Changes

• myrepos: mention gitbatch
• Linux manual pages: document core dump handler change, add contributing guidelines
• purple-discord: cleanups
• check-all-the-things: ldd ELF checks, perlcritic verbosity levels, TODO items
• how-can-i-help: add option to hide far future autoremovals, cleanups (1 2 3 4 5)
• devscripts: chdist: allow putting the dist first
• lintian: update link
• Debian Planets: add PakOS, Freedombone and GauSSIan, Lotos, Devuan logos
• Debian screenshots: deleted higan (proprietary games), pasystray (manual page)
• Debian puppet: setup for website language cookies (1 2 3 4)
• Debian website: add language override support (1 2), update BTS tags, links (1 2 3 4)
• Debian package uploads: uhubctl, purple-discord (1 2), libgoogle-protocolbuffers-perl
• Debian wiki pages: accessibility, Apt, ArmEabiPort, AutomaticDebugPackages, CDDVDTools, DebianDay/2019 (Bolivia/SantaCruz, Brazil (Belem, SaoPaulo), Slovakia/Bratislava), DebianInstaller/UMLInstall, DebianLocations, DeveloperNews (1 2), Game, Hardware/Wanted, PackageManagement, Packaging, Ports/ia64, PortTemplate, Presentations/French, Proposals/RemoveBashFromEssential, Repacking (1 2), reportbug, Sh, skype, StaticLinking, Teams (Cinnamon, DebianSocial (1 2)), UserModeLinux (1 2), Wayland
• FOSSjobs wiki pages: resources

Issues

• Crashes in mesa nouveau (reported on IRC)
• Features in apt (1 2), onionshare (1 2), procps, gobby
• Pointer issues in purple-discord
• Underlinking in pmix, openimageio, haveged, guichan (1 2)
• Missing dependencies in Debian live-task-recommended, devscripts
• Escaping in formiko
• Minor issues in purple-discord (1 2 3 4)

Review

• Spam: reported 1 LWN comments, 2 Debian bug reports and 206 Debian mailing list posts
• Patches: reviewed & merged myrepos patch
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved acetoneiso arc-theme epiphany-browser fet fonts-inter gimp gimp-data-extras gthumb midori netmate network-manager-gnome pasystray prboom-plus profanity psensor rocksndiamonds sane-utils smenu solaar vizigrep welle.io xfce4-notifyd xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin xfce4-settings xmix xsane xsensors
  • rejected ca-certificates (logo), xsane/sane-utils/smplayer/pasystray/xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin (other packages), higan/qemu-system-ppc (proprietary software running),
  • approved deletion of socket (web page), arc-theme (other themes)
  • rejected deletion of onboard/volumeicon-alsa/phpbb3/gnome-blog (spam)

Administration

• Debian: restart dead stunnels
• Debian wiki: unblacklist IP addresses, whitelist email addresses, whitelist email domains

Communication

• Edited and sent Misc Developer News #49
• Invited Freedombone to the Debian derivatives census
• Welcomed Freedombone, PakOS to the Debian derivatives census
• Respond to queries from Debian users and developers on the mailing lists and IRC

Sponsors

The purple-discord, libgoogle-protocolbuffers-perl work was sponsored by my employer. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.

Changes

• check-all-the-things: add command verbosity levels (1 2 3), fix URL, whitespace, TODO item (for BatCodeCheck)
• corekeeper: typos
• apt-xapian-index: Python 3 (1 2 3 4), cleanup (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11), release
• spelling dictionaries: codespell, lintian
• Debian screenshots: delete silan screenshot (manual page)
• Debian derivatives census: check for bad labels, typo, fix crashes (1 2)
• Debian puppet: add missing Apache proxy bits (1 2)
• Debian security tracker: update testing security suite name
• Debian QA services: update testing security suite name
• Debian PTS: update testing security suite name
• Debian wiki: add oldoldstable to codenames, better code for Debian macros, use apt CDN, shellcheck fix
• Debian website: add money to donation help, fix buster install manual HTML links, fix stretch other images links, mention how organisations can help
• Debian debtags: tag librecaptcha
• Debian package uploads: purple-discord, librecaptcha, harmony, foxtrotgps, apt-xapian-index
• Debian wiki pages: AntiHarassment, AptCacherNg, Backports, DebConf/19/Organizers, DebianArt/Themes, DebianDesktop/Artwork (Bullseye), DebianEvents (Asia, de/2019/MiniDebConfHamburg), DebianHosting (1, 2), DebianKernel/GitBisect (1, 2), DebianLocations, DebianMentorsFaq, DebianOldStable, DebianReleases (PointReleases), DebianRepository/UseThirdParty, DebianStable, DebianTesting, Derivatives (Census (Devuan, Lotos, QA, YunoHost), Meetings), DeveloperNews, EmbeddedCodeCopies, Fonts/Missing, FreedomBox/ProgressCalls/2018-06-09, git-pbuilder, InstallingDebianOn, iptables, IRC/DpkgBot, LocalGroups/DebianMuc/NextEvent, LowThresholdAdoption, MichaelDorrington, ReleaseParty (Bullseye, Buster (Foz do Iguaçu, Turkey/Izmir), SuiteTemplate), StableProposedUpdates, StableUpdates, StaticLinking, Statistics, Status (Stable, Testing), SuitesAndReposExtension, Teams (DebConf/Video/Subtitles/debconf15, DebianCD/ReleaseTesting, Dpkg/FAQ, ReleaseTeam/ReleaseCheckList (BusterCheckList)), Welcome/Users
• Software Heritage wiki pages: Suggestion box: source code to add
• FOSSjobs wiki pages: resources

Issues

• Features in lintian (1 2 3 4 5), File::LibMagic, needrestart, SourceForge
• Regression in unattended-upgrades
• Debian Policy violation in conserver
• Relicensing needed in conserver
• Incorrect architecture in gnome-boxes
• Incorrect alignment in ncdu
• Outdated suite name in tracker.debian.org, apt-offline, madison-lite, wajig, harden-doc, debian-handbook
• Obsolete conffiles in passwd, fwupd
• Minor issues in shellcheck

Review

• Spam: reported 1 Debian bug reports and 190 Debian mailing list posts
• Patches: check-all-the-things patch
• Bug triage for: apt-xapian-index
• Debian packages: sponsored tudu
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved ansilove brewtarget debian-goodies doc-base emacs-lucid fte-terminal gedit geotranz gimp gimp-help-en gimp-help-ru gimp-lensfun gthumb jed kitty krfb neofetch onboard parlatype parley qasconfig qashctl qasmixer qjackctle qmmp reportbug rexima rosegarden sbcl silan sonic sonic-visualiser spek sweep tcm tipp10 usbutils usermode
  • rejected openjdk-11-jdk/s-nail (logo), kephra (not Debian/Ubuntu), gimp-help-en/gimp-help-ru/rexima/sonic/ssocr/sound-theme-freedesktop/sound-icons/ca-certificates (other UI), usbview (not useful)
  • approved deletion of verilator (homepage), gnome-shell (heavily customised)
  • rejected deletion of gkamus (spam reason)

Administration

• apt-xapian-index: migrated repo to Salsa, merged some branches and patches
• Debian: redirect user support request, answer porterbox access query,
• Debian wiki: ping team member, re-enable accounts, unblock IP addresses, whitelist domains, whitelist email addresses, send unsubscribe info, redirect support requests
• Debian QA services: deploy changes
• Debian PTS: deploy changes
• Debian derivatives census: disable cron job due to design flaws

Communication

• Initiate discussions about BSDish licenses without explicit modification permission
• Invite GauSSian, Lotos to the Debian derivatives census
• Welcome Devuan, GauSSian, OS Lotos to the Debian derivatives census
• Respond to queries from Debian users and developers on the mailing lists and IRC

Sponsors

The File::LibMagic, purple-discord, librecaptcha & harmony work was sponsored by my employer. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.

Changes

• ddccontrol-db: DDC data for LG Flatron W2242PM monitor (waiting on admin approval)
• todo.sr.ht: fix email signatures
• whowatch: use Markdown in README, add related tools/services
• how-can-i-help: use dpkg-query and add no-download, no-installed-packages options.
• check-all-the-things: TODO items
• spelling dictionaries: codespell, lintian
• Debian QA services: drop obsolete link
• Debian package tracker: expose action item types
• Debian puppet: redirect Debian memberships page
• Debian website: link to additional consultants lists, hide link to broken service
• Debian wiki pages: Amokwabinaenyame, DebianEdu/Documentation/Presentations, DebianEdu/Help/ProfessionalHelp, DebianLogo, Design, DeveloperNews, HowToGetABacktrace, InstallingDebianOn, IRC, LocalGroups/DebianMuc, Mobile, PbuilderTricks, plymouth, ReleasePartyBuster (Israel/Haifa, Mexico/CDMX, UK/Cambridge), Screensaver, Statistics, SystemBuildTools, Teams (DebianJr, Publicity (Identica, micronews (1 2))), Wayland
• FOSSjobs: resources

Issues

• Features in liferea, bash-completion, linux, python-debian
• Correctness in liferea
• Wayland issues in gddccontrol

Review

• Spam: reported 168 Debian mailing list posts
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved abiword aconnectgui alacarte alsa-utils ams apitrace-gui aptitude audacity beneath-a-steel-sky dochelp doublecmd-help-en doublecmd-help-ru epiphany-browser eterm etherape feh florence gbemol gimp gkrellm gnome-calculator gnome-weather gnumeric gthumb gwenview html2ps hydra-gtk imview inkscape jigdo-file k3b kterm laborejo leafpad libatasmart-bin libraw19 libreoffice-calc lmms nano netrik nomacs opendict peek phpmyadmin qalculate-gtk safeeyes system-config-printer system-config-printer-udev thunar-volman ubuntustudio-controls util-linux vbetool wireshark-gtk x11-apps xfce4-battery-plugin xfce4-diskperf-plugin xfce4-fsguard-plugin xfce4-netload-plugin xfce4-power-manager xfce4-session xfce4-smartbookmark-plugin xfce4-taskmanager xhtml2ps
  • rejected godot3 (not Debian/Ubuntu), wireshark-gtk (documentation), wireshark-gtk/debconf/libreoffice-calc/audacity (unrelated UI)
  • approved deletion of chromium (not Debian/Ubuntu)
  • rejected deletion of paraview (support request), reportbug (nonsense reason), mesa-utils (jibberish reason), gnome-blog/gkamus/phpbb3/amarok (spam)

Administration

• Debian: investigate/fix gitlab issue, break LDAP sync lock
• Debian wiki: fix bugs in anti-spam script, whitelist email domains, whitelist email addresses, update email for accounts with bouncing email

Communication

• Initiate discussions about the future of the Debian Party Line, guidelines for Debian social media presences
• Invite MathLibre, Volumeio to the Debian derivatives census
• Respond to queries from Debian users and developers on the mailing lists and IRC

Sponsors

All work was done on a volunteer basis.

Changes

• Linux kernel: fix core dump argument splitting (accepted into -mm)
• corekeeper: update VCS info, fix correctness issues (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8), cleanup, release
• libemail-date-perl: resign
• devscripts: improve config file loading
• spelling dictionaries: codespell (1 2 3 4 5), lintian (1 2 3 4 5 6 7)
• Debian Planets: update Aptosid, CoreBiz logos
• Debian derivatives census: atomic overwrites (1 2 3 4), avoid full tmpfs
• Debian package tracking system: allow disabling oldstable (1 2)
• Debian QA services: automatically fix usertags
• Debian puppet: get package list
• Debian meta-packages: census atomic overwrites
• Debian website: support improvements (1 2), drop ARM links (1 2)
• Debian package uploads: corekeeper (1 2), leptonlib, tesseract-lang, tesseract, sysstat
• Debian wiki pages: accessibility-devel, AptPreferences, BuilddSetup, DebianDotNet, DebianTesting, Derivatives (Meetings, Census (QA, AlienVault-OSSIM, Aptosid, BlackWeb, CoreBiz, LMDE)), DeveloperNews (1 2 3), DualBoot (Windows), HowToGetABacktrace, InstallingDebianOn/OdroidHC1, IRC, KVM, LowThresholdAdoption, MemberBenefits, Mobile, PaulWise, PrivacyIssues, Salsa/FAQ, SimpleBackportCreation, StableUpdates, Teams (KeyringMaint, ReleaseTeam/ReleaseCheckList/BusterCheckList), ThisWeekInDebian, Welcome
• FOSSjobs wiki pages: resources

Issues

• Feature removal in doc-base
• Features in python-atomicfile, doc-base, u-boot, ufw, tracker.debian.org
• New versions of python-atomicfile
• Updates needed for corekeeper (1 2)
• Usability issues in user-mode-linux, openssh
• Change of upstream needed for dstat
• Broken links in man.sr.ht
• Typos in man.sr.ht

Review

• Spam: reported 1 tor trac comment, 1 Debian bug reports and 250 Debian mailing list posts
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved aaphoto accerciser alacarte amide aptitude apt-listbugs arora autopsy base-files bashburn bash-completion bastet bittwist bleachbit blueman boomaga boot-info-script bootlogd bustle bustle-pcap butteraugli cairo-dock-xgamma-plug-in catfish cbm chafa chaosreader childsplay chromium clonezilla configure-debian converseen crispy-doom daemonfs darktable dcraw ddnet deb-gview debian-goodies debian-handbook debian-reference delaboratory dhcpoptinj dillo dino-im discover displaycal dnstop e2fsck-static eog epiphany-browser exactimage exfat-fuse exfat-utils exif exifprobe exiftags exiftran exiv2 falkon file-roller firefox font-manager fotoxx fracplanet geeqie gimp gimp-ufraw gitlab gkdebconf glade gnome-boxes gnome-builder gnome-maps gnome-multi-writer gnome-pie goldendict gpa gpicview gthumb gtk3-nocsd gtkorphan gucharmap gufw gui-apt-key guymager gwenview handbrake helpman how-can-i-help hv3 icewm imagemagick imagemagick-6.q16 initramfs-tools ink keytouch-editor klavaro konqueror krita links2 littel lottanzb lshw-gtk luakit lynis menulibre midori mirage mousepad mtink mtpaint needrestart needrestart-session netsurf-gtk ntfs-config nut-monitor octave olive-editor partitionmanager pdfarranger peek pondus pyspread qutebrowser rkhunter shotwell solaar sylpheed system-config-printer tea texlive-base ufraw usbmount usbview v4l2ucp viewnior vifm viking vlc wireshark xfce4-appfinder xfce4-cpufreq-plugin xfce4-cpugraph-plugin xfce4-datetime-plugin xfce4-diskperf-plugin xfce4-screenshooter xfce4-sensors-plugin xfce4-session xfce4-weather-plugin xsane xzgv
  • rejected exfat-utils/exfat-fuse/dcraw/mtink/solaar/links2/epiphany-browser/xfce4-cpufreq-plugin/xfce4-weather-plugin (unrelated UI), gniall/gnome-pie/blueman (about dialog), genius/p7zip-full/bup/dnsmasq/dnscrypt-proxy/usbguard (help output), cutter/xfce4-appfinder (wrong package), dnsmasq/dnscrypt-proxy (config file)
  • approved deletion of olive (wrong package)
  • rejected deletion of viewvc/gkamus/onboard/gnome-blog/viewvc (spam reason), lmemory/debconf/linkchecker (jibberish reason), angrydd (not a bug reporting site)

Administration

• Debian: answer SSH question, redirect LDAP change mail, fix some critical typos in LDAP, restart bacula after postgres restart
• Debian wiki: forward questions to page authors, answer wiki support questions, whitelist email domains, whitelist email addresses, ping folks with bouncing email addresses, disable accounts with bouncing email
• Debian package tracking system: deploy changes, configure automatic disabling of unused oldstable suites
• Debian derivatives census: restore corrupted file from backups, disable the code that corrupted the file, deploy changes

Communication

• Edit and release Misc Debian Developer News #48
• Initiate discussions about derivatives' OpenPGP keys, porting debian.org services to buster
• Welcome Achim Leitner from CoreBiz to the Debian derivatives census
• Respond to queries from Debian users and developers on the mailing lists and IRC

Sponsors

The leptonlib/tesseract-lang/tesseract/sysstat Debian uploads and the ufw feature request were sponsored by my employer. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.

Changes

• bortport: cleanup
• myrepos: mention silver-platter
• spelling dictionaries: codespell (1 2 3), lintian (1 2 3 4 5)
• Debian Planets: derivatives census updates (1 2 3 4 5 6)
• Debian derivatives census: delete merged branches, add Python lib, handle invalid changelogs, drop workarounds (1 2), whitespace, TODO updates (1 2), fix SVGs (1 2 3 4), add showing new logos
• Debian meta-packages: update census deps (1 2)
• Debian wiki pages: DebConf/19/Volunteer, Derivatives (Census (QA, Template, BlackWeb (1 2), Deepin, Donau, Elive, OLPC, ParrotSecurity, ProgressLinux, Q4OS, Qlustar, siduction, SolydXK, ttos, Ubuntu, VyOS, VyOS, Webconverger, Whonix (1 2), Zevenet, ZevenOS-Neptune), Integration), DeveloperNews, Fonts/Bugs/rfn-violation, LinuxTag/Discussion, PaulWise, Presentations, PrivacyIssues, SeasonOfDocs2019 (ProjectProposals/ProfileParser), SeasonOfDocs, Statistics, Teams (DPL (AskingForMoney, New)), Outreach (Policies))
• Software Heritage wiki pages: PaulWise, Suggestion box: source code to add
• FOSSjobs wiki pages: resources

Issues

• Crashes in librecaptcha, gnome-maps, liferea, speech-dispatcher
• Features in aptitude (1 2), lintian
• Expired certificate on dedected.org (reported privately)
• Usability issues in librecaptcha, firefox
• Obsolete things in incoming.d.o
• Release needed for dosfstools
• Various issues in bash
• Malformed changelogs in Ubuntu binutils and other Debian derivatives' packages
• Minor issues in command-not-found

Review

• Spam: reported 288 Debian mailing list posts
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved aaphoto adduser apt-listchanges arch-test atop bsdmainutils chromium cinnamon configure-debian conluding coreutils cpu-checker cpuid cpustat ctop daptup ddccontrol ddcutil deepin-calculator dmidecode dopewars e2fsprogs eiskaltdcpp-qt exa fonts-karla fonts-karmilla gaphor gparted grub-customizer gsmartctl gthumb hddtemp heaptrack-gui hollywood how-can-i-help idle-python3.5 installation-report irssi kazam klavaro kmod krita leafpad linkchecker-web lxlauncher massif-visualizer nautilus needrestart pekka-kana-2 photoflare pixfrogger rawtherapee ristretto simplescreenrecorder swisswatch sysinfo util-linux vlc xbomb xdemineur
  • rejected gnome-terminal/gnome-builder/libappmenu-gtk3-parser0 (not Debian), mpv/thunar (proprietary content), default-jdk (logo), leafpad (about dialog), heaptrack (help output), heaptrack-gui (duplicate)
  • rejected deletion of gkamus/sofa-apps/fonts-allerta/viewvc/gnome-blog (spam reason), lxde/fonts-f500/calf-plugins (nonsense reason), mpv (offensive reason)

Administration

• Debian: restart postgresql for cert update
• Debian mentors: workaround some issues
• Debian wiki: whitelist email domains, whitelist email addresses, reset email addresses

Communication

• Initiate discussions about various issues with several derivatives
• Invite Donau OS, BlackWeb to the Debian derivatives census
• Welcome Mentor Embedded Linux Omni OS, TTOS, BlackWeb to the Debian derivatives census
• Respond to queries from Debian users and developers on the mailing lists and IRC

Sponsors

The librecaptcha issues were sponsored by my employer. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.

Changes

• icns: https, copyright notice
• myrepos: typo
• spelling dictionaries: codespell (1 2 3 4 5 6 7), lintian (1 2 3 4 5 6 7)
• Debian derivatives census: explicitness, cleanup
• Debian package tracker: naming
• Debian LE: typo
• Debian wiki pages: ChrootOnAndroid, DebConf/20, DebianMedTodo, DebianUnstable, Derivatives/Census (QA, AlienVault-OSSIM, Aptosid), DesktopEnvironment, Diagrams, Glossary, i3, InstallingDebianOn (Cavium/ThunderXStation, Microsoft/Windows/SubsystemForLinux), LocalGroups, qa.debian.org, Teams/Dpkg/Spec/InstallBootstrap, Wayland
• Wikipedia: Message-ID

Issues

• Incorrectness in Ubuntu archive
• Template handling Linux
• Underlinking in libtheora0
• Broken symlinks in android-sdk
• Overprotection in apparmor-profiles-extra
• Missing info in chooseafoundation.com (1 2)

Review

• Spam: reported 233 Debian mailing list posts
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved a2ps amphetamine birdtray eom ewipe ffrenzy fonts-eurofurence fractgen gnat-gps gnome-control-center gnome-tweaks gnujump goodvibes gpa how-can-i-help jumpnbump launchy lemonldap-ng lsmount lugaru mate-applets mate-backgrounds nvtop pdfarranger screenfetch seahorse-adventures systemsettings tilix wings3d xscavenger
  • rejected coyim (logo), jumpnbump (another game), anfo/andi (help output), liblemonldap-ng-portal-perl (same as lemonldap-ng ones), gnome-tweaks/gnome-terminal (not Debian)
  • rejected deletion of xgalaga++/phpbb3/viewvc (spam reason), qbittorrent/setbfree/aptitude (nonsense reason), gnome-terminal (incorrect comment doesn't justify deletion)

Administration

• Debian wiki: update email addresses, whitelist email addresses, whitelist domains
• Debian security tracker: merge patches

Communication

• Initiate discussions about the status of ArcheOS, Canaima
• Invite Mentor Embedded Linux (Debian edition), AlienVault OSSIM to the Debian derivatives census
• Respond to queries from Debian users and developers on the mailing lists and IRC

Sponsors

All work was done on a volunteer basis.

Changes

• myrepos: more related software (1 2 3)
• mokomaze: fix SVGs (1 2), release, add tags for old releases
• devscripts: chdist: drop Dir::State::status
• spelling dictionaries: codespell (1 2 3 4), lintian (1 2 3 4)
• Debian QA services: fix grep-excuses regression, popcon-data script
• Debian derivatives census: faster YAML, patches directory importer
• Debian package tracker: reintroducing packages links, indentation
• Debian website: mention debian-consultants
• Debian screenshots: removed prayer (manual page)
• Debian package uploads: mokomaze, purple-discord
• Debian wiki pages: DebianEvents/fr, Derivatives/Census (QA, Template, ProgressLinux), LocalGroups/DebianMuc/NextMeeting, Mentoring, PaulWise (Bugs, InterestingSoftware), qa.debian.org, RaspberryPi(3), research/publications, Statistics, SystemBuildTools
• FOSSJobs wiki: resources

Issues

• Crashes in less, 0ad, dnssec-trigger
• https broken on screenshots.d.n (reported privately)
• I/O stalls in Linux lvmraid
• Warnings in kerneloops
• Incorrect descriptions in Saxon-HE
• Incorrect links in radare2-cutter, GNU fdisk website
• Underlinking in lvm2
• Removal needed for WWW::Topica (1 2 3)
• Hardcoding in apt-listchanges

Review

• Spam: reported 178 Debian mailing list posts
• Debian packages: reviewed pyfltk, clamav-unofficial-sigs and sponsored streamlink acr
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved berusky2 blastem blender budgie-desktop burp chromium-browser cytadela desktop-base dfcgen-gtk fai-client fasttracker2 fonts-b612 fonts-roadgeek gelemental glade gnurobbo gperiodic hplip-gui icecast2 imediff jigzo kic kuttypy-gui lazarus lmarbles openbox plank ponyprog prayer quaternion raincat rclone-browser sasm slowmovideo stterm telegram-desktop yabasic
  • rejected rtr-tools (upstream screenshot), mednaffe (running proprietary game), berusky2 (duplicate), addresses-goodies-for-gnustep (not GNUStep), pokemmo-installer (game not the installer)
  • approved deletion of nodejs (not a good quality screenshot), quaternion (worse quality duplicate)
  • approved deletion (despite bogus reason) of plasma-desktop (we don't remove old screenshots but it was Kanotix not Debian)
  • rejected deletion of gkamus/xgalaga++ (spam reason), dfcgen-gtk (we keep old versions), apache2 (nonsense reason)

Administration

• FoxtrotGPS: merged patches
• mokomaze: release
• Debian wiki: reset email addresses, whitelist email addresses

Communication

• Edited and sent Debian Misc Developer News edition 47
• Respond to queries from the Debian derivatives census Outreachy project intern
• Respond to queries from Debian users and developers on the mailing lists and IRC

Sponsors

The purple-discord upload and the apt-listchanges bug were sponsored by my employer. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.

Changes

• purple-discord: fix reproducibility, clean
• youtube-dl: fix libsyn.com support, ABC iView latest video support, Blogger support
• check-all-the-things: pngcheck supports JNG/MNG, --mime install check for magic module, file command
• spelling dictionaries:
  • codespell: addedd, genereic, idelogy, recommand(s), withouth, hypvervisor(s), expermiental, raspoberry, webiste, paritition, updatee(d/s), decidate(s), calloed, configuratoins, dammages, exmaples, lient(s),
  • lintian: addedd, genereic, idelogy, recommand(s), withouth, hypvervisor(s), expermiental, raspoberry, webiste, paritition(s/ing), updatee(d/s), decidate(d/s), asynchronious, calloed, configuratoins, dammages, exmaples, lient(s),
• Debian Planets: https
• Debian derivatives census: fix bugs (1 2), capture warnings
• Debian uscan multi-redirector: gitlab releases
• Debian meta-packages: fix metapackage name (1 2)
• Debian website: update merchandise (1 2), disable CD vendor, help services
• Debian security tracker: boost1.67 unicode-data embed
• Debian package uploads: purple-discord (1 2)
• Debian wiki pages: AutomaticDebugPackages, BSP, DebianDay, DebianLocations, DebianSingleSignOn, Derivatives/Census, (QA (1 2), Abalar, Armbian, BunsenLabs, hLinux, Huayra, NEMS_Linux, PrimTux, Septor), Glossary, gsoc, GSoC, Hardening/RepoAndImages, Hardware (Certification, ShippingWithDebian), Ideas, InstallingDebianOn/Cavium/ThunderXStation, KVM, LTS/Development, Merchandise (1 2), PaulWise/InterestingSoftware, PressCoverage2019, PressCoverage, PXEBootInstall, Services/gobby.debian.org, Sprints, SSDOptimization, SummerOfCode, SystemBuildTools, UpstreamGuide, Year

Issues

• Crashes in liferea
• Features in lvm2, procps, Firefox
• Usability issues in Tor Browser
• Upgrade crashes in unattended-upgrades
• Invalid certificates in SKS Keyservers HKPS pool (reported privately)
• Embedded copies in boost1.67
• Obsolete things in debian-keyring, spamassassin, tor, thinkfan
• Documentation vs behaviour issues in systemd, apt
• Conffile removal from privoxy, ebtables, libvirt-daemon-system
• Underlinking in mono
• New versions of sjfonts

Review

• Spam: reported 1 Debian bug reports and 196 Debian mailing list posts
• Patches: Debian derivatives census Outreachy project changes
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved aegisub apache2 aspell bambootracker boohu boxes codfis ddnet debian-security-support dolphin fdisk fonts-courier-prime gaupol gnome-mpv gnome-subtitles guvcview kde-full khelpcenter klines kmenuedit kollision konquest kreversi kshisen ksirk ksnakeduel ksquares kubrick less lix lskat milou minitube mle monitorix needrestart-session numix-icon-theme-circle olive package-update-indicator palapeli powerdevil pyacidobasic qwinff sidplayfp smplayer smtube step subdownloader subliminal subtitlecomposer sudoku tmux tutka vfu xjadeo
  • rejected mencoder/debian-security-support (manual page), oar-web-status/oar-user/oar-node/oar-server/git-secret (logo), tilix (scribble)
  • approved deletion of mp3info (not ncurses version)
  • rejected deletion of nano (non-English is fine, nano has mouse support so a pointer is not misleading), gkamus/viewvc (spam reason), bombardier (non-English reason), labplot (old versions are not removed), synaptic (nonsense reason)

Administration

• Debian: merge patch, install dependencies, fix LDAP server, answer keys question, check build hardware differences, remove references to dead systems
• Debian wiki: re-enable old account unblacklist IP addresses, whitelist email addresses, ping accounts with bouncing email, investigate password reset issue
• Debian derivatives census: rerun patch generation to fix broken files

Communication

• Initiate discussion about the status of hLinux
• Respond to queries from the Debian derivatives census Outreachy project intern
• Respond to queries from Debian users and developers on the mailing lists and IRC

Sponsors

The purple-discord work was sponsored by my employer. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.

Changes

• purple-discord: gitignore
• myrepos: link to v script
• spelling dictionaries:
  • codespell: algorithm variants, adaquate(ly), autors, incoropate(s), phyiscs, veresion(s), compatibile, cricital, descriptuve, dowload, possitives, distrubute(d), mashine(s)
  • lintian: alogirhtm, adaquate(ly), autor(s), incoropate(s), phyiscs, veresion(s), compatibile, cricital, descriptuve, dowload(s), possitive(s), distrubute(d), mashine(s)
• Debian Planets: update ThengOS logo (1 2), use RSS overrides for Meilix/Whonix/LMDE
• Debian security tracker: libfprint nbis embed, whitespace
• Debian package uploads: purple-discord (1 2)
• Debian wiki pages: AndroidTools/IntroBuildingApps, DebianCustomCD/MoveInstallerUdebs, DebianLocations, Derivatives/Census (QA, Elive (1 2), LMDE, Meilix, ThengOS, Whonix), FortunesDebianHints, Games/Sponsors, Glossary, HostingBSP, IRC/debian-meeting, Mentoring, Mentors, MIPSPort, OpenVPN, PaulWise/InterestingSoftware, SecureBoot/Testing, Services, Teams/Publicity/Release, Teams/ReleaseTeam/ReleaseCheckList/BusterCheckList, UnattendedUpgrades

Issues

• Crashes in vlc-plugin-bittorrent
• Hangs in nocache
• Upgrade failure in linux-perf
• Compile warnings in purple-discord (1 2)
• Underlinking in zvbi
• Features in lintian-brush, nocache (1 2)
• New versions of sed, grep

Review

• Spam: reported 2 LWN comments and 274 Debian mailing list posts
• Debian packages: sponsored open-ath9k-htc-firmware (1 2)
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved amarok amoeba bmon cheesecutter clementine cqrlog deepin-icon-theme filezilla fonts-allerta fonts-gamaliel fonts-paratype freedv galois geg ghostwriter gnome-recipes gnome-usage grig hddtemp juk kspaceduel kwrite lgeneral libcdio-utils lsscsi osmo pciutils plymouth-theme-hamara qrencode qtox usbutils wsjt xsysinfo
  • rejected thinkfan (help output), chrome-gnome-shell (wrong package)
  • rejected deletion of phpbb3/gnome-blog/gkamus/xgalaga++ (spam reason), olive (screenshots are versioned)

Administration

• Debian: answer query about LDAP signing
• Debian wiki: unblacklist IP addresses, fix login issue, whitelist email addresses

Communication

• Mentoring of Outreachy derivatives project

Sponsors

The purple-discord work was sponsored by my employer. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.

Changes

• devscripts: https
• spelling dictionaries:
  • codespell: apend variants, istalling, launck, realtion, substituation(s), condident(ial), executation, hyptothetical(ly), requiest(s/ed/ing), sofwtare, characte variants, creta(ed/es/ing), expierience(s), ocorrence(s), workarrounds, (mis/un/re/pre)configed, (un/non-)corelate(d/s), (of/re(s))cource(s), creatre(d), disctionar(y/ies), expendeble, hapen variants, mechines, regenarated, secruity, singnal(led), snapsnot(s), syntetize(d), (build-)dependanc(y/ies), etherenet, matainer(s), meny, preceed, pyrhon, resart(s), retsart(s), stivk(s), trasfers, anothe, blanace, boomark(s), cofidence, foppys, gard, implemend(s), maitain(ed), pyhon, safeing, seporate, strinsg, translatied, updateded, uptim, vender(s), verisoned
  • lintian: apend variants, istalling, launck, realtion, substituation(s), condident(ial), executation, hyptothetical(ly), requiest(s/ed/ing), sofwtare, characte variants, creta(e(d/s)/ing), expierience(s), ocorrence(s), reseved, workarrounds, (mis/un/re/pre)configed, (un/non-)corelate(d/s), (of/re(s))cource(s), creatre(d), disctionar(y/ies), expendeble, (de/re)genarated, hapen variants, mechine(s), secruity, singnal(s/led), snapsnot(s), syntetize(d), seams like, absolutly, (build-/in)dependanc(e/y/ies), etherenet, matainer(s), meny, prefectly, pyrhon, resart(s), retsart(s), standarts, stivk(s), therefor, trasfer(s), acces, anothe, blanace, boomark(s), cofidence, foppys, gard, implemend(s), inconsistancy, maitain(ed), neede, pyhon, safeing, seporate, somtimes, strinsg, translatied, updateded, uptim, vender(s), verisoned
• Debian Planets: add Anastasia Tsikoza (1 2)
• Debian derivatives census: typo, correctness, make tips, make fixes, apache fixes, optimisation, symlink fix
• Debian website: typo, PayPal non-JS option, help local groups, link, https, irssi
• Debian package uploads: purple-discord, myrepos
• Debian wiki pages: AnatolyPugachev, DebConf/20/Bids/India/Plans, DebianRepository, DeveloperNews, eLTS, Flash, FlashPlayer, Hardware/Wanted, Mentoring, Outreachy, Ports/ia64, ppc64el/GetToWorkOnFTBFS, PrintingGlossaryandIndex, sbuild, ServicesHosting, SystemBuildTools, Teams/pkg-security, UltimateDebianDatabase, UpstreamGuide, UsrMerge, WhyTheName
• fossjobs.net wiki: resources

Issues

• Conffile removal in xul-ext-noscript, initscripts
• Features in how-can-i-help, https-everywhere, lintian, uhubctl, sr.ht (account deleted, these got deleted too), uppity, reproducible builds
• Build issues in uhubctl
• Apparmor denials in clamav-daemon, torbrowser-launcher
• Warnings in speech-dispatcher, qa.d.o (vcsstats, carnivore), buildd.d.o
• Dependency issues in torbrowser-launcher, libmtp9
• Truncation issues in whowatch (1 2)
• Shell completion issues in systemd
• Obsolete files in ntfs-3g, libsane-common, libmtp-common
• Usability issues in webext-debianbuttons (1 2)
• Layout issues in marble
• Underlinking in libccrtp
• http in uhubctl
• Typos in uhubctl

Review

• Spam: reported 4 LWN comments, 1 Debian bug reports and 205 Debian mailing list posts
• Debian packages: sponsored mwic
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved chkboot diceware diffutils gitlab gnumail.app gobby gvidm peek plm pulseview sidplayfp tetradraw trackballs visualboyadvance wmfrog xscreensaver-screensaver-bsod xul-ext-pwdhash
  • rejected logwatch (config file), diffutils (documentation)
  • rejected deletion of gkamus (a greeting is not a reason), tuxeyes/youtube-dl (non-English reason), gnome-mahjongg (nonsense reason)

Administration

• myrepos: respond to some tickets
• Debian: respond to porterbox schroot query, remove obsolete role accounts, restart misbehaving webserver, redirect openmainframe mail to debian-s390, respond to query about consequences of closing accounts
• Debian wiki: unblacklist networks, redirect/answer user support query, answer question about page names, whitelist email addresses
• Debian packages site: update mirror config
• Debian derivatives census: merge and deploy changes from Outreachy applicants and others

Sponsors

The purple-discord upload was sponsored by my employer. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.