X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?a=blobdiff_plain;f=resources.dbk;h=4d40b62fc983ab123423b082eb75e74adccbc9e0;hb=6b0fa757b587b64a7fcb9303e4dcbfcdda63b3cd;hp=61d8748b3361d541752dcd3abc5c51e93185ae74;hpb=56cd6fef2c67789bd0d9e681bf86741fb727ac01;p=developers-reference.git diff --git a/resources.dbk b/resources.dbk index 61d8748..4d40b62 100644 --- a/resources.dbk +++ b/resources.dbk @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ %commondata; ]> -Resources for Debian Developers +Resources for Debian Developers and Debian Maintainers In this chapter you will find a very brief road map of the Debian mailing lists, the Debian machines which may be available to you as a developer, and @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ all the other resources that are available to help you in your maintainer work. Much of the conversation between Debian developers (and users) is managed through a wide array of mailing lists we host at &lists-host;. +url="https://&lists-host;/">&lists-host;. To find out more on how to subscribe or unsubscribe, how to post and how not to post, where to find old posts and how to search them, how to contact the list maintainers and see various other information about the mailing lists, please @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ issues related to the project. There are other mailing lists available for a variety of special topics; see - for a list. + for a list. @@ -182,9 +182,9 @@ June 2006. To get a cloak on freenode, you send Jörg Jaspert <joerg@debian.org> a signed mail where you tell what your nick is. Put cloak somewhere in the Subject: header. The nick should be registered: Nick Setup Page. The +url="https://freenode.net/faq.shtml#nicksetup">Nick Setup Page. The mail needs to be signed by a key in the Debian keyring. Please see Freenodes +url="https://freenode.net/faq.shtml#projectcloak">Freenode documentation for more information about cloaks. @@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ If you find a problem with the Debian web server, you should generally submit a bug against the pseudo-package, www.debian.org. Remember to check whether or not someone else has already reported the problem to the Bug Tracking System. +url="https://&bugs-host;/&www-debian-org;">Bug Tracking System. @@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ If you have some Debian-specific information which you want to serve on the web, you can do this by putting material in the public_html directory under your home directory on people.debian.org. This will be accessible at the URL -http://people.debian.org/~your-user-id/. +https://people.debian.org/~your-user-id/. You should only use this particular location because it will be backed up, @@ -530,7 +530,7 @@ Debian decided to build some ports based on other Unix kernels, like hurd and kfreebsd. -&debian-formal; 1.3 was only available as i386. Debian +Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 was only available as i386. Debian 2.0 shipped for i386 and m68k architectures. Debian 2.1 shipped for the i386, m68k, alpha, and @@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ development process of the Debian project. Active development is done in the unstable distribution (that's why this distribution is sometimes called the development -distribution). Every Debian developer can update his or her +distribution). Every Debian developer can update their packages in this distribution at any time. Thus, the contents of this distribution change from day to day. Since no special effort is made to make sure everything in this distribution is working properly, it is sometimes @@ -764,8 +764,8 @@ Debian 1.3, bo; Debian 2.0, hamm; Debian 2.1, slink; Debian 2.2, potato; Debian 3.0, woody; Debian 3.1, sarge; Debian 4.0, etch; Debian 5.0, lenny; -Debian 6.0, squeeze -and the next release will be called wheezy. +Debian 6.0, squeeze; Debian 7.0, wheezy; +and the next release will be called jessie. There is also a ``pseudo-distribution'', called sid, which is the current unstable distribution; since packages are moved from unstable to @@ -881,7 +881,7 @@ to stable, the announcement is sent to &email-debian-changes;. If a package is released with Distribution set to unstable or experimental, the announcement will be posted to -&email-debian-devel-changes; instead. +&email-debian-devel-changes; or &email-debian-experimental-changes; instead. Though ftp-master is restricted, a copy of the installation is available to all @@ -952,7 +952,7 @@ easily upload a package in one of the delayed directories: On the web Each package has several dedicated web pages. -http://&packages-host;/package-name +https://&packages-host;/package-name displays each version of the package available in the various distributions. Each version links to a page which provides information, including the package description, the dependencies, and package download links. @@ -960,7 +960,7 @@ description, the dependencies, and package download links. The bug tracking system tracks bugs for each package. You can view the bugs of a given package at the URL -http://&bugs-host;/package-name. +https://&bugs-host;/package-name. @@ -1376,7 +1376,7 @@ See for an example on how to do it. The PTS web interface The PTS has a web interface at that puts together a lot of +url="https://&pts-host;/"> that puts together a lot of information about each source package. It features many useful links (BTS, QA stats, contact information, DDTP translation status, buildd logs) and gathers much more information from various places (30 latest changelog entries, testing @@ -1387,7 +1387,7 @@ subscription to the PTS via email. You can jump directly to the web page concerning a specific source package with a URL like -http://&pts-host;/sourcepackage. +https://&pts-host;/sourcepackage. This web interface has been designed like a portal for the development of @@ -1570,25 +1570,11 @@ For more information please visit the following links:
-Goodies for Developers -
-LWN Subscriptions +Goodies for Debian Developers and Debian Maintainers -Since October of 2002, HP has sponsored a subscription to LWN for all -interested Debian developers. Details on how to get access to this benefit are -in . +Benefits available to Debian Developers and Debian Maintainers are documented on . -
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-Gandi.net Hosting Discount - -As of November 2008, Gandi.net offers a discount rate on their VPS -hosting for Debian Developers. See -. - -
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