Eduardo Romero schrieb:
I know some of you went to froscon, and did enjoyed the experience a lot. I am here asking, if any of you developers could write a text about froscon, the experience, who you met, and how it all went overall. Nothing too fancy, it will in fact feature as an article in the Arch Linux Magazine, it would be appreciated if you could have some photos as well. Contact me if you are able to take on it.
Preferably a developer, but in the event that no developer can get to it, a trusted user could do.
Thanks for your interest as always,
First of all, thanks for _your_ interest. Daniel, Roman and Jens made tons of photos, so we should get those soon. I can offer a group picture for now: http://archlinux.me/brain0/2009/08/22/hello-from-froscon-2009/ Not a real text, but I can tell you some things: First of all, I finally met Roman and I met Dieter, which I was really looking forward to. Also, we installed our machines several times, so I got a good look at AIF, and apart from some minor bugs that we found, it is awesome and it's definitely a major improvement to what we had before. We got rid of about 90 CDs I think, so I would like to thank all Arch donators for making those possible. As every year, we met Simon from the Openoffice community and according to Andy, it seems like they are taking Arch pretty seriously these days. We got personally invited by some Ubuntu guy to the OpenRheinRuhr, which is a small conference in November which iirc takes place for the first time this year. But the most interesting talk I had was with a Debian contributor, and you'll hear more about that from me soon. He asked if we had a science team with special interest in scientific packages, which we don't, but otherwise he would have wanted to exchange experiences. Then he asked about how we manage our packages and if/how we use source code management for it. http://www.vcs-pkg.org/ is a some cross-distro effort in that direction and is currently a wiki connecting info about different workflows in distributions, so I told him I would add a section about how Arch manages the repositories. He also told me about a project on http://patches.debian.net (the site was down at the time) which is aiming at providing a portal where patches from all distributions are collected, so others can find them more easily and it's easier to see who does what. He asked whether it would be possible to provide some way for Arch so that this information is automatically submitted. I was definitely intersted in that. The most interesting thing was a Debian Enhancement Proposal at http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep3/: It is about providing a standard format for adding metadata to unified diff files. This is extremely interesting and I am definitely interested in having such metadata in all patches we add to the Arch repositories. Just read the proposal and see what it includes. This would be especially useful with the cross-distro patch project mentioned above. He told me not to hesitate to write thoughts about improvements to the other of the DEP so this could maybe become a standard format that is not limited to Debian, but could be used for all patches that you will find on the Internet. I told him that I would bring these things up on our mailing lists and that I am definitely interested in those. That's the most important things I remember right now, I guess the others also have things to say (for example Roman talked to lots of people). See what you can make of it and have a nice evening Thomas