Debian Review of 2006
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January 2006:
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After a GR in December 2005 it has been decided that content of the
debian-private mailing list will be disclosed after 3 years[1]. David Nusinow
reported [2] about the xlibs-dev transition to push X.org 6.9 into unstable.
Lars Wirzenius posted his ideas of how to improve Debian from the technical
point of view. He summarised [3] several areas where the quality of the Debian
distribution is improved, using tools with higher levels of abstraction and
automated testing.  Anthony Towns reported about how the mirror split will
happen and what is currently needed for it [4].  After the resignation of
Wichert Akkerman, Jason Gunthorpe and Guy Maor, Debian Project Leader Branden
Robinson appointed Steve Langasek, Anthony Towns, and Andreas Barth as new
members of the technical committee [5].  Michael Banck announced [6] the
availability of X.org packages for the Hurd. Raphael Hertzog reported [7] about
current state of Debian Packages in Ubuntu, which resulted in a bigger
discussion about the use of the Maintainer field of packages in Debian
derivatives. 

[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2005/12/msg00114.html
[2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/01/msg00003.html
[3] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/12/msg01034.html
[4] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/01/msg00007.html
[5] http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2006/01/msg00013.html
[6] http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2006/01/msg00018.html
[7] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/01/msg00008.html


February 2006
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February started with the call for nominations for the DPL elecction [1].
All along the month, Jeroen van Wolffelaar, Ari Pollak, Steve McIntyre,
Anthony Town, Andreas  Schuldei, Jonathan Walther and Bill Allombert,
nominated themselves for DPL [2] [3]. Lars Wirzenius published an
article with his thougts about the role of the DPL. [4]
Also, during february took place the discussion about he GFDL position
statement [5], and the developers were called to vote near the end of the
month [6].
Daniel Baumann reported about the new Debian Live Initiative, [7] [8]
an official sub-project of Debian with the goal of produce a live CD
that reflects the current state Debian, with unchanged official Debian
packages only.
Anthony Towns announced that ftp.debian.org would soon stop including
a number of architectures for etch and sid (unstable). So official mirrors
are not forced to include the entire archive anymore. Once this task were
completed, AMD64 could be added to the achive. [9]

[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/02/msg00002.html
[2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/02/msg00011.html
[3] http://www.debian.org/vote/2006/vote_002
[4] http://liw.iki.fi/liw/log/2006-02.html#20060206b
[5] http://www.debian.org/vote/2006/vote_001
[6] http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2006/02/msg00662.html
[7] http://blog.daniel-baumann.ch/2006/02/14#20060214_debian-live-initiative
[8] http://debian-live.alioth.debian.org/
[9] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/02/msg00007.html