Philip Hands

This talk is mostly going to be a guided tour around openqa.debian.net, along with a demonstration of how one goes about writing new tests (in the hope that people other than me will start putting tests together for their packages). This talk will complement the branch2repo talk (which is largely about creating ISO images that are then tested in openqa).

branch2repo provides the glue to allow the assets from several repositories on salsa to be combined into one aptly repository. This can be used to build ISO images that enable unreleased versions of udebs (and debs for that matter) to be tested without the contributor needing to learn all the complications involved in building debian-installer. I intend this talk to be a run-through of how this works, and a demonstration of what it allows in addition to the normal salsa-ci pipeline (on which it is built).

The DebConf21 opening session.

Other people: Stefano Rivera Nattie Mayer-Hutchings Andrew Martin Adrian Cater Daniel Lenharo de Souza urbec Kyle Robbertze Andi Artz Elena Grandi

What does the Technical Committee do? How can it work better for Debian? This year, we will do a short recap of our activities last year, but the main focus we want to give to this BoF is how to best move forward and reshape the Technical Committee in a way that works better, and thus is more useful for Debian.

Other people: Sean Whitton David Bremner Elana Hashman Gunnar Wolf Simon McVittie Margarita Manterola Niko Tyni

An opportunity to meet the members of the Debian Technical Committee who are in attendance at Debconf, hear the status of open issues, understand the nature of the TC's work, and discuss pending and future issues with the committee. URLs: [https://www.debian.org/devel/tech-ctte](https://www.debian.org/devel/tech-ctte "Technical Committee")

Other people: Gunnar Wolf Tollef Fog Heen David Bremner

An opportunity to meet the members of the Debian Technical Committee who are in attendance at Debconf, hear the status of open issues, and discuss pending and future issues with the committee. URLs: https://www.debian.org/devel/tech-ctte

Other people: Didier Raboud David Bremner Margarita Manterola Tollef Fog Heen Sam Hartman Keith Packard

... or how to stop worrying and have fun hacking on d-i without needing to be scared about breaking everything The objective here is to let people push to feature branches and find out later how much damage they would have done had they put that into d-i. The hope being that the answer will often be "None" This should encourage people to do more work on d-i. The talk will also serve to demonstrate the use of Cucumber and Jenkins that we have for running the tests.

An opportunity to meet the members of the Debian Technical Committee who are in attendance at Debconf, hear the status of open issues, and discuss pending and future issues with the committee. URLs: https://www.debian.org/devel/tech-ctte

Other people: Didier Raboud Andi Barth Tollef Fog Heen Keith Packard Sam Hartman