This year our efforts have paid off and despite there being more mentoring organizations than there were in 2011 (175 in 2011 and 180 in 2012), this year in Debian we got 81 submissions versus 43 submissions in 2011. You can see here the graphs of applications against time from this year: The result is [...]
Great news! Debian has been accepted into the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) program this year for the seventh time. Now we are looking for students to work this summer with us in one of our exciting projects. If you are interested, now would be a good time to get in touch with the mentors; [...]
On Saturday evening I started talking with Mònica about Bug Squashing Parties and how they work. I am not sure how it happened, we started doing one. Then it was too fun to stop :P NMUs by Mònica: t1lib #646470 This one had a patch by Colin Watson and Loïc Minier torcs: #646469 and 636009 [...]
Debian has applied to the Google code-in program as mentoring organization. In the Google code-in, pre-university students (ages 13-17), have the opportunity of contributing to Debian, trying to complete different tasks. We are hoping to get accepted and improve our outcome from last year. To achieve this, we need the help of more Debian contributors [...]
With KDE 3 almost gone in unstable, the KDE team is not longer interested in Qt 3 and we are looking for new maintainer(s). If you want to have Qt 3 in wheezy, now is the time to step up! Please, read this email and reply in list.
The student application period for applying to GSoC opened last Monday and we already have a couple of very good applications from students. We are still missing yours! The list of Debian projects includes a nice variety of projects: If you are into Python, take a look at the project for writing a tool to [...]
I have been working in the last weeks in the removal of the last pieces of KDE 3 from the Debian archive and I have found there are a lot of packages that is sad having to remove. If you are looking for a good idea/excuse to learn and improve your KDE 4 / C++ [...]
The last weeks before a Debian release are usually boring with respect to working on new stuff since unstable is pretty much closed to development. Now that the release is finished, this fun is back \o/ I have been in an ‘upload frenzy’ since yesterday night and I have updated some packages in unstable: KOffice[1] [...]
As you might know, Debian was one of the 20 organizations selected to participate in the first Google Code-in. We got a moderate success since we started preparing the contest very late (I joined as mentor/admin the very first day of the contest!). Because of this, unlike other organizations, we did not manage to engage [...]
It took a bit of time due to the holidays, but KOffice 2.3.0 is finally available from Debian experimental (give some hours to your mirror to sync!). If you are unstable user don’t be afraid to fetch it from experimental, it is there only because the Squeeze freeze. Squeeze will ship with KOffice 2.2.1, while [...]
