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.

Changes

• mokomaze: https, warning, menu keywords (1 2)
• hexchat: show channel
• check-all-the-things: zstd MIME, php7cc, jsonlint-php verbosity
• devscripts: typos
• spelling dictionaries:
  • codespell: hopmepage(s), soket(s), pytnon, builter(s), dictioanries, encoutner(s), initals, (short-)cicruit(s), alha variants, disalbe(s/d), enalbes, sitaution(s), referneced, embarrasingly, deploi(ed/ment(s)), depenendenc(e/y/ies), rovid(ing/e(d/s)), implent variants recogninse, manyal(s/ly), dynamlic(ally), speep(ed/ing/-up), influece(d/s/ing), packhage(s), manaul(s/ly), constraintes, (dis)similiar(y/ty), leat, projct(s/ion(s)/or(s)'s), (un/re)chek(ed), thik(s/nesses)
  • lintian: hopmepage(s), soket(s), pytnon, builter(s), dictioanr(y/ies), encoutner(s), initals, (short-)cicruit(s), alha variants, disalbe(s/d), enalbe(s/d), sitaution(s), refernece(s/d), embarras(ed/ingly), deploi(ed/ment(s)), depenendenc(e/y/ies), rovid(ing/e(r/d/s), implent variants, manyal(s/ly), will be remove, intersting, dynamlic(ally), direcotr(y/ies), speep(ed/ing/-up), influece(d/s/ing), packhage(s), manaul(s/ly), constraintes, (dis)similiar(y/ty/ity), leat, projct(s/ion(s)/or(s)'s), (un/re)chek(ed), thik(s/ness/nesses)
• Debian Planets: add Elive
• Debian derivatives census: Python 3, typo, cruft (1 2), copyright
• Debian security tracker: edk2 refs
• Debian puppet: ports redirects
• Debian meta-packages: deriv.d.n deps
• Debian website: merch updates
• Debian wiki pages: CheapServerBoxHardware, DebianEdu/Status/Buster, DebianInstaller/Bugs, DebianMaintainer, Derivatives (Census (QA, Template (1 2), AstraLinux, Crunchbang, Freeduc, Hamara_Linux, HandyLinux, Huayra, LMDE, MetamorphoseLinux, OLPC, Open_Secure-K_OS, ParrotSecurity, ParrotSecurity, Parsix, rtros, semplice, SolusOS, SolydXK, SteamOS, Tails, Tanglu, Ubuntu, VoyageLinux, Vyatta, Whonix)), DeveloperNews (1 2), Digital_Cameras, Firmware/Updates, Hardware, IRC, LocalGroups/Debian-JP, MigrateToDDAccount, Outreachy/Round16/Projects/DerivativesIntegration, PaulWise/InterestingSoftware, Printing/GlossaryandIndex, StaticLinking, SystemBuildTools
• Wikipedia: Message-ID

Issues

• Crashes in php7cc, packagekit, merkaartor
• Broken archiving in debian-lts-announce (reported privately)
• Removal needed of ack-grep
• Dependency update needed in libtask-kensho-cli-perl
• Incorrect shell completion apt (1 2)
• Outdated documentation in dd-list
• Broken redirects on sf.net
• Time issues in restic
• Config issues in ssh-add
• Features in network-manager-gnome, gcr, lists.d.o (1 2), tracker.d.o, grep-excuses, apt, progress, aptitude, firefox
• Conffile removal in libgssapi-krb5-2, thermald, apparmor

Review

• Spam: reported 3 LWN comments and 168 Debian mailing list posts
• Patches: merged uscan completion patch, merged derivatives census patches from Outreachy applicants and others
• Debian packages: sponsored mwic, acr
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved codelite colortail colortest deluge fonts-fantasque-san fonts-fork-awesome fonts-glasstty fonts-hack fonts-lmodern freeipmi-tools gdigi ginkgocadx gnome-shell gsequencer kakoune keepassxc khal kirigami-gallery librecad lxdm notion picard qbittorrent quodlibet screenfetch solvespace thonny vitetris
  • rejected postgresql (logo), gambas3-gb-gui-qt/libjs-tv4 (not screenshot), variety (macOS)
  • approved deletion of ranger (offensive), i3 (another package)
  • rejected deletion of reportbug/gparted/network-manager-gnome/synaptic (nonsense reasons),

Administration

• Debian: investigate MSA issue, investigate Fastly outage, investigate buildd issue, forwarded mail bounce info
• Debian wiki: unblacklist IP range, clean up stray tmp files, whitelist email addresses, ask on IRC about accounts with bouncing email, ping accounts with bouncing email, disable accounts with bouncing email
• Debian derivatives census: merge patches, deploy changes, clean up cruft, delete giant source packages

Communication

• Prod about and send Debian Misc Developer News edition 46

Sponsors

All work was done on a volunteer basis.

Changes

• referer-mod: https
• webdl: https (sent privately)
• youtube-dl: URL extraction
• check-all-the-things: closure-linter
• dh-make: typo
• spelling dictionaries:
  • codespell: (e)mailling(list(s)), binay, orgin variants, priviliged
  • lintian: aboce, (e)mailling(list(s)), binay, orgin variants, priviliged
• Debian puppet: tor workaround
• Debian website: fix link, help testing ISOs
• Debian wiki pages: AndroidTools/IntroBuildingApps, DebianInstaller, DebianKernel/GitBisect, Derivatives/Integration, Firmware/Updates, Gitea, Gnome, Ideas, Outreachy/Round16/Projects/DerivativesIntegration (1 2), PaulWise/InterestingSoftware, PrivacyIssues, SourceOnlyUpload, SSDOptimization, SystemBuildTools, TracingExecution, WebDevelopment

Issues

• Crashes in PyPI
• Documentation issues in lvm2
• Incompatibility in tor (1 2)
• Broken alternatives in acpica-tools
• Apparmor denials for totem
• Privacy issues webext-bulk-media-downloader, webext-proxy-switcher
• Porting needed in iceweasel-branding
• Features in Firefox (1 2 3 4 5), Tor Browser, HTTPS Everywhere, diffoscope (1 2 3), PyPI, easy-rsa, adequate, closure-compiler, git-hub, hexchat (1 2)
• New versions of form-history-control, greasemonkey, nano
• New homepage for form-history-control
• Detection issues in diffoscope
• Conffile removal in emacsen-common, firejail-profiles
• Minor issues in tracker.d.o

Review

• Spam: reported 1 LWN comments, 2 Debian bug reports and 174 Debian mailing list posts
• Debian packages: sponsored gtranscribe
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved bovo cockpit cockpit-docker converseen firefox git-gui i3lock-fancy jwm kde-plasma-desktop kfourinline ksudoku loganalyzer mednaffe neomutt nheko pcsc-tools postfixadmin python3-mecavideo quiterss ripperx runescape tipp10 wdm windowlab
  • rejected openjdk-7-jre (Android screenshot), jaligner (macOS screenshot), tootle/posterazor (upstream screenshot), mednaffe (non-free game), toulbar2/balazar3/libtest-email-perl/libswscale5/libreoffice-style-colibre/python3-networking-bagpipe (not a screenshot) pokemmo-installer (not the package)
  • rejected deletion of gpe-othello (spam reason), acm/firefox-esr/fonts-mgopen/angband/balazar3 (nonsense reason), runescape (screenshots are versioned)

Administration

• Debian: restart a broken service, reschedule nagios checks, investigate onion services issue, fix some file permissions, discuss hoster acquisition, discuss hoster partnership, explain arch qualification concerns, ping hoster about unexpected outage, removal of mail server from blacklist
• Debian wiki: unblacklist IP addresses, whitelist email addresses, ping accounts with bouncing email
• Openmoko: investigate email issue

Communication

• Initiate discussions about embedded code copies with the security team
• Register Debian derivatives project for Outreachy round 16
• Document my plans for the Firefox XUL to WebExtensions transition

Sponsors

The easy-rsa feature request was sponsored by my employer. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.

Mozilla recently dropped support for Firefox XUL extensions.

The initial threat of this prompted me to discover how to re-enable XUL extensions by modifying Firefox's omni.ja file. That clearly is not going to last very long since Mozilla is also deleting XPCOM interfaces but I note the Tor Browser is temporarily still using XUL extensions.

Since I have some extensions I wrote for myself, I will need to rewrite them as WebExtension add-ons.

The first thing to do is check how to install WebExtension add-ons. My local XUL extensions are run from the corresponding git trees. Using an example extension I discovered that this no longer works. The normal way to install add-ons is to use the web-ext tool, upload to the Mozilla app store and then install from there. This seems like overkill for an unpolished local add-on. One way to workaround this is to disable signing but that seems suboptimal if one has installed Mozilla-signed add-ons, which I will probably have to do until Debian packages more add-ons. Luckily Mozilla offers alternative "sideloading" distribution mechanisms and Debian enables these by default for the Debian webext-* packages. Installing a symlink to the git repository into the extensions directory and adding a gecko identifier to the add-on manifest.json file works.

Then I started looking at how to rewrite XUL extensions and discovered the user-interface options are limited compared to XUL. So the Galeon-style smart-bookmarks workaround plugin I use a lot is not even possible to implement as a WebExtension add-on and will require some changes to search, bookmarks or WebExtensions user-interface APIs or a solution external to Firefox like a floating toolbar.

Another plugin I wrote adds a few buttons to the toolbar but WebExtension add-ons are only allowed to add one button to the toolbar. The plugin is more logical as an address bar button but again WebExtension add-ons are only allowed to add one button to the address bar. Each of these allow popups for additional user-interface. So the options are to split this into multiple plugins, one per button or to reqire a second click in the popups.

The remaining task is to migrate from each of the xul-ext-* Debian packages. Some folks have already completed their transition and documented it.

Some packages simply got updated to the corresponding webext-* packages. Some packages were updated upstream but aren't yet in webext-* packages.

Some packages were no longer developed upstream but were updated in forks or reimplementations:

• Firebug: reimplemented as a whitelisted Firefox internal XUL extension
• Autofill Forms: the author released a renamed version
• Open in Browser: reimplemented by another developer
• RefControl: reimplemented as Referer Modifier by another developer
• User Agent Switcher: reimplemented by another developer in a very different way

Some packages are no longer useful upstream but alternatives are available:

• Adblock Plus: now part of the untrustworthy advertising industry, replaced by uBlock Origin
• Stylish: now part of the untrustworthy advertising industry, replaced by Stylus
• Cookie Monster: cookie-autodelete or uMatrix are possible alternatives
• DOM Inspector: the native web developer tools are almost the same
• HTTPS Finder: smart-https, https-by-default are alternatives and https-everywhere is kind of an alternative
• livehttpheaders: the native web developer tools are mostly an alternative but headers are missing from the page info dialog

Some packages are blocked by missing APIs because they are not yet permitted to replace the Certificate Authorities with alternate trust models such as DNSSEC+DANE, Certificate Patrol, Perspectives, Monkeysphere or Communism.

Like many technology transitions, this one was done for good reasons but is extremely disruptive and a time sink for users and developers. I still have floppy disks that could contain viruses or poetry but I will never find out their content.

Changes

• quesoglc: typos, packaging updates
• spelling dictionaries:
  • codespell: containter, exteneded, difficutl(y), constrasts, dekstops, deleteed, argumeng(s), dislpay(s/ed/ing), thourough(ly)
  • lintian: containte(d/r), exteneded, difficutl(y), constrasts, dekstops, deleteed, argumeng(s), dislpay(s/ed/ing), thourough(ly)
• Debian derivatives census: Python 3
• Debian admin misc scripts: update keyring-maint keys
• Debian package tracking system: Standards-Version fixes
• Debian package uploads: quesoglc
• Debian wiki pages: 3D-printer, BSP/2018/09/de/Chemnitz, CategoryPortal, DebianDay/2018 (Brazil/Campinas, México/Zacatecas, Venezuela (Anzoátegui, Aragua, Barquisimeto, Mérida)), DebianKernel/GitBisect, DebianMaintainer, DebianPrivacy (BoF201807, Issues), DebianWiki (EditorQuickStart, Privacy), Derivatives (Census (Hamara_Linux, Q4OS), Integration), Fonts, Ideas, LTS/Funding, Mate, Multimedia/Subtitle, PaulWise, PrivacyIssues, research/publications, Saif Abdul Cassim, Salsa/Doc, SAN/iSCSI/LIO, Services/DerivativesCensus, SourceOnlyUpload, SourcesList, Statistics (1 2), syam, SystemBuildTools, Teams (Cloud, DebianXfceGroup, ReleaseTeam/ReleaseCheckList), TracingExecution (1, 2), Welcome/Users, Xorg
• Wikipedia: Anusaaraka

Issues

• Potential copyright violation of GNU software (reported privately)
• Crashes in utfcheck
• Broken dependencies in xul-ext-form-history-control
• Regressions in unattended-upgrades, Linux
• Invalid certificates on repo.or.cz (reported privately)
• Completion breakage for dpkg -L
• Missing X11 font registration in lmodern, tex-gyre
• Incorrect formatting in notmuch
• False positives in shellcheck, needrestart, debsecan
• Features in intel-microcode, Tor Browser, lintian (1 2), debhelper
• Packaging needed for purple-lurch
• New versions of shellcheck

Review

• Spam: reported 128 Debian mailing list posts
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved aisleriot alienblaster asunder baobab bluefish bluefish-plugins cbatticon emacs25 fonts-cardo fonts-gnutypewriter gramps hivelytracker i3 ibus-zhuyin icewm klaus lektor network-manager-openvpn-gnome obsidian-icon-theme ola ola-rdm-tests openmw ophcrack qlandkartegt rabbitvcs-nautilus referencer stella s-tui tidy vice whitedune xtail yosys
  • rejected apache2 (logo not screenshot), xfce-keyboard-shortcuts (not specific enough), xtrs (not the package), aptitude (wrong package), gnome-twitch/stella (proprietary content), adduser (help output)
  • rejected deletion of gnome-blog/rmagic/gkamus (spam), gramps/libreoffice/pcsxr (old screenshots are kept), ttf-telugu-fonts (non-English reason)

Administration

• Debian: answer support request, keyring-maint updates, acknowledge emergency downtime, discuss downtime with a hoster, discuss reverse DNS with a hoster
• Debian derivatives: create salsa group, migrate census to salsa, update repo remote URLs, clean up some large files
• Debian mentors: reply about an upload issue
• Debian wiki: clean up stray temp file, whitelist email addresses, disable accounts with bouncing email

Communication

• Initiate discussion about scripts at DebConf18 (notes)

Sponsors

All work was done on a volunteer basis.

Changes

• myrepos: cleanup (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19), release
• linters: update URL
• codespell: typo
• check-all-the-things: install support (1 2 3)
• diffoscope: terminal handling (1 2 3 4)
• devscripts: typos
• debian-goodies: find-dbgsym-packages ELF support
• lintian: test, typo
• spelling dictionaries:
  • codespell: deendenc(y/ies), coprright, isntallation(s), moutn variants, deafulted, togheter, argumemnt(s), derevative(s), szenarios, szes, performnace, umbrealla, upater, (inter/sub)secrion, upsrteam(s/ed), e(ne)bale(d), diretor(y/ies), containe, unfortuante(ly)
  • lintian: deendenc(y/ies), coprright, isntallation(s), moutn variants, deafult(s/ed), togheter, argumemnt(s), derevative(s), szenario(s), szes, performnace, umbrealla, upater, (inter/sub)secrion, upsrteam(s/ed), e(ne)bale(d), diretor(y/ies), containe, unfortuante(ly)
• Debian puppet: www.d.o redirect fixes (1 2), add www-staging.d.o (1 2 3)
• Debian TLS: add www-staging.d.o
• Debian domains: drop unused www-mirror.d.o
• Debian package tags: added tags for myrepos
• Debian screenshots: added myrepos
• Debian package tracking system: bump policy version
• Debian package uploads: myrepos
• Debian wiki pages: DebianKernel/GitBisect, DebianPrivacy/BoF201807, DebianTesting, Derivatives/Census/Hamara_Linux, Derivatives/Meetings, ExternalEntities, fakechroot, GoogleEarth/Install/Stretch64Bits, Hardware/Wanted, InstallingDebianOn/Microsoft/Windows/SubsystemForLinux, KansaiDebianMeeting, Keysigning/Need, KiCad/ngspice, Mobile, PaulWise/InterestingSoftware, spotify, Statistics, SystemBuildTools,
• DebConf wiki pages: DebConf18/DayTrip, DebConf18/DebconfShirts, DebConf18/AdHocSessions

Issues

• Regressions in unattended-upgrades, bash
• Features in debhelper, debian-policy (1 2), lintian (1 2 3), bls, piuparts.d.o, unattended-upgrades (1 2), debug-me, GNU Guix website
• Underlinking in libogdi3.2
• Missing links in tracker.d.o
• Security issues in debootstrap (reported privately)
• Minor issues in jitterentropy-rngd

Review

• Spam: reported 2 Debian bug reports and 150 Debian mailing list posts
• Debian packages: sponsored streamlink
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved anbox arp-scan dustracing2d feedreader gpick hamster-applet kupfer lingot links2 moc picard testdisk thunar thunar-volman xwrited
  • rejected pokemmo-installer (not of package), smplayer (non-free content), chromium (non-deb distro), robocode (alleged server hackers)
  • rejected deletion of kdiff3 (non-intelligible reason)

Administration

• myrepos: merge patches, release
• foxtrotgps: merge patch
• whohas: merge pull request
• fossjobs: forward some job advertisments
• Debian: quiet buildd cron mail, redirect potential contributor, discuss backup hosts for some arches, discussions at DebConf18
• Debian wiki: unblacklist networks, whitelist domains, whitelist email addresses, reject possibly inappropriate signup attempt
• Debian website: remove lingering file

Communication

• Reinitiated discussion about Debian derivatives efforts

Sponsors

All work was done on a volunteer basis.

Changes

• mokomaze: cruft (1 2)
• icns: cruft (1 2)
• check-all-the-things: de-Debification, extensions (1 2 3), TODO
• debian-goodies: set -e, typos
• lintian: test (1 2)
• spelling dictionaries:
  • codespell: discourage(d), installationa, lightwight, widgit, possilbe, descrie, brane, previos, sytl(ed/es/ing), wrappng, migth, vulerable, manipulatin
  • lintian: get's, discourrage(d), installationa, lightwight, widgit, possilbe, descrie, previos, sytl(ed/es/ing), wrappng, migth, vulerable, incorperation, manipulatin
• Debian installer: myrepos config fixes (1 2), .gitignore
• Debian website: gendered wording
• Debian package uploads: leptonlib, purple-discord
• Debian wiki pages: BSP/2018/06/us/NYC, debian-cd, Derivatives/Census (QA, Hamara_Linux), DesktopEnvironment, DeveloperNews, ExternalEntities, Firmware/Updates, InstallingDebianOn/Intel, LTS/Extended, MaliGraphics, PaulWise/InterestingSoftware, reportbug-by-mail, Teams/DebianCd, Teams/Publicity/bits.debian.org
• fossjobs wiki: resources

Issues

• Crashes in gpaste, diffoscope
• Protocol flaw in oxy
• Broken data in tracker.debian.org
• Warnings in samba-common
• Rebuilds of tmperamental
• Features in shellcheck, git-repair, tracker.debian.org (1 2), qemu-user-static, Debian build log scanner, python-debian, sbuild (1 2), diffoscope
• Certificate expiry in screenshots.debian.net
• Typos in apt-cacher-ng (1 2 3)
• Regex handling in sbuild
• Cruft in diffoscope

Review

• Spam: reported 10 Debian bug reports and 145 Debian mailing list posts
• Debian packages: sponsored streamlink
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved bibledit-xiphos biosyntax-gedit biosyntax-less biosyntax-vim cataclysm-dda-sdl compiz-mate debian-refcard emacs gigalomania gimp kate libreoffice-zotero-integration mate-themes openarena plinth rsstail streamlink thonny xiphos zotero-standalone zsh-theme-powerlevel9k
  • rejected streamlink (help output), sgf2dg (wrong screenshot)
  • rejected deletion of a7xpg (bogus reason), gnome-activity-journal/gnome-blog/gkamus/reportbug/nmap (spam reason)

Administration

• fossjobs: merge pull requests
• Debian: LDAP support request
• Debian mentors: fix disk space issue
• Debian wiki: clean up temp files, whitelist domains, whitelist email addresses, unblacklist IP addresses, disable accounts with bouncing email

Communication

• Initiate discussion about light-weight pull requests on branchable

Sponsors

The apt-cacher-ng bugs, leptonlib backport and git-repair feature request were sponsored by my employer. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.

Changes

• whowatch: URLs, formatting (1 2), roles (1 2), licensing (1 2)
• purple-discord: https, spelling
• myrepos: cleanup, remote plugin
• repology: Ubuntu cosmic, package URLs, per-package problems, package to metapackage redirect
• iotop: container error msg, Ubuntu workaround (1 2)
• git-extras: docs
• check-all-the-things: de-Debianification (1 2 3), update deps, URLs, extensions (1 2 3), TODO items (slowness lizard empty-argv-segfault ShlibVisibility glyphcheck man spellcheckers formatters)
• duck: search.cpan.org
• lintian: search.cpan.org
• devscripts: dry-run verbosity
• spelling dictionaries:
  • codespell: (re)buld(s/ing), (net)wrok(s/ed), sytem variants, obtaiend, verbous(e/ly), coul, foudning, aunthenticat(e/es/ed/ing)
  • lintian: (re)buld(s/ing), (net)wrok(s/ed), sytem variants, obtaiend, verbous(e/ly), coul, foudn(ing), aunthenticat(e/es/ed/ing)
• Debian installer: APT_CONFIG
• Debian packages website: fix URL
• Debian packages overview: DUCK, Repology
• Debian QA: usertags typos
• Debian portfolio: Repology
• Debian PTS: disable umegaya
• Debian screenshots: purple-discord
• Debian meta-packages: qa.d.o: rename
• Debian package uploads: purple-discord
• Debian website: derivatives re-ordering (1 2)
• Debian wiki pages: AutomaticDebugPackages, AutomaticPackagingTools, Backports, BSP/2014/11/de/Munich, CrossCompiling, DebianDay/2018/Brasil/Taquaritinga, DebianSecurity/Meetings (2011-01-14, 2014-02-07, 2015-01-16), Derivatives/Guidelines, Gerrit, HidekiYamane/action_for_next, Ideas, LTS/Meetings, Mentoring, MySql, PaulWise/InterestingSoftware, PbuilderTricks, qa.debian.org, Services, ServicesHosting, SimonQuigley, Sprints (2011/Release, 2014/SystemdGNOMESprint, 2015/DebConfOrga, HowTo), Statistics, Teams/Publicity (1 2, bits.debian.org/translation), Teams/Ruby/Meeting/Paris2015/Report, WebsiteGitTransition (1, 2)

Issues

• Crashes in geeqie
• Build failures in tesseract
• Missing dependencies in dh-make-golang, obs-build
• Error reporting in unattended-upgrades
• Code copies in samba
• Scrolling in whowatch (1 2)
• Conffile removal in torbrowser-launcher
• Verbosity in parcimonie
• Terminology in release.d.o excuses
• Underlinking in libusageenvironment3
• Formatting in cod-tools
• Features in tracker.debian.org, dh-make-golang (1 2), evolution
• Packaging needed for octotree, git-lab, jsonview

Review

• Spam: reported 1 LWN comment, 1 Debian bug report and 234 Debian mailing list posts
• Debian packages: reviewed mwic and sponsored streamlink (1 2), acr
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved arandr bash cmus emacs fastnetmon firefox gnome-shell gnome-software gnome-terminal gource granite-demo helpman john kgoldrunner psensor pushover python3-pytest-sugar quickcal scribus seafile-cli seafile-gui toppler vlc
  • approved deletion of instead (duplicate)
  • approved deletion (despite bogus reason) of fastnetmon (advertising in screenshot)
  • rejected deletion of qt4-dev-tools (empty reason), gnome ("screenshot" is not a reason), bve-train-br-class-323-3dcab/gkamus/gnome-blog/gnome-activity-journal/qt4-dev-tools/choosewm (spam reason),

Administration

• iotop: merge patch
• Debian: buildd check, install package, redirect support, fix space in uid/gid, reboot lock workaround
• Debian mentors: reboot for security updates
• Debian wiki: whitelist email addresses,
• Openmoko: web server restart

Communication

• Initiate discussions about the future of Debian derivatives efforts, search.cpan.org shutdown

Sponsors

The tesseract/purple-discord work, bug reports for samba/git-lab/octotree/dh-make-golang and AutomaticPackagingTools change were sponsored by my employer. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.

Changes

• repology: Arch Linux link, Alpine details, test fix
• iotop: Python 3
• myrepos: cache fix
• diffoscope: sorting, EDID
• git-extras: git-paste, improve git-sed
• foxtrotgps: cruft, roadmap
• whowatch: cruft, news, release, desktop (1 2 3)
• purple-discord: CPPFLAGS
• devscripts: deb.d.o
• dh-make: typo
• lintian: fix spelling docs, update links
• spelling dictionaries:
  • codespell: swithch, metacharater(s), equivalant, exceptation, whishlist, worthing, myslef, annonymous, toogle, over(rr)id(dden/es), accapts, opiton(s), lable, pakvage, yau, platformt, potentail(s/ly), hsell, expirimental
  • lintian: swithch, shiped, metacharater(s), equivalant, exceptation, whishlist, worthing, myslef, wraper, annonymous, some system over(rr)id(dden/es), derivitives, accapts, opiton(s), lable, pakvage, yau, platformt, potentail(s/ly), hsell, expirimental
• Debian mirrors: ftp.wa.au.d.o
• Debian package tracking system: bump policy ver
• Debian security data: whitespace, zodbpickle embed (1 2 3)
• Debian package tags: added tags for purple-discord, harmony
• Debian package uploads: purple-discord, foxtrotgps, whowatch, sysstat, libipc-run-perl (1 2) iotop
• Debian wiki pages: apt-get, Arm64Port, BuildingFormalBackports, DebianDak, DebianEvents/de/2018/MiniDebConfHamburg, DebianGis/MailingLists, DebianReleases, FrontPage, InstallingDebianOn/Olimex/Teres-I, KallesDesign, Mobile (1 2), PaulWise/InterestingSoftware, SublimeText, Teams/Dpkg/Downstream
• File Formats wiki pages: Notability
• FreeDesktop wiki: VideoAcceleration

Issues

• Crashes in evolution, gplaycli, androguard (1 2), python-moinmoin
• Regressions in evolution (Debian)
• Certificate expiry on screenshots.debian.net, git.code.sf.net
• Conffile handling in libvirt-daemon-system
• Features in needrestart-session, file
• Memory leak in libipc-run-perl (1 2)
• Automatic updating needed in ftp.d.o/doc
• False negatives in shellcheck -x
• False positives in needrestart
• Warnings in needrestart-session
• Text issues in reportbug, horizon-eda, ssh-askpass-fullscreen
• Broken references in libharfbuzz-dev, anarchism

Review

• Spam: reported 175 Debian mailing list posts
• Debian packages: sponsored acr
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved cloudcompare drumkv1 dxf2gcode gajim gpxviewer link-grammar materia-gtk-theme mp3blaster mplayer-gui mtpaint padthv1 python3 sddm-theme-maui ssh-agent-filter ssh-askpass ssh-askpass-fullscreen ssh-askpass-gnome
  • rejected dialog/kde-telepathy-debugger (screenshots of screenshots.d.n), kamailio (not a screenshot)
  • approved deletion of zsh (shows oh-my-zsh)
  • rejected deletion of gnome-blog/gkamus (spam reason), guitarix/gajim (screenshots are versioned), terminology (bogus reason)

Administration

• whowatch: release, contact downstreams
• Debian: redirect support request, investigate GDPR issues, investigate buildd kernel issue
• Debian wiki: investigate signup errors, whitelist email addresses, whitelist email domain

Sponsors

The purple-discord work, the sysstat backport and the libipc-run-perl patch backports were sponsored by my employer. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.