New Debian Developers and Maintainers (September and October 2015)
On Wed 11 November 2015 with tags projectWritten by Jean-Pierre Giraud
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The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months:
- ChangZhuo Chen (czchen)
- Eugene Zhukov (eugene)
- Hugo Lefeuvre (hle)
- Milan Kupcevic (milan)
- Timo Weingärtner (tiwe)
- Uwe Kleine-König (ukleinek)
- Bernhard Schmidt (berni)
- Stein Magnus Jodal (jodal)
- Prach Pongpanich (prach)
- Markus Koschany (apo)
- Andy Simpkins (rattustrattus)
The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months:
- Miguel A. Colón Vélez
- Afif Elghraoui
- Bastien Roucariès
- Carsten Schoenert
- Tomasz Nitecki
- Christoph Ulrich Scholler
- Mechtilde Stehmann
- Alexandre Viau
- Daniele Tricoli
- Russell Sim
- Benda Xu
- Andrew Kelley
- Ivan Udovichenko
- Shih-Yuan Lee
- Edward Betts
- Punit Agrawal
- Andreas Boll
- Dave Hibberd
- Alexandre Detiste
- Marcio de Souza Oliveira
- Andrew Ayer
- Alf Gaida
Congratulations!
New Debian Developers and Maintainers (July and August 2015)
On Tue 01 September 2015 with tags projectWritten by Ana Guerrero López
Translations: ca es fr
The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months:
- Gianfranco Costamagna (locutusofborg)
- Graham Inggs (ginggs)
- Ximin Luo (infinity0)
- Christian Kastner (ckk)
- Tianon Gravi (tianon)
- Iain R. Learmonth (irl)
- Laura Arjona Reina (larjona)
The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months:
- Senthil Kumaran
- Riley Baird
- Robie Basak
- Alex Muntada
- Johan Van de Wauw
- Benjamin Barenblat
- Paul Novotny
- Jose Luis Rivero
- Chris Knadle
- Lennart Weller
Congratulations!
Debian turns 22!
On Sun 16 August 2015 with tags birthday debianWritten by Ana Guerrero Lopez and Valessio Brito
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Debian Perl Sprint 2015
On Mon 13 July 2015 with tags perl sprint barcelonaWritten by Alex Muntada
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The Debian Perl team had its first sprint in May and it was a success: 7 members met in Barcelona the weekend from May 22nd to May 24th to kick off the development around perl for Stretch and to work on QA tasks across the more than 3000 packages that the team maintains.
Even though the participants enjoyed the beautiful weather and the food very much, a good amount of work was also done:
- 53 bugs were filed or worked on, 31 uploads were accepted.
- The current practice of patch management (
quilt) was discussed and possible alternatives were shown (git-debcherryandgit-dpm). - Improvements were made in the Debian Perl Tools (
dpt) and discussed how to get track of upstream git history and tags. - Team's policies, documentation and recurring tasks were reviewed and updated.
- Perl 5.22 release was prepared and
src:perlplans for Stretch were discussed. autopkgtestwhitelists were reviewed, new packages added, and IRC notificacions by KGB were discussed.- Outstanding migrations were reviewed.
- Reproducibility issues with
POD_MAN_DATEwere commented.
The full report was posted to the relevant Debian mailing lists.
The participants would like to thank the Computer Architecture Department of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya for hosting us, and all donors to the Debian project who helped to cover a large part of our expenses.
Reproducible Builds get funded by the Core Infrastructure Initiative
On Tue 23 June 2015 with tags debian reproducible buildsWritten by Ana Guerrero Lopez
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The Core Infrastructure Initiative announced today that they will support two Debian Developers, Holger Levsen and Jérémy Bobbio, with $200,000 to advance their Debian work in reproducible builds and to collaborate more closely with other distributions such as Fedora, Ubuntu, OpenWrt to benefit from this effort.
The Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII) was established in 2014 to fortify the security of key open source projects. This initiative is funded by more than 20 companies and managed by The Linux Foundation.
The reproducible builds initiative aims to enable anyone to reproduce bit by bit identical binary packages from a given source, thus enabling anyone to independently verify that a binary matches the source code from which it was said it was derived. For example, this allow the users of Debian to rebuild packages and obtain exactly identical packages to the ones provided by the Debian repositories.