Debian is too large for this page, and my decade-plus of involvement in the Debian project, and my thoughts and plans for it are too large to really describe here.

http://www.debian.org/

Suffice to say that while many of the other projects listed here (debian-installer, debhelper, debconf, devscripts, dpkg-repack, probably anything starting with the letter "d") are subprojects of Debian, and while nearly anything else on the whole wiki is probably available in Debian, all that is just a fraction of all the work I've done for Debian.

Some of Joey's random plans for Debian[1][2][3]

  • Make testing a proper Debian release that releases at some sane rate (unlike stable).

    I think Pere planted this idea originally. It's a large part of the reason why I work on the testing-security-team, and it's strongly influenced how debian-installer releases have become more than just a release of the installer.

    Seems that AJ supports this idea too, which is cool since he er, invented testing and stuff.

    See cut for more on the idea.

  • Switch to cdebconf as documented on debconf.

  • Finish the &$*$&$&$# /usr/doc transition. 6 or 7 years and bloody counting. Bug #322762 tracks it.

  • Somehow get the policy process out of its "documenting standard practice" hole.

    It's rediculous how long it took to get Debian policy updated to a current version of the FHS.

    Current thingking is to move the driving of policy-type change over to developer's reference, or the RM's list of RC type issues, or something like that, and leave policy as-is.

  • Make http://wiki.debian.org supplant http://www.debian.org as the most important website of the project.

  • Work on ending the tyranny of unix permissions!


[1] Plans may not be sufficiently random for government use.
[2] Goals in mirror may be closer than they appear.
[3] Trimmed down now that I've left Debian to the ones I really wish I'd gotten to when I had the chance.