[still no pictures here, feel free to go to gallery.debconf.org].
After my
report about DebCamp, &
after being home for 5 days now, here are some thoughts about DebConf13:
First of all, I really enjoyed being there, & this was one of the best
DebConfs for me so far. An important reason for this was the place:
Le Camp was in my opinion the best DebConf
venue ever (I've been to), with everything & everyone in one place,
& still enough space (especially outdoors space!) for work &
relaxing. Kudos to the local team for finding this spot, & for sticking
to it despite some criticism.
In general, I'd like to say thanks to the local team for the perfect
organisation of all aspects you did a great job!
What else did I enjoy? As usual, meeting old friends & making new ones
was an important part. It was great to see people I've worked together with
on-line in person for the first time, & also to get to know new people.
Debian not only produces a great operating system, it also is an
awesome community!
Speaking of which: I attended quite a few seesions from the Community and
Team tracks, & it's good to see that lots of energy & thoughts are
going into improving how we deal with new or existing contributors.
Like each year, we had the
"use Perl;" BoF, the annual meeting of the Debian
Perl Group, where we
discussed
various topics around our tasks, tools, & workflow. As each year, in
a very friendly & collaborative atmosphere.
Besides that, I attended talks about
systemd &
upstart; the first one disappointed me, since it felt more like a
sales pitch than a technical talk & the presenter come across alot like
"I know better than you what's good for you", the latter was better but
tried to avoid
upstart's main issue, the infamous
Canonical Contributor License
Agreement; of course the audience raised this topic in the Q&A part
afterwards. Rock vs. hard place
Other interesting topics were what Debian can learn from Ubuntu's QA
processes for its own testing migration (mail from the Release Team pending,
AFAIK); lots of
git stuff, & especially the "birth" of
dgit,
a tool to treat the Debian archive as a git remote. If this gets traction,
it could be a revolution in packaging!
The
lintian BoF
encouraged me further to try to create some
pkg-perl specific
checks, & then there was
jenkins,
piuparts,
autopkgtest, etc.
On Friday we celebrated Debian's 20
th birthday with a huge
Krem nita/
Cr meschnitte/
mille-feuille. &
with the Poetry Night at the campfire.
Usually I'd close with "See you next year in Portland!"; but since it seems
like the local team has decided to scratch DebCamp (which they only said
after being asked in the Q&A after their presentation), I'm not sure how
attractive this really is for me We'll see.
Thanks again to everyone who made this DebConf possible!