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<p>This special supplement to Debian Weekly News is a review of the
most important happenings of 2005 in the Debian community.  This is
certainly not a comprehensive list. The focus is on unusual and
notable events, not the continual background development activity and
discussions.</p>

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<p>To give some idea of the sheer volume of what has gone on behind the scenes
this year, a few numbers: More than 30 thousand package uploads have been done,
more than 300 security advisories have been issued,
about 50 thousand bug reports were filed this year, in total about 160
thousand messages were sent to the bug tracking system, 740 thousand messages
were posted to the various Debian mailing lists, the English DWN source used
about 610&nbsp;kB and the Debian project attended more than 30 events.</p>

<p>Here are the most memorable events of 2005 in the Debian community:</p>

<p><b>January</b></p>

<ul>

<li> Martin Michlmayr <a
     href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2004/12/msg00277.html">\
     announced</a> that Jörg Jaspert has been appointed as an additional Debian
     account manager.</li>

<li> Michael Koch <a
     href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde/2005/01/msg00081.html">considered</a>
     the free Java implementations in good shape to run major applications.</li>

<li> Russell Coker <a
     href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/01/msg01067.html">stated</a>
     that devfs is regarded as obsolete in the kernel source and will be <a
     href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/01/msg01072.html">removed</a>
     in July 2005.</li>

<li> The Debian Women group held an
     <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-women/2005/01/msg00050.html">IRC
     meeting</a> on January 16th.</li>

<li> Gervase Markham
     from the Mozilla Foundation <a
     href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/01/msg00503.html">proposed</a>
     a trademark agreement for Debian Firefox and Thunderbird packages.</li>
 
</ul>

<p><b>February</b></p>

<ul>


<li> William Sowerbutts <a
     href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2005/02/msg00095.html">reported</a>
     that he has Debian running on his new <a href="http://www.apple.com/macmini/">\
     Mac Mini</a>.</li>

<li> Jörg Jaspert sent in a <a
     href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/02/msg00003.html">\
     status report</a> about the DAM (Debian Account Manager) work.</li>

<li> Branden Robinson is <a
     href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2005/02/msg00013.html">soliciting</a>
     input on whether he should nominate himself again for the Debian project
     leader (DPL) <a href="$(HOME)/vote/2005/vote_001">elections</a>.</li>

<li> Martin 'Joey' Schulze <a
     href="http://www.infodrom.org/~joey/log/?200502120543">reported</a> about the
     wayback machine for Debian packages that Fumitoshi Ukai (&#40284;&#39164; &#25991;&#25935;)
      provides on <a
     href="http://snapshot.debian.net/">snapshot.debian.net</a>.</li>

</ul>

<p><b>March</b></p>

<ul>

<li> The Debian project <a
     href="$(HOME)/News/2005/20050218">announced</a> its presence at six
     conferences and exhibitions.</li>

<li> The developers had to <a
     href="http://www.debian.org/vote/2005/vote_001">choose</a> among six
     candidates for the role of Debian Project Leader (DPL).</li>

<li> Jeroen van Wolffelaar <a
     href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2005/03/msg00035.html">\
     announced</a> the project Scud.</li>

<li> Martin F. Krafft <a
     href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2005/03/msg00507.html">announced</a>
     an IRC debate for the upcoming project leader election.</li>

<li> The <a
     href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/03/msg00012.html">\
     proposal</a> from the Vancouver meeting was discussed
     controversial on the <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/">\
     debian-devel</a> list.</li>

<li> The 300000th
     bug was <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/300000">opened</a>.</li>

<li> James Troup <a
     href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2005/03/msg00142.html">\
     announced</a> the addition of two developers to the ftpmaster team.</li>

<li> Steve Langasek announced <a
     href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/03/msg00012.html">\
     plans</a> for the release after sarge that includes splitting the Debian
     archive into a regular and a second class component.</li>

</ul>

<p><b>April</b></p>

<ul>

<li> A Hurd <a href="http://www.superunprivileged.org/">live</a>
     CD has recently seen the light.</li>

<li> Hanna Wallach wrote an <a
     href="http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~hmw26/join-the-dots/2005/03/30/friendlier-debian/">\
     essay</a> about making Debian a friendlier place for both men and women.</li>

<li> After running as project
     leader candidate since 2001 Branden Robinson eventually won the election in
     2005.</li>

<li> According to analyst house IDC, Free Software is <a
     href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/18/oss_gains_in_europe/">gaining</a>
     ground in Europe.</li>

</ul>

<p><b>May</b></p>

<ul>

<li> Many people are pleased that the <a
     href="http://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html">NEW</a> queue is
     processed again.</li>

<li> In light of the
     upcoming release of sarge, the <a
     href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/">debian-release</a> list has
     seen a flood of requests to update packages in sarge.</li>

<li> Lars Wirzenius <a
     href="http://liw.iki.fi/liw/log/2005-05.html#20050507b">wrote</a> down his
     thoughts about automatic testing of Debian packages.</li>

<li> Richard Stallman <a
     href="http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/free-bios.html">called</a> for support and
     help freeing the computer BIOS.</li>

<li> Michael Banck <a
     href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2005/05/msg00109.html">managed</a> 
     to get GNOME compile and run on GNU/Hurd.</li>

<li> Nokia has <a
     href="http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS3716070830.html">released</a> an Internet
     tablet PC that uses Debian as operating system.</li>

</ul>

<p><b>June</b></p>

<ul>

<li> The Debian project <a
     href="$(HOME)/News/2005/20050606">announced</a> the release of Debian GNU/Linux
     3.1 alias sarge.</li>

<li> There was a lot of discussion on release goals and the release team for
     etch.</li>

<li> The fifth annual <a
     href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT4036830962.html">market
     survey</a> reported that Debian was the most popular distribution in
     embedded systems.</li>

<li> Andreas Barth <a
     href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/06/msg00019.html">\
     announced</a> changes in the <a
     href="http://release.debian.org/etch_rc_policy.txt">release policy</a> for the
     etch release.</li>

<li> Norbert Preining <a
     href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/06/msg00970.html">announced</a>
     to package TeXlive, one of the most complete TeX systems.</li>

</ul>

<p><b>July</b></p>

<ul>

<li> David Nusinow <a
     href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/gravityboy/14794.html">announced</a>
     Debian <a href="http://people.debian.org/~dnusinow/xorg/">packages</a> for
     X.Org.</li>

<li> The Debian project <a
     href="$(HOME)/News/2005/20050705">announced</a> the sixth annual Debian <a
     href="$(HOME)/events/2005/0710-debconf">conference</a> held at
     the Computer Science department of the Helsinki University of Technology.</li>

<li> Matthias Klose <a
     href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/07/msg00001.html">\
     announced</a> the start of the GCC and C++ transition.</li>

<li> Frank Lichtenheld <a
     href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/06/msg02150.html">planned</a>
     to organise the removal of <a
     href="http://packages.debian.net/non-free-docs.html">non-free
     documentation</a> from Debian.</li>

<li> Nikita Youshchenko <a
     href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/07/msg00232.html">asked</a>
     about the status of the <a href="http://raw.no/debian/amd64-multiarch-2">\
     multi architecture</a> proposal.</li>

</ul>

<p><b>August</b></p>

<ul>

<li> Florian Weimer <a
     href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2005/07/msg00202.html">wondered</a>
     how the <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1836184,00.asp">Debian
     Core Consortium</a> was related to the Debian project.</li>

<li> Helen Faulkner <a
     href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/07/msg01555.html">announced</a>
     the creation of the <a
     href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/">debian-science</a> mailing
     list.</li>

<li> Wichert Akkerman <a
     href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2005/08/msg00034.html">mentioned</a>
     that Debian maintainers have always assumed full responsibility for their
     work within Debian.</li>

<li> The Debian project <a
     href="$(HOME)/News/2005/20050811">announced</a> to support the stable <a
     href="$(HOME)/ports/amd64/">amd64</a> port security-wise from now on.</li>

<li> Sean Michael Kerner <a
     href="http://www.serverwatch.com/news/article.php/3527151">reported</a> about 
     Debian's debut in China with Sun Wah's enterprise Debian offering.</li>

<li>Debian mourns the loss of Jens Schmalzing (also known as jensen) who
     <a href="$(HOME)/News/2005/20050809">died</a> on July 30th in a tragic
     accident at his workplace in Munich, Germany.</li>

</ul>

<p><b>September</b></p>

<ul>

<li> Christoph Berg <a
     href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-curiosa/2005/08/msg00020.html">\
     created</a> a Debian <a href="http://www.df7cb.de/debian/quiz/">quiz</a> where
     you can test your knowledge about Debian.</li>

<li> In March Steve McIntyre <a
     href="http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/pipermail/debian-uk/2005-March/002526.html">\
     announced</a> plans to found the <a
     href="http://wiki.earth.li/DebianUKSociety">Debian UK Society</a>.</li>

<li> Joey Hess <a
     href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/09/msg00006.html">\
     announced</a> the beginning of full security support for Debian's testing
     distribution.</li>

<li> Neil McGovern <a
     href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/08/msg00899.html">announced</a>
     <a href="http://sponsors.debian.net/">sponsors.debian.net</a>.</li>

<li> Anthony Towns <a
     href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/09/msg00002.html">\
     announced</a> the availability of <a
     href="http://wiki.debian.org/bugs.debian.org/usertags">user tags</a> for the
     <a href="$(HOME)/Bugs/">bug tracking system</a>.</li>

<li> Marc Brockschmidt <a
     href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/09/msg00010.html">\
     reported</a> about significant changes in the <a
     href="https://nm.debian.org/">new maintainer</a> process.</li>

<li> Wouter Verhelst <a
     href="http://www.grep.be/blog/2005/08/17#new_bugs.d.o">noticed</a> that the <a
     href="$(HOME)/Bugs/">bug tracking system</a> has gotten a new layout and even
     uses cascading style sheets like the main <a href="$(HOME)/">website</a>.</li>

<li> Holger Levsen <a
     href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/09/msg00016.html">\
     announced</a> the creation of a Debian <a
     href="http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/">\
     meeting archive</a>.</li>

</ul>

<p><b>October</b></p>

<ul>

<li> Colin Watson <a
     href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2005/09/msg00164.html">announced</a>
     his resignation from the release team.</li>

<li> Andreas Barth <a
     href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/09/msg00017.html">\
     reported</a> about the productive <a
     href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2005/08/msg00085.html">meeting</a> of
     the QA team in Darmstadt, Germany.</li>

<li> The Debian project <a
     href="$(HOME)/News/2005/20051004">announced</a> that the security network has
     been improved.</li>

<li> Alex Ross <a
     href="http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/message.jspa?messageID=11672#11672">\
     announced</a> that he has compiled large chunks of Debian
     packages for a system based on the open Solaris kernel.</li>

<li> Steve Langasek <a
     href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/10/msg00004.html">\
     proposed</a> a timeline for
     the release of <a href="$(HOME)/releases/etch/">etch</a>.</li>

</ul>

<p><b>November</b></p>

<ul>

<li> Robert Millan <a
     href="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/glibc-bsd-devel/2005-November/000624.html">\
     announced</a> version 1.0 of Ging, the only live distribution based on <a
     href="$(HOME)/ports/kfreebsd-gnu">Debian GNU/kFreeBSD</a>.</li>

<li> Anthony Towns <a
     href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2005/11/msg00001.html">proposed</a>
     a general resolution to open the archives of the debian-private list to the
     public after three years.</li>

<li> Branden Robinson released a <a
     href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/11/msg00009.html">\
     document</a> explaining how project leader delegations work.</li>

<li> Enrico Zini <a
     href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/11/msg00011.html">\
     announced</a> an experimental search engine for Debian packages on the basis
     of <a href="http://debtags.alioth.debian.org">debtags</a> information.</li>

</ul>

<p><b>December</b></p>

<ul>

<li> Tom Adelstein <a
     href="http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/49490/index.html">explained</a> how
     he switched from several other distributions to Debian GNU/Linux and why it
     serves him best.</li>

<li> Ingo J&uuml;rgensmann <a
     href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/11/msg01102.html">announced</a>
     the inclusion of <a href="http://www.debonaras.org/">armeb</a>, <a
     href="$(HOME)/ports/hurd/">hurd-i386</a>, <a
     href="$(HOME)/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/">kfreebsd-i386</a> and <a
     href="http://www.linux-m32r.org/">m32r</a> on <a
     href="http://www.buildd.net/">buildd.net</a>.</li>

<li> Norbert Tretkowski <a
     href="http://www.inittab.de/blog/2005/12/16#20051216_sarge">announced</a>,
     that <a href="http://www.backports.org/">backports.org</a> eventually supports
     the current stable Debian <a href="$(HOME)/releases/stable/">release</a>
     code-named sarge.</li>

<li> Steve Langasek, member of the
     Debian <a href="http://release.debian.org/">release team</a>, <a
     href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/12/msg00013.html">\
     informed</a> about the end of the architecture requalification <a
     href="http://release.debian.org/etch_arch_qualify.html">phase</a>.</li>

<li> The City of Munich <a
     href="http://www.muenchen.de/vip8/prod2/mde/_de/rubriken/Rathaus/40_dir/presse/2005/ru/246.pdf">\
     published</a> an update about their <a
     href="http://www.muenchen.de/limux">migration</a> to a Debian-based GNU/Linux
     solution.</li>

</ul>

<p>As Debian Weekly News enters its eighth year, we would like to thank
everybody who contributed to DWN in the past.  Special thanks also go
to the hoard of translators who make DWN available in a dozen
languages.  And finally, thanks to everyone in the Debian community
for providing such a plethora of interesting discussions, events, and
hard work for us to report on.</p>

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