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• Website outdated for morfessor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.

Changes

• apt-offline: clarify message
• debhelper: add option to disable workarounds
• Debian package uploads: apt-offline, purple-discord
• Debian wiki code: use msgid-search path
• Debian wiki pages: accessibility, Bumblebee, CaptivePortal, Cloud, CrossGrading, Debate/umask, DebianHosting, DebianInstaller/Preseed, DebianMailingLists, DebianMedProspective, DebianNetDomains, DebianRepository/Setup, DebianTesting, Derivatives/Census (QA, BlankOn, Bloss, Meilix, Netrunner, SteamOS, Symbiosis), DeveloperNews, ExtraMenus, ftp.debian.org, gsoc, GSoC, Hardware/Database, InstallingDebianOn/ComputerTemplate, MIPS/LoongsonPi, nodiscc, Packaging, PaulWise, Ports/ia64 (triage), PortTemplate, qa.debian.org, RFP, ServicesHosting, Sprints/2016/DebianEdu, Statistics, SummerOfCode, (2020/UnApprovedProjects (ArchitectureCrossGrade, systemd_unit_translator)), Sympa, SystemBuildTools (1 2), Teams (DebianPerlGroup/OpenTasks, DPL/SponsoringGuidelines, DSA/non-DSA-HW, pkg-iot, Publicity (Meetings/2015-09-21, MeetingTemplate)), U-boot/Status
• FOSSJobs wiki pages: resources

Issues

• Crashes in window list GNOME shell extension, nautilus
• Missing dependencies in weston
• Broken symlinks in llvm
• Usability issues in Firefox
• Features in rsync, Firefox
• Conffile removal for unbound, gplaycli, debsums
• Warnings in fonttools, netaddr
• Verbosity in unattended-upgrades
• Encoding issues in lists.debian.org

Review

• Spam: reported 1 Debian bug reports and 74 Debian mailing list posts
• Debian packages: reviewed open-ath9k-htc-firmware
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved dump1090-mutability fonts-apropal fonts-compagnon fonts-gemunu-libre fonts-millimetre gnome-software htop klatexformula kvirc ministocks neofetch photocollage systemd
  • rejected amd64-microcode (not a screenshot), surgescript (unrelated UI not in Debian), ardesia (unrelated web browser screenshot), debian-el (unrelated desktop screenshot)
  • rejected deletion of netanim/fonts-monapo/holdingnuts (spam reason), ekiga (English screenshots are kept)

Administration

• Debian wiki: deploy changes, unblock IP addresses, approve new accounts, auto-approve email domains

Communication

• Initiate discussion about packages touching /srv
• Welcome Bloss to the Debian derivatives census
• Invite Debian derivatives to DebConf20
• Respond to queries from Debian users and developers on the mailing lists and IRC

Sponsors

The apt-offline backport and purple-discord uploads were sponsored by my employer. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.

Changes

• Repology webapp: better distro package name support
• foxtrotgps: fix gpsd API usage spelling, grammar
• libpst: move to overlay, new upstream release (1 2 3 4 5)
• iotop: cleanups (1 2)
• moin 1.9: fix RSS crash with ancient PyXML
• myrepos: mention github2mr
• Debian website: clarify BTS reopen docs
• Debian package uploads: libpst, foxtrotgps
• Debian wiki service: fix Launchpad TLS verification, drop ancient PyXML copy
• Debian wiki pages: aMule, BisectDebian, BSP, DebConf/21, DebianDay (2020), DebianKernel/GitBisect, DebianMentorsFaq, DebianReleases/PointReleases, DebianTesting, DebianUnstable, DebianWiki/Contact, DeveloperNews (1, 2), FreedomBox/LeavingTheCloud, Hardening, Hardware/Database, InstallingDebianOn, (Acer, Allwinner, HowToContribute, PageFragments/AdditionalSuggestions), iwlwifi, LTS/Development, MySql, opendkim, PressCoverage (2020), PrivacyIssues, qa.debian.org, Ripping, Services (Debian Archive, DerivativesCensus), SourcesList, Sprints, Statistics, Xorg, Year
• Wikipedia: Display Data Channel
• FOSSJobs wiki: resources
• vcs-home wiki: index (1 2)
• Free Software Directory wiki: Appleseed

Issues

• Incorrectly removed dependency in tesseract
• Naming conflict for maildir-utils
• Privacy enhancement needed for hw-probe
• Underlinking in libevent, libguichan-allegro
• Conffile removal needed in kytos-utils, docutils-common
• New release needed for how-can-i-help
• Warnings in purple-discord, onboard
• Features needed in lintian, lintian-brush (1 2), devscripts bts, ddccontrol-db, hw-probe
• Homepage broken for GNU smalltalk (reported privately), sms4you

Review

• Spam: reported 2 Debian bug reports and 211 Debian mailing list posts
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved abcde apt-file audacity baobab cadubi celluloid cool-retro-term darktable debtree dhex dwm e2fsck-static evince filelight fonts-cascadia-code fonts-hermit fonts-le-murmure fonts-solide-mirage gdmap ggz-python-games gnome-usage gsequencer gthumb gtkam hwloc libreoffice midori naev nano nmapsi4 nnn nut-server opencubicplayer pdfcube pdfsam plymouth-theme-ubuntu-logo pt2-clone recordmydesktop ripgrep software-properties-gtk solaar stacer systemd thunar tiatracker xdiskusage yoshimi youtube-dl
  • rejected fonts-hermit/fonts-terminus (copied from elsewhere, possibly proprietary), nnn (help output), libxcb-xinerama0 (logo) gphoto2 (other package), dmagnetic (non-free content)
  • approved deletion of python3 (non-Debian elements), sympa (personal information), ratfor (logo), dhex (poor quality, better ones available), elisa (old upstream no longer in Debian)
  • rejected deletion of filezilla (junk reason), ggz-python-games/vim-gtk/netanim (spam reason), lubuntu-software-center (single-word reason)

Administration

• Debian wiki: deploy changes, delete obsolete PyXML code, unblacklist IP addresses, whitelist email addresses, help with account queries

Communication

• Initiate discussion about interoperability between git and other VCS and data storage/transfer tools
• Respond to queries from Debian users and developers on the mailing lists and IRC
• Edited and sent Debian Misc Developer News #50

Sponsors

The libpst work was sponsored by my employer. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.

Changes

• libpst: cleanup of documentation/build system/spelling/grammar (sent to maintainer), adopt, packaging cleanup, backport function misdetection fix
• myrepos: refactor, add recursive option and mode for config command
• spelling dictionaries: codespell (1 2), lintian (1 2)
• Debian codesearch: use CDN, fix form
• Debian package uploads: libpst (1 2)
• Debian wiki pages: Ardour, BisectDebian, Compression, DateTime, DebianEvents/ca/2020/MiniDebConfMontreal, DebianGNUstep, DebianIndia, DebianProjectLeader, Derivatives/Census (BlankOn, Grml, ParrotSecurity, UniventionCorporateServer), DeveloperNews, DistributionsCollaboration, en/Apache/mod_evasive, Ext4, FakeRoot, FileManager, FreedomBox (LeavingTheCloud, Roadmap2020), Hardware/Database, Icinga/Icinga2Installation, Jizo, LaMp, light-locker, MailApps, MATE, MemberBenefits, Mupen64Plus, Nautilus, NetworkManager/iwd, NFS, NTP, PáginaPrincipal, PrivacyIssues, systemd/howtos/WaitOnline, Teams (DebianBuildd, DPL), VirtualSquare

Issues

• Crashes in webext-browserpass, iwyu
• Missing source in veles
• Silent blocking in debsecan
• Features in devscripts tagpending, Firefox
• Deprecated API usage in github-backup
• Repository issue with libpst (reported privately, https was not working)
• Incorrect detection in lintian-brush
• Incorrect alterations in lintian-brush (1 2)
• Backported fix needed in libpst
• Conffile removal needed in webext-browserpass, ipmitool
• Change documentation style in lintian-brush (1 2)

Review

• Spam: reported 183 Debian mailing list posts
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
  • approved caja-eiciel caja-gtkhash caja-image-converter caja-mediainfo cinnamon-desktop-environment dicomscope fonts-ferrite-core grub-customizer gxkb lipse-wtp-servertools ltsp marco mate-applet-appmenu mate-calc mate-dock-applet mate-equake-applet mate-media mate-menus mate-notification-daemon mate-panel mate-power-manager mate-session-manager mate-system-monitor mate-user-guide mate-user-share mate-utils mate-window-buttons-applet mate-window-menu-applet mate-window-title-applet mp3wrap notion qsynth qwertone spview toot xgalaga++ xtel yoshimi
  • deleted yoshimi (splash screen)
  • rejected gpgv (web page of wrong package), dmagnetic (non-free content), yoshimi (logo)
  • rejected deletion of yoshimi (screenshots are versioned), pacman4console/pixfrogger/gkamus (spam)

Administration

• Debian wiki: whitelist email addresses, help with auth issues
• FOSSJobs: forwarding jobs, approving jobs

Communication

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

Sponsors

Some of the lintian-brush issues, the devscripts tagpending issue and the libpst work were sponsored by my employer. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.