Debian welcomes the 2020 GSOC interns

On Fri 22 May 2020 with tags gsoc google announce development diversity software mobile device code projects
Written by Donald Norwood

Translations: fr

GSoC logo

We are very excited to announce that Debian has selected nine interns to work under mentorship on a variety of projects with us during the Google Summer of Code.

Here are the list of the projects, students, and details of the tasks to be performed.

Project: Android SDK Tools in Debian

Student(s): Manas Kashyap, Raman Sarda, and Samyak-jn

Deliverables of the project: Make the entire Android toolchain, Android Target Platform Framework, and SDK tools available in the Debian archives.

Project: Packaging and Quality assurance of COVID-19 relevant applications

Student: Nilesh

Deliverables of the project: Quality assurance including bug fixing, continuous integration tests and documentation for all Debian Med applications that are known to be helpful to fight COVID-19

Project: BLAS/LAPACK Ecosystem Enhancement

Student: Mo Zhou

Deliverables of the project: Better environment, documentation, policy, and lintian checks for BLAS/LAPACK.

Project: Quality Assurance and Continuous integration for applications in life sciences and medicine

Student: Pranav Ballaney

Deliverables of the project: Continuous integration tests for all Debian Med applications, QA review, and bug fixes.

Project: Systemd unit translator

Student: K Gopal Krishna

Deliverables of the project: A systemd unit to OpenRC init script translator. Updated OpenRC package into Debian Unstable.

Project: Architecture Cross-Grading Support in Debian

Student: Kevin Wu

Deliverables of the project: Evaluate, test, and develop tools to evaluate cross-grade checks for system and user configuration.

Project: Upstream/Downstream cooperation in Ruby

Student: utkarsh2102

Deliverables of the project: Create guide for rubygems.org on good practices for upstream maintainers, develop a tool that can detect problems and, if possible fix those errors automatically. Establish good documentation, design the tool to be extensible for other languages.

Congratulations and welcome to all the interns!

The Google Summer of Code program is possible in Debian thanks to the efforts of Debian Developers and Debian Contributors that dedicate part of their free time to mentor interns and outreach tasks.

Join us and help extend Debian! You can follow the interns' weekly reports on the debian-outreach mailing-list, chat with us on our IRC channel or reach out to the individual projects' team mailing lists.

DPL elections 2020, congratulations Jonathan Carter!

On Sun 19 April 2020 with tags dpl election leader vote
Written by Ana Guerrero López

Translations: fr

The Debian Project Leader elections just finished and the winner is Jonathan Carter!

His term as project leader starts next Tuesday April 21st and expires on April 20th 2021.

Of a total of 1011 developers, 339 developers voted using the Condorcet method. More information about the result is available in the Debian Project Leader Elections 2020 page.

Many thanks to Jonathan Carter, Sruthi Chandran and Brian Gupta for running.

And special thanks to Sam Hartman for his service as DPL during these last twelve months!

New Debian Developers and Maintainers (January and February 2020)

On Mon 23 March 2020 with tags project
Written by Jean-Pierre Giraud

Translations: ca es fr pt sv vi zh-CN

The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months:

Gard Spreemann (gspr)
Jonathan Bustillos (jathan)
Scott Talbert (swt2c)

The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months:

Thiago Andrade Marques
William Grzybowski
Sudip Mukherjee
Birger Schacht
Michael Robin Crusoe
Lars Tangvald
Alberto Molina Coballes
Emmanuel Arias
Hsieh-Tseng Shen
Jamie Strandboge

Congratulations!

Official communication channels for Debian

On Mon 16 March 2020 with tags project announce
Written by Laura Arjona Reina, Ana Guerrero Lopez and Donald Norwood

Translations: da es fr ko nl pt-BR ru sv

From time to time, we get questions in Debian about our official channels of communication and questions about the Debian status of who may own similarly named websites.

The main Debian website www.debian.org is our primary medium of communication. Those seeking information about current events and development progress in the community may be interested in the Debian News section of the Debian website. For less formal announcements, we have the official Debian blog Bits from Debian, and the Debian micronews service for shorter news items.

Our official newsletter Debian Project News and all official announcements of news or project changes are dual posted on our website and sent to our official mailing lists debian-announce or debian-news. Posting to those mailing lists is restricted.

We also want to take the opportunity to announce how the Debian Project, or for short, Debian is structured.

Debian has a structure regulated by our Constitution. Officers and delegated members are listed on our Organizational Structure page. Additional teams are listed on our Teams page.

The complete list of official Debian members can be found on our New Members page, where our membership is managed. A broader list of Debian contributors can be found on our Contributors page.

If you have questions, we invite you to reach the press team at press@debian.org.

New Debian Developers and Maintainers (November and December 2019)

On Sun 26 January 2020 with tags project
Written by Jean-Pierre Giraud

Translations: ca es fr pt sv vi zh-CN