7:49 p.m.
On 10/28/25 19:45, Evilham wrote:
Hej,
maybe some remember me, probably most don't =D.
I was using debops pretty intensively, and contributed whenever I could.
According to my local clone of debops last commit I used was:
commit 3ddd6a9bcafda2bbf20723bbb3d078e05505a8ad
October 2023, not too long ago ;)
And yes, I remember your nickname. But I did forget that I am still
subscribed to this mailing list. It's not that active anymore, I think
most of the discussions regarding DebOps can be found in the GitHub project.
My (professional) use of DebOps as well as contributions ran from april
2019 until september 2022, when I changed jobs. I've been working on
Dutch critical infrastructure for the last couple of years: the .nl TLD
and now the IT systems behind the Dutch railways, and Debian and DebOps
are not really used there. I'm still working with Ansible and Linux
though, as well as other free and open source software, but I'm not
contributing back as much as I used to. I've just found different ways
to contribute to society.
You can easily see what parts of DebOps I was most interested in back
then:
https://github.com/debops/debops/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3Aimrejonk+is%3Ac...
Between switching to using mostly a form of BSD and using a different
provisioning system that allowed me to iterate faster than ansible
(albeit with its own limitations, like... the most obvious one: people
know ansible and not the other thing), and other things, I've only been
recommending debops to people and not actually using it.
So, that was the why and how; and here is what I'm actually asking:
other than considering myself a totally new user to debops, are there
any shortcuts / warnings / heads-up, the community could give me, as a
person that used to know debops pretty well back in the day?
I don't think I'm the most qualified person to help you out here, but
some general advice: check the changelog [1] to get an overview of what
has happened in the codebase lately, and also the upgrade notes [2] if
you're attempting to dust off an old DebOps project. And of course,
there is the getting started guide [3] for if you're starting over.
Invoke your troubleshooting skills if things don't work out the way you
expect, be eager to learn and discover, and ask for help (on this list,
for example) if you get stuck. Good luck!
[1] https://docs.debops.org/en/master/news/changelog.html
[2] https://docs.debops.org/en/master/news/upgrades.html
[3] https://docs.debops.org/en/master/introduction/getting-started.html
That'd be the user perspective; the dev perspective would be
similar,
except I'd ideally like to toy with using debops with the BSDs, but
that'd be posterior :-), again just some general pointers that could
save me some time would be greatly appreciated.
The issue list may give you an idea of things that can be worked on in
DebOps: https://github.com/debops/debops/issues
I think bugfixes for things that broke in Debian 13 and maybe
application upgrades (lots of testing!) will be appreciated, but you'll
have to ask @drybjed
Cheers, and congratulations for keeping things up!
Cheers, and mad kudos to Maciej for keeping the show running all this
time! I'd be interested in his perspective on DebOps nowadays. I know at
one point he accepted a job offer at a company that was using DebOps,
pretty cool :)
--Imre