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## Debian DPL report discusses Trixie networking and contributor recruitment

DevFeed: [Debian DPL report discusses Trixie networking and contributor recruitment](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/bits-from-the-dpl-47075.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://bits.debian.org/2024/10/bits-from-the-dpl-Octobber.html>)

Author: Andreas Tille

Published: 2024-10-06T22:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Bits from Debian](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/bits-from-debian.md>)

Topics: [Debian](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/debian.md>), [Network](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/network.md>), [spdx](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/spdx.md>), [JavaScript](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/javascript.md>)

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### AI overview

A Debian project leadership report covers a new Lintian maintainer, discussion of SPDX naming and Debian copyright files, a proposed hybrid network stack for Trixie, and efforts to improve team contributor recruitment.

### Source excerpt

Dear Debian community, this are my bits from DPL for September. New lintian maintainer I'm pleased to welcome Louis-Philippe Véronneau as a new Lintian maintainer. He humorously acknowledged his new role, stating, "Apparently I'm a Lintian maintainer now". I remain confident that we can, and should, continue modernizing our policy checker, and I see this as one important step toward that goal. SPDX name / license tools There was a discussion about deprecating the unique names for DEP-5 and migrating to fully compliant SPDX names. Simon McVittie wrote: "Perhaps our Debian-specific names are better, but the relevant question is whether they are sufficiently better to outweigh the benefit of sharing effort and specifications with the rest of the world (and I don't think they are)." Also Charles Plessy sees the value of deprecating the Debian ones and align on SPDX. The thread on debian-devel list contains several practical hints for writing debian/copyright files. proposal: Hybrid network stack for Trixie There was a very long discussion on debian-devel list about the network stack on Trixie that started in July and was continued in end of August / beginning of September. The discussion was also covered on LWN. It continued in a "proposal: Hybrid network stack for Trixie" by Lukas Märdian. Contacting teams I continued reaching out to teams in September. One common pattern I've noticed is that most teams lack a clear strategy for attracting new contributors. Here's an example snippet from one of my outreach emails, which is representative of the typical approach: Q: Do you have some strategy to gather new contributors for your team? A: No. Q: Can I do anything for you? A: Everything that can help to have more than 3 guys :-D Well, only the first answer, "No," is typical. To help the JavaScript team, I'd like to invite anyone with JavaScript experience to join the team's mailing list and offer to learn and contribute. While I've only built a JavaScript package once, I kn