doc-debian, debian-faq, debian-history, debian-flyers: lightning talk @ minidebconf hamburg

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Hi,

While at MiniDebConf Hamburg ( https://hamburg2026.mini.debconf.org/ ), I
decided to give a lightning talk.  The "slides" are below.

Thanks to our awesome video team, recording is available from
https://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2026/MiniDebConf-Hamburg/hamburg2026-86-lightning-talks.lq.webm
(higher quality available there too; my talk was the last/3rd one).

Any feedback is very welcome!

Bye,

Joost

  ┌──────────────────────┤ fcp ├───────────────────────┐
  │                                                    │
  │ Four Crucial* Packages* You've Never* Heard About  │
  │                                                    │
  │    by Joost van Baal-Ilić <joostvb@debian.org>     │
  │          May 2026, MiniDebConf Hamburg             │
  │                                                    │
  │ https://mastodon.green/@joostvb, irc: joostvb      │
  │                                                    │
  │ About some of our code: we have been shipping      │
  │ since about 2000, volunteers are translating in    │
  │ their native languages: about 10 languages.        │
  │                                                    │
  │ 1/4                         http://mdcc.cx/fcp.txt │
  └────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

  ┌───────┤ {doc-,}debian{-faq,-history,-flyers} ├─────┐
  │                                                    │
  │ I am talking about some of the documentation we    │
  │ ship: packages (and a non-package) shipping        │
  │ documentation:                                     │
  │                                                    │
  │              popcon   anno l10n source             │
  │ doc-debian  251,088   1996 14   Website META Lang  │
  │ debian-faq  250,705   1996 14   DocBook XML        │
  │ debian-history  164   1999 12*  DocBook XML        │
  │ debian-flyers     -** 2002  9   LaTeX              │
  │                                                    │
  │ * with GNU gettext (.po and .pot)                  │
  │ ** not (yet?) shipped as Debian package            │
  │                                                    │
  │ 2/4                         http://mdcc.cx/fcp.txt │
  └────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

  ┌─────────────────┤ what and who ├───────────────────┐
  │                                                    │
  │ doc-debian: Social Contract, DFSG, Constitution,   │
  │   BTS documentation                                │
  │ debian-faq: Introduction to Debian for newcomers   │
  │ debian-history: Short History of Debian Project    │
  │ debian-flyers: Debian Flyers in PDF, Leaflets,     │
  │  Hexagonal Stickers                                │
  │                                                    │
  │ Currently maintained by (a.o.): Tobias Quathamer   │
  │ <toddy>, Javier Fernández-Sanguino <jfs>, Helge    │
  │ Kreutzmann, Holger Wansing <holgerw>, Carles Pina  │
  │ i Estany <cpina> and yours truly.                  │
  │                                                    │
  │ 3/4                         http://mdcc.cx/fcp.txt │
  └────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

  ┌───────────────────┤ what now? ├────────────────────┐
  │                                                    │
  │ Get rid of them?  Lower their Priority?  Convert   │
  │ to reStructuredText and setup .po infrastructure?  │
  │ Make sure all foundational documents are in 1      │
  │ place on salsa?  Get rid of ftp.d.o/debian/doc/    │
  │ (via BYHAND)?  Keep updating e.g.                  │
  │ www.d.o/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ from git?  What    │
  │ about #998160?                                     │
  │                                                    │
  │ [ https://people.debian.org/~joostvb/fcp.pdf ]     │
  │                                                    │
  │ 4/4                         http://mdcc.cx/fcp.txt │
  └────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

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