Not yet sent:
Not sent:
<cnote> Debian is pronounced: Deb ee n
<ansgar> Random facts: 1139 source packages in unstable have a higher version than in testing (and are in testing). 2291-1139 packages are in unstable, but not in testing.
<pabs> There are 38 languages enabled on the Debian website. https://www.debian.org/international/
# Sent
<pabs> The Debian release team are just waking up and getting their tea & coffee in preparation for the release! #releasingjessie
<pabs> the Debian jessie release is possible thanks to our release hardware: franck (ftp), pettersson (CD), wolkenstein (web) http://deb.li/machines #releasingjessie
<nthykier> The Debian jessie freeze is tying with hamm as the third shortest freeze at 171 days. #releasingjessie
<nthykier> Debian jessie is the second release since sarge to have a *shorter* freeze than 6 months (the other one being squeeze at one day shy of 6 months). #releasingjessie
<nthykier> The Debian release team has applied about 2100 hints (e.g. unblocks/manual removals) during the jessie freeze, about 2/3 used for wheezy. #releasingjessie
Debian thanks man-da, @bytemark, ubcece, grnet, 1&1 and our other hosters providing resources for #releasingjessie https://db.debian.org/machines.cgi
<larjona> Jessie has 21,087 source packages with 8,359,525 source files. See more stats (languages, other) at http://sources.debian.net/stats/jessie/
53 people became official Debian members during the release cycle of jessie #releasingjessie
ACK_larjona <pabs> There were 14 different themes proposed to be the official Debian jessie theme. https://wiki.debian.org/DebianArt/Themes
<larjona> The Debian Jessie desktop theme is "Lines" https://wiki.debian.org/DebianArt/Themes/Lines , made by Juliette Taka Belin https://wiki.debian.org/JulietteTaka
<pabs> There are at least 66 different Debian derivatives known to the derivatives census https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census
<pabs> There are at least 13 different Debian blends to install particular parts of Debian http://blends.debian.org/ https://wiki.debian.org/DebianPureBlends
<pabs> There are at least 83 different Debian-related services run by Debian contributors https://wiki.debian.org/Services
ACK_larjona (review numbers before publishing) <pabs> There will be more than 20 Debian jessie release parties in 12 different countries https://wiki.debian.org/ReleasePartyJessie
<pabs> Debian thanks our sponsors of about 50 primary mirrors and 412 total mirrors https://www.debian.org/mirror/official_sponsors https://www.debian.org/mirror/sponsors https://www.debian.org/mirror/list
<larjona>TITLE: Releasing Jessie: Distributed release party at Debian Party Line!
Join us in the distributed, Mumble-based Debian release party this weekend! https://wiki.debian.org/ReleasePartyJessie#Debian_Party_Line #releasingjessie
<larjona>TITLE: Releasing Jessie: Join the distributed release party at Debian Party Line!
Join us in the distributed, Mumble-based Debian release party this weekend! (FIXME people celebrating right now!) http://debian-party-line.branchable.com/
ACK_larjona <pabs> The Debian sysadmins look after 201 virtual and physical machines running services for Debian. https://db.debian.org/machines.cgi
ACK_larjona <pabs> Debian/Ubuntu bug reports are sometimes hilarious! https://bugs.debian.org/743238 https://bugs.debian.org/752114 http://mdzlog.alcor.net/2009/08/15/bohrbugs-openoffice-org-wont-print-on-tuesdays/
<pabs> There are at least 39 non-profit, 109 educational, 27 government and 198 commercial organisations using Debian today. Is your organisation using Debian? https://www.debian.org/users
<pabs> The Debian security team has issued at least 3229 advisories over its lifetime. https://www.debian.org/security/
<larjona> During the jessie development, 48 contributors became uploading Debian Developers, and 43 more become Debian Maintainers https://nm.debian.org/public/people
ACK_larjona <Lunar^> Between the release of Wheezy and the freeze of Jessie, Debian unstable received 55771 uploads. That's an average of 3098 uploads a month!
ACK_larjona (reply to the former post) <madduck> and 100 per day!
ACK_larjona (reply to the former post) <madduck> i.e. one every 15 minutes
ACK_larjona <pabs> Support for Debian is available via documentation, wiki, forums, mailing lists, newsgroups, the bug tracker, chat, consultants and more. https://www.debian.org/support
<Lunar^> Debian is a huge project, 1000+ developers, 21000+ sources. Get a feeling of what project wide changes requires: https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds/History
<pabs> There are 619 tags in the Debtags vocabulary, and 62139 known packages to tag. Of these, 25065 are tagged by humans, and 37074 are tagged by robots. http://debtags.debian.net/reports/stats/
<pabs> There are 375 Debian consultants in 53 countries worldwide. Consult on Debian today! https://www.debian.org/consultants/
<pabs> There are about 6802 screenshots of software available in Debian and Ubuntu online on our screenshots site. https://screenshots.debian.net/
<pabs> There are at least 13 different technical and non-technical ways you can help Debian. https://www.debian.org/intro/help
ACK_larjona <pabs> The publicity team has provided live coverage of the last two Debian releases! Hope you enjoy it!
NO_ACK_larjona (not sure about the numbers, looks 6+1nonuploading to me) <jmw> Five contributors became uploading Debian Developers so far in 2015 https://nm.debian.org/public/people
<maswan> Sledge: working on the statistics, we do >1 TB/month of debian-meetings traffic
ACK_larjona <pabs> Debian is not a force of nature, despite its logo! https://lists.debian.org/debian-curiosa/2014/10/msg00009.html
ACK_larjona <pabs> Pixar is making new Toy Story episodes faster than Debian releases consume them. There are at least 64 toy names left! https://lists.debian.org/debian-curiosa/2014/11/msg00005.html
<pabs> There have been about 25 different official and unofficial ports to various kernels and hardware types https://www.debian.org/ports/
<larjona> During the jessie development, 6 contributors became non-uploading Debian Developers, supporting the community in non-packaging tasks https://nm.debian.org/public/people
ACK_larjona <pabs> There are a lot of different teams that help organise and create Debian https://www.debian.org/intro/organization https://wiki.debian.org/Teams
<cnote> You don't need to be an expert to contribute to Debian! Assisting users with problems on the user support lists is a large contribution to Debian.
ACK_larjona <pabs> Finland has the most active Debian members per million people http://www.perrier.eu.org/weblog/2014/07/29#devel-countries-201407
<cnote> Jessie ships with 799 source packages (442 updated, +130 new ones since Wheezy) which will be maintained by the Java Team.
During #DebianJessie development, our UDD bot (judd) provided package version information 10310 times and searched for files in 900 times.
In providing support to @Debian users on IRC, our UDD bot (judd) made 365k SQL queries during the two years of development for #DebianJessie
Over 2300 people got help with #DebianJessie in our #debian-next IRC channel for helping users of pre-relaese versions of @Debian.
UDD: 4 releases, 16 archs, 1273054 binary packages from 102713 source packages. Totals 17GB https://udd.debian.org/ #releasingjessie
When upgrading from Wheezy to Jessie, it can be a good idea to purge old packages before the first reboot.
<cnote> Be sure to check out the upgrading advice for troubleshooting and warnings prior to your upgrade. https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html
Before upgrading your system, it is strongly recommended that you make a full backup of information you can't afford to lose!
Following Pixar's Toy Story naming scheme, Debian's releases have been: Buzz, Rex, Bo, Hamm, Slink, Potato, Woody, Sarge, Etch, Lenny, Squeeze, Wheezy, and now Jessie.
<cnote> Jessie has a new package (debian-security-support) which warns if support needs termination or where security support is limited.
The Jessie installer improves support UEFI fireware and supports installing on 32-bit UEFI firmware with a 64-bit kernel.
Legacy, insecure SSLv3 has been disabled in this release, servers and client applications have been compiled or configured without support for this protocol.
There's a new sheriff in town. And her name is Jessie. We're happy to announce the release of Debian 8.0, codenamed Jessie.
The awesome Debian release team handled almost 3000 requests to update/remove/recompile packages for #DebianJessie #releasingjessie
<cnote> Thanks to the huge efforts of translators, Debian can now be installed in 75 languages!
<cnote> Be aware that any non-Debian packages on your system may be removed during the upgrade because of conflicting dependencies.
<larjona> Thanks everybody who made Jessie possible! Debian developers and maintainers https://www.debian.org/devel/people, contributors https://contributors.debian.org/ and many others!
<wookey> Debian does a new port (to new hardware architecture or OS) about twice as often as it releases.
ACK_larjona <pabs> Debian would like to thank our 21 partner organisations, who provide hardware, employ developers, donate money, hosting and more https://www.debian.org/partners/
ACK_larjona <Lunar^> The “reproducible builds” effort has already submitted nearly 500 bugs with patches! Join the fun for Stretch: https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds/Contribute
<Lunar^> Debian was inspired by Tor for its “reproducible builds” effort. More free software projects are joining the trend! See OpenWrt: https://lists.openwrt.org/pipermail/openwrt-devel/2015-March/032136.html
ACK_larjona <pabs> There are Debian contributors, machines, keysigning, local groups, events and related organisations around the world; https://wiki.debian.org/DebianLocations
<pabs> We have discovered that there are an awful lot of statistics, graphs and diagrams about Debian https://wiki.debian.org/Statistics https://wiki.debian.org/Diagrams
<pabs> Debian jessie uses OpenJDK 7 for Java, OpenJDK 8 will be added to jessie-backports. https://bugs.debian.org/783197
ACK_larjona <pabs> There are several ways to donate to Debian, the auditors are working on adding more https://www.debian.org/donations
<cnote> The openssh-server configuration will now default to 'PermitRootLogin without-password'.
Debian would like to thank our many hardware donors, including HP! https://db.debian.org/machines.cgi #releasingjessie
<pabs> If any of the lines in your /etc/apt/sources.list refer to 'stable', you might get a surprise on your next upgrade!
<cnote> The next two Debian release names will be Stretch and Buster https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2014/11/msg00005.html #releasingjessie
Debian development never stops, 11GB of updates for stretch were waiting for the archive to open again! #releasingjessie
Ladies and gents, start your torrents; it is time to seed the jessie release! http://deb.li/torrent #releasingjessie
<pabs> There are 58 vendors of Debian CDs, DVDs and USB sticks in 28 countries but we used to have more. Become a vendor today! https://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/
There are translations of the release announcement to 16 languages on the Debian website. https://www.debian.org/News/2015/20150426
The Debian games team proudly presents 33 games meta-packages, for example apt-get install games-finest today! #releasingjessie
<pabs> Debian would like to thank our DebConf partners; 30 sponsors, 7 infrastructure sponsors, 2 media partners and 2 organisational partners http://debconf15.debconf.org/sponsors.xhtml
Debian would like to thank the 7 companies contributing developer hours and 23 contributing money to the LTS effort https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Team http://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts.html
ACK_larjona <pabs> Debian would like to thank our 5 trusted organisations, who accept donations for and hold assets in trust for Debian. https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Auditor/Organizations
<pabs> At least 1118 people and 17 teams contributed to Debian until 2015 https://contributors.debian.org/
<cnote> The upgrade to Jessie includes an upgrade of PHP from 5.4 to 5.6; you are advised to check scripts before upgrading.
<cnote> The installation system now installs systemd as the default init system but you can use sysvinit. https://wiki.debian.org/systemd#Installing_without_systemd
Debian jessie includes tools related to Android, including parts of the SDK. More tools will be available in stretch. https://wiki.debian.org/AndroidTools #releasingjessie
IRC is still a great way of getting support for Debian. We helped 33000 people in the last two years while we were making Debian jessie. #releasingjessie
The default keyboard shortcuts for GNOME desktop have changed to align closely with other operating systems. #releasingjessie
New Java tools in jessie include Tomcat 7/8, VisualVM, the Dynamic Code Evolution VM, Gradle, eclipse-wtp-webtools, closure-compiler and more. https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/amd64/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html#debian-java
All 1.27TB jessie torrents are currently seeded by 12295 seeders worldwide! Thanks! #releasingjessie
<Lunar^> For the next Debian release, we hope to have most packages build reproducibly. Attacks silently targeting binaries will become much harder!
<Lunar^> See where we at regarding package reproducibility for important milestones: https://reproducible.debian.net/unstable/amd64/index_pkg_sets.html
Support for the 64-bit ARM (arm64) and POWER8 (ppc64el) architectures has been added in jessie. #releasingjessie
Our IRC support team answered FAQs with pre-canned factoids 23000 times during the last two year of Debian jessie development. http://ircbots.debian.net/factoids/ #releasingjessie
<cnote> Before upgrading, it is recommended to remove old configuration files (such as *.dpkg-{new,old} files under /etc).
<cnote> The mailing lists of most interest are the debian-user list and other debian-user-language lists. See https://lists.debian.org/.
ACK_larjona <pabs> There are about 175 people interested in helping port Debian services from Python 2 to Python 3. Love Python? Join today! https://wiki.debian.org/Python/Python3Port
Already upgraded to jessie? Then checkout the new colored dmesg output! #releasingjessie
The newly-available 64-bit ARM machines are supported by Debian jessie thanks to ARM, Linaro and Debian porters.
The Debian project started in 1983 and celebrates it's birthday on August 16th of each year called DebianDay. https://wiki.debian.org/DebianDay
News of the jessie release has been shared on LWN, Distrowatch, Slashdot, Hacker News and Phoronix, thanks! https://lwn.net/Articles/641875/ http://distrowatch.com/8914 http://linux.slashdot.org/story/15/04/26/0322241/debian-8-jessie-released https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9440386 #releasingjessie
Share your reports and pics from Debian jessie release parties and we'll try to feature them in the next Debian Project News https://wiki.debian.org/ReleasePartyJessie #releasingjessie
Thanks for spreading the word during the jessie release; repeats, replies, forwards, likes all appreciated #releasingjessie