Hello faithful readers!
Your attention, replies, and hardwork made 2019 a great year for this mailing list. There's been a huge increase in communication here and I'm grateful for the discussion, feedback, and guidance.
I'm dropping this link here to let those who read this list know that we've had a summary of the past year published; https://puri.sm/posts/2019-year-in-review-pureos/
With that posted, it is time to look towards 2020 and layout what the priorities are for the new year. Without question I think the number one priority from Purism management is the PureOS Store. In my discussions with Todd about the Store, it is clear not only that it is a high priority, but that the store can be a way to bolster PureOS and its large archive and get Free Software into the hands of users. This, I feel, is hugely important to our mission and so I'm going to prioritize it at the top of the list.
Fortunately, this has been an idea that has already been floated and there is work that's been done towards realizing a store or easily accessible archive in some form or another. I hope to be able to pull the disparate threads together; work done in Laniakea, frontend work from Rodolfo and Francois, as well as other infrastrucutre bits to realize the goal. I hope to organize this work in the coming weeks and try and set out a schedule so we can track and measure our progress and, most importantly, communicate the work that's been done by the team because I think it's quite amazing.
More regular releases for the folks who install PureOS on machines on the factory floor is also a high priority. We've come so far now with our releases - amber and byzantium - that it's time to support them with a bit more predictable release cycle and more Quality Assurance. To do that let's pick up the thread on releases, I'll try and revive that.
Matthias K. has mentioned OpenQA as a potentially useful tool for doing QA on our releases and I agree, I hope to set that up for us before FOSDEM so we can use it. I have a couple other small tasks to complete before that work can be started as well as some administrative housekeeping, but I'm really eager to get more QA for our releases since we've come so far the last year or so.
And yes, FOSDEM! I'm going to be there for about a week. I plan on attending the MiniDebCamp: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/be/2020/MiniDebCamp It would be great if all got a chance to meet up in Brussels, I would really appreciate it. Just having the opportunity to speak face to face would benefit me tremendously and having a chance to outline all of our goals and plans for 2020 will be an added bonus.
Thanks for reading this far!
Best,
Jeremiah