[med-svn] r15273 - trunk/community/bits

[Andreas Tille]

Author: tille
Date: 2013-11-25 16:08:00 +0000 (Mon, 25 Nov 2013)
New Revision: 15273

Modified:
   trunk/community/bits/2013-11_bits
Log:
Finished item 6. in Bits


Modified: trunk/community/bits/2013-11_bits
===================================================================
--- trunk/community/bits/2013-11_bits	2013-11-25 15:45:04 UTC (rev 15272)
+++ trunk/community/bits/2013-11_bits	2013-11-25 16:08:00 UTC (rev 15273)
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
 2. Jabber interview about Debian Med
 3. Article about Debian Med
 4. Yearly sprint of Debian Med team
+5. DebConf 13 in Vaumarcus
+6. Reupload unattended packages (** might be of general interest **)
 
 1. FOSDEM talk
 ==============
@@ -50,14 +52,46 @@
 4. Yearly sprint of Debian Med team
 ===================================
 
+This year we had our third sprint of the Debian Med team and all
+participants consider it a great success again.  The sprint was in end
+of February and the individual reports are linked from the according
+wiki page[4a].  Since Andreas Tille was able to prove the nice effect of
+having face to face meetings in Debian teams in the team metrics graphs
+presented in his talks at DebConf[5a,5b] we will keep on with this
+good tradition.  The next sprint[4b] is scheduled for Friday 31st
+January until Sunday 2nd February in Stonehaven near Aberdeen.  If you
+are interested to meet the people behind Debian Med and want to join us
+in developing packages which are helpful in health care and
+bioinformatics you are invited to join us.
 
+[4a] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed/Meeting/Kiel2013
+[4b] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed/Meeting/Aberdeen2014
 
-5. DebConf
-==========
 
+5. DebConf 13 in Vaumarcus
+==========================
+
+Andreas Tille had two talks with specific influence to Debian Med
+development[5a,5b].  For those who want to read a full (and lengthy)
+report about DebConf 13 by Andreas Tille this is online as well[5c].
+
 [5a] http://people.debian.org/~tille/talks/20130812_blend
+[5b] http://people.debian.org/~tille/talks/20130815_mom
+[5c] http://debianmed.blogspot.de/2013/09/debconf-13-report-by-andreas-tille.html
 
+
 6. Reupload unattended packages
+===============================
+
+Andreas Tille has mentored the GSoC student Emmanouil Kiagias[6a] and as
+a byproduct some Blends metadata were now kept in UDD.  This has
+inspired some new tools and one of this was an UDD query[6b] to return
+all packages in the interest of the Blend ordered by date when they were
+uploaded.  It has shown that there were packages hanging around in the
+package pool since five years.  So some effort was done to check those
+packages which were not necessarily "buggy" according to BTS entries and
+so we were able to fix the following issues in about 20-30 packages:
+
    - Remove DM-Upload-Allowed fields
    - hardening
    - canonical Vcs fields
@@ -69,4 +103,14 @@
    - DEP3
    - use dh consequently to simplify things for team members / NMUers
    - finally upload several changes in VCS but remained UNRELEASED
-   - found several other hidden issues
+   - found several other hidden issues like
+      - vanished homepages
+      - changed homepages and thus non-working watch files
+
+Since it was impressive how many things that deserve fixing are hidden
+in such long unattended packages it is recommended also to other teams
+to spend some time into these.  The UDD query[6b] can be easily tweaked
+for a team maintainer address.
+
+[6a] https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2013/StudentApplications#Redesign_metapackage_creation_for_Debian_Blends
+[6b] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=blends/website.git;a=blob;f=misc/sql/0-aging.sh