From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 18:33:17 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Fill in information on kernel team
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Fill in information on kernel team
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-  <h1>Debian kernel team</h1>
+  <h1>Debian kernel team (1)</h1>
+  <p>
+    Who are we?
+  </p>
+  <ul class="incremental">
+    <li>
+      Currently 5 general maintainers: Maximilian Attems, Bastian
+      Blank, dann frazier, Moritz Muehlenhoff and me
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Many more specialised contributors:
+      <ul>
+	<li>Specific architectures</li>
+	<li>Specific features (e.g. Xen)</li>
+	<li>Bug triage</li>
+      </ul>
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Would appreciate more help, particularly with bug triage and
+      PowerPC
+    </li>
+  </ul>
+</div>
+
+<div class="slide">
+  <h1>Debian kernel team (2)</h1>
+  <p>
+    What do we do?
+  </p>
+  <ul class="incremental">
+    <li>
+      Bug triage - takes a huge amount of time
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Backport bug fixes and features - particularly new hardware
+      support for stable
+      <ul class="incremental">
+	<li>...while trying not to change kernel ABI in stable</li>
+      </ul>
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Update build configurations for each new upstream release -
+      e.g. to enable new drivers
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Try to ensure smooth upgrades when there are major
+      implementation changes - e.g. KMS, switch to libata drivers
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Integrate <em>some</em> features not accepted upstream
+    </li>
+  </ul>
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