by Jonathan Carter
At: Debian Reunion Hamburg 2023
https://hamburg-2023.mini.debconf.org/talks/8-towards-collective-decision-making-and-maintenance-in-the-debian-base-system/
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/de/2023/DebianReunionHamburg
Over the years, there has been lots of friction in the Debian project when
trying to effect system-wide changes affecting core components of the operating
system. We believe that a lot of this tension, that has accumulated over the
years, has some of its roots in the separate strong maintenance of the packages
constituting the core Debian system (that is, packages in the transitively
Many community Free Software projects have some form of developer body, elected
or otherwise, which steers the direction of the project and gets buy-in from the
community of maintainers of the base system; For instance, Fedora has an
Engineering Steering Committee
(FESCo), Ubuntu has a Foundations
team, the Python project has a
We would like to explore the ways Debian could draw from these ideas and move
towards more collaborative direction-setting and maintenance for its base system
components. The aim of this session is to get more points of view on the topic,
and maybe gather some more volunteers to prepare a project-wide discussion to be
started once the bookworm release is out of the door.
Scheduled start: 2023-05-27 16:00:00