DebConf 24

Thu, 08 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000

I attended my first DebConf this year! It was held in Busan, South Korea, and the whole experience was a blast. It was really fun meeting new people, and I’m looking forward to DebConf 25 in Brest!

Here is a list of some of the things I did (and that I can remember) during DebCamp/DebConf:

Reviewed pending merge requests for GCES students.
Helped with the ruby 3.3 transition.
- ruby-rantly
- ruby-liquid-c
Started packaging build-deps for brutespray.
- golang-github-atomicgo-cursor
- golang-github-atomicgo-keyboard
- golang-github-atomicgo-schedule
- golang-github-pterm-pterm
- golang-github-wenerme-astgo
Prepared the Debian Brasilia section for the Bits from Brazil talk.
Attended the Debian Curl Maintainers BoF.
Tried to get curl pytest tests running when building the Curl package.
Submitted my first patch to the Linux kernel (thanks, Helen!).
Volunteered in the Video Team (I got a T-Shirt!).
Participated in the (joke-ish) bid for DebConf Brasília.

I'm now a Debian Maintainer

Thu, 21 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

As of today (2024-03-12) I’m now a Debian Maintainer (DM). This means that I can now upload certain¹ packages to the archives without a sponsor².

Most of my work has been with the Go and Python teams, and I’m currently working on packaging croc.

I started contributing to Debian during an university course. I started going to the weekly Debian Brasília local group meetings and interacting with its members. Everyone there is super nice and helpful, and my interactions with them were a strong factor in my desire to keep contributing after the course ended.

Most of my sponsored uploads were made by sergiodj, who was very patient when answering my endless, and sometimes stupid, questions. Thank you, Sergio.

Next steps

My main goals right now are:

Keep my packages up-to-date and bug-free.
Package other software that I personally use, such as goimapnotify and localias.
Start interacting more with people from outside the Debian Brasília local group.
Maybe get into Rust packaging.

A Debian Developer (DD) has to grant me upload rights to a package, so I can’t just upload anything willy-nilly. ↩︎
My PGP key is not yet in the Maintainers keyring, so I can’t actually upload right now. This will (hopefully) change in the next few days. ↩︎

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DebConf 24

I'm now a Debian Maintainer

Next steps