New Debian Developers and Maintainers (November and December 2017)
On Mon 01 January 2018 with tags projectWritten by Jean-Pierre Giraud
Translations: ca es fr pt vi
The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months:
- Ben Armstrong (synrg)
- Frédéric Bonnard (frediz)
- Jerome Charaoui (lavamind)
- Michael Jeanson (mjeanson)
- Jim Meyering (meyering)
- Christopher Knadle (krait)
The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months:
- Chris West
- Mark Lee Garrett
- Pierre-Elliott Bécue
- Sebastian Humenda
- Stefan Schörghofer
- Stephen Gelman
- Georg Faerber
- Nico Schlömer
Congratulations!
Debsources now in sources.debian.org
On Wed 13 December 2017 with tags debian mirrors announce infrastructure technical sourcesWritten by Laura Arjona Reina
Translations: zh-CN
Debsources is a web application for publishing, browsing and searching an unpacked Debian source mirror on the Web. With Debsources, all the source code of every Debian release is available in https://sources.debian.org, both via an HTML user interface and a JSON API.
This service was first offered in 2013 with the sources.debian.net instance, which was kindly hosted by IRILL, and is now becoming official under sources.debian.org, hosted on the Debian infrastructure.
This new instance offers all the features of the old one (an updater that runs four times a day, various plugins to count lines of code or measure the size of packages, and sub-apps to show lists of patches and copyright files), plus integration with other Debian services such as codesearch.debian.net and the PTS.
The Debsources Team has taken the opportunity of this move of Debsources onto the Debian infrastructure to officially announce the service. Read their message as well as the Debsources documentation page for more details.
New Debian Developers and Maintainers (September and October 2017)
On Thu 02 November 2017 with tags projectWritten by Jean-Pierre Giraud
Translations: ca es fr pt vi
The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months:
- Allison Randal (wendar)
- Carsten Schoenert (tijuca)
- Jeremy Bicha (jbicha)
- Luca Boccassi (bluca)
- Michael Hudson-Doyle (mwhudson)
- Elana Hashman (ehashman)
The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months:
- Ervin Hegedüs
- Tom Marble
- Lukas Schwaighofer
- Philippe Thierry
Congratulations!
New Debian Developers and Maintainers (July and August 2017)
On Fri 01 September 2017 with tags projectWritten by Jean-Pierre Giraud
Translations: ca es fr pt vi
The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months:
- Ross Gammon (rossgammon)
- Balasankar C (balasankarc)
- Roland Fehrenbacher (rfehren)
- Jonathan Cristopher Carter (jcc)
The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months:
- José Gutiérrez de la Concha
- Paolo Greppi
- Ming-ting Yao Wei
- Boyuan Yang
- Paul Hardy
- Fabian Wolff
- Moritz Schlarb
- Shengjing Zhu
Congratulations!
Work on Debian for mobile devices continues
On Thu 17 August 2017 with tags debian mobile devices debconf17 pocketchip pyra zerophoneWritten by W. Martin Borgert
Translations: fr
Work on Debian for mobile devices, i.e. telephones, tablets, and handheld computers, continues. During the recent DebConf17 in Montréal, Canada, more than 50 people had a meeting to reconsider opportunities and challenges for Debian on mobile devices.
A number of devices were shown at DebConf:
- PocketCHIP: A very small handheld computer with keyboard, Wi-Fi, USB, and Bluetooth, running Debian 8 (Jessie) or 9 (Stretch).
- Pyra: A modular handheld computer with a touchscreen, gaming controls, Wi-Fi, keyboard, multiple USB ports and SD card slots, and an optional modem for either Europe or the USA. It will come preinstalled with Debian.
- Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G: An Android smartphone featuring a physical keyboard, which can already run portions of Debian userspace on the Android kernel. Kernel upstreaming is on the way.
- ZeroPhone: An open-source smartphone based on Raspberry Pi Zero, with a small screen, classic telephone keypad and hardware switches for telephony, Wi-Fi, and the microphone. It is running Debian-based Raspbian OS.
The photo (click to enlarge) shows all four devices, together with a Nokia N900, which was the first Linux-based smartphone by Nokia, running Debian-based Maemo and a completely unrelated Gnuk cryptographic token, which just sneaked into the setting.
If you like to participate, please
- check the Debian Mobile wiki page,
- subscribe to the Debian mobile mailing list,
- or join the
#debian-mobileIRC chatroom atirc.oftc.net.