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Posts about the defunct free software community at Advogato.
Changes
- apt: more flexible timing (1, 2, 3), /org to /srv
- apt-offline: remove generated files
- check-all-the-things: add more shell checks
- spelling dictionaries:
- codespell: bettery, ciruit(s), debugginf, treshold, actuion(able), apendix, behaivior, confimred, meaningfull, registeres, sence, systen, tryed, infrasctructure, current(ly), defaut, pedning, variabele, upstreamedd, nework, ouput
- lintian: resistence, bettery, ciruit(s), debugginf, actuion, actuionable, apendix, behaivior, confimred, finaly, meaningfull, registeres, sence, systen, tryed, infrasctructure, currnt(ly), defaut, pedning, variabele, upstreamedd
- Debian security tracker: add gsoap CVE-2017-9765
- Debian puppet: stretch fixes (1, 2), failed attempt to kill a mail flood, disable web cache backups
- Debian QA services: email update, https for lintian.d.o, fix issue with by-hash
- Debian build log scanner: https, html log links, ignore uploaders brokenness
- Debian Planets: https for Grml, add Zevenet, Deepin, remove HandyLinux
- Debian website: use ISO dates, no https for archive.d.o
- Debian package uploads: flasm 1.62-8
- Debian wiki pages: DebianDay/2017/Venezuela/Caracas, Derivatives/Census (Template, Deepin, Grml, HandyLinux, Proxmox, SELKS, xanadu, Zevenet), Hardware/Wanted, Infinity0, IRC, JavierFernandezSanguino, LocalGroups/Debian-CN, LTS/Team, MemberBenefits, Mobile, PaulWise/InterestingSoftware, qa.debian.org, ReleasePartyStretch/India/Hyderabad/MGIT, SystemBuildTools
- DebConf wiki pages: DebConf17/DebconfShirts
Issues
- Crashes in MoinMoin, aspell
- Missing sources in apt-offline (reported privately)
- Malformed data in ftp.d.o
- Debug symbols in perl
- Media playback in gstreamer
- Race condition in dehydrated
- Weird errors in translate-shell
Review
- Spam: reported several Debian bug reports and 359 Debian mailing list posts
- Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
- Debian screenshots:
- approved baresip, blender, caja-dropbox, cups, fastnetmon, firetools, fonts-firacode, freecad, gemrb-baldurs-gate-2, gjiten, gscan2pdf, kdevelop, ketm, liguidsoap, lordsawar, mdadm, minizinc-ide, mupdf, musique, nautilus-dropbox, pcsxr, projectl, quiterss, rafkill, redis-server, redshift-gtk, residualvm, sigil, sqlitebrowser, surf, trigger-rally, virtualbox, vis, vizigrep, vokoscreen, xinv3d, yarssr
- approved deletion of phototonic (Windows screenshot), pipebench (inappropriate background), autossh/gtk3-nocsd (not the package)
- rejected deletion of muon-discover (we do not remove old screenshots), apt (not a bug reporting site)
Administration
- Debian: fsck/reboot a buildd, reboot a segfaulting buildd, report/fix broken hoster contact, ping hoster about down machines, forcibly reset backup machine, merged cache patch for network-test.d.o, do some samhain dances, fix two stunnel services, update an IP address in LDAP, fix /etc/aliases on one host, reboot 1 non-responsive VM
- Debian mentors: security updates, reboot
- Debian wiki: whitelist several email addresses
- Debian build log scanner: deploy my changes
- Debian PTS: deploy my changes
- Openmoko: security updates & reboots
Communication
- Ping Advogato users on Planet Debian about updating/removing their feeds since it shut down
- Invite deepin to the Debian derivatives census
- Welcome Deepin to the Debian derivatives census
- Inquire about the status of GreenboneOS, HandyLinux
Sponsors
All work was done on a volunteer basis.
I've moved my advogato blog to ikiwiki and integrated it into my website. So far things are working out well. To migrate my website from bamboo to ikiwiki, I had to write a couple of plugins to implement features of bamboo. The first simply creates id tags for headers based on the text. The second converts site-relative links to page-relative links so you can put an ikiwiki in a subdir of a site.
deekayen: April fools day - and planet KDE has done likewise.
Hmmm, my advogato account seems to have been dropped, losing all my certs. Interestingly the diary entries were not lost.
pfremy:
Tried request tracker?
Here is a site that's been up and used for a while: http://rt.indymedia.org/
hypatia:
Try the following css too (works for css 2.1 browsers, and mozilla, falls back to <p> styles for non Mozilla/CSS2.1 browsers):
pre { white-space: normal; }
pre { white-space: -moz-pre-wrap; }
pre { white-space: pre-wrap; }
braden:
try adding the 'shortname=mixed' to the mount options in /etc/fstab
Finally got meself an account after lurking here for years.
On the free software side of things I just (not 30 min ago) released a minor update to chmspec. Yeah, I know it's GFDL & there are non-freeness issues with that particular licence, but as far as I know there are no proper alternatives as yet.