Re: Contacting Debian CD team

Hi Steve and greetings from Busan,

at first: Missing you here!

Am Mon, Jul 22, 2024 at 10:54:26PM +0100 schrieb Steve McIntyre:
> 
> We don't tend to have meetings as such, but we tend to get together
> for releases and point releases to work on building and testing. You'd
> be more than welcome to join us! :-)

No promises but its fine to keep me in the row.
 
> >I'm sure not everybody will be able to travel this distance but it would
> >be great if you would at least consider joining that BoF remotely.  I'll
> >care for a somehow TimeZone aware scheduling - if needed we'll organise
> >two BoFs to match all time zones.  I'm also aware that we have pretty
> >different teams and it might make sense to do some infrastructure
> >related BoF with your team and other teams that are caring for Debian
> >infrastructure.
> 
> ACK. I'll be looking for stuff in the schedule and trying to join
> remotely where it makes sense.

That would be nice.
 
> >  - Do you feel good when doing your work in Debian CD team?
> 
> Yep! Especially as we have a good bunch of friends working together.

Nice.
 
> >  - Do you consider the workload of your team equally shared amongst its
> >    members?
> 
> Not quite, but it's ok. I'm the primary maintainer of our setup (both
> code and archive), and I tend to do most of the builds. But other
> people are capable of doing that (Cyril and Andy Simpkins) if
> needed. On release weekends, people chip in with whatever time and
> skills they have, and we have some non-DD contributors in that set
> too.

OK.
 
> >  - Do you have some strategy to gather new contributors for your team?
> 
> Exactly that - we encourage new people to contribute with testing when
> they're interested. In terms of maintenance and development of new
> stuff, that's more difficult, but we do have other people helping too.

Wish you all the best for some healthy team growth.
 
> >  - Can you give some individual estimation how many hours per week you
> >    are working on your tasks in youre team?  Does this fit the amount of
> >    time you can really afford for this task?
> 
> Typically it's no more than a few minutes per week, but that ramps up
> a lot when we spend an entire day doing releases. It's bursty! From
> time to time I spend a few hours together checking on infrastructure
> like snapshots, and I have a few outstanding MRs to pick up.
> 
> debian-cd stuff tends to be fine; I have more issues finding time for
> other tasks that are more interrupt-driven.

Understood.
 
> >  - My very personal (not DPL related) hope is that we will see some
> >    installer featuring Debian Pure Blends.  What chances do you see
> >    to get this happen?
> 
> Hmmm. We have history here... :-) What exactly are you hoping to see?
> A separate set of installer image(s) with all the Blends included?
> Just the normal installer images but with the blends version of
> tasksel included? The latter would be very easy, the former much more
> effort for not so much gain (IMHO).

We really want to "advertise" Blends inside the official installer CD.
Separate CDs are not needed at all, IMHO.  After a >20 year history I
was hoping for

   https://lists.debian.org/debian-blends/2024/05/msg00001.html

and I would be really happy to see that in Trixi.
 
> >  - Can I do anything for you?
> 
> I'm good, thanks. :-)

Great!  See you in Cambridge
    Andreas.