BOF "Best practises in team package maintenance" - preparatory questions
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If you are an active member of a team that collaboratively maintains
packages in Debian and you plan to attend the BOF "Best practises in
team package maintenance" during DebConf8, please take a few minutes to
think about the following questions.

The BOF will start with short presentations (just a couple of minutes) along
these questions, ideally one contribution by each team with members present;
these presentations are not intended to be formal in any way, but instead to
inform the other participants about the various teams and to serve as a
basis for discussing points of common interest.

If you have a chance to discuss your team's mini-presentation with other team
members (before DebConf or in Mar del Plata over a nice cup/glass of
$preferred_drink) -- even better!


1) Basics
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* Name of the team
* Area of work
* Approximate number of members
* Approximate number of maintained packages

2) Work flow
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* Communication: main/preferred ways of communication within the group
  (mailing list, IRC, commit messages, web platform, ...)
* Members: How do you recruit and integrate new members? How does mutual
  support work? Is there some formal "team leadership"? Do you use the
  "Debian Maintainer" concept?
* Review/uploads/sponsoring: How do you handle reviewing/uploading packages
  which are prepared by non-DDs?
* Infrastructure: Where/how do you keep your packages
  (version control, ...)?
* Policy/rules: Do you have written/unofficial guidelines for your packages?
  How do they work out in practise?
* Tools: Do you use any "unusual" tools in your work (scripts, web apps, ...)
  that help you with regard to upstream releases, bugs, packaging itself,
  ...?

3) Experiences
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* Best practises/successes: Is there something you can share with other
  teams that works just great for your team and might help others?
* Challenges/failures: Is there something you're not happy about in your team
  and where you would appreciate input from other teams?

4) Other teams/Debian
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* Is there a need for improving communication/cooperation with other teams?
  How?
* Do you have any common projects in mind that might help all packaging
  teams?
* Is there something with regard to the relationship between Debian Policy and
  teams you would like to see changed?