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#use wml::debian::weeklynews::header PAGENAME="2007 Timeline"
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<p>This special supplement to Debian Weekly News is a review of the
most important happenings of 2007 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>
<p>Here are the most memorable events of 2007 in the Debian community:</p>
<p><b>January</b></p>
<ul>
<li> Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 <q>Woody</q> is <a
href="$(HOME)/News/2007/20070110">\
removed</a> from the official mirrors and archived on
<a href="http://archive.debian.org/">archive.debian.org</a>.</li>
<li> <a href="http://miniconf6.debconf.org/">Debian MiniConf6</a>
took place at LCA 2007 in Sydney, Australia on January 15th and 16th.</li>
<li> The idea of a Social Committee
<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2007/01/msg00063.html">is
discussed</a> on the debian-project mailing list.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>February</b></p>
<ul>
<li> Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 <q>Sarge</q> received its
<a href="$(HOME)/News/2007/20070218">fifth
update</a>.
<li> Jörg Jaspert
<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/02/msg00008.html">\
announced</a> a new policy for handling inactive developer accounts.</li>
<li> The location of the eight Debian annual conference,
<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebConf">DebConf</a>, has been
<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/02/msg00012.html">announced</a>:
Mar del Plata, Argentina.</li>
<li> <a href="http://times.debian.net/1081-FOSDEM-2007">FOSDEM 2007 took
place</a> in Brussels, Belgium on the 24th and 25th. About 50 Debian
contributors discussed development in the
<a href="http://archive.fosdem.org/2007/schedule/devroom/debian">Debian
DevRoom</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>March</b></p>
<ul>
<li> The Debian internationalization team announces that it has reached
a historical <a href="http://times.debian.net/1084-debfr-debconf-100percent">100%
translation rate</a> of package installation prompts for the French
language. Many other languages are close to completion.</li>
<li> The Alioth team
<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/03/msg00011.html">adds
support</a> for the Mercurial version control system, joining CVS,
Arch, Bazaar and Git.</li>
<li> <a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/03/msg00016.html">\
Release of the RC2 version of the <q>Etch</q> Debian installer</a>,
with support for resizing of Windows Vista NFTS partitions,
improvements to the graphical installer, new CD/DVD image types
tuned for KDE or Xfce desktop environments and new multi-arch
installation media.
</li>
<li> Ian Murdoch, Debian founder,
<a href="http://ianmurdock.com/2007/03/19/joining-sun/">joined
Sun Microsystems</a> to work on OpenSolaris.</li>
<li> Linden Labs, creators of the popular Second Life online game,
<a href="http://times.debian.net/1085-2nd-life-debian">\
announced</a> that their architecture runs on thousands of Debian
servers.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>April</b></p>
<ul>
<li> Sam Hocever is
<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/04/msg00004.html">elected
Project Leader</a>.</li>
<li> Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 <q>Sarge</q> received its
<a href="$(HOME)/News/2007/20070407">sixth update</a>
and is moved to the oldstable part of the archive.</li>
<li> <a href="$(HOME)/News/2007/20070408">Debian
GNU/Linux 4.0 <q>Etch</q> is released</a> after 21 months of
developement, with support for eleven architectures, a new
graphical installer, secure APT, KDE 3.5, GNOME 2.14, X.Org 7.1,
etc
</li>
<li> The Debian Project <a href="$(HOME)/News/2007/20070425">announced</a>
that it will participate in Google's 2007 Summer of Code.
</li>
</ul>
<p><b>May</b></p>
<ul>
<li> The Debian Popularity Contest
<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/05/msg00006.html">reached
50,000 contributors</a>.
</li>
<li> The future of the 32-bit version of the SPARC port, sparc32, is
<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/05/msg00007.html">discussed
on the debian-sparc list</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>June</b></p>
<ul>
<li> The eight Debian annual conference,
<a href="http://debconf7.debconf.org/">DebConf7</a>, took place
in Edinburgh, Scotland from June 17th to June 23rd, preceded by
Debian Day on the 16th, and the annual
<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebCamp">DebCamp</a> from the
10th to the 15th.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>July</b></p>
<ul>
<li> The <a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/07/msg00003.html">FTP</a>
and <a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/07/msg00011.html">lists</a>
teams sent calls for contributors.</li>
<li> <a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/07/msg00010.html">Debian
Edu / Skolelinux 3.0 <q>Terra</q> is released</a>.
</ul>
<p><b>August</b></p>
<ul>
<li> The Project endorsed the concept of
<a href="http://www.debian.org/vote/2007/vote_003">Debian
Maintainers</a>.</li>
<li> Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 <q>Etch</q> got its
<a href="$(HOME)/News/2007/20070817">first
update</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>September</b></p>
<ul>
<li> <a href="https://packages.debian.org/">packages.debian.org</a> got
a <a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/09/msg00001.html">major
overhaul</a>.</li>
<li> A new dpkg version with support for fine grained symbol based
dependecies is <a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/09/msg00004.html">uploaded
to experimental</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>October</b></p>
<ul>
<li> Steve McIntyre posted a
<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/10/msg00001.html">Google
Summer of Code 2007 wrap-up</a>.</li>
<li> The Alioth team
<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/10/msg00002.html">announced
support for Darcs</a>, the testing-security team posted
<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/10/msg00006.html">an update</a>,
the security team <a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/10/msg00010.html">announced</a>
the <a href="http://security-tracker.debian.net/tracker/">Debian
Security Tracker</a>.</li>
<li> The Project decides to
<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/10/msg00003.html">reduced the length of the DPL election
process</a>.</li>
<li> Dates for <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebConf8">DebConf8</a>
<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/10/msg00007.html">announced</a>:
August 2nd to August 17th 2008.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>November</b></p>
<ul>
<li> The DSA team
<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/11/msg00000.html">gets
a new member</a> for the first time in several years.</li>
<li> <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/MiniDebConf">MiniDebConf</a>
Venezuela 2007 is <a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/11/msg00003.html">announced</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>December</b></p>
<ul>
<li> The location of the tenth Debian annual conference,
<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebConf">DebConf9</a>, is
<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/02/msg00012.html">announced</a>:
Extremadura, Spain.</li>
<li> The <a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/12/msg00006.html">DebConf7
final report</a> is released.</li>
<li> <a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/12/msg00003.html">Debian
Edu / Skolelinux 3.0 <q>Terra</q> received its first update</a>, r1.</li>
<li> The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project <a href="http://times.debian.net/1204">reported</a>
that it uses Debian 4.0 <q>Etch</q> to power its backend servers.</li>
<li> Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 <q>Etch</q> got its <a href="$(HOME)/News/2007/20071227">second
update</a>.</li>
<li> Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 <q>Sarge</q> received its
<a href="$(HOME)/News/2007/20071228">seventh update</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p>As Debian Weekly News enters its ten 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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