Focus

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

Changes

• duck: add phrases indicating moved and inactive projects
• lintian: bump tag severity
• apt-listchanges: add missing import
• spelling dictionaries: codespell, lintian (1 2)
• Debian website: revert vertical space introduction
• Debian wiki service: update URL
• Debian screenshots: remove wxglade (Windows)
• Debian package uploads: ddccontrol
• Debian wiki pages: ath9k_htc/open_firmware, BCMHybridBTFirmware (1 2), BSP/2020/12/cn/Beijing, CategoryNotNative, DebianInstall, Derivatives/Census/Zevenet, FreedomBox/Manual/SecureShell, LowThresholdAdoption, LowThresholdNmu, MemberBenefits, Mobile, PortTemplate, QemuUserEmulation, RISC-V, Teams/DebianProFTPD, Teams/Dpkg/Spec/BundledBuildinfo, UpstreamGuide, Wine, XTaran/DistUpgradeWorkFlow
• FOSSjobs wiki pages: Resources
• open-ath9k-htc-firmware wiki pages: Troubleshooting-and-bug-reporting

Issues

• Crashes in gnome-shell-extension-hamster, libvdpau-va-gl
• Invasive signup process on SourceForge
• Missing upstream in webext-umatrix
• Features in lintian (1 2), webext-debianbuttons, cruft-ng, gparted, reportbug
• Regressions in evolution (1 2 3)
• Conffile handling in speech-dispatcher
• Misuse of /var in smartmontools
• Broken symlinks in gtk-doc-tools, plymouth-themes
• Cruft in qemu-user-static
• Typos in qml-module-org-kde-prison, libuhd4.0.0-dpdk-tests
• Broken apt sources in mariadb-10.5
• Code copies in ThermalMonitor
• New release needed for ddccontrol

Review

• Spam: reported 1 Debian bug reports and 144 Debian mailing list posts
• Debian packages: sponsored opentype-sanitiser, gtranscribe, open-ath9k-htc-firmware
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved fonts-jetbrains-mono geda-gschem gnome-maps gnome-shell-extension-dashtodock gnome-todo paper-icon-theme plan remmina sayonara sway wxglade
  • rejected ghostscript (wrong package), emacs-goodies-el (unrelated web browser), csv2latex (help output, bad quality), dwarf-fortress (non-free)
  • approved deletion of sdcc (another package)
  • rejected deletion of hashcat/olive-editor (spam)

Administration

• Debian: restart bacula director, ping some people about disk usage
• Debian wiki: unblock IP addresses, approve accounts, update email for accounts with bouncing email

Communication

• Respond to queries from Debian users and contributors on the mailing lists and IRC

Sponsors

All work was done on a volunteer basis.

Focus

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

Changes

• visdom: fix license metadata
• webdl: ABC iView livestream support
• check-all-the-things: update AFL dep
• duck: more redirect/deletion phrases (1 2)
• devscripts: typo
• spelling dictionaries: codespell (1 2), lintian (1 2)
• Debian QA services: more usertags fixing (1 2 3)
• Debian package uploads: apt-listchanges read-edid
• Debian screenshots: removed wsjtx (Windows screenshot)
• Debian usertags: fix some more typos and mistakes
• Debian wiki pages: ConfigPackages, DebianBookworm, DebianEvents/internet/2020/MiniDebConfOnline2/DebCamp, DebianKernel/GitBisect, DebianMentorsFaq, DebianTrixie, Derivatives/CensusTemplate, Glossary, Lintian (Spec/LintianHarness, Tags (build-depends-on-python-dev-with-no-arch-any, Contributing, DB, Template, test)), Mobile, PulseAudio, qa.debian.org, Sahil%20Dhiman, Teams/ReleaseTeam/ReleaseCheckList, timeshift, TroubleShooting, VMware
• FOSSjobs wiki pages: resources

Issues

• Crashes in lintian-brush, evince
• Non-distributable files in nmslib
• Silent failure in tweeper
• Usability issues in systemd
• Features in dctrl-tools, lintian, gedit translate plugin
• New versions of youtube-dl
• Incorrect case conversion in webext-debianbuttons
• Missing documentation in synaptic, samba
• Syntax error in yubico-piv-tool
• Warnings in samba-common-bin
• Packaging needed for darkreader

Review

• Spam: reported 175 Debian mailing list posts
• Debian packages: sponsored acr
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved 2048 apparmor-notify apt-listdifferences apt-show-versions cataclysm-dda-curses ckb-next el-ixir growlight lazpaint-gtk2 lazpaint-qt5 nethack-console notcurses-bin pcsx2 performous-composer piu-piu projecteur puzzle-jigsaw ricochet setzer shotcut shotwell systray-mdstat tagainijisho tikzit vonsh wesnoth-1.14 wsjtx xsecurelock xserver-xorg-core
  • rejected mathgl (macOS), fceux (running proprietary game), photoflow (proprietary and problematic image), xserver-xorg-core (another package), xfce4-terminal (another XFCE package)
  • approved deletion of rpcbind (manual page)
  • rejected deletion of notcurses-bin (screenshots are versioned), gnome (Chromium is open source, the logo could be either), hashcat/onboard/knavalbattle/jack-keyboard/kcharselect (spam)

Administration

• Debian wiki: disable attachments due to security issue, approve accounts

Communication

• Respond to queries from Debian users and contributors on the mailing lists and IRC

Sponsors

The visdom, apt-listchanges work and lintian-brush bug report were sponsored by my employer. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.

Focus

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

Changes

• libicns: add 64x64 PNG support, fixup
• repology-webapp: mention alternatives
• git-imerge: fix makefile, https, sync description, mention alternatives
• foxtrotgps: bump max zoom to 20
• spelling dictionaries: codespell, lintian
• Debian package tracker: add Repology link
• Debian package uploads: pytest-rerunfailures (1 2), morfessor (1 2 3), pyemd (1 2), git-imerge (1 2 3), libforms (1 2)
• Debian wiki pages: CrossGrading, DebianDesktop/Artwork/Bullseye, DebianEvents/internet/2020/MiniDebConfOnline2/orga (1 2 3), DebianMentorsFaq, DebianRepository/Setup, Derivatives/Census (Bloss, DANOS, Purism (1 2)), DeveloperNews (1 2 3), EmbeddedCopies, LVM, ManualPage, MemberBenefits, Mentoring, Python/GitPackaging, RepairEDID, Statistics, tasksel
• FOSSjobs wiki pages: resources

Issues

• Crashes in hexedit, gnome-shell-timer
• Dependency issue in dh-python
• TLS breakage in purple-discord/NSS
• Features in api.ftp-master.debian.org, purple-discord, distro-info, lintian
• Embedded copies in rust-webpki-roots
• Broken apt sources in mmdebstrap, neurodebian, opendnssec, openstack-debian-images, openstack-tempest-ci, sbuild, shadowsocks-libev, xen-tools
• Conffile removal needed in metacity-common
• Misclassification in coreutils df
• User interface issues in bugs.debian.org
• Warnings in openjdk-11-jre-headless, gourmet

Review

• Spam: reported 2 Debian bug reports and 147 Debian mailing list posts
• Patches: merged libicns patches
• Debian packages: sponsored iotop-c
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved asciinema bleachbit bpytop braillefont engrampa epiphany-browser flam3 games-console gdebi gedit-plugin-terminal gtkam gtkam-gimp kate knocker krusader nvme-cli pagemon pinta termtris tio xfce4-terminal
  • rejected nautilus-extension-gnome-terminal (gnome-software page), ddgr (web browser), fbless (help output), asciiart/googler (proprietary image), vim-conque (macOS), ncurses-term (package itself has no UI), kxterm/xvt/microcom (logo), aha (htop not aha), clipit (about dialog), lxde (leafpad, not all of LXDE)
  • approved deletion of dmz-cursor-theme (no cursors displayed
  • rejected deletion of usemod-wiki (homophobic), tuxpaint (not the place for bugs reports), kcharselect/hashcat/jack-keyboard/knavalbattle (spam)

Administration

• Debian: get us removed from an RBL
• Debian wiki: reset email addresses, approve accounts

Communication

• Sent Debian Misc Developer News (#53)
• Respond to queries from Debian users and contributors on the mailing lists and IRC

Sponsors

The pytest-rerunfailures/pyemd/morfessor work was sponsored by my employer. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.

Focus

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

Changes

• myrepos: link to multi-git-status
• pytest-rerunfailures: relax dep version, typos, rst syntax, https, yaml syntax
• morfessor: metadata fixes
• nmslib: URL, license
• gensim: relax dep version
• Debian portfolio: link to Debian Janitor service (sent privately)
• Debian QA services: link to Debian Janitor service
• Debian mirror list: remove ftp.utexas.edu
• Debian package uploads: python-preshed
• Debian wiki pages: CopyrightReviewTools, DebianEdu/Documentation/Bullseye/Installation, DebianEvents/internet/2020/MiniDebConfOnline2/orga (1 2), DebianLocations, de/CopyrightReviewTools, DellServerManagement, Derivatives/Census/Auxtral, DeveloperNews (1 2), DontBreakDebian, Games/Suggested, InstallingDebianOn/PINE64/ROCK64, Keysigning/Need, LocalGroups, LudovicRousseau, MemberBenefits, Po4a, PrivacyIssues, qa.debian.org, StaticLinking, Statistics, Teams/Welcome/BrainStorming
• FOSSjobs wiki pages: resources

Issues

• Crashes in gnome-shell-extension-log-out-button, gnome-shell-extension-show-ip, geeqie, webdl (sent privately), webkit2gtk
• Broken apt sources in calamares-settings-debian, apt, cloud-init, debian-edu-config, debian-lan-config, debirf, docker.io, dpmb, fai-doc, golang-pault-go-archive, lxc-templates, mariadb-10.3, marionnet, mercurial
• Broken symlink in ansible
• Broken feeds in ooni.org
• Python 3 support needed in git-remote-hg
• Features in Hefur
• New versions of libtorrent-rasterbar, restic
• Website outdated for morfessor
• Dependency issues in libintellij-annotations-java
• Code copies in cython-blis
• License change needed in visdom
• Incorrect homepage in thermald
• Conffile removal needed in tracker
• Git tag issue in gensim
• Intent to package morfessor, nmslib, pyemd, pytest-rerunfailures, gensim

Review

• Spam: reported 1 Debian bug reports and 179 Debian mailing list posts
• Debian packages: sponsored iotop-c
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved dde-calendar deja-dup dstat eventstat facter fbset forkstat friendly-recovery galternatives goodvibes grub2-splashimages grub-splashimages gtimelog hdparm health-check hostname info2www iotop-c iselect jack-keyboard jerry xmaxima
  • rejected grub2-splashimages (not useful screenshot), cockpit-system (menacing cartoon character), gpsbabel (help output), openscenegraph (no UI shown, content of unknown license), tesseract-ocr-ara (random Android app), libkdepimdbusinterfaces5 (unrelated logo)
  • approved deletion of vidalia (unrelated screenshot), bochs-wx (screenshot of wrong package)
  • rejected deletion of xfce4 (boilerplate reason), qtcreator (screenshots are versioned), gnome-icon-theme-blankon (incomprehensible), hashcat/kcharselect/phpbb3/xbubble/youtube-dl/jack-keyboard (spam)

Administration

• Debian wiki: unblock IP addresses, approve accounts

Communication

• Attempt to initiate discussion about packages broken by the bullseye transition from /updates to -security
• Respond to queries from Debian users and developers on the mailing lists and IRC

Sponsors

The gensim, cython-blis, python-preshed, pytest-rerunfailures, morfessor, nmslib, visdom and pyemd work was sponsored by my employer. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.

Focus

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

Changes

• myrepos: prevent failure from mr status in bzr repos
• foxtrotgps: bzr option typo
• hexchat: hide focus channel menu item when already focussed
• Debian package uploads: foxtrotgps, smart-open, python-importlib-metadata, python-pyfakefs, python-zipp, python-threadpoolctl
• Debian wiki pages: ContributionCertificate, DebianEdu/Documentation/Manuals/Audacity/Setup, DebianUnstable, Digital_Cameras/NikonCamera, Firmware/Open, FreedomboxIntroduction, Hardware, NickBlack, PaulWise/Standards, PrivacyIssues, Statistics
• FOSSjobs wiki pages: resources

Issues

• Crashes in gtk-vector-screenshot, gtranscribe (1 2)
• Start failure in rasdaemon
• CVS to git conversion needed for Mancala (sent privately)
• Obsolete conffile removal needed for speech-dispatcher
• Hosting location decision required for apt-repos
• Incorrect homepage in libforms
• Incorrect description for whipper
• Parallel builds needed in cython-blis
• Features in lintian, apt-file
• New versions of thinc, preshed, libforms
• Incorrect paths in theano
• Typo in dpkg (sent on IRC)
• Missing APT_CONFIG usage in apt-repos

Review

• Spam: reported 231 Debian mailing list posts
• Debian packages: sponsored iotop-c gtranscribe
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved abcde antimony cava cd-discid celluloid crazydiskinfo drawing dwww elektroid epiphany-browser evolution firefox-esr gaphor gl-117 gnome-2048 gnome-maps gnome-shell-extension-dashtodock gnome-shell-extension-dash-to-panel gnome-usage gparted iotop-c ipv6toolkit kdenlive kernelshark lazarus libreoffice-writer lollypop lxqt mpv nemo phosh quodlibet superkb supertux telegram-desktop tootle topplot unity-control-center vim-athena zim
  • approved deletion of opencc (screenshot of the github repo), telegram-desktop (low quality)
  • rejected deletion of mumble (screenshots are versioned), audacious (keyboard mash), apache2/hashcat/onboard/jack-keyboard/kcharselect/inxi (spam reason)

Administration

• Debian: restarted RAM eating service
• Debian wiki: unblock IP addresses, approve accounts

Sponsors

The cython-blis/preshed/thinc/theano bugs and smart-open/python-importlib-metadata/python-pyfakefs/python-zipp/python-threadpoolctl backports were sponsored by my employer. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.

Focus

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

Changes

• purple-discord: cleanups (1 2)
• psqlodbc: fix test build failure
• ifenslave fix variable lookup, cleanups (1 2 3 4 5 6 7)
• dak: cleanup
• dh-make: typo (1 2)
• Debian QA services: fix lintian link
• Debian BTS usertags: correct some incorrectly named users
• Debian usertags QA: fix argument order, correct more error classes
• Debian package uploads: ifenslave, java-gnome, purple-discord
• Debian wiki pages: ath9k_htc/open_firmware, AtiHowTo, DebConf/20/Tshirts, DebianEdu/GetACopy, DeveloperNews, LocalGroups, LTS/Meetings, MemberBenefits, Ports, PrivacyIssues (1 2), Salsa/Doc, ShayanDoust, SourceOnlyUpload, SystemBuildTools, UltimateDebianDatabase/UsedInDebianInfrastructure
• FOSSjobs wiki pages: resources

Issues

• Crashes in webdl (reported privately)
• Deprecated API usage in github-backup
• Features in gtranscribe, hw-probe (1, 2), calamares, incoming.debian.org, reportbug (1 2 3), Firefox, piuparts.debian.org
• Incorrect dependencies in libextractor (1 2), libjpeg-turbo
• Comparison failure in diffoscope
• Warnings in samba Python modules, automake, gtranscribe, hachoir
• Underlinking in libnetsnmptrapd.so, libvpf.so, xserver-xorg-video-intel
• MUA handling issues in reportbug (1 2)
• Importing into a VCS needed for Debian base-files
• Compatibility issue in dnssec-trigger
• Description issue in unp
• Broken link in brz
• Broken functionality in bzr

Review

• Spam: reported 182 Debian mailing list posts
• Debian packages: sponsored iotop, iotop-c
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved adequate anki aoflagger canadian-ham-exam carmetal connman-gtk dmagnetic emacs emacs-gtk gazebo gchempaint gcompris-qt gcu-bin goldendict gresistor gtklick gztool iotop-c jack-keyboard kalgebra kalzium khangman kstars lilyterm logisim mediawiki nyx optgeo osdlyrics parley python-treetime qalculate-gtk qelectrotech simulide solvespace step taptempo theli util-linux xgterm ximtool xwallpaper
  • rejected autotalent (not the package), bart (logo), mumble-server (client UI), hpcc (not a screenshot)
  • approved deletion of theli (replacing incorrect screenshot)
  • rejected deletion of gnome-bluetooth/aptitude/torbrowser-launcher (unintelligible), phpbb3/hashcat/onboard/kcharselect (spam), various packages (not the place to report abuse), vim (not the place to send kudos)

Administration

• Debian wiki: unblock IP addresses, approve accounts, reset email addresses

Communication

• Initiate discussion about browsers, webmail and mailto:
• Respond to queries from Debian users and developers on the mailing lists and IRC

Sponsors

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

Focus

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

Changes

• git-imerge: use python3 by default
• youtube-dl: add RTRFM radio station extractor
• ifenslave: cleanup, fix infinite recursion, fix missing variables
• check-all-the-things: update URLs, add many sources of and ideas for new checks
• how-can-i-help: ignore debhelper cruft, build manual page from source, prevent printing autorm header unless needed
• apt-listchanges: cleanups (1 2 3 4), remove hardcoding, add latest option, syslog/log frontends and title disable option, configuration directory
• lintian: use UTF-8 aware spelling sorting, fix wording (1 2)
• spelling dictionaries: codespell (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8), lintian (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9)
• Debian usertags QA: drop hardcoding, ignore cruft, refactor, add rename/transfer/copy functions, debug mode (1 2)
• Debian package uploads: ifenslave (1 2), lxml
• Debian wiki pages: AutomatedInstallation, Cloud/AmazonEC2Image, DebianAlternatives, DebianEvents/internet/2020/MiniDebConfOnline, DebianInstaller/Bugs, DebianMentors (Faq), DebianNetDomains, DebianTesting, Derivatives/Census (EmmabuntusDE, Template), DeveloperNews, Firmware/Open, GetInvolved-Beta, HelpDebian, InstallingDebianOn (Dell, Lemote/Loongson2K1000, Marvell, Router, Turris, TUXEDO (NOTEBOOKS/InfinityBookS14v5)), IRC, Keysigning/Offers, LTS, MemberBenefits, MIPS/LoongsonPi, Mobile, Multiarch/Tuples, PanfrostLima, PinePhone, Ports/ia64, PortTemplate, ProgrammingLanguage, Schroot, snd-emu10k1, SponsoredMaintainer, SystemBuildTools, Teams (3D-printer, Cloud, Debbugs/ArchitectureTags, DPL/OfficialImages)
• FOSSjobs wiki pages: resources

Issues

• Crashes in nouveau libraries (reported on IRC), webkit2gtk
• Move conserver from Debian non-free to main
• File conflict in brz
• Outdated description in hub
• Strange dpkg-parsechangelog use in fritzing, fritzing-parts
• Patch merging needed in apt-listchanges
• Missing link in password-manager-resources
• Conffile removal needed in bsdmainutils
• Features in lintian
• Missing quoting in wifi-qr

Review

• Spam: reported 174 Debian mailing list posts
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved bashtop buildbot buildstream deepin-movie deepin-terminal ding drawing dte firefox-locale-gu font-manager fonts-hermit fonts-proggy fonts-terminus gimp-gutenprint gnome-builder gnome-shell-extension-arc-menu gztool kdevelop lilypond lxhotkey-gtk mkdocs-nature ncdu nvidia-legacy-340xx-driver obs-studio opencubicplayer openshot-qt packetsender partitionmanager plakativ poezio pulseeffects pyzo roundcube scalpel scrcpy tesseract-ocr thunar tilde tracetuner verbiste-gtk zytrax
  • rejected packetsender (help output), pyzo/sasm/gztool/herculesstudio/posterazor (not Debian), minetest-mod-character-creator (not minetest)
  • rejected deletion of partimage/flashrom/apache2 (spam)

Administration

• Debian BTS: usertags QA
• Debian IRC channels: fixed a channel mode lock
• Debian wiki: unblock IP addresses, approve accounts, ping folks with bouncing email

Communication

• Respond to queries from Debian users and developers on the mailing lists and IRC

Sponsors

The ifenslave and apt-listchanges work was sponsored by my employer. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.

Focus

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

Changes

• nsntrace: cleanups (1 2 3 4 5)
• Tails: cleanup (sent privately)
• apt-offline: cleanups (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11), fix keyring filename handling, make keyring error more useful, fix apt lists files permissions, fix changelog line copying
• puppet-git-hooks: less generic script naming
• DUCK: fix source code link, orphan package, fix typos, packaging cleanup (1 2 3 4 5), add obsolete site and phrases indicating shutdown, redirects
• myrepos: cleanup (1 2 3 4 5 6)
• check-all-the-things: Python 3 porting (1 2 3)
• debian-goodies: cleanup, fix equivs-build usage, print dbgsym install command
• lintian: add tigris.org to obsolete sites
• spelling dictionaries: codespell (1 2 3 4), lintian (1 2 3 4 5 6)
• DSA puppet git hook: drop leading spaces check, ignore ruby warnings
• DSA puppet: cleanups (1 2)
• Debian build log scanner: update links, fix typos
• Debian QA services: update SSH IP addresses, add usertags typo fixes (1 2)
• Debian user database: fix lat/lon parsing
• Debian package uploads: libfile-libmagic-perl (1 2)
• Debian wiki pages: AutomaticBuildLogProcessing, Brasil/Traduzir/DDTP, DebianEvents/Internet/2020/MiniDebConfOnline/Videos, DebianLocations, es/Webcam/Viejas_camaras_WEB, Firmware/Open, IRC/DpkgBot, IRC/GivingBetterHelp, packages-schroot, PrivacyIssues, ReleaseGoals/VerboseBuilds, Services/DebianSources, SoundConfiguration, sway, SystemBuildTools, Teams (Publicity/ReleasePointAnnouncements, RTC), UnifiedCommunications/DebianDevelopers/UserGuide, WebcamPixart
• myrepos wiki pages: index
• ShellCheck wiki pages: Directive
• FOSSJobs wiki: resources

Issues

• Crashes in dbus/libnss-systemd (1 2), pavucontrol, vlc-plugin-bittorrent
• Permissions issue in update-alternatives (reported on IRC)
• Bogus output in dpkg-parsechangelog (reported on IRC)
• False positives in anorack
• Command name conflict in gitsome
• Python 3 support needed in git-imerge
• Incorrect dependencies in python3-lxml
• Wayland issues in ssh-agent
• Warnings in tweeper
• Features in shellcheck, browserpass, lintian (1 2), diffoscope
• Documentation needed in webext-browserpass
• Description update needed in vagrant
• Inflated severity in shellcheck
• Incorrect behaviour in dch

Review

• Spam: reported 193 Debian mailing list posts
• Debian packages: reviewed and sponsored acr, tudu, duck
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved amiwm dino-im elisa five-or-more fonts-cherrybomb fonts-terminus four-in-a-row gargoyle-free gnome gnome-chess gnome-games gnome-klotski gnome-mahjongg gnome-mines gnome-nibbles gnome-robots gnome-sudoku gnome-taquin gnome-tetravex gv hitori i3-wm iagno inxi lightsoff mate-utils neovim notcurses-bin pacvim quadrapassel radare2-cutter saga swell-foop systemd tali ubuntu-desktop vokoscreen-ng w9wm xfce4-panel xless xpdf
  • rejected saga (Windows screenshot), lightdm (upstream screenshot)
  • approved deletion of muttprint (not a screenshot), virt-manager (non-original, contains logo)
  • rejected deletion of tint/fonts-oflb-euterpe/acm (junk reason), jwm/xbubble (spam)

Administration

• nsntrace: talk to upstream about collaborative maintenance
• Debian: deploy changes, debug issue with GPS markers file generation, migrate bls/DUCK from alioth-archive to salsa
• Debian website: ran map cron job, synced mirrors
• Debian wiki: approve accounts, ping folks with bouncing email

Communication

• Initiate discussions about reopening bugs for reintroduced packages, integration between apt-listchanges/apt-offline (sent privately)

Sponsors

The apt-offline work and the libfile-libmagic-perl backports were sponsored. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.

Changes

• apt-offline: fix typos
• myrepos: cleanups (1 2), better error messages (1 2)
• Linux kernel: enable dm raid discard support when any devices support discard
• gh: fix .deb install info
• equivs: fix dir message
• webdl: fix iview episode order (sent privately)
• spelling dictionaries: codespell (1 2 3 4 5), lintian (1 2 3 4)
• Debian blends website: fix DDTP URLs
• Debian developers reference: fix DDTP URLs
• Debian bits blog: fix DDTP URLs
• Debian screenshots: deleted scm (manual page)
• Debian package tracking system: add options to disable oldoldstable pockets (1 2)
• Debian website: fix DDTP (1 2) and DebConf sponsors URLs
• Debian userdir-ldap: document #debian-private
• Debian package uploads: purple-discord (1 2 3)
• Debian sysadmin wiki pages: input/howto/postgres
• Debian website: document #debian-private
• Debian wiki pages: apcupsd, Blends/TasksPages, BOINC/Development, configure, DDTP (Migration), DebianAMD64, DebianEdu/Status/Buster, DebianHosting, DebianInstaller/Preseed/EditIso, DebianKernel/UserspaceTools, DebianNetDomains, DebianPartyLine/Mumble, DebianScience/Classification, DebianWannaBuildInfrastructureOnOneServer, DebianWiki/I18n, Derivatives/CensusQA, DevelopmentQuestions, EmbeddedCopies, EtcUnderRevisionControl, Exploits, Firmware/Updates, FlashBIOS, Fonts, Games/Team, Hardware/Wanted, HelpDebian/FAQ, HowToUpgradeKernel, InstallingDebianOn/CompuLab, IRC, Javascript/Policy, KdeMultimedia, L10n/DDTSS, LinuxMagazines, MemberBenefits (1 2), MiscellaneousQuestions, Mobile, OpenStack/OpenStack/todo, PackageArchitectureAlmostAny, PackagesArchSpecific, PageFragments/HowOrganisationsCanHelpDebian, qa.debian.org, ReleaseParty (Bullseye, Buster, SuiteTemplate), Services, Simple-CDD/Bzr, SparcPorting, SSH, SSH, StaticLinking, Teams (DebConf/Bursaries, DebianBuildd, DebianWiki, FrontDesk/DcSiteDevel, I18n), VerifyPAS
• vcs-home wiki pages: index (1 2)
• FOSSjobs wiki pages: resources

Issues

• Crashes in tracker-miner-fs, Xwayland
• Upgrade failure with unattended-upgrades
• Conffile removal needed in rubocop, parcimonie
• Patch backport needed in purple-discord
• Underlinking in bind9-libs
• Features in needrestart, buildd.debian.org, procps (1 2 3), cron, Debian code search, Debian package tracker, pass
• Broken HTML in evolution (sent privately, fixed by upstream)
• Warnings in urwid, webdl (sent privately)
• Removal needed for flasm (1 2)

Review

• Spam: reported 1 Debian bug reports and 178 Debian mailing list posts
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved dablin displaycal enfuse evolvotron flameshot flpsed font-viewer gimp-plugin-registry glue-sprite gpick gpscorrelate gpscorrelate-gui gtkmorph guetzli gummi hdrmerge icc-profiles-free inkscape-tutorials jhead jp2a jpeginfo jpegjudge kde-spectacle libjpeg-turbo-progs magic metacam pianobooster povray-examples printer-driver-cups-pdf propaganda-debian rawtherapee recoverjpeg renrot scm screengrab scrot shanty showfoto simple-image-reducer simple-scan sxiv teeworlds tuxpaint valentina viewnior x4d-icons xcftools
  • rejected musescore (ancient map), fastboot (logo)
  • approved deletion (despite bogus reason) of winwrangler (help output)
  • rejected deletion of blockattack (not spam as claimed), chromium (not deceptive as claimed), file-roller (screenshots of newest interface), jwm/onboard/aajm (spam), xfce4 (not a place to request wallpapers), viewvc (HTML jibberish), fonts-noto-color-emoji/sdl-ball/sddm-theme-breeze/hardinfo (jibberish), gufw (non-English screenshots are allowed), wifite (unsubstantiated claim of false information), mysql-workbench (single word)

Administration

• myrepos: fix the forum
• Debian: restart non-responsive tor daemon, restart processes due to OOM, apply debian.net changes for DD with expired key
• Debian wiki: approve accounts
• Debian QA services: deploy changes, auto-disable oldoldstable pockets

Communication

• Initiate discussion about removing purple-discord from Debian stable
• 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

• libpst: fix links (sent privately), packaging update/cleanup
• autoconf-archive: bump Python versions
• Repology: fix terminology (1 2)
• FoxtrotGPS: bump default maximum zoom level
• File::LibMagic: truncate sourceless files, remove embedded code copies, improve error handling, remove repetition, add parameter support, cleanup
• myrepos: cleanup
• how-can-i-help: cleanup (1 2)
• devscripts: sync bts tags, silence perltidy
• spelling dictionaries: codespell (1 2 3 4 5 6), lintian (1 2 3 4 5 6 7)
• Debian debtags: update libpst tags
• Debian website: link to IRC CoC
• Debian package uploads: purple-discord (1 2), libpst
• Debian wiki pages: AutomaticDebugPackages, DebConf/Fundraising/Timeline, DebianIRCChannelGuidelines, Derivatives/Census/Endless, EduSoundtracker, GnuCash, HardDisk, InstallingDebianOn (ComputerTemplate, Thinkpad/X1 Carbon 7th Gen (1 2)), Memory, Mobile, Modules, News, Packaging/BinaryPackage, PaulWise, Root, SimpleBackportCreation, Statistics, SummerOfCode2020 (ApprovedProjects/Android SDK Tools in Debian, UnApprovedProjects/COVID-19), SystemBuildTools, SystemTap, Teams/Webmaster/meetings, Wayland
• OpenStreetMap wiki pages: Ground_truth_and_Official_truth
• git wiki pages: Interfaces, frontends, and tools

Issues

• Crashes in gedit-plugin-terminal, lintian, aptitude
• Regressions in firefox
• Features in reposurgeon, how-can-i-help, lintian-brush, dh-make-perl (1 2), codespell, Firefox, tracker.debian.org
• Misdetection in file, lintian-brush
• Conffile removal in gnome-session-flashback
• Underlinking in libhdf4
• Warnings in python3-twisted, alot, python3-minidb
• Patch backport needed in Firefox ESR

Review

• Spam: reported 1 Debian bug reports and 268 Debian mailing list posts
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved deepin-image-viewer guymager hwinfo impressive moc qterminal sawfish smartmontools smart-notifier testssl.sh thesias timeshift tkdesk
  • rejected sway (logo) impressive (not appropriate)
  • rejected deletion of onboard (not a support channel), ace-of-penguins (random reason), phpbb3/awstats/freeciv-client-gtk (spam reason), apt (not a reason)

Administration

• Debian wiki: approve accounts

Communication

• Initiate discussions about dh-make-perl failures
• Notify derivatives about the Debian bullseye freeze
• Respond to queries from Debian users and developers on the mailing lists and IRC

Sponsors

The dh-make-perl feature requests, file bug report, File::Libmagic changes, autoconf-archive change, libpst work and the purple-discord upload were sponsored by my employer. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.