DCT

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This is the home of the Debian Collaboration Team.

For the DCT proposal, read ["DCT/Proposal"].

What is the DCT ?

The Debian Collaboration Team (or DCT) is an Ubuntu team aiming at improving collaboration between Ubuntu and Debian by tracking changes in Ubuntu's packages.

From the Debian maintainer point of view

If you are a Debian maintainer, you can ask the DCT to monitor your packages. The DCT will then file bugs in the Debian BTS about your packages for all relevant issues. On the other hand, you agree to act promptly regarding those bugs :

  • Reply to them within days (not weeks)
  • Close them by uploading a new version within weeks (not months), when applicable

Note that you don't have to accept all changes proposed by the DCT, but it means that you have to explain in the BTS why you think that a specific change isn't of interest to Debian.

This will allow for efficient collaboration between Ubuntu and Debian.

From the Ubuntu developer point of view

You can help the DCT in two ways :

  • [https://launchpad.net/people/dct Join it] and help to take care of those packages.

  • Provide better (more verbose) changelog entries, thus simplifying the work of reviewing the changes you make, and ping a DCT member when you make changes relevant to Debian.

What about other packages ?

For packages which aren't monitored by the DCT:

  • Patches are available from http://people.ubuntu.com/~scott/patches/ , and Ubuntu developers file bugs in the Debian BTS on a volunteer basis.

  • If the team has spare resources while already keeping up with monitored packages, some members may choose other diverged packages to work on.

Members

Name

IRC nick

Launchpad ID

Packages of interest

Lucas Nussbaum

lucas

[https://launchpad.net/people/lucas lucas]

Ruby, Instant Messaging (esp. Jabber)

Andrea Veri

Bluekuja

[https://launchpad.net/people/bluekuja Bluekuja]

Soon

Licio Fernando

licio

[https://launchpad.net/people/licio licio]

gnome

How do I join ?

  • There's no restriction on who can join (you don't need to be a MOTU, a Debian developer, or even an Ubuntu member).

  • Just join the [https://launchpad.net/people/dct launchpad team] (it's moderated).

  • Then add yourself to the table above.

TODO List

  • Recruit some Ubuntu developers (DCT is a nice idea, but we won't do anything without manpower)

  • Improve wiki page
  • Write the needed tools
    • DCT/SpecGeneratePackageLists : tool to generate the list of source packages to monitor, from different sources
    • DCT/SpecDatabase : database to keep track of versions reviewed, bugs reported to Debian, etc.

  • Find a few "test" Debian maintainers willing to debug the process Wink ;)

"Test" Debian maintainers

  • Hamish Moffatt <hamish at debian dot org>

  • martin f. krafft <madduck at debian dot org>