one of the online subtitle editors and get Debian users to
subtitle
the
DebConf
video archive.
automatic debug packages
wiki
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