Focus

This month I didn't have any particular focus. I just worked on issues in my info bubble.

Changes

• flower: fix load test
• kms-jsonrpc: version agnostic cmake dir
• kms-cmake-utils: version agnostic cmake dir
• kurento-module-creator: version agnostic cmake dir
• wayback-machine-downloader: fix crash, fix URI.open usage
• colord: drop abandoned domain
• ptp-gadget: gitignore, fix make dist, drop tar.bz2, document option
• duck: indicators phrases
• check-all-the-things: many TODO items, lists
• Debian usertags QA: refactor, automove ftcbfs, fix noise, support comments
• Debian website: drop freenode
• Debian package uploads: purple-discord experimental/backports
• Debian wiki pages: Bind9, Brave, DebConf/21/Volunteering, DebianKernel/GitBisect, DebianServiceForDD, Derivatives/Census/HandyLinux, Hardware/Wanted, InterWikiMap, MemberBenefits, NewInBullseye, Packaging/debspawn, PaulWise, PortsDocs/New (1 2), QemuUserEmulation, Scanner, Teams/Dpkg/Spec/InstallBootstrap, UnifiedCommunications/DebianDevelopers/UserGuide, Wayland, ZNC_IRC_bouncer
• Bootstrappable Builds wiki pages: Projects List
• FOSSjobs wiki pages: Resources
• Wikipedia: Message-ID

Issues

• Crashes in evolution
• Cross-build failure in ppp
• Migration needed for apparmor-profiles-extra
• Dependency changes for sane-backends, parl-desktop, education-common, hollywood
• Broken URLs in colord
• Features in ognibuild, Debian firefox-esr, diffoscope, fossjobs, evolution
• Warnings in kalgebra
• Usability in ognibuild
• Documentation needed in purple-lurch
• Outdated forks in Kurento jsoncpp
• Typos in abilint
• Security issue in perl Encode module (CVE-2021-36770)
• Unhandled message type in purple-discord

Review

• Spam: reported 3 Debian bug reports and 135 Debian mailing list posts
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian BTS usertags: changes for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved php-horde endless-sky claws-mail memtester
  • rejected python-gdal/weboob-qt (unrelated software)

Administration

• Debian: restart bacula director
• Debian wiki: approve accounts

Communication

• This month I left freenode, an IRC network I had been on for at least 16 years, for reasons that you probably all read about. I think the biggest lesson I take from this situation and ones happening around the same time is that proper governance in peer production projects is absolutely critical.
• Respond to queries from Debian users and contributors on the mailing lists and IRC

Sponsors

The purple-discord/flower work was sponsored by my employers.

All other work was done on a volunteer basis.