01 - Introduction and welcome

The workshop will actually start at 9h30

An introductory talk that presents the goals of the workshop and a brief overview of the contributions.

02 - Quality Problems and QA in Debian

Speaker : Martin Michlmayr, Former Debian Project leader
This talk will present some of the quality problems Debian is facing and will discuss how they are being dealt with.

03 - Debian’s release process - behind the scenes

Speaker : Andreas Barth, Debian Release Manager
Debian makes a "stable release" from time to time. This article shows how the background work looks like, what the major issues are and which improvements are planned ; the intended audience are people knowing Debian closely. The author is one of the two Debian Release Managers. More information is available at http://release.debian.org/

04 - Customising Debian

Speaker : Enrico Zini
This talk will show a picture of the Debian world, the customizations and the ways in which it is possible to work with them.

05 - The Youri Project, a generic distribution management framework

Speaker : Guillaume Rousse
This talk will describe the YOURI Project, a generic package management framework, focused on code reusability and modularity.

06 - Enhacements to existing Apt tool : revision, dependencies and P2P distribution

Speaker : Paulo Trezentos, Caixa Magica
This talk depicts some already implemented features and some future steps towards the new generation of meta-data installers.

07 - Discussion and wrap-up