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My Free Software Activities in November 2017

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My monthly report covers a large part of what I have been doing in the free software world. I write it for my donors (thanks to them!) but also for the wider Debian community because it can give ideas to newcomers and it’s one of the best ways to find volunteers to work with me on projects that matter to me.

Debian LTS

This month I was allocated 12h but I only spent 10h. During this time, I managed the LTS frontdesk during one week, reviewing new security issues and classifying the associated CVE (16 commits to the security tracker).

I prepared and released DLA-1171-1 on libxml-libxml-perl.

I prepared a new update for simplesamlphp (1.9.2-1+deb7u1) fixing 6 CVE. I did not release any DLA yet since I was not able to test the updated package yet. I’m hoping that the the current maintainer can do it since he wanted to work on the update a few months ago.

Distro Tracker

Distro Tracker has seen a high level of activity in the last month. Ville Skyttä continued to contribute a few patches, he helped notably to get rid of the last blocker for a switch to Python 3.

I then worked with DSA to get the production instance (tracker.debian.org) upgraded to stretch with Python 3.5 and Django 1.11. This resulted in a few regressions related to the Python 3 switch (despite the large number of unit tests) that I had to fix.

In parallel Pierre-Elliott Bécue showed up on the debian-qa mailing list and he started to contribute. I have been exchanging with him almost daily on IRC to help him improve his patches. He has been very responsive and I’m looking forward to continue to cooperate with him. His first patch enabled the use “src:” and “bin:” prefix in the search feature to specify if we want to lookup among source packages or binary packages.

I did some cleanup/refactoring work after the switch of the codebase to Python 3 only.

Misc Debian work

Sponsorship. I sponsored many new packages: python-envparse 0.2.0-1, python-exotel 0.1.5-1, python-aws-requests-auth 0.4.1-1, pystaticconfiguration 0.10.3-1, python-jira 1.0.10-1, python-twilio 6.8.2-1, python-stomp 4.1.19-1. All those are dependencies for elastalert 0.1.21-1 that I also sponsored.

I sponsored updates for vboot-utils 0~R63-10032.B-2 (new upstream release for openssl 1.1 compat), aircrack-ng 1:1.2-0~rc4-4 (introducing airgraph-ng package) and asciidoc 8.6.10-2 (last upstream release, tool is deprecated).

Debian Installer. I submitted a few patches a while ago to support finding ISO images in LVM logical volumes in the hd-media installation method. Colin Watson reviewed them and made a few suggestions and expressed a few concerns. I improved my patches to take into account his suggestions and I resolved all the problems he pointed out. I then committed everything to the respective git repositories (for details review #868848, #868859, #868900, #868852).

Live Build. I merged 3 patches for live-build (#879169, #881941, #878430).

Misc. I uploaded Django 1.11.7 to stretch-backports. I filed an upstream bug on zim for #881464.

Thanks

See you next month for a new summary of my activities.

Freexian’s report about Debian Long Term Support, October 2017

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A Debian LTS logoLike each month, here comes a report about the work of paid contributors to Debian LTS.

Individual reports

In October, about 197 work hours have been dispatched among 13 paid contributors. Their reports are available:

  • Antoine Beaupré did 21h (out of 16h allocated + 8.75h remaining, thus keeping 3.75h for November).
  • Ben Hutchings did 20 hours (out of 15h allocated + 9 extra hours, thus keeping 4 extra hours for November).
  • Brian May did 10 hours.
  • Chris Lamb did 18 hours.
  • Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 7 hours (out of 20.75 hours allocated + 1.5 hours remaining, thus keeping 15.25 hours for November).
  • Guido Günther did 6.5 hours (out of 11h allocated + 1 extra hour, thus keeping 5.5h for November).
  • Hugo Lefeuvre did 20h.
  • Lucas Kanashiro did 2 hours (out of 5h allocated, thus keeping 3 hours for November).
  • Markus Koschany did 19 hours (out of 20.75h allocated, thus keeping 1.75 extra hours for November).
  • Ola Lundqvist did 7.5h (out of 7h allocated + 0.5 extra hours).
  • Raphaël Hertzog did 13.5 hours (out of 12h allocated + 1.5 extra hours).
  • Roberto C. Sanchez did 11 hours (out of 20.75 hours allocated + 14.75 hours remaining, thus keeping 24.50 extra hours for November, he will give back remaining hours at the end of the month).
  • Thorsten Alteholz did 20.75 hours.

Evolution of the situation

The number of sponsored hours increased slightly to 183 hours per month. With the increasing number of security issues to deal with, and with the number of open issues not really going down, I decided to bump the funding target to what amounts to 1.5 full-time position.

The security tracker currently lists 50 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file 36 (we’re a bit behind in CVE triaging apparently).

Thanks to our sponsors

New sponsors are in bold.

My Free Software Activities in October 2017

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My monthly report covers a large part of what I have been doing in the free software world. I write it for my donors (thanks to them!) but also for the wider Debian community because it can give ideas to newcomers and it’s one of the best ways to find volunteers to work with me on projects that matter to me.

Debian LTS

This month I was allocated 12h but I had 1.5h left from September too. During this time, I finally finished my work on exiv2: I completed the triage of all CVE, backported 3 patches to the version in wheezy and released DLA-1147-1.

I also did some review of the oldest entries in dla-needed. I reclassified a bunch of CVE on zoneminder and released DLA-1145-1 for the most problematic issue on that package. Many other packages got their CVE reclassified as not worth an update: xbmc, check-mk, rbenv, phamm, yaml-cpp. For mosquitto, I released DLA-1146-1.

I filed #879001 (security issue) and #879002 (removal suggestion) on libpam4j. This library is no longer used by any other package in Debian, so it could be removed instead of costing us time in support.

Misc Debian work

After multiple months of wait, I was allowed to upload my schroot stable update (#864297).

After ack from the d-i release manager, I pushed my pkgsel changes and uploaded version 0.46 of the package: this brings unattended-upgrades support in the installer. It’s now installed by default.

I nudged the upstream developer of gnome-shell-timer to get a new release for GNOME 3.26 compatibility and packaged it.

Finally, I was pleased to merge multiple patches from Ville Skyttä on Distro Tracker (the software powering tracker.debian.org). It looks like Ville will continue to contribute on a regular basis, yay. \o/ He already helped me to fix the remaining blockers for the switch to Python 3.

Not really Debian related, but I also filed a bug against Tryton that I discovered after upgrading to the latest version.

Thanks

See you next month for a new summary of my activities.

Freexian’s report about Debian Long Term Support, September 2017

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A Debian LTS logoLike each month, here comes a report about the work of paid contributors to Debian LTS.

Individual reports

In August, about 170 work hours have been dispatched among 13 paid contributors. Their reports are available:

Evolution of the situation

The number of sponsored hours is the same as last month. But we have a new sponsor in the pipe.

The security tracker currently lists 52 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file 49. The number of packages with open issues decreased slightly compared to last month but we’re not yet back to the usual situation.

Thanks to our sponsors

New sponsors are in bold.

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